<t /><p class="bodytext">After God spoke long ago<n id="1" /> in various portions<n id="2" /> and in various ways<n id="3" /> to our ancestors<n id="4" /> through the prophets,

And he says<n id="1" /> of the angels, &#8220;<b><i>He makesi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of firei>b>,&#8221;<n id="3" />

As it says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;<i><b>Ohb>, <b>that today you would listen as he speaks!b>i><n id="2" /> <b><i>Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellioni>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in<n id="1" /> with those who heard it in faith.<n id="2" />

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.p>

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the main point of what we are saying is this:<n id="1" /> We have such a high priest, one who <i>sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaveni>,<n id="2" />

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,<n id="1" />

So it was necessary for the sketches<n id="1" /> of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices,<n id="2" /> but the heavenly things themselves required<n id="3" /> better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands &#8211; the representation<n id="1" /> of the true sanctuary<n id="2" /> &#8211; but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God&#8217;s presence for us.

then he says, &#8220;<b><i>Here I am:i>b> <b><i>I have come to do your willi>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" /> He does away with<n id="2" /> the first to establish the second.

By faith he lived as a foreigner<n id="1" /> in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs<n id="2" /> of the same promise.

<p class="bodytext">By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him<n id="1" /> for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king&#8217;s edict.

Besides, we have experienced discipline from<n id="1" /> our earthly fathers<n id="2" /> and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?<n id="3" />

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, &#8220;<b><i>I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven tooi>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Grace be with you all.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">For he did not put the world to come,<n id="1" /> about which we are speaking,<n id="2" /> under the control of angels.

who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God&#8217;s<n id="1" /> house.<n id="2" />

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>As I swore in my angerb>,i> &#8216;<b><i>They will never enter my rest!i>b>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

as also in another place God<n id="1" /> says, &#8220;<b><i>You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedeki>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />