You who are Jews, who have been set apart unto God, my holy siblings, who are partakes in Abraham’s unique calling by God, consider what it really means for God to call Israel’s Mashiach his son! It means that God is calling him both his singular apostle, his singular Emissary, as well as his eternal High Priest. This is Yehoshua — who was faithful in all his house to the one who sent him, just like Moshe was. But he is worthy of more honor even than Moshe. For just as a builder of a house is worthy of more honor than the house, (so a son, the heir of the house, is worthy of more honor even than the chief servant of the house). For every house is built by someone. But we are talking here about God, who built all things. (It is he who calls Mashiach a son.)

Here is how we understand this. Moshe was completely faithful in every way in the house that God built as Israel. His faithfulness had to do with giving a true testimony concerning the things which would afterward come to pass, and which all the prophets would come to bear witness to. But Mashiach was and is a faithful son (and administrator of God's will) in his own house.

We are God's house, and Mashiach's house, if are among those whose lives show the signs of being his handiwork, who, in our lives bear the fruit of God's labor, demonstrating that under all circumstances we have confidence in him, and never become ashamed of our hope that in speaking to us through Mashiach God has spoken to us through a son, whom he has made heir of his house, but instead firmly profess it, right to the end.

What is our conclusion from these things, then? It is what the Spirit says:

"Today, here and now, when you hear his voice, do not harden your heart

as they did in the generation of Israel's rebellion in the wilderness,

when your ancestors tested me and tried my patients for forty years.

On account of which, I was displeased with that generation.

And I said about them,

They constantly err in their heart;

but they didn't know or learn my ways.

As a result, I swore in my wrath,

They will not enter into my rest!"

Now in our generation also, my holy siblings, we must listen to these same words of God, and to the voice of God speaking them, and not allow even one of our own to fall away from the Living God, as so many did in the generation of the wilderness. Instead, let us encourage one another day by day, so long as it is called today, as in this Scripture, lest even one of our own should become discouraged to the point of being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For, (in being partakers of Abraham's calling) we have now become partakers in Mashiach. I am speaking about all of us who have the same confidence in him in the end as we had in the beginning. For this is what it means when it says, "Today when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

For who was it that when they heard God's voice rebelled? Wasn't it not the whole collective of those who came out of Egypt led by Moshe? Was it not with the whole collective of that generation that he was displeased for forty years, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? Was it not the whole collective of that generation to whom he swore that they would not enter into his rest because of their collective disobedience? What was that collective disobedience? We see that it was their collective sin of unbelief, (for they rebelled and would not believe his promise to bring them into the land. And so we conclude it is unbelief, when one hears the voice of God say, "Enter into my rest!" that keeps one from entering into that rest.)