Listen to the Blood of Jesus
“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.” -Hebrews 12:25a
A very somber warning comes to the Hebrew believers: do not neglect the salvation that God has worked for you through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Just as Abel was killed, and his blood spoke from the ground, (see Genesis 4:10), so too the blood of Christ—the Son of God, and the spotless Lamb of God—speaks unto us today.
What He is saying today
“Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.” -Hebrews 12:26
God is saying that in the past, at Mount Sinai with the giving of the law, He shook the earth with His words, yet the time is coming that God will not only shake the earth, but the heavens also. That is, that God is totally and completely shaking all nations and peoples, and is removing the temporary things that were in place to give way to His everlasting gospel.
“And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.” -Hebrews 12:27
What we ought to do
In listening to the voice from heaven—which speaks from the blood that was shed on the Cross of Calvary—we hear a warning and an exhortation from God: He is pleading with us to walk in faith.
God is encouraging us to continue on in faith—nothing doubting—as seeking a heavenly country which shall never pass away. God is pleading with us to keep on the straight and narrow path despite hardships and struggles.
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” -Hebrews 12:1-3
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