What Is the Book of Hebrews All About?

As I mentioned previously, God's feasts that fall in the autumn are just around the corner. And Christ speaks about His servants giving His people food in due season. Notice what it says in Matthew 24, verse 45. He's specially mentioning it as the end time nears. Matthew 24, verse 45 says, Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? So Christ expects His ministers to give God's household the food in due season according to the needs, according to the times that we go through the calendar year. And so God's feasts are very close.

We just have one more Sabbath before starting with the Feast of Trumpets. And I believe the best way to share this preparation for the coming feasts, the best way that I can do so, is to share with you a deeper understanding of something that we've been going through in the Bible studies that has to do with the book of Hebrews and God's Sabbath and God's feasts.

Because many times the book of Hebrews is not related so much to the Sabbath and God's feasts. But we're going to see that they are intimately involved. And so we're going to study what the book of Hebrews is all about. This is going to prepare us for the coming feasts, because it deals directly with these feasts, with what they symbolize. And many times this has not been connected, the book of Hebrews and God's feasts and God's Sabbaths.

But we're going to see that today in living color very clearly, just as clear as a crystal. And so it is a way to give food in due season. Prepare God's people for these coming feasts, because this book of Hebrews was given to prepare God's people for the coming feasts. And the more I have studied Hebrews, we've been going through a series, about three chapters at a time, the more I have become convinced that if you want to reduce what the big purpose of the book of Hebrews is all about, if you could just reduce it down to one verse in the Bible, it is the following verse that I'm going to show you today.

This book of Hebrews was addressed to the Jewish Christians in particular, but also dealt with the Gentiles, because there weren't two churches. There wasn't a church with Jewish Christians and a church with Gentiles. They were all mixed together, especially outside of Jerusalem.

I don't know how many Gentiles Christians there would have been there, but in the rest of the Mediterranean area, there were many Gentile Christians worshipping along with Jewish Christians. So this book of Hebrews, when it was written, it didn't just have the Jewish Christians in mind. It had the whole church to edify the whole church. The verse that I feel encapsulates, that just gives the gist of the book of Hebrews, is one that Jesus Christ gave in the Sermon on the Mount. We just sang the hymn, which deals with this verse. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you.

Matthew 6, verse 33. The more I've studied Hebrews, the more I'm convinced that this was the message that the author—he doesn't mention himself in name, but it is virtually certainty—it was the Apostle Paul, because it was his same thoughts. It was given as somebody that knew very well Timothy, which he had used as his assistant. And he mentions that at the end of Hebrews, that he hopes that Timothy is led out of jail soon so they can both visit the brethren.

Timothy was one of his traveling companions. But the point is that if you keep in mind the Scripture, Matthew 6, 33, you will see how it fits into the message of the book of Hebrews. Now, I'd like to read this verse, Matthew 6, 33, in the Amplified Bible. It gives it a little more richness and understanding behind it. It says, but seek, in parenthesis, aim at and strive after, close parenthesis, first of all, his kingdom and his righteousness. Again, what does his righteousness mean? His way of doing and being right. And then all these things taken together will be given to you besides the physical, material things.

And what had Jesus Christ been mentioning about the prayer that he said with the categories in Matthew 6, verse 10, just 23 verses before, he said, You should seek his kingdom, first of all, and his righteousness. So you can see there are two main parts here.

First is seeking the kingdom of God above all things. And secondly, seeking his righteousness. I want to focus on that and show you how the book of Hebrews develops these two big themes mentioned in Matthew 6, verse 33. So we're going to focus on these two goals mentioned in Matthew 6, verse 33, and how they are the key to understanding the book of Hebrews, and also how they relate to God's Sabbaths and Holy Days, these coming feasts that are around the corner. So let's look at that first section of Matthew 6, verse 33. It says, It says, So why was this stressed to the Hebrews in this epistle? You see it from the beginning to the very end. The author is stressing the importance, keep your eyes on this coming kingdom. That's your goal. That should be your focus. Why was he emphasizing this so much? It was because, in particular, the Jewish Christians were losing sight of that. They were taking their eyes off the ball.

Because of the persecutions and the change in mentality that these Jewish Christians especially had, they had been focusing on the temple, on the priesthood, on the sacrifices, and they had been taught that there was a new system that now was in effect, which had to do with a new priesthood, according to the order of Melchizedek. With Jesus Christ as the high priest, as the only mediator before God, there would be one sacrifice that would cover sin—Jesus Christ, not the animals. Animal sacrifices. And that Jesus Christ is going to be the one who brings that coming kingdom.

Now, some of the Jewish Christians were turning their backs on this message, and were focusing again on the past, on Jewish traditions and the nationalism. The big fervor at that time, of course, was to see a way to overthrow the Romans. They were a captive people. They had Roman troops running the show. They had a Roman governor. They had the emperor. And they were not free. And so the Jewish people were focused on how to gain their independence. And probably, if the Book of Hebrews was written in the early 1960s, it was just a matter of time, in the year 66 AD, was when the Jews rebelled against Rome. And it took the Romans four years to crush that rebellion. And they burned the temple down in 70 AD. But this was before that time, from all the indications we have, because it's talking about the temple and the priesthood and sacrifices going on at that time. And so the Jewish people were focusing on that kingdom, the Jewish kingdom, at that time, and also on the temple. And so, of course, Paul, being concerned, wrote this epistle to them, warning them, you've got to look at that coming kingdom. You don't have to worry about the Romans and the independence. God's going to deal with that in due time. But you have to focus on the new system of righteousness that was brought in. And some of the Jewish Christians were turning their backs on Christianity. There are more than six warnings in this book of Hebrews. And so he warned them not to go back to Judaism and not lose sight of the coming great rest, the coming great Sabbath rest that they also should focus on. Let's look in the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 2.

What's convenient about this is, if you ever have to teach this, you can just go right through it and use these key points to explain the book of Hebrews to somebody who's confused about it. Hebrews chapter 2, the author, Paul, focuses on the goal, which is the world to come. Here's the first warning he gives these Jewish Christians. He says, This is the new system that he brought.

In the book of Acts, on the day of Pentecost, in verse 5, this is a key verse because he introduces this subject of seeking first the kingdom of God. He says, And of course, that was used by Mr. Armstrong to start the broadcast. The world tomorrow comes from that verse, Hebrews 2.5.

Tomorrow's world is a magazine that we have. And so, the world to come is talking about the coming kingdom of God.

It's a new society that is going to come on the earth. Notice in Hebrews chapter 4, again, the kingdom of God is the emphasis because people were losing sight of them. And of course, today, you look at all of these preachers on the radio or on the TV. How many of them talked to you about the coming kingdom of God? Hardly anybody. No, you're going to go up to heaven. You've got an immortal soul. It's important to be with Jesus up in heaven. That's a false gospel because here the author is emphasizing the world to come. It's coming here. We're not going to that world. So in Hebrews chapter 4, he takes up this theme. He says, therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. Are you going to see, talking about this rest that God is going to establish on this earth, has to do with this coming kingdom. It is symbolic of the Sabbath. Just like there were six days of creation and work, the Sabbath day is symbolic of that thousand-year period when God is going to bring rest to this earth, which desperately needs it. And so he's telling brethren, don't lose sight of this coming great rest, because it's not assured. You can forsake it. You might not be there. And that's a warning to us as well as to them. He goes on to say, for indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them. But the word which they heard did not profit them, nor not being mixed with faith in those that heard it, describing the first generation of Israelites. That they heard they were going to be able to enter the Promised Land. But because of neglect and a rebellious attitude and of not keeping the rise on the goal, they forsook that great reward. That first generation did not enter the rest in the Promised Land. And so here the author is saying, just as there was this Promised Land, then there is a promised kingdom that is coming. And you are the ones that are going and walking through this wilderness, this desert in the world, seeking that coming kingdom. And don't let anything distract you, because some of them were turning back. Just like the first generation wanted to go back to Egypt. They didn't have the vision, they didn't have the goal, they didn't have the purpose of going forward and the determination to carry it out. And so he says here, verse 3, For we who have believed, those that are converted, do enter that rest, as he said, So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. So he says, those who have believed, this is where he brings this analogy of the Sabbath rest. As a picture of that coming kingdom, every time we meet on the Sabbath day, we are resting. This is a day of rest for us, but it pictures this millennial Sabbath rest, this thousand-year rest that God's going to bring to us. And so he says, just as you are resting in this Sabbath rest, so if you're faithful, one day you're going to have the thousand-year rest that God's going to bring to mankind. Now notice how he continues the point.

Verse 3, For we who have believed, do enter that rest, as he said, So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, talking about God rested on the Sabbath day when he finished the work at that time, the six days, and he gave it as an example of entering his rest every seventh day of the week. He says, verse 4, For he has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, and God rested on the seventh day from all his works, and again in this place, he says, They shall not enter my rest. Now he's talking there into the future that those that are not going to be part of his kingdom, those that are not going to be faithful, and he's warning them at that time, they can be part of those that do not enter into that rest. Verse 6, Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, that first generation of Israelites, again he designates a certain day saying in David, today, that was way after the Israelites entered the Promised Land, but there remains this rest in the future for God's people, as it has been said today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. For if Joshua had given them rest, if that had been the only rest, just being in the Promised Land, a physical place, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day through the prophet David, because David was a prophet of God, just like he was at that time a king. And then he goes on, verse 9, and this word there remains there for a rest, and it's actually not translated correctly because this is a different word than what has been used previously about rest. This is a sabatismos, which means a keeping of the Sabbath. There remains a keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God. Why? Because it's a reminder, it's focusing them on that goal of that coming kingdom of God. Isn't that what we need to focus on more than anything else? Isn't that the first thing that Christ mentioned after addressing God the Father and Jesus Christ? He says, "'Thy kingdom come.' That should be the first thing seeking first to enter that rest of that coming kingdom of God." It's going to be a fantastic rest. Rest from the oppression of this world's system. Rest from Satan's, rest from so many points. I want to give those points in another sermon sometime. I don't want to belabor that point. But he goes on to say, There remains, therefore, a keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God. And then he goes on to say, "'For he who has entered his rest,' talking about the Sabbath rest, has himself also seized from his works." That's what you do when you enter the Sabbath rest. You seize from your works, as God did from his, when he rested on the Sabbath day. So you see, there's not only this physical aspect of the Sabbath, which God rested on that seventh day, but it also portrays a coming future Sabbath rest that's going to last a thousand years. We're going to rest from the oppression. We're going to rest from our own nature, too. It's going to be wonderful, but we have to remain faithful. This is what is the message time and time again.

In verse 11, it says, Now it's talking about that coming Sabbath millennial rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. We can lose sight. How many people that we know through the decades have kept their goal, knowing the Sabbath is a rest that pictures that coming future rest in God's kingdom. That's a key point. That's where we have to keep our eyes on the ball, on the goal, more than anything else. Yes, we go through a lot of things in life, but that kingdom of God is coming. There's nothing that can stop it or detain it. It's just a matter of, are we going to be in it, or are we going to be part of that group, just like the rebellious Israelites that didn't make it, that ended up destitute and forlorn, abandoned in that desert of trial. They didn't make it. They all eventually died out.

So we should strive to enter that true rest, of which Canaan was just a type. The great Sabbath rest is that coming kingdom of God, that thousand-year period.

Now let's go to Hebrews 11, verse 1. This is a continuation of the subject of that first theme in Matthew 6, 33. Seek first the kingdom of God. Here he takes up the same theme in Hebrews 11, verse 1. It says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. This just means it's faith plus works. That's what it's talking about. What is evidence? When a court of law says, bring your evidence, you can't just bring words. You've got to bring something concrete. Pictures, recordings, affidavits, whatever. You can't just come and say, well, this happened. Well, how can you tell it? Because I'm telling you. I don't think Joel would be able to have a good legal battle to win his case if somebody came in. I don't have any evidence, but this is what I believe. So you see, faith without works is dead. And Hebrews 11 is talking about that your faith is going to be shown by your works, by your actions, by something that is concrete. See, keeping the Sabbath in this way is a concrete manifestation or evidence. You really mean it. You're not only talking about, well, it's nice one day to keep the Sabbath day. You are doing it. That is what evidence of your faith. You are obedient to God. You are not just talking the talk. You're also walking the walk. You're showing it with the concrete evidence of your works. And so all of these men and women of faith strove, obeyed, and had works worthy of their calling. Now, that's part of the biblical message. Notice in Colossians 1.10. I'm going to go back to Hebrews in a minute. But Colossians 1.10, Paul says here that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work. How do you please God? Not just with your lips, but also with your actions. You are carrying out concrete actions, things that can be seen.

It's the same thing that James 2, verse 20 through 24, talks about. And then we'll go back to Hebrews 11 again. James 2, keep a finger here in Hebrews 11. Starting in verse 20, it says, But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? He's calling a person a fool who thinks faith doesn't need works. Or somehow works is this atrocious system. Now, Luther called James that he wrote a straw epistle, made an epistle of straw, not a substance. Well, what does James call Luther? Oh, foolish man! You're teaching the wrong thing here. I believe James is right and Luther was wrong because Luther didn't write any part of the Bible, and God did inspire James to do so. That has God's seal of approval. So he goes on to say, So the book of Hebrews is talking about.

Brethren, you need to look forward to that coming kingdom of God, and you need that faith which is shown by your actions, by your concrete evidence of what you're doing. Not just hearsay, not just what is lip service to God. So in Hebrews 11, let's go to verse 13.

Hebrews 11, 13, it says about all these men and women of faith that have been mentioned previously. From verse 13, it says, It didn't matter where you were from. Do you have that faith in that coming kingdom of God? Do you embrace it? Do you live for that coming kingdom of God? Do you prepare every day for that coming kingdom with how we act and live? That's what it's talking about here. He says, And what is that heavenly country? The kingdom of God.

It's going to be brought here on earth. Just like we've heard from the very beginning when we read the booklets that a kingdom comprises of four things. It needs a king or those who rule. It needs laws.

It also needs territory and it needs inhabitants, the four elements. They're seeking a coming kingdom. Jesus Christ is the head.

The law is what Jesus Christ establishes. The territory is the entire earth beginning in Jerusalem, where Canaan used to be, the promised land. They're looking for that coming kingdom and homeland. It says here that He has prepared a city for them. What city is that? It says in Jerusalem that Jesus Christ is going to raise up and govern from Jerusalem. They're looking for that coming kingdom with Jesus Christ at that time. They didn't know His name, but they knew that there was a promised Messiah that would bring a kingdom. And that it was going to be established in that holy land.

Continuing on here, it mentions in verse 39. It says, and all these having obtained a good testimony, these were people that truly obeyed God throughout their lives. None of them were perfect, but they repented and they continued in God's way of life to the very end. They obtained a good testimony through faith because they had faith in that coming kingdom. They did not receive the promise. That kingdom has not been established yet. They did not go up to heaven or else they would have received the promise. So it shows they were still dead. They're awaiting that resurrection. God, having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. They're not going to be resurrected and changed into spirit beings until those that are there when Christ returns, they're going to be changed as well. So all of these people, from Abel on to the last person that is converted when Christ comes back, they will all be resurrected together in what the Bible calls the first resurrection. What is called here in verse 35, it says, women received their dead, raised to life again, others were tortured, and not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. They want to be in the resurrection with that coming kingdom of God. They don't want to be left out, and they willingly gave up their lives. Their faith was witnessed that they died in the faith. And so you see again this whole theme throughout Hebrews, keep your eyes on the goal. Look at that coming kingdom of God. Are you going to be part of it? Don't be so sure. This author is telling the brethren at that time. And notice in chapter 12, he continues with this subject in verse 25 of that kingdom. Notice how it's described. This great Sabbath rest. Verse 25, the warning comes again. See that you do not refuse him who speaks, for if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven. Talking about Jesus Christ. Whose voice then shook the earth, but now he is promising, yet once more I shall shake not only the earth, but also heaven. Because there's going to be a rebellion of angels. So the whole thing is going to shake.

And they're going to drop down to the earth again, defeated. But knowing they have a short time to try to do the worst damage possible.

Verse 27, now this, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. So yes, there are going to be earthquakes. They're going to topple over this civilization. They're going to, it talks about in Revelation 11 and then later on about an earthquake that's going to topple the nations. All these high rises are going to fall. God's not going to begin with these high risers in Los Angeles. That's all going to be rubble. It's going to be cleared away. We're not going to have houses next to houses. People are going to have room and space to develop themselves. And it's all going to be ecological. We're not going to have just a concrete everywhere, like we do today. And he says this in verse 28, Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, yes, that kingdom, there are not going to be any earthquakes. There's not going to be anything that shall damage it. Let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Again, works. Let's show it through our actions and not just words. For God, our God, is a consuming fire. So when he comes, he means business. He's going to shake the world. And no army is going to stand up to Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're Muslims or Russians or Chinese or any other, or here as well. Nobody's going to stand up because you see, this is a kingdom that cannot be shaken. In other words, an unshakable kingdom. This one's going to last. And so again, he's encouraging them. Don't lose hope. Don't lose sight of that goal.

Notice the last mention in Hebrews 13-14.

He says, For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Again, that Jerusalem, that Jesus Christ, is going to establish at the beginning of this great Sabbath rest. That's when it's going to take place. The coming kingdom with Christ ruling from Jerusalem.

Now that we covered this first theme about seek first the kingdom of God, the second one is equally as important, which is seek His righteousness. Notice it doesn't say we should seek our righteousness. We should seek His righteousness. In Matthew 5.43-48, I'm going to read this, Matthew 5.43.

It says, You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. That's not applied today in Christianity, but it is applied in the church, our church. That you may be sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His Son rise on evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. In other words, God's not there on this campaign to just punish everybody who does wrong things. He has rain and people can eat. He's not cursing everybody that is disobedient. So He says, God is very loving and patient with this world, and so should we. He says, For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you're just being nice to those that are nice to you, that doesn't deem anything worthy of praise.

He says, And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so who are very irreligious? They greet friends of theirs. It says, Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. In the Amplified version, verse 48 says, You therefore must be perfect, and then it means growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity, as your heavenly Father is perfect. So it means growing in spiritual maturity. Now, if we seek God's righteousness, well, we're never going to attain 100 percent. But we have to be having it as a goal, something that we are pursuing, that we are striving for, that we're working on. God's going to add whatever we have, lacking, but He expects us to have that as a goal, to strive for that full spiritual maturity, as it says here, growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity. So, yes, that's a lot of work, and that is the second subject of the book of Hebrews.

Notice in Hebrews chapter 9, Hebrews chapter 9. Again, this is found throughout these chapters. I'm just going to focus on this one for lack of time. But in Hebrews chapter 9, in verse 6, He shows here that we should seek and strive for God's righteousness, but not through the old Levitical system of the temple, the priests, and animal sacrifices, but by the new system, according to the order of Melchizedek, with Christ as our high priest, with His sacrifice as that which fulfills and covers our sins, not animal sacrifices.

He is the head of the church through the Holy Spirit. We're striving for that righteousness of God. We're fulfilling the letter and the spirit of the law and always depending upon His mercy, love, guidance, and sacrifice. Notice Hebrews 9, verse 6, it says, Now when these things had been thus prepared, talking about the temple or the tabernacle, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services.

But into the second part, the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins, committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience.

A person could sacrifice an animal on the altar and say, well, this is my manifestation that I sinned. But in that person's conscience, he still had that sin, which the animal sacrifice was a reminder or a symbol. But it couldn't perfect a person's conscience. You were not perfectly clean because an animal died for you. That was a reminder that there had to be shed blood for a person's sins. And it concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings and fleshly ordinances, which means animal sacrifices imposed until the time of reformation, until the new system would come about.

And this is what the new system is dealing with. In verse 11, he goes on to say, But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, nor with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he entered the Most High Holy Place, the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. This is a complete sacrifice. This is a complete system. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And so we see here again that the righteousness is seeking his righteousness through this new system with Jesus Christ there as our high priest. He is there as our mediator. We never should be discouraged. We can always go before him because we're striving for the two things that this book of Hebrews is talking about, for seeking first the kingdom of God and secondly, his righteousness.

It's not just looking at the coming kingdom. Sometimes we put so much emphasis on the coming kingdom and not how to prepare ourselves, developing the righteousness of God to be part of that kingdom. So yes, we focused on that kingdom, but we forgot that second part, seeking his righteousness. And that's where people many times, the church turned out to be a competition to see this pecking order and see how am I going to rule this coming kingdom and boy, we're really going to stick it to the people and boy, I just want that rod of iron.

No, sir, it's with his righteousness. Jesus Christ didn't go around doing that. And so you have to balance the two. Yes, you seek the kingdom of God, but you also have to seek the way God is for us to be part of that kingdom. So in Hebrews, you can condense this book into these two main parts. First, seeking the kingdom of God that promised rest, that coming kingdom, for it is not assured.

It's not guaranteed. We can lose our opportunity to be part of that kingdom if we become negligent, if we let something trip us and we fall away and we get bitter or we get disillusioned or we go into the world and get trapped by all the worldly attractions and distractions. There are many ways to be knocked off the path to the kingdom of God.

We can't ever take it for granted, just like that first generation of Israelites who turned out to be rebellious, who wanted to turn back, to go back to Egypt and its worldly ways. They didn't want to seek God's holiness and obedience and righteousness.

They lost sight of that unshakable coming kingdom. And secondly, to seek His righteousness. And we have a new system to do so. In a way, it's a lot easier. We don't have to be going around with animals and sacrificing and all kinds of rituals involved.

We can go in spirit before God in our prayers. We've got access to Jesus Christ and God the Father right there. It's a better system because that sacrifice was done once, and it can extend throughout our lives. It can be used multiple times upon repentance and change. And it's a lot better system because God's spirit is with us.

It wasn't in the tabernacle where the cloud and the flame—that was God's presence. Now He says, you have God's spirit. You are the temple of God's spirit. So it's a lot better because God is helping us carry this out. But He can't do it by Himself. We have to do our part. Faith has to have works. God, through that spirit, is living in us, slowly transforming us into the image of His Son through obedience and grace. So the Sabbaths and Feasts are a momentary rest and a glimpse of that coming great Sabbath rest. That coming Kingdom of God. That is what the book of Hebrews is all about.

So let's keep in mind these two main things, seeking God's kingdom and His righteousness above everything else. For Matthew 6, 33, truly is the key to understanding Hebrews and also God's coming Feasts.