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Jesús es más grande que Moisés

Por lo tanto, hermanos santos, ustedes que participan de una invitación que les llega del cielo, fijen su atención en Jesús, apóstol y sumo sacerdote de la fe que nosotros confesamos. Él fue fiel a Dios, tal como Moisés fue miembro fiel de la familia de Dios. Jesús es más importante que Moisés porque el que construye una casa[a] tiene más importancia que la casa misma. Toda casa tiene un constructor, pero Dios es el arquitecto del universo. Moisés fue respetado como siervo fiel en toda la casa de Dios y su trabajo era ser testigo de lo que Dios iba a decir. Pero Cristo dirige la casa de Dios como un hijo fiel. Somos la familia de Dios siempre y cuando nos mantengamos seguros y confiados de hablar abiertamente de la esperanza que tenemos.

Permanezcan firmes

Pues el Espíritu Santo dice:

«Si escuchan hoy la voz de Dios,
    no se opongan como antes,
cuando se rebelaron contra él,
    el día en que lo pusieron a prueba en el desierto.
Durante 40 años sus antepasados
    vieron las obras que hice en el desierto;
sin embargo, me pusieron a prueba,
    se me agotó la paciencia que les tenía
10 y por eso me enojé con ese pueblo.
    Dije: “Sus pensamientos siempre están equivocados
    y nunca han entendido mis enseñanzas”.
11 (A)Como estaba enojado hice una promesa:
    “Ese pueblo nunca entrará a disfrutar de mi reposo”».[b]

12 Tengan cuidado, hermanos, de que en ninguno de ustedes se esconda la maldad ni la falta de fe como para darle la espalda al Dios viviente. 13 Al contrario, anímense unos a otros todos los días, mientras todavía exista ese «hoy»[c]. Ayúdense para evitar que el pecado engañe a alguno de ustedes y lo vuelva tan terco que le impida cambiar. 14 Tenemos el privilegio de compartir todo lo que Cristo tiene, pero si es que seguimos firmes hasta el final con la misma confianza que teníamos al principio. 15 (B)Les repito:

«Si escuchan hoy la voz de Dios,
    no se opongan como antes,
    cuando se rebelaron contra él».[d]

16 ¿Y quiénes fueron los que escucharon la voz de Dios y aun así se rebelaron contra él? Los que Moisés sacó de Egipto. 17 ¿Con quién estuvo enojado Dios durante 40 años? Con esos mismos pecadores que murieron y cuyos cuerpos quedaron tendidos en el desierto. 18 ¿A quiénes les estaba hablando Dios cuando dijo que nunca entrarían a disfrutar de su reposo? A los que se rebelaron. 19 Entonces vemos que por su falta de fe, ellos no pudieron entrar a disfrutar del reposo de Dios.

Footnotes

  1. 3:3 casa La palabra casa en griego también tiene el significado de familia, como en el versículo 2.
  2. 3:7-11 Cita de Sal 95:7-11.
  3. 3:13 «hoy» Esta palabra se refiere al hoy mencionado en el versículo 7. Hace énfasis en la importancia de hacerlo ahora, mientras todavía existe la oportunidad.
  4. 3:15 Cita de Sal 95:7-8.

Christ Is Superior to Moses

Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling. So look carefully at Jesus, the apostle and chief priest about whom we make our declaration of faith. Jesus is faithful to God, who appointed him, in the same way that Moses was faithful when he served in God’s house. Jesus deserves more praise than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house is praised more than the house. After all, every house has a builder, but the builder of everything is God.

Moses was a faithful servant in God’s household. He told ⌞the people⌟ what God would say in the future. But Christ is a faithful son in charge of God’s household. We are his household if we continue to have courage and to be proud of the confidence we have.

As the Holy Spirit says,

“If you hear God speak today, don’t be stubborn.
Don’t be stubborn like those who rebelled
and tested me in the desert.
That is where your ancestors tested me,
10 although they had seen what I had done for 40 years.
That is why I was angry with those people. So I said,
‘Their hearts continue to stray,
and they have not learned my ways.’
11 So I angrily took a solemn oath
that they would never enter my place of rest.”

12 Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 Encourage each other every day while you have the opportunity. If you do this, none of you will be deceived by sin and become stubborn. 14 After all, we will remain Christ’s partners only if we continue to hold on to our original confidence until the end.

15 Scripture says,

“If you hear God speak today, don’t be stubborn.
Don’t be stubborn like those who rebelled.”

16 Who heard God and rebelled? All those whom Moses led out of Egypt rebelled. 17 With whom was God angry for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned and died in the desert. 18 Who did God swear would never enter his place of rest? He was talking about those who didn’t obey him. 19 So we see that they couldn’t enter his place of rest because they didn’t believe.

Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,(A) who share in the heavenly calling,(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge(C) as our apostle and high priest.(D) He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) “Moses was faithful as a servant(H) in all God’s house,”[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,(K) if indeed we hold firmly(L) to our confidence and the hope(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(P)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(Q)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (R)[b](S)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(T) 13 But encourage one another daily,(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(V) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(X) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[c](Y)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(Z) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(AA) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?(AC) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.