Shalom and welcome back to Scripture Central, the Old Book of Mormon Central for Come Follow Me.

My name is Lynn Hilton Wilson, and I am overjoyed to talk about the second half of the book of Hebrews.

As I mentioned last week, this is my favorite of all the epistles, and this book is packed with imagery.

We have the promise of the temple and the price of that temple.

We have 45 Old Testament citations.

We have so many stories from the Old Testament.

And because of that, we assume that it's written by someone who really knew their scriptures.

I believe it was written by Paul, not only from our historical writings and our stylometry,

the evidence of computers to determine authorship, but I also believe this because of the way

he writes the text.

He brings in things that we've read from all of his epistles.

So whether or not he wrote the

final edition, I have no problem with, but it is his ideas that are begging attention by his people.

These are written to the Jewish Christians calling them, as well as perhaps even a missionary

tract of those who are not yet Christians, calling them to come unto Christ.

This is a powerful testimony of Christ. Just as a reminder, chronologically, this book fits

quite early, possibly before his Roman imprisonment letters. It was probably written while he's

in prison in Caesarea. He's still in Israel. Remember he was there for two years, according to the Book of Acts. The Paulian epistles were placed in order by length, as we talked

about earlier. But they weren't exactly sure where Hebrews should go. It was in the earliest text,

but over time, people started debating, this doesn't sound like Paul. It's completely different.

He doesn't start the same. He doesn't end the same. Well, it's a different audience in a different language, so you're going to

hear things differently. But whoever the author is, the text is powerful. And instead of debating

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