[donfriesen1]

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Originally Posted by donfriesen1 View Post
The writer of Hebrews in ch3,4 refers to those, who at Kadesh refused to enter into rest, refusing to believe and to enter the promised land. Those who refused were judged. They were to die in the wilderness and not given another opportunity to enter the land.

Strangely, these were not given any opportunity for repentance for this unbelief. They were not given another chance.

[QUOTE=Esaias;1618360]They had 40 years to get their act together and consistently and repeatedly failed to do so.

What I had hoped to point out was that they were judged with the promise of death immediately after the event, but not given any chance to repent of their wrong doing to avoid this. It appears to me, perhaps wrongly, that something had happened between God and them previously, which had prevented them from being given the chance to repent. Often people are given a chance to make amends, which it appears to me this time, perhaps wrongly, that they weren't given. What the writer says in He6 reinforces this opinion, where he uses the word 'impossible'.