Will god judge the people who reject[ed] Jesus? ~ Cross reference of Hebrews 10:30 to Deuteronomy 32:35, Psalm 135:14

The author of Hebrews seems to assert that, if any person rejected the law of Moses [technically this is the law of G-d. Moses did not come up with these laws] with 2 witnesses the person would be put to death. This is not a right statement. There were only a few laws that entailed for capital punishment.

He then claims that if god would punish people for offending the law, how much more god will punish the people who rejected Jesus.


He cross references a couple of passages from Tanakh. Let us check these passages to see if these are talking about the punishment of god for not believing in the messiah or something else.

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All Greek Text references are from NIV and Tanakh references are from Chabad.

This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion.

My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.

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Hebrews 10:30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is poised with Me, and it will pay at the time their foot stumbles. For the appointed day of their reckoning is near, and what is destined for them hastens. 36 When the Lord will judge His people, and will reconsider His servants, when He sees that the power is increasing, and none is controlled or strengthened. 

Psalm 135:14 For the Lord will judge His people and relent for His servants.

Deuteronomy 32 

• If you read Deuteronomy 32 in context, you will see that Moses is prophesying before he dies, that Israel will rebel and G-d will punish her through the gentile nations. Later when they repent G-d will restore them. This has nothing to do with Jews or gentiles rejecting Jesus.
• Moses first recalls how G-d took care of Israel for 40 years through the wilderness and protected them from all harm
• Deuteronomy 32:9 Because the Lord's portion is His people Jacob, the lot of His inheritance. 10 He found them in a desert land, and in a desolate, howling wasteland. He encompassed them and bestowed understanding upon them; He protected them as the pupil of His eye. 11 As an eagle awakens its nest, hovering over its fledglings, it spreads its wings, taking them and carrying them on its pinions. 12 [So] the Lord guided them alone, and there was no alien deity with Him.
• Moses then prophesies about how Israel will move away from G-d and will worship idols.
• Deuteronomy 32:15 And Jeshurun became fat and rebelled; you grew fat, thick and rotund; [Israel] forsook the God Who made them, and spurned the [Mighty] Rock of their salvation. 16 They provoked His zeal with alien worship; they made Him angry with abominations deeds. 17 They sacrificed to demons, which have no power, deities they did not know, new things that only recently came, which your forefathers did not fear.
• Then Moses prophesies that G-d will use the gentile nations to punish them for defying and moving away from such a loving G-d.
• Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked My jealousy with a non god, provoked My anger with their vanities. Thus, I will provoke their jealousy with a non people, provoke their anger with a foolish nation. 23 I will link evils upon them. I will use up My arrows on them.
• Moses then prophesies that G-d will save Israel, because these gentile nations will think that they on their own strength were able to destroy G-d's people and not realize that G-d was punishing Israel through them. Moses also says that these nations will go to the extreme because these nations are ruthless in their punishment to Israel.
• Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that the enemy's wrath was heaped up, lest their adversaries distort; lest they claim, "Our hand was triumphant! The Lord did none of this!" 28 For they are a nation devoid of counsel, and they have no understanding. 29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would reflect upon their fate. 30 How can one [person] pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their [Mighty] Rock has sold them out, and the Lord has given them over?
• The passage that Hebrews quotes just says the opposite, it says that G-d will take vengeance on the gentile nations for their brutality toward Israel. If you read from verse 27 onwards, G-d is talking about the gentile nations not Israel or anyone who did not believe in Jesus.
• Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that the enemy's wrath was heaped up, lest their adversaries distort; lest they claim, "Our hand was triumphant! The Lord did none of this!" 28 For they are a nation devoid of counsel, and they have no understanding. 29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would reflect upon their fate. 30 How can one [person] pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their [Mighty] Rock has sold them out, and the Lord has given them over? 31 For their rock is not like our [Mighty] Rock. Nevertheless, our enemies sit in judgment. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the field of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of rosh, and they have bitter clusters. 33 Their wine is the bitterness of serpents, and the bitterness of the ruthless cobras. 34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? 35 Vengeance is poised with Me, and it will pay at the time their foot stumbles. For the appointed day of their reckoning is near, and what is destined for them hastens.
• If you read the very next passage that Hebrews quotes, you will see that G-d is talking about restoring Israel. How can these passages have anything to do with rejecting Jesus?
• Deuteronomy 32:36 When the Lord will judge His people, and will reconsider His servants, when He sees that the power is increasing, and none is controlled or strengthened.

Psalm 135

• If you read Psalm 135 you will see exactly the same issue. This David is talking about how G-d will judge the gentiles not Israel. Please read the below passages for yourself and see who G-d is going to judge. In fact the passage that Hebrew quotes says that G-d will judge Israel and save them.  
• Psalm 135:8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, from man to beast. 9 He sent signs and wonders in the midst of Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants. 10 He struck down great nations and slew mighty kings. 11 Sihon the king of the Amorites and Og the king of the Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. 12 And He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel His people. 13 O Lord, Your name is eternal; O Lord, Your remembrance is throughout all generations. 14 For the Lord will judge His people and relent for His servants.