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The community must examine the present age and flee every work of lawlessness.
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Barnabas warns them not to give their nefesh freedom to keep company with corruption until they become like it.
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He says the last offense is near and appeals to Chanokh and Dani'el concerning shortened times, ten rulers, and a later ruler who brings down three.
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He then makes his strongest covenant claim: he argues that the covenant belongs to the community gathered around Yahushua and that Yisra'el lost possession of it through the calf rebellion.
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He recalls Mosheh fasting forty days and receiving the tablets written by the hand of Yahuah.
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When the people turned to the molten image, Mosheh cast down the tablets and they were broken.
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Barnabas interprets this as a sign that the covenant would be sealed in hearts through trust in Yahushua.
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He urges the readers to resist lawlessness in the last days so the Black One does not gain entrance.
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They are not to isolate themselves in self-satisfaction, but gather and deliberate concerning the common good.
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He cites the warning against being wise in one's own eyes.
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They are to become a spiritual Temple, keep the commandments, and remember that Yahuah judges without partiality and repays each according to deeds.
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Calling alone will not rescue a person who sleeps over sin; many are called, Barnabas says, but few are chosen.