ANSWER: Throughout the book of Hebrews, the writer contrasts or compares Moses’ Law (the Old Testament) with Christ’s Law (the New Testament). Please see 7:12; 8:7-13; & 10:9.

In chapter ten, verses twenty-eight and twenty-nine, a comparison is made of punishment under Moses’ Law versus punishment under Christ’s Law. If a person despised (rejected) Moses’ Law, he or she was put to death by stoning at the mouth of two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 17:1-7). If we (all people everywhere) who live today during the Christian age, despise and reject Christ’s’ Law, we will receive “sorer (worse) punishment” (verse 29) than those who lived during the Mosaical age and under Moses’ Law. There remains today, for anyone who rejects the last and final sacrifice of Jesus Christ (verses 12 & 26), a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation (vs.27)! See also 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9.