(It can be for our benefit, as any good parent would know.)

7 Great example of keeping the faith despite persecution unto death. Anticipated their resurrection!

10:5-6 Hanukkah!

12:39-46 Resurrection, and Praying for the dead. (v.42, would only do this if there was a way to expunge sin after death. (PURGATORY for those who die in God’s good graces but need a bit of “cleaning up” before going to Heaven.)  No need to pray for the dead if heaven and hell were the only ends right after death, since both are eternal states and

the “decision” is irrevocable after death.

15:12-14 Communion of Saints, Intercession of Saints.  (Jeremiah had been dead over 400 years when he prayed here!)

For reasons that will be explained in Session 208, (and should be obvious to the reader!) Luther kicked this (and 6 other) books out of HIS bible, and it is absent from most Protestant bibles today!