Reading from the Epistle General to the Hebrews, Chapters 1 and 2.
Today, I made some observations about the Heavenly Realm of the Gospel, recorded in Hebrews 1:1-6, that is seldom preached:
- God made the ages through his Son
- God has appointed his Son the heir of all things
- The Son is the brightness of the Glory of God
- The Son is the "impress of the subsistence" of God
- The Son bears up all things by the saying of his might
- After having made a cleansing of our sins, the Son sat down at the right
hand of God the Greatest in the Highest
- In this way, the Son has become much better than the messengers
- And has inherited a more excellent name than they had
- God has declared to His Son, "Thou art my Son - today I have begotten thee"
- God has spoken about his messengers, "Let them bow before Him - all messengers of God"
- In these last days, God has spoken to us through His Son.
This Heavenly Realm of the Gospel of Iesou the Son of God, sets the context for the Earthly Realm of the Gospel, recorded in Hebrews 2:5 - 9, as follows,
From the Heavens:
the Son through whom the ages was created,
who is the brightness of the Glory of God,
who is the impress subsistence of God,
who bears up all thing by the saying of his might,
On Earth,
The Son was then made a little less than angels,
Then was crowned with glory and honour by God,
and was set over the works of the Hands of God,
with all things put in subjection under The Son's feet,
see Hebrews 1:1 - 6 YLT
1 In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
2 in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
4 having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?` and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?`
6 and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;
And in Hebrews 2:9 we see the affirmation that this Son is Iesou the Anointed One,
"and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of
the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the
grace of God for every one he might taste of death."
Hebrews 2:5 - 9 YLT
5 For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,
6 and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?
7 Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,
8 all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,` for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,
9 and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.
