God's Most Glorious Message

Hebrews 1

God has spoken through His Son, Jesus Christ. His revelation is superior to the prophets, angels of God, and creation itself. The Person of the “Son is God, the Creator, Upholder, Lord, Heir of all things,” says Newell. Clearly God has spoken to humanity in His Son. Throughout the Old Testament history God spoke in many ways, at various times, and by variegated means, but in these last days He has spoken in His Son, Jesus Christ. He Himself is God’s message in the book of Hebrews.

The Son is the Heir of all things and the origin of all things. That He should be Heir of all is consistent with the divine plan. As the Creator of the worlds, He is the manager of the ages and all of history. Jesus is also the brightness of God’s glory. That is Christ is the expression of the collective divine attributes of God. He is the expressed image of God’s divine Person—the exact expression of His substance. As Upholder of all things the weight of the world safely rest upon His mighty words. He is the God of providence! He is the living expression of God’s constant care for all things in the universe. This is not merely the result of mindless and emotionless laws in the universe, but the direct involvement of the Son. By Him all things consist.

The Son also effectively purged the sin of lost humanity as the Great High Priest. Upon completion of this awesome accomplishment, Christ sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on High. His sacrificial work is done and He is exalted. In His incarnation He experienced humiliation and was made a little lower than the angels, but now as the Son of Man He is exalted in Heaven at the Father’s right hand. He has a more excellent name than the angels. They are only sons of God, but the Lord Jesus is the Son of God.

The aforementioned truths about the Son and Heir of God are well supported in the Old Testament Scriptures as demonstrated by the seven quotations throughout the remainder of Chapter One of Hebrews. The glorious Christ is soundly distinguished from angels by the title Son (Heb. 1:5). He is also the Firstborn or First Begotten who will be brought back into the world at His second advent with all the prerogatives of the King of the World. The angels will openly worship Him then in the earth. The angels are His creatures designed to minister and serve, but He is the Son of God who rules forever (Heb.1:7, 8). God the Father clearly addresses the Son as God in these verses that point to Christ’s millennial reign in the earth.

Once again Christ is addressed by the Father as the Creator of the universe and He expresses delight in the Son’s eternity and immutability. Creation will change, it will wax old, and one day the current creation will be discarded, but Christ will endure forever. Self-existent deity is also rightly ascribed to Christ in contrast to the fact that creation will eventually perish (Heb.1:11). The Lord will one day rap up this old world and create a new world. There shall be a New Heaven and New Earth (Heb. 1:11, 12). The Father will see to it when He brings the Son back into this world that Christ’s enemies, both spirit and human, will be subdued under His rule and authority (Heb.1:13). The angels, however, will serve the heirs of millennial glory and salvation as Christ rules and as the heirs reign with Him (Heb. 1:14). Clearly the Son of God is the Heir of all things! He is in fact God's most glorious Message of Hope and Salvation to fallen humanity. Accept God's Message, Salvation, and Hope in Jesus Christ.