![]() ![]() The apostle Paul says of Christ relation to the Creation, “For by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. He is the Heir of all things because and he is … Since Christ is the Son and even more particularly the only Son, of God He is also the heir, the sole Heir of all things. ![]() “whom he has appointed heir of all things” Let’s pick back up with verse two, “… whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds (3) who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Now the writer of Hebrews gives his readers seven Good Reasons that “Jesus is Better” than the prophets! Christianity is God bursting into man’s world and showing and telling man what He is like.” He took the initiative to declare it Himself through His Son.Īs John MacArthur states in his commentary, “Every religion is but man’s attempt to discover God. God did not entrust His full revelation to be given by man. Formerly the revelation of God was fragmentary now it is complete, formerly it was partial now it is perfect, formerly it was preparatory now it is fulfilled. The prophets were merely instruments in the hand of God but Jesus was the visible presence of the invisible God. The point here is that God’s message is no longer spoken through the prophets but now through God’s very own son. It was spread over a period of at least 10 centuries and it was given in a variety of means. This self-disclosure was periodic and partial in nature. In the Old Testament period God spoke to His people through the prophets. The Apostle Peter says, “For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” ( 2 Peter 1:21). When a prophet spoke, the people knew they were hearing from God. In biblical times when a God’s prophets spoke and His people listened. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, (2) has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…”Įver since the world began, God has been speaking to human beings at different times and in different ways sometimes by direct communication, sometimes through dreams and vision but most of all through his prophets. They are exhorted to take stock of what Jesus has to offer and not to give in to fear or doubt and stay the course. This is a group who are at a standstill spiritually and in danger of going back-wards (5:12). This letter is written to a group of people who are about to give up on their faith. He brought in a better hope (7:19) because He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises (8:6).” The writer of the book of Hebrews returns again and again to the word “better” which is found some thirteen times in this book to show the superiority of Jesus to every other religious system. ![]()
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