This is why we're fairly confident when we say the vast majority of professing Christians do not understand that 'Jesus of Nazareth was the Creator of Genesis 1:1'. It just shocks them to even think about it. But He was! He was the Creator of everything! Now where does that put Moses? Moses is nothing when we compare him to Christ Jesus. Moses was a part of the creation. Moses was just simply, a faithful servant. This is the Creator we’re talking about!
We’ve used this analogy over the years. Look how the world will flocks to famous people. If the Pope flies into some place, the highways will be chocked full. It will just literally put it into a traffic gridlock. Why? They want to see this famous man. Or any other famous individual, the people will flock just to get a glimpse of this famous individual. And yet, this man, He’s not just the head of a great number of people. He’s not just a famous athlete. He’s not just a famous politician. He’s the Creator of everything and why can’t people get excited about that?
We serve the Creator! The One Who called the universe into being. The One Who at the spoken Word one day, we think, will be able to just bring it all back to that zero beginning it came from and He’ll speak the Word and there will come a new universe. It’s the same One. Remember, as great as Moses was, he was nothing compared to the Creator whom we serve and Who was the Author or as it said back in chapter 2, the Captain of our Salvation. Verse 3 again:
Hebrews 3:3 "For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses inasmuch as He who has built the house has more honor than the house." Come back with us to Colossians chapter 1 starting at verse 14. We’ll be looking at verses 12 –13 later on in Hebrews, so we’ll start here with verse 14.
Colossians 1:14-16 "In whom (in the Son) we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15. who (God the Son, the Man that we’re talking about in Hebrews) is the image of the invisible God, (He is the visible manifestation of the invisible God) the firstborn of every creature (do we get that? how is it possible?): 16. for by him (by the Son) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: (here it is) all things were created by Him, and for Him:" Now we just shared an thought some where else which just seems to fit so here goes. When we can begin to see the spiritual side of what Jesus did at His last supper and then up through all that then took place. And when He said while hanging on the cross "IT IS FINISHED". What did He mean but this all the covenants God has established between Himself and Himself though they included an man God ended IN CHRIST. Then shortly after He started a New ONE sealed with and by the BLOOD of His CHRIST based on BETTER promises. The HIS doing all in all for HIS good pleasure. Man failed but God can never fail.
Hebrews 3:4 "For every house is built by some man; (Nothing happens without man putting his works of hands and fingers to whatever needs to be done.) but he that built all things is God." Remember, the God that we are speaking of here is the Man, Christ Jesus. Now verse 5.
Hebrews, 3:5 "And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, (we made that point in the last section - how that Moses never failed his commission. He was faithful in all that God had entrusted to him.) as a servant, (He was not the main player. He was not simply a person that God saw fit to use, as a servant) for a testimony (witness or record) of those things which were to be spoken after;" Let’s go back to Deuteronomy 18 and we can see how this was all foretold way back in Israel’s beginning years as Moses is writing the Torah, the Decalogue or the first five books. The same verses that we looked at before, we think are appropriate. Verse 15.
Deuteronomy 18:15 "The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; to him you shall hearken;" Moses is writing from his own position as the leader of Israel, but he is speaking of this future One.
Deuteronomy 18:16-18 "According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17. And the LORD (Moses said) said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, (That’s why Jesus had to come from the line of David and from the home of Joseph and Mary as He was born in Bethlehem.) like unto you and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him." Come back to Hebrews chapter 3. So, Moses was a faithful servant in everything that God had committed unto him. But this one is to speak to us as from the very mouth of God, so God speaks to us through His Son and these words are those recorded in the first four books which are in reality the end of the last days. (Psalm 72:6, Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 44:3, Ezekiel 11:19, 36:25-27, 39:29; John 7:39, Titus 3:4-6)
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