Hebrews
1:1-2a
"God,
(this is not Elohim but is YhWh the LORD Yehovah* as we have Him
outlined. The whole Triune God in His invisible Triune makeup, who
interjected a parenthetical period of Grace, called the Age of Grace,
Church Age, and the Body of Christ) who at sundry times and in
divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.
(Old Testament God) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son,…"
(*There
are numerous titles for God for instants the Greek Septuagint has
Kurios for Adoni, meaning LORD= to Master, Theos, Moryo in Aramaic
meaning EhYeh which can be spelled Ehyeh or Ehjeh and pronounced as
Iehsu in the masculine, add a “S” to the rule of usage and the
“Ie” sounds like “J” and then we have Jeshua or Yeshua or
Joshua meaning Yehovah is Salvation.) Notice Paul here uses the term
“in these last days” confirming that which I have said earlier.
Christ is and was the fulfillment of the Old Testament Covenants,
commandments, ordinances, promises and the Levitical Law for each and
every one pointed toward the unknown one. Who was seen and known in a
shadowy form, as a dim light at the end of a lone tunnel. Do you see
that? In other words, when God the Son was manifested in the flesh
and He began to reveal things that all the Old Testament had been
talking about merely in a latent form, now here He is in fulfillment
of it all. And the word fulfillment means: to bring to
completion, to convert into actuality, to carry out and to satisfy
all requirements (Luke 1:45, 22:37, Romans 13:10, Revelation 1:3,
22:10).
Hebrews
1:2
"Hath
in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom (speaking
of God the Son) he (God) hath appointed heir of
all things (Psalm
2), by whom also he made the worlds;"
You
can’t get it any plainer than that. Did you catch the phrase, “in
these last days?” God uses many ways to get His point and message
and its meaning through to us. I had a gentlemen one time ask the
question, "Who in the world is Jesus Christ?" At the
time it shocked me as I thought, how could anybody even think such a
thought. But now I know this is a question that more people should be
asking. Who is He (Jesus)? He’s the Creator of the universe, He is all
the Sovereign Godhead of everything, and yet He’s the One that went
to that Roman cross. As I have stated many times, those Roman
soldiers who put the nails through His hands and feet were His
created beings, He made them, and let them do that to Him. You see
this is all part and parcel of what Paul is trying to get across to
us, who Christ really is. And if we understand Who He really is then
we can understand how that by the death of the cross, He could by His
own volition pay the sin and death debt for every human being that
has ever lived and will live, because He is God.
No
mere human could have ever done that. This is what puts Jesus Christ
head and shoulders above all other known religions of the world. None
of their leaders could have ever done what Jesus Christ did, they
could have never died for the sins of mankind. Let alone mans death,
separation from God. Which carries the death penalty for all of those who remain as mere humanity, of the world and earthy. They could never even scratch the surface of
what the Creator God Himself has done. Men
like Buddha, Mohammad, Hitler, Kung Fu, Confucius, James Jones and
the like. This is where our faith then
becomes, not a blind faith, for we know what we believe. We know it
was the Creator who purchased our Redemption which will bring us
through to His Salvation. All we need do is believe Him and our work of trusting Him will bear this out. It was the
Creator who took on human flesh, in the likeness of sinful man, made of flesh, with our water and blood in His veins through
which our humility and shame stands. So that He could become the Supreme
Sacrifice and fulfill the demands of that which He as the Holy God
required, because "without the shedding of blood there is
no forgiveness." See how it all beautifully fits and
dovetails together? Here
is our dilemma, we are required to follow Him in His fashion but not
in a death of our flesh but rather by our trusting His faith and the
Father's Faithfulness.
Colossians
1:16b
"…all
things were created by him, and for him:"
It
was for His pleasure, they are His. Turn to Acts chapter 2 and look
at another good one. Here Peter is preaching to the nation of Israel
on the day of Pentecost.
"Ye
men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of
God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by
(through)
him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him,
(Jesus of Nazareth) being delivered (up to the cross,
not by the Roman decree, not by the shouts of Jews to crucify Him,
but when was He really delivered up to be crucified? It was) by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,…"
It
was long before anything was ever created, it was way back in
eternity past, when the determinate counsel or they held a meeting of
the minds, again this is the Triune Godhead Who came together, and
what determination did they make? We are going to create the
universe, and in one little tiny corner of the universe, we are going
to create a planet. And on that planet we are going to create a race
of humans. We are going to let them start absolutely sinless, in
absolute innocence, we are going to put them in a perfect
environment. But they’re not going to be satisfied, they’re going
to rebel, they’re going to sin and be separated from us in a death
of separation. But we are going to come right back with a plan of
Redemption (purchase them back), and One of Us, One of the Trinity, is going to be the
Redeemer and then their Salvation through which they will return
home. One of Us is going to go down to that planet and take on
humanity in flesh, water and blood, and we are going to go to a
cross, and be lifted up and crucified so that we can purchase them by
Redemption and then bring them to and through Salvation, as our recreated beings. And
who was the One in that Trinity that went? That answered the call, God the Son! Because
God planned it that way from before the start all the way through to the finish. Nothing
caught or catches God by surprise, it was all in the blueprint, and when the
fullness of time was come as it says in the book of Galatians.
Galatians
4:4
"But
when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman made under the law."
Why?
To purchase man’s Redemption which will bring him to Salvation
through his Redemption!
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