The point of Hebrews is clear: God has spoken to humanity in Jesus Christ. The very nature of that word indicates that Christ is a stronger Word than any previous revelation.
Before Jesus, God is revealed through various circumstances—the creation and the flood; the narrative of the patriarchs; the dispensing of the Law; the sweet singing of Psalms and wisdom of Proverbs; the marvelous mysteries of the prophetic writings. All of it is of God, but it is incomplete. But with Jesus, God is revealed in a way that it had not previously.
Jesus forms the boundaries of history: “He is the One whom God appointed to receive all things [and] God made everything through Him.” He stands at the end of the future as He is also at the beginning of the past, for He is the creator of the worlds. All things come from His hands, He is the Originator of all the processes of life, nothing began or exists but what began or existed in Him. Jesus makes this claim Himself: “Before Abraham was, I am (John 8:58b).”
Our world is in desperate need of redemption. It needs to be brought back out of uselessness and restored to its proper relation where it was originally intended to be. When Jesus had come to grips with the thing that is destroying human life and making this world such an unpleasant place in which to live—sin—when He had dealt with it fully, He took his place beside the Majesty on high.
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