The author was pointing out the supremacy of the Son over the angels by quoting several verses from the book of psalms . Angels was created in the image of their Creator who is also a Spirit, as declared in verse 7. But they are created as servants and ministers to them that are heirs of salvation. And being angels, which means messengers, they were made to fulfill instructions from the Almighty as Gabriel was sent from the presence of God. But unto the Son, He was addressed in verse 8 as God whose throne is forever and ever. Some perhaps would find it confusing that David in his psalms said that this God called the Son was anointed by His God above His fellows. How come a Hebrew, a king of Israel and a prophet, whose God commanded saying "hear ye all Israel, the Lord thy God is one God" would declare that there is another God besides Jehovah. And here in Hebrews, Paul who was believed to be the author of this epistle quoted the same verse.
The bible says that in the beginning was the Word (which means an expressed thought). And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us whom we call the Son. But before He manifested in the flesh, He was just the Word, He was Jehovah, who identified Himself as I AM THAT I AM. He was the express image of God. In other words the exact expression of who God is. The characters and everything attributable to ELOHIM being God was expressed from His eternal mind as a thought to become a Word. This is why Jesus was called the Word, the expressed thought of God. The invisible God became expressed in Word form. And in that form He created the heavens and the earth.
God in Word form showed Himself in many ways to the prophets. He was seen as a pillar of fire in the burning bush. At one time the Word took upon Himself a body of flesh and ate with Abraham. The back part of Him was seen by Moses in the wilderness. He was Israel's one true God. But in the fullness of time, God overshadowed a virgin and created in her womb a seed. And when that seed was born, the Word dwelt in it and became His own body. And so the Word was made flesh and was called the Son of God. Jehovah (God the Father) of the Old testament is the same WORD in the New testament as Jesus (The Son of God).
What shall we say then?, the Father became Son and that God is no longer Father but Son. Certainly not. It was just the Word (the expression) who entered into another office as Son. But the ETERNAL UNSEEN GOD, who expressed the Word ,did not. But He (THE ETERNAL UNSEEN GOD) became the FATHER of the WORD when the WORD became the SON of GOD.
This is why Jesus can pray and call on the Father and yet He could say "I and the Father are one". Jehovah of the old testament (the Word form of the ETERNAL UNSEEN) is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, (the Word manifested in flesh) of the new testament . God in Word form took the image of man and was called The Son. But God in the form of eternal unseen became the Father of The Son. It is not two Gods but ONE GOD existing in TWO DIFFERENT FORMS as Father (the unseen) and Son(the word).
The name JESUS is God's redemptive name. It is His name as a Father. It is His name as a Son. And It is His name as the Holy Ghost that dwells in His people. That is why Peter when he was asked in Acts chapter 2 what the people should do, he admonished that they should repent and be baptized in the name of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST as obedience to the Lord's commission to the apostle to preach and baptize in the NAME OF THE FATHER , AND OF THE SON , AND OF THE HOLY GHOST because the FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST IS ONE GOD in three OFFICES and His name is Lord Jesus Christ.
What then is the Holy Ghost? There are three answers to this question. One, the term "ghost" is synonymous to "spirit". God is a Spirit and a holy kind of spirit. Therefore, the Holy Ghost could be defined as the very being of God as a Spirit being. Two, at the time of Pentecost, two things happened to the disciples. That Fire in a form of cloven tongues rested upon each of them and also they were filled with the Holy Ghost. This cloven tongues is undoubtedly the Spirit of God (Holy Ghost) divided unto all the 120 disciples. This is not the very being of God but the seeds of God that rested upon each of them that brought their conversion or spiritual rebirth. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."(I john 3:9). Three, it was said that they were also filled with the Holy Ghost. Again, this is not the very being of God but His anointing or empowerment which every son and daughter of God receives.
Hebrews 1:4 was correct when it said He hath by INHERITANCE obtained a more excellent name than the angels because the name of the Lord is His Father's name. It was just right to say that He inherit it because He is in the Office of Sonship.
Now, if everything was created by the Word which includes angels and Jesus is the Word, therefore , Jesus was the creator of the angels. And that there is no controversy to say that Jesus, our Lord and their Lord, is far greater than them.
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have come not from a man of literature or of a highly polished man in terms of education. Please don’t pay attention to the simplicity of
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