Showing posts with label Hebrews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hebrews. Show all posts

Hebrews 1:10-12 the work of your hands

Hebrews 1:10-12 is a quotation from Psalm 102:25-27 where the Psalmist is talking to Yahweh God, about Yahweh God. It is in no way the Father speaking to the son like you claim. God alone was the creator in the beginning. We know this from many verses.

Isaiah 44:24 (KJV) Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Psalms 33:6 (KJV) By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalms 148:5 (KJV) Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

Isaiah 45:12 (KJV) I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Also, please compare with the below.

Hebrews 2:7 (KJV) Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

That's talking about how the Father created Jesus as a man and then highly exalted him over.... the works of the father's hands.

Hebrews 7:3 - Without father or mother

Hebrews 7:3 (KJV)  Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

This verse is simply saying that Christ as high priest in his ordination was the same as Melchizedek, in that genealogy didn't count. He wasn't a Levite, which was a requirement by the law. This was a special God ordained office. Book of Hebrews chapter 7 is clearly concerned with this...

“For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests” (Heb 7:14).

This has nothing to do with Jesus, or Melchizedeks preexistance before they were born. Read any good commentary, they don't claim this.

The verse is just reconciling the lack of priestly genealogy. To the Jews, they could believe that if Melchizedek could be a priest to Abraham without being a descendant of Aaron, the first priest, then so could Jesus Christ.

 

Hebrews 3:1-4 he that built all things

 Hebrews 3:1-4 (KJV)  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

These verses are not saying that Jesus is the creator, its saying God is. In fact it specifically contrasts 3 people by use of analogy.

Moses - The house
Jesus - Builder of the house
God  - Builder of ALL things

Clearly Jesus is below God in the hierarchy, being appointed by God to his role as Builder of the house.

Hebrews 1:2 - through whom also he made the universe?

 Hebrews 1:2 (KJV)  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Worlds is really not a great translation. It should be ages. It's the word aionas, from aion where we get our English word aeon from, which means age or era.

165. aión ►
Strong's Concordance
aión: a space of time, an age
Original Word: αἰών, ῶνος, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: aión
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-ohn')
Definition: a space of time, an age
Usage: an age, a cycle (of time), especially of the present age as contrasted with the future age, and of one of a series of ages stretching to infinity. Its a time frame.

Word Origin
from a prim. root appar. mean. continued duration
Definition
a space of time, an age
NASB Translation
age (20), ages (6), ancient time (1), beginning of time (1), course (1), eternal (2), eternity (1), ever* (2), forever (27), forever and ever (20), forevermore (2), long ago (1), never* (1), old (1), time (1), world (7), worlds (1).

Here's the literal translation...

Young's Literal Translation
in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

So,  God made the ages through Christ. This is talking about the risen Jesus, exalted and sitting at the right hand of the Father as God's appointed Lord over the heavens and earth.

Observe the below parallel verses that use the same word aion, age.

Ephesians 3:10-11 (Young's Literal Translation)
...that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, according to a purpose of the ages (aiōnōn), which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Hebrews 6:4-5 (New International Version)
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age (aiōnos).

Ephesians 1:20-22 (NIV)
...when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age (aiōni) ibut also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church

Heb 1:2-3 is not about the genesis creation. It's about the man Jesus, risen.... made superior to angels by his God, and upholding the ages by the word of God's power.

Hebrews 1:8 - YOUR THRONE, GOD

 Hebrews 1:8 New American Standard Bible

But regarding the Son He says, “YOUR THRONE, GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM

The son is not being called God here, and neither was the ancient Davidic King that the Psalm quoted (Psalm 45:6-7) originally referred to.

"Your throne God" is conveying the sense that the son, and the Davidic King, both sat on Yahweh"s throne (authority). God was their authority, and they were the anointed agents of that authority.

Below is a popular commentary that explains this.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(6) Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.--This is the rendering of the LXX., Vulg., and of the versions generally. But whether they supposed the words to be addressed to the Divine Being, or that the theocratic king is thus styled, is uncertain. The Christian use of the verse as applied to the Messiah (Hebrews 1:8, Note, New Testament Commentary) does not help us to explain how the monarch, who is the poet's theme here, could be addressed as God. The use of Elohim in Psalm 82:6; Psalm 97:7, Exodus 22:28, hardly offers a satisfactory parallel, and even 1Samuel 28:13 (where we should render, "I saw a god, &c) hardly prepares us to find such an emphatic ascription to an earthly king, especially in an Elohistic psalm. Two alternative renderings present themselves--(1) Thy throne of God is for ever . . . i.e., thy divine throne. (Comp. Psalm 31:2, "thy refuge of strength.") (2) Thy throne is of God for ever, which is grammatically preferable, and with which may be compared 1Chronicles 29:23, "the throne of the Lord." . . .

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