Hebrews Chapter 1 verses 3, How God began to deal with unbelief
Who beging in the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: verse 4, being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Jesus is the brightness of God’s Glory and the express image of Gods person.
The Apostle is saying Jesus is the brightness of God’s Glory that these Jewish people would begin to be renewed to the memory of that which they had believed in and in hopes they would once again receive the faith that God-given in HIs Son.
You see these Jewish people where no longer servants of God but they had become sons of a God who was now a Father unto them.
The contrast we
But still, yet keep in mind the purpose for which the apostle is writing the Book of Hebrews is because there were these Jewish people who had believed in Jesus the Christ to be the Messiah.
He is not writing to a Jewish person who has never heard of or believed in or been born again believer in their Messiah.
So we have the apostle which is believed to be the apostle Paul writing to these Jewish people and admonishing them to return by the faith of God which He had provided in Jesus the Son of God, their Messiah.
It is that we know that the Jewish people are God’s people, that is we Gentiles that have confessed with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and have believed in our heart that God has raised Jesus from the Dead, and it is the same with the Jewish people who
Therefore we have these Jewish people who had at one time had the faith of God which he had provided which we know is the faith of Jesus that they may believe in the one who is in the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His person, who God has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds and upholding all things by the word of his power.
Then it is we come to that of verse three were it says, “when he had by himself purged our sins .” it is here we have a distinction, as we mentioned earlier about the beggarly elements, the blood of bulls and goats verses the companionship with God by Jesus Christ the Son of God and the blood He shed .
These Jewish people had turned back to worship God thinking they would have a relationship and fellowship with God by offering once again the blood of bulls and goats.
So were these Jewish people who had once believed that Jesus was all that is mentioned above to be, were they God’s people?
They were God’s people in the sense that God was their creator and that they had in the past worshiped God according to the Mosaic covenant whereby came the sacrifices of bulls and goats but, God was no longer requiring those sacrifices because he had required the blood of His Son whereby our sin is purged, not just covered over as they were in the days when they were offering blood by sacrifices.
So the doubt of these Jewish people had taken them back to thinking they had to shed the blood of animals.
So we have a contrast between faith and works.
Faith does not need to see it, feel it or smell it.
Doubt says
So the apostle is wanting these Jewish people to come back to that which can not be seen but has been raised from the dead and has made available his blood to purge Jew and Gentile from all their sins and is seated at the right hand of God.
There again in verse four it is showing forth what these Jewish people had. It says, “Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
These Jewish people had a covenant relationship with God as their father through one who had been made better than angels and one who had had by an inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
It speaks of one being made so much better and receiving a more excellent name. If one is made so much better , how is it is that one is made so much better?
Jesus was born of a virgin given a body that was like the one Adam had before he disobeyed God and that body was a body that had the blood of God in it which had the very life of God eternal life in it that would purge sin from mand kind. This was the body where he was made so much better angels. This is the body whereby he had to offer up himself as a lamb spotless without blemish slain before the foundation of the world. This was the manner in which he had by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
This body one of immortality with the blood that was in it was eternal life that could purge sin from mankind was the one that gave Jesus the Christ his standing as the Son of Man which would warrant one the need of a name.
It would be this body that would grant him the excess to an inheritance that would obtain him a more excellent name and that inheritance would come as his Father would ask him to ask him for the heathen for his inheritance.
For it is stated in Psalms 2:8 where the Father is talking to the Son of God, the Messiah. The Father says to the son, “ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
So this inheritance is that which has to do with mankind on planet earth not that which he already had in heaven.
It was the beginning of a new covenant, a better covenant one not given by the ordinances of angels but the son of God given by God as a covenant name it has to come from another.that Father God conferred or gave Jesus his name
