“Shadows and Reality: The Letter to The Hebrews in a Postmodern Age” taught by Zev Rosenberg & John David Geib: Session II

“Shadows and Reality: The Letter to The Hebrews in a Postmodern Age” taught by Zev Rosenberg & John David Geib: Session II.

Breaking Out Hebrews 1:1-3

Past revelation, verse 1

• God Spoke
• To our ancestors
• By the prophets
• Long ago
• At many times - to different contexts, to different parts of Judaism: just getting a piece of the picture. None of the prophets had the whole picture or see God clearly.

BUT NOW, verse 2a

• God has spoken
• To us
• In these last days (now in these latter days)
• By His Son - not by prophets, but speaking through a person

The Person of the Son, verse 3:a

• The radiance of the glory of God - appeared to them in light in clouds - that was Jesus himself not in incarnate form.
• The exact imprint of his nature - Jesus perfectly expresses God's own nature. Jesus can therefore speak completely authoritatively.
  

The work of the Son in creation, verses 2b, 3b

• Through whom God created the world
• Appointed the heir of all things
• He upholds the universe by the word of his power.

The work of the Son in redemption, verse 3c

• Having made purification for sins - by sacrifice through Jesus.
• He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Jesus is the great high priest who will intervene for us.