The Golden Gate – An Allegory of Truth – Hebrews 1:1-14 –

The Golden Gate
an Allegory of Truth
(Hebrews 1:1-14)

    God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (Hebrews 1:1)
    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; (Hebrews 1:2)
   Who being 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; (Hebrews 1:3)
    Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:4)
   For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? (Hebrews 1:5)
   And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. (Hebrews 1:6)
   And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. (Hebrews 1:7)
   But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8)
   Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1:9)
   And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: (Hebrews 1:10)
   They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; (Hebrews 1:11)
   And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. (Hebrews 1:12)
   But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Hebrews 1:13)
   Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14)

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Who is this Majestic Being Called GOD?

    I have reflected over this chapter many times and as sleep comes upon me, I recite the first chapter of this marvelous book. This chapter is unlike ANY in all of the word of God. The majesty of this book is the Person that it describes, and the revelation of the Son that God gave to man for the redemption of man. It seems that the first word of this chapter and of this book is the greatest unparalleled word in the supernatural in all the words and chapters and the verses of the book of Hebrews. The very first word DEMANDS that we open our eyes and look into the heavenlies and see all the marvels and all the wonders, all the precepts, and all the character of this majestic Being called GOD.
   The first chapter of this amazing book is unlike any other chapter in the word of God. As the first word of this chapter is the revelation of what is contained in this first chapter that GOD reveals His Son in the power of redemption and all the power of His glory, and the power of His endless life.
   In the Spirit of the holy I have stood before this giant Temple, this Temple of words that reaches into the heavenlies. Looking at the silver and the gold and the walls of the city that surrounds the words of truth that God has spent the silver in redemption money and God has purchased the gold of righteousness that He might redeem man unto Himself. The walls are high, and they vanish into the clouds. On the right hand, the walls are endless, and to the left, they are never ending. The gold and the silver shimmer without natural light for the Lamb, the Lamb of God, is the Light thereof, and His light permeates these glorious walls. Although the walls are thick and impenetrable by the mind of man, God the Father gives His children the mind of Christ that they might see the majesty of God in every word.
   Before me is two golden doors: although they are words, they are the gateways into the mind of God. For if God had not written these words man would be without revelation from God for ONLY GOD can reveal Himself to man. These golden doors, which no man can open, are depicted in ONE word, upon the doors is the simple and everlasting word . . . GOD. And within GOD there is the power of an endless life. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

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GOD Discloses WHAT He IS

   God now SPEAKS to man. He has spoken through the entire history of man in sundry times and in diverse manners. Along with the word GOD we now have the revelation AND the voice of His Son speaking to us NOW as we live and breath in this life. It pleased God to reveal His Son to man, that man through His Son could be saved out of the darkness of sin and death. In both the word GOD and the word SON we have three letters (in the English language) and the titles of the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He speaks of HIMSELF and describes who He is. In the sundry times He has revealed Himself both in word and revelation of His appearances in divers manners. God reminds us of all past revelations that He gave unto the fathers through and by the prophets with the Spirit of Christ.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (1st Peter 1:10)
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1st Peter 1:11)
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (1st Peter 1:13)
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: (1st Peter 1:14)
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; (1st Peter 1:15)
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. (1st Peter 1:16)
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (1st Peter 1:17)
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; (1st Peter 1:18)
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (1st Peter 1:19)
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1st Peter 1:20)
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. (1st Peter 1:21)
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: (1st Peter 1:22)
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1st Peter 1:23)

   With the Spirit of Christ WITHIN them their faith bridged in the history of man. And even NOW, it is the key of faith that opens the golden doors. As the Spirit of God opens these doors, by the right door we see the Cherubim guarding in the power of God that no foreign element would be allowed to enter in. As the door on the left opens, we see the Seraphim as they speak of God, Holy, holy, holy. As the Cherubim speak of God’s great power and might, the Seraphim display the glory of God as they worship His majesty, and the brightness of His glory, Holy, holy, holy. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. (Isaiah 6:2) And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. (Isaiah 6:3)

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GOD Discloses WHO He IS

   As I enter in through the gates, I see upon the walls the writing of God. To my right the wall as a giant tablet of stone contains the writing of God, the tablet unbroken in heaven, the Laws and Commandments of God’s righteousness. For the word of God is settled in heaven. To my left, the wall again as a giant stone contains the writings of the apostles and the saints with grace and truth. As I entered in through these two doors, I saw a shimmering in the halls, the light of the candlestick, and the bread of life on the golden table of shewbread, and before me, are two more giant doors, and on these doors, there was one word: SON. Many precious stones surrounded this word. Again, my heart is reminded how God simplifies His name, and His Person to communicate with the darkness of the heart of man. And man would take these two simplified words . . . GOD . . . and . . . SON and do despite to both. The omnipotence, the glory, the power, the eternity, the endless life, the God of ALL creation gives an understanding of Himself in three simple letters that span ALL of creation and time and eternity. In these two titles, in John Chapter 5 Christ, the Son of God, presents Himself in TEN different rays of light as He shows us His equality with the Father. Nine (9) times in John Chapter 5, He refers to Himself as the Son of God and only ONE time He refers to Himself as the Son of man. In that ONE time it is in relationship to the resurrected Man, and we know that THAT Man in heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ, is given all authority to execute judgment upon the first man, Adam.
   The voice from within the halls declares that God has spoken in these last days UNTO US by His Son. 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; (Hebrews 1:2) God declares that we are in THE LAST DAYS. The fullness of time has already come in the birth, in the walk, and of the sacrifice and the resurrection of God’s dear Son. HE HAS SPOKEN the words TO US through the Son of God in THESE LAST DAYS. Yet we look at these last days as the beginning of something new. For God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. We are reminded in Hebrews Chapter 2 of the GREAT salvation that was spoken of by the Lord, and delivered unto us by those who heard Him speak in THESE LAST DAYS. The Son of God is the Center of ALL that is revealed to man out of the Godhead. God Himself has declared that This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And then God COMMANDS us, Hear ye him. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. (Matthew 17:5)
   The words hear ye him are only recorded twice in scripture. And each time it is in reference to the words that the Lord Jesus spoke. In Matthew Chapter 17 it is the voice of the omnipotent God out of the Center of the Godhead proclaiming to us and giving us an unction to HEAR the very words of His beloved Son. There can be no greater authority than THAT voice from heaven in declaring that in the words of the Lord Jesus Christ was both grace and truth.
   The second time that we read the phrase hear ye him, is from man in unbelief. It is man with blind eyes who cannot see the truth, and this shows us that man’s authority is fast fleeting for man lives by sin that brings forth his death. As the devil persuaded Eve to listen to his words instead of God’s words, (Yea, hath God said?) so, man in the SAME deception uses the words of man to overthrow the hearts of many in John 10:20, they declared of the Son of righteousness that He has a devil, when THEY are in reality children of Beelzebub And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? (John 10:20) John’s gospel begins with the words from heaven BY the WORD which was before the foundations of the earth. It is He, the Lord Jesus Christ, who created ALL things, and yet, before the creation . . . In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:2) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3)
   As you look upon the golden doors, the word SON is made up of many precious stones, all assembled to put forth the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person. Who being 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; (Hebrews 1:3) Just as His word had authority from heaven in His earthly manifestation, so the words of the Man in heaven at God’s right hand have the same authority in these last days. By the way, when God gives authority to the word of God whether it is through the prophets, through the manifestation of His Son on earth, and the words that He spoke while He tabernacled among man, those words have the same authority today. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. (Hebrews 12:25)

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GOD Proclaims that the SON is THE CREATOR

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; (Hebrews 1:2)

   We see in our day how man likes to change the meaning of words and the meaning of what has been written. Man has a fluid history for the accuracy of his writings is variable at best, but each WORD that God has given is established and upheld by God for ALL eternity. The word of God never changes. No matter how deceptive the devil gets, no matter how deceptively his ambassadors attempt to degrade the word of God, they will NEVER be able to remove it for IT IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN FOREVER. Each phrase is written on the eternal doors, and He upholds ALL things by the word of His power. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3) And by faith, we believe the worlds were framed by the word of God spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the beginning of the creation of God. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. (Revelation 3:14) And we continue with our faith for the word of God confirms BY Him were all things created THAT are in heaven and in earth whether they are visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers . . . ALL things were made by Him and FOR Him and His good pleasure.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:11)

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16)

   Under the word SON, in gold letters, were these writings, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Here the Holy Spirit of God gives great authority to the creative power of the Son of God. He also brings forth that the first born has the inheritance of ALL things. He not only has authority in creation, but through inheritance and His redeeming work, He has COMPLETE authority OVER the rebellious world of man, and the world to come. I heard that voice again, Open the doors, and as two great gates, they began to open. And I heard from within the words, Come and see, and I heard an angel cry, Lift up your heads, oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in.
   The beginning of the creation of God, God the Son has spoken, and by Himself He has purged our sins. The Amen has finished the work of the cross, and He sealed it with the very words of His own mouth . . . It is finished. The Lord Jesus is the True and Faithful witness of God. Again, we see all three aspects of the glory of the SON in Revelation 3:14, And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; What are these three major aspects in the Son of God? He is the Amen, the end of all things; He is the beginning of the creation of God, the beginning of all things, and between the endless line of eternity He is the faithful and true witness of God. In His total delight, past, present and future, is to do the will of the Father; therefore, what He sees the Father do, He in turn has done. The words that He spoke were the words of the Father. The manifestation of the Godhead bodily WAS and IS the outward expression of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Again, we see the Cherubim as the messengers of God, and we see the Seraphim in the words, Come and see. And that great voice from within resounds again, Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (Psalm 24:9) Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. (Psalm 24:10) And the question is asked of all men, Who is this King of glory? And God Himself answers, The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

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Christ THE SON is the VISIBLE IMAGE of GOD

Who being 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; (Hebrews 1:3)

   In Hebrews 1, verse 3, the King of glory is the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His Person. It is NOT images, but ONE image. As we see all the way back in Genesis Chapter 1 that Adam was created in that very IMAGE that was the manifest image of God IN Jesus Christ in the beginning of the creation of God. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26) In the brightness of His glory, it leaves nothing to come, nothing any greater. The brightness of glory is the full effulgence of the glory of God IN Jesus Christ.
   God manifested Himself to bear the burden of man, to suffer and die on the cross, to cloak His glory and give Himself a ransom and a sacrifice for the sin of man to carry the sin of man into the wilderness of eternity so that man may have a door of hope IN Jesus Christ our Lord. When the soul and the spirit look upon the golden doors, they see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. On the mount of transfiguration, Peter, James and John beheld the brightness of God’s glory and the majesty of God’s Son on the holy mount. They were eyewitnesses in the face of two or three witnesses to the glory of God, and the fullness and brightness of that glory in the express image of His Person. There was the actual mount where Christ revealed His glory to Peter, James and John. Christ carried them away to a place not spoiled by man, a place where God’s thundering and God’s lightening had purified the holy mount, and it was there where Peter, James and John beheld the glory of the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father. When Peter tells us of their experience on that holy mount, he declares that they beheld His majesty, the majesty of the only begotten of the Father; as the Lord Jesus told His disciples that the Spirit that He would send the Comforter would bring to their remembrance ALL things that they had heard and seen of the Son of God, and from that point, the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, would lead them into ALL truth.
   They beheld His GLORY with the natural eye, but then there is another eye. It is the eye of faith given to all those who believe in the Son of the living God. They also, through the eye of faith, can see His glory in their hearts, souls, and spirit. The power of the Spirit of God was not only given to convict man of their sin, but He was also given to reflect in the hearts of God’s NEW creation the brightness of the glory of the Son of God and the express image of His Person. Peter, through the Spirit of God, relates this to us in his first epistle, so that we might share that image of glory and the majesty of the Person of the Son of God. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (1st Peter1:8) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1st Peter1:9)
   When the apostle John, years later, thinking back to THAT moment in time and at the same time OUT of time, related to us their experience in the 1st Chapter in the gospel of John, he proclaimed that WE (speaking of all three men) WE beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of God, the ONLY begotten Son of the Father FULL of grace and true. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) In Hebrews Chapter 1, verse 3, God takes us, those of faith, to that SAME holy mount and we behold the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His Person, and we see His majesty, and the GLORY that is shed forth from that majesty. This mighty Temple of the Word of God opens the heart, the soul and the spirit to the wonder of this glory WITHIN and WITHOUT the Son of the living God.
   In the third verse of Hebrews Chapter 1, God not only unveils the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, but He puts the strength of the word of God with that unveiling, that it is Christ who upholds ALL things by the word of His power. The mighty Temple of the Word of God is laced with the very breath of the Son of God for He is the beginning of the creation of God. From the glory of the holy mount to the agony of the cross, Hebrews 1:3 completes the journey from the glorious day on the holy mount to purging our sins THROUGH His resurrection and He is NOW sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Who being 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; (Hebrews 1:3) You see, the eyes of faith takes you WITHIN the Temple and shows you all the glorious facets of that polished Stone, that tried Stone, that unmovable object which is Christ in the fullness of His righteousness.

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Christ THE SON is GREATER than ALL Creation

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:4)

   In the fourth verse of Hebrews Chapter 1, not even the angels can compare to this ONE, in fact, when they looked on and saw the mighty work that Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary, they looked in wonderment at the mighty love within the omnipotent power of the Almighty God that He would shed His own blood for the redemption of man.
   As sin was ripped out of the world, and death was destroyed, the whole world shook, the whole world felt the agony of the cross, but the One on the cross KNEW BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD that there would be a joy in His own heart in the redemption of man. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2) We see that there is NO angel . . . that Christ was made in His manifestation on earth BETTER, GREATER than any angel. Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:4) He received a MORE EXCELLENT name then the angels. God proclaimed from the center of the Godhead, This is my ONLY begotten Son (John 1:18, 3:16, 18; 1st John 4:9), this day have I begotten thee. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? (Hebrews 1:5)
   The manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ as both the Son of God and as the Son of man was UNIQUE in every way. First, as the Son of God, He descended out of heaven’s glory, as that holy thing. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) That Seed of God was placed in the womb of Mary when the Spirit of God overshadowed her, (Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Galatians 3:16) and from that point, that holy thing from heaven grew in the womb to be revealed to man on that set day and time when God the Father would bring forth His Son as both the spotless Son of God and the irreproachable Son of man. When Christ was born ALL the power of the thrice holy God surrounded Him for, He came in His uniqueness and purity to be the Savior of man, and that more excellent name that the Godhead gave Him was that word SON, the ONLY begotten of the Father both the beginning of the creation of God and the first born of that creation. Out of the Godhead He was manifested in the flesh in the fullness of time BORN out of the mystery of God to redeem man unto Himself. In this mighty Temple of the Word of God, not only was the Son MADE so much better than the angels, but He was made infallible to all that Adam had become. Sin could not penetrate His holiness, and His righteousness was complete defense against all the sin of the world. In His righteousness He would take the offensive to destroy both sin and death in His own Body on the tree. As the resurrected Man He could enjoy His inheritance in the children of God, the saints of light, who had been born and would be born out of His death into His everlasting life. At the very birth of the Lord Jesus, God the Father declared that this was His ONLY begotten Son, and He also declared that ALL the angels of God should worship Him. This fact alone shows the Deity of that holy thing from heaven, and that newborn child in the manger that ALL the angels of God should worship Him. And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. (Hebrews 1:6) The voice of the Spirit of God out of this Temple of the Word of God speaks to every heart, soul and spirit when we hear the words, Come and see.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. (Isaiah 9:7)

   This prophecy given to Isaiah by the Spirit of Christ was written more than seven hundred years before that holy thing, the Lord Jesus, was born. In these verses from the book of Isaiah, we see the manifestation of the Son of God from His very birth and Isaiah tells us that He is given, He is given to us from God the Father out of the glories of heaven to be our Savior, and as the Son of God He has a complex name because of all that He manifests to us; thus, we can call the Son of God, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

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Jesus Christ IS GOD

   Do you see what the Spirit of God is presenting to us in this first Chapter of the book of Hebrews? That although the angels of God are flaming spirits (Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Psalm 104:4), it is the Son of God, in verse 8, who sits upon the throne of righteousness. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8) This verse removes any doubt that Jesus Christ is God and that He possesses all the attributes of God; Christ IS the Living God. In verse 8 we do not see just any throne, it is Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. Again, we as man, have been blessed with a tremendous mental capacity, but in no way are we able to delve into the secret things of God, and the mystery of His will. All that we know of our gracious God has come to us through revelation in the word of God by the declaration of God the Holy Spirit. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of His kingdom and those who are born of His Spirit are delivered from the power of darkness and they have been translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son into the kingdom of His righteousness. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13)
   We often speak of the responsibility of man, but we forget that the angels were also created by God, and they also have certain responsibilities. When Lucifer violated those responsibilities both he and the other rebellious angels were removed from their positions; consequently, Lucifer was cast down to the ground, and the rebellious angels were bound by chains and cast into hell to be reserved for their final judgment in the lake of fire. In Hebrews 1:8, it is interesting how God depicts His own righteousness; first, we see the POWER of His righteousness in the scepter of righteousness that He holds. Then, we see His LOVE for His own righteousness, and we also see His hatred for iniquity that was first recorded in Lucifer.
   When the Lord Jesus stood at the river Jordan, John wanted to be baptized of the Lord, the Lord refused, and then told John that it was up to THEM to fulfill all righteousness. Christ had to be baptized into His own death. This would depict His ministry amongst man fulfilling all righteousness as the ‘man of sorrows.’ When Christ came out of the water, He already knew. His time was short that every step would take Him closer to the cross where He would give His life for the sin of the whole world. This is why the heavens opened to not only announce the Son of God, the holy thing that was born of a woman and made under the Law, but each step would be fulfilling that scepter of righteousness that He loved and THAT righteousness would defeat ALL the iniquity that He hated, and to show not only the sufferings of the cross but the joy that was set before Him for He was anointed with the oil of gladness above all others. As the holy oil flowed from Aaron’s head and downward to his garments, so too, the oil of gladness anointed the prophet, priest, and King of the kingdom of God.
   There are many passages about the kingdom of God as mankind has fragmented the deity of God through man’s categorizing the word ‘trinity’ of the most high God. Man has also fragmented the position of Christ. They cannot see the One who has the position of Prophet, Priest and King IN the kingdom of God. In Hebrews Chapter 1 we have the ministry of the apostle Paul through the Spirit of God. These things were revealed to Paul while he was in the third heaven separated from the world in the presence of the Son of God. No other apostle reveals the truths that are found in Hebrews Chapter 1. This chapter alone is a chapter from heaven to encourage us and to show us the glories of God’s beloved Son sitting at God’s right hand. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8) In verse 8, this is the kingdom of His glory. Thou hast loved right eousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1:9) In verse 9, the oil of gladness shows us that He is held higher than the heavens, and God has placed Him, the Christ of God, the anointed One, above all. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. (Hebrews 7:26).

    Paul the servant of God, the man of the Damascus Road, was chosen by God to fill up those things that were left behind. He was born again out of due time and in his divine calling from the right hand of God, the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, revealed Himself to Paul and after Paul received his sight once more, he went into Arabia not to minister to others, but to receive of the Lord further revelations of the Son of God and His divine Church, the body of Christ.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, (Galatians 1:15)
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: (Galatians 1:16)
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. (Galatians 1:17)
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. (Galatians 1:18)

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. (2nd Corinthians 12:1)
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2nd Corinthians 12:2)
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) (2nd Corinthians 12:3)
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2nd Corinthians 12:4)
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. (2nd Corinthians 12:5)
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. (2nd Corinthians 12:6)
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (2nd Corinthians 12:7)
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (2nd Corinthians 12:8)
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2nd Corinthians 12:9)
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2nd Corinthians 12:10)
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. (2nd Corinthians 12:11)
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. (2nd Corinthians 12:12)

   In the same epistle to the Galatians Paul gives the location of mount Sinai IN ARABIA. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. (Galatians 4:25) It is from mount Sinai that Paul was caught up into the third heaven. As he declared to fill up things that were left behind. In 2nd Corinthians Chapter 12, he spoke of himself in the third person, so that man would not exalt him above measure. For example, look what they have done to the apostle Peter. Knowing what Peter went through at the trial of Christ and his denial of the Lord three times, this humility led Peter to be told of the Lord to feed the Lord’s sheep. Peter would always remember his position, and yet the religious world has placed Peter on the throne of the Church, and not the Lord Jesus Christ.
   In the spiritual world there is a great conflict. God is in a battle against the spiritual enemies of His throne. Both Lucifer and mankind have bonded together to deceive man by attacking God in every way. And look at what they have done to the image of Peter before man. Peter would NEVER want this exaltation, or his name being mentioned amongst the whore of Babylon and the wickedness of the religious world. All the apostles refused any glory except glory in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are born again out of an ungodly world. We come to Christ as children of weakness because of our past sin. The Lord Jesus said, You call me Master and Lord, ye do well. Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am. (John 13:13) This is the thing that in our position of weakness we should get our strength from our Master and Lord at the right hand of God. Paul had more physical power and authority when he was a Pharisee of the Jews. When he was converted on the Damascus Road from that point forward, he took a position of weakness before the Lord and out of that weakness, he was made strong in the Lord to reveal to us what he saw and received in the third heaven. Paul also received further revelations that the Lord Jesus later gave to him in his walk with Christ. The very words in Hebrews 1:3 describe what Paul saw in the third heaven . . . the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of the Person of Christ. In 2nd Corinthians, we have the words, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This was NOT the imagination of Paul. He had seen THAT face in the third heaven. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2nd Corinthians 4:6) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (2nd Corinthians 4:7) Paul beheld that glory so that he could write in the Spirit of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The apostle John on the isle of Patmos declared that he was IN the Spirit on the Lord’s Day and what happened after this, the glory of God’s dear Son broke out all around John, and the brightness of His image was greater than the power of the sun.

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The Word of His Power and the Power of His Word

   In Hebrews Chapter 1, the Holy Spirit in verse 3, also takes us back to the word of God, for it is Christ who upholds all things by the word of His power. Who being 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. This power has not diminished from the very beginning of the spoken and written word of God. In the beginning GOD is just as powerful today then when God created the heavens and the earth. The breathing living word of God with all power and majesty is the never-ending word that He upholds with the power of His endless life; therefore, the written word of God is given the power through its Author, the Lord Jesus Christ. For in the prophets of old, whether Moses, or a long list of prophets, even kings were inspired by the Spirit of Christ to write the very words and mind of the Almighty in pen and ink so that man may know not only the existence of the one true God, but to know a Savior with the power of an endless life. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16)
   In Hebrews Chapter 1 we see the work of the Godhead and the manifestation of Christ as the Man upon the throne. The communication between the scepter of righteousness and the children of God today is ministered by the Man at God’s right hand, the Spirit of Christ. To show His uniqueness in verse 10 of Hebrews 1, again we see Him laying the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the works of His hands. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: (Hebrews 1:10) Verse 10 shows the work of the Son of God in the very beginning that it was Christ who laid the foundation of the earth, and that the heavens were also CREATED by the works of His hands. The Spirit of God uses many metaphors involving the creation of heaven above and the throne of God and the earth below and the heavens between where we have the stars and all the luminaries. Our minds neither fathom, nor understand this great power. And yet, in all this power it took MORE power to purge our sins than the power to create the universe and all the luminaries. I will give you this thought that our redemption was in the counsels of God BEFORE the first word of creation. Redemption became the center point of God’s will and purpose so that He would have a people completely devoted to Him through the redemptive process of the Lord on the cross of Calvary. God created US so that His love could be exercised, and He could show that love through His merciful work of redemption for we were unclean vessels when God sent His Spirit, the Spirit of His Son into our hearts to cleanse us from all our sins and create a NEW vessel fit for the Master’s use. The same ONE who laid the foundations of the earth and spread the heavens with the works of His hands is the SAME ONE who cried out in suffering and pain on the cross of Calvary, It is finished.
   The first chapter of the book of Hebrews unfolds as a tumbling cloud disclosing the wonder of God’s beloved Son, showing us the wonder and power of the word of God, showing us God working though the history of man to bring redemption to mankind through His beloved Son and to remove each and every child of God as a new creation OUT of Adam’s world; thus, revealing to them their future dwelling place, the endless land of heaven, the glorious city, the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the mother of all those born of the Spirit of Christ.
   Under the blood of the Lamb of God, we have been separated from the land of Egypt and from the power of the satanic pharaoh who rules the world. When the devil saw what Adam possessed in the garden where God had placed Adam, Lucifer desired to have all of man’s possessions and all of man’s dominion. It was Lucifer through his deception who caused Eve not to trust the word of God. Lucifer lied to take away what Adam had in this world. Eve being deceived, convinced her husband, Adam, to join with her in her rebellious act against their Creator God. This is the tragedy of it all . . . Adam was NOT deceived; he KNEW that the serpent had lied. Adam KNEW that Eve was wrong in her actions, and yet, Adam didn’t even attempt to debate, nor did he try to approach God to beg forgiveness. Adam went down so easily, the one who had been given authority OVER the earth didn’t act with authority over his wife, nor did he act with authority over the lying serpent. Adam, oh, Adam, you willingly followed when you should have led. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1st Timothy 2:14) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (Hebrews 10:26)

   The lies of Lucifer never end throughout the history of mankind, in fact, Lucifer has an alliance WITH the world of Adam: a fallen world under sin and death. In this alliance, both Lucifer and man crave complete control of the world, a world WITHOUT God. When anyone is born again, and under the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, they are removed from Satan’s Egypt, the world, through the work of the Lord Jesus on the cross. We have passed through the sea of death in the crucified one. And as we travel in the wilderness we must watch for the thorns and thistles of both the world and Satan. We have been separated to a heavenly home by a heavenly Savior. God presents this Savior to us in ALL His fullness in the first Chapter of Hebrews.
   Inside the Temple of God is the God of all creation, and the divine power of His word. We see the work of salvation in purging our sin and the authority to give us life at the right hand of God. We see His mighty power in His creation and in His redemption of man upholding all that He does in righteousness. In Hebrews 1, we see a Man and a Savior ABOVE all man, and as in Philippians Chapter 2, it is Christ who has a name that is ABOVE all names. Within this name, within that manifest image is ALL the power and attributes of the Godhead bodily.
    He has introduced us to a land that is fairer than day, to the glorious green meadows of heaven, and the sunshine reflecting in the dew drops as they water our soul, our spirit and our heart with the word of God. Set your affections on the Man above, and above all, lay-up treasure in heaven in the safety of God’s LOVES.

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. (Song of Songs 7:10) Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. (Song of Songs 7:11) Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. (Song of Songs 7:12)

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The Written Word is the LIVING WORD

   The spiritual work for God is the preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This great commission has been given to EVERY child of God. The spread of the gospel is the congealing of your faith giving oneself on the altar of faith just as Abel made himself a living sacrifice for God, just as our Savior laid down His life and defeated our adversary on the cross. So, therefore, each child of God is called to give themselves as a living sacrifice to God. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1) The world, the flesh and the devil have ignored this verse since it was written. As a living sacrifice to God, one cannot conform to this ungodly world. We are born of God to walk in a wilderness of sin and yet be unspotted by the world. All around us is the world of Satan, and those who follow his wicked ways. As we are crucified with Christ, we pass through the Red Sea of death IN Him to begin our journey of a new life IN a new Man, Jesus Christ. We have given up Adam forever, and we are joined to the bone and to the flesh of a New MAN in heaven created in love, the love of God. We have the assurance and the pledge of our inheritance and the gift of the Spirit of God, the unity of the Spirit of Christ within us. This union that we have with Christ is inseparable.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1st Peter 1:2) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (1st Peter 1:3)

  These two verses have abundant treasure. We see our name in the word elect. We see the foreknowledge of God which takes in the determinate counsels of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We see the sanctification of the Spirit of truth unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. We see that God has shed upon us the elect of God according to His foreknowledge, grace abundantly. With that grace and the Spirit of Christ within us, we have the abundance of peace, and this peace is multiplied in the presence of our Savior, who is the Prince of peace, and has told all His children, My peace I give unto you.
   There are two controlling factors of the wickedness of Lucifer. The Lord Jesus called Satan the father of lies and a murderer. The devil from the very beginning was both a liar and a murderer, and this wicked one conquered the spirit of man when Adam fell from the Law of Life to the Law of Sin and Death at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
   In the sixth Chapter of the book of Genesis we have the end of corrupt man. His wicked heart, and his vivid imagination took the world of Adam into the depth of the universal flood. Man’s wicked heart became inflamed with his imagination of evil, and then, the floods came. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) Although God had given a man (Noah) a preacher of righteousness, the world refused to listen to the words of truth and judgment. They closed their ears to the word of God. The Lord Jesus told His disciples that the next end of the world would come and that it would equal to that which Noah endured. We have reached this point today through the deceptive work of the devil, the land of Hollywood, the entertainment and games of the world cause the world to use their vain imaginations out of their evil hearts, and to keep them from the reality of the Law of Sin and Death. As the old world refused to listen to Noah, so also, the new world also will not listen to the word of God. In fact, both the secular world and the religious world do not BELIEVE the word of God. When a person is born again, God gives them a DESIRE, a THIRST for the sincere milk of the word of God. He puts in their hearts a LOVE of the truth of God, so therefore, why would any child of God mistrust the word of God, or mistrust His salvation that is a free gift from God? Why would anyone mistrust the power of His word? It is because the Spirit of Christ is NOT within them. Hebrews Chapter 3 is being fulfilled in our day. They are perishing in the wilderness because they do not have faith. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, (Hebrews 3:7) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (Hebrews 3:8) When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. (Hebrews 3:9) Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. (Hebrews 3:10) So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) (Hebrews 3:11) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (Hebrews 3:12)

   The imagination of the professing church has swayed from the word of God. They have created many gospels, many Christs, many ways to reach heaven. They have listened to the lies of the serpent and NOT to the voice of the Son of God from heaven.
   This first Chapter in the book of Hebrews confirms the word of God, confirms the way of salvation, confirms the righteousness of God, and ALL is confirmed in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Living Word has given the written word through His Spirit, and He upholds this by the word of His power, the same word that created ALL things both SEEN and UNSEEN. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3)

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Christ is the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily.

   Inside the Temple of the word of God, we not only have the past, but the present and the future and we have a Savior who encompasses yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8) Yesterday points back to the beginning of the creation of God. God Himself created the heavens and the earth to be for His pleasure, and to be part of His divine will. In the past the prophets witnessed of the future and the word of God speaks of our present day and then beyond our comprehension the Spirit of God steps out of time and proclaims that Jesus Christ is forever. In Hebrew 1:11, God tells us that the present heavens, and the present earth SHALL PERISH, but the Christ of God will remain. They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; The Spirit of God tells us that both the heavens and the earth shall wax old as a garment. The world will grow frail as the stitches in a garment weaken, and as the fabric ages and easily tears and appears to crumble at the slightest touch, so, the heavens and the earth shall pass away. Peter gives us more information and relates the salvation of man to the very passing away of the heaven and the earth. He discloses that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise. It is God who is long suffering to us-ward, to mankind, not willing that ANY should perish. God desires that ALL come to repentance. Notice the world repentance and where it is located in 2nd Peter 3:9, The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
   It is the longsuffering of God that ALL should come to repentance. The word repentance in 2nd Peter is at the very end of all things. Repentance is the missing word in the Church today because repentance is the first step of the work of faith by the Spirit of God. Man MUST see his own ungodly state before a holy and righteous God before God can shower grace upon him. Repentance is the cry of the heart, soul and spirit before a longsuffering God. A person must see their own vileness in Adam, and in the longsuffering of God we have the persistent everlasting gospel to direct the heart, soul and spirit of man to a longsuffering God.
   In the days of Noah God was longsuffering. Noah was preaching God’s righteousness, and within his preaching was the mercy of the living God, but the old world refused to listen, so the floods came as a thief in the night and took them all away. The word longsuffering is recorded three times in the epistle of Peter. It is God who is beseeching man to be reconciled to Him. God is not willing that ANY should perish, yet in the days of Noah, the ears and the eyes of vile man were closed to the things of God, and once again, as it was in the days of Noah, so, it is also in our day and age that man will not repent of their sin. Peter tells us the same truth that we have in Hebrews Chapter 1, that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, and the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all the works of man will be burned. Peter also tells us that we, seeing that all things shall be dissolved we should walk in holy conversation and godliness before the face of God.
   The Lord is NOT slack concerning. His promise. His promise is to us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, although heaven and earth pass away, Jesus Christ is the same today, yesterday and forever. According to the promise of God, we, the redeemed of God, look for new heavens and a new earth. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2nd Peter 3:13)
   As Hebrews Chapter 1 discloses that the heavens and the earth shall perish, Peter informs us HOW they will perish. Both the heavens and the earth have an appointed time and as God takes the first away through His promises, He will also establish the new heavens and the new earth where righteousness will dwell. In Hebrew 1:12, the Lord describes the creation being folded up as a vesture, and the old creation being changed and taken out of the way. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. (Hebrews 1:12) But the infallible, the beginning of the creation of God, the Lord of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God said of the manifest image of God, thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. The word same shows the everlasting omnipotence of God. His omnipotence is changeless. His omnipresence is changeless. His omniscience is changeless. His holiness is changeless. His righteousness is changeless. And with that list all the promises of God never change. He will fulfill every promise that He has made both to those who are justified in Christ as well as the promises of His judgment against the ungodly.
   The years of the Lord Jesus shall not fail. He is the beginning of time. He is the fullness of time, and He is the end of time. There will come a time when the very concept of time will pass away into eternity . . . and there will be time no longer. But the years of the Lord shall not fail. He will fulfill the last days, the end of our age. He has seen the birth of creation by the word of His power. He will dissolve that same creation by the same word of His power and then fulfill His promise of a new heavens and a new earth. We are on the brink of the translation of the Church from this world. Our earthly time will cease and for those who are born again in the process of time they will blend into eternity and timelessness in their translation. However, in these last days of time, God still has to prove this earth. He has to judge it with His rod of iron as we see in Psalm 2, and it will be the Son of God who wields the rod of judgment on the earth.

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. (Psalm 2:7)
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. (Psalm 2:8)
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. (Psalm 2:9)
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. (Psalm 2:10)
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. (Psalm 2:11)
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalm 2:12)

   We see a reflection of this Psalm in Chapter 1 in the book of Hebrews. But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Hebrews 1:13) In verse 13 we see the divine authority of Christ sitting at the right hand of God. The angels do not have this authority. What we also see in the verse is the unity of the Father with the Son, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Through this we see the unity of the Godhead in both the Father and the Son. All the enemies of God will be brought into subjection to God and judged. The footstool speaks of judgment of the earth and those who dwell thereon. In verse 13, we also see that ALL judgment has been given to the Lord Jesus Christ, and from this judgment the Spirit of God takes us back into the everlasting in verse 14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14) This verse is the conclusion of verse 7, And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. (Hebrews 1:7) It is God Who maketh his angels spirits, and in this they are the messengers of God, and his ministers a flame of fire. This takes us back to the garden of Eden and the Cherubims guarding the way to the tree of life and the flaming sword to keep Adam from returning to paradise. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24)
    Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14), Are they not all ministering spirits . . . ALL the angels of God are ministering spirits, and their ministry varies. There are those spirits, those angels, that minister to the throne of God. There are those angels, those spirits, that minister over the nations of the world. There are angels that bring peace, and angels who are combatants in war, and there are angels who minister to the Church of God and to the heirs of salvation through Jesus Christ. This finishes our walk through the Temple of God’s Living Word and God’s written word in Hebrews Chapter 1. It began with the Almighty God, and it ends with the heirs of salvation of the Mighty God who has spoken to us in these last days BY His Son, who is the Mighty God, the everlasting Father and the Prince of peace for Christ is the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9)

Amen and Selah.

© Copyright – Michael Haigh

Published December 11, 2023 @ 1:54 PM
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