Heb.1:1-3 – God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; 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;
The book of Hebrews gives a glimpse behind the veil to what Paul referred to as the “mystery of godliness”. This term used by Paul described the unfathomable revelation of the deity and humanity of Jesus. In these opening verses of Hebrews Jesus is referred to as the heir of all things, the Creator, the radiance of God’s glory, the very image of God, and the upholder of everything. He then moves on to His place in heaven as the Heavenly High Priest. Jesus is described as fully God and fully man. He represents us to the Father as a man and He represents the Father to us as God’s only begotten Son. He has opened up a way for us to come to God, this is the great message of the book of Hebrews. Here is how one of the early church fathers, Theodoret of Cyr, describes this mystery.
“Whom he appointed heir of all things. The divine apostle began with human beings, and after speaking first of the lowlier things he thus lays hold of the greater. In other words, Christ the Lord is heir of all things, not as God, but as man: as God he is maker of all things, and the creator of all things is Lord of all by nature, whereas the heir is made master of what he was previously not lord. In like manner the believers are heirs of God and coheirs with Christ: by grace they receive what they did not have before.”
This is the beauty of the humanity of Christ, He became a man for us that we could become sons and daughters of God. He died for us, rose from the dead for us, sat down at the Father’s right hand for us, and lives to pray for us. Jesus is the heir of all things and He has made us co-heirs of all things with Him.
