Heb.1:4-6 – Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
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?
And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews is calling us to consider Jesus, considering or gazing upon our Lord is how we experience His nearness and His voice. In this amazing passage describing Jesus as greater than the angels the author describes His superiority with the three aspects of His birth. He is the eternally begotten Son in eternity, He became a man at His unusual human birth, and He was born from the dead at His resurrection. Here is a description of all of this from the Believer’s Bible Commentary.
“Two verses are now quoted from the OT identifying the Messiah as God’s Son. First, in Psalm 2:7, God addresses Him as Son: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” In one sense Christ is the eternally begotten Son. In another sense, He was begotten in incarnation. In a third sense, He was begotten in resurrection—the first-born from the dead (Col. 1:18). Paul used this verse in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia and applied it to Christ’s First Advent (Acts 13:33).”
It’s easy to get confused when we have a rigid interpretation of a verse or passage of scripture. More times than not verses have multiple meanings and applications. When the Lord describes His giving birth to His Son its easy to miss the significance of what He is saying with a fixed position on what is being said. Of course we know that Jesus is eternal and one of the great mysteries of God is that Jesus is the eternally begotten Son. He was not created but has always been the radiance or glory shining out from the Father in an eternal state, without beginning or end. We also know that Christ was born as a man in Bethlehem. In that sense He is again the Father’s only Son. Finally, Paul referred to the resurrection of Christ as he quoted this verse from Psalms, “Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee?”. So Jesus is clearly the Son of God.
