MIKE BALLOUN | THE THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 1

Mike Balloun teaches on 12-14-2019.
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 (Written to Hebrew Followers of Christ)

2nd Timothy 2:15; Acts 1:45,10:44-48,11:15; 1st Corinthians 12:27-13:1,14:1-5,24-28

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The Epistle was written sometime between 53 and 68 AD while the Temple services were still going on, before the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. It was written to Hebrew Christians (Hebrew followers of Christ); both those who were resisters to Truth and to those who were being tempted and persecuted by the strict followers of Judaism. These Hebrew believers were being pressured to stay away from “Christian” gatherings for fear of harsh and constant persecution. Great was the temptation with peril to fall back into Judaism under the law of Moses, where there was no means by which their sins might be dealt with. Nor would there be opportunity for inheritance in Christ’s Kingdom, the sure consequence of casting away their first confidence and drawing back unto perdition; hence the great warnings throughout the Book of Hebrews. The Book’s intent then is to encourage and exhort the faithful, rebuke the resistors, and bring about the restoration of the wayward to Christ. That at His Second Coming they would not be subject to severe judgment, but on the contrary, that they would be found faithful and thereby worthy of His Kingdom inheritance.

The Book is written anonymously, but after some research it is not difficult to determine Paul was the author. The Book contains the longest sustained contending argument of any book in the Bible; that being the preeminence of Christianity (what came to be known as Christianity) over Judaism because of the superiority of Jesus the anointed One over all others. Over the prophets 1:1-3, the Angels 1:5-2:18, and Moses and the law. The latter being where the contention was most acute 3:1-6, they having been but servants, He being Son.

Son being the “Name” He inherited as a result of His successful mission upon the earth. This key assertion and basis for the entire argument is presented in the first chapter of the Book. This first chapter then sets forth 3 very important understandings….
1) that the Son was before Creation with God eternal. (eternal Son in the Godhead)
2) that He humbled Himself and came as a man.
3) His Resurrection and elevation as the Son of God/Son of Man to the highest position in Heaven. (at the right hand of the Father on the Throne)
He is here, in this first chapter, presented as there now, forever exalted, and that by reason of His success, was appointed heir of all things and forever accepted at the right hand of the Father as Son. After having established the Son’s personal preeminence here in the first chapter, then Paul goes on to establish Christ’s superiority of Priesthood to the Levitical priesthood of Moses’ Law 4:14-7:28. And then it demonstrates Jesus Christ’s superior sacrifice offered in the superior heavenly sanctuary 8:1-10:39. Think of the great advancement beyond the Law of Moses that Jesus Christ so presented to us proclaims! And with it the demands to holiness (chapter 12).

Five times in the Book, the Holy Spirit inserts specific warnings to the Believers based upon the theological argument preceding that section’s particular argument, those warnings occur in the following passages: 2:1-5; 3:7-4:13; 6:4-8, 10:26-39, 12:25-29. (These shall be highlighted with definition in their proper place.)

THE BOOK OF HEBREWS is extremely focused on relating how the Old Covenant prophetic words and its types insure the establishment of the Truths of Jesus Christ set forth in the argument. So Paul begins in verse 1…. “God, who at sundry (various) times and in divers manners (different ways) spake in time past unto the fathers (the patriarchs and their descendants) by the prophets…” (God’s earlier works among men were accomplished over a long period of time through many men, and by various ways. Through dreams and visions, by audible voice, by sacrificial offerings and ceremonies, and types and shadows.) “…Hath in these last days (of growing evil, offset by Christ’s Atonement in mercy and grace, before Millennial days of glory) spoken unto us (in the enlightened terms and aspects of those things spoken in past Dispensations, the great difference in this Dispensation is that of the greater Messenger and Message) by a Son…”

PAUL’S KEYNOTE PRESENTATION OF THE SUPERIORITY OF THE SON
Within the first 4 verses, Paul describes the Son in His preeminence in 7 amazing terms, where it is to be seen that the Son is undeniably God’s ultimate source, His salvation intermediation; such grand descriptive terms....

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