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God’s Final Word: His Son
In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
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The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
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The Son Superior to Angels
For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?
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And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
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But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
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You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”
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To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
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God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
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and put everything under their feet.” In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.
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But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
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In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.
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And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”
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For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
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He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
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“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
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See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
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A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
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Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
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For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”
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God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
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There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
