And when he brought his supreme Son into the world, God said, “Let all of God’s angels worship him.”

Jesus, the Man

And furthermore, it is not angels who will control the future world we are talking about.

For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world.

For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.

Christ Is the Perfect Sacrifice

So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world.

If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But now, once for all time, he has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice.

That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer.

It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.

They were too good for this world, wandering over deserts and mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.