Who is Jesus?

"And again, when He bringeth in the first begotten into the world, He saith, and let all the angels of God worship Him." 

Perhaps one of the most explicit identifications of our Savior in scripture, besides His assertion that He is the Messiah, is found in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Here in its first chapter Jesus is set forth as the ultimate messenger of God the Father. In the Old Testament prophets delivered the messages of God to men. But the time came when the Father came to us in the person of His Son. The distinction is made forcefully clear in the verses that follow. The Father addresses His Son with His own name, He identifies His Son as co-creator and speaks of His eternal authority to rule. Hebrews 1:1-14. By the time of Christ the Jews had fallen into the pagan practice of angel worship, a practice strictly forbidden by God. But in Hebrews Jesus is set forth as One worshiped by the angels. The Hebrews had been taught by God to be mono-theists. Thus angel worship or any form of creature worship was apostasy from that true worship. Paganism was often characterized not only by immortality among the worshipers but by immorality among their gods. It was the plan of Satan to thus confuse men with the idea that there were no lasting absolutes in the moral realm by the device of polytheism. Monotheism, if it presented the true God of love and justice, was a stabilizing influence upon men. But now the Hebrews are being called to expand their understanding of the One God to include not another god, but a divine mystery of a God who is a Union of One. The human mind struggles to comprehend this for we tend to limit God to our own sphere as singular beings. God is One and is a divine family so intimate and a part of one another that Jesus would simply state. "I and the Father are One." "If you have seen Me you have seen the Father." The Spirit of God also appears to a part of both the Father and the Son in the same intimacy... being of them both equally. In the Godhead we see this incredible love and mutual support for one another that is the hope of mankind, for such a God knows love as a part of His makeup and He is therefore love itself. The time had come for the Hebrews, in order to understand the fuller revelation of the Gospel, to realize the fullness of the Godhead so that they could model that love for one another. Christ had become the means of that expression to us because God sought to become One with the lost race in His Son. It is not essential that our finite minds be able to fathom the parameters of God's nature. We cannot. But we can understand and appreciate what the Father has been pleased to reveal to us. God is One God but this One is one love that binds the Godhead in perfect union. The human family was to reflect this and can in Christ. "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness"....said God. In this the word "One" takes on a new meaning. Hear of Israel..the Lord is One.