Son Over All God's House!

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

The words "But Christ" refers back to "was faithful" in verse 2, in other words Christ was faithful in His house just as Moses was in his. The "but" however puts forth the major contrast between the two. The Hebrews were inclined to deify Moses and the Old Covenant as the ultimate expression of God. To them a human Messiah was merely to endorse and forward their national aims and establish the rule of the law of Moses and the law of separation between Jew and Gentile. They were the chosen and the Law was their badge of exaltation. But Paul is here exposing their fatal misconception. Moses himself said that a greater messenger was to come..verse 5..."And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after".
The law was the transcript of God's character but Christ, the Son, was God made flesh. The testimony of Moses bowed to Him as a servant bows to the Son of his master. God had long foretold that the glory of the Old was to be but a servant to the greater glory of the new covenant. Some take this to mean the law itself has been demoted. But this would be mistaken. Christ was to show the fuller glory of the law in a living expression written into the flesh He came to rescue. What Christ would do in the humanity He took would gloriously establish the love of God as the center of His law and the hearts of rebels would be turned to allegiance to God.

2 Corinthians 3:
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:


8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

(Heb 3:1) Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

We are admonished to consider the High Priest Hebrews has just defined in Chapter 1 and 2. This will not be the first time that we are reminded to do so in Hebrews. The points of chapter 1 and 2 are obviously extremely important in two senses. Firstly we must accept that God, in Christ, took sinful flesh upon His own divine nature in order to be perfect a way of atonement for man, and bring him into harmony with the law of God. Any other flesh or method would not suffice for we trust and have scriptural testimony that God did what was necessary. (Hebrews 2, Romans 8:3). Secondly we must believe that Jesus is now ministering until He returns. The book of Revelation also reveals Christ as ministering in the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary during John's day around 90 AD. (Revelation, chapters 1 and 2). Later we will see that He finishes the work for man in the second compartment or phase of the High Priest Ministry which is the beginning of the judgment and sealing up of God's church at the end of time.
The great irony is that much of the professed Christian church considers that Christ has long since finished His high priestly ministry because, some say, "the day of atonement was at His crucifixion". Christ has made atonement at the cross but this is distinct from the day of atonement prefigured in the sanctuary The day of atonement is a final examination of the professors of Christ foretold by Jesus in the parable where the guests are examined to see if they have on the wedding garment. (see Matthew 22:11).
Many now depict Jesus as king. In order to lay aside the Holy law of God as many have done, or simply to diminish its importance, this idea that His priestly ministry is already over has been adopted. It would imply that there is no judgment for Christians for it has all past at the cross. Our salvation is sealed and we cannot be lost by anything we may do. This is a terrible distortion coming out of Calvinism and it has many related variants.
But such folly need have no place with those who read the Bible as its own expositor. According to Hebrews and Revelation Christ is still ministering for us as High Priest and seeking help those who are tempted to overcome and walk in His ways. Salvation remains under condition of obedience. This is not salvation by works but rather salvation that bears works. It is the fruit of Christ's labor. He is there to minister repentance, if we fail, in order to help up recover and walk uprightly. He will remain in that role until just before He returns to earth to take His people with Him, thus He admonishes us to "be faithful unto death". Revelation 2:10. "He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved". Matthew 24;13. We are in a saving relationship now by faith but we are admonished to hold unto that salvation by faithfulness in Christ. Romans 2 clearly reveals this truth.  He will come then as King when the judgment of those professing Christ is complete. "We shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ" says Paul. The guests at the wedding must be examined to see if they are wearing the wedding garment. Profession of Christ will mean nothing if the guest has not actually worn the way of Christ, which is to keep the law of God. "Here are the that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus." Revelation 14:12.
What is it then we are to consider about our High Priest? He is able to help us because He has championed our escape as a brother. The blood He pleads before the Father is His human blood, testifying that a way of restoration was successfully made, for it is innocent blood, the only innocent blood for the whole human race. This is what the blood of Christ means to us. It is the testimony not only of the sacrificial love of God, not only of the payment for sin, but it testifies that humanity yoked with divinity in Christ is in harmony with the divine law. All who truly accept this High Priest accept, not only that they are pardoned, but believe also that they may now walk with the supernatural aid of that perfect life power of Jesus and keep the Law of God by faith. Praise the God of love for providing our way in Christ!

Hebrews 2:18. He is able to succour them that are tempted.

(Heb 2:18)  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

The love of God for us is deeply tender. Many wrestle with the idea that God. whom we say knows all things, might have to learn what it was to be tempted. Perhaps if we understand that there is something we are overlooking here,.... perhaps then the text might explain a bigger concept. Lost mankind needed a representative human head to plead their cause and to meet the just requirement of the law. Just as Christ has to learn obedience as a human, He also has to learn faith as a human. That means that as a human the Son of God had to learn what it meant to be tempted in a weak humanity that had to choose to depend on divine aid. This is all part of our legal redemption. This is all part of the perfection and restoration of humanity in Christ. The man Jesus, had to learn these things and perfect these qualities in order to qualify as our perfected high priest. In His pre-incarnate divinity Jesus lacked nothing. He could not even be tempted. But divinity was not in the grip of Satan..... humanity was..... and as such Christ took humanity to counter-work the Satanic spirit's power with His divine power. It was not so much that God had to learn...but that God was to teach humanity, in Christ, and prepare "such an High Priest" as we now have. Divinity knew how to prepare it. Humanity was needing that tender companionship of the divine nature. In Christ both things meet. This is indeed a great divine mystery which we shall study in eternity. Christ is all things to us. He is the ladder...reaching down from His power in heaven and touching the earth where man is. This is the love of God made manifest. Therefore the apostle pleads with us....(Heb 2:3)  How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; My friend.....embrace the love of God and let it woe your heart into the kingdom.

Jesus! He is not ashamed to call us brethren.

Jesus! He is not ashamed to call us brethren. (Hebrews 2:11 KJV)  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren...

Here is one of the most tender thoughts about God. Our heavenly Father accepts us through the provision He has made in Christ. Morally weak, mortal, doers of shameful deeds, yet God in tender sympathy has provided Christ. He is not ashamed to call us brethren. He is not ashamed to stoop to the rescue of a wayward race. Jesus' beautiful parable of the prodigal son sets forth this same love. When the wayward son endeavored to return to the Father's house, while he was yet afar off, the Father ran to meet him and fell on him, embracing and kissing his son. This is a picture of us as sinners and our heavenly Father's longing for us while we are yet sinners. The Bible says that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
How is it that we know this love? The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. He made His dwelling place with us. God took the rebellious race into His bosom by giving His only begotten Son to the race. Christ will bear the marks of crucifixion in the flesh of a humanity, which He has married Himself to, for eternity. We are adopted by the Divine. As the son of Jonathan was sought out and brought to David's table, so the son's of Adam, once subjects of Satan's rebellion, are brought to the table of God. Christ is our bread, our daily provision, out of the portion of the Father's own store.
No greater truth could be fashioned against the accusation of Satan that God was self serving, and that His law was self serving, than that the Word was made flesh, sinful flesh, the flesh of rebellion, so that the sons of the rebellion might be won to the fold of God once more. It is no wonder that the Spirit of antichrist seeks to deny this truth. No wonder that it will be one of the last great proclamations of the the truth of the 3 angles of Revelation 14:6-12. This is the heart and soul of the everlasting gospel. What could the cross mean if this truth were not at its root? It would be but an gesture, but it could not be our redemption. He became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. He is brother to us so that His redemption price can be accepted by the tribunal of God. No other way could be found. This is the gospel. This is righteousness by faith. This is the three angels message in verity. The Word made flesh is in a special sense to be understood and proclaimed, so that people may know their redeemer and find His perfect all sufficient redemption. All praise to our God and the Lamb of God.

One Man...to make reconciliation for the sins of the people!

"To make reconciliation for the sins of the people".

The space of one chapter in Hebrews covers the direct truth of Christ's exalted position in the Godhead. The point is easily made. But many chapters are dedicated to convincing the readers of the great mystery of Christ's adoption of human nature. In chapter 4 Paul is still emphasizing that Jesus was touched with the feeling of our infirmities in order that we may have confidence in Him as a fitting High Priest.Why so much emphasis and why so much resistance on the part of apostate and Laodicean Christianity? The Book of Revelation will add to the answer in a very direct way.
In chapter 5 of Revelation a great crisis is brought to view.
(Rev 5:1)  And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. (Rev 5:2)  And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? (Rev 5:3)  And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. (Rev 5:4)  And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
The redemption of mankind and his vindication in the judgement is here symbolized in the 7 seals along with the judgment of Satan's kingdom. The law of God holds a case against man. The penalty of death must be paid by the offender and a vindication must be made in order for the kingdom of humanity to reign once more.
Man is the offender. How can he pay the penalty of death and yet also vindicate himself? It seems impossible. For a time no man is found worthy to open the seals and to let the redemption proceed. John weeps for he foresees the extinction of His race and the loss of God's bride, the church.
Let it be made clear here that no other being can substitute for the offender. Man must pay the debt and man, if he must somehow continue, must redeem the disgraceful failure. This is a specification of the law of God. A man must pay. A kinsman alone can redeem, else all is lost for mankind. This is part of the sacred law and is intricately bound to its ability to keep the kingdom of God safe from the infiltration of evil. It must be a son of fallen Adam that takes the challenge for Adam had no son's before the fall. It must be a seed of the fallen Eve that bruises the serpents head in order to the accusation of  Satan regarding man and the just and holy law to be answered. John then sees the Hope...Behold the Lamb of God!
Then in the midst of this great tension One is found. People do not pay enough attention to scripture. This One must be of the same flesh as all other men unless the law of God is to be set aside and Satan win the argument. Thus we see that Christ, in order to be a sufficient High priest must become one of the fallen sons, must pay the penalty and must, as a man, redeem the failure if the race is to be vindicated. No other man could do it. All had failed. Even though there were humans in heaven...none were found worthy of this great a challenge. But Christ was the unity of divinity with humanity and with God all things are possible for fallen man. Christ gave back to the race what Adam had lost, a heart of righteousness and a connection with divine aid. All this is bound up with the the truth that Christ took "the offending nature of man upon His own sinless nature". This is the wonderful condescension of God to man.
Rom_5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom_5:15  But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

"We have such an high priest" but the devil seeks to change how we see that!

Made in all points like unto His brethren says the book of Hebrews."We have such an high priest" but it is the devil's aim to eclipse faith in this High Priest, as scripture reveals Him, by creating a counterfeit view of Him.

Thus a false christ and a false view of salvation is created. The law of God is diminished and the human standard is exalted. This is the work of antichrist and it will deceive many who think themselves perfectly loyal Christians. Jesus first warning to this disciples regarding the end of time, was take heed that ye be not deceived and that many false anointed ones would come claiming His name. Matthew 24.
There is a great misconception in the deceived christian apostasy as to what Antichrist denotes. We see here that the antichrist spirit is a deceiver spirit. Deception poses as one thing and is actually another thing. Satan first came to Christ posing as an angel of God. Matthew 4. Paul warns that Satan's angels (messengers) will appear as angels (messengers) of light. Many assume that Antichrist will only appear as one man in direct opposition to Judaism and an empty Jewish Temple. This reveals that their teachers are not dependent on scripture but on humanly devised fables. Hollywood, Satan's soap box, will even preach this false sermon in color on the big screen. Satan has nothing to fear in this type of preaching. It is his.
The scripture reveals that antichrist is a usurper spirit that permeates a christian apostasy from the truth from the days of John the apostle. But these individuals and this movement appears in all outward likeness as followers of Christ and believe themselves to be Christians just like Judas did, until his time of exposure.
The reformers exposed this fact of an antichrist apostasy to the revived Christian church but the counter-reformation of the Catholic church set in motion many notions to counteract the truth, and today that denial has been well planted in the compromising seminaries of a dying Protestantism. The false Sabbath and the false doctrine of Christ's becoming "holy flesh" at His birth now have become "orthodoxy" in the great ecumenical adulteration of churches. Now they look outside the "christian fold" for the appearance of some future secular Antichrist politician. Thus Rome is able to cast her spell upon the confused masses of apostate churches and invite them to recognize her as the mother of the Christian church. The tentacles of Roman doctrine have reached so far in the the struggling reformation that one might think all is lost. But it is just then that God reveals His power. Revelation reveals that at that time of the end now upon us there will be those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12. Their faithfulness proclaims Babylons fall for Christ's truth walks on the earth in their flesh. His banner cannot be denied and the nations of the earth and its apostasies have one last chance to repent. Will you keep all of God's commandments by faith or will you buckle under the ecumenical pressure to fit in with the "orthodoxy" in the guise of false love on the two distinctive doctrines of antichrist? Let us stand with God.

...This is a deceiver and an antichrist??? 2John1:7

Made in all points like unto his brethren. Hebrews 2 gives us this great truth by which to defeat antichrist.

How important is it to believe the assertion of scripture that Christ took upon Himself the seed of Abraham and David...the fallen sons of Adam? John answers this. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 2John1:7. It is apostasy itself to deny this point.

There was no way that Abraham or Mary, who was Abraham's distant offspring, could pass on to Jesus any other flesh than their own. It had to be the seed of fallen Eve that bruised the head of the serpent. Gen.3:15,16. John will not teach anything contrary to the scripture which has gone before him. This leaves us with scriptural proof as to what flesh the antichrist spirit will deny that Christ came in. There is another ear mark of the Spirit of Antichrist which we may know. It will think to change times and laws. Daniel 7:25. As surely as it has fulfilled this prediction in boasting to change the law of God and its the day of worship it has also attacked the scriptural doctrine that Christ is come in the flesh of the fallen race.
"The official and "infallible" doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, as solemnly defined as an article of faith, by Pope Pius IX, speaking ex cathedra on the 8th of December 1854 is as follows:--
By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a special grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore is to be firmly and steadfastly believed by all the faithful.
Wherefore, if any shall presume, which may God avert, to think in their heart otherwise then has been defined by us, let them know, and moreover understand, that they are condemned by their own judgment, that they have made shipwreck as regards the faith, and have fallen away from the unity of the Church.--Catholic Belief, page 214.
This conception is defined by Catholic writers thus:--
The ancient writing, "De Nativitate Christi," found in St. Cyprian's works says: Because (Mary) being "very different from the rest of mankind, human nature, but not sin, communicated itself to her."
Theodore, patriarch of Jerusalem, said in the second council of Nice, that Mary "is truly the mother of God, and virgin before and after childbirth; and she was created in a condition more sublime and glorious than that of all natures, whether intellectual or corporeal."--Id., pages 216, 217. {1905 ATJ, CWCP 37.3}
Satan cannot claim a race that has not transgressed the law of God since the law contains the terms of citizenship to God's kingdom. It is in fallen flesh where Satan's claim of the race resides, thus Christ came to fallen flesh to rescue it from that possession. If you must regain a territory from enemy invasion you must ultimately meet the enemy on  that territory and overcome them and possess it yourself.
Satan must keep this point subdued  (that Christ restored the power of obedience to mankind in fallen flesh, in Himself) if he wants to keep unlearned Christians in opposition to the law of God, and in acceptance of the change of the law of God and it's creation Sabbath.  If we understand that Christ succeeded in making a way for fallen man to return to allegiance to the law of God in this life then Satan's scheme is undone. We will recognize Antichrist's deception. More on this great truth next time. God be with you readers and with your faithfulness to the truth of Christ.

Catholic bishop admits that they changed the Sabbath!