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NOVEMBER 5
159 Consider how I love Your precepts; “I will be to Him a Father,
Revive me, O LORD, according to Your And He shall be to Me a Son”?
lovingkindness.
6 But when He again brings the firstborn
160 The entirety of Your word is truth,
And every one of Your righteous into the world, He says:
judgments endures forever. “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”
Proverbs 28:12 7 And of the angels He says:
When the righteous rejoice, there is “Who makes His angels spirits
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great glory; And His ministers a flame of fire.”
But when the wicked arise, men hide
8 But to the Son He says:
themselves.
“Your throne, O God, is forever
Hebrews 1:1–14
and ever;
God, who at various times and in various A scepter of righteousness is the scepter
1 ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the of Your kingdom.
prophets, has in these last days spoken to us 9 You have loved righteousness and
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by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all hated lawlessness;
things, through whom also He made the Therefore God, Your God, has
worlds; who being the brightness of His glory anointed You
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and the express image of His person, and up- With the oil of gladness more than
holding all things by the word of His power, Your companions.”
when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 having become so much better than the
angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a 1:8,9 He says. Quoting from Psalm 45:6,7, the
more excellent name than they. writer argues for the Deity and the lordship of
the Son over creation (v. 3). The text is all the
more significant since the declaration of the
Son’s Deity is presented as the words of the
Father Himself (Is.9:6;Jer.23:5,6;John 5:18;Titus
1:2 last days. Jews understood the “last days” 2:13; 1 John 5:20). It is clear that the writer of
to mean the time when the Messiah (Christ) Hebrews had the 3 messianic offices in mind:
would come (Num. 24:14; Jer. 33:14–16; Mic. Prophet (v. 1), Priest (v. 3), and King (vv. 3,8).
5:1,2; Zech. 9:9,16).The fulfillment of the mes- Induction into those 3 offices required anoint-
sianic prophecies commenced with the ing (v. 9). The title “Messiah” (“Christ”) means
“anointed one”(Is.61:1–3; Luke 4:16–21).
advent of the Messiah. Since He came, it has
been the “last days” (1 Cor. 10:11; James 5:3;
1Pet. 1:20; 4:7; 1 John 2:18). In the past, God
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gave revelation through His prophets; but in And:
these times, beginning with the Messiah’s “You, LORD, in the beginning laid the
Advent, God spoke the message of redemp- foundation of the earth,
tion through the Son. heir. Everything that And the heavens are the work of Your
exists will ultimately come under the control hands.
of the Son of God, the Messiah. This “inheri- 11 They will perish, but You remain;
tance” is the full extension of the authority And they will all grow old like a
which the Father has given to the Son (Dan. garment;
7:13,14; Matt. 28:18), as the “firstborn.”worlds. 12 Like a cloak You will fold them up,
The word can also be translated “ages.” It And they will be changed.
refers to time, space, energy, and matter—the But You are the same,
entire universe and everything that makes it And Your years will not fail.”
function (John 1:3).
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But to which of the angels has He ever said:
5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: “Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your
“You are My Son, footstool”?
Today I have begotten You”?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth
And again: to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

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