“how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.”
~ Hebrews 2:3
Hi James and Ellen,
Do you think that there exists beings who are called angels? If you think that angels do exist, what do you think an angel looks like? Do you think that there exists a Supreme Being Who is called God? If you think that a Supreme Being who is called God does exist, what do you think the Supreme Being who is called God looks like? The Hebrews Book author – in Hebrews 2, wrote about angels. The Hebrews Book author reminds the guys and gals who would one day read his book that Moses wrote in his Deuteronomy Book how a ‘myriad of holy ones’ – angels, actively helped in giving him the law that he was to pass on to God’s specially chosen guys and gals. This law was given to God’s specially chosen guys and gals to underpin a new worship paradigm that God expected His specially chosen guys and gals to wholeheartedly accept and obey. The Hebrews Book was written less than fifty years after an occurrence took place that changed the world. This occurrence involved a guy dying on a cross after having been inhumanely tied and nailed to it. The guy’s name was Jesus. After Jesus died while tied and nailed to a cross, after Jesus was buried in a sealed tomb and after Jesus was seen again and talked to by a number of guys and gals, the guys, gals and kids Who God – as God the Father, had elected before He had created the chunk of rock that is called planet Earth that you are living on right now began to apply in their lives the message of hope that Jesus had told them about and they began to get together as Jesus-follower or Christ-follower communities to celebrate their new embedded gift of hope. Strange teachings over the next fifty years or so slipped into some of these Jesus-follower or Christ-follower communities of guys, gals and kids. One of these teachings was a belief that angels were superior beings to God – as God the Son. The Hebrews Book author reminds the guys and gals who would one day read his book that angels – for a short period of time, were superior to God – as God the Son, when God – as God the Son, was born on planet Earth as an incarnate man to walk around on the very same chunk of rock that you are living on at this time. The Hebrew Books author in his dissertation on angels leaves your grandpaa to believe that angels are for a time superior to you, your dad and ma, your grandmaa and grandpaa and every other guy, gal or kid who has lived, is living and will live on the chunk of rock that is called planet Earth. The Hebrews Book author also in his dissertation on angels establishes that even though angels did become superior to God – as God the Son – Jesus, for the thirty plus years that He lived as an incarnate man on the chunk of rock that is called planet Earth, but that once God – as God the Son, defeated death when He became alive again, that the angels once again became subjected to the authority of God – as God the Son.
A cross that was made out of two roughly hewn pieces of wood, that was carried up a rocky knoll, that was propped up by some large stones, that had a guy Whose name was Jesus lashed to it along with having crude nails pounded through His feet and wrists to it in order to keep Him from moving them and that was probably left to rot after the guy Whose name was Jesus was taken off it after He had died, was given the exclusive honor of facilitating a Divine act where the Supreme Being Who is called God would begin to receive the praise, honor and glory that were due Him from His specially elected guys, gals and kids. What happened on those two crossed pieces of roughly hewn wood that were tied together to form a cross was a sacrifice that redeemed or freed from sin the lives of the guys, gals and kids who God elected for Himself before He formed the chunk of rock that you are living on at this time that is called planet Earth. Jesus’ sacrificial death is the mercy key that His Father – God – as God the Father, now uses to open the grace/faith door for His specially elected adopted kids to go through using a personalized faith pass that was given to him or her when he or she was led by God – as God the Spirit, to make a decision of faith believing that God – as God the Son – Jesus, inhumanely suffered and died as a sacrifice on that cross for their sins.
The Supreme Being Who is called God used angels to pass on the law to His specially chosen guys and gals, used Himself as God the Son to give the gift of eternal life to His specially elected guys, gals and kids and uses His omnipotence to show off cues of His heavenly existence. The choreographed order of everything that can be seen and cannot be seen in the universe testifies of a Supreme Being Who is called God having plotted out a plan for it to take place just the way that it does. The indefinable beauty of the infinite elements of creation – from the endless variety and colors of plant life to the countless diversity of living creatures, from the glorious sunrises that awaken new days to the magnificent sunsets that celebrate the end of another day and from the noisy storm clouds that carry water to the earth’s blanket of trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses while at times mugging these same trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses and everything else that is in the way of its winds as the storm’s winds go on their preordained paths. The wonders and marvels that can be seen everywhere gives witness to a Supreme Being Who is called God having plotted out a plan for it to take place in exactly the way that it does take place. The sight of a guy, gal or kid being well again after having been prayed for to be healed, of something being found after having been prayed for that it would be found, of . . . are evidences of a Supreme Being Who is called God having plotted out a plan for it to take place in precisely the way that it does take place. Verse 3 says, “how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.”
Hebrews 2 (519)