Hebrews 1:1

Hebrews 1:1 says, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,  We have just seen in the book of Daniel some of the ways God spoke in the past to His prophets.  God spoke through dreams and signs, but He also spoke through events, such as the fiery furnace.  There could be little doubt that God was at work in such situations.  In those days, the priests and prophets were the  ones who spoke to the people for God and to God for the people.  Verse two says, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;  There was a change that occurred with the coming of Christ.  This says in the last days God spoke to us through His Son.  No matter how long it is until Christ returns again, since He came into the world we have been living in the last days.  Though this may have been a reference to the time immediately around the life of Christ, it does not change the fact that we are in the last days.  God speaks to those in the world through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.  We need no other signs to know God, and we have no other way to come to Him except through Christ.  Christ is both the heir of all things and the Creator of all things.  This simply speaks about the eternal nature and power of Christ.  He is both the Creator and Redeemer.  God speaks to us, not through signs and wonders, but through faith.  Even if signs and wonders do occur, without faith we will not recognize them, and through faith we will not need them.  Verse three states, Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;  Christ has already completed His act of redemption, once and for all time.  He died for those who put their faith in God and the coming Messiah who lived before He came, and for all those who put their faith in Him since.  Christ actually died as a Redeemer of all, but many will not accept His sacrifice, and they go away to everlasting punishment of their own choosing.  Christ now awaits for the time to be right for Him to return and claim those who are His.  Verse four declares, Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.  Christ is superior to the angels, because for all their power, angels, like people, are but created beings.  Christ is not a created being, but the eternal only begotten Son of God.  Verse five adds, For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?  This continues to explain the superiority of Christ over the angels that was brought up in verse four.  Here, the question is asked when did God say to any of the angels that they were His Son and that He had begotten them.  The answer is never.  Again, angels are but created beings, and are separate creations from people.  We will never go to heaven to be angels.  Verse six continues, And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.  When Christ, the first, and only, begotten, came into the world, the angels worshipped Him, because they recognized His superiority to them.  We must likewise recognize Christ's superiority to us, and simply obey and worship Him.  Verse seven states, And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.  I believe that by this question that God was stating that the angels know that they were created servants whose only real power comes from God.  This applies to people as well, and especially to those who are followers of Christ.  Verse eight adds, But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.  The angels know their place, and so does Christ.  As the only begotten Son of God, the scepter, or power, of righteousness is given to Him alone.  This is the scepter that separates the kingdom of God from the kingdom of this world.  Faith in Christ is the dividing line.  Those who do not put their faith in Christ as Savior and Lord will be forever cut off from His kingdom.