Hebrews 2:5-9 | What's happening (and who's involved)?
The Mission of Subjection
We bear witness to the humility of the Son but also the majesty of the Son in this passage. There is a humble realization that the passage recognizes. The world was not given in subjection to angels. It was entrusted to mankind. Psalm 8 is quoted here, and from it we glean some incredible truths.
The Lord Almighty is mindful of mankind. He considers them and cares for them. Man does not reach as high in the hierarchy as the angels. We are not divine. But what is it that we see?
The Lord Almighty is mindful of mankind. He considers them and cares for them. Man does not reach as high in the hierarchy as the angels. We are not divine. But what is it that we see?
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
-Genesis 2:15
-Genesis 2:15
The earth was not given in subjection to the angels, but was entrusted to man. While we are the creatures made in the image of God, we are made as less than divine beings. It is the destiny of mankind to be crowned with glory and honor and have all things in subjection under their feet. But something happened. Adam fell.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
-Romans 5:12-14
-Romans 5:12-14
Sin entered into the world through Adam. Rather than the world being subject to man, man became slaves of sin, made to obey it in its lusts. Everything was made to be subject him. This was what God designed and destined for mankind. Now, we do not see everything subject under him. The writer of Hebrews recognizes this, but with an interjection. "But we see Jesus..."
Mankind was made a little lower than the angels. When Jesus came to take on the form of flesh, He lowered Himself to the same form. He was made a little lower than the angels. In humbling Himself to such a degree, just as sin entered by one man, so righteousness enters by One Man, the Man Jesus Christ. He was crowned with glory and honor that He might lead mankind in that same place, righting what the Lord designed for man to be that sin had corrupted. As such, He tasted death for everyone. The victory belongs to Jesus.
What observations are you taking note of?
Mankind was made a little lower than the angels. When Jesus came to take on the form of flesh, He lowered Himself to the same form. He was made a little lower than the angels. In humbling Himself to such a degree, just as sin entered by one man, so righteousness enters by One Man, the Man Jesus Christ. He was crowned with glory and honor that He might lead mankind in that same place, righting what the Lord designed for man to be that sin had corrupted. As such, He tasted death for everyone. The victory belongs to Jesus.
What observations are you taking note of?
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