“Let your Hand be upon the man of your Right Hand, upon the son of man you made strong for yourself.” Psalm 80:17
In Psalm 8, David, perhaps on a starlit night beholding the heavens and the moon and the stars, all the Glorious product of God's Creative Fingers (vs 3), he proclaims, “What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you visit him?” He is copying a page from the ancient Job who asked the same question in Job 7: 17, “What is man that you should magnify Him? And that you should set your heart upon him?” Add to this Job's great dilemma in feeling helpless and impotent to come before this Almighty God as he states in 9:32 and following, "For He is not a man as I am that I could answer Him and that we could come together in judgment neither is there any mediator between us that may lay hand his hand upon us both."
David once again addresses the same question in Psalm 144:3, adding to the query the perplexity of the vanity of man. Why would the Eternal God give to man so much as the time of day, considering the vanity to which humanity has stooped? Everything that man touches or considers eventually dies. It seems to be his only consistent fruit.
Praise God, the same question is addressed one more time in Hebrews 2:1-4. Hebrews chapter 1 is the exaltation of God the Fathers Glorious Son, by Whom He made the worlds, and the One Who is the heir of all things He created. The Son, who has such a creative interest in this world and everything that is in it, is next exalted above all the angelic hosts. (Vs 4-9, 13) In verse 7, and speaking of the ministry of His angels as Ministers of a flame of fire, he is speaking to their elevated place in the minds of his audience of Jewish believers. Remember that the law was given by the ministry of angels, as we read in Exodus 19:17-18, and Deuteronomy 33:2 "He came forth with 10,000 of saints: from His Right Hand went a fiery law for them."(Acts 7:53, Gal. 3:19) Keep in mind that the law went forth from God's Right Hand!!! Therefore he is preparing his hearers for the fact that the Son Whom he is exalting is in fact, a new law Giver, the very Law Keeper, the Father's Beloved Son who is above the angels.
Hebrews 2 is the introduction of God's Right Hand Man, whose revelation is the purpose for all of creation. (Col. 1:12-17 all is created by Him and for him) but I'm getting ahead of myself. In Hebrews 2:5 he introduces a new facet to the whole discussion: the world to come!!! But the author doesn't consider it a new consideration because he adds, “whereof we speak”, as though he has spoken of it before.(See these verses: Psalm 15: 15-18, 148:1-7; Rom. 8;19-21; Eph. 1:9-10, 21; Col. 1:17-20; 2 Pet. 3:11-13) You will find their roots in God's prophetic promise!!! Isaiah 65:17-25, 66:22-23, and then our final hope in Revelation 21:1.
Hebrews 2:5 then suggests that God will be putting this new world that is to come under a stewardship. But no, not the angels, even though that might seem logical, since man who was created originally to be the steward of all creation, it's caretaker and keeper, was a total failure in that role, as it says "but now we see not yet all things put under him." Thorns and weeds and death and dying predominate man’s earth!!
But praise God, it was not His plan to leave it so, for in verse nine we see the Glorious addition, "but we see Jesus". The description of Jesus in verse 9 is the same as the description of man in verse 7 before the fall, “made a little lower than the angels, crowned with Glory and Honor”, but with this addition, “made for the suffering of death that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man”! In verses 13-14, we see that God's will was, that since the children whom God gave to the Son out of the fallen mass are partakers of flesh and blood, the Son also Himself likewise took part of the same(human flesh) that through death He might destroy him who had the power of the death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death where all their lifetime subject to bondage. God incarnated His Son as a man to redeem and restore created man, and with him, all of creation!(Rom.8:18-251). And to what purpose? That he might be able to bring His children into a glorious sustaining family relationship with His Father.(John 14:6) Remember, God told Moses that no man could see God, that is the Almighty Most High God, and live(Ex. 33:20, John 1:18). He only showed Moses His hind parts, that is the law at Sinai, that kept the people at a distance by it’s insurmountable perfection. But the hint of The Shining Face of God theme in Numbers 6:25 & Psalm 80 points to that Glory of 2 Corinthians 4:6. "For God Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, have shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." And our glorious Jesus Christ is the firstborn from the dead, and the firstborn of all creation(Col.1:12-20). He is the Resurrected One in Whom we hope in our anticipation of that day of a new Heavens and a new Earth where righteousness dwells, that is our Christ's righteousness, for it is the scepter of His Kingdom.(Ps. 45:6, Heb 1:8) And it is that glorious Witness of the Holy Spirit of God that has taken up residence in our hearts(2 Cor.4:6), that is the foundation and birth of our eternal hope in Christ Jesus, And that hope includes a new Heaven and new Earth where righteousness is the new normal!!!. Hallelujah,
Oh yes and I mustn't forget, the apostle Paul says (Ephesians 1:16-23) that this is our present day power that God has worked toward us who believe by His very act of raising our Jesus from the dead and placing Him at His Own Right Hand, the Place of all Victory, Power, and Authority over the world the flesh and the devil. Truly Jesus is our Right Hand Man at the Right Hand of the Father in Heaven, our Great High Priest ever living to make intercession for us (Heb. 7:25). He is our Righteousness at the Father's Right Hand for all Eternity. No one can snatch us out of our Father's Hand for we are in His Beloved Son Whom He has incarnated to be our redemption, sustainer, and faithful Steward in a wholly new heavens and earth where Righteousness dwells.(2 Peter 3:13)
In Psalm 8, David, perhaps on a starlit night beholding the heavens and the moon and the stars, all the Glorious product of God's Creative Fingers (vs 3), he proclaims, “What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you visit him?” He is copying a page from the ancient Job who asked the same question in Job 7: 17, “What is man that you should magnify Him? And that you should set your heart upon him?” Add to this Job's great dilemma in feeling helpless and impotent to come before this Almighty God as he states in 9:32 and following, "For He is not a man as I am that I could answer Him and that we could come together in judgment neither is there any mediator between us that may lay hand his hand upon us both."
David once again addresses the same question in Psalm 144:3, adding to the query the perplexity of the vanity of man. Why would the Eternal God give to man so much as the time of day, considering the vanity to which humanity has stooped? Everything that man touches or considers eventually dies. It seems to be his only consistent fruit.
Praise God, the same question is addressed one more time in Hebrews 2:1-4. Hebrews chapter 1 is the exaltation of God the Fathers Glorious Son, by Whom He made the worlds, and the One Who is the heir of all things He created. The Son, who has such a creative interest in this world and everything that is in it, is next exalted above all the angelic hosts. (Vs 4-9, 13) In verse 7, and speaking of the ministry of His angels as Ministers of a flame of fire, he is speaking to their elevated place in the minds of his audience of Jewish believers. Remember that the law was given by the ministry of angels, as we read in Exodus 19:17-18, and Deuteronomy 33:2 "He came forth with 10,000 of saints: from His Right Hand went a fiery law for them."(Acts 7:53, Gal. 3:19) Keep in mind that the law went forth from God's Right Hand!!! Therefore he is preparing his hearers for the fact that the Son Whom he is exalting is in fact, a new law Giver, the very Law Keeper, the Father's Beloved Son who is above the angels.
Hebrews 2 is the introduction of God's Right Hand Man, whose revelation is the purpose for all of creation. (Col. 1:12-17 all is created by Him and for him) but I'm getting ahead of myself. In Hebrews 2:5 he introduces a new facet to the whole discussion: the world to come!!! But the author doesn't consider it a new consideration because he adds, “whereof we speak”, as though he has spoken of it before.(See these verses: Psalm 15: 15-18, 148:1-7; Rom. 8;19-21; Eph. 1:9-10, 21; Col. 1:17-20; 2 Pet. 3:11-13) You will find their roots in God's prophetic promise!!! Isaiah 65:17-25, 66:22-23, and then our final hope in Revelation 21:1.
Hebrews 2:5 then suggests that God will be putting this new world that is to come under a stewardship. But no, not the angels, even though that might seem logical, since man who was created originally to be the steward of all creation, it's caretaker and keeper, was a total failure in that role, as it says "but now we see not yet all things put under him." Thorns and weeds and death and dying predominate man’s earth!!
But praise God, it was not His plan to leave it so, for in verse nine we see the Glorious addition, "but we see Jesus". The description of Jesus in verse 9 is the same as the description of man in verse 7 before the fall, “made a little lower than the angels, crowned with Glory and Honor”, but with this addition, “made for the suffering of death that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man”! In verses 13-14, we see that God's will was, that since the children whom God gave to the Son out of the fallen mass are partakers of flesh and blood, the Son also Himself likewise took part of the same(human flesh) that through death He might destroy him who had the power of the death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death where all their lifetime subject to bondage. God incarnated His Son as a man to redeem and restore created man, and with him, all of creation!(Rom.8:18-251). And to what purpose? That he might be able to bring His children into a glorious sustaining family relationship with His Father.(John 14:6) Remember, God told Moses that no man could see God, that is the Almighty Most High God, and live(Ex. 33:20, John 1:18). He only showed Moses His hind parts, that is the law at Sinai, that kept the people at a distance by it’s insurmountable perfection. But the hint of The Shining Face of God theme in Numbers 6:25 & Psalm 80 points to that Glory of 2 Corinthians 4:6. "For God Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, have shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." And our glorious Jesus Christ is the firstborn from the dead, and the firstborn of all creation(Col.1:12-20). He is the Resurrected One in Whom we hope in our anticipation of that day of a new Heavens and a new Earth where righteousness dwells, that is our Christ's righteousness, for it is the scepter of His Kingdom.(Ps. 45:6, Heb 1:8) And it is that glorious Witness of the Holy Spirit of God that has taken up residence in our hearts(2 Cor.4:6), that is the foundation and birth of our eternal hope in Christ Jesus, And that hope includes a new Heaven and new Earth where righteousness is the new normal!!!. Hallelujah,
Oh yes and I mustn't forget, the apostle Paul says (Ephesians 1:16-23) that this is our present day power that God has worked toward us who believe by His very act of raising our Jesus from the dead and placing Him at His Own Right Hand, the Place of all Victory, Power, and Authority over the world the flesh and the devil. Truly Jesus is our Right Hand Man at the Right Hand of the Father in Heaven, our Great High Priest ever living to make intercession for us (Heb. 7:25). He is our Righteousness at the Father's Right Hand for all Eternity. No one can snatch us out of our Father's Hand for we are in His Beloved Son Whom He has incarnated to be our redemption, sustainer, and faithful Steward in a wholly new heavens and earth where Righteousness dwells.(2 Peter 3:13)
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