Hebrews 1:2
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;
We are going to
look at the issue of heir of all things. In
the Jewish culture, the firstborn son is the heir that gets the double portion.
Deuteronomy 21:15-17
If a man
have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him
children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that
was hated:
Then it
shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may
not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which
is indeed the firstborn:
But he
shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him
a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his
strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Israel was that as
a nation, so they will get the adoption as sons.
Exodus 4:22
And thou
shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my
firstborn:
But the one that is
the true Israel is the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the Son of God.
Isaiah 9:6
For unto
us a child is born [through
Mary], unto us a
son is given: [that is his deity]
A
child is born… a son is given, this is his humanity and
deity in one. He is called the “mighty
God,” they should have known he was God.
What does it mean
he is the heir of all things? You’re
familiar with the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof (Psalm 24:1; 1
Corinthians 10:26, 28). Let’s
look at Psalm 2
Psalm 2
1 Why do
the heathen [Gentiles]
rage, and the
people [Israel] imagine a vain thing?
2 The
kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord, and against his anointed [ in Acts 4:26, it says “Christ”…this is relating
to God, the Father, and his Son], saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder [‘Get them off us!
We don’t them telling us what to do], and cast away their cords from us. [This is the
attitude of humanity. They don’t want
God telling them what to do and therefore be accountable.]
4 He that
sitteth in the heavens
shall […’bite
his nails and be nervous.’ Is that what it says? No, he shall] laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. [‘Derision’ is during the seventieh week of Daniel]
5 Then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
[Men’s hearts shall fail them for fear as they look after the things
which are coming on the earth. (Luke 21:26)]
6 Yet
have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [God
says: ‘My Son is going to sit on that
throne!’]
7 I will
declare the decree
[I want you to know there is going to be an official coronation of the Lord
Jesus Christ! Look at the old
testament. When Israel anointed a new
king, there was a celebration, a coronation.
It is going to be the same for the Lord Jesus. The decree shall be declared: ‘Hear ye, O
Israel! This is your King: Jesus, the Son of God!!]: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son
[the “Son!” That is why he has appointed
the Son the ‘heir of all things.’]; this day have I
begotten thee.
The word ‘begotten’ has to do
with resurrection from [and of] the dead.
The new bibles change John 3:16 and they mess up the doctrine. They change it from ‘only begotten son’ to
‘only son.’ Christ is not his only son!!
The angels are the sons of God (Job 1:6; 38:7); the nation Israel is the
son of God (Exodus 4:22 KJB); the Body of Christ are the sons of God (Romans
8:14). He has all types of sons, but his
only ‘begotten’ son, the only one that ever died and rose again—not from the
dead—but, of the dead; never to die again.
Lazarus rose from the dead, but he died again. Many people died and rose again in Israel’s
history, only to die again.
Begotten means his resurrection of the dead, never to die
again. That is why in John (because John
is a book that looks toward the future), Christ said a lot of futuristic
things—he is Jehovah, he speaks those things that are not as though they
were. People get all confused with John,
1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation.
They are all future from their author—God has him write about the future. God, the Holy Spirit, took John almost two
thousand years ago, transporting him into a future date, future from us. He was there, he saw this stuff and put it in
words in the book of Revelation that he could use in the first century. Understand that he was there in the Day of
the Lord: I was in the Spirit on the
Lord’s day, (Revelation 1:10).
That wasn’t ‘Sunday’ that was the
Tribulation. He saw these things and he
fainted (they had to pick him up) because he saw what was going to happen to
Israel.
8 Ask of
me, and I shall give thee the heathen [the
Gentiles] for
thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
The earth is the Lord’s and the
fullness therein! Can I tell you, that
that one thousand year millennial kingdom is the first installment. What he is going to be doing is what Isaiah 11:9
says when his word will get to every person on earth so they can have a testimony
to know the Lord. He’s going to also
reverse the curse and, starting from Jerusalem, there will be healing waters
that flow out of the Temple that will turn the Dead Sea into where they can
fish. There are going to be trees of
life lining the whole path there where the nations are going to come for
healing. It’s going to be wonderful in
the Kingdom. The earth will go back to
how he made it for Adam. People are
going to be living a long life. A
person that dies in his sin at 100 will be considered a youth. People are going to be living 800, 900 years,
if they don’t die under the law.
The Lord is going to get the
heathen, the people and the land—the uttermost parts of the earth for his
possession.
How’s he going to do it? He’ll rule with a rod of iron.
9 Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron
[force! Judgment! Justice applied!]; thou shalt dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel.
He isn’t going to be
playing. Does that mean God wants to
destroy them? No. He’s giving them some instruction: be wise
now…It’s funny, but when God sent Paul in Acts 9 he said I want you to go to Gentiles and kings. Give
their rulers some understanding to flee from the wrath to come. Because, in my long suffering, I’m holding
back that wrath but you don’t know when I’m going to let it out and neither
will they. Now then, it’s been
nearly two thousand years. God is
patient and longsuffering. Patience has
to do with waiting patiently without
complaining, peace under pressure.
Longsuffering is holding back your wrath. Look at Paul, he’s the example. But it’s not going to be forever.
10 Be
wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve
the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [“trembling”…understand this, he
isn’t going to play.]
12 Kiss the Son the one that is going
to inherit all things. This is regarding
the earth, but we learn from Paul that it is through the Body of Christ that he
is going to possess the heaven, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way they
are going to be under that Law and if they don’t perform, they will die and go
directly into Hell, then ultimately the Lake of Fire after the great white
throne judgment at the end of the thousand years, when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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a
study in the series on the book of Hebrews.
