Hebrews Chapter 2

Heeding the New Revelation

¹ So we need to pay close attention to what we’ve heard so we never drift away from it. ² What God said through angels stood firm, and every sin received the punishment it deserved. ³ So how will we get off if we neglect such a great salvation? After the Lord spoke it, the ones that heard it confirmed it to us. ⁴ God testified alongside them with signs, wonders, and various miracles and gifts that the Holy Spirit dispensed as he saw fit.                                                                                                                                 

Heb 2:1-4

Mankind as Caretaker of Creation

            ⁵ It wasn’t to angels that God subjected the future world we’re talking about. ⁶ In a certain place one has testified,

                        “What are people that you remember them or visit them?

                        ⁷ You made them lower than angels for a little while,

                                    crowned them with glory and honor,

⁸ and put everything under their authority” [Ps 8:5-7 LXX].

“Putting everything under their authority” means God didn’t leave anything that wasn’t under them, but we don’t see that yet. ⁹ We do see Jesus, however, “made lower than angels for a little while,” so by God’s grace he could taste death for everyone. Now we see him “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death.                                                                                

Heb 2:5-9

The Son’s Incarnation

            ¹⁰ Everything is through him and for him. It was appropriate, then, in bringing many children to glory, that he make perfect the Author of their salvation with suffering. ¹¹ Both the sanctifier and the sanctified have the same nature. That means he’s not ashamed to call them “siblings.”

                        ¹² “I’ll present you to my siblings

                                    and sing your praises in the congregation” [Ps 22:22].

¹³ Again,

                        “I’ll trust him” [Is 8:17 LXX],

                                    “ . . . I and the children God gave me” [Is 8:18].                         

Heb 2:10-13

¹⁴ Since “the children” exist in flesh and blood, he took on flesh and blood so that by dying he could take the power of death away from the one that has it—the devil. ¹⁵ That way he could free people that the fear of death had enslaved as long as they were alive. ¹⁶ It’s clear he’s not here to help angels, but to help Abraham’s descendants. ¹⁷ So he needed to be like people in every respect so he could become a merciful, faithful high priest in things that have to do with God and could atone for people’s sins. ¹⁸ Since he faced temptation in what he suffered, he can help those who face temptation.                                                                                                                

Heb 2:14-18