1:1-4 (B) What do we learn from what is said here?
=1:1-4 (B) What do we learn from what is said her The divinely inspired writer here is highlighting the superiority of Jesus over the Old Testament prophets and angels. They were merely instruments used by God to reveal Himself to His people, whereas Jesus was God, the Son.
When He spoke it was God speaking. He was not just a mouthpiece for God, like the prophets. The entire universe and all that is in it was created by Jesus (CP V2, 10; 11:3; Jn 1:3, 10; Ro 4:17; Eph 3:9; Col 1:16-17; 2Pe 3:5; Rev 3:14; 4:11).
Jesus is the person in whom God gave His final revelation to the human race. He is the supreme and definitive word of God in the New Testament (CP Jn 1:17-18; 14:9; Col 1:15; He 1:3A; Rev 19:13). Jesus is the total concept of deity who in Himself expresses all that God is.
The word declared in Jn 1:18 means that all that Jesus is and does, interprets and explains who God is, and what He does.
Jesus not only created all things, but He holds them all together, and in their proper relationship to each other, by His word (CP He 1:3B with Col 1:17).
Upholding all things by the word of His power in He 1:3B (KJV), means the same things as Col 1:17 teaches: Jesus maintains the coherence of all that He created by His word. As we learned in Ro 4:17 and He 11:3, all things were called into being by the word of God, and they are all sustained in all their parts by the same word.
The oceans are held within their boundaries; rivers run down to the sea; heavenly bodies are held in their orbits; everything in nature reproduces after its kind; night follows day; there is a proper sequence of seasons; harvests follow plantings, etc. God's word has the power within itself for its own fulfilment (CP Isa 55:10-11).
After Jesus had purged our sins through His atoning death He now sits at the right hand of God (CP Psa 110:1; Tit 2:14; He 7:27; 10:12; Rev 1:5). What the writer of Hebrews is underlining in 1:1-4 is that absolutely nothing, neither prophets nor angels, has greater authority than Jesus (CP V4-14).