Ed Walsh
Puritan Board Senior
Greetings, brothers, and sisters,
I will be brief. I'll leave the mind-blowing effect of what I remind us of to your personal meditation.
I think many Christians the world over have too narrow a view of the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, they believe that he is God, the second person of the Trinity, but often true believers think of Jesus as a kind of JV God. And this is easy to do if we limit our thinking to our Lord's estate of humiliation on Earth, carrying out all the duties of the "only Redeemer of God's elect."
I'm sure this is not a new concept to you, but it is a matter worth meditating on.
Who was the God who in the beginning created the heavens and the Earth?
Who was the God that walked with the pre-fallen Adam and Eve in the garden in the cool of the day?
Who spoke to Moses at the burning bush?
Who gave the law to Moses on Mount Sinai?
Who rebuked job's foolishness in the harshest language used in the Bible to a true saint?
Who sent fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah?
In summary, I ask, who created everything that there is in the heavens and the Earth?
from: Matthew Poole's commentary on the book of Hebrews.
[paragraph breaks mine]
And, Thou, Lord:
this connective particle joins this to the former proof, that Christ had a more excellent name than angels, even that of God. That he was God, he proved out of Psal. 45:6, 7. He seconds it in this and the two following verses, which he quotes out of Psal. 102:25–27. The strength of which lieth thus: He who was Jehovah, and the great Creator of the world, is God; such is Christ, the great gospel Prophet. This is evident in the prayer recorded in the Psalm made to him, compared with the Spirit’s testimony, ver. 8; the very works appropriated to Jehovah there, are the acknowledged works of God the Son, as redemption, Psal. 102:20, 21, vocation of the Gentiles, ver. 15, 18, 22.
In the beginning; in the beginning of time, when that came to be the measure and limit of things, as Gen. 1:1. Before there were any such creatures as angels, he was Jehovah, John 1:1; and then manifested himself to be Jehovah. The enemies of Christ’s Deity say that the name Jehovah is not in the verse of the Psalm quoted by the Spirit; yet thou, the relative used in all those verses, refers to God, the antecedent, prayed to in ver. 24, and to Jehovah, the name given him in ver. 1, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, of that Psalm; all importing one and the same person. And it is well known that Κυριος, Lord, doth eminently decipher the Redeemer in the New Testament; he is not an instrument of Jehovah to create by, but the fountain of all being, Jehovah himself.
Hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
by founding the earth, and the heavens being the work of his hands, is meant the whole work of creation throughout the space of six days: he was the true, full, sole, and self-causality of the earth’s being, and all creatures in it, and of the heavens, and all beings which are in them; he was the great Architect and Founder of them all; they were his peculiar workmanship, possession, and dominion, 1 Cor. 8:6: compare John 1:3; Col. 1:16. If the heavens were the works of his hands, and all in them, then he was the Creator of angels, and therefore must be, for person, name, and office, more excellent than they.
I will be brief. I'll leave the mind-blowing effect of what I remind us of to your personal meditation.
I think many Christians the world over have too narrow a view of the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, they believe that he is God, the second person of the Trinity, but often true believers think of Jesus as a kind of JV God. And this is easy to do if we limit our thinking to our Lord's estate of humiliation on Earth, carrying out all the duties of the "only Redeemer of God's elect."
John 1:1-3 ASV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
I'm sure this is not a new concept to you, but it is a matter worth meditating on.
Who was the God who in the beginning created the heavens and the Earth?
Who was the God that walked with the pre-fallen Adam and Eve in the garden in the cool of the day?
Who spoke to Moses at the burning bush?
Who gave the law to Moses on Mount Sinai?
Who rebuked job's foolishness in the harshest language used in the Bible to a true saint?
Who sent fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah?
In summary, I ask, who created everything that there is in the heavens and the Earth?
Colossians 1:16-17 ASV
for in him [Jesus] were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Hebrews 1:10-12 ESV
And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
from: Matthew Poole's commentary on the book of Hebrews.
[paragraph breaks mine]
Hebrews 1:10
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
And, Thou, Lord:
this connective particle joins this to the former proof, that Christ had a more excellent name than angels, even that of God. That he was God, he proved out of Psal. 45:6, 7. He seconds it in this and the two following verses, which he quotes out of Psal. 102:25–27. The strength of which lieth thus: He who was Jehovah, and the great Creator of the world, is God; such is Christ, the great gospel Prophet. This is evident in the prayer recorded in the Psalm made to him, compared with the Spirit’s testimony, ver. 8; the very works appropriated to Jehovah there, are the acknowledged works of God the Son, as redemption, Psal. 102:20, 21, vocation of the Gentiles, ver. 15, 18, 22.
In the beginning; in the beginning of time, when that came to be the measure and limit of things, as Gen. 1:1. Before there were any such creatures as angels, he was Jehovah, John 1:1; and then manifested himself to be Jehovah. The enemies of Christ’s Deity say that the name Jehovah is not in the verse of the Psalm quoted by the Spirit; yet thou, the relative used in all those verses, refers to God, the antecedent, prayed to in ver. 24, and to Jehovah, the name given him in ver. 1, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, of that Psalm; all importing one and the same person. And it is well known that Κυριος, Lord, doth eminently decipher the Redeemer in the New Testament; he is not an instrument of Jehovah to create by, but the fountain of all being, Jehovah himself.
Hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
by founding the earth, and the heavens being the work of his hands, is meant the whole work of creation throughout the space of six days: he was the true, full, sole, and self-causality of the earth’s being, and all creatures in it, and of the heavens, and all beings which are in them; he was the great Architect and Founder of them all; they were his peculiar workmanship, possession, and dominion, 1 Cor. 8:6: compare John 1:3; Col. 1:16. If the heavens were the works of his hands, and all in them, then he was the Creator of angels, and therefore must be, for person, name, and office, more excellent than they.
