Hebrews 1:1
1:1
“In the past God spoke”
The
book of Hebrews is about the fact that God has spoken.
If God had not spoken we would be left to a minimum revelation from nature and
our own human thoughts and imaginations.
Job
26:11-14
“By
his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
By
his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
And
these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of
him!
Who
then can understand the thunder of his power?”
Romans
1:18-21 refers to general revelation
“to our forefathers through the
prophets and many times and in various ways”
Then
God spoke the Old Covenant to the Jews which was more revelation but still
just a shadow
1) Colossians 2:17
2) Hebrews 8:5
3) Hebrews 10:1
Moses
told of another prophet that was to come that was like Moses in
Deuteronomy 18:14-19
πολυμερως και πολυτροπως παλαι ο
θεος λαλησας τοις
πατρασιν
who at
sundry times and in divers manners in
time past God spake unto the fathers
εν τοις
προφηταις
by the prophets
1:2
“But
in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son”
επ
εσχατου
των
ημερων
τουτων
ελαλησεν
ημιν
εν
υιω
“in
these last days” is:
“ep escatou twn ‘hmerwn toutwn”
In
the last
days of these
This
phrase was also used in the Septuagint to translate a reference to the days
when a prophecy is fulfilled.
The
Hebrew phrase is “be’aherith hayyamim”
and means “in the end of the days”
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It
is used in these OT verses
a) Jacob’s prophecy in Gen. 49:1
b) Balaam’s prophecy in Num. 24:14
c) Deut. 4:30
d) Deut 31:29
e) Isaiah 2:2
f)
Jer. 23:20
g) Jer. 30:24
h) Jer. 48:27
i)
Jer. 49:39
j)
Ezek. 38:16
k) Daniell 10:14
l)
Hos. 3:5
m) Micah 4:1