Long ago, at different times and in various ways, God’s voice came to our ancestors through the Hebrew prophets.

But in these last days, it has come to us through His Son, the One who has been given dominion over all things and through whom all worlds were made.

This is the One who—imprinted with God’s image, shimmering with His glory—sustains all that exists through the power of His word. He was seated at the right hand of God once He Himself had made the offering that purified us from all our sins.

This Son of God is elevated as far above the heavenly messengers as His holy name is elevated above theirs.

For no heavenly messengers have ever heard God address them with these words of the psalms: You are My Son. Today I have become Your Father. Or heard Him promise, I will be to You a Father, and You will be My Son.

Now, when the Son, the firstborn of God, was brought into the world, God said, Let all My heavenly messengers worship Him.

Concerning them, God said, I make My heavenly messengers like the winds, and My servants like a flame.

But to the Son He said, God, Your throne is eternal; You will rule Your kingdom with the scepter of justice.

You have loved what is right and hated what is evil; That is why God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness and lifted You above Your companions.

And God continues, In the beginning, You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth and set the skies above us with Your own hands.

You will roll them up and change them into something new. But You will never change; Your years will never come to an end.

Did God ever say to any of the heavenly messengers, Sit here, at My right hand, in the seat of honor; and I’ll put all Your enemies under Your feet?

No, of course not. The heavenly messengers are only spirits and servants, sent out to minister to those who will certainly inherit salvation.

That is why we ought to pay even closer attention to the voice that has been speaking so that we will never drift away from it.

For if the words of instruction and inspiration brought by heaven’s messengers were valid, and if we live in a universe where sin and disobedience receive their just rewards,

then how will we escape destruction if we ignore this great salvation? We heard it first from our Lord Jesus, then from those who passed on His teaching.

Now clearly God didn’t set up the heavenly messengers to bring the final word or to rule over the world that is coming.

I have read something somewhere: I can’t help but wonder why You care about mortals or choose to love the son of man.

but what we do see is Jesus, born a little lower than the heavenly messengers, who is now crowned with glory and honor because He willingly suffered and died. And He did that so that through God’s grace, He might taste death on behalf of everyone.

It only makes sense that God, by whom and for whom everything exists, would choose to bring many of us to His side by using suffering to perfect Jesus, the founder of our faith, the pioneer of our salvation.

As I will show you, it’s important that the One who brings us to God and those who are brought to God become one, since we are all from one Father. This is why Jesus was not ashamed to call us His family,

saying, in the words of the psalmist, I will speak Your Name to My brothers and sisters when I praise You in the midst of the community.

And in the words of Isaiah, I will wait for the Eternal One. And again, Look, here I am with the children God has given Me.

So notice—His concern here is not for the welfare of the heavenly messengers, but for the children of Abraham.

So all of you who are holy partners in a heavenly calling, let’s turn our attention to Jesus, the Emissary of God and High Priest, who brought us the faith we profess;