1 L ong ago God spoke to our early fathers in many different ways. He spoke through the early preachers.

¶ God, having spoken many times and in many ways in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 B ut in these last days He has spoken to us through His Son. God gave His Son everything. It was by His Son that God made the world.

has in these last times spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

3 T he Son shines with the shining-greatness of the Father. The Son is as God is in every way. It is the Son Who holds up the whole world by the power of His Word. The Son gave His own life so we could be clean from all sin. After He had done that, He sat down on the right side of God in heaven. The Son Was Greater Than the Angels

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

4 T he Son of God was made greater and better than the angels. God gave Him a greater name than theirs.

¶ being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 G od did not say to any of His angels, “You are My Son. Today I have become Your Father.” And He did not say to any angel, “I will be a Father to Him. He will be a Son to Me.”

For unto which of the angels did he say at any time, Thou art my Son, this day I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 B ut when God brought His first-born Son, Jesus, into the world, He said, “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

And again, when he brought in the firstbegotten into the world, he said, And let all the angels of God worship him.

7 H e said this about the angels, “He makes His angels to be winds. He makes His servants a burning fire.”

And of the angels he said, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.

8 B ut about His Son, He says, “O God, Your throne will last forever. Whatever You say in Your nation is right and good.

But unto the Son he said, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a rod of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Y ou have loved what is right. You have hated what is wrong. That is why God, Your God, has chosen You. He has poured over You the oil of joy more than over anyone else.”

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 H e said also, “Lord, You made the earth in the beginning. You made the heavens with Your hands.

And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 T hey will be destroyed but You will always be here. They will all become old just as clothes become old.

they shall perish; but thou dost remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 Y ou will roll up the heavens like a coat. They will be changed. But You are always the same. You will never grow old.”

and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall never fail.

13 G od never said to any angel, “Sit at My right side, until I make those who hate You a place to rest Your feet.”

But to which of the angels did he say at any time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 A re not all the angels spirits who work for God? They are sent out to help those who are to be saved from the punishment of sin.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth in service for the love of those who are the heirs of saving health?