Heb 1:9-14 “Kingship and Priesthood” – Part 3

[Study Aired May 21, 2020]

Heb 1:9  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Heb 1:10  And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 
Heb 1:11  They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 
Heb 1:12  And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 
Heb 1:13  But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 
Heb 1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

These last few verses of chapter one begin by saying “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity” as another way of reminding God’s elect that when He says “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated” (Rom 9:13-15), He is speaking in type and shadow of the anointing or blessing poured out upon the little flock which is His good pleasure to give the kingdom (Luk 12:32).  The anointing “with the oil of gladness above thy fellows” that comes from God is speaking not only of Christ but his body as well who have been called unto this blessing or unction of receiving the faith of Christ of which Christ promises to be the author and finisher. He gives us the strength to endure until the end, causing us to have faith that is tried in the fire (1Jn 2:20, 1Jn 5:4-5, Heb 12:2, Php 1:6, 1Pe 1:7).

Rom 9:13  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Rom 9:14  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom 9:15  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Luk 12:32  Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

1Jn 2:20  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

The book of Hebrews was written to give us confidence in our high priest and is written so that we can understand how it is that Christ can deliver us through this life as the author and finisher or high priest of our faith (Php 1:6, Php 3:3, Mat 24:34). If “he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted” (Heb 2:18), then it only follows that “the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried” is that blessed man to whom God is giving the power to endure the temptation so that he or she can be found in that blessed and holy first resurrection where the crown of life will be given to Christ’s bride (Jas 1:12-13). We recently discussed what gold has to go through to be purified, and at the end of that process we cast our crowns back to Christ as a symbolic gesture demonstrating that we know the entire process of overcoming was a work of God’s hands, His righteousness that was formed in us and predetermined to be that way from the foundation of the world (Rev 4:10-11).

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Php 3:3  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Heb 2:18  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Rev 4:10  The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created (Luk 12:32).

God’s children have been called to learn to love righteousness and hate iniquity (“thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity“) as we go through a lifetime which demonstrates that contrast for us (1Jn 4:17, Rom 6:21-23) bringing us to the conclusion that the only way Christ is going to be formed within us is to have that extra oil, that anointing God is giving the bride as we learn that everything He has created in the physical and carnal realm is going to pass and has been created for our sakes (2Co 4:15) to teach us our old man must perish, and we must decrease in order for Christ to increase (Joh 3:30). Christ will see to it that all the creation will wax old like a garment within us and serve its purpose of bringing about the new creation, our hope of glory within us, who is the same yesterday today and forever (Heb 13:8-10) “but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail“. The conclusion and the beginning of the matter therefore must be to fear God and work righteousness (Ecc 12:3, Pro 9:10).

Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Heb 13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Heb 13:9  Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Heb 13:10  We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

God has indeed called us to sit at His right hand that represents the power He can give us to “make thine enemies thy footstool“. Christ is the one who is doing that within us both to will and to do of our Father’s good pleasure (Php 2:13). Those enemies, or powers and principalities, were created by Christ and are “all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation” serving us in their unbelief as much as the angels who ministered to Christ in the garden in the positive sense of ministering to Him so He could endure through the temptation that was brought upon Him from the devil who God caused to tempt Christ but not beyond the measure He could endure.

1Co 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

We tend to only see ministering angels as only being the ones who bind the wounds, but in reality God is in perfect control of Satan who is loosed upon the flesh of humanity in the exact predetermined measure He has ordained for our good, as was demonstrated in the type and shadow events of Job’s life which were written for the sake of God’s elect who also must lose everything and then be reinstated with our new family in Christ, as Job’s life typified on this earth (Job 1:6-22, Mat 10:39, Mat 19:28-30).

Job 1:9  Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Job 1:10  Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 1:11  But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 1:12  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Mat 19:28  And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat 19:29  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Mat 19:30  But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Heb 1:9  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity^G458; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 

“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready” (Rev 19:7) is the end result (Col 1:24) of loving righteousness (Christ’s righteousness – Php 3:9) and hating iniquity (self-righteousness). We naturally are self-righteous and don’t detect it until the Lord burns it out of us through our struggles and trials He brings upon us. More than ever we need to rejoice and give glory to God who is fashioning us into kings and priests through the process of filling up what is behind of His afflictions within the body of Christ even as we acknowledge who it is that God has determined to start and finish this work through in each of our particular ages.

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

There is a “gladness above thy fellows“that we share together as the body of Christ as we let love continue, love that is demonstrated by an obedience to His commandments and an accepting and understanding that we must, as Christ did, go where our flesh does not want to go in order to learn that obedience (Joh 21:18, Gal 5:17, Heb 5:8, 1Jn 4:17). Being bound to the altar is only possible with the anointing God has given us so we can overcome in this life and be of that generation spoken of in Matthew 24:34 who rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice (Php 4:4).

We do not naturally love righteousness and hate iniquity, unless the Lord is tearing down the old self and building up the new temple to the glory of God.

Joh 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. [Psa 127:1]
Joh 2:20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity^G458, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. [Joh 2:17]

Heb 1:10  And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 
Heb 1:11  They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 

Yes, God created all things through Christ, “Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.” This physical creation represents the workmanship of His hands which we are (Eph 2:10) that must perish like the temple which is destroyed and then raised in three days. The forty-six years in building it is the symbolic number which reveals all the physical creation was made by God and was never meant to be sustained (“They shall perish; but thou remainest”  – 2Pe 3:10-11, Rev 21:1). The old nature in me must perish or “wax old as doth a garment” and my perception of the world around should be the same knowing that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1Co 15:50).

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Heb 1:12  And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 

Verse twelve is a witness to verse eleven and says the same thing regarding the dealings God will have with flesh which He tells us “as a vesture shalt thou fold them up”  which is another way of saying that God won’t always wrestle with man’s flesh (Gen 6:3). That wrestling match will come to an end with a predetermined conclusion of bringing all of God’s creation to see that we are beasts (Ecc 3:18) and that “thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail” meaning He will not fail in saving all of His creation (1Co 15:22, Joh 18:9). The hundred and twenty years spoken of in Genesis 6:3 simply reminds us that the old negative foundation of the fleshly way we were governed only led to death (Pro 14:12), and is something God will destroy (“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”)  in order to build the new foundation represents in the positive the number twelve that typifies Christ and His Christ who will make up that new government (Rev 7:4). This 144,000 represents the kingship and priesthood God is building in the church, the body of Christ, that the gates of hell will not prevail against (Col 1:24, Mat 16:17-19).

Gen 6:3  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Mat 16:17  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 16:18  And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Heb 1:13  But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 
Heb 1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? 

These last two verses of our study are speaking of Christ, but we just read what Christ told Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” This reveals to us that these verses also apply to Christ’s Christ who is seated in heavenly places today witnessing the power of Christ in us as our hope of glory who can and will “make thine enemies thy footstool” within (Eph 2:6, Col 1:27, Rom 8:35-39).

Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Those enemies, as we mentioned in the introduction of our study, are used by God to strengthen and build us up as we overcome those giants in our land which shall be bread for us (Num 14:9). After the battles are fought and won through Christ, then we also have need of having angels come and minister to us as they did for Christ on several occasions (Mat 4:11, Luk 22:43).

Num 14:9  Only rebel not ye against the LORD (Pro 3:5-6, Mat 24:46-50), neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us (2Co 4:15): their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

[Christ can strengthen us to not circumvent the process of fulfilling God’s will (Luk 22:42) by leaning to our own understanding (Pro 3:5-7). Christ can give us the power to stop being frustrated or easily beset to the point where we beat up the manservant within ourselves spoken of in (Mat 24:46-50). We need patience and a longsuffering approach through this life in order to possess our souls so we never “rebel not ye against the LORD”]

Luk 22:42  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pro 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Pro 3:7  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

Mat 24:46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Mat 24:47  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mat 24:48  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Mat 24:49  And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Mat 24:50  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

The “heirs of salvation?” are those who are called and chosen and faithful to the end, enduring to the end through Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith who tells us to know and understand that our escape is meant to be narrow but certain (1Pe 4:18-19, Joh 16:21). He will provide all that we need, both our trials and the ability to overcome and endure until the end and God is doing this to His glory, and it is his good pleasure to make us ready and equipped to be those kings and priests, or saviours who will come up on mount Zion one day in moment and in twinkling of an eye (Oba 1:21, 1Co 15:52, Luk 12:32).

1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Joh 16:21  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Luk 12:32  Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.