Okay. Shalom, everyone. I'm going to continue this meeting. We are going to continue with the book of Hebrews using the second chapter, having the second chapter, Hebrews chapter 2 before us, the lesson that we have from this letter that the Hebrew writer wrote to these early first century Jewish believers. So if you turn please to Hebrews chapter 2, and we are going to read today from verse 5. Hebrews chapter 2, beginning with verse 5, and I'm reading. For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak, but one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man that thou art mindful of him?

Or the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou madeest him a little lower than the angels. Thou crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of thy hands. Thou has put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing. Nothing that is not put nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Yeshua, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor. And I'll stop here. And I'll stop here.

This is second chapter of the book of Hebrews. Beautiful chapter, even though you and I might not understand everything immediately, but it is a beautiful chapter that teaches us that Yeshua, the Messiah, is in addition to the fact that is superior to the angels because of his divinity, because he is God. In this chapter, we learn that Yeshua, the Messiah, is superior than the angels in his humanity as a man. Now, remember, we are studying the book of Hebrews. I think, and I do believe, that it is important for us to look back 2,000 years, about 2,000 years, or 1,900 years ago, where the Hebrew writer wrote to these Jewish people, to these Hebrews.

What we see today, and what they have experienced then, while there is a lot of similarities, there are a lot of things which are really different. Remember, then the temple was existing. Today, we don't have any temple. Then the sacrificial system was in existence. Today, we do not have sacrifices. Then the priesthood was still sustained and active at that particular time. Today, we don't have any priesthood. Then, the law, per se, was still in final fulfillment because the Messiah was there. He fulfilled everything, and that not too many years after he had died, that these early believers have accepted this letter. Today, we are far long beyond this age.

We are here in the year 2008, that the vast majority of Christians, of believers, are not Jewish, are not Hebrews. There is so much similarity, yet there is so much difference between what the time in which this letter had been reading to those Hebrews, and the time in which you and I live today. And they were called to follow the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, in spite of the fact that everything was the rituals, and the processions, and the sacrifices have been going on. They were called to continue on into a mature believers in the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, in spite of what was going on. And so, remember, in chapter 1 and in chapter 2, those two chapters, we have the superiority of Yeshua, the Messiah, over the angels.

As if the writer is pausing for a moment, he stopped right here, as he was proclaiming the message of the superiority of Yeshua, of the Lord Jesus. Jesus, as a divine person, as a divine person over the angels, he is stopping, he is giving a warning to those believers, and then he continued on. And from verse 5 of chapter 2, it's a continuing on of what he finished in chapter 1 and verse 14. I want you to say, are they not, speaking about the angels, are they not ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Verse 5 of chapter 5, for unto the angels has he not put in subjections the world to come, whereof we speak.

You see, he is continuing to speak about the angels. He is continuing to tell those Hebrew believers about the angels and that they need to look to the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, beyond those angels. But he gave them a little warning. It was more than just a little warning. But he gave them the warning, the first warning, which we have covered last time. Be careful to pay attention to God's word. Otherwise, you will drift. And as he said this to them, he's speaking to us. Be careful, believers, to take heed to God's word, because otherwise it will drift away. And we will be going in a way that is not pleasing to the Lord, which, what's going to happen, will bring about judgment.

Why? When the angels of God said something, judgment came, when the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, says another thing, and we refuse to accept his word, judgment will come even upon the believers as well. And that's why he's at pause. He's pausing them, giving them the first warning that is found in Hebrews, in the whole letter of Hebrews. The first warning, there are more to come, but he gave them the first warning in verses 1 to 4 of chapter 2. And now we are moving on into this continuation of the superiority of Yeshua the Messiah over the angels. But this time, he is not emphasizing his divine nature, but he is emphasizing his humanity.

And you notice verses 5 to 9, he is talking about Yeshua as a man. And look at this, brothers and sisters, he began with this. He began with verse 5, where he tells them that the angels are servants and they are not rulers. Even though they are so important in Hebrew history, even though they are so important in Jewish history, they were used by God for to serve the people of Israel, to give Israel the law, and to minister, to serve them. Michael was an angel that had been assigned for the nation of Israel. Gabriel was a nation that spoke in time past, was used by God to speak, and many other angels.

But he is saying, you know, even though they are important to them, God never gave the power to be rulers over this world. And he says in verse 5, you notice, he says in verse 5, For unto the angels he has not, underline the word not, unto the angels he has not put in subjection the world to come about which we are speaking. Now, what does he mean? To the angels he did not put in subjection the world to come. You know, a lot of people talking about the world to come. You know, we're living in a world, you know, we are in the new age now.

It's in a special age in which we are talking about the new age movement and all kind of new age, new world system and new world expressions and so on. But what we really have here, when he's speaking about the world to come, He's speaking about the messianic age. You see what he's saying here? He's saying to the angels, God did not put in subjection the messianic age or the millennial age. Now remember, he's talking to Hebrews. When the Hebrew writer, writing to those Hebrew believers, telling them about the age to come and the world to come, they understand what he's saying. What he's saying.

He's speaking about a millennial age or a time that is going to come where the Messiah will reign. Where the Messiah will be his king. Where everything will be in subjection to this coming Redeemer, to the coming Messiah. So he knew what he was telling to them. And he reminded them, you see brethren, you see Hebrews, you see look, when the age will come, the future age, the messianic age that you are looking forward so much to this age, the angels will not be the ones who are going to rule in this age. Even though they are so powerful, they've been given so much charge and responsibility.

They are to serve God, to serve the people of God. But to them, God didn't give the responsibility to rule in the future world to come. Now, every Jewish person today, and I'm telling you, every time when I visit Israel, you will talk, in Israel, there's so many songs that we sing about when the Messiah will come. There will be finally a day of peace. Finally a time of shalom. Finally a time where we are going to be a blessed nation. And the whole world will enjoy this messianic age. Now, we know today as believers that it will be a thousand years. The only reason that we know that it will be a thousand years, not because it is written in the Old Testament, but because we have it in the book of the Revelation, where we talk about that he will reign for a thousand years, where Satan is going to be bound for a thousand years.

And that's how you and I know that this age, messianic age, world to come, will be for a thousand years. We are not talking about the eternal order. We are talking about the messianic age, an age where God is going to rule over this world. The angels, though great, though privileged, though serving God, to them God did not put in subjections the world to come about what we are speaking, the writer is saying to those Hebrews. Now, what is that messianic age? You know, we live in such a terrible age today, so many problems. Look at what's going on in this world in which we live today.

In the world in which we live, the inhabited world in which we live in today, there is nothing but sin, corruption, sorrow, sadness, murders, killing, weeping, tears, death, and all that is in the present world in which we live in. That's the world in which we live in. But those Hebrews were anticipating a world to come in which the Messiah will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. Let me just show you what some of the Hebrews prophets were talking about. Turn to Psalm 72. Any Hebrew who read his Bible would immediately refer to some of these wonderful verses in the Bible in the Hebrew scriptures that speaks about the king and the kingdom that will come in a coming day.

It says in Psalm 72, I'm just going to highlight some verses there. Verse 1. It is a Psalm for Solomon. Some suggest it's a Psalm of Solomon or it's a Psalm for Solomon that David wrote. Solomon was a type of the Messiah. Even though Solomon failed, he was only a type of the coming Redeemer, the coming Messiah of Israel. It says in verse 1, Give the king thy judgment, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hill by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people.

He shall save the children of the needy. He shall break in pieces the oppressors. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and the moon endure throughout all generations. He shall come down like a rain upon the mown grass as showers that water the earth. Listen to verse 7. In his days shall the righteous flourish. An abundance of peace so long as the moon endures. He shall have, listen to this, dominion also from sea to sea and from river unto the end of the ends of the earth. Verse 11. Yeah, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. Verse 17. His name shall endure forever.

His name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him. All nations shall call him blessed. And verse 18 says, Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel. Israel! The Hebrews, they were looking for the day in which the king will reign. They are looking for the age, the kingdom age, where there will be righteousness. Everything will be done in accordance with the will of God. They were looking for the kingdom to come. And now these Hebrews, who were anticipating the kingdom to come, they came and they have acknowledged that Yeshua is the Messiah, but their own brethren, the rest of the nation, haven't come yet to faith in the Messiah.

And so they were discouraged. And so they were tempted to go back to the sacrificial system and hear the writer saying to them, Listen, the angels, though great they were, to them and under them, God did not put the world to come. He did not put it in subjection under them at all. He did not put it in subjection under the angels. But he gave that responsibility one day to the coming Messiah, to the coming Redeemer. And there are other verses that I can read to you that are found in many other passages in the Bible, in the Hebrew prophet. In Isaiah chapter 32, Isaiah said, Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and a prince shall rule in judgment.

Looking to the future of the kingdom age, when the king will rule in righteousness, it has to do with the king, the coming king. That's the age to come. That's the world to come. And speaking about the messianic age that is soon going to come, and these Hebrews were anticipating this messianic age that was going to come. And so the writer is telling them, Listen, the angels are not the one that are going to be the one, the rulers of this world. You see, in the Bible we have three times the word the age or the inhabited earth. The world that was, the world that is, and the world that will come.

The world that was, take us prior to the time of the flood, when Noah and his family were still in the world before the judgment of God came. And that world God had to erase completely, leaving only Noah, his wife, the three sons, and their wives. You can read this in 2 Peter chapter 3, the last book of Peter. And then there is the world that is now is, and that the world in which you and I live in today. And this world will come to an end, beloved brothers and sisters, where the final judgment of God will come, at the tribulation period where God is going to judge this world.

But there is the world to come. And that's the age, the messianic age, where the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, will reign. And he is the one that's going to have his rightful place. It's not going to be the eternal state as yet, but it is still called in the Bible the world to come. In the Greek, it's a okimene, which has to do with the inhabited earth of the future day. People are going to be around here under the kingship of the king and the Messiah himself. So the angels did not receive that responsibility over the world to come. And so now, in verses 6, 7, and 8, in Hebrews chapter 2, the writer telling them, quoting Psalm 8, which we have already read.

He is quoting Psalm 8 and showing to us, showing to these Hebrews, how God has intended to give the world and the responsibility of this world to mankind, to Adam and his descendants. And look what he's saying in verse 6, But one in a certain place testifies, saying, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him? You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. You did set over him the works of thine hands. Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. And then he continues and he gives us another remark.

For in that he put all things in subjection under him. He left nothing that is put under him, but now we yet not see yet all things put under him. Now let's pause here for a moment. Very interesting verses. You see, the writer is now saying to the Hebrews, you know, in a certain place somebody wrote once upon a time. obviously for you and I, we page back. Remember, they didn't have the New Testament passages. We are turning back and he began to quote to them from Psalm 8. He is literally quoting Psalm 8 verses 4, 5, and 6. And what does it say in Psalm 8? You remember, Psalm 8 is a psalm that was written by David.

David, the shepherd of Israel. When he was shepherding the sheep, he was in Bethlehem perhaps. He is Ben Yishai. It was David Ben Yishai, the son of Jesse. He is a shepherd. You remember, he was a wonderful son of the father of Yishai. He was a shepherd boy. And what did David do? He wrote many Tehillim, many songs. And perhaps once upon a time, David took his flock to the field and David was laying down and he is looking at the creation of God. Have you ever had an opportunity to do that? Years ago, Irene, my wife Irene and I have been in Sinai. This is after my military service.

And we went, we took a little tour with a group of people in a huge jeep, a big truck. We went into the desert for four days, desert tour in Sinai. And we just, at night time, no tents, no building, nothing. You just take your sleeping bag on the sand and you lay down and you just look up to heaven. And you look at the beauty of God's creation. You can almost like take the stars one by one, pick them with your hands almost in the Middle East, in the land of Israel. And I remember that when laying down there and watching the creation of God, the power of God, the beauty of God's creation.

David, very much the same. Again, remember, he is the Hebrew. He is writing a psalm about the God of Israel and it says to the Jif musician, a psalm of David. David perhaps was laying there and he says, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained strength because of your enemies that thou might steal the enemies and the evangel. And then he said in verse 3, when I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the star which you have ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him?

What is man that you even visit him? See, David, look back. He is laying down there as a shepherd perhaps on the sides of the fields of Bethlehem. He is laying down at night and he is looking at the creation. He says, oh Lord, he says, when I consider the heavens, the works of your hands, Lord, the moon and the stars which you have ordained, it must have been an evening session. He is looking up and he sees the greatness of God's creation. I cannot understand how people say that there is no God. all what they need to do is to sit down one day in an evening in a clear night and they look at the stars and the moon and they see the creation of God.

It's so humbling. It's moving our hearts to realize we are just like a little speck here in the great creation of God. David looking up and he saw the creation of God and he was so overwhelmed, so overwhelmed with God's creation and he asked God, God, look at you, look at the power that you have, the authority that you have, the creation that you have made everything and then he looks at it himself and he says, what is man? What is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you visit him? Why you even bother with us? You are such a great creator, God.

You have made everything, the star and the moon and everything, the sky and the heavens, everything, the work of your heads. God, what are we that you even bother with us? What is man? And by the way, you notice if you read carefully Psalm 8 verse 4, twice the word men is mentioned. But there are two different Hebrew words here. The first men, what is men is the Hebrew word anosh or anush or enosh. The second son of men is the word in Hebrew adam. Ben adam, son of adam. The first one is enosh. The second one is adam. Do you know what enosh means? You know, the word adam or son of adam is very clear to us all.

We are descendants of adam. But the word enosh means depraved, good for nothing, waste, no value. that's what it means. What am I, God, he is David, is really saying, what is man? Nothing. Anush. That you are mindful of him. Or the son of man, that you are visiting him. Why, God? He's saying there, why is it you are visiting even us? You are such a great creator. Why is it? And yet he's continuing and he's saying, you have made him a little lower than the angels. You have crowned him with glory and with honor. You made him to have dominion over all the works of your hands.

And you have put everything under his feet. You see, David was in such an awe but he said, look at this, I just don't get it. I don't understand it. It's a puzzle. You are such a great creator, such a great God, and you are mindful of such a person as us, as the human race. A depraved, an empty, a wasteful individual. And you're not only that. You, it says here, you made him a little lower than the angels. In other words, man is not higher than the angels. The angel is a spirit being. Man is a human being. You made him a little lower than the angels, but you crown him with glory and honor above the angels.

And then he said, you made and you have given him dominion, kingship, rulership, over the works of your hands. In other words, David is saying in the psalm, you made man who is nothing, a king. You made man who is wasteful and empty. You gave him honor and glory and a position. Only you, God, could have done such a thing. And that's why this expression, what is man? Why God? What are we? See, it's not like David was asking only a question, but he was at awe at the grace of God. But the question is, look at this, he gave him, listen, he gave him authority over three areas, three spheres.

It says in Psalm 8, and it's also in other places, it says you have put all sheep, oxen, and the beasts of the field, that has to do with the earth, the fowl of the air, that has to do with all the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, that has to do with everything that's in the sea. Beloved, you see what we learn from here, that God gave men through Adam and his descendants, God have intended that Adam and his descendants will rule in every area, in the land, in the sea, and in the air. But what happened? what happened to man?

You know what happened to man? Man, it did not take too long, but man lost his authority. Men, because of sin, have lost entirely the dominion that God have given to him to have here in this world. In fact, man could not even rule himself. Never mind the air, never mind the sea, never mind the field. And you and I know it by experience. How many times we cannot, never mind to rule somebody else, how many times we can't even rule ourselves. Turn with me to Genesis, please, chapter 1. Look at this. David had given the psalm to Israel about the fact that he was at all because what God have done for men.

But where he did take this information from, he took this information from the book of Genesis, right from the start. Look, in Genesis, chapter 1, and verse 26, after God created heaven and earth, after God created all the animals and so on, it says in verse 26 of chapter 1, and God said, let us make men in our own image, after our likeness, and let them, listen, have dominion, let them be kings over the fish of the sea, number one, over the fowl of the air, number two, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping upon the earth. Verse 27, God created men in his own image.

In the image of God, he created him, male and female, created them. Verse 28, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over, and he repeating it, over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. That's how everything started. Men, going to be a king, the descendants of Adam, they're going to rule and reign over everything, the sea, the land, and the air. God gave it, he intended men to have this place. but guess what happened? It did not take too long before man lost all what God have intended for him.

He lost it. How did he lose it? Please turn to chapter three for one moment, Genesis three, and now notice from verse 17 to verse 24, we see that man lost it because of sin. He lost the dominion that God was intending to give men because of sin. Chapter three of the book of Genesis verse 17, and unto Adam he said, remember after Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree which I commended thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is thy ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life, thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field, in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it was thou taken, and from dust thou art, and unto the dust you will return.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve, or Chava, because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also, and unto his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skin, and he clothed them, and the Lord said, behold, man become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat of it, to till the ground from whence he was taken, so he drove out men, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turn every way to keep the way of the tree of life.

God chased him. He chased Adam and Eve, they have lost dominion, they have lost the place that God have intended for them, because sin came in. And beloved, since that time, up till today, we can see it so clearly that man does not rule over the affairs of this world. There was just a huge storm in Burma when nearly hundred thousand people lost their lives. Man has no authority, no power whatsoever, even though he clings for power, he clings for dominion, he never stopped for a moment to seek a place of authority and dominion. We go to the moon, we shoot rockets all over, developed in many ways, we have cell phones, and we have televisions, and we have all kind of systems that exist today, because men reaching to the top, never stopping to desire to get higher and higher and higher, and yet he lost it because of sin.

You notice, beloved, that we have developed in so many ways, and yet morally we haven't take one step forward. man can reach to the moon, but he cannot take care of his own self. Even the apostle Paul said in Romans 7, the things I don't want to do, that's I do, and the things I want to do, that's I don't do, all wretched men that I am, Paul said. Same thing that we have in Psalm 8, what is Anosh, what is Anosh, what is man, wretched, what is man, and so the writer to the Hebrews, quoting to those Hebrew believers in verses 6, 7, and 8 of chapter 2, there is a quotation from Psalm 8, verses 4 to 8, and he is showing them that there is the puzzle, what is man, God have intended for man to rule, but man lost it, how can he ever regain it?

How can man will regain the place of dominion and authority that God have intended for Adam and his race to receive?

And so, the end of verse 8, you notice after he quoting Psalm 8, and then he says, it's like a little commentary on what he quoted, he says, for in that he put all things in subjection under him, this is under man, he left nothing that is not under him, and then he said, look at the last part of verse 8, Hebrews 2, 8, but now, right now, we see not yet all things put under him, we don't see it yet, look around, you don't see that man is in charge, we don't see everything is under the foot of man and he's in charge and he's in control, it's not true, you don't see, it's

not happening, because it's not possible to happen to the descendants of Adam without obedience to God, and that's why he turned him now from what we don't see to what we see, what we don't see with the physical eye, we see by faith when we look at the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, and you notice now in verse 9, in verse 9, he shows us that there is somebody that we gain, somebody that gave back the authority and the dominion because of what he has done, and that somebody is none else but the man Yeshua from Nazareth, though son of God, yet son of men, it says in verse 9, but we see Jesus, but we

see Yeshua, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, we see him crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man or for everything, you notice the contrast, at the end of verse 8, it says we see not, at the beginning of verse 9, it says but we see, well we don't see everything in subjection under men here in this world today, but we see Yeshua, we see Yeshua, remember Yeshua was in heaven, they couldn't see him with their physical eyes, he had finished the work on the cross, on the tree, he had died, he was buried, and he rose,

and he ascended, he went to heaven, and in the eye of faith, they see him, he says we see Jesus, we see Yeshua, we see him, now you and I don't see him physically, but on the basis of the written word of God, we see him by faith, there's a nice hymn that we sometimes sing, oh Lord by faith, we look above, we see the crown with glory, in honor, by faith, Hebrews, you know him, you've accepted him, you see him by faith, we, you, and I see him by faith, what do we see about him, we see him crowned with honor and glory, God have crowned him, God gave him the crown, while men

gave him the crown of thorns, God had given him the crown of glory, God said to him, sit down on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool, and God placed him there in heaven, but you notice the order, there are a few things that we see about Yeshua, Yeshua have dominion over everything, God have given him dominion everything, in every area, over the fish of the sea, over the animals here on the earth, as well as over those who fly in the air, we could see it in his life, in what he have done, but here we see the humiliation of the Lord, how he suffered, how he became a man, and

how God elevated him and brought him to be at his right hand.

notice that verse 9 again, one point at a time, the first thing we find out is that the humiliation of the Messiah, it says in verse 9, but we see Yeshua who was made a little lower than the angels. He became a man. Just like God made Adam a man lower than the angels, here we see the Son of God, Yeshua, Jesus, the Son of God, became a man, as it says here, he became lower than the angels. That is amazing. See, for you and I to be lower than the angels is one thing. You and I are creatures. We have been created. But he is the creator.

And the creator entered into humanity, became a man, he became lower than the angels. Secondly, it is why was he becoming lower than the angels? Why? What is the reason for that? That he will taste death. It says here, for the suffering of death. You know, there was a reason why the Lord came into this world to become a man. He became a man in order that he will suffer and die. He did not come to this world in order that he will live a long life and will have his own way. He came to do the father's will. And so when he came into this world, he came for the suffering of death.

He suffered. He went to death. He died. Beloved brothers and sisters, that's what the writer is emphasizing here. The purpose of the Messiah to become a man is because he came to die, to suffer, and to go to the tree, and to suffer, and to experience death. And then look at this, why? It is the grace of God. you notice he continued here, and in verse 9 he said, he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, and then he says, he was crowned in glory and honor that he by the grace of God, all the grace of God, stretching so far, God in his grace was willing to come down into this world in the person of the son, and to go all the way to the cross, to the altar, where he was punished for the sin and sins of men.

And then look at the result of it. What happened is that because of his humiliation, because of his willingness to die, God have raised him and gave him honor and glory. That's why it says in verse 9 that he made him a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death and now we see him crowned with glory and with honor.

You see those Hebrews needed to understand that when the Lord Yeshua came to this world he came to suffer he came to regain back what we have lost in Adam because of Adam you and I may have well Adam's fall all the reigning and the dominion that we were supposed to have we have lost it but because what the Lord Jesus have done that he came and Yeshua died and he paid the price we gain back what we could have never have if we would not be trusting him we would never have the place of rulership and authority and this expression of dying and suffering death was so necessary he did not come to live

long life he came to pay the penalty of our sins in order to regain what we have lost in Adam now please I just want in conclusion to show you this in Revelation please turn to Revelation 5 just to conclude this thought here of regaining what we lost in Adam you remember in Revelation chapter 5 where we have that question that is being asked there it is a scene in heaven where the question is being asked it says here in verse 2 Revelation 5 verse 1 and and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on a throne a book written within and on the back side sealed with seven seals and I

saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof the angel was proclaiming who is worthy to open that book what is that book that book is a title deed to this earth the ownership of this world and the cry came by this angel who is worthy to open that book and to loose the seven seals and they look around and it says in verse 3 no man in heaven nor upon the earth nor under the earth was able to open the book not even to look upon this book nobody beloved no one was able to look at this book nobody was

able to open that book because all have fallen short of the glory of God but then we read that John wept many times in the Bible we find out that people are weeping and crying because of certain things that made them sad we just finished the book of Genesis in our Bible study Genesis chapter 50 when Joseph's brethren did not believe that Joseph forgave them for the sins that they have committed against him and when they asked for forgiveness and Joseph began to cry because he knew that they misunderstood him altogether here here John is weeping many of the men of God and the women of God were weeping because they wanted to have the

right things had been placed before them here John is weeping because nobody was able he said I wept much because nobody was able was found to open the book neither to seal the seal not even to look their own but then one of the elders said lion of the tribe of Judah of the root of David he has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof and lo I beheld and in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been freshly slain having seven horns and seven eyes he took the book and he was able to open

the book you notice it was he saw a lamb that just died just the same like we have in Hebrews chapter 2 we see Yeshua who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering in death that's what the writer to the Hebrews wanted the Hebrews to see just like John in Revelation chapter 5 saw he saw the lamb he saw the one that died he saw the humanity of the Lord Jesus the Messiah he saw Yeshua and what did he see he saw the one that was suffered once died once and now he's crowned with glory and with honor he's the one now that has the right the dominion over everything here

in this world and encouraging those Hebrews to look to him to see him crowned with glory and honor for the suffering of death and God gave our blessed Lord Yeshua the Messiah what we lost in Adam we gain in the second man in the last Adam namely Yeshua the Messiah wonderful to recognize that beloved brothers and sisters and those Hebrews had to see that so they also by faith can look up to him and see that he is more he superior than the angels to whom God never gave the authority over the world to come but he gave it to Yeshua and through Yeshua those who believe on him will also be participating in the

coming reign of the King Messiah can we say amen to that amen