The Christology of Hebrews

A Paper

Submitted to Dr. Fred Chay

Phoenix Seminary

Scottsdale, Arizona

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for

Hebrews

by

Troy A. Griffitts

4-April-2004

One of the first roles of Christ we see in Hebrews is his task of Prophetic Messenger. This begins the book in verses 1-2 and continues in Chapter 2, verse 12. We are told that He is the Declarer of God's Name, and Singer of Praise To God.

Christ is declared Heir of All Things in 1:2 and is the One For Whom are All Things in 2:10.

Christ's role in creation is layed out in the first 2 chapters, as well. He is Creative Agent of The Worlds (1:2), Upholder of All Things by The Word of His Power (1:3), Layer of the Foundations of the Earth (1:10), Hands that Formed the Heavens (1:10),

By Whom are All Things (2:10)

It seems the author of Hebrews begins primarily concerned with confirming the supremacy of Christ. Not only does he clearly state such, but he goes as far as to call Him God, and even equate Him with Yahweh, Himself. Some key passages that exemplify this include (1:3), where Christ is called the Brightness of God's Glory and The Express Image of God's Person. Other titles that lift Christ up include The Right Hand Man of The Majesty On High (1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2), Made So Much Better than, Worshiped by, and Inheritor of a More Excellent Name than, The Angels (1:4, 6), Not Partaker of The Nature of Angels (2:16), God With a Scepter of Righteousness On an Everlasting Throne (1:8), Anointed Above His Fellows (1:9), Crowned with Glory and Honour (2:9), Worthy of More Glory than Moses (3:3), God (3:4-19) Hear His Voice? God's.

Holy 7:26

Innocent 7:26

Undefiled 7:26

Separate From Sinners 7:26

Made Higher Than The Heavens 7:26

Without Spot 9:14

Whose Voice Shook The Earth 12:26

Lord 13:20

Great Shepherd Of The Sheep 13:20

To Whom is Glory Forever 13:21

Lord Yah 1:10

Categories of Christology in Hebrews

PROPHETIC MESSENGER

Prophetic Messenger 1:1-2

Declarer of God's Name 2:12

Singer of Praise To God 2:12

HEIR

Heir of All Things 1:2

For Whom are All Things 2:10

CREATOR

Creative Agent of The Worlds 1:2

Upholder of All Things by The Word of His Power 1:3

Layer of the Foundations of the Earth 1:10

Hands that Formed the Heavens 1:10

By Whom are All Things 2:10

GOD

Brightness of God's Glory 1:3

Express Image of God's Person 1:3

Right Hand Man of The Majesty On High 1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2

Made So Much Better than The Angels 1:4

Inheritor of a More Excellent Name Than The Angels 1:4

Worshiped By Angels 1:6

God With a Scepter of Righteousness On an Everlasting Throne 1:8

Anointed Above His Fellows 1:9

Lord Yah 1:10

Crowned with Glory and Honour 2:9

Not Partaker of The Nature of Angels 2:16

Worthy of More Glory than Moses 3:3

God 3:4-19 Hear His Voice? God's.

Holy 7:26

Innocent 7:26

Undefiled 7:26

Separate From Sinners 7:26

Made Higher Than The Heavens 7:26

Without Spot 9:14

Whose Voice Shook The Earth 12:26

Lord 13:20

Great Shepherd Of The Sheep 13:20

To Whom is Glory Forever 13:21

SON

Son of God; Firstbegotten; Brought By God Into The World 1:2, 5, 6

Son of God 4:14

Son of God; Begotten of God 5:5

Son of God 5:8

Son of God 10:29

SAVIOUR

Purger of Our Sins 1:3

Captain of Our Salvation 2:10

Taster of Death, By God's Grace, For Every Man 2:9

Given Children from God 2:13

Maker of Reconciliation for The Sins of The People 2:17

Partaken of By The Steadfast 3:14

Author of Eternal Salvation to The Obedient 5:9

Able To Save To The Uttermost Those That Come To God Through Him 7:25

Redeemer of The Transgressions Under The First Testament 9:15

Provider for The Promise of Eternal Inheritance 9:15

Putter Away of Sin 9:26

Offered To Bear The Sins of Many 9:28

Body Offered Once For All 10:10

ETERNALLY EXISTENT AND UNCHANGING

Outlaster of Both The Heavens and The Earth; Who's Years Do Not Fail 1:11-12

The Same 1:12

Continuer Forever 7:24

Liver Forever 7:25

The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever 13:8

CONQUEROR

Enemy's Subdued 1:13

Verbal Deliverer of Salvation 2:3

Destroyer of The Devil Through Death 2:14

Deliverer of The Fearful of Death 2:15

Enemies To Be Made His Footstool 10:13

WILLING HUMBLE SUFFERER

Made For a Time a Little Lower than The Angels 2:9

Sufferer of Death 2:9

Taster of Death, By God's Grace, For Every Man 2:9

Made Perfect Through Suffering 2:10

Sufferer 2:18

Glorified Not Himself To High Priesthood 5:5

Offerer of Prayers, Supplications, Strong Crying, and Tears to God 5:7

Crucified for Our Sins 6:6

Died Once 7:27

Offered Up Himself Once For All Time 7:27

Partaker of Death 9:15

Become The Excuse For Reproach 11:26

Endurer Of The Cross 12:2

Despiser Of Shame 12:2

Endurer of Such Hostility Of Sinners Against Himself 12:3

Sufferer Outside The Gate 13:12

Reproached 13:13

HELPFUL COMPANION / SYMPATHIZER

Of One with Those Sanctified 2:11

Not Ashamed to Call Us Brethren 2:11

Partaker of Flesh and Blood 2:14

Partaker of The Seed of Abraham 2:16

Made Like Unto His Brethren 2:17

Tempted 2:18

Aid to The Tempted 2:18

Sympathizer With Our Weaknesses 4:15

Tempted Like Us 4:15

Partaker of Flesh 5:7

Learner of Obedience 5:8

Made Perfect 5:9

Purger of Our Conscience From Dead Works 9:14

Enabler To Serve The Living God 9:14

Perfecter Forever Them That Are Sanctified 10:14

Giver of Boldness To Enter Into The Holiest 10:19

Provider for A Pure Heart Sprinkled From An Evil Conscience 10:22

Full Assurance of Our Faith 10:22

Provider for Washing Our Bodies With Pure Water 10:22

Author and Finisher of Faith 12:2

Enabler of Our Sacrifice of Praise To God 13:15

Through Whom We Are Made Perfect 13:21

FAITHFUL

Truster of God 2:12

Merciful and Faithful High Priest 2:17

Faithful To God 3:2

Without Sin 4:15

Heard by God 5:7

Fearer of God 5:7

Faithful Promiser 10:23

HIGH PRIEST

Merciful and Faithful High Priest 2:17

High Priest 3:1

Great High Priest 4:14

Priest Forever 5:6; 6:20

Priest After The Order of Melchisedec 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7;

Offerer of Prayers, Supplications, Strong Crying, and Tears to God 5:7

Called of God High Priest 5:10

Entered as Forerunner Within The Veil 6:20

Made Priest After The Power Of An Endless Life 7:16

Surety of A Better Testament 7:22

Haver On An Unchangeable Priesthood 7:24

Intercessor For Those That Come To God Through Him 7:25

Made Priest By The Oath Of God 7:28

Consecrated For Evermore 7:28

High Priest 8:1

Minister of The Sanctuary and True Tabernacle 8:2

Offerer 8:3

Obtainer of A More Excellent Ministry Than Moses 8:6

Mediator of A Better Covenant Established Upon Better Promises 8:6

High Priest of Good Things To Come 9:11

High Priest of a Greater and More Perfect Tabernacle Not Made With Hands 9:11

Offerer Once of His Own Blood 9:12

Offerer Himself of His Own Blood To God 9:14

Purifier of Heavenly Things by His Own Blood 9:23

Sanctifier of Us Through His Offering 10:10

Offerer of One Sacrifice For Sin Forever 10:12

Consecrater of A New and Living Way Through The Veil 10:20

Provider of His Flesh 10:20

High Priest Over The House of God 10:21

Who's is The Blood of The Everlasting Covenant 10:29; 13:20

Sanctifier by His Blood 10:29

Offerer Of His Own Blood Which Sanctifies Of The People 13:12

NEW COVENANT

Builder of the House 3:3

Son Over His Own House-- The Faithful Ones 3:6

Mediator of The New Testament 9:15

Taker Away of The First Covenant 10:9

Establisher of The Second Covenant 10:9

Mediator Of The New Covenant 12:24

Better Speaking Blood Sprinkling Than Able 12:24

IN HEAVEN

Passed Into The Heavens 4:14

Not on earth 8:4

Enterer Into Heaven 9:24

In The Presence of God For Us. 9:24

Speaker From Heaven 12:25

MISC

Apostle 3:1

Professed By Men 3:1

Appointed By God 3:2

To Appear The Second Time For Salvation, Apart From Sin, Unto Them That Look For Him 9:28

He Who Will Come and Not Tarry10:37

Set Before With Joy 12:2

Promiser To Shake Both The Earth And The Heavens 12:26

Brought Again From The Dead By God 13:20

Observations of Christ in Hebrews

Prophetic Messinger 1:1-2

Son of God; Firstbegotten; Brought By God Into The World 1:2, 5, 6

Heir of All Things 1:2

Creative Agent of The Worlds 1:2

Brightness of God's Glory 1:3

Express Image of God's Person 1:3

Upholder of All Things by The Word of His Power 1:3

Purger of Our Sins 1:3

Right Hand Man of The Majesty On High 1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2

Made So Much Better than The Angels 1:4

Inheritor of a More Excellent Name Than The Angels 1:4

Worshiped By Angels 1:6

God With a Scepter of Righteousness On an Everlasting Throne 1:8

Anointed Above His Fellows 1:9

Layer of the Foundations of the Earth 1:10

Hands that Formed the Heavens 1:10

Lord Yah 1:10

Outlaster of Both; Who's Years Do Not Fail 1:11-12

The Same 1:12

Enemy's Subdued 1:13

Verbal Deliverer of Salvation 2:3

Made For a Time a Little Lower than The Angels 2:9

Sufferer of Death 2:9

Crowned with Glory and Honour 2:9

Taster of Death, By God's Grace, For Every Man 2:9

For Whom are All Things 2:10

By Whom are All Things 2:10

Captain of Our Salvation 2:10

Made Perfect Through Suffering 2:10

Of One with Those Sanctified 2:11

Not Ashamed to Call Us Brethren 2:11

Declarer of God's Name 2:12

Singer of Praise To God 2:12

Truster of God 2:12

Given Children from God 2:13

Partaker of Flesh and Blood 2:14

Destroyer of The Devil Through Death 2:14

Deliverer of The Fearful of Death 2:15

Partaker of The Seed of Abraham 2:16

Not Partaker of The Nature of Angels 2:16

Made Like Unto His Brethren 2:17

Merciful and Faithful High Priest 2:17

Maker of Reconciliation for The Sins of The People 2:17

Sufferer 2:18

Tempted 2:18

Aid to The Tempted 2:18

Apostle 3:1

High Priest 3:1

Professed By Men 3:1

Appointed By God 3:2

Faithful To God 3:2

Worthy of More Glory than Moses 3:3

Builder of the House 3:3

God 3:4-19 Hear His Voice? God's.

Son Over His Own House-- The Faithful Ones 3:6

Partaken of By The Steadfast 3:14

Great High Priest 4:14

Passed Into The Heavens 4:14

Son of God 4:14

Sympathizer With Our Weaknesses 4:15

Tempted Like Us 4:15

Without Sin 4:15

Glorified Not Himself To High Priesthood 5:5

Son of God; Begotten of God 5:5

Priest Forever 5:6; 6:20

Priest After The Order of Melchisedec 5:6, 10; 6:20; 7;

Partaker of Flesh 5:7

Offerer of Prayers, Supplications, Strong Crying, and Tears to God 5:7

Heard by God 5:7

Fearer of God 5:7

Son of God 5:8

Learner of Obedience 5:8

Sufferer 5:8

Made Perfect 5:9

Author of Eternal Salvation to The Obedient 5:9

Called of God High Priest 5:10

Crucified for Our Sins 6:6

Entered as Forerunner Within The Veil 6:20

Made Priest After The Power Of An Endless Life 7:16

Surety of A Better Testament 7:22

Continuer Forever 7:24

Haver On An Unchangeable Priesthood 7:24

Able To Save To The Uttermost Those That Come To God Through Him 7:25

Liver Forever 7:25

Intercessor For Those That Come To God Through Him 7:25

Holy 7:26

Innocent 7:26

Undefiled 7:26

Separate From Sinners 7:26

Made Higher Than The Heavens 7:26

Died Once 7:27

Offered Up Himself Once For All Time 7:27

Made Priest By The Oath Of God 7:28

Consecrated For Evermore 7:28

High Priest 8:1

Minister of The Sanctuary and True Tabernacle 8:2

Offerer 8:3

Not on earth 8:4

Obtainer of A More Excellent Ministry Than Moses 8:6

Mediator of A Better Covenant Established Upon Better Promises 8:6

High Priest of Good Things To Come 9:11

High Priest of a Greater and More Perfect Tabernacle Not Made With Hands 9:11

Offerer Once of His Own Blood 9:12

Obtainer of Eternal Redemption 9:12

Offerer Himself of His Own Blood To God 9:14

Without Spot 9:14

Purger of Our Conscience From Dead Works 9:14

Enabler To Serve The Living God 9:14

Mediator of The New Testament 9:15

Partaker of Death 9:15

Redeemer of The Transgressions Under The First Testament 9:15

Provider for The Promise of Eternal Inheritance 9:15

Purifier of Heavenly Things by His Own Blood 9:23

Enterer Into Heaven 9:24

In The Presence of God For Us. 9:24

Offerer of The Sacrifice of Himself Once 9:25-26, 28; 10:14

Putter Away of Sin 9:26

Offered To Bear The Sins of Many 9:28

To Appear The Second Time For Salvation, Apart From Sin, Unto Them That Look For Him 9:28

Comer Into The World 10:5

Written Of In the Book 10:7

Doer of The Will of God 10:7

Taker Away of The First Covenant 10:9

Establisher of The Second Covenant 10:9

Body Offered Once For All 10:10

Sanctifier of Us Through His Offering 10:10

Offerer of One Sacrifice For Sin Forever 10:12

Enemies To Be Made His Footstool 10:13

Perfecter Forever Them That Are Sanctified 10:14

Giver of Boldness To Enter Into The Holiest 10:19

Offerer of His Blood 10:19

Consecrater of A New and Living Way Through The Veil 10:20

Provider of His Flesh 10:20

High Priest Over The House of God 10:21

Provider for A Pure Heart Sprinkled From An Evil Conscience 10:22

Full Assurance of Our Faith 10:22

Provider for Washing Our Bodies With Pure Water 10:22

Faithful Promiser 10:23

Son of God 10:29

Who's is The Blood of The Everlasting Covenant 10:29; 13:20

Sanctifier by His Blood 10:29

He Who Will Come and Not Tarry10:37

Become The Excuse For Reproach 11:26

Author and Finisher of Faith 12:2

Set Before With Joy 12:2

Endurer Of The Cross 12:2

Despiser Of Shame 12:2

Endurer of Such Hostility Of Sinners Against Himself 12:3

Mediator Of The New Covenant 12:24

Better Speaking Blood Sprinkling Than Able 12:24

Speaker From Heaven 12:25

Whose Voice Shook The Earth 12:26

Promiser To Shake Both The Earth And The Heavens 12:26

The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever 13:8

Offerer Of His Own Blood Which Sanctifies Of The People 13:12

Sufferer Outside The Gate 13:12

Reproached 13:13

Enabler of Our Sacrifice of Praise To God 13:15

Brought Again From The Dead By God 13:20

Lord 13:20

Great Shepherd Of The Sheep 13:20

Through Whom We Are Made Perfect 13:21

To Whom is Glory Forever 13:21

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