God Has Spoken..... By His Son

Now the revelation of God through the Old Testament prophets was fragmentary. It was here a little, there a little. It was also progressive. Each writer added to the pool of knowledge about God and about existence outside the goldfish bowl of our existence. In each case, the Old Testament prophets came away with another glimpse of the character and the person of God. But the final and complete communication of God was not accomplished through any of these means. The final and complete communication of God was accomplished through His Son. “2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.” (Hebrews 1:2). We have seen the many ways that God spoke to the fathers through the prophets. But here we see that God has spoken AGAIN.

After God spoke through the prophets there was a great silence. For 400 years there had been no prophets to speak the word of the Lord. But now, in these last days, God has spoken through a new agency which had never before been used. He now spoke to mankind through His Son. This is the fullest revelation of God. It is the person of Jesus Christ. It is the person of the One who was God and who became man so that He might communicate the Father to us.

Now I want to ask you a question. Why is the writer making such a point? Why is it so important to know that Jesus is the fullest revelation of God? It is because the Jews to whom he is writing are in danger of turning away from Jesus to go back to the incomplete teachings of the Old Testament prophets. This is important! The teaching of the Old Testament prophets was not wrong. They were only incomplete.

They were a partial revelation. But the revelation that came in the person of Jesus is a complete revelation. He was better than the prophets because He exhibited the very person and character of God. He said to Philip on the night of the Last Supper, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9). None of the prophets could ever make a claim like that. Their knowledge of God was always limited. But Jesus had an experiential knowledge of God because He was the Son of God. Let me illustrate this - If you wanted to find out more about me, you could talk to someone who knows me well. They could tell you a lot about me. You might come away with a certain amount of knowledge about me and what I do for a living. But if you really wanted to get to know me, surely the best way would be to talk to me. The same is true of God. The best way to learn about God is to meet Him in the flesh. You meet Him in the flesh when you meet Jesus Christ. God has been revealed in the prophets. He has been revealed in the Bible. But the best revelation of God came through Jesus Christ - “2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.” (Hebrews 1:2-3).