Hebrews 2:6-9 - But we do see Jesus

2:6-8 - Part 2

Anyway, leaving that aside, what does the Psalm actually say? First it expresses wonder/ surprise that God is so “mindful” of man. God is extremely interested in mankind, and does care for him. God made us “a little lower than the angels”. At present angels are superior beings to us. Yet we are crowned with glory and honour, and everything will be put under our feet. Everything was made subject to man. This is all inclusive. However, there is a problem, “at present we do not see everything in subjection to him”. This is to put it mildly! At present it seems that the latter part of the verses quoted from the Psalm are simply not true, nothing but poetry.

2:9

What we do see is Jesus. And Jesus is representative of all humanity, this is the federal headship of Jesus. Jesus is what all mankind was meant to be. For a little while Jesus was made lower than the angels. While Jesus was here on earth angels were in some sense more powerful than Jesus (we need to be careful here, for Jesus was still the Son of God, He was still divine.). However, after the cross and resurrection He was “crowned with glory and honour, He was given authority over all things. We are also told that this was “because of the suffering of death”. Jesus was not blessed despite the suffering, but because of the suffering. He needed to suffer in order to enable all humanity to receive the blessings of Ps 8:4-6. He suffered and overcame death for all of us. And this was by the grace of God. It was God’s goodness towards us that allowed Jesus to taste death on our behalf.