10 And, “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands; 11 they will perish, but You remain; and they all will become old like a garment, 12 and like a mantle You will roll them up; like a garment they will also be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end.”

Jesus is the creator God. Whether one believes that statement to be true or not, it is undeniable that the book of Hebrews clearly teaches the deity of Jesus Christ. The referent is still “His son” (Heb 1:2), and He is spoken of as “The Lord” in a way that clearly pictures the creator God. In fact, verse 10 quotes Psalm 102:25, where “Yahweh” is in view. That is God’s personal name and cannot be confused with any secondary god, as though Christianity believes in two gods, as the Muslims think regarding the followers of Christ. We Christians do not believe in two gods. We believe in one God, who is incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ.

So we have Christ being referred to as “His Son” and also as “Yahweh”—the Son of God being fully equal with God. So then, He is obviously greater than the angels, who are servants of God (vs. 7). In fact, Jesus is greater than all creation, the writer of Hebrews continues. Creation will perish, but not the Son, He remains forever. He continues on without respect to any time-sequence of before and after; He simply remains, active, ever present and unchanged by the passage of time (see Heb 13:8).

Further, we see that God is separate from His creation, He is not pantheis-tic.(Many eastern religions believe, “God is all, and all is God”). He created, as Christians assert, “ex nihilo,” which means He created what exists out of nothing. He simply spoke creation into existence. He didn’t make creation out of Himself, as though it were of the same substance as He. The only creation that is connected to God in any sort of intimate way are humans, who were created in His image (Gen 1:26-27). He breathed the breath of life (Gen 2:7) into the first man, which we take to mean that He gave him a spirit. So while humans are created beings, we are connected to God on two levels, image and spirit. Yet, we humans are not God.

The temptation in Eden was to be like God (Gen 3:5) and therefore become equal to God. How ironic, for we are made in the image of God, and thus are like Him already! Yet, we are not the same as God, for we are created. Jesus, however, was/is God come as a man. So He is the same as the creator God.

Lord Jesus, I confess You as the God of the Universe, the Yahweh of Israel—You are my God and I worship You alone.