Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Hebrews 2:5-9
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
God sent His angels to work within this world. But the world of the future, His everlasting Kingdom, will be ruled by “the Son of Man.” Jesus was sent to earth as a man to experience human life so that he could experience a fully human death. No angel could experience that. Jesus’ death represented the ultimate sacrifice of atonement. The Hebrew Christians, to whom this passage was written, would have understood the cleansing power of that sacrifice on their behalf. Christ came and lived among us so that He could die.