Hebrews 2:5-18-- To Taste Death for Everyone

Scripture: Hebrews 2:5-18

As I noted last time, Hebrews 1 and the beginning of Hebrews 2 give us a crucial truth-- Jesus is supreme, and so His message is supremely important to our lives. 'But,' the Hebrew audience might have objected, 'Jesus was a man, right? You're telling me a first century human was high above the angels and, as I sense you're about to tell me, Moses of old?'

I'm not sure how these ancient readers would have known about the numbered century system or what the author would write next, but their imagined interjection is a reasonable one. If the Son of God has all the glory and preeminence described in chapter 1, why do we find that He has lived life as a human?