# “When this Son arose, He kept rising” by Bobby Jamieson

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- Published: 2025-07-29T12:00:00-05:00
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“As **Hebrews 1:3** hints, this Son who existed before the ages came to exist as
a human. At His incarnation, this Son “_for a little while was made lower than the
angels_,” and in His death He tasted death for everyone (**2:9**).

He came to share in flesh-and-blood humanity, so He could disarm by His own death
the one who had the power of death (**2:14–15**). In His death Jesus not only defeated
the devil but redeemed His people from their sins against God’s first covenant (**
9:15**).

Christ came into the world to do God’s will (**10:5–9**), ultimately offering the
body God had prepared for Him in order to sanctify and perfect His people (**10:
10, 14**). To become a merciful and faithful high priest, Jesus “_had to be made
like His brothers in every respect_” (**2:17**), which involved not only becoming
human but also sinlessly enduring temptation (**2:18; 4:15**). This Son lived an
unmistakably human life.

In anguished suffering He cried out to God and was answered (**5:7**). “_Although
He is the Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered_” (**5:8, my translation**).
As the “_founder_” of His people’s salvation, He had to be made “_perfect through
suffering_” (**2:10**).

After suffering faithfully, Jesus was indeed made perfect, and “_he became the source
of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, being designated by God a high priest 
after the order of Melchizedek_” (**5:9–10**).

The incarnate Son, like the Levitical priests, was mortal (**7:8, 23**). He lived,
suffered, died. But He rose again with life indestructible and so arose as a priest
in the likeness of Melchizedek (**7:15–16**).

When He thus arose, the same one who said to Jesus “_You are my Son_” also said 
to Him “_You are a priest forever_” (**Heb 5:5–6; Ps 2:7; 110:4**), and so He now“
_holds His priesthood permanently_” (**Heb 7:24**) and “_always lives_” to intercede
for His people (**7:25**).

When this Son arose, He kept rising, passing through the heavens (**4:14**), being
exalted above the heavens (**7:26**), and finally entering God’s dwelling itself,
the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle in heaven (**6:19–20; 8:1–5; 9:11–12, 23–26**).

Like the Levitical high priests who yearly entered the earthly Holy of Holies with
blood, in order to offer it there (**9:7**), Jesus entered the Holy of Holies in
heaven through His own blood, in order to offer to God His own blood, body, and 
self (**7:27; 9:11–14, 24–25; 10:10, 12, 14**).

After offering to God this singular, sufficient sacrifice, Christ sat down at God’s
right hand (**1:3; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2**), where He reigns over all, and from where
He will return to save His people (**9:28**).”

-R.B. Jamieson, [_The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/083084886X?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2021), 5.

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