Understanding Hebrews 1:3

Also to John 1:9, ". . . was the true Light, . . ." Not merely a light from Light . . . ."

 

Is Heb 1:3 a pre or post death and in three days resurrection out of the dead thought/concept?

I guess what I am asking is; Was the pre D&R Son the declared heir whereas the post D&R Son was the inheritor, thereof Heb 1:3-5?

 

The NASB was no doubt translated by men who does not even know the purpose for the letter to the Hebrews and so one would expect the liberty they take with the epistle would serve to dumb down the modern readers of their work. One would not expect a student of the work to rise above the ability of the translation to minister spiritual truth. I certainly don't and that is one reason I would never consider any study from the words of the NASB.

Gentiles would have received very little instruction from this letter in the day it was written because they not only did not live under the stringent demands of the OT law of Moses but most would not even have known about it except as they observed the practice of Jews, if they knew any. To the Jew however, it was a proclamation that the Jesus they had crucified fulfilled all demands and promises of the Law in his own body while at the same time proclaiming the eternality and divinity of his person. Just look at verse 1;

Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days (of the age of Law as the operative principle of divine dealing with the Jews - See Ga 4:4) spoken unto us by his Son,........

This audience is the same that is being addressed by Peter in his two letters to the strangers in Asia Minor 1 Pe 1:1-2, and James, who writes to the 12 scattered tribes of Israel, and John in his three epistles to the "little children." And, of course, Jude.

The warning in all these letters is not to come part way to Christ and then be persuaded by infiltrators and actors to return again to the weak and beggarly elements of the Law.

Jude gives this description of these teachers;

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Jude says the prophets warned these men would come in the last days and Jude's last days are the same last days as the writer of Hebrews. It is the last days of the age of Law. They denied the Lord Jesus and taught other of their countrymen to do the same. God is greatly offended by these teachers and their works will be rewarded with great judgement.

Rom 10:11 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (This was written 28 years after Jesus rose from the dead).

Personally, I do not think it is possible to stamp out any ignorance with the use of the NASB.