Post 3 of Study: Hebrews 1:2

God spoke. In the writer's time, He has spoken. "These last days" could mean recently but really has more of an eschatological view. I am not a big scholar of "future things," a subject I won't get into here. I have different views than some of my associates and friends. However, I believer the writer saw his time as the latter days, that in the span of time between the Fall and the Final Restoration his time was the end more than the beginning or middle or some indeterminate period. 

What begins in verse 2 is a hymn about Jesus like that in Colossians 1 and Philippians 2. Sure, critics can say that Paul made up the deity of Christ doctrine, but I've recently read three books by N.T. Wright on this subject, so I've pretty unconvinced of that one. What is said about Jesus Christ here for us to meditate on?

He is HIS SON. (not was temporarily, not just because of the resurrection, but eternally. Sonship of Jesus is a difficult doctrine for many because they see it as a sexually dependent relationship, and it is, in a sense, a metaphor for connection, likeness, hierarchy, closeness, intimacy even, and heirship)

He is appointed Heir of all things at some point (after the resurrection, according to other passages)

God made the worlds (physical creation) through The Son. My Bible notes that the word "worlds" is "aeons" so we might think of this as the good old space-time continuum (Fun term to throw around). Hebrews and the rest of the Bible, if we see it, is a constant argument against dualism, which I find a dangerous world view. 

Dualism says, among other things, physical world bad, abstract world good, and never the two should meet or mix. Jesus Christ as Son of God made the physical world, lived in a physical body, died a physical death, resurrected physically (although not the same) and will redeem the physical world back to perfection, including us.  After a brief period of absence from our bodies, we get a new one. Now, you might disagree with this, but then you would be disagreeing with the world view of the Bible. You have that right. Just don't re-interpret the Bible to fit your own world view.  

A dualistic world view causes us to dismiss the physical world's holiness and beauty, although it also is "red in tooth and claw" and nature is not kind.

I'll stop there; it's the end of verse 2.