The anonymous author of Hebrews opens with what may be the most theologically dense introduction in Scripture — seven descriptions of the Son in three verses, establishing that Jesus is the climax, the heir, the creator, the radiance, the exact imprint, the sustainer, and the purifier. Everything before Him was preparation; He is the fulfillment.

From the writers we read together

John Polkinghorne

Physicist and Anglican Priest

Polkinghorne read Hebrews 1:1–3 as the theological statement most perfectly aligned with both Christology and cosmology: the same One through whom the universe was created is the One through whom God speaks most fully in history. The Creator has not remained outside the creation; He has entered it, in the final and definitive form of the Son. This is not myth; it is the claim the author of Hebrews makes with full Jewish seriousness about the nature of God.

The phrase 'in these last days' (ep' eschatou tōn hēmerōn toutōn) is eschatological: we are already living in the final chapter of the story. The Son is not a preview of something to come; He is the Word God has always been moving toward speaking. Living in the era of the Son means living in the fullness of time. How does it change your sense of the present moment to know that you live in the 'last days' God always intended — the age of the Son?