What Child is This?

Hebrews 1:10-14 

10 And: “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.  11 They will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; 12 Like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed.  But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.”  13 But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?  14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

In the beginning God founded the earth and universe by His word.  The things we see under the strongest microscope and with the most powerful telescope are all His work; they did not “just happen” out of nothing, but out of nothing God spoke them into existence.  Yet even the universe winds down in decay from our bodies to radioactive isotopes; but He is the same from before time existed and will remain so forever.  He is El Olam, the always existing One (Psalm 90:1-2, Micah 5:2) from eternity.  Micah speaks of Christ’s coming seen quoted in the New Testament (Matthew 2:6) as the one from eternity (olam), the everlasting God.  In Christ all holds together (Colossians 1:16-17) by the word of God who He is, and when He is ready He will fold up the universe and make a new creation where we live in His presence.  Yet God never ages or changes in character.  He has an absolute plan and angels do not rule with Him, but serve God until the fallen ones of all creation bow before the Almighty.  The angels then merely serve we who will inherit the grace of salvation given undeservedly to His chosen people, the sheep of His pasture who hear His voice and follow the Son of God and Man.  The birth of Jesus the Christ in Bethlehem was foretold and fulfilled as no one but God could do; the answer to the song asking what child is this is Christ the everlasting Lord, God’s word embodied as a man among us!