The Spokesman

God speaks; will men hearken? His Word is absolute authority; shall we not humbly bow to it? In the old Jewish days His words reached His professing people on the earth through the voices of inspired men. He spake in times past to the fathers by the Prophets, but the mass of Israel refused the words of Jehovah, they rejected the spokesmen of God; then, at the end of those old days, one more voice was heard in Judea—it was the voice of Jesus. God spake to His people in His Son. He Himself in His Son was spokesman.
It seems as if God the Holy Ghost would fix our minds first of all in this Epistle on the solemnity, yet blessedness, of being addressed by God in the person of His Son. May none of us fall under the sentence of making light of His words, lest the warnings of the Epistle be fulfilled in ourselves! "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast . . . how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord?" (ch. 2:1-4).
Now He in whom God has spoken is here no longer, He is in heaven. He is there because His blood was shed on earth, because of His cross, and this fact gives additional solemnity to the words of the spokesman, "For if they escaped not, who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven " (12:25-29).