(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   The making of the Lord Jesus our Great High Priest is not only prophecied through speaking of Melchezedec, but through O.T. sacrificial law: it was the High Priest that performed the act of offering and applying “reconciliation” for man’s sin. Jesus did that for you and me.

(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   “Behoved”: was needed, owed, under obligation.  He had to be fully a man, to the degree of being born as an infant, required to live a full life sinless in a world of sin.

(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   “Behoved”: was needed, owed, under obligation.  Remember, holiness requires a right, suitable payment to be made for the sin of man. That payment revealed in O.T. law is the blood of a perfect (without blemish) substitute, sacrifice.

(Heb 2:16) “For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.”  Why develop a way to save man and not angels? I can only suppose for man there was some level of ignorance, whereas in the fall of angels there was not.

(Heb 2:16) “For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.”  Here is proof positive that Jesus was not an angel volunteer to come and die for mankind. If He was an angel, this statement would be meaningless. He was and is of the Godhead, taking the nature of man in order to die for man’s sin!

(Heb 2:15) “And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”   The lost “should” fear death, for it holds nothing but pain and misery for them. It is the duty of the saved to make them face death, so that they might be moved to repent and be saved.

(Heb 2:15) “And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”  People do not enjoy conversing about death. That is because everyone knows instinctively that there is a judgment after physical death (Rom 1:18-20). The “bondage” here is that of a condemning conscience.

(Heb 2:14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;”  Satan is said to be destroyed, for his reign over death will have an end. Secondly, this earth will be destroyed, ending death, and the devil will enter an eternity of suffering in the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:10; 21:1).

 (Heb 2:14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;”  Satan is said to be destroyed, for his reign over death will have an end. First, it ends daily as some repentance soul is placed in the Person of Christ, freeing them from death’s eternal grip.

(Heb 2:14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;”  Fourthly, death could not keep the Lord Jesus because He had never sinned, so its punishment did not apply to Him. So, He rose victorious in such a way that death can never touch His person again!