WHEN the Lord Jesus was here upon earth, as we learn in Matt. 3, the heavens were opened to get a sight of Him. There was then an object here worthy of the attention of the heavens.
He returned; thereupon the heavens contained an object they had never known before—a glorified Man. Now it is the office of the Epistles to show us the heavens as the place of this glorified Man. And, as in Matthew, we get the heavens opened to look down at Christ here, so in the Hebrews, we get the heavens opened that we may look up at Christ there.