The statement from the author in Hebrews 1:1 simple and blunt: The creator has always been interested in communicating with His creation and the word of God shows that it is a cornerstone of His nature. It is important to make the distinction between “revelation” and “discovery” as they are opposite. REVELATION, is God who is making himself known where as DISCOVERY, is dependent upon mankind to discover God. Up first for the author in verse 1 is to speak on how the Creator spoke through the prophets and the limitations of this form of communication. Such a challenge should not be lost upon us as we have all experienced the difficulty of getting our information across to others. We all realize that there are various roadblocks to communication such as a person’s age, culture, education.
First thing we are told is that the initiator of this communication was GOD, it was the creator who initiated the communication to His creation and not His creation trying to communicate to the creator. I find it interesting in light of organizations like SETI whose purpose is stated as a; “Scientific search for intelligent extraterrestrial life as they monitor electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other worlds.” Here is a bunch of very smart people spending every day listening to white noise hoping to hear something that indicates intelligent extraterrestrial life when all they needed to do is open their bibles and read about the Most Intelligent Life there is who is trying to see if there is any intelligent life left of the planet He created. Next we are told that God spoke at “various times” and in “various ways”. The Greek is far more exacting than the English as the author’s point is not that God spoke, but that it was at at “various times” and in “various ways”. The author is NOT combating the denial of divine revelation, instead he is preparing the reader that God has now through Jesus given His final word in revealing Himself. This twofold statement is a comparison of the limitations of how God spoke in times past in the “First Testament”.