When talking about the Bible; God's Word, I have had people say to me, "Wouldn't it be easier if God would just speak to us with an audible voice and tell us plainly what he wants from us?" Wouldn't that be a whole lot easier? The temptation would be to say, "God is very busy holding the world together and doesn't have time to talk to every one of us at the same time," but that would not be true. The truth is, God could do that if he chooses to, but seeing He is so much wiser than us, He thought of a way that is better. He talks to every one of us at the same time no matter where we are in the world and no matter what era we lived in God is saying the same thing to all of us.
We have a problem with the way we think about things like this. First God is in the realm of eternity while we are stuck in time. Anytime we think about the things of God we need to look at them from the perspective of eternity and not time.
Second God's ways are not our ways. God's is so much higher than ours. What you did yesterday, and what you are doing this very moment, and what you will do tomorrow, if tomorrow comes is no different to God. He sees everything as already happening. There is no time with God. He is outside the box of time, but He interacts within time. We know this fact from His word.
I decided to introduce the book of Hebrews like this because of the way the book starts out with these words. "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world."
He takes us back in time and lets us know that He interacted with people by using people; the prophets, but now he is communicating with us by his Son. He then tells us who His Son is. He is the one who created us and our world. There is another book of the Bible that tells us the same thing.
When John wrote his gospel he started it out like this: " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."
The Word that John was talking about is the Son that is talked about in the book of Hebrews.
This should put to rest the reason God is using the Word to speak with us. Whether it is the written Word or the Living Word, He is using this to bring His will to us. God the Father said this about His Son on the top of the mount of Transfiguration, "This is my beloved Son, whom I am well pleased, listen to him." Matthew 17:5.
There is one thing more I will mention here before we get into the Book of Hebrews. We don't know who penned the words to this book, and I am not going to debate that here, but I will say that it was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and I can say this because The Apostle Paul told Timothy in his second letter that, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righeousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
As we read through this book, you may see something that I find interesting, and that is that Christ Himself could have written this book just from the way it comes across. I am not saying he wrote it, but the way it is written he could have.