When Christopher Wren died, they buried him inside St. Paul's Cathedral—the building he had spent 35 years constructing. Above his tomb: "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you." Hebrews says something far more staggering about the Son. The phrase "through whom also he made the ages" uses the Greek tous aiōnas—not just the physical universe but time itself, the epochs, the entire framework of history. John, Paul, and the writer of Hebrews all return to this truth because it restructures everything: the Son wasn't a created being who later received a promotion. He was present at the foundation. And the maker entered the made—the carpenter who shaped wood with his hands had already shaped the mountains those cedars grew on. The creator became a creature, not because he was forced into it, but because the world he made was the world he intended to redeem.

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