How do United Pentecostals and other Oneness groups interpret Hebrews 2:9?

> But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, > namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of > death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. > (Hebrews 2:9 ESV) If there is no distinction between the Father and the Son, as Oneness adherents believe, how could God who "upholds the universe by the word of his power" (Hebrews 1:3 ESV) die without the universe falling apart?