Today, reply is made to clarify Jesus as “lower than the angels,” yet, Captain of the Host, High Priest, and Regis Angelorum (King of the Angels). Properly understood, Christ is not to be compared to, or examined for quality and rank against the angels. At the birth of Jesus, holy angels announced and celebrated his exalted rank as king. Even so, when Satan appeared to challenge and tempt Christ following his water baptism by John the Baptist, Satan could not recognize the Son of the Highest when he was no longer effulgent with glory. A writer at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Abdul Malik Ishak” (Level 1 with 95 points, a member since May 11, 2015) posted the following:
What does it mean that Jesus was a little lower than the angels (Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7)?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. (Psalm 8:5)
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: (Hebrews 2:7)
THE GOLDEN ARROW: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1: 1-9, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The Servitude of Angels (08/28/2017); Adam’s Imperfection and Sin? (08/10/2017); Divinity Appears Using Form (07/26/2017); Inheritance Must Become Commitment (05/15/2017); On Really Seeing Angels (10/09/2016); Spirit, Spirit Beings, Spirit Persons? (10/13/2015); Oneness, Not Equality or Rank? (07/16/2015); Adversary or Servant? (11/21/2013); How To Renew The Mind (11/22/2013)
“Abdul Malik Ishak,” for men to correctly speak about GOD, we must use sacred knowledge, language, operations, and truth that have been given to us from GOD. Because divinity has appeared on the earth using human form in the person of Jesus Christ (we say, the Incarnation), Christians affirm that it is correct to speak of Jesus both as Son of Man (Adam) and Son of GOD. While on the earth, the Savior obeyed natural law and conformed to the processes of life for mortal men (birth, childhood, learning, aging). Even so, the Son of the Highest also demonstrated that human potential includes a capacity to receive divine content, to be in communion with Deity, and to then display and express godliness and spirit substance. The divine commitment to completing and perfecting mankind appears as eternal purpose determined before the foundation of the heaven and earth, and pertains to all divine order and existence. Along with such devices and mechanisms as the mind, the senses, the frameworks of time and space, the holy writings are intended to reveal and allow discovery of the active presence who is GOD within the awareness and self-will of created beings and living creatures. The Scriptures are not intended to provide details regarding the angelic beings and those that appear in heaven (e.g., the sacred beasts and 24 elders) so much as to clarify ongoing divine operations, and the full actualization of sovereign will. Angels are neither mortal nor immortal, and continue existence through divine prerogative. Only GOD is immortal; and GOD is a spirit whose authority, character, makeup, and power has accomplished the putting forth of things carnal and material including the living and their spheres of life. Consider the following:
(1.) Genesis 1: 26, King James Version (KJV): 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
(2.) Psalms 8: 3-6, KJV: 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
(3.) Luke 20: 34-35, KJV: 34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
(4.) 1st Corinthians 15: 40-42, KJV: 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
(5.) Hebrews 2: 9, KJV: 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
There is far more to be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (6.) 1st Timothy 6: 12-16, KJV: 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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