Do you realize what this says? When He comes, He is going to be worshipped by all the angels. This tells us that Jesus is better than the angels. All the angels will worship Him. Now look at Revelation Revelation gives us a picture of heaven and the picture is about the Lamb of God.
The lamb is Christ Himself or the Son. And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation NASB. What a picture! Jesus is the Lamb. There are twenty-four elders and four living creatures. Now look at verse 9. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth. Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands.
Superlative statements! We are told that we cannot count them. There are just masses of angels, an unbelievable number of angels which are beyond counting — more than a packed football stadium, more than all the packed football stadiums in the world! And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying,. What an incredible picture. This is a picture of the outpouring of worship for Jesus Christ.
The third reason that we know Jesus is superior to angels is that all the angels will worship Jesus. The author of Hebrews cites Psalm and the keyword in this passage is makes.
They were created at some point and the question is who made them? He created space. He created time. He created energy. He created things that were invisible. He created things that were visible. He created everything and anything that exists, except for Himself. This helps us understand who made these angels.
Who made the angels? The Son! The Son made the angels. This reveals one more reason why Jesus is superior to angels. Jesus must be superior to the angels because He made the angels! Verse 7 also reveals that the angels were made to be servants or ministers; but that is not true of Christ, as we will discover in verse 8. The fourth reason Jesus is better than the angels is that He created them and they are servants or ministers. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness above Your companions.
This long quote from Psalm teaches us that the Son is God. He is called God. That is why the Son created the angels because He was and is God. Then the Holy Spirit goes on to say that He is forever and ever. He is eternal. He existed in the Old Testament. He existed before the Old Testament.
Christ existed before the beginning of time. He has always existed. He has existed forever and ever. It is the word holy. Jesus is holy. God, Your God has anointed you — what a fabulous statement. It reveals that Jesus and the Father are both God. God the Father is God, and Jesus is God. This statement can only be explained by the doctrine of the trinity. This is an illusion to the fact that there is one God.
The Great Shema is in Deuteronomy Therein we are told that God is what? He is one! The New Testament says that God is one James There is one God and only one God. Isaiah repeatedly teaches that there is only one God and there is no other. There is God and only one. There is no other God. The only way that statement can be true is that both are God. The Son is God and the Father is God. If we add Act , we discover the Holy Spirit is God.
Then we have the Trinity. They are a trinity but yet are one. They are God. So, among the throngs of the angels in Heaven, God has anointed the Son and not the angels. God has anointed the Son.
The fifth reason Jesus is superior to angels is that He is the infinitely holy God. Verses reveal another characteristic about the Son. It is a prophetic quote from Psalm This is the sixth prophetic passage in this section. You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of Your hands. Here we discover that Jesus laid the foundation of the earth and created the heavens. This reinforces the message of Hebrews They will perish, but You remain; And they all will become old like a garment, And like a mantle You will roll them up; Like a garment, they will also be changed.
But You are the same And Your years will not come to an end. Jesus not only created the earth and the heavens, but someday He is going to roll them up like a carpet and throw them away. He will burn them up 2 Peter They will be destroyed and there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
Now turn with me to Revelation and we will see that someday in the future the present earth and the present heaven will disappear. Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. Do you realize what is going to happen someday in the future? The ground upon which we are walking, the world that we are admiring — the Grand Canyon may be great, the Himalayas may be wonderful, and there may be some really great things that you have seen — but they are nothing compared to the future world.
God is going to take all these things of the present and erase them. In the Old Testament He may have been the angel of the Lord. He is God in form Philippians The sixth reason Jesus is better than the angels is that He is eternal. He had no beginning and He will have no end.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
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