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Christ builds His church from within us
If you deny the Son you have not the fatherI have had discussions on this forum concerning the Biblical evidence that Jesus is also Michael the Arch Angel. Some have contended with me on this stating that Jesus is not a created "angel". I would wholeheartedly agree but they seem to miss the verses in the Bible that clearly do show that Jesus is referred to as an angel (messenger) in the Bible.... lets look at some.
The word aggelos (G32)is used in the NT to refer to messengers from God... consider the following.
Act 7:30
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel G32 of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Was it not Christ in that burning bush? If it had been just a created angel then the place where Moses was standing would not have been Holy ground.
Act 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel G32 which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Again we see that Jesus was referred to as an angel that appeared to Moses on Sinai.
Rev 8:3-4
And another angel G32 came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's G32 hand.
We know that Jesus is our High Priest that is ministering before the throne of God in our behalf and not the work of a created being.
Rev 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel G32 come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
The attributes here described are only possessed by Christ... it was Jesus that was leading the church in the wilderness by a pillar of cloud by day and pillars of fire by night. The rainbow is only connected with the throne of God and not any created being. And it is only Jesus that is described in scripture as having the face as it were the sun. Matthew 17:2
The Son is before all things and by Him all things consist. He created all things so he is not a created being.
"13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created,[by the Son] that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him [created by the Son], and for him: 17 And he is before all things [the Son is before all things], and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."(Colossians 1:13-18 KJV)
and The angels are not the only begotten Son of God in these verses.
" 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? 6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him."(Hebrews 1:5,6 KJV)
We are not to worship
anyels. Only God is to be worshipped.
"16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham."(Hebrews 2:16 KJV)
Colossians 2:18
"Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,"
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