Saturday, July 16, 2011

Jesus is superior to angels

“Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” Hebrews 1:14
Hebrews is an interesting book. As its name suggests, it is written to Jews, and has the ‘Jewish-est’ flavour of any book in the New Testament. It presumes a decent understanding of the Old Testament and uses Hebrew thought and logic to make its points.
In the first chapter of Hebrews, the writer (who does not name himself) demonstrates how Jesus is superior to the angels. He uses Old Testament Scripture to contrast them in several ways:
In verse 5: Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. None of the angels can make this claim.
In verse 6: The angels worship Jesus, indicating that He is greater than them.
In verses 7-8: The angels are servants, but Jesus is the king forever.
In verse 9: Jesus has been set above all others, including the angels.
In verses 13-14: Jesus is invited to sit at God’s right hand and be served; while the angels are those who do the serving.
There are some bizarre doctrines that people hold. The Jehovah’s Witnesses believe and teach that Jesus and Michael the archangel are one and the same. This is completely untrue, and is a dangerous doctrine because to deny that Jesus is God* is to deny the Father also (1 John 2:23).

*JW’s will acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God, but they will not acknowledge that He is God the Son.

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