6 Divine Attributes between Jesus Christ & Angel Of The Lord.
In this I’ll write a thorough analysis of a 6 divine similarities in actions and titles between our Lord Jesus Christ and The Angel of The Lord.
They are Both:
1- Called God.
2- Intercede for his people against the accuser (satan)
3- Almighty creator over life
4- Has God’s name in him
5- Called The Son of God
6- Forgive sins
The word Angel in Hebrew is Malach and for Greek is Angelos (where we get the word Angel in English from.) it is simply means messenger. The messenger could be Divine (The Angel Of The LORD), created heavenly messenger (Gabrial) or human (John The Baptist).
Of The The Angel of The Lord:
1. He is Called God
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”
Gen 16:13
Manoah and his wife they saw the angel and perceived that was God.
And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”
Jdg 13:22
The Angel of The Lord stopped Abraham from sacrifice Isaac to Him.
11 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Gen 22:11-12
2. Intercede for his people against the accuser (satan)
Zechariah’s vision of Joshua of the high priest and satan at his right hand to accuse him but the Angel of the lord rebuked satan and interceded for Joshua before God.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.
2 And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”
Zech 3:1-2
3. He is Almighty over Life
The Angle of The Lord appeared to Hagar and promised her that he will multiply her descendants, too many to count.
Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8 And He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
9 The Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.” 10 Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.”
Gen 16:7-10
4. God’s name is in Him
In the story of Exodus God send his Angel who’s name is in name Him.
20 “Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him.
22 But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.
Exo 23:20-23
5. He is the Son of God.
When, Nebuchadnezzar casted the three hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego into the fiery furnace, he saw a forth man with them and called him the Son of God then Blessed God for sending his Angel to deliver them.
24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?”They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”
25 “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him
Dan 3:24-28
6. Forgive Sins
The same vision of prophet Zechariah when we read that the Angel interceded, later in the chapter we read the Angel forgive the sin of Joshua.
4 Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.”
Zech 3:4
Our Lord Jesus Christ:
1. He is called God
Our Lord Jesus Christ Called the word of God and God was with God and the disciple Thomas after seeing our Lord resurrect he called him God
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20:28
2. Intercede for his people against satan.
Our Lord is our intercessor to defend us against satan before God.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Rev 12:9-1131 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Rom 8:31-3425 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:25
3. He is Almighty over Life.
Our Lord is creator of all things and noting was made without him
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
John 1:3
4. God’s name is in him
The Lord Jesus Christ share the name with The Father and The holySpirit. We read that in the great commission
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Matt 28:19-20
5. He is called the Son of God.
This one should be easy, right?
34 And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
John 1:34
6. Forgive Sins
Our Lord is our savior and our Judge
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
6 And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? (A)Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”
Mrk 2:5-10
Three New Testament authors identify the Lord Jesus with the Angel of The Lord
-The Apostle Paul mentioned that the Israelites test the Lord in the wilderness and that Lord was Christ.
Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;
1 Cor 10:1-9
-The “Brother” Of our Lord Jude said in his letter that it was christ the Lord who got the people out of Eygpt
5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude 1:5
-The disciple Mark quotes Malachi 3:1 and use it to speak about John the baptist preparing the way for the Angel of the covenant for he is coming to his temple and that Angel is Jesus Christ
1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2 As it is written in the Prophets:“Behold, I send My messenger before Your face,Who will prepare Your way before You.”
3 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way of the Lord;Make His paths straight.’ ”
Mark 1:1-3
Our Lord is the Angel and the Angel is our Lord.
In Christ,
Mustafa
