Post by Lee on Jan 10, 2014 2:48:43 GMT
....the personage seen by Moses speaks with the absolute prerogative of the Eternal, and refers to the angels as His instruments (Ex. 23:20), we must remember that there are grades among the angels, as appears from Gabriel’s allusion (Dan. 10:21; Luke 1:19), and as illustrated by the superiority of one of the three who visited Abraham, over the other two (compare Gen. 18:1–2, 22, and 19:1). There being grades, if one is selected in particular to be the mouthpiece and representative of the Omnipresent Father, and constituted as such, not by oral instruction—as man delegates man—but by impulse and inflation of the Universal Father-spirit, then such selected name-bearer of Yahweh is practically Yahweh to all with whom he may have to do, and other angels are as subject to him as to the Father. This is illustrated in the case of Jesus, to whom “angels and principalities, and powers are made subject.”
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Here is a picture: Abraham, the father of the faithful, escorting along the road three angels, one of whom pre-eminently bore THE NAME. There is a halt on the road, and this last communicates to Abraham the divine intentions with regard to Sodom, after which, the other two angels go forward to execute those intentions, leaving the NAME-BEARER with Abraham, standing before him, at a reverential distance.
Roberts, R. (2002). The Visible Hand of God (158). Logos Publications.
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Here is a picture: Abraham, the father of the faithful, escorting along the road three angels, one of whom pre-eminently bore THE NAME. There is a halt on the road, and this last communicates to Abraham the divine intentions with regard to Sodom, after which, the other two angels go forward to execute those intentions, leaving the NAME-BEARER with Abraham, standing before him, at a reverential distance.
Roberts, R. (2002). The Visible Hand of God (158). Logos Publications.