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FAQ # 82
QUESTION 82 : Didn’t Christ
say we are equal to angels, “for they are equal unto the angels; and are
the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.” How then
are we higher than them?
Let us read the verse in context,
“There were therefore
seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. And the third
took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children,
and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection
whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering
said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the
resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and
are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection” (Luke
20:29-36).
From this text, Jesus
wasn’t talking about the status of us born again believers in contrast
to angels, but rather of the new nature of our new bodies or ‘being’.
In this text, the Sadducees had come to Jesus questioning him in an attempt
to twist his mouth because they didn’t believe in the resurrection. Their
question was about a woman who was married several times and being raised
on the last whose wife would she be. Jesus answered them on that account,
that is, he explained the nature of those who are raised on the last day.
Their nature will not be of earthly vicissitudes, in that, you won’t be
earthly, but you’ll be like the angels in nature – spirit.
For instance, Esau and
Jacob were equal in nature because they were both male human beings, but
one had the birthright, while the other didn’t; so they weren’t equal
in statue.
Though the parable of
the mustard seed is used to solely tell about the Kingdom of God it can
also be liken unto our eternal status of being both joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ and higher than angels. Like the mustard seed, we are lesser than
angels at first by virtue of our created statue (Heb 2:7). But through
Jesus Christ, at full maturity we will be greater. We – mustard seed.
Angels – greater size seed.
“When it is sown in the earth, is less than all seeds that be in the earth:
but when it is sown, it growth up, and becometh greater than all herbs,
and shooteth out great branches (Mark 4:31-32).
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