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The Angels Are MESSENGERS of God!
***What Does Genesis 22:11,12 TRULY mean?
Here is Genesis 22:11,12 from the KJV. “And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Is the angel of the Lord a “pre-incarnate” Jesus? Is Genesis 22:11,12 saying that the angel of the Lord is Almighty God Yahweh Himself?
Does the phrase “you have not willheld your son, your only son from ME” mean that the angel of the Lord is Almighty God Himself?
Or does it mean that the angel of the Lord is speaking these words in BEHALF of Almighty God as God’s MESSENGER?
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The Angel of the Lord is a FIGURE of Jesus!
Let us begin this Verse Study by reading Genesis 22:9-18, so that you can see how some Christians INTERPRET this passage of Scripture.
And then, we will compare their “interpretation” of the angel of Yahweh as being a pre-incarnate Jesus with the rest of the Bible to see if that understanding agrees with the whole word of God, or if it contradicts other verses of Scripture.
I will highlight in yellow all the words that refer to the angel of Yahweh.
And I will highlight in orange all of the words that refer to Almighty God Yahweh.
Also, I will highlight in blue the pronouns that the angel of the Yahweh speaks which are “INTERPRETED” to mean that the angel of Yahweh is Almighty God Yahweh Himself.
Genesis 22:9-18.
“And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:11. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. (So then, it is clearly the angel of Yahweh doing the SPEAKING)
Genesis 22:12. And he said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything unto him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from ME.
Genesis 22:13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Genesis 22:15. And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
Genesis 22:16. And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
Genesis 22:17. That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:18. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed MY VOICE.”
Now, to me, the angels are the MESSENGERS of Yahweh.
And thus, the angel of Yahweh is the VOICE of Yahweh speaking the words that Yahweh told the angel to speak on the behalf of Almighty God.
But you see, Trinitarian Christians need a pre-existing God the Son in the Old Testament in order to try to prove their theory that Almighty God is a so-called TRIUNE being made up of three separate persons.
Otherwise, their whole doctrine of a Godhead Trinity God always existing in the eternity past falls apart.
However, the truth of the matter is that Yahweh can speak directly out of His mouth for His VOICE to be heard.
And Yahweh can send an angel to speak Yahweh’s words on behalf of Yahweh as if Yahweh Himself was doing the speaking in the first person.
Also, Yahweh can do BOTH things in the same event, as in, Yahweh can send an angel as His messenger that speaks part of the message.
And then, the VOICE of Yahweh Himself can be heard by the hearer either in an audible voice or as the voice of God speaking to the mind of the hearer.
My point is that SOME Christians wrongly teach that you cannot be saved if you DENY the doctrine of the Trinity.
But the Bible ITSELF says nothing about a person MUST believe God is a Trinity Godhead made up of three separate persons in order to be saved.
And to me, the doctrine of the Trinity HINDERS the Jews and the Muslims from believing the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ.
In Genesis 26:1-5, Yahweh appears to Isaac and tells Isaac that He will do what He promised Abraham, because Abraham obeyed His VOICE.
And I do not know of any Christian, who interprets the words “My VOICE” in verse 5 of Genesis chapter 26, as being the voice of a pre-incarnate Jesus.
Genesis 26:1-5.
“And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of:
Genesis 26:3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father; (Now, to me, it does not matter HOW Yahweh swore His oath to Abraham, whether Yahweh sent an angel, or whether Yahweh spoke in an audible voice out of His own mouth, or whether Yahweh spoke to the mind of Abraham.
All three methods of God speaking are the VOICE of Yahweh.
Therefore, to me, the angel of Yahweh is the MESSENGER of Yahweh speaking as the VOICE of Yahweh on Yahweh’s behalf)
Genesis 26:4. And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 26:5. Because that Abraham obeyed MY VOICE, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Now, in Deuteronomy 18:15-19, John 7:16,17, and John 14:10, the Bible itself teaches us that the words that Jesus spoke were NOT his OWN words.
And according to John 15:10 and Philippians 2:8-11, Jesus also obeyed the laws and commandments of his God and Father, even to die on the cross.
And Yahweh the Father HIGHLY EXALTED the Son of MAN, Jesus, BECAUSE he was the Son of MAN, according to Philippians 2:8-11 and John 5:26,27.
John 5:26,27.
“For as the Father has life in himself; so also has He GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself.
John 5:27. And has GIVEN him AUTHORITY to execute judgment ALSO, BECAUSE he is the Son of MAN.”
According to Matthew 28:18, all power and authority was GIVEN to the Son of MAN, Jesus after the cross and resurrection.
According to Acts 2:36, the Son of MAN, Jesus was MADE both Lord and Christ after the cross and resurrection.
According to Philippians 2:8-11, the Son of MAN, Jesus was HIGHLY EXALTED and GIVEN a NEW NAME that is above every other NAME.
And it will be at the NAME of Jesus that every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that he is Lord to the GLORY of Almighty God the Father.
And according to Hebrews 1:1,2,6, Jesus is NOT an angel and God did NOT speak to people during the Old Testament times by His Son.
Hebrews 1:1-6.
“God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (Notice that NO Son of God spoke to people in the Old Testament, but during the LAST DAYS, God now speaks to people through His Son, Jesus, according to the next verse)
Hebrews 1:2. Has in these LAST DAYS spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed HEIR of all things, by whom (Or BECAUSE OF whom) also He made the worlds; (According to Psalm 8:1-6, the very REASON that God made man and the Son of MAN a little lower than the gods were BECAUSE of His ENEMIES. God RESTORED the world to become this present world, and God prophesied the world to come in order to JUDGE Lucifer and the fallen gods.
I say gods because the Hebrew word that is “translated” as angels in Psalm 8:5 is the Hebrew word “Elohim” which means God, god, and gods)
Hebrews 1:3. Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, (As you read the CONTEXT, it becomes perfectly clear that the Son of MAN, Jesus, was MADE in the express image of Almighty God the Father AFTER the cross and resurrection.
That is WHEN the Father GLORIFIED His human Son to BECOME His ETERNAL Son) and upholding ALL things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (The word “things” is NOT in the original Greek text.
The word “ALL” refers to all of the BELIEVERS in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Jesus is holding us, who believe, up by the power of Yahweh’s word making intercession for us.
And again, it was AFTER the cross and resurrection that the Son of MAN, Jesus was MADE Lord to join his God and Father to be SEATED on the Father’s throne during the world to come)
Hebrews 1:4. Being MADE so much better than the angels, as he has by INHERITANCE OBTAINED a more excellent NAME than they. (Some Christians have never been taught that Almighty God GAVE Jesus a NEW NAME after the cross and resurrection.
Please read the two-part study called, D-23. What is the NEW NAME of Jesus Part 1)
Hebrews 1:5. For unto which of the angels said He at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? (This is a rhetorical question to which the answer is NONE!
God did NOT say to ANY of the angels at ANY time to join Him to be seated on His throne at His right hand side) And again, I WILL be to him a Father, and he SHALL be to me a Son? (God would never prophesy of a day that He WILL be a Father to His Son if it was true that His Son already existed in the eternity past.
That would make God a LIAR. Plain and simple, there was NO so-called pre-existing Son of God who supposedly became flesh as Trinitarian Christians claim.
But rather, it was the spoken word of PROPHECY that came out from the MOUTH of Yahweh, which Yahweh watched over and PERFORMED that was made flesh.
And after the cross and resurrection, God MADE His human Son His FIRST BEGOTTEN Son to become His Lord, His King, His Messiah, and (A) God under and subject to he God and Father.
And thus, John 1:1(c) should be translated as, “and (a) God was the SAYING”)
Hebrews 1:6. And again, when He brings in the FIRST BEGOTTEN into the world, (Speaking of the world to come) He said, And let all the angels of God worship him.”
Please read Book 6 called, B-6. Ch1 Why God CREATE us!
Again, Jesus OBTAINED what is more excellent than the angels by INHERITANCE after the cross, or WHEN he offered himself for our sins.
And then, the glorified Son of MAN, was SEATED at the right hand of Majesty, according to Hebrews 1:3, which we just read above in its context.
And WE are JOINT-HEIRS with Jesus to inherit everything that Jesus inherits, according to Romans 8:15-19, and John 17:13-26.
Now, SOME Christians in different church denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church, sincerely, but wrongly believe in the FALSE doctrine of original sin.
And thus, they build their other man-made doctrines upon the false doctrine of every person being born with a so-called sinful NATURE.
And therefore, they wrongly conclude that ONLY Almighty God Himself can die for the sins of man.
But the TRUTH of the matter is that God CHOSE for a MAN to die for the sins of the world, according to Romans 5:10-21 and many other passages of Scripture.
Thanks for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
Once Christians, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists understand the REASON that Yahweh CREATED the Son of MAN, Jesus, was to have DOMINION over the work of Yahweh’s hands.
And after you understand that the REASON that Yahweh did that is to STILL His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels.
Then you can understand that God made His human Son to become “a” Lord, “a” King, and “a” God, under and subject to his God and Father in order to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels.
For a deeper understanding of this WAR that Lucifer and one third of the angels waged against the throne of Almighty God, please read the studies under the subject category called ** Q-0 Why Are We Here? Is God at WAR? **.
More studies are coming in this SHORTER Biblical Unitarian view of who Jesus is according to the WHOLE word of God.
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For further and more in-depth studies on this subject of Jesus being created to STILL the enemies of Yahweh, please read the studies called D-25. A NEW LOOK at JOHN 1:1, In the BEGINNING!
And also read the study called D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD!
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Thanks again for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
And again, for ALL of the studies on the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus, please click on the subject heading ** D-0 The BIBLICAL UNITARIAN VIEW of Jesus! **
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