Not An Angel.

 Not an ANGEL.

Heb 2:16  For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 

Heb 2:17  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 

God with God made a decree and that decree was the declared Son of God so that it was no longer God with God, but God the Father and God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 

God the Father, was whom God the Son relied upon for ALL things when He became the Son of God in the flesh. The Holy Spirit- is not an angel, just as God the Son did not take on the nature of angels. The Holy Spirit is a God, none of the angels are gods. The Holy Spirit is a God who comforts, who lives among mankind. The distinction needed to be made that Jesus did not take on the nature of angels. Angels are ministering spirits doing the will of God- through love. Angels also have freedom of choice, and 1/3 of all the angels created decided they did not want to serve God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. 1/3 made a forever choice for Satan, and 2/3 made a forever choice to serve God. These angels of God serve God by doing His will ministering to us human beings. The angels can take on human form, but not human flesh, Jesus took on human flesh, He was born into humanity, no angel is born into humanity, ever. 

Distinctions are necessary, we cannot forget them. Too many want to overlook the distinctive nature of our Savior and gloss over the truth of His flesh nature. Too many simply do not care to make any distinctions and would rather just believe what any charismatic pastor, leader, or person in general might tell them. The Word of God tells us we need to comprehend that Jesus did not take on the nature of angels, but on the seed of Abraham. That seed, humanity's seed is the seed that sinned. 

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

God said- I will put a hatred been Satan and the woman-  between Satan's seed and the woman's seed.  Abraham's seed is from the woman's seed God spoke of. Jesus is from the woman's seed. Did every seed from the woman sin? Without a doubt all who were capable of sinning- sinned. I say it in that way because, there are those who are too young too sin even though their flesh contains all the abilities to sin once they reach an age to unless they perish before that time is reached. Also, there are those whose mental faculties do not allow for them to sin. These innocents are only known by God to be sure, and only God has that power and right to know. All others will sin as their natures incline them towards it in the weakness they possess.  When the Holy Spirit seed merged with the woman's seed and God and flesh united- Jesus was born with the nature towards sin with the ability to sin, with flesh filled with the history of sinning and sinners, yet, He made the choices to resist temptation time and time again.  He had to resist just where we succumb, and without any special flesh, without any special power, save the powers that are available to us all- the power of prayer, of supplication, of submission, of obedience. If our Savior couldn't keep from sinning in our flesh there was no point in His taking on our flesh, none. If He came filled with a special ability above our own, then He proved nothing except that God can overcome sin- something we know already. Jesus had to prove that humans could overcome sin. Why else was Satan so infuriated that he filled the land with his evils so intently trying Jesus to the uttermost, tempting Him in all ways, in the harshest ways he possibly could.  The flesh Jesus had, was OUR FLESH, if it were any other, Satan would have cried FOUL very loudly! Satan wants to get us to believe that Jesus had special power, because therein we are denying Jesus' power to save us. You don't realize it because it's crouched in deep deception and touted as unimportant and inconsequential, but oh, isn't that exactly how Satan disguised as an angel of light would work? Isn't this how Satan is going to deceived millions and millions, and millions who think they are God's?  We need to comprehend the TRUTH, and we need to accept the TRUTH- because Jesus is the TRUTH.

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Elder E. J. Waggoner was asked to give the evening message at 7 p.m. He chose for his text - Hebrews 10:4-10. Then he introduced a question that had been given to him which read as follows:

Was that holy thing which was born of the virgin Mary born in sinful flesh, and did that flesh have the same evil tendencies to contend with that ours does? (1901 GC Bulletin, p. 403).

In Waggoner's answer there was left little doubt as to what he was talking about. He mentioned the concept of sinless flesh, and declared it to be "the deification of the devil" (ibid. p. 405).  He stated very specifically as to when the change would come in the flesh, and what the results would be. His words were:

The flesh will be opposed to the Spirit of God so long as we have it, but when the time comes that mortality is swallowed up of life, then the conflict will cease. Then we shall no longer have to fight against the flesh, but that sinless life which we lay hold of by faith and which was manifest in our sinful bodies, will then by simple faith be continued throughout all eternity in a sinless body (Ibid., p. 406).

What then is the purpose of this earthly struggle? Waggoner continued:

When God has given this witness to the world of His power to save to the uttermost, to save sinful beings, and to live a perfect life in sinful flesh, then He will remove the disabilities and give us better circumstances in which to live. But first of all this wonder must be worked out in sinful man, not simply in the person of Jesus Christ, but in Jesus Christ reproduced and multiplied in thousands of His followers. So not simply in the few sporadic cases but in the whole body of the church, the perfect life of Christ will be manifested to the world, and that will be the last crowning work which will either save or condemn men; and greater testimony than that there is not, and cannot be, because there is none greater than God. When God is manifest among men, not simply as God apart from man, but as God in man, suffering all that man suffered, subject to everything that man is subject to, what greater power can be manifest in the universe than that? (Ibid.)

During the sermon, Dr. Waggoner challenged those listening to settle it, each for himself, whether or not he was truly "out of the church of Rome." He then commented:

There are great many that have got the marks yet, but I am persuaded of this, that every soul who is here tonight desires to know the way of truth and righteousness, and that there is no one here who is unconsciously clinging to the dogmas of the papacy, who does not desire to be freed from them.

Do you not see that the idea that the flesh of Jesus was not like ours (because we know that ours is sinful) necessarily involves the idea of the immaculate conception of the virgin Mary? Mind you, in Him is no sin, but the mystery of God manifest in the flesh, the marvel of the ages, the wonder of angels, that thing which even now they

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desire to understand, and which they can form no just idea of, only as they are taught it by the church, is the perfect manifestation of the life of God in its spotless purity in the midst of sinful flesh. 0 that is a marvel is it not? (ibid., p. 404).

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January 22, 1901

“The Faith of Jesus. The Nature of Christ” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 78, 4, p. 56. 

(Excerpt continued) 

'By His death He paid the penalty of all sins actually committed, and thus can justly bestow His righteousness upon all who will receive it. And by condemning sin in the flesh, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity. He delivers from the law of heredity; and so can, in righteousness, impart His divine nature and power to lift above that law, and hold above it, every soul that will receive Him. 

And so it is written: “When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” Galatians 4:4. And “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for [on account of] sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3, 4. And “He is our peace, ... having abolished in His flesh the enmity, ... for to make in Himself of twain [God and man] one new man, so making peace.” Ephesians 2:14, 15. 

Thus “in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that He himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted.” 

Whether temptation be from within or from without. He is the perfect shield against it all, and so saves to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him.'