Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
In verse 16 Jesus said He
sent His angel, that is, His presence, a representative with the same authority
as Himself who is Him projected through time and space. I will repeat what I
said in the comments on chapter one.
What is an angel?
An angel is an appearance of someone or some group of
individuals who are somewhere else. It is that person or group’s presence.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his presence saved
them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Matthew 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these
little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold
the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Acts 12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate,
a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. 14
And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness,
but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. 15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she
constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
16 But Peter continued knocking: and
when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
For all intents and purposes it is that individual.
Judges 2:1 ¶ And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal
to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you
unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break
my covenant with you.
Judges 13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear
to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall
surely die, because we have seen God.
Daniel 9:21 Yea,
whiles I was speaking in
prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision
at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the
evening oblation.
Luke 1:26 And in the
sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city
of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Galatians 4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye
despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
Jesus.
Revelation 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred
and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the
angel.
Angels are also the spirits of people made perfect and
complete by the Lord Jesus Christ, through faith in Him in a spiritual body
that can never die.
Hebrews 12:23 To the
general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and
to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new
covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
In verse 16 Jesus declares
Himself to be the bright and morning star. This makes the modern Bible versions
who have the reference to Satan/Lucifer as the morning star in Isaiah 14:12 a
satanic lie. The linkage of Satan to Christ as the same was prominent in the
satanic Theosophist Madame Blavatsky’s 19th century book, The Secret Doctrine. So it is also in
modern Bible versions.
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