1st Corinthians 6:1-3, “Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”
In my humble opinion, humans are not worth more than the angels. I believe God loves the angels too, but you are correct that only sinful humans have been redeemed by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross. Mankind is the object of God's great love. I do not claim to understand it all, and I humbly don't think any human being can claim to have it all figured out either.
Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible teaches that men should worship angels. In fact, we read in Colossians 2:18, “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...” This Scripture passage clearly indicts the wicked religion of Roman Catholicism, the Whore of Rome. Catholics are so arrogant and wilfully blind that they have even removed the 2nd Commandment not to bow to to graven images and idols. ...
Catholics have changed God's Word into a lie (Romans 1:25), but they still haven't changed THE TRUTH. The Bible says in Psalms 8:5b that God created man “a little lower than the angels,” so at present the angels outrank us. I cannot even grasp the idea that we woefully sinful humans will judge angels. It could be that we will only judge the fallen angels, demons. This raises a good question. Do the good angels sin? If they don't, why would humans judge them? We know that the fallen angels sin, and we will judge them. It makes no sense to us
According to BibleHub.com...
“Believers will judge angels as part of their future role in God's kingdom, reflecting their authority and identity in Christ. This judgment primarily pertains to fallen angels, emphasizing the believers' union with Christ and their participation in His ultimate justice.”I tend to agree with that exegesis. I see no reason why Christians would judge the faithful angels who haven't sinned. I think we would be wise not to be dogmatic in these unlearned matters in which we can only speculate at best. We know that it is sinful to worship anything or anyone other than God (which includes Jesus, our Creator and Savior, who is also almighty God; and the indwelling Holy Spirit, who is God with us). Someone has said that we pray to the Father in the name of the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. That being said, we can indeed pray to Jesus and the Holy Spirit too, knowing that we are praying to the ONE true and living God (Deuteronomy 6:4).
I just think it's important that we understand that without Jesus, we have no access to the Father. 1st Timothy 2:5-6, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” As a side note, please notice that Jesus gave Himself a ransom for "ALL," not just for "some" as ungodly Calvinists errantly teach. Jesus Christ is the ONLY mediator between God and man. This is why praying to Mary, angels or other saints is futile, because they have no power to help us, nor to relate messages to God. Catholics foolishly teach that since Mary is Jesus' mother, she has a special power to manipulate her Son. But this teaching blatantly contradicts 1st Timothy 2:5, which says that Jesus is the ONLY mediator.
I wish far more Bible preachers would expose the Whore of Rome! It's a rare thing nowadays to hear a preacher exposing the evils of Roman Catholicism, Catholics are everywhere in American society. Our own U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance is a devout hellbound Catholic, as is Governor Ron Desantis in Florida. He's a great governor, but is sadly still in his sins without Christ. NO ONE is saved who trusts in Sacramental Salvation, which fools include heretics like Martin Luther (1483-1546).
In his Large and Small Catechisms written in 1529 (12 years after his alleged conversion to Christianity in 1517), Martin Luther requires “Holy Baptism” and “Holy Communion” (neither of which are biblical terms) to get to Heaven. Sacraments are 100% foreign to the inspired Word of God. Sadly, other than myself and Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023), I am not aware of any preachers who expose Martin Luther as a wolf in sheep's clothing, a hellbound reprobate.
Dear reader, you should NEVER bow down nor pray to Catholic statues, nor pray to Mother Mary, nor worship The Image of Divine Mercy. For to do so is the woeful sin of IDOLATRY! Just because the hellbound wicked Vatican has removed the Second Commandment from the Ten Commandments, doesn't mean that it's not still there in the true inspired Holy Bible. Psalms 119:89, “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”
RUN from bastardized Roman and Orthodox (Russian) Catholic churches, and Lutheran churches too! These are deadly manmade false religions who trust in sacraments, and not in biblical salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. Jesus said in no uncertain terms in John 3:3b that if you want to enter into the Kingdom of God, “Ye must be born again.” Have you been born again yet? If not, now is the time to get saved.
You get saved dear reader by coming to God as a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20), and by faith (taking God at His written Word) accepting Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago as full payment for your sins, believing that Jesus was buried, but then bodily resurrected three days later. This is the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. There is no other way of salvation for humanity, than through faith in the precious name of Jesus (Acts 4:10-12; John 14:6; Galatians 3:26).
God's redeemed children (saints) will someday judge the world and the angels. Do not then make the grave error of elevating them, which is the sin of idolatry. Revelation 22:8-9, “And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”
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