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Angels…. Hebrews 1- 2. Angel =“messenger”. Sent by God to do His work. Some are people who lived on earth: Either in the Spirit World Or Translated beings Or Resurrected beings. Like John the Beloved Like Moroni, or John the Baptist when they visited Joseph Smith.
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Angels…. Hebrews 1-2
Angel =“messenger” Sent by God to do His work Some are people who lived on earth: Either in the Spirit World Or Translated beings Or Resurrected beings Like John the Beloved Like Moroni, or John the Baptist when they visited Joseph Smith With special callings to serve Some not have come to earth yet
Angels without Physical Bodies Angels with Physical Bodies Living in the premortal world, waiting to be born Finished with mortality, living in the spirit world A perfected resurrected being who has finished mortality A translated being, like John the Revelator
“These angels are under the direction of Michael or Adam, who acts under the direction of the Lord. From Hebrew 1:4 we learn that Paul perfectly understood the purposes of God in relation to His connection with man, and that glorious and perfect order which He established in Himself, whereby he sent forth power, revelations, and glory.” —Joseph Smith Teaching p. 191
Is the Savior Really Lower than the Angels? “The marginal reading of this quotation from Psalm 8:4-6 recites that man is made, not a little lower than the angels, but a little lower than Elohim, which means that all God’s offspring, Jesus included, as children in his family, are created subject to him, with the power to advance until all things are ‘in subjection’ to them. Of those who gain eternal life, it is written: ‘Then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them, Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them.” See D&C 132:20 -Bruce R. McConkie DNTC 3:143
Angelic Status “The only sense in which either men or Jesus are lower than the angels is in that mortal restrictions limit them for the moment; and for the that matter, angels themselves become mortals and then in the resurrection attain again their angelic status.” McConkie