Lower than the Angels

LOWER THAN THE ANGELS

To begin our journey Beyond the Curse, I believe we must first explore who we truly are.

“But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour.” Hebrews 2:8–9

What if our imagination or mind has been confined by our understanding of being human, rather than by the glory with which God crowned humanity?

The question we are asking is:

What does the fullness of the glory and honour with which God crowned mankind look like?

For if all creation groans for redemption, and we ourselves groan within, awaiting the redemption of our bodies, then surely, we must understand what true redemption looks like.

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestine to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” — Romans 8:29

“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” — 1 Corinthians 15:49

Christ is the firstborn among many brethren.

We are the brethren being conformed to His image.

“True redemption is Christ alive in the body, His life manifested as glory and honour.”

Many people speak of escaping the body, but Scripture points us towards something far greater.

Not the abandonment of the body, but its redemption — the fullness of our adoption as sons of God.

The adoption has been received in Spirit. The fullness of its manifestation through the body is what we are yet to receive.

Jesus Christ is not only the Redeemer of mankind. He is the revelation of what redeemed humanity is destined to become.

And that fullness would be manifested as glory and honour.