3839 - Our Lord and Michael by E. N. B.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 27, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 33.

3839 — Our Lord and Michael

By E. N. B.

I notice that in your answer to question No. 3783 you state that "our Lord Himself stepped down from His high estate of reigning with the Father, and took upon Himself the form of a creature, in order to save, and the first step in that downward career of sacrifice was to become an angel — Michael the Archangel." Please give me in your "Question Corner" your Scriptural authority or text for making this statement, as it is a new thought to me that our Lord took two steps downward before He could become man's Redeemer. We have the Scripture where He was made a little lower than the angels (Heb. 2:9), but can find no statement where He was made an angel from a higher order of being. Also tell me, whom was He to save in that first downward step, and how?

E. N. B.