You guys (
@APAK,
@Matthias also ) never answer these questions: Jesus was given His glory back after His mission,
the glory He possessed before the foundation of the world existed! ( John 17:5)
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So what does that mean? What glory? What status ... an angel?
This glory that Jesus had and regained was ALL AUTHORITY in Heaven and on Earth!
Here's the final question:
Wouldn't it require omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence to have all authority ( power) in heaven and on earth??? Angels could not do this nor could the Father create someone else with equal powers and abilities as He has.
Chew on that for awhile.
God also tells us He will not give His glory to another...in 2 places
God gives His glory back to Himself, to the Son who was in the form of God, but did not consider it robbery to be equal to God, who had humbled Himself to be born as a man.
Yet the Father glorifies Christ the Son and gives Him all authority and power in heaven and earth.
Christ comes in His own glory, in the Father's glory and in the glory of the holy angels, He has it all.
Luke 9:26
For whoever is ashamed
of Me and My words,
of him the Son
of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His
own glory, and
in His Father’s, and
of the holy angels.
Isaiah 48
9 “For My name’s sake I will [
b]defer My anger,
And
for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do
it;
For how should
My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another.
Isaiah 42
“Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My [
a]Elect One
in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
2 He will not cry out, nor raise
His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed He will not break,
And [
b]smoking flax He will not [
c]quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth.
4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
5 Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:
6 “I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the Gentiles,
7 To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
8 I
am the Lord, that
is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass,
And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
