At the first, there are only two names of angels in the Bible, Michael and Gabriel. And of course, there is a no name, Lucifer, at least as an angel’s or a devil’s name. I think it is not bad to study about that kind of things, everything can be important. But let’s focus to something more fundamental things at first.
God prepared everything for us and created mankind
in his image and put them in the Garden of Eden. But the devil came to there as
the serpent, and Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil. So God banished them from Eden. But before banishing, he gave
them the promise to send them the offspring of the woman. Of course the offspring
of the woman is Jesus Christ. God already had his own plan for our salvation from
the top.
And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you
will strike his heel.” -Genesis 3:15
Let’s talk about meaning of an offspring of a woman. There could be many interpretations.
First, the most direct interpretation is he
will be born through a virgin. The book of Matthew
and Luke wrote some different genealogies of Jesus. I am not sure but some
people say the genealogy in the book of Luke could be Mary’s. Luke emphasized Jesus’s
humanity. So maybe he wrote Mary’s genealogy that one associated with
Jesus humanly.
Second, it would be similar with the first;
Jesus came from the barren woman. There are several barren women in the Bible.
The first one was Sarah. She could not have a baby until she was ninety. But
God blessed her and gave Isaac. It look like, Rebekah had not had baby for quite a long time. Hannah would be the most famous person who had the baby by prayers. And Naomi
was also one of them. Obed is a son of Boaz and Ruth, but Obed would have
belonged to Naomi in the law (Ruth 4:17). Finally Jesus came through the woman
who did not know a man. A woman cannot bear babies without a man. It means
human being is just like barren women, they could not bear any good things
themselves, without God. God fulfills his plan by his own enthusiastic and authority.
The last one, a woman means a weak and helpless
person. Generally the Bible uses a woman as a symbol of weak – maybe it’s not
true in our modern society. Especially the women who did not have babies were suffering
and put to shame. And the Bible says widows and orphans as the poorest people.
When Jesus was teaching, people brought an
adulterous woman and asked to Jesus how to punish her. We could not know the
exact reasons, but she did not say anything for defending herself. We do not
know whether she was shocked by betrayed by her man or already knew it would be
useless to rebut, or maybe she thought herself as a sinner who deserve to die. Whatever
the reasons, she did not say before the crowd. As she did, Jesus did not say
anything in the court for himself. Isaiah already prophesied about he’s humble
in his book.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did
not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. – Isaiah 53:7
Therefore, Jesus is only one who knew every
brokenhearted and he is the true defender for every powerless person who are under
anguish and unspeakable about their unfair treats in the earth.
For this reason he had to be made like
them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and
faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for
the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is
able to help those who are being tempted. - Hebrews 2:17-18
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