Recall that, in terms of the divine council hierarchy of the Old Testament, “angels” would denote a low-level task or job description (transmitting a message as a messenger), as opposed to ruling over a geographical region, something assigned to “sons of God” in the Deuteronomy 32 worldview. In other words, in the spiritual world, just as in the human world, while divine beings (save for the unique Yahweh) are all of the same “species,” some have higher rank than others. The “household” metaphor discussed in chapter 3 is illustrative. While a pharaoh’s administration might number thousands,
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