The Angel of the LORD Quotes

“John Owen is a well-known theological giant of the Reformation, a prolific writer, church leader, and professor among the English Nonconformists until his death in 1683. One of Owen’s best-known works is his vast and exhaustive commentary on the Book of Hebrews. Despite its popularity and likely due to its size, many are not familiar with Owen’s lengthy discussion of Christ in the Old Testament in Exercitation 10 of the commentary. An “exercitation” was a kind of preliminary guide to understanding various aspects”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Fear not to go down into Egypt.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“None of created and natural Angels did [Jacob] join to God their Creator, nor rejecting God that fed him, did he from any Angel ask the blessing on his grandsons; but in saying, ‘Who delivered me from all evil,’ he showed that it was no created Angel, but the Word of God, whom he joined to the Father in his prayer, through whom, whomsoever He will, God does deliver. For knowing that He is also called the Father’s ‘Angel of great Counsel,’ (Isa 9:6 LXX) he said that none other than He was the Giver of blessing, and Deliverer from evil.” (Athanasius, Against the Arians 3.25.12)”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Perish the thought! Did he believe in a plurality in a Godhead? Segal’s work, while not”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“how a simple God could actually do things like be in an “eternally frozen pose,” as J. I. Packer has put it.[299]”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“other words, is the human soul simple or composite? This question was not only asked of God.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“This is a vital question. It is not often asked. But its answers are simply life-changing in the way we read our Old Testaments and understand the claims Jesus was making about himself in light of his own”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Angels may have been given the title “sons of God” (Psalm 82:6), but Jesus was God’s Son in his very nature, and he comes into his inheritance”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“seem to be exactly what Hebrews is seeking to answer: was the divine “Angel of the Lord,” at the end of the day, ontologically simply the first created angel among the angels? Hebrews answers very strongly and clearly, using language and divine angel texts that are now very familiar. In Heb 1:2-4, it uses seven notable (now familiar) words to identify Jesus: Son,”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Was he the principal angel, the first among the created beings, like the Essenes described the archangel Michael? These”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“words from heaven confirmed the interpretation, not only echoing Exodus 23:21, but also likely Isaiah 42:1, “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.” Even Matt 17:7”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“We have already seen the Jewish connection between God’s miracles and his Word. Targum Neofiti of Numbers 14:11 says, “How long will they not believe in the name of my Word, in spite of all the signs of my miracles which I have performed among them?” John himself says in John 12:”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days … he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth” (Mic 5:2, 4). The”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“sons of God. But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“You will die like men” (vs. 7). It is a tautology to tell men that they are going to die like men.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“That’s the theory anyway, and it is the only one we’ve ever heard that actually makes sense of the context, not to mention provides a reasonable motive for Satan’s fall.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“God is going to swear an oath before the heavenly beings (the sun and the moon represent heavenly beings).”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Psalm 89 Psalm 89 explains the council this way, Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“…from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood” (Rev”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Jesus was claiming that he was the son of man who was receiving a kingdom as he rode to the ancient of days on the clouds of heaven. He is the Cloud-Rider, a title that belongs everywhere else in the OT only to Yahweh.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“but it is self-explanatory. Clearly, the setting is heaven, not earth. The players are obviously spirit-beings, not human beings—except for the prophet who is seeing this all in a vision. These beings are deliberating over affairs on earth, making decisions, carrying out actions, and”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Angel of Jehovah” of primeval history is the oldest prefigurement in the history of redemption of the future incarnation … and the angelic form is accordingly the oldest form which the hope of a deliverer assumes.[168]”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“It’s like he becomes reborn: “His flesh becomes fresh with youth” (33:25).  God then “accepts him; he sees his face[164] with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness” (33:26). And the man”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“and says, “Deliver (pada, פְּדָעֵהוּ) him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom (kopher, כֹפֶר); let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor”; then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“He chides Job for saying that although he is in the right, God will not hear his case. It belongs to all of us to suffer as part of our common curse, he tells Job.”[155] Elihu says that God is always working”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“The book of Job is one of the most profound and difficult books in the”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“Centuries later, Isaiah will pick up on this word in one of the most famous verses in the entire OT. A prediction of Messiah foresees, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isa 9:6). (Some translations render it, “wonderful, counselor” with a comma; YLT). In this way the name Wonderful is now directly linked to Jesus Christ.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“The angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” This is not extraneous information. The threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite becomes the future location for the Jerusalem Temple. In 2 Samuel 24:18-19, the prophet Gad tells David at Yahweh’s command to erect an altar on the threshing floor.”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“16. Because of David’s sin in calling for an unbiblical census (see 1Chr 21:1, also Exodus 30:11), the LORD determined to punish Israel. God gives David three options for Israel’s punishment:”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study

“The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool … The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. He will execute judgment among the nations” (Ps 110:1, 5-6).[111] As the New Testament also identifies, there is an Adonai at the “right hand” of Yahweh, who is Yahweh’s man of war to execute judgment on the earth.[112]”
― Douglas Van Dorn, The Angel of the LORD: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study