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Job 38:4-7
Excerpted from: The Spirit WorldChronologically, like I said, this is the first we hear of angels. We are not told when they were created. We assume that they were created a long time before man. We do not know how long before man they were created. All we know from this verse is that they were already in existence when God created the earth. So they were there to witness this beautiful blue ball come into existence in the heavens. And it was so beautiful, evidently, such a remarkable creation of God that they sang together in joy seeing this planet come into existence in such great beauty.
Herbert Armstrong surmised that their joy was because earth would be their home, that God had made it as a place for them. Now, we do not know if that is true. I could just see them in my mind's eye, singing and shouting for joy just because God had done it and them being able to see this great work. But Mr. Armstrong took it a little farther and thought that their joy was because the earth would be the place where they would reside. And many have speculated that they were given tasks in that creation to help finish things. God did the creating, but they would do the finish work.
But notice, that is a lot of assumption. We have added stuff to it already. The basic facts are quite meager. God created them before creating the earth. They were in existence when He created the earth. And we could also make an assumption that is true. It said right there, it is part of the fact, that they can sing and they can show joy. I mean, maybe we can get something else out of there if we pull hard enough, but that is basically all it says, and we have to use our imagination to pile on a few more suppositions. And that is all they are, they are suppositions.
Job 38:4-7
Excerpted from: Lessons From Unleavened BreadNote in verse 7 God's declaration that the angels shouted for joy in seeing God's creative work as He set the physical universe in place with the creation of the heavens and the earth. It appears before this time that there was no physical creation of the heavens and the earth, the physical creation which man would learn to grow. But perhaps within the limited understanding that the angels had of the unsearchable ways of their Creator, man was not even yet in the picture to them as they shouted for joy, watching God continue His incredible work of creation. Could this have been when a sin of presumption began with Hillel?
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