Ephesians 3:10-11

Please turn with me to Ephesians 3, verse 10. All the parts serve one great function and work toward the same great end and objective. The church is the Body of Christ, and we are its members. And Paul had already told the Ephesians that God would reveal certain things through His church.

This I find very interesting and never realized before, but the principalities and powers are looking down from heaven, and it is through the church—through you and me, every one of us, all of us together—that they are beginning to understand the manifold wisdom of God. We are called to make God's wisdom known. What this means is that the angels in heaven looking down on us do not have a full understanding of human workings and human nature. And so by watching us in the process of human life throughout history, they are learning things that they did not know either, which I find interesting.

So God is also teaching them, in a similar way, not exactly the same way as He is teaching us. We are actually on the front line. Well, so are some of our angels right around us protecting us.

Ephesians 3:8-11

What Paul is suggesting here, really, it is more than a suggestion, he is telling us outright, that the unfolding of God's plan in the church is a revelation to angels as well. They were not exactly sure how all this was going to work out, but they had to wait until it was revealed through Jesus Christ in this time. So the mystery of God's grace and His plan of redemption was hidden even from them, who play such an important part in the plan of God, especially toward us, because they are God's servants to minister to those who are now seeking salvation. And just to add this here, in Matthew 24:36 in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that even the angels do not know when He will return. Only the Father.