Christ as Another Angel Cares for God’s People and Executes God’s Administration

When we as human beings think of or study the matter of the angels in the Bible we tend to get into things that the Bible doesn’t say but we personally like and prefer, and thus we are distracted from the main line of the divine revelation in the word of God. But we need to see that, at least in a few instances in the Bible, Christ is typified by an angel, and as we go deeper into the significance of this, we will be filled with life and we are kept in God’s economy.

First, Christ is the angel of Jehovah, the One who saves us not only inwardly but also outwardly in all our sufferings (see Exodus 14). Secondly, Christ is the angel of God who leads us and cares for us; no matter where we are, Christ leads us and cares for us in the wilderness and through all kinds of trying situations (Judges 2).

Thirdly, Christ is the angel of Jehovah who serves to us by pleading with us and by admonishing us (see Mal. 3). Fourthly, Christ is the angel of the covenant who executes the new covenant, making sure we enjoy all the bequests of the new covenant in our daily experience.

Today we will take a look at Christ in the book of Revelation, where He is another Angel, the One who carries out God’s economy. Christ in Revelation is the Administrator, the executor of God’s economy on the earth.

The world today is not run by politicians or businessmen or the economy of our country but by Christ Himself. Hallelujah, Christ is the administrator of the entire universe, and we believe into Him and trust Him!

In Rev. 7 Christ came before the sixth and seventh seal, when the age is about to turn, and He came to take care of God’s people, both the Jews and the believers. Then, throughout the seventh seal, Christ ministered as a High Priest with the prayers of the saints.

In Rev. 10, when the age is about to end, at the sixth and seventh trumpet, Christ as another Angel came in as the possessor of the heavens and earth. Finally, in Rev. 18, at the end of the tribulation, Christ as another Angel came in to judge the material Babylon. Hallelujah for our Christ, the one revealed in revelation as another Angel!

Christ as Another Angel Carries out God’s Economy and Cares for God’s People

In the book of Revelation Christ is called, “Another Angel”, the unique, special Angel, because He is the One sent by God to carry out His economy. Christ is the unique and special One sent by God to carry out God’s purpose; He’s not a regular or common angel but the unique, special Angel.

As another Angel, Christ takes care of God’s people – both the sons of Israel (God’s earthly people) and the believers, the church (God’s spiritual people).

In Rev. 7:2-8 Christ takes care of the chosen remnant of Israel, and He’s unveiled as another Angel in relation to a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel. He preserves them and seals them from the tribulation.

Also, in His work as another Angel, Christ takes care of the believers, the redeemed saints of the church, preserving them throughout all the tribulations (see Rev. 7:9-17). Hallelujah, before the throne there’s a great multitude who praises the Lord, worships God, and are being dressed in white robes, and these are serving God in the temple, being shepherded by the Lamb to hunger nevermore and be sad no more.

Before God’s judgement, Christ as another Angel ascends from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and He commands the other angels to not pour out God’s judgement on the earth until God’s people are sealed, preserved, and cared for.

The people or Israel who kept the commandments of God during the great tribulation are sealed and numbered for God, and the rapture of the redeemed believers in the church is begun. The winds, which are for God’s judgments (Jonah 1:4; Isa. 11:15; Jer. 22:22; 49:36; 51:1), are stopped until Christ as the angel of God cares for His people.

Christ as God’s Angel controls the whole universe, directing the other angels to carry out God’s judgement upon the earth (Rev. 7:2-3). We need to be at peace, because Christ takes care of His people; He takes care of Israel (His earthly people, who will eventually be saved and preserved) and He takes care of the believers (God’s spiritual people who are redeemed, transformed, and glorified by Him).

Hallelujah for Christ as another Angel in the book of Revelation, the unique and special One who carries out God’s economy and who cares for God’s people, preserving them from the tribulation and bringing them to Himself!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being another Angel coming to carry out God’s economy on the earth. Lord, we love You as another Angel who cares for us and preserves us from the tribulation to come. We give ourselves to You, Lord, to grow in life unto maturity so that we may be produced as the overcomers who will be raptured before the great tribulation. We want to cooperate with You as much as we can today so that Your economy may be carried out, Your Body would be built, and You may return quickly to end this age and bring in the new age of the kingdom!

Christ as Another Angel Executes God’s Administration over the Earth

When the seventh seal was about to be opened, there was silence for half an hour in the heavens because the age was about to be changed (Rev. 8:1). Before the seventh seal was opened there was the age of God’s toleration; in the age of grace, God tolerates the sinful situation on earth, sending out Christ and His believers to preach the gospel so that some would be saved and return to God.

However, at the opening of the seventh seal, the age of toleration is terminated and the age of God’s wrath is brought in: He now comes in to intervene in the rebellious and sinful situation on the earth. It is in such a scene that, in Rev. 8:3-5 we see Christ as another Angel coming to execute God’s administration over the earth, and He does this in a particular way: by ministering to God as the High Priest with the prayers of the saints.

Christ as another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and much incense was given to Him to offer with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne, and the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the saints out of the hand of Christ as the Angel before God.

And Christ took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it to the earth, and there were thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake.

The censer Christ has in His hand is the prayers of the saints; the incense which Christ adds to the prayers of the saints is Christ Himself in all His riches. Christ as another Angel adds Himself to the prayers of the saints and the smoke ascends to the Father; this is pleasing to God, and God’s move on earth and His administration are carried out.

Christ as another Angel carries out God’s administration over the earth through His administration as the High Priest who brings the incense into the Holy of Holies, mingling it with the prayers of the saints. These prayers are not ordinary prayers but prayers for God’s move on the earth today.

The incense altar (the golden altar) is the executing center of God’s administration; when the prayers of the saints ascend to God with the incense of Christ, God carries out His administration (Rev. 8:5).

God’s administration, however, needs the saints’ prayers; we need to respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry and pray the prayers God needs to carry out His administration! As we pray, God administrates, and as He administrates, we pray!

We as believers in Christ need to be joined to Christ, our ascended Head, and pray one with Him as a response to His heavenly ministry, so that Christ would offer our prayers to God and add Himself to them, and then He would pour out God’s answers!

The pouring out of God’s answers to our prayers equals God’s universal administration. May we see Christ as another Angel ready to add Himself to the prayers of the saints, and may we be those who cooperate with Him in His heavenly ministry to offer the prayers that He needs, so that God’s universal administration would be carried out on the earth!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being another Angel as the High Priest ministering with the prayers of the saints before God. Lord, we want to see and respond to Your heavenly ministry by praying the prayers You need to carry out God’s universal administration. Amen, Lord, gain the prayers You need so that Your move on earth would advance. Gain the prayers from Your saints that will cause You to add Yourself as the incense and ascend to God for Him to administrate the universe through and because of our prayers! Amen, Lord Jesus, do it!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother Andrew Yu’s sharing in the message for this week, and Life-study of Revelation, msgs. 4, 21, 23 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), week 11 / msg 11, The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land.
• All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
• Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
  # Would you choose to be a living overcomer, / Be a person not ashamed to be a Jesus lover, / One who eats the tree of life, / And drinks the living water? / Would you choose to be a living overcomer, / To leave the world and consecrate / To be today’s age-turner? / I give myself to You for Your return. (Song on choosing to be an overcomer)
  # My spirit is Thy holiest place, / Thy throne of grace is founded there; / Thou wouldst that we in spirit come / To burn the incense thru our prayer. (Hymns #32)
  # “Keep the incense burning” / Though thy faith be weak; / Though in words thou canst not / All thy longing speak; / Silent heart-petitions, / Spirit-taught, will be / Gloriously answered; / Wrought by God for thee. (Hymns #790)