It doesn’t make too much sense for angels to be so interested in the doings of humans. Don’t they have other things to do? Here Revelation 14:6: portrays them as all but overseeing the spread of Christianity:
“And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.” What accounts for this intense interest in people?
Could it be that the project is bigger than humans? Could it be that they are weighing in out the success of that project? Could it be that they intensely want to see God’s sovereignty vindicated and all reproach on his name removed? That it’s not just all about us?
There are plenty in the heavenly crowd working against Jehovah’s project with the earth, working for its downfall. Maybe the angels counterbalance that, working for its success.
Maybe, just maybe, evidence that the universe is as yet devoid of life, vast though it is, shows that God is just getting started with his his physical creative works. His first endeavor for a new kind of life is challenged. Demons want to see that challenge succeed. Angels want to see it resolved. The issue is bigger than humans, who are ever wont to think everything revolves around them. The issue is the sanctification of God’s name with the success of his first venture into physical life creation.
Maybe the “good news that you heard and that was preached in all creation under heaven” (Colossians 1:23) really is “in ALL creation under heaven” and not just some localized affair. Maybe, once this issue is settled of whose way of ruling is right, God or his creation, He can go on to fill up the rest of physical creation with forms of physical life.
Just a bit of speculation—no more than that. But is does account for the intense interest angels have in the affairs of humankind.
(See more: John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’)
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