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Revelation 10:1-3 – Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. He planted his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. This mighty angel is so wonderful some believe he’s Jesus Christ. But we know he’s not Jesus Christ because John described him as “another” mighty angel, like the seven angels who sounded the seven trumpets. This is an angel of importance, however, which tells us something about our future. Psalm 8:5 says that people were created “a little lower than the angels,” but will be exalted ABOVE the angels – just as Jesus “was made lower than the angels [but is] now crowned with glory and honor” (Hebrews 2:7). Mankind was created in the “image of God” (Genesis 1:27), but that is never said of angels. Believers are called “children of God” in First John 3:1, but that is never said of angels, either. Paul wrote in First Corinthians 6:3, “Do you not know that we will judge angels?”  When we consider the glory this “mighty” angel possesses, we can begin to imagine the sort of glory God has planned for us, his redeemed children.