Adding to post #120
It is interesting as well that he read that God brought about the 10 plagues on Egypt in the time of the Exodus. In that account only the 10th was spoken of as 'an angel passing over' those homes marked by the symbol of their faith and obedience. However Ps 78:49 adds the detail that 'companies of angels' were working behind the scenes in the actual application of all the plagues.
Just cause a detail is missing in the original account does not make the added information untrue.
The problem here is that this is one unique time were YHVH says He communicated with Moses "face to face". Not via angels. He even makes it clear that Moses was different from all other prophets of the day for this very reason:
6He said,
“Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the LORD, shall make Myself known to him
in a vision.
I shall speak with him
in a dream. (angelic communication)
7“
Not so, with My servant Moses,
He is faithful in all My household;
8With him I speak
mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And
he beholds the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?” Num 12: 6-8
Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew
face to
face Deut 34: 10
Besides, Paul was obviously trying to say that these angels were not acting under YHVH's authority. This is why he reprimands the Galatians for still obeying this law:
8But even if we,
or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
9As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! Gal 1: 8-9
19Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having
been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made. Gal 3: 19
Stay with me on this. There is more. Paul tells us that the law is not to be followed anymore:
23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.
24Therefore the
Law has become our
tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a
tutor (law). Gal 3: 23-25
8However at that time, when you did not know God, you were
slaves to those which by nature are no gods.
He is referring to those still keeping the law of Moses…claiming that they are slaves of those "who by nature are no gods". Referring back to the angels who Paul claims gave the law!
9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the
weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
These weak and worthless elemental things are a clear reference to the angels again. Most scholars admit this!
10You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain. Gal 4: 8-11
Obviously Paul is angry at those who are keeping the Hebrew feasts and seasons. This is all about Paul's horrible notion of the law being bondage which "enslaved" people under the authority of angels!
