Things Which Angels Look Into - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16

Things Which Angels Look Into
Think of the angels who witnessed the creation, and the flowing out of the Creator’s power in the perfection and beauty of Eden, having the thought that the One putting forth all this beauty and goodness would be the One to be nailed to the cross as a malefactor, and put into a cave in the earth, and nothing too bad for man to say of Him! Again, could there have been such a thought in heaven as that One treated like a malefactor would not only be raised up and be in heaven, but be seated on the throne of God, God’s delight? No! Never! And it is one of the most difficult things for me to get the thought of that according to what I was in nature, it was as unlikely for God to work in me, and out of such materials to fashion a perfect vessel, as for His Son to come down and die.

There is no light like the cross to show out the real character of human nature; no act that man ever did of which God could say, “That is what man is,” till His Son was put to death and the light of heaven shone down upon a city of murderers. That cross just showed what we are in nature; but God looked into the pit of nature, and He came there because He is rich in mercy. Who can say anything if God chooses to take up such, and give them a new nature, a new life?

Adam’s life in Eden was not a life beyond the grave, not that life in which the Second Man, the Lord from heaven, ascended up where He was before. As Son of Man, Christ could and did die; but He gave up His life and took His life again. There was no living fountain of water flowing down until Christ left the grave and ascended; then a fountain was opened in heaven.

G. V. Wigram