Hi Carol,
Thank you for your thoughtfulness in answering. What I am looking for is specific to the leader of the angels. Who is it that leads the created angels? Is the leader or prince of the angels just a "super angel", or is it the Son, into Whose hands the Father has given all things, as stated in John 13.3?
I'm not looking for scripture that speaks about the created beings, the angels, such as you have quoted from Hebrews, but rather at least one that clearly lays out that the leader of the angels is a created being.
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge states on page 1597 that "Michael is the name of God's Son before He left heaven to become Jesus, and after His return to heaven". How they came to that conclusion I do not know. But what I have done is taken their conclusion and gone to the scriptures that speak specifically of "the (singular) archangel", and I have not been able to find anything that suggests that he is a created being, but rather, what I have found is that the attributes with which he is described are not attributes with which created angels are described, but they are the very same attributes with which Christ is described. So, this is why I am asking my specific question.
What if the man or men that wrote the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge are correct in that Christ has a heavenly name? Would that be so unthinkable? The name Michael is a question. "Who is like God?" So, what is the answer to the question? The Son, Who else? Are angels like God? Are men like God? A five year old could reason that out.
In Hebrews 1.6, which you have quoted above, it says that all the angels worship the Son. Does anyone worship one they do not follow? If the angels worship and follow the Son, then is He not leading them? The verse clearly shows that the angels are subject to the Son, not another angel. "So", one might say, "there is a super angel under Christ and above the angels who leads the angels". What would be the purpose in that and where is the evidence for such conjecture? Why would the Almighty Father and His Son need a intermediary, and where is the evidence for that?
I have never advocated worshipping of created beings as I think that is utterly absurd. But worshipping the Father and Son, by all means.
Perhaps there is not a verse that states that Michael, the leader of the angels, is a created being. If that be the case, then wouldn't that show that the belief that he is a created being is an assumption, and purely conjecture?
Thank you,
Satisfied