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SPECIAL TOPIC: HEAVENLY COUNCIL

In Job 1:6 there seems to be a reference (“sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord”) to “the heavenly council” of angels who serve YHWH, and possibly “national angels” (cf. Deut. 32:8 in the LXX and Daniel 10).

This council is assumed in

  1. the “us” statements of Gen. 1:26; 3:22; 11:7
  2. Micaiah’s vision of 1 Kgs. 22:19-23; 2 Chr. 18:18-22
  3. Neh. 9:6
  4. Ps. 82:1,6; 89:5-7 (different name for “God”)
  5. the “us” of Isa. 6:8 (see #1)
  6. Zech. 3:1-2; Satan appears again before YHWH