16.Why was the Lord Jesus made a little lower than the angels?

So He could experience death, tasting death for every person. Jesus had to experience the pain that we experience so He could become the author of our salvation and our elder Brother.

We do not as yet see all the creation under the authority and power of mankind.

We do see Jesus as representative Man, as the Man God has in mind.

He was made a little lower than the angels for His thirty-three years on the earth. Being made lower than the angels for a season He was subject to physical death, as are all men.

The same Jesus who was willing to experience death on behalf of all people has now been crowned with glory and with honor. The Lord now has received the glory and honor assigned to mankind.

Jesus now possesses all authority and power in Heaven.

Jesus now possesses all authority and power on the earth.

Jesus now possesses all authority and power over all creatures in Heaven, in Hell, those who are dead, those who are alive, those yet to be born.

Christ has been crowned with glory and honor. He always moves in majesty and authority.

Christ has been crowned with honor in that all the armies of Heaven give Him praise, as well as the Church in Heaven and on the earth.

We are pressing toward what Christ already is. Christ is what the Lord God has in mind when He says, "Let us make man in our image."

Christ is our example in all things. More than that, He is being formed in us, He is our Life. As He is, so are we in the world. His Life is filling us and conforming us to His image. He is magnified in us. For the Christian saint to live is Christ and to die is gain.