Many religions teach that Jesus was an angel. However, the Bible clearly distinguishes Jesus from angels, excluding Him from that category.
One fact that distinguishes Jesus from angels is that God the Father calls Jesus His Son. Hebrews 1:1-2(a) says, “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son.”
Furthermore, Hebrews not only distinguishes Jesus as God’s Son, but it also precludes Him as an angel, stating in Hebrews 1:5, “For to which of the angels did He ever say: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You’? And again: ‘I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son’?”
Another biblical fact that distinguishes Jesus from angels (and conveys His superiority over them) is God the Father’s command for the angels to worship Jesus at His human birth. Hebrews 1:6 states, “But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him.’”
Angels also worship Jesus in Heaven, which not only precludes Him from being an angel but confirms His deity. Revelation 5:11-14 states, “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’ And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, ‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.’ And the four living creatures kept saying, ‘Amen.’ And the elders fell down and worshiped.”
Therefore, since God identified Jesus as His Son and commanded the angels to worship Him at His human birth, and since the angels worship Jesus in Heaven with the Father’s endorsement, Jesus cannot be an angel, but is God incarnate, who is rightfully worthy of worship. Otherwise, Heaven would be filled with idolaters.
I hope this brief answer helps equip you to share this truth with those who have been misled or deceived into thinking that Jesus is an angel and not the Son of God and God the Son.
