We may speak of Christ being subject to God, but in what sense do we mean that? Many think of Christ as a person who obeys another person. Others view Christ as that other person. That other person is interpreted by the world as a singular authority who says “Jump!” - and that is what you had better do, or else. However, that interpretation is based on the 'Sky Daddy' concept - God as a tyrannical, white-bearded father figure.
God is no figure at all. Christ, who will be subject to him, informed us that God is a spirit. God, the most high among the ascended, the core and center, has no body. He does not occupy space. Around him, and radiating from him, are mind-sets, and bodies. You may take the analogy of early men gathered around and tending a flame so that it does not go out.
God himself, being spirit, never once spoke to man or appeared to him in any physical manner, but always used angels - beings filled with the mind of God, and tending, in a manner of speaking, the core flame.
The burning bush, the cloud and fire in the wilderness march, both invisible and non-humanoid angels, as well as humanoid angels are all vehicles of the will and intent of the mind of God. Angels are a society of 'flame-keepers'.
Christ may be called a prince, but so is Michael - that is their elite rank. Highest of all the princes is the King, Jesus Christ. He is King of all on that high plane, and also King of all below. As angels progress upward, they draw from mankind to fill their ranks.
The physical nature of angels may also continue to evolve, and that progress may end at the throne – where a more or less physical ascendant finally merges with the intangible, but powerful and pervasive center of all being. A new Jesus may step forward from the rank of Michaels, and a lesser but promising angel will fill his shoes. At the bottom of the ladder of angels, man looks up hopefully.
Angels, the ultimate secret society, have an important mission. That is that every being, not just Jesus and the society of princes, but every last one of us from the most promising right down to you and me, may be thoroughly saturated, filled, and in subjection to the mind of God.
That God may be all in all.
