Note the words which shall be to all people. We certainly should not think the angel was stretching the truth, nor do we believe the prophecies of the Scriptures to be in vain. The GOOD NEWS declared to the shepherds by one of the angels was beginning to bear fruit on earth. People literally became heirs of God through Christ. If Christ had come as God s messenger to man and nothing more, it is conceivable that He might have become an angel.
Angels are messengers.
It is indeed GOOD NEWS that God became a Man. The SAD NEWS that we see as we look at the world today is that not all people have had an opportunity to hear the good tidings of the incarnation. The prophecy given by the angel has not been fulfilled yet. It is estimated that nearly one half of a billion people today are among the tribal and unreached groups of the earth. About 4000 of the known languages of the earth do not have a completed New Testament of God s Word in their language.