You Are Gods

John 10:34-36 (ESV)

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Psalm 82 is the source of written Scripture. Those addressed as ”gods” are angels who are part of the divine council in heaven. They were given the charge to judge and help mankind, to work the ground of earth as it were. They failed in that endeavor according to the psalm. 

Now the sons of God in Jesus Christ will judge mankind and the angels. This is a variation on the repeated theme of the second son receiving the blessings of the father. 

The first and second Adam. 

Cain and Able. 

Esau and Jacob. 

Ishmael and Isaac   

Israel and the Church. 

Those who are last will be first.