Angels may be privileged to live in the presence of God, but their task in God’s kingdom is one of service to those people (of the earth) who are to obtain salvation (Hebrews 1:14; Psalm 103:20). It is people, not angels, who taste the benefits of God’s identity as “salvation and glory and power” (Revelation 19:1), and so before God angels are not at all superior to people. They are not less either inasmuch as they are the means the Lord is pleased to use to communicate this salvation to his people. More, they also witness the evidence of God's being “salvation and glory and power.” Hence the angel’s self-description: “I am a fellow servant with you.”
10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.