Now let us notice the likeness of men to angels, which will abolish marriage after the Millennium. Marriage is proper in this age. It is of divine arrangement. It is the method by which it pleased God to create a race–by creating one pair with whom he lodged the powers of procreation, to “multiply and to fill the earth.”–Gen. 1:28.

Angels are most probably without sex—neither male nor female as we use those terms, though like God generally referred to as masculine. Man, as originally created in God’s image was probably the same in that regard, like unto the angels. Afterward “male and female created he them” for the very purpose of thus filling or populating the earth. And the reasonable deduction is that when the earth shall become as the “Garden of Eden” and shall be fully populated, then the “filling of the earth” by the multiplying of the race will cease, according to the proper outworking of the plan of him who formed the perfect man into a perfect pair, for the purpose of filling the earth.

And we inquire why God chose to make the man perfect in himself at “first,” and then to sex him into twain, if it were not for an intimation and illustration of what the race shall be, when God’s plans concerning it is full-filled?

So, then our Lord’s words teach us, that when the restitution age and its restoring or resurrecting work are complete, all who being worthy shall be thus perfected, shall be as Adam was at first–in regard to sex, and freedom from death–“like unto the angels.”

The scripture text also states that they (those who attain that age) “are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection”.

These worthy ones will be “children of God,”–becoming such by the resurrection. To appreciate this, we must remember God’s manner of using the word “children“. Only those who bear his image and are in harmony with Him, does he recognize as His children; others who are impure and disobedient and who bear the image of Satan, are called “children of wrath,” “children of the devil,” and etc. In accordance with this, angels are called “sons of God,” and Adam in his first estate (sinless) is called a “son of God,” and we though not actually released from the imperfection are reckoned perfect, being justified by faith, our acceptableness being in and through merits and perfections of our Lord Jesus imputed to us.

Yet in the fullest sense God will not recognize us as sons until our Lord shall present us actually perfect before the Father in the end of the Gospel age. Then we shall in the fullest sense enter into the fullness of son-ship. (Compare Jude 24,25; Col. 1:22,23,28; 2 Cor. 4:14; 5:1-6.)

So too it will be with the world, in the millennial age. Though God has planned the work in its every particular, and though he so loved the world while sinners as to give his Son for their redemption and restitution, yet he will not recognize them as children, until the “worthy” ones have been perfected (raised up to perfection) in the end of that age. Meantime the world can only recognize God as their Father by faith, aspiring to be counted worthy to come to that perfect condition in which alone they can be recognized as God’s children, and dealt with as such.

To be recognized as God’s child is to be recognized as one entitled to the “liberty of the sons of God“–freedom from pain, death, etc., and etc. Until that grand consummation is reached the world can deal with the Father only through the Royal Priesthood of which our Lord is the head or High Priest. (Extracts taken from R915)

As for Col 1:16,

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.”

It is true, this text does specifically apply to the Son, that is following his high exaltation to this Divine plane of existence, as for the statement in 1 Tim 6:16 that “he alone has immortality” it should be remembered that God is always excepted, see 1 Cor 15:27.

Psa 36:9 “For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.” This scripture is in reference to the one true fountain of life, The Father, the life giver of all, “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.” Acts 17:28

This statement made in the Psalms is true ALSO NOW of our Lord, that is he too has BECOME a fountain of life “For as the Father hath life in himself; SO HATH HE GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself (inherent life, immortality)” John 5:26