<p>6:3- see on Heb. 11:7.</p><p><i>Do you not know that we shall judge angels?- </i>We have to assume our brethren will be in the Kingdom. Paul did this even with Corinth; he wrote of how &ldquo;<i>we </i>shall judge angels&rdquo; when we are all accepted in the Kingdom. And his way of writing to the Thessalonians about the resurrection and judgment assumes that all of his readers would be accepted (&ldquo;so shall <i>we</i> ever be with the Lord&hellip; ye are <i>all</i> the children of light&rdquo;). We too can do nothing else but see each other like that. The impact of this is colossal. We&rsquo;d rather shy away from it. But meditate awhile upon it.</p><p>The Angels could refer to literal Angels who existed and sinned during some previous creation, but who will only be finally judged and destroyed when death itself is destroyed totally at the Lord's return. &quot;The Angels which kept not their first estate... He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day&quot; (Jude 6)- clearly the judgement at the second coming. See on Jude 6; Heb. 9:23; Lk. 11:32.</p><p>Or the 'Angels' in view may simply be messengers or local representatives of the nations, whom we shall 'judge' at the time of the Kingdom's establishment. Under the Law, there was a referral system up to Moses, smaller cases being dealt with by the 70 elders and family heads. These 'elohim' must surely point forward to us, the King-priests of the future age. &quot;We shall judge angels&quot; may refer to each believer being in the position to pass judgment on a messenger or representative of, e.g., a town or village. This mention of angel-messengers implies that we will be geographically located in one place in a region, to where cases must be brought by a messenger.</p><p>Judging Angels doesn't have to mean that we will condemn them. We are to &ldquo;judge&rdquo; our brethren, not in condemning them but in discerning between them, in the same way as we will &ldquo;judge Angels&rdquo; in the future. Then, we will not condemn them, but perceive / discern the differences between them.&nbsp;</p><p><i>How much more, things that pertain to this life?- </i>The Greek word only occurs in Lk. 21:34 about how the rejected at the last day have been obsessed with &quot;the cares of this life&quot;.</p>