When Jesus was begotten by God, he was an angel. He was called the Logos (the Word) of God. God and the Logos created everything and every being together. John 1:3 (NKJV), “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” 

The Logos was the archangel. The Bible records that the Logos was beloved of His Father: “The LORD (Jehovah) possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. … When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep, … When He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him,” Proverbs 8:22-23, 27, 29-30 (NKJV).

However, when the Logos was made flesh, he was named Jesus. He gave up his angelic life to be born as a man. Jesus was not part angel and part man. Jesus was fully human. John 1:14 (NKJV), “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

After Jesus died as the ransom payment for Adam (and all of his children), God resurrected Him as a divine spirit being – not an angel. Now, Jesus is at God’s right hand. Philippians 2:8-11 (ESV), “And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Jesus has the same nature (divine) as God. Jesus can never die again for he has life within himself. John 5:26 (ESV), “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the son also to have life in himself.” 

Angels and all other beings depend on different things to sustain their lives. But Jesus was rewarded for his great sacrifice. He is next to God in all things. 1 Peter 3:22 (ESV), “who (Jesus) has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.”

Additional Resources: 

Christian Questions Podcast Episode #1043: How Do Angels Help Us in Daily Life?
Examining the interactions we should or shouldn’t have with angels
Preview Video  CQ Rewind Show Notes

For children, parents and Bible class teachers – Christian Questions Podcast CQ Kids Video (animated): “What does the Bible say about angels?”