Why is man important to God?

Man was created in the image and likeness of God

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.


God loves men more than angels

Heb 2:16 Jesus clearly did not come to help angels, but he did come to help Abraham's descendants.


unforgiven angels

2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.


God leads man to repentance

Rom 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?


God desires all men to be saved

1Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1Ti 2:4 who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Son of God delights in the sons of men

Pro 8:22  "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
Pro 8:23  Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
Pro 8:24  When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Pro 8:25  Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,
Pro 8:26  before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
Pro 8:27  When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Pro 8:28  when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
Pro 8:29  when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Pro 8:30  then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
Pro 8:31  rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
Pro 8:32  "And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.
Pro 8:33  Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
Pro 8:34  Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
Pro 8:35  For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD,
Pro 8:36  but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

Predestination of Man

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:4  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Eph 1:5  he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Eph 1:6  to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Eph 1:7  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Eph 1:8  which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
Eph 1:9  making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
Eph 1:10  as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Eph 1:11  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Eph 1:12  so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
Eph 1:13  In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Eph 1:14  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Great Multitude of men serving God before His throne

Rev 7:9  After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 7:10  and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
Rev 7:11  And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Rev 7:12  saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
Rev 7:13  Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?"
Rev 7:14  I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 7:15  "Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
Rev 7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
Rev 7:17  For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."