ANGELS - RABBIT TRAIL
- Angels are mention in
the Old Testament 108 times, and in the New Testament 165 times. That’s 273 times, if we dismiss the
notion of angels; we are in essence rejecting the Bible.
- They serve as a link
between God and believers.
While they do provide physical assistance, they do not do
miracles or do the work of the Holy Spirit. Believers have
probably interacted with an angel at one time or the other and did not
even know it.
- Angels are spiritual
beings and either posse’s bodies that are real or they assume the form of
a man, but still have the spiritual attributes. They can pass through
material objects and are not subject to distance or time. See the scriptures
below, of Jesus in His spiritual body.
- I find no record of
Female angels, or baby angels. They
do not marry.
- They can speak our
language and have their own language
- The Bible says that
angels are in charge of us, to guard our ways to keep us from danger.
- Angel hierarchy. – While I do not
find this in the Bible, I do find it in many books on angels throughout
the ages. Angels seem to be divided
in descending order into three triads of “Choirs”, of angels. This “Choir” is perhaps because we find
them singing and praising God in the scriptures. There are nine
groups. (This is just fun
information and not actually a Bible precept)
- First Choir -
Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones
- Second Choir –
Dominions, Virtues and Powers
- Third Choir –
Principalities, Archangels and Angels.
- It seems the last
two; Archangels and Angels are the only ones that interface with
man.
- Some domination’s
pray to and worship images of angels, believing that some OT saints are
now angels. This is a perversion of
the scriptures.
- Wings - Medieval
theologians writings portrayed Seraphim angels with six wings, Cherubim
with four and ordinary angels with only two. Nothing in scripture says that ALL angels have wings. Scriptures only partially addresses angel
wings - much comes from other writings and may be just myth.
- The Archangel Michael’s name means “who is as God”.
- Gabriel’s
name
means “God is my strength”, other translations say “The mighty one”, “God is great”, and “God’s Hero”.
- The Angel Raphael is mentioned in the
second book of Esdras in the Apocrypha, but not in the Bible. I include it here, only because it is so
often linked in other writings with the names of Michael and Gabriel. (It’s
only included here for “seasoning”).
- Angels through faith conquer
kingdoms, administer justice, shut the mouths of lions, save
believers from being killed, turn weakness into strength, place hedges of protection
around the Believer, bless the work of our hands, and provide
favor with others to prosper us.
- Angels escort
Believers from this World to Heaven for a royal welcome.
- Martin
Luther
said, “An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for
the service of Christendom and the church”.
- Billy
Graham
said “Angels, who think, will, and display emotions are ministering
servants who can appear or remain invisible as they perform the tasks
that God assigns them.”
Heb 1:14
14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent
to serve those who will inherit salvation? NIV
Matt 22:30
30 At the
resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
NIV
1 Cor 15:39 -40
39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one
kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
40 There are also heavenly bodies and there
are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind,
and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. NIV
1 Cor 15:46
46 The
spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the
spiritual. NIV
Luke 24:38-39
39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I
myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does
not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." NIV
John 20:19
19 On the
evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the
Jews, Jesus came and stood among them
and said, "Peace be with you!" NIV
Acts 1:10-11
10 They were
looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed
in white stood beside them.
11 "Men
of Galilee ," they said, "why do you
stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you
into heaven, will come back in the same
way you have seen him go into heaven." NIV
Luke 24:42-43
42 They gave
him a piece of broiled fish,
43 and he took it and ate it in their
presence. NIV
John 20:27
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your
finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." NIV
Ps 91:11-12
11 For he
will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
12 they
will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone. NIV
Matt 18:10
10 "See
that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that
their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. NIV
Isa 6:2
2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings:
NIV
Ezek 1:6
6 but each of
them had four faces and four wings.
NIV
Ezek 1:11
Their wings
were spread out upward; each had two
wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. NIV
1 Cor 13:1
13:1 If I
speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal
NIV
Heb 11:33-34
33 who
through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained
what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
34 quenched
the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness
was turned to strength; NIV
Luke 16:22
22 "The
time came when the beggar died and the
angels carried him to Abraham's side.” NIV
Heb 13:2
2 Do not
forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. NIV
Job 1:10
10 "Have
you not put a hedge around him and
his household and everything he has? You have
blessed the work of his hands, so that
his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. NIV
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