Angels

  ANGELS 

INTRO – movie IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Touched by an Angel, Frank Peretti books

THEIR CREATION

Colossians 1: 15-16

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: 16 for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

Psalms 48: 2 – 5

2 Praise Him, all His angels ;Praise Him, all His heavenly armies! 3 Praise Him, sun and moon;Praise Him, all stars of light! 4 Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!5 They are to praise the name of the Lord,For He commanded and they were created.

Nehemiah 9:6  Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host,

THEIR NATURE 

ARE SPIRIT BEINGS WHO  PROVIDE SERVICE TO SAINTS 

Hebrews 1: 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? Psalms 104:4

ARE ETERNAL BEINGS Luke 20:36 36 for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

HAVE FREE WILL - Isaiah 14 Satan had power to choose and other angels followed him 

THEIR POSITION  God- Angels – Man above man and more powerful

Ii PETER 2:11 whereas angels who are greater in might and power

Hebrews 2:9  You have made him for a little while lower than angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor;

II Samuel 14:20 wisdom of angels 

THEIR NUMBER - THOUSANDS OF THEM MENTIONED

Psalms 68:17  The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. See Deuteronomy 33:1 -2

Matthew 26:53  Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? ( a legion in roman army is between 5000 and 6500 soldiers)

Hebrews 12: 22 .. and to myriads of angels

Revelation 5:11  Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands

MENTIONED FIRST IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHERUBIM  GUARDANS

Genesis 3:24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

Cherubim angels are mentioned over 90 times in the Old Testament. Ezekiel 1 and 10 describe them as powerful winged creatures. They almost always serve in the capacity of guarding or protecting what belongs to God or even His own presence. Here a cherubim is assigned to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

OBEY GOD DO HIS WILL STRONGER THAN MAN

Psalms 103:20  Bless the Lord, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word,
Obeying the voice of His word!

II Thessalonians 1: 7  and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, [f]when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

CAN CHANGE APPEARANCE INTO  MEN AND HAVE SPECIAL POWERS

TWO ANGELS IN STORY OF LOT AND SODOM AND GOMMORAH  

GENESIS 19: 1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom

5- 6, 11 and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.” 6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the small to the great, so that they became weary of trying to find the doorway.

THEY HAVE ACCESS TO HEAVEN AND EARTH

JACOBS LADDER  - vision of heaven and angels coming and going from heaven

12 And he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. See john 1:51 jesus said would see this to Nathaniel

ARE NOT MARRIED without sex

Mark 12: 25  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. Matthew 22:30

SERVE, PROTECT, HELP  MAN

Jacob Genesis 32: 1

Hebrews 1:13-14  But to which of the angels has He ever said,“Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies A footstool for Your feet”? 4 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Psalms 91:11 11 For He will give His angels orders concerning you,To protect you in all your ways.

Psalms 34:7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them.

Israel Exodus 14:19, 23:23,  32:34, 33:2,  Elijah I Kings 19:5-7 fed,  

Elisha II Kings 6:15-17 vision of army of angels  Daniel 6:21-22 shut lions mouth

Jesus Matthew 4: 11 Then the devil *left Him; and behold, angels came and began to serve Him.

Paul helped in prison Acts 5:19 9 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and leading them out

Peter Acts 12:7 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly stood near Peter, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.

WATCHES MAN  I Corinthians 4:9 I Timothy 5:21, I Pet 1:12 Hebews 13:2 may have entertained unaware

REJOICES OVER MENS REPENTENCE  Luke 15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

GUIDES MENS SOULS TO HEAVEN  Luke 16:22

PROMOTE GODS PLAN 

Numbers 22:23-24 BALAAM AND THE DONKEY 

23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path. 24Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side

POWERFUL EXECUTERS OF PUNISHMENT OF GOD AT TIMES

I Chronicle 21:15- 16 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was sorry about the catastrophe, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” 16 Then David raised his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces 

II kings 19:35 -36 Smote Assyrians II Chronicles 32:21

And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lordwent out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

Acts 12:23  And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Revelations 7 – 19 punish the wicked 

SING PRAISE AND WORSHIP GOD 

IN HEAVEN Isaiah 6, Revelation 5

ON EARTH Appeared at Jesus birth Luke 2:13-14 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army of angels praising God and saying,14 “Glory to God in the highest,And on earth peace among people with whom He is pleased.”

WILL ASSIST TO GATHER BELIEVERS 

Matthew 24:21  And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet blast, and they will gather together His [x]elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

POSITIONS

Are organized like military  Ephesians 1:21 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named 3:10 10 so that the multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places 6:

I Peter 3:22  who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

SERAPHIM  - means burning desire or fiery angel 

Isaiah 6 – located above the throne of God, six wings –

2 cover face to show reverence and awe,

2 cover feet to show humility unworthiness in walk before God, 

2 to fly to serve God and carry out his will

Praise God – holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts and the whole earth is full of his glory

Foundations of temple tremble at their cry 

Serve God -= take coal from altar in heaven and place in Isaiahs mouth 

CHERUBIM – guardians of the presence of God

Genesis 3:24 guard garden of Eden

Places on Ark of Covenant - Likenesses placed on ark of the covenant Exodus 25: 18-20, 37:6-9, I Kings 6:23-29, II Chronicles 3:10-14

God spoke from between Cherubim Numbers 2:89, I Samuel 4:4, Psalms 99:1

Ezekiel 1: 5 – 21, 10:3-22  Revelations 4:6-9 creatures in heaven – lion calf man eagle 4 faces, 4 wings

MESSENGERS OF GOD 

Genesis 16: 7 – 13 to Sarah, to Lot, 18:10 Abraham 22:11,15 Moses Exodus 3

To Balaam Numbers 22:22-35, Israel Judges 2: 1-4, Gideon 6:11, 12, Samsons parents 13:3-5, to Elijah II Kings 1:3,15  to Phillip Acts 8:26 to Cornelius 10:3, 11:13 to Paul 27:23'

LUCIFER(satan) top archangel until rebellion see SATAN topics

GABRIEL (God is great) Messenger 

Daniel 8:15 – 27, 9:21-27, Zechariah and Mary , Luke 1:19, 26

to John the Baptist father Zechariah Luke 1:8-20 to mother of Jesus Mary Luke 1: 26-38 

MICHAEL  - warrior

Warrior – Jude 9 9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Daniel 10:13,21 fought with demon of Persia to help Gabriel to give message to

Daniel 12:1 stands guard of Israel 

Revelation 12: 7 – 8  And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, 8 and they did not prevail, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven

Archangel means head angel 1 Thessalonians 4:16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

THEY WILL COME WITH JESUS TO PUNISH WICKED 

Matthew 13: 39-42 9 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the [a]end of the age; and the reapers are angels. 40 So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the [b]end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom [c]all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

APPLICATION WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM ANGELS

WE SHOULD OBEY, WORSHIP, PRAISE GOD CARRY OUT HIS ORDERS COMMANDS