Angels

Who Are Angels?

• Angels (their name
means “messengers”)
are the first of the two
sorts of personal beings
that God created,
humans are the second.
• There are many of them
(Matt. 26:53; Rev. 5:11).
Do They Marry?
• They’re intelligent moral
agents,
• not in the flesh or
• ordinarily visible
• They are able to show
themselves to humans in
what appears as a physical
form (Gen. 18:2-19:22; John
20:10-14; Acts 12:7-10).
• They do not marry, and
they are not subject to
death (Matt. 22:30; Luke
20:35-36).
 Psalm 8:5
• The angels are seen
throughout the Bible
as a body of spiritual
beings that mediate
between God and
men:
• "You have made him
(man) a little less than
the angels" (Psalm
8:5).
 Angelic Trials
• Like human beings, • and Angels constantly
the angels were worship God (Ps. 103:20-
originally on 21; 148:2).

probation, and some • They only leave Heaven

of them fell into sin. to give service to
• The many who passed Christians at God's
the test are now in a command (Heb. 1:14).
state of holiness and • These are the “holy”
immortal glory.  and “elect” angels
• Heaven is their (Matt. 25:31; Mark
headquarters (Mt. 8:38; Luke 9:26; Acts
18:10; 22:30; Rev. 5:11), 10:22; 1 Tim. 5:21; Rev.
14:10)
 • In Jacob's vision the angels (Gen.
Jacob’s 28:10) are shown as ascending and
descending the ladder which stretches
Ladder from earth to heaven while the Eternal
Father gazes upon the wanderer below.
• It was an angel who found Hagar in the
wilderness (Genesis 16:6)
• angels led Lot out of Sodom
(Genesis 19:15);
• an angel announces to Gideon that
he is to save his people (Judges
6:22);
• an angel foretells the birth of
Samson (Judges 13), and
• the angel Gabriel instructs Daniel
(Dan., 8:16), though he is not called
an angel in either of these passages,
but "the man Gabriel" (9:21).
Zechariah 1:9
• The spiritual nature of angels is
shown very clearly in the account
when Zechariah tells about the
revelations given to him by the
ministry of an angel.
• The prophet depicts the angel as
speaking "in him".
• He seems to imply that he was
conscious of an interior voice which
was not that of God but of His
messenger.
 Jesus Says We Have
Guardian Angels?
• Mt. 18:10 “See that you do not despise one of
these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their
angels always behold the face of my Father who
is in heaven.
• We hear Jesus say in Matthew 26:53 Do you
think that I cannot appeal to my
Father, and he will at once send me
more than twelve legions of angels?
We Continue To See Angels in
the New Testament
• The same heavenly spirit announced:
• the birth of St. John the Baptist
(Luke 1:11) and
• the Incarnation of the Redeemer
(Luke 2:13),
• It was an angel that gave the
message to the shepherds (Luke,
2:9), and
• the most glorious angelic mission
of all, was that of strengthening
the King of Angels in His Agony
(Luke 22:43).
 Angels are Present at Great
Turning Points
• Angelic activity was • At the tomb on the
prominent at the great day of resurrection
turning points in the • They come again at
divine plan of the day of the
salvation. ascension and
• In the days of the • they will be prominent
Patriarchs (Abraham, again when Christ
Isaac and Moses). returns (Matt.
• the time of the Exodus 25:31; Mark 8:38).
and giving of the law,
• the period of the Exile
and restoration, and
• the birth of Jesus,