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A STUDY ON ANGELS
​ STUDY SCRIPTURES - ECCLESIASTES 3:1; COLOSSIANS 2:18;
REVELATION 5: 11-12; JOB 38:7; AND GENESIS 3:1
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FIRST OF ALL, LET'S BE CLEAR OF THIS ONE THING; WE ARE NOT WORSHIPERS OF ANGELS. SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO BE CHALLENGED WITH DIFFERENCIATING BETWEEN THEIR POWER, AND THE ULTIMATE POWER OF ALMIGHTY GOD.
THE APOSTLE PAUL WARNED THE COLOSSIAN CHURCH AGAINST THE WORSHIPING OF ANGELS IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 18.
FOR SURE WE EXPECT IT THAT SINCE ANGELS HAVE BEEN IN THE IMMEDIATE PRESENCE OF GOD, THEY RADIATE WITH POWER BEFORE THE FRAILNESS OF HUMANITY, BUT THE BIBLE COMMANDS US WITH THESE WORDS; "THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER gods, BEFORE ME (EXODUS 20: 3), AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE.
THE ORIGIN OF ANGELS
I HAVE NOT FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES A SPECIFIC TIME WHEN GOD CREATED THEM (ANGELS). IN THE BOOK OF JOB (37: 7) WE CAN SEE A TINY GLIMPSE OF THEIR PRESENCE AT THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH SUGGESTS TO US THAT THEY WERE CREATED AT SOME POINT PRIOR TO THE DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE.
THE WORDS IN THE VERSE IN JOB 37:7 SEEMS TO PAINT A LARGER PICTURE FOR US WHEN IT SAYS: THEY (ANGELS) REJOICED AND SHOUTED TOGETHER AS THEY BEHELD THE AWESOMENESS AND MATCHLESS POWER OF GOD AS HE REVEILED BEFORE THEM THE ENDLESS RESESSES OF SPACE, AND UNFOLDED TO THEM WHAT HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN OR EVER SEEN BEFORE.
IT IS EASY TO ASSUME THAT SINCE GOD HAS SET CERTAIN ANGELS OVER THE AIRES OF SALVATION, (THE SAINTS) AND SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THERE IS AT LEAST ONE ASSIGNED TO EVERY BELIEVER) THAT WE TAKE ON A NARROW-MINDED, OR MIS-GUIDED CONCEPT OF THEM. ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE THERE ARE MYRIADS (A COUNTLESS NUMBER) OF ANGELS.
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AS FOR THE ANGEL/ANGELS SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU, APPRECIATE THEM, BUT DO NOT WORSHIP THEM, BE THANKFUL FOR THEM, BUT ALWAYS GIVE THE GLORY TO JESUS. THE APOSTLE JOHN WHILE ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS WHEN JESUS GAVE HIM THE REVELATION, WITNESSED A HOST OF THEM WHICH COULD NOT BE NUMBERED - REVELATION 5: 11-12.
COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF THEM I SAY, WITH COUNTLESS OTHER DUTIES THROUGHOUT GOD'S ENDLESS CREATION.
ALTHOUGH THE SCRIPTURES OFTEN PORTRAYED THEM AS BEINGS WHO ARE ENDOWED WITH STRENGTH BEYOND HUMAN ABILITY, THEY ARE NOT TO BE WORSHIPED. THEY, LIKE MEN; HAVE BEEN GIVEN A WILL AND THEY CAN CHOOSE WHETHER TO CARRY OUT THE WILL OF GOD.
ANGELS - THEIR PURPOSE
DUTIES OF ANGELS – THE DUTIES OF SOME OF THEM IS TO COME TO THE AID OF, AND TO SUPPORT THE AIRES OF SALVATION AS AGENTS WHO REPRESENT GOD'S CARE FOR HUMANITY. THE FIRST MENTION OF ANY ANGELIC ACTIVITIES THAT I CAN SEE IN SCRIPTURE IS FOUND IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER 3 WHERE SATAN BEGUILES EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
ALTHOUGH GENESIS IS LISTED AS THE FIRST BOOK IN OUR BIBLE, ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION, THEY BELIEVE THAT MOSES WROTE THE BOOKS OF GENESIS, AND JOB, AND THAT JOB IS THE OLDEST BIBLICAL BOOK. IT SEEMS THAT MOST BIBLICAL SCHOLARS AND THEOLOGIANS BELIEVE THE SAME. IN CHAPTER 3 OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS; STARTING AT THE FIRST VERSE, WE SEE HOW THE SERPENT BEGUILED EVE. THE ACTUAL CHARACTER BEHIND THIS SUBTILE CREATURE WAS SATAN ONE OF THE FALLEN ANGELS. SO, GENESIS 3 LETS US KNOW THAT ANGELS WERE ALREADY IN EXISTANCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOOK OF JOB, CHAPTER 38:7 IT SEEMS TO SAY TO US THAT THE ANGELS WITNESSED GOD’S MIGHTY ACTS OF CREATION, AND THEY WERE ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT TASKS IN GOD'S CREATION. OUR FOCUS TODAY IS ON THEIR ASSIGNMENTS. I AM SURE THAT YOU KNOW BY NOW THAT THERE ARE GOOD ANGELS, THOSE WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD; AND THAT THERE ARE EVIL OR FALLEN ANGELS, WHO AGREE WITH AND SERVE SATAN THE ONE WHO IS DECEIVED AND FALLEN AWAY FROM GOD. FOR THAT REASON WE AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN THE WORLD ARE IN THE MIDST OF WHAT IS CALLED THE WAR OF THE AGES, THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. YET ACCORDING TO JESUS OUR KING, THE BATTLE IS ALREADY WON, AND FOR THIS; EVERY BELIEVER CAN SHOUT FOR JOY, BECAUSE JESUS SETTLED IT ALL BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE DIVISIONS OF ANGELS IN GOD'S BOUNDLESS KINGDOM.
YOU HAVE SEEN NAMES OF ONLY A FEW OF THEM. SUCH NAMES AS MICHAEL, GABRIEL RAPHAEL, URIEL, RAGUEL AND ARIEL, AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN COME NEAR TO SCRATCHING THE SERFACE OF NAMING THEM ALL. NOTICE THAT EACH OF THE NAMES I MENTIONED HAS EL IN THEM. EL IS ONE OF THE NAMES OF GOD. THE NAME OF GOD ATTACHED TO THEIR NAMES SHOWS THEIR IDENTITY. THE ANGELS OF GOD ASSOCIATE WITH, ARE COMITTED TO, AND STAND FOR GOD ALONE. THEIR IDENTITY SPEAKS OF WHO THEY ARE, WHOSE THEY ARE, AND WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT. THE IDENTITY OF SOMETHING IS THE FACT OF BEING WHO OR WHAT A PERSON OR THING IS; THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTER OR PERSONALITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR IDENTITY? CAN YOU BE RECOGNIZED AS BEING IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST? AFTER ALL, THE WHOLE IDEA BEHIND THE ANGELS WHO HAVE BEEN SENT TO ASSIST US WHO ARE RECIPIANTS OF GOD’S GRACE IN JESUS CHRIST, IS TO AID US IN BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST. READ) PSALM 34: 7-8.
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