Reply All: What About Angels?

August 8, 2021

Angels are…

  • Angels are  beings.

Colossians 1:16 NIV

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

Job 38:4-7 NIV

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set,or who laid its cornerstone—while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

 

  • Angels are  beings.

Hebrews 1:14 NIV

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 13:2 NIV

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

  • Angels are Individual “ (with intellect, emotions and free will)

Revelation 12:7-9 NIV

Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

  • Angels are . 

Daniel 7:10 NIV

A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.

  • Angels are  beings.

Revelation 22:8-9 NIV

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”

  • Angels are  beings.

2 Chronicles 32:20-21 NIV

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to heaven about this. And the Lord sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 32:22 NIV So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all others. He took care of them on every side. 

 

  • Angels are   beings. 
  1. To  God continuously.

Psalm 148:2 NIV

Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. 

  1. To  for God as God directs.

Psalm 103:19-20 NIV

The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all. Praise the Lord, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word. 

  1. To  Christ-followers accomplish God’s will.

Hebrews 1:14 NIV

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

To activate angels:

  • Position yourself with  and .

Hebrews 12:22-232a NIV

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.

  • Live in right  with God.

Luke 12:8-9 NIV

“I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God.

  • Understand the  you do and do not have.

Ephesians 2:6-7 NIV

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

One final thought:

Luke 16:22-23 NLT

“Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the heavenly banquet. The rich man also died and was buried, and he went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with Lazarus at his side.

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