Angels Part 1

This week’s doctrinal study brings us to one of my favorite subjects to study and teach and that is Angels. I love this subject because it is one of the least subjects studied in the bible. Most people either have a misunderstanding about angels or they know little to nothing on the subject of truth. Actually the word of God has much so say on the subject and much to teach on the subject. In these articles we are certainly not able to cover every thing on these subjects that we cover on Wednesday nights however we do try to cover all we can. I believe the first point I want to look at with angels is who they are, angels are created beings and they were created to serve God. Angels are not man and men do not become angels. Angels are spirits and do not have bodies but they can take on bodies to serve Gods purpose. They are also sexless, in other words they are neither male nor female however every time they have been seen or God has called them by name they have always been male. I know that most times when one thinks of an angel they are mostly blonde, young, very pretty, and female, however this is un-provable and un-scriptural. Most people today have images or statues of some sort of angels and these are known as false graven images and a sort of worship just as pictures of Jesus Christ are and should not be in our possession. If we do not have actual images and statues then they are false however even if we did we would still be forbidden to have them of angels. Someone cannot have an image of someone else and call it me, that would be false and there are no actual images of Jesus Christ.

Angels are like everything else except God they are created beings, Colossians 1:16 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” they were created to worship God and to serve God just as everything else that was created. Angels are pure spirits which means that they have no bodies. Luke 24:39 “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” Although those believers that have died in Christ Jesus is also at present time body less until Jesus returns and gives them a new glorified body. Angels constitute an order of creatures higher than man. Angels were created higher than man and they are more powerful that man. But in finality we will be higher than them because we are the children of the Living God. However right now Angels are said to be greater than man in might - 2 Peter 2:11 "Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord." We also see in the Lords resurrection when the angel descended from heaven he caused an earthquake and moved the stone from in front of the tomb alone. Matthew 28:2 "And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it." Angels also are sexless and neither do they marry Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." Angels are deathless or they never die. Luke 20:35 - 36 "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: (36.) Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." We do know that angels sin and when they do their neither grace, mercy, nor salvation for them they simply fall to everlasting damnation. 2 Peter 2:4 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" So with all this being said we can see why we do not want to be angels but rather children of the most high God. More next week.