“The Doctrine of Angels” Part 3

We now come to our third and final part of what Baptist believes about Angels. As we have look at a lot about and hopefully learned a lot about them we want to conclude this study looking at their duties or their employment as servants of God. We must understand that all of Gods creation serves Him in some form, even the lost and worst among us God uses for His own glory.

We learn first Angels praise the lord and do His commandments. Just as all of God creation, in finality of all things they were created to bless the Lords name and do what so ever He commands. Psalms 103:20 "Bless the LORD, ye his angels..." Angels rejoice in the salvation of men. Not because of what man has done by making a decision or choice, not because man has chosen to turn over a new leaf, and not because man has chosen to change his own will, no, not at all, but because of the miraculous power and work of God to change mans will and to cause him to react contrary to his own wicked nature. Salvation is a miracle because the only way it can be accomplished is by the power of God. Angels are messengers of God. We have since creation seen the angels of God communicating with man. In fact the name “angel” itself means - to dispatch as a deputy or a messenger – in both Hebrew and Greek. We also see God use the term when speaking to the seven churches in Asia Minor "...The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches..." Revelation 1:20 – these seven “Stars” or “Angels” are the seven Pastors of these seven churches. Whether Pastors or Angels we are all messengers of God to His creation. They execute God’s purposes. "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." 2 Kings 19:35 Here we see an “angel of the Lord” kill all them that were in this camp. Most people will find it hard to believe that God would send an angel to kill but He does. Let us not forget that God has killed many of people over time and will kill many more in the future, it is called “The Tribulation of this world” and eventually God will kill everyone on this earth. God can use anyone or anything to do His blessed will, even His Angels. Angels gave the law of God. That’s right Angels delivered to man some of the laws of God. Acts 7:53 “Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.” The word “disposition” means - arrangement, that is, institution – it was not their law but Gods law being delivered by His Angels. We as man should want the laws of God followed and served by mankind but we have a hard time simply following it ourselves. “…and have not kept it.” Acts 7:53 This is why Pastors sometimes sound like hypocrites is because we too fail Gods laws, but Angels do not because if they do they fall right into hell. Angels were used to minister to Christ. What an ordeal the “Son of man” had just encountered with Satan and it must have affected Him greatly and made Him weak in the flesh as we are when we battle Satan and refuse his temptations. Matthew 4:11 "Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him." We sometimes forget that Christ Jesus (while incarnate with the Son of God) was also simply a man and suffered as we do. They came to help Him get strong again. Angels take a great interest in divine truth and learn through the church. We are never alone in our church services, God is there and His Angels are also there. They are there to see us bring praise to God and also to hear the truth being taught in the house of God. 1 Peter 1:12 "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into."