(23) ANGELS

An Angel is a heavenly messenger who either delivers a message to humans, carries out God's will, praises God, or guards God's throne. The appearance of angels vary. Only Cherubim & Seraphim are represented with wings, -(Eze.1:4-28, 10:3-22) & (Isa.6:2-6). These are visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel, not a physical encounter. Angels appear in visions, dreams and sometimes as a man. Angels were not created as sexual beings. When we get our eternal body, we will not be sexual beings. We will all be like the angels, sons of God -(Gal.3:28). A born-again christian, male or female, is now neither male or female spiritually. We are all one in Christ. At the Rapture, we will be changed physically also, and will be neither Jew or Greek, bond or free, male or female, physically and spiritually . We believe that each christian has a guardian angel, though the Bible doesn't say so specifically. (Matt.18:10)- Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven./ (Heb.1:14)- Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation./ This seems also to apply to a person before he becomes a christian, for the Lord knows in advance who will become saved. Sometimes an angel appearing as a man in the OT was the preincarnate Christ, who was Jehovah. I say this, for one reason, that Jehovah allowed Moses to see his back parts. -(Ex.33:23)- I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen./ (John 1:18)- No man has seen God (The Father) at any time./ Back to Jehovah appearing as a man: (Gen.18:1-2)- The Lord appeared to Abraham. The Lord with two angels appeared as three men./ (Gen.18:22)- The two angels as men went to Sodom, but the Lord (Jehovah) as a man stayed with Abraham. Oftentimes in the OT the action of God is direct and somtimes through an angel. An angel is a messenger, or an agent of God. We know that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But, it seems that everything comes from the Father, through the Son, through the Holy Spirit; and then to, or through, an angel, or a person. The Holy Spirit fills or enables the person to make it possible for the man or woman to say, or do, God's bidding. (1 Cor.6:2-3)- Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world (During our millenial reign with Jesus) and know ye not that we shall judge angels./ (Luke 20:34-36)- The children of this world marry and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry or are given in marriage. 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./ Angels are personal beings, not abstract good and evil. They constitute a company, not a race developed from one original pair. Angels have superhuman intelligence, but are not omnicient. -(Matt.24:36) (Jude 6)- The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day./ (Jude 9)- Michael is the archangel. (Chief angel) (Lucifer, was chief of the fallen angels). He is the great dragon in (Rev.12:9-10)- The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan,which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (He was originally cast out before Adam & Eve, but now he no longer reports to God, and the accuser of the brethern is cast down.) Con