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Part 1 Looked At…. Who and What Angels are, Some of their characteristics, Their history of representing God,. Psalms 34:7. The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and rescues them. They Have Always Watched Over God’s People. An established principle with Godly people.
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Part 1 Looked At…. • Who and What Angels are, • Some of their characteristics, • Their history of representing God,
Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and rescues them.
They Have Always Watched Over God’s People • An established principle with Godly people.
Numbers 20:16 But when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt…
Exodus 23:20ff Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared….
They Have Always Watched Over God’s People • An established principle with Godly people. • Israelites certainly knew it.
Matthew 18:10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven.
They Have Always Watched Over God’s People • An established principle with Godly people. • Israelites certainly knew it. • Babes (in Christ) were used as examples of it.
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Daniel 10:13, 20 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me,… …there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince.
They Have Always Been Tools of God’s Providence • Worked with Jesus under the O.T.
Hebrews 1:13-14 Angels… Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
They Have Always Been Tools of God’s Providence • Worked with Jesus under the O.T. • Work with Jesus under the N.T. • Angels render service for the sake…. Angels do all that God asks, whatever He asks.
Hebrews 2:6-7 \ Psalms 8:5 What is man that Thou rememberest him; Or the son of man, that Thou art concerned about him? Thou hast made him for little while lower than the angels..
Angels are not our Authority • We’re created just a little lower for now
Hebrews 2:5 For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking…
Angels are not our Authority • We’re created just a little lower for now • We are not/nor will not be subject to angels
1 Corinthians 6:3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, matters of this life? Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark… by which he condemned the world…
Angels are not our Authority • We’re created just a little lower for now • We are not/nor will not be subject to angels • We will ‘judge’ angels • Angels don’t lead us, the word does
1 Thessalonians 1:7 …when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire…
Angels are not our Authority • We’re created just a little lower for now • We are not/nor will not be subject to angels • We will ‘judge’ angels • Angels don’t lead us, the word does • We will see angels someday
Angels Teach Us A Great Deal • God has a purpose for every created thing • Disobedient ones are reserved in darkness for judgment • Obedient ones are seen in gleaming white, glorious • What will it be like when you see them?