Angels

Angels

Many people are renewing their interest in angels these days and that's a good thing and that's a bad thing...it depends upon how that interest is pursued. Dr. Kennedy's article gives some important insights into the role of angels in our world today.

We who believe in JESUS should appreciate the fact that HE has given HIS angels the job of guarding our lives, but we must never confuse our reverence for HIM with our appreciation of them.

Angels and Their Roles by Dr. D. James Kennedy

“Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voices of many angels, numbering ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands…”

— Revelation 5:11

A comforting truth in the Scripture is that there are innumerable angels—supernatural servants and messengers of God. There are myriads of myriads of kiliads of killiads, vast hundreds of millions of billions of angels, and there is no doubt that the angels of God outnumber the enemies of God.

Not that they need to. If one of them can handle 185 thousand fully armed soldiers in one night (II Kings 19:35), they don’t need to outnumber them, but they do outnumber them.

One of the things about angels is that they are present a lot more than we realize. I’m sure they are all about us all of the time.

They are sent to minister unto the heirs of salvation Hebrews tells us, and they are watching over us. They have a great interest in and they are commanded to watch over the people of God.

Nonetheless, we are not to worship them, we are to worship only God alone.

There are different times when human beings encounter angels, and they mistakenly bow down to worship them. Here is an example:

“I, John, am he who saw and heard these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. But he said to me, ‘See that you not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship only God!’” (Revelation 22:8-9).

Father, thank You for Your servants, the angels. Thank You that we who are saved have received something they have never experienced, Your divine redemption. We praise You that You are so holy that the angels hide their faces from You…

BY HIS STRENGTH, WE RECEIVE DIVINE HELP.