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GOD CREATED ALL THE ANGELS: According to Jn. 1:3 and Heb. 1:1-4, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had created all the angels. The prophet Ezekiel, in chapter 28:13b-14, also spoke of the “anointed cherub who covers,” whom God had “created.” The holy, or sinless spiritual beings, whom the God of the Bible calls “angels”, live in heaven with Him. The Eternal God had created all the angels in a time-designation described as ‘everlasting.’ The angles had been there long before God had created the earth, as they all “shouted for joy” that day when He “laid the foundations of the earth,” (Job. 38:4-7.)
DO HUMANS BECOME ANGELS WHEN THEY DIE; WATCHING OVER US FROM HEAVEN? The Lord Jesus Christ Himself declared that angels are not dead ‘saints,’ ‘sweet,’ ‘good,’ or ‘holy’ people living on earth, or even born again people who died and went to heaven, (Lu. 20:34-36; Mt. 25:41.) God created the angels as a totally different species from humankind. While humans are living on earth in their physical bodies, they remain “lower than the angels” on God’s creation-scale, (Heb. 1:7,14; 2:6-7.) Neither living humans nor departed human spirits can become angels; and angels can never become human spirits. However, when the born again believers of the Lord Jesus Christ die, their departed human spirits become “like angels” in heaven. Thus, in heaven, the departed human spirits of sincerely born again believers become “equal to the angels;” being on the same level as the angels, (Mt. 22:30; Lu. 20:36.) Although the born again departed and the angels are on the same level before the throne of God in heaven, humans spirits will remain disembodied until the resurrection of the dead in Christ. At that moment “Jesus will descend from heaven with a loud cry… and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will be [physically] raised imperishable. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, the physically living ones in Christ shall be transformed, [into physical/spiritual beings, resembling Christ’s glorified, resurrected body, Jn. 20:26-27], and they shall be caught up along with the resurrected saints to meet the Lord in the air,” 1 Cor. 15:51-53; Ths. 4:17. Disobedient people who died without ever accepting and following the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savoir, will remain disembodied spirits until the “second resurrection,” (the resurrection of those who will not live with God in heaven,) to face the Great White-throne judgment of God, (Jn. 1:12-13; Mt. 25:41; Lu. 16:24; Rev. 20:11-15.) According to the Word of God, however, even born again, departed human spirits know nothing about the affairs of those who are still living on earth; “nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun!” (Isa. 8:19, Eccl. 9:5-10.) For this reason, God views human attempts to communicate with, and consult the dead as the sin of idolatry. Living human beings should consult God in all their needs. If we try to consult or contact the dead, we will only communicate with deceiving spirits or demons, who are masquerading as the spirits of the departed, (Deut. 18:10-12; 1 Cor. 10:14, 21.) The departed have lived their lives here on earth. For them, life on earth as we know it, is over for all eternity.
WHO ARE THE ANGELS OF GOD REALLY? John wrote in Rev. 5:11-12, ‘Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angles around the throne… the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands…’ Apart from Christ Jesus Himself, angels are the most powerful beings in the universe; intelligent and free-willed entities of the highest rank, but they are not God, and thus cannot create anything. All the angels of God worship Him, and as His servants, they execute His power and authority here on earth, (Heb. 1:6-7; 14.) Just as God Himself, angels are also immortal. And they, too, are invisible, unless, for a specific reason, God commands them to show themselves to human beings, (Heb. 1:5-14; Acts 12:7-10.) Unlike Hollywood-films which portray God’s holy angels as beings who desire to partake of physical lusts, they are exalted high above the sinful desires of humankind. Angels are the supernatural soldiers, messengers and sentries of the living God. They are as fast as lightning and as powerful as fire, (Heb. 1:7, 14.) In unseen, and for humankind mostly in unknown ways, they execute God’s will in every situation on earth - where and as He Alone commands. Oftentimes, in cataclysmic circumstances, they remain quiet bystanders when, for reasons unknown to us, God chooses to stay His hand from Divine intervention.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIT THE NOTION OF ‘CHERUBS’ INTO GOD’S DESCRIPTION OF ANGELS? The sinless, all-powerful, angelic ‘strike force’ of Jesus Christ is neither cute, nor cuddly, nor bored. Jesus’ angelic soldiers are to be respected as immensely powerful, supernatural, male beings. Guards who protect the way to the Tree of Life, (or Christ Jesus Himself,) with ‘flaming swords,’ (Gen. 3:24.) Avenging warriors who can stand “between earth and the heavens with drawn swords in their hands,” (1 Chron. 21:16.) God’s all-powerful army numbers “more than those who are with them,” (the forces of darkness.) They are under the full command of their omnipotent Creator as they wait on the ‘mountains’ all around us, mounted on “horses and chariots of fire,” (2 Kings 6:16-17.) Mighty wardens who stand one-on-one at the “four corners of the earth,” holding back the evil forces of devastation, (Rev. 7:1.) A gigantic angel even “set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars, that there shall be delay no longer, and that the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets,” (Rev. 10:1-3.) So, in the clear light of Biblical Scripture, little ‘baby’ angels or ‘cherubs’ do not exist. The despicable myth of ‘bored, naughty, playful little angels, watching humans while drifting on fluffy white clouds,’ definitely does not relate to the powerful, holy angels of God.
ARE ANGELS IMPORTANT TO US PERSONALLY? Of one thing we can be sure– the angels of God are always near to guard, help, protect, strengthen and carry us. God also sends them to us with messages of warning and guidance, (Mt. 2:13.) They speak in many of our dreams, fend off danger or pull us out of harms way. They even open prison doors and bring us out of great calamities, (Acts 5:19,20.) Often, they rescue us from the very clutches of death itself, (Mt. 26:53.) After Jesus withstood the temptations of the devil in the wilderness, “the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him;” thus we may boldly accept that God sends His angels to minister protection, comfort and healing to us in times of trouble! Yet we become so easily discouraged and fearful. If only God would open our spiritual eyes to focus on Him as the omnipotent God of all creation! The One Who “holds our times in His hand!” If only God would enlighten our carnal minds to understand His immeasurable might and incredible power in and through His unseen spiritual world, how strong and spiritually unconquerable we would be in Him!
DO WE HAVE PERSONAL “GUARDIAN ANGELS?” We should always focus on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Sole Provider and Protector and never focus on the angels of God as such. Yet, angels are the ministering servants of God, and so, Scripture does indicate that God assigns a ‘personal’ angel to every sincere believer, “who always see the face of the Father Who is in heaven,” (Mt. 18:10.) Although Scripture does not state this emphatically, we can accept that these angels are ‘personal’ guarding angels of the highest rank. Such angels are the servants of God whom He “sends forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation” - that is, the sincere believers of Jesus Christ, (Heb. 1:14.)
SHOULD WE CONSULT, COMMAND, WORSHIP AND REVERE ANGELS? Scripture teaches that angels were created for GOD to minister primarily to GOD. Thus, all holy angels are under the direct command of God and God Alone. When they minister to humankind, (and they do, ‘for He shall give His angels charge over you…’) they will only minister according to the directions of God, (Rev. 5:11.) They will not and do not obey human beings directly, as Scripture forbids us to consult angels or to worship them. John declared in Rev. 22:8-9, “I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, ‘See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.’” To worship angels; to trust in angels rather than in God, and to pray to, speak to, or consult angels rather than God, is the sin of idolatry, (Ex. 20:1-5.) The holy angels live to worship and obey God Alone. The psalmist declared in Ps. 103:19-22, ‘The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His Kingdom rules over all. Bless the Lord, you His angels… who do His Word, heeding the voice of His word.. you ministers of HIS, who do His pleasure.’ If you believe you have command over a ‘guarding angel,’ ‘familiar angel,’ or any other kind of angel, you were deceived by Satan, who can change himself into the image of an angel of light, to make you believe that you are in contact with a holy angel, while you are actually under the deception and control of a dangerous demon, (2 Cor. 11:14.) The enemy of humankind’s soul, Lucifer or Satan, is a master of deception, and he will use and abuse our lack of knowledge and disobedience to Scripture to get hold of our souls. For this reason God had commanded us “NOT to believe every spirit, but to test the spirits, to see whether they are of God… By this you know the Spirit of God, (and the true nature of angels.) Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [spirit, not a human, for humans can confess anything,] and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God…” So, whenever you meet a supernatural being who wants you to believe that he is a holy angel, please obey the Word of God and immediately “test” the spirit to see whether he is really of God. Remember that God’s holy angels will never draw unnecessary attention to themselves. They live to glorify, worship, and obey the Lord Jesus Christ alone, (Heb. 1:6.)
WHAT ABOUT FEMALE ANGELS? (Zech. 5:9, THE SINGLE VERSE THAT REFERS TO ‘WOMEN,’ CARRYING A BASKET:) Someone wrote us that the Bible does indeed refer to ‘female’ angels— in one verse in the whole of Biblical Scripture! Zechariah 5:9, “There were two women, coming with the wind in their wings… and they lifted up the basket, [with the woman named ‘Wickedness’ incarcerated inside,] and carried it away to the land of Shinar, [or Babylon— the name which describes the worldwide system of idolatry.]” In the context of this chapter, it is clear that the angel showed the prophet a prophetic vision; and the angel actually told the prophet the meaning of that prophecy. The woman named 'Wickedness' in Zechariah chapter 5 is a metaphor of the Old Testament nation of Israel; just like 'Mystery' who rides ‘the scarlet beast,’ represents the idolatrous, New Testament, church system in Rev. 17-18. As in the case of ‘Mystery,’ ‘Wickedness’ and the ‘two women’ carrying the basket, are metaphors, envisioning that prophecy. CONTEXTUALLY, (and surely, the CONTEXT of a passage conveys the true meaning of a verse,) Zechariah chapter 5 describes the meaning of verse 9: 1) The idolatrous nation of Old Israel or 'Wickedness,' whom the angel had imprisoned in a basket, was sentenced by God to be mightily and swiftly ‘carried away’ or dispersed throughout the whole earth. 2) The two 'women' dispersing ‘Wickedness’ represents: a) the idolatrous corruption of the Babylonian system in the hearts of the Hebrew nation, and b) the swift onslaught of the Roman Empire on the Hebrew nation. These two ‘women,’ (Babylon and the Roman Empire,) carried the nation of Old Israel away from her land to merge with all the wicked countries of the world. Moreover, this prophecy of 518 BC, was fulfilled in 70 AD when the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Hebrew nation throughout all the earth! So, if one reads verse this in context, one will see that God was not saying these ‘two women,' (symbolizing Babylon and the Roman Empire,) are angels – or even demons. Once, all demons were holy angels, therefore demons can also fly 'with the wind in their wings,' but in this case, the ‘two women’ are merely metaphors that envisions the prophecy. The notion of female angels is a pagan doctrine. Neither the Hebrew Scriptures, nor the Apocrypha, (non-canonical books of early Christianity) nor the Bible declares the possibility that God had created female angels. Disgustingly however, someone actually wrote us, “Angels have sex in heaven, as they were created with the necessary tools, according to Gen. 6! They do multiply themselves, as there are female angels as well as males. In Mark 12:25, Jesus spoke on the marriage covenant; He did not say that angels are male only and do not multiply themselves.” The discussion in Mt. 12:25 centred on the question whether husband and wife will continue their marriage covenant in heaven. Jesus said no, because born again human spirits will be LIKE angels, who "NEITHER marry, [have sexual relations] NOR are given in marriage, [are united by marriage covenant,]" because neither angels nor departed human spirits multiply themselves! Born again believers will NOT become angels in heaven. They will become LIKE angels, therefore they will have no need of a marriage covenant! God commanded His material creation on earth to multiply after their own kind. Our most holy God created the marriage covenant for HUMANS, who are still "LOWER" than the angels while living one earth, (Lu. 20:36.) Angels remain a different species from departed human spirits, as explained in Hebrews chapters 1 and 2. The holy angelic race is incomprehensibly higher and explicitly different from the human species! In heaven, however, they have one thing in common: they do not have sex, neither do they marry, as they have no need to multiply! God did indeed create, or speak into existence, all the billions of male angels. Lucifer fell from glory and became the perverter of everything God had created so very good in Eden, but his perversion did not and cannot pollute the angels who chose to remain holy. To think therefore that holy angels have sex - and worse, immoral sex in heaven, is simply another satanic perversion. 2 Pt. 2:10-12 warns, “Those who despise [God’s] authority… are not afraid to speak evil of [heavenly] dignitaries… [the angels,] they speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will perish in their own corruption…” Scripture refers to all the angels as ‘the sons of God.’ Of course they are not literal sons; this merely explains their gender and their close affiliation with their Creator. Contrary to the false portrayal of angels by the media industry, God created only male angels. Daniel 9:21 refers to “the man Gabriel,” and of course, we know of the other archangel, Michael, who is the commander of God’s angelic armies. In the apocrypha or non-biblical books, angels called Raphael, Seth, Jeremiel, Uriel, and so on are also mentioned. However, Scripture does not even mention the probability of ‘female’ angels, nor does it describe a single encounter with a ‘female’ angel, because female angels simply do not exist. So, “why did God create angels with the 'necessary tools,' as they are capable, at least, of having sex with humans, as described in Gen. 6?” Humans simply do not know, for the Bible does not give any reason as to that fact. Bible believing, born again believers of Jesus Christ will rest in what God really did reveal through the full context of His Word. They will never try to add to God's Word in order to make up their own facts about angels, or anything else they choose to believe.
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