~Scripture About Angels~
Scripture Teaches Us How Angels
Rescue, Guard, Keep, Protect, Bring us messages from God,
Fight our
Battles, Carry out God's Desires
Hebrews 1:13-14
"But
to what angel has He ever said,
'Sit at
my right hand, till I make they enemies a stool for they feet'?
Are they
not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve,
for the
sake of those who are to obtain salvation?"
1st Kings
19:5
And
as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold,
then an
angel touched him, and said unto him,
Arise and
eat.
Acts 5:17-21
"But
the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of
the Sadducees,
and filled
with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison.
But at night
an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said,
'Go and
stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.
' And when
they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and taught."
Genesis 19:15
"When
morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying,
"Arise,
take your wife and your two daughters who are here,
lest you
be consumed in the punishment of the city."
Psalm 91:11-12
"For
He will give His angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
On their
hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone."
Exodus 33:2
"And
I will send an angel before you,
and I will
drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites,
the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
Luke 1:11
"And
the angel answered him, 'I am Gabriel,
who stand
in the presence of God;
and I was
sent to speak to you , and to bring you this good news."
Acts 8:26-29
"But
an angel of the Lord said to Philip,
'Rise and
go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.'
This is
a desert road. And he rose and went.
And behold,
an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a minister of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians,
in charge
of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning;
seated in
his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
And the
Spirit said to Philip, 'Go up and join this chariot.'"
Matthew 13:41-42
"The
Son of man will send his angels,
and they
will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
and throw
them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."
How
Do We Get Them to Help Us?
They
Come as a result of prayer and belief in God
Acts 12:5-8
"So
Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by
the church.
The very
night when Herod was about to bring him out,
Peter was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,
and sentries
before the door were guarding the prison; and behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared,
and a light
shone in the cell; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying,
'Get up
quickly.' And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him,
'Dress yourself
and put on your sandals.'
And he did
so. And he said to him,
'Wrap your
mantle around you and follow me.'
Luke 1: 19,
26
And
the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence
of God;
and am sent
to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
And in the
sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee,
named Nazareth,..."
How
Do We See Them?
In Dreams, In Visions, in Person
Matthew 1:20.
"But while he thought on these things,
behold,
the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream,
saying,
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife;
for that
which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."
Isaiah 6:1-2
"In
the year that king Uzziah died I saw the also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and
lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it
stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain
he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he
did fly."
Daniel 8:15-17
"And when it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision,
and sought
for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance
of a man.
And I heard
a man's voice between the banks of Ulai,
which called,
and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision."
Daniel 10:5-6,
7
"Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed
in linen,
whose loins
were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
His body
also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightening,
and his
eyes as the lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished
brass,
and the
voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
And I Daniel
alone saw the vision:
for the
men that were with me saw not the vision;
but a great
quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves."
Zechariah
5:9
"Then
lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came out two women,
and the
wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork:
and they
lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven."
Isaiah 6:2
"Above
it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain
he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he
did fly."
Ezekiel 1:5-6
"Also
out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this
was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
And every
one had four faces, and every one had four wings."
Daniel 9:21
"Yea,
whiles I was speaking, and in prayer,
even the
man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being caused
to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation."
Revelation
14:6
"And
I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people."
Should We
Worship The Angels - pray to them, talk to them as if they are God? God
says "No!"
Colossians
2:18
Let no man
beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
intruding
into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind,..
Revelation
19:10; 22:9
And
I fell at his feet to worship him, And he said unto me,
See thou
do it not:
I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have testimony of Jesus:
worship
God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Then
he saith unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant,
and of thy
brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book:
worship
God.