Angels And Demons

Angels and Demons

Yes, actual angels and demons are walking among us. Sometimes both types of angels influence us via visions or whispering into our hearts and minds. Some are warnings, some are enticements to temptations.

When demons do that, those are evil thoughts we must conquer, for they are real entities that strive to disrupt our lives and cause us to sin. They want you to suffer and they strive to cause you to make others suffer. More than anything they want to erode or eradicate your belief in Jesus Christ. That's the bad news.

The good news is God knew of our weaknesses and caused his only begotten Son to suffer and die for the sins of all the people that have or will ever have inhabited this world. For our salvation, all we have to do is believe in Jesus and walk the path he outlined for us.

We read in the Bible that God created angels to serve and glorify Him. “Praise him, all his angels: praise him, all his hosts. Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.” (Psalm 148:2-5)

Angels are mighty in strength, as told by Psalm 103:20, “Bless the Lord, you (are) His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word!” Another example is revealed within Revelation 10:1, “I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.” Verse 18:21 adds, Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.”

Both Isiah and 2 Kings reveal that a solitary angel of the LORD went out at night and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand troops in the camp of the Assyrians. When God's people got up the next morning—all there were to be seen were dead bodies scattered everywhere!

In the form of a question, Hebrews 1:14, says we are told that angels are spirits. “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” And by comparison, according to Psalms 8:5, “Man was created a little lower than the angels.”

Once we become glorified, circumstances change as does the hierarchy between angels and humankind. Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Corinth church, told us that believers will not only judge the world but also judge angels: “Do you not know that we are to judge angels?” What we can surmise from this? 1 Corinthians 6:3 passage relates that we, as God’s children, will be given positions higher than the angels.

Not only are we created in God’s image but we are redeemable by Christ (Galatians 3:13; Luke 1:68). Though angels were created immortal, they were not created in God’s image and are not redeemed by Christ (Hebrews 1:14; 2:16). Also, God sends His angels to serve us, His saints.

Do you believe good angels can physically guide people or harm them? Read Genesis 19. God sends angels to warn and advise humans, or even blind troublemakers if need be. Angels warned Lot to escape Sodom before God would destroy the city. When Lot did not move fast enough, the two men grabbed his hand. They also took the hands of his wife and his two daughters. The two men (angels) led Lot and his family safely out of the city. (Genesis 19). Too bad for her that Lot's wife turned around.

Two angels greeted the women at Jesus’ tomb, and said, “Jesus had risen and to go tell His disciples to meet Jesus in Galilee.”As Jesus ascended into heaven, two men (angels in white apparel) informed the disciples that Jesus would return in the same way they saw Him go into heaven (Acts 1:10-11).

Few angels, among the thousands of angels, are named in the Bible. Michael and Gabriel are God's angels, whereas Lucifer and Abaddon are adversaries of God. Lucifer is well known but Abaddon is only mentioned once and appears to be another fallen angel, given the mission to rule over the Abyss of the bottomless pit. Michael is specifically named more than once. Michael fought valorously and stood guard over the Israelites (Daniel 12:1). Jude reported in chapter 1, verse 9, “Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him (the devil) a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Was Micheal fearful of Satan? Much later, Revelation 12:7 foretells, “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought.”