An angel appeared at a faculty meeting and told the dean that in return for his unselfish service, he will be rewarded with his choice of wealth, wisdom, or beauty. Without hesitating, the dean selects wisdom.
"It is done!" the angel said, and then disappeared into a cloud of smoke.
All of the other members of the faculty stared at the dean with amazement.
Finally one of them whispered, "Now that you have infinite wisdom, Dean, say something."
The Dean looked them and said, "I should have taken the money."
We have been looking at some of the favorite Christmas hymns this Advent Season and today we are taking our start from “Angels From The Realms Of Glory”. We are going to take a closer look at who angels are and what we biblically know about angels with this hymn as our starting point. This morning we will be looking at a larger number of Scripture references today than we usually do and so for those of you who take notes on the sermons and may not be able to catch all the references, no worries, I will post the sermon in a couple of days at out church website. I will post all the scriptures where the words angel or angels occurs in the entire bible as well.
If you have your hymnals open this morning, a quick look at #174, “Angels From The Realms Of Glory”, shows that the hymn starts with the Christmas story when the angels appear to the shepherds…but you’ll notice that it very quickly moves to Jesus second coming, “descending in his temple he shall appear” and the last verse ends with all people of all time bowing in worship to Jesus Christ. Remember, we have seen over the past year that when “every knee shall bow” before Jesus Christ at the end of time – some will freely acknowledge Jesus as Lord, whereas others will be forced against their will, to bow in acknowledgment that Jesus as Lord. All the world’s population of all time will gather before Jesus Christ, who will enforce his dominion over all creation at the end of time.
See, this hymn starts with the image of an insignificant few worshiping the vulnerable infant Jesus Christ but ends with the image of the all powerful, dominating God, in the person of Jesus Christ. Christmas is about Jesus coming to save us, but least we should forget – this is God, who we are to serve, who we are to worship, who we are to obey.
This hymn “Angels From The Realms Of Glory” relates to us the angels announcing Jesus’ birth. Let’s stop there for a moment. We have heard the Christmas story so many times, it seems just an obvious part of the story that angels announce the birth of Jesus. We don’t give it a second thought that angels announce the birth of Jesus.
So, I ask you, who else has had angels announce their birth?
Angels. What in the world are they doing at the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem?
Polls and surveys tell us that a majority of people believe that angels exist….but the angels they believe in may have more to do with fiction than reality. For example, it turns out there are a large number of people in Los Angeles who believe in parking angels. These apparently are angels who help people find a parking place.
To some degree it makes sense that people would believe such a wacky thing, movies tend to show angels as some type of a genies who grant wishes or favors, like in our opening joke. Movies show angels help baseball teams obtain a winning season, or they show how angels are always trying to earn their wings and movies tend to insinuate that angels are not usually too socially aware.
Angels are very popular today, in fact there are whole stores filled with nothing but angel merchandise. One family has a store in California full of everything angel in dedication to their deceased daughter, who they believe is now an angel. They started the store hoping all the angel merchandise displayed in one central location would somehow reach out to their daughter…..belief in angels is not new, in the ancient Mediterranean world, Hebrews, Egyptians, Greeks and Phoenicians strongly believed in angels. In the ancient world there were a variety of cults that worshiped angels. Some in the early church even turned away from worship of Jesus Christ and embraced worship of angels.
The Bible is far from silent on angels. We see that angels are mentioned some 273 times in the Bible. They are prominent in both the old and the new testament. The Scriptures do not tell us every detail about angels, but we can get a good picture of who angels are.
We don’t always have a clear picture of who angels are, even if we are Christians. Sometimes when I am at a funeral I will hear someone in an attempt to be comforting say something like, “she is now an angel in heaven”. Let me assure you, when you die, you will not become an angel. You are an individual, you will always be you, you will not change into something else, you, nor anyone else for that matter will become an angel.
Angels are created beings. (Neh 9:6; John 1:1-3; Eph 3:9;) They are a direct creation from God. Col. 1:16 “For by him (that’s Jesus Christ) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.” “Thrones or powers or rulers or authorities”, is a reference not to earthly political institutions, but to spiritual rankings, in other words tiers of power filled by angelic beings. God created the angels an their rankings.
The number of angels is fixed as we never see any mention of more being created. God created the angels, and boom, there they are. Angels are a company. We as humans are a race. A company is static a race reproduces. The human race reproduces, more and more humans are continually created; A company of angels do not reproduce, they are created once, and that’s it. This is why Jesus says in Matt. 22:30 “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.” So angels are genderless, they are not male nor female in the human sense, however, whenever they are referred to in Scripture they are always referred to in the masculine.
They were created prior to the creation of the world (Job 38:1,4,7) and their numbers are associated with the stars, which means they may be in the billions or trillions. All this talk about angels in training or angels working for their wings makes no sense since there are never any new angels, and they have existed for quite some time. We also see that angels cannot die, Luke 20:36 “and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels.”
Angels are created, humans do not become angels, angels are a fixed number, angels are genderless, there are a very large number of angels and they have been around the block quite a few times.
Angels generally operate unseen to the human eye as they are spiritual beings - and while Jesus himself tells us that spiritual beings to not possess flesh and bone (Luke 24:39) we see in, 1Cor. 15:40 “There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.” So it seems that angels have some sort of body, but the type of body they have is, for the lack of a better word, alien to us. Remember, after Jesus’ resurrection he had a body, it was a very real body, but somehow Jesus’ body was transformed into a different kind of body. Perhaps Jesus’ post resurrection body is the closest type of body to an angelic body. What is known is that the type of body they have is so different, we cannot comprehend it.
We do see angels appear quite often in Scripture. In the book of Genesis alone, angels appear to Hagar (Gen 16), Lot (Gen 19), Abraham (Gen 22), and Jacob (Gen 31). Sometimes, as with Lot, angels appear to be very human like and other times as with the prophet Balaam in Numbers 22, an angel appears to be anything but human. We are told in Heb. 13:2 “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” This give us the indication that angels either appear in human form or are able to blind humans to who they really are. Though angels are powerful, they are not all powerful and cannot be in more than one place at a time. (Dan 10:12)
Angels are spiritual beings, but the have some sort of a body that we perhaps cannot comprehend. Sometimes they appear to be human and sometimes they appear to be very other worldly. All that said, we see several different types of angels in Scripture. What is described to us may not be exhaustive, but Scripture reveals to us a number of things.
First they are organized in some kind of a hierarchical order: Principalities, powers, thrones, authorities, dominions and might. (Eph 1:21, 3:10; Col 1:16, 2:10; 1Pet 3:22) Exactly what these categories mean, is impossible to distinguish, but what can be ascertained is that there are various levels of ruling positions assigned to angels.
Scripture does, however, specifically describe four kinds of angels: the archangel, the cherubim angel, the seraphim angel, the living creature. The archangel is probably the one angel we are most familiar with. Archangels are the highest ranking angels. We are told of two archangels in Scripture: Michael, which means “Who is like God” appears in Isaiah 14, Daniel 12, Jude 9, and Revelation 12. Michael appears to be fighting evil forces. From the references with Michael alone we se that there is some sort of spiritual warfare that we humans are unaware of. Michael assists Daniel, protects Israel and disputes and fights with Satan.
The second archangel we see is Gabriel, which means, “The mighty one of God” he appears quite often in Scripture. He explains prophecy to Daniel, visits Mary, announces Jesus’ birth to the shepherds, rolls back the stone of Jesus tomb, reassures Paul, will sound the trumpet at the rapture and many, many other things, though he is not seen finding parking spaces at the mall.
Gabriel Scriptures: (Dan 8:16; Luke 1:19, 26, 2:9, 22:43; Matt 1:20, 2:13, 19, 28:2; Acts 5:19, 8:26, 10:3, 12:23; 27:23; 1Thess 4:16)
Next we have the Cherubim. These are the next most powerful type of angel (Gen 3:24; Ex 25:18-20; Ezek 1:4-28, 10:1-22) These angels are described as having four faces: one of a man, one of a lion, one of an ox, and one of an eagle. They are described as having two pair of wings and two pair of hands. This type of angel is described in Gen 3:24 as guarding the tree of life in the garden of Eden. These are the angelic figures that are placed on top of the ark of the covenant at God’s command. (remember Indiana Jones) These are the angels who appear to Ezekiel at the throne of God. Prior to his fall, Satan, then known as Lucifer, was the chief cherub angel. We’ll talk about him a bit later. *
Then we have the Seraphim, which means “the burning ones”. They are only mentioned once in the bible, in Isaiah 6:1-7. They are described as having six wings and singing in chorus to God, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory” This is the kind of angel that presses a hot coal to the lips of Isaiah to purge his sin.
Finally there is the Living Creature. (Rev 4:6-9, 5:8, 6:1,3,5,7) There number may be as limited to four as they only appear in a group of four. They have the four faces of the Cherubim and the six wings of the Seraphim. It is thought that they have taken the place of Lucifer at the throne of God. These angels worship God endlessly.
The four faces we see on each of these angels appears to correspond to the four gospels found in the Bible which present Jesus four fold: First as the lion of Judah (Matthew); Then the lowly ox, (Mark); The prefect human, (Luke), and the mighty God like eagle (John).
There may be other kinds of angels, but this is what we find described to us in Scripture.
The biblical description of these angels is not at all what we see on top of a Christmas tree, is t? However, many times angels are described as looking like humans looking as seen in Mark 16:5 when an angel is described as a young man by those who enter the empty tomb of Jesus.
What about guardian angels? Well, the bible does not specifically state whether there are guardian angels or not, yet in Heb. 1:14, we read, “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” And also in Matthew 18:10 Jesus says, “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” So guardian angels are a logical possibility, but the concept of guardian angels is not specifically stated in the bible.
Angels are imposing figures. They are superior to humans, because of the fall of humanity through Adam; They are stronger, smarter, faster (2 peter 2:11) but inferior to God. They may be inferior to God, but they are very powerful.
Are all angels faithful? No, there are Evil angels, they are demons, which is simply another title for fallen angels. Lucifer, who was the Chief Cherub wanted to be like God and attempted to overtake God and one third of the angels followed him. Angels who are faithful to God are not able to sin – But demons, that is, fallen angels, are not able not to sin. The subject of fallen angels is a very large and extended, and the subject of the occult doesn’t fit for us this morning. But suffice it to say that all angels are not faithful to God and have their own agenda unrelated to God. Perhaps some folks who claim to have had a spiritual experience have not had a godly spiritual experience….
What do angels do? In the presence of God they worship God (1 Kings 22:19; Psalms 29:1, 2; Isaiah 6:3; Rev 4:8, 19:4); Inquire of God about his plan(Dan 12:5-6); Perform the will of God (Dan 7:10; Gen 28:12; Psalm 103:29, 104:4); Rejoice in the works of God (Job 38:7; 1 Tim 3:16; Rev 5:11-12) and execute and see the wrath of God (Rev 14:10) as we see in our Scripture this morning Matt 13:44-52. Angels are not harmless. They are to carry out the will of God whether it is blessing or wrath.
Here on earth we see angels informing, instructing the Word of God to believers (Dan 7:16; Zech 1:9,13-14,19; Luke 1:26-33, 24:4-7; Acts 1:10-11 – to name just a few). They protect believers (Ps 34:7; Gen 19:10-11) They comfort as they did to Elijah (1 Kings 19:5); They deliver as they did with Peter out of prison (acts 5:19); They minister at the moment of death (Luke 16:22). I have heard many stories of people experiencing angels on their death bed, but we rely on Scripture for our information, and Luke 16:22 seems to agree that angels are there at the death of a believer.
To those who are not saved….all the references for angels and unbelievers are in the form of judgment and wrath. (See attached angel scriptures, this is very extensive)
In our passage this morning we see that the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. Hidden in field – something of great worth can be hidden right in front of our eyes, we may pass it everyday as travelers pass a buried treasure in a field. The treasure this there, but it cannot be perceived. Like this parable of the kingdom of God being hidden, so it is with angels. We may believe in angels….to some degree, but since we are unable to see angels, they really have no meaning to us, and we may in fact look at what is presented in Scripture about angels as lore, legend, myth or simply ancient people attempting to describe the spiritual.
However, reading Matt 13:47-50 should take us back a bit from such belief. Matt. 13:47 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. 48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Angels are not our fluffy friends genies that are sent to grant wishes. Nor are they simpletons who are awarded wings whenever a bell rings. No, they are very powerful beings that are quite a bit other worldly and though they may simply proclaim a birth over 2000 years ago, and though they may also assist believers, they also enforce the wrath of God, the judgment of Jesus upon humanity.
For though Jesus comes as a helpless infant with the angels announcement, we see them reinforcing the fact that we are to look to Jesus Christ in His fullness as the almighty God.
Scriptures where the word angel or angels is found in the Bible
Gen. 16:7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
Gen. 16:9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”
Gen. 16:11 The angel of the LORD also said to her:
“You are now with child
and you will have a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the LORD has heard of your misery.
Gen. 19:1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Gen. 19:15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
Gen. 21:17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Gen. 22:11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Gen. 22:15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
Gen. 24:7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
Gen. 24:40 “He replied, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.
Gen. 28:12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Gen. 31:11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’
Gen. 32:1 Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Gen. 48:16 the Angel who has delivered me from all harm
—may he bless these boys.
May they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they increase greatly
upon the earth.”
Ex. 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Ex. 14:19 Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,
Ex. 23:20 “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Ex. 23:23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
Ex. 32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Ex. 33:2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Num. 20:16 but when we cried out to the LORD, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt.
“Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.
Num. 22:22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road.
Num. 22:24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between two vineyards, with walls on both sides. 25 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat her again.
Num. 22:26 Then the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. 27 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat her with his staff.
Num. 22:31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.
Num. 22:32 The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.
Num. 22:34 Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.”
Num. 22:35 The angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Judg. 2:1 The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
Judg. 2:4 When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,
Judg. 5:23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD.
‘Curse its people bitterly,
because they did not come to help the LORD,
to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Judg. 6:11 The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
Judg. 6:20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. 21 With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared. 22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, “Ah, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
Judg. 13:3 The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are sterile and childless, but you are going to conceive and have a son.
Judg. 13:6 Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.
Judg. 13:9 God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
Judg. 13:13 The angel of the LORD answered, “Your wife must do all that I have told her.
Judg. 13:15 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.”
Judg. 13:16 The angel of the LORD replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the LORD.)
Judg. 13:17 Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?”
Judg. 13:20 As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. 21 When the angel of the LORD did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.
1Sam. 29:9 Achish answered, “I know that you have been as pleasing in my eyes as an angel of God; nevertheless, the Philistine commanders have said, ‘He must not go up with us into battle.’
2Sam. 14:17 “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
2Sam. 14:20 Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”
2Sam. 19:27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever pleases you.
2Sam. 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Sam. 24:17 When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall upon me and my family.”
1Kings 13:18 The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (But he was lying to him.)
1Kings 19:5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep.
All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
1Kings 19:7 The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
2Kings 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
2Kings 1:15 The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.
2Kings 19:35 That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
1Chr. 21:12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
1Chr. 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1Chr. 21:16 David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
1Chr. 21:18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1Chr. 21:20 While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
1Chr. 21:27 Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
1Chr. 21:30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
2Chr. 32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons cut him down with the sword.
Job 1:6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
Job 2:1 On another day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.
Job 4:18 If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
Job 33:23 “Yet if there is an angel on his side
as a mediator, one out of a thousand,
to tell a man what is right for him,
Job 38:7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?
Psa. 34:7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
Psa. 35:5 May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6 may their path be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Psa. 78:25 Men ate the bread of angels;
he sent them all the food they could eat.
Psa. 78:49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.
Psa. 91:11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
Psa. 103:20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
Psa. 148:2 Praise him, all his angels,
praise him, all his heavenly hosts.
Is. 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
Is. 63:9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel of his presence saved them.
In his love and mercy he redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them
all the days of old.
Dan. 3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
Dan. 6:22 My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, O king.”
Hos. 12:4 He struggled with the angel and overcame him;
he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel
and talked with him there—
Zech. 1:9 I asked, “What are these, my lord?”
The angel who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”
Zech. 1:11 And they reported to the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”
Zech. 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD said, “LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?” 13 So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
Zech. 1:14 Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Zech. 1:19 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?”
He answered me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”
Zech. 2:3 Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him
Zech. 3:1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
Zech. 3:3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”
Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you.”
Zech. 3:5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.
Zech. 3:6 The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
Zech. 4:1 Then the angel who talked with me returned and wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep.
Zech. 4:4 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Zech. 4:11 Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”
Zech. 5:5 Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is appearing.”
Zech. 5:10 “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.
Zech. 6:4 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”
Zech. 6:5 The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.
Zech. 12:8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them.
Matt. 1:20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matt. 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
Matt. 2:13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Matt. 2:19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
Matt. 4:6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:
“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’’”
Matt. 4:11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
Matt. 13:39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Matt. 13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
Matt. 13:49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
Matt. 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
Matt. 18:10 “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Matt. 22:30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
Matt. 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Matt. 24:36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matt. 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
Matt. 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matt. 26:53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Matt. 28:2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.
Matt. 28:5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
Mark 1:13 and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 12:25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
Mark 13:27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
Mark 13:32 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Luke 1:11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
Luke 1:18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”
Luke 1:19 The angel answered, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.
Luke 1:26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,
Luke 1:28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Luke 1:30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God.
Luke 1:34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
Luke 1:35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.
Luke 2:9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
Luke 2:13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
Luke 2:15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Luke 2:21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.
Luke 4:10 For it is written:
“‘He will command his angels concerning you
to guard you carefully;
Luke 9:26 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 12:8 “I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. 9 But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.
Luke 15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 16:22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 20:36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
Luke 22:43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
Luke 24:23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
John 1:51 He then added, “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
John 12:29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
John 20:12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
Acts 5:19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.
Acts 6:15 All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
Acts 7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
Acts 7:35 “This is the same Moses whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:38 He was in the assembly in the desert, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to us.
Acts 7:53 you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it.”
Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
Acts 10:3 One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
Acts 10:4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.
The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
Acts 10:7 When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants.
Acts 10:22 The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to have you come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”
Acts 11:13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
Acts 12:7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Acts 12:8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. 9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
Acts 12:11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
Acts 12:15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Acts 23:8 (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
Acts 23:9 There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. “We find nothing wrong with this man,” they said. “What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
Acts 27:23 Last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood beside me
Rom. 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
1Cor. 4:9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men.
1Cor. 6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
1Cor. 10:10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
1Cor. 11:10 For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.
1Cor. 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2Cor. 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Gal. 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
Gal. 3:19 What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.
Gal. 4:14 Even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
Col. 2:18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions.
2Th. 1:7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
1Tim. 3:16 Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great:
He appeared in a body,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.
1Tim. 5:21 I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.
Heb. 1:4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
Heb. 1:5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father’”? Or again,
“I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”?
6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.” 7 In speaking of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels winds,
his servants flames of fire.”
Heb. 1:13 To which of the angels did God ever say,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet”?
14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Heb. 2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
Heb. 2:5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
Heb. 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor
Heb. 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Heb. 2:16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
Heb. 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Heb. 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
1Pet. 1:12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
1Pet. 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
2Pet. 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
2Pet. 2:11 yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
Jude 6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Rev. 1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Rev. 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. 1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:
Rev. 2:8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
Rev. 2:12 “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
Rev. 2:18 “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Rev. 3:1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Rev. 3:5 He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
Rev. 3:7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
Rev. 3:14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.
Rev. 5:2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”
Rev. 5:11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
Rev. 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
Rev. 7:11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Rev. 8:2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
Rev. 8:3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel’s hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
Rev. 8:6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
Rev. 8:7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
Rev. 8:8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
Rev. 8:10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—
Rev. 8:12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
Rev. 8:13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”
Rev. 9:1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
Rev. 9:11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
Rev. 9:13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
Rev. 10:1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.
Rev. 10:5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.
Rev. 10:7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
Rev. 10:8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
Rev. 10:9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
Rev. 11:15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
Rev. 12:7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Rev. 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Rev. 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.
Rev. 14:8 A second angel followed and said, “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”
Rev. 14:9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Rev. 14:15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
Rev. 14:17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
Rev. 15:1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed.
Rev. 15:6 Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. 7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Rev. 16:1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.”
Rev. 16:2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
Rev. 16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
Rev. 16:4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
“You are just in these judgments,
you who are and who were, the Holy One,
because you have so judged;
Rev. 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire.
Rev. 16:10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony
Rev. 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
Rev. 16:17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
Rev. 17:1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
Rev. 17:3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
Rev. 17:7 Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
Rev. 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.
Rev. 18:1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.
Rev. 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:
“With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
Rev. 19:9 Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
Rev. 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
Rev. 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.
Rev. 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Rev. 21:12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Rev. 21:15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.
Rev. 21:17 He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man’s measurement, which the angel was using.
Rev. 22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Rev. 22:6 The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”
Rev. 22:8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.
Rev. 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
