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Angels are an innumerable host. The Bible tells us that myriads of angels attend the Lord (see Daniel 7:10), their number is constant and they do not procreate (see Matthew 22:30), and they do not die (see Luke 20:36). Angels are glorious beings. Daniel 10:5-6 gives us a wonderful description of the glorious appearance of an angel: “I lifted ...
The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen, includes biblical, deuterocanonical, apocryphal and mystical depictions of angels in writings and the visual arts from before the coming of Jesus Christ to the present day—through the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as well as Islamic, Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, ancient Greek, and latter-day accounts.
Biblical references to angels include such terms as: “sons of God” (Job 1:6; 2:1); “morning stars” ( Job 38:7 ); “heavenly host” ( Neh. 9:6 ); “holy ones” ( Ps. 89:5, 7 ); “watchers” ( Dan. 4:13; 7:23 ); “powers” ( Eph. 1:21 ); “the rulers (principalities)
The Book of Tobit contains one of the longest episodes with an angel recorded in the Bible. God sends “Raphael,” an archangel, to assist Tobit, his son Tobias and his wife Sarah. At first Raphael’s identity is concealed, but he later on reveals that he is an angel from God.
What is the destiny of angels? I. What Is the Origin of Angels? A. They existed before the foundations of the earth were laid, Job 38:4-7. B. They were not in the beginning, Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148. 1. They were created by God.
2 Thess. 1:7—"And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels," Col. 2:18—"Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels."
Angels are mentioned as present and giving praise to God when God created the earth (Job 38:7), but in Job 1:6 and 2:1, the “sons of God” appear before God, undoubtedly as His attendants and submissive servants in adoration and praise of the Almighty.
