ANGELS, A BROAD TOPIC, THEY WERE CREATED BY GOD. SUPERIOR IN POWER ABOVE MEN. CREATED BY GOD TO SERVE HIM, DIVIDED INTO RANKS WITH DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES. THEY DWELL IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM, BUT CAN APPEAR AS MEN OR ANIMALS AS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
ONE, THIRD OF THEM FOLLOWED SATAN THE ANOINTED CHERUB IN REBELLION AND WERE CAST TO THE EARTH. THERE THEY PRETEND TO BE FAITHFUL ANGELS OF GOD DECEIVING PEOPLE, AS FOUND IN 2 CORINTHIANS 11 VS,14.
THE OLD TESTAMENT MINISTRY OF ANGELS WAS TO BRING GODS WORD TO MAN, TO HINDER BAD CHOICES, TO DEFEAT GODS FOE'S, HELP GODS PROFITS, TO GUARD GODS PEOPLE ISRAEL. AS THEY DID NOT HAVE GODS SPIRIT IN THEM PERSONALLY. FOR CHRIST HAD NOT COME YET AND ASCENDED TO SEND HIM INTO THE WORLD.
IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, A CHANGE TAKES PLACE, AS THE TRANSITION PERIOD IN THE BEGINNING
AT CHRIST'S BIRTH WE SEE A GREAT MOVEMENT OF ANGELS AS THEY INFORM MAN
KIND OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, INSTRUCT SHEPHERDS, AND WARN WISE MEN. THIS
IS THE TRANSITION TIME BEFORE PENTECOST, THE COMING OF THE SPIRIT.
AT THIS TIME
JESUS SPOKE OF ANGLES IN HEAVEN WATCH OVER CHILDREN MAT. 18 VS, 10.
AFTER PENTECOST
WE SEE A FEW APPEARANCES OF ANGELS TO THE APOSTLES TO INFORM THEM OF GODS
WILL, TO DELIVER THEM FROM PRISON CELLS. IN HEBREWS 1 WE ARE TOLD OF CHRIST'S
SUPERIORITY TO ANGELS AND IN CHAPT 13 TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS BECAUSE SOME
HAVE UNWITTINGLY ENTERTAINED ANGELS. IN 1 PETER 1 VS 12. WE ARE TOLD GOD
HAS NOT INFORMED ANGELS OF HIS PLAN OF SALVATION AND GRACE.
ANGEL ACTIVITY RESUMES AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AS GOD BEGINS HIS WORK OF RESTORING ISRAEL IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
NO WHERE ARE WE COMMANDED TO PRAY TO ANGELS. NO WHERE ARE WE COMMANDED TO SEEK OR ASK ANGLES FOR INFORMATION. WE DO NOT SEEK THEIR AID OR HELP WE RELY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, IF HE CHOOSES TO USE AN ANGEL THAT IS GODS BUSINESS BUT WE DO NOT SEEK AFTER THEM, JOSEPH SMITH TRIED AND THE MORMON CHURCH IS A RESULT OF IT. WE ARE WARNED IF EVEN AN ANGEL OF GOD PREACHES ANY OTHER GOSPEL HE WILL BE CONDEMNED. LISTENING TO ANGELS HAS PRODUCED ISLAM, MORMONISM, AND MANY OTHER ANTI CHRIST CULTS IN THE WORLD TODAY. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE ANGEL MOVEMENT TODAY THE BOOKS AND STORIES OF ANGELIC INVOLVEMENT'S RELY ON GODS WORD AND SPIRIT TO GUIDE YOU THREW LIFE.