angels Angels remind us that God is great

angels Angels remind us that God is great, God loves us, and God will win.

angels Who are they? • Angels are powerful spirit beings, created by God to worship and serve Him.

angels Who are they? • Powerful

angels Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him? You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. ” Hebrews 2: 6 -7

angels So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3: 23 -24

angels After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree Revelation 7: 1

angels Who are they? • Powerful - Lk 2: 9 -10; Mt 28: 2 -4; Dan 8: 16 -17 • Created by God

angels Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts!. . . Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created. Psalm 148: 2, 5

angels Who are they? • Powerful - Lk 2: 9 -10; Mt 28: 2 -4; Dan 8: 16 -17 • Created by God • Spirit beings

angels Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? Hebrews 1: 14

angels For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6: 12

angels Who are they? • Powerful - Lk 2: 9 -10; Mt 28: 2 -4; Dan 8: 16 -17 • Created by God • Spirit beings

angels • They have a hierarchy (Jude 9, “Michael the archangel; Ephesians 6: 12). • Some of them have rebelled against God.

angels And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. Jude 6

angels And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

angels And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12: 7 -9

angels • Who are they? • What do they do? – Worship God

angels And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME. ” Revelation 4: 8

angels In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

angels And one called out to another and said, “Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory. ” Isaiah 6: 1 -3

angels • Who are they? • What do they do? – Worship God – Carry God’s messages

angels • • • The The The commissioning of Moses (Ex 3: 2) giving of the Law (Acts 7: 53) birth of Jesus (Luke 2) resurrection of Jesus (Mt 28: 5 -7) expansion of the gospel (Acts 10)

angels • Who are they? • What do they do? – Worship God – Carry God’s messages – Serve God’s people

angels • Protect He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. They will bear you up in their hands, That you do not strike your foot against a stone. Psalm 91: 11 -12

angels • Protect • Respond to prayer (Dan 9: 20 -27; Acts 12: 5 -17)

angels • Who are they? • What do they do? • Why should we care?

angels • Why should we care? – Angels remind us to worship God. – Angels remind us that God loves us. – Angels remind us that spiritual warfare is real, but God will win.

angels Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.