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Who or What are Angels?

• Jews viewed them as guardians
• Mormons view them as dead people
• Pre-Gnostics worshipped them
• 55 of Americans think theyve been literally and
  actually helped by one
• Literallythey are messengers

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Haggai 113

• Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke by
  the commission of the Lord to the people saying,
  I am with you, declares the LORD.

Applied to a prophet with a message here.
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Malachi 27

• For the lips of a priest should preserve
  knowledge, and men should seek instruction from
  his mouth for he is the messenger of the LORD of
  hosts.

Applied to a priest with a message here.
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Malachi 31

• Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he
  will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom
  you seek, will suddenly come to His temple

Applied to a John the baptizer with a message
here.
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• Term applied to a prophet in Haggai 113
• Applied to a priest in Malachi 27
• Applied to John the baptizer in Malachi 31
• Generally applied to heavenly messengers.

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Angels Have Delivered A Variety of Messages

• Information
• Encouragement
• Destruction to name a few

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Angels are Spiritual Beings, Not Bound by the
Flesh.

• Have looked like men

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Matthew 283-4

• And his appearance was like lightning, and his
  garment as white as snow and the guards shook
  for fear of him, and became like dead men.

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Angels are Spiritual Beings, Not Bound by the
Flesh.

• Have looked like men
• Have looked like stereotypical angels

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Angels are Spiritual Beings, Not Bound by the
Flesh.

• Have looked like men
• Have looked like stereotypical angels
• Have been invisible

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Angels are Spiritual Beings, Not Bound by the
Flesh.

• Have looked like men
• Have looked like stereotypical angels
• Have been invisible
• And in all cases have been messengers

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Matthew 282

• a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel
  of the Lord descended from heaven and came and
  rolled away the stone and sat upon it.

Psalms 10320
Bless the Lord, you His angels, Mighty in
strength, who perform His word,
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Some Characteristics of Some Angels

• Great Strength
• Great Power

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2 Samuel 1420b

• But my lord is wise, like the wisdom of the
  angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.

2 Samuel 1927
but my lord the king is like the angel of God,
therefore do what is good in your sight.
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Some Characteristics of Some Angels

• Great Strength
• Great Power
• Great Wisdom
• Clear Understandable Speech

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Peter 210-11

• and especially those who indulge the flesh in
  its corrupt desires and despise authority.
  Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when
  they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who
  are greater in might and power do not being a
  reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

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Some Characteristics of Some Angels

• Great Strength
• Great Power
• Great Wisdom
• Clear Understandable Speech
• Great Humility
• Of Different Ranks

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1 Peter 112

• It was revealed to them that they were not
  serving themselves, but you in these things which
  now have been announced to you through those who
  preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit
  sent from heaven-things into which angels long to
  look.

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Some Characteristics of Some Angels

• Great Strength
• Great Power
• Great Wisdom
• Clear Understandable Speech
• Great Humility
• Of Different Ranks
• NOT All Knowing

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2 Peter 24

• For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,
  but cast them into hell (tartarus, cpm) and
  committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for
  judgment.

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Some Characteristics of Some Angels

• Great Strength
• Great Power
• Great Wisdom
• Clear Understandable Speech
• Great Humility
• Of Different Ranks
• NOT All Knowing
• Able To Sin

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Genesis 1610
Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, I
will greatly multiply your descendants so that
they shall be too many to count.
Genesis 2211-12

• the angel of the LORD called now I know that
  you fear God, since you have not withheld your
  son, your only son, from Me.

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Angels Job Seems To Be To Represent God

• At the Exodus
• With Gideon
• On the Mountain

• With Hagar
• With Abraham
• With Moses

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What is the Point of this Study?

• To understand
• Angels are NOT like Ghosts or UFOs.
• Angels are NOT deity or worthy of worship.
• Angels, like all creation, have a purpose.