The Angels of God

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The Angels of God

• Class 2
• The Power Authority of the Angels

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Note the link of elohim and angels

• Psalm 84-5 (RSV)
• 4 what is man that thou art mindful of him, and
  the son of man that thou dost care for him?
• Yet thou hast made him little less than God
  (Elohim), and dost crown him with glory and
  honor.
• Psalm 85 (NKJV)
• 5 For You have made him a little lower than the
  angels, and You have crowned him with glory and
  honor.
• Heb 27 (NKJV)
• 7 You have made him a little lower than the
  angels you have crowned him with glory and
  honor, and set him over the works of Your hands.

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• Psalm 977
• 7 Let all be put to shame who serve carved
  images, who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you
  gods (elohim).
• Hebrews 16
• 6 But when He again brings the firstborn into the
  world, He says "Let all the angels of God
  worship Him."

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Angels appear speak for God

• Exodus 32-4
• 2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a
  flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he
  looked, and behold, the bush was burning with
  fire, but the bush was not consumed.
• 3 Then Moses said, "I will now turn aside and see
  this great sight, why the bush does not burn."
• 4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to
  look, God called to him from the midst of the
  bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here
  I am."

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• Exodus 35-6
• 5 Then He said, "Do not draw near this place.
  Take your sandals off your feet, for the place
  where you stand is holy ground."
• 6 Moreover He (the angel) said, "I am the God of
  your father-- the God of Abraham, the God of
  Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his
  face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

Angels appear on behalf of God speak for God.
Humans treat them as though they were God himself!
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• Exodus 37-8
• 7 And the LORD said "I have surely seen the
  oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and
  have heard their cry because of their
  taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• 8 "So I have come down to deliver them out of the
  hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from
  that land to a good and large land, to a land
  flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the
  Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and
  the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

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• Exodus 1917-18
• 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp
  to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of
  the mountain.
• 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke,
  because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its
  smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and
  the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Angels appear with all the power might of God
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• Exodus 201-2
• 1 And God spoke all these words, saying
• 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
  the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Acts 738
• 38 "This is he who was in the congregation in the
  wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on
  Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who
  received the living oracles to give to us

In many situations that present God as speaking,
it was actually an angel who appeared and spoke
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• Judges 21-4
• 1 Then the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal
  to Bochim, and said "I led you up from Egypt and
  brought you to the land of which I swore to your
  fathers and I said, 'I will never break My
  covenant with you.
• 2 'And you shall make no covenant with the
  inhabitants of this land you shall tear down
  their altars.' But you have not obeyed My voice.
  Why have you done this?
• 3 "Therefore I also said, 'I will not drive them
  out before you but they shall be thorns in your
  side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.'"
• 4 So it was, when the Angel of the LORD spoke
  these words to all the children of Israel, that
  the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Angels speak present themselves as though they
were God himself this is the authority God
gives them!
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• Genesis 38-10
• 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God
  walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and
  Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
  presence of the LORD God among the trees of the
  garden.
• 9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to
  him, "Where are you?"
• 10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden,
  and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid
  myself."

Right from the beginning the angels were highly
involved!
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Angels are sent on missions

• 1 Chronicles 2112-14
• 12 'either three years of famine, or three months
  to be defeated by your foes with the sword of
  your enemies overtaking you, or else for three
  days the sword of the LORD-- the plague in the
  land, with the angel of the LORD destroying
  throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now
  consider what answer I should take back to Him
  who sent me."
• 13 And David said to Gad, "I am in great
  distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the
  LORD, for His mercies are very great but do not
  let me fall into the hand of man."
• 14 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and
  seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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• 1 Chronicles 2115-17
• 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy
  it. not what the angels wanted to do! As he was
  destroying, the LORD looked and relented of the
  disaster, and said to the angel who was
  destroying, "It is enough now restrain your
  hand." Note angel didnt know when to quit!
  And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing
  floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• 16 Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel
  of the LORD standing between earth and heaven,
  having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out
  over Jerusalem. So David and the elders, clothed
  in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
• 17 And David said to God, "Was it not I who
  commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one
  who has sinned and done evil indeed but these
  sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I
  pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my
  father's house, but not against Your people that
  they should be plagued."

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• 1 Chronicles 2118-27
• 18 Therefore, the angel of the LORD commanded Gad
  to say to David that David should go and erect an
  altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan
  the Jebusite.
• 19 So David went up at the word of Gad, which he
  had spoken in the name of the LORD.
• 20 Now Ornan turned and saw the angel and his
  four sons who were with him hid themselves, but
  Ornan continued threshing wheat.
• 27 Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he
  returned his sword to its sheath.

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• Exodus 1229
• 29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD
  struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
  from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his
  throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in
  the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
• Psalm 7849
• 49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
  wrath, indignation, and trouble, by sending
  angels of destruction among them.

Angels were willing to destroy many, in the hope
of redeeming some. They were learning too that it
would cost God His firstborn son to redeem us
from sin.
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• Daniel 328
• 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the
  God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent
  His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted
  in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word,
  and yielded their bodies, that they should not
  serve nor worship any god except their own God!
• Daniel 622
• 22 "My God sent His angel and shut the lions'
  mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I
  was found innocent before Him and also, O king,
  I have done no wrong before you."

Angels were sent because men were found
innocent! God did let faithful men go through
troubles so their faith could be tested and seen
by others
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• Psalm 9111
• 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
  to keep you in all your ways.

Imagine the joy and excitement the angels had in
protecting the 3 in the fiery furnace and Daniel
in the lions den! Appreciate the privilege we
have as angels are charged to protect us. Dont
abuse the privilege. We cant continuously chose
evil and then expect the angels to save us out of
our trouble.
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• Daniel 921-23
• 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man
  Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the
  beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached
  me about the time of the evening offering.
• 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and
  said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give
  you skill to understand.
• 23 "At the beginning of your supplications the
  command went out, and I have come to tell you,
  for you are greatly beloved therefore consider
  the matter, and understand the vision

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Angels work together in unity!

• Daniel 813-16
• 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking (probably
  Michael) and another holy one said to that
  certain one who was speaking, "How long will the
  vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and
  the transgression of desolation, the giving of
  both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled
  under foot?"
• 14 And he said to me, "For two thousand three
  hundred days then the sanctuary shall be
  cleansed."
• 15 Then it happened, when I, Daniel, had seen the
  vision and was seeking the meaning, that suddenly
  there stood before me one having the appearance
  of a man.
• 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of
  the Ulai, who called, and said, "Gabriel, make
  this man understand the vision."

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• Daniel 1013-14
• 13 "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia
  withstood me twenty-one days and behold,
  Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help
  me, for I had been left alone there with the
  kings of Persia.
• 14 "Now I have come to make you understand what
  will happen to your people in the latter days,
  for the vision refers to many days yet to come."

Humans can frustrate the work of angels. Be
careful that we dont frustrate our angels or the
angels working with others!
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Angels Cooperate!

• Zechariah 18-10
• 8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a
  red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in
  the hollow and behind him were horses red,
  sorrel, and white.
• 9 Then I said, "My lord, what are these?" So the
  angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show
  you what they are."
• 10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees
  answered and said, "These are the ones whom the
  LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the
  earth."

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• Zechariah 111-14
• 11 So they answered the Angel of the LORD, who
  stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have
  walked to and fro throughout the earth, and
  behold, all the earth is resting quietly."
• 12 Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said,
  "O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have
  mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
  against which You were angry these seventy
  years?"
• 13 And the LORD answered the angel who talked to
  me, with good and comforting words.
• 14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me,
  "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts
  "I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with
  great zeal.

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• Zechariah 21-4
• 1 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a
  man with a measuring line in his hand.
• 2 So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said
  to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its
  width and what is its length."
• 3 And there was the angel who talked with me,
  going out and another angel was coming out to
  meet him,
• 4 who said to him, "Run, speak to this young man,
  saying 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns
  without walls, because of the multitude of men
  and livestock in it.

Angels work selflessly together. One is in
charge, others do what he asks. If we hope to be
equal to angels, we must learn to live like them
now selflessly working in our ecclesias and
families
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• Psalm 895-7 (RSV)
• 5 Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy
  faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
• 6 For who in the skies can be compared to the
  LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the
  LORD,
• 7 a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
  great and terrible above all that are round about
  him?

God does have a heavenly made up of angels who
greatly revere council and respect Him
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• 1 Kings 2219-23
• 19 Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of
  the LORD I saw the LORD sitting on His throne,
  and all the host of heaven standing by, on His
  right hand and on His left.
• 20 "And the LORD said, 'Who will persuade Ahab to
  go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?' So one
  spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that
  manner.
• 21 "Then a spirit came forward and stood before
  the LORD, and said, 'I will persuade him.'
• 22 "The LORD said to him, 'In what way?' So he
  said, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the
  mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said,
  'You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out
  and do so.'
• 23 "Therefore look! The LORD has put a lying
  spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of
  yours, and the LORD has declared disaster against
  you."

Angels dont make us good or bad. They simply
influence our choices!
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• Genesis 126-27
• 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
  according to Our likeness let them have dominion
  over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the
  air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and
  over every creeping thing that creeps on the
  earth."
• 27 So God created man in His own image in the
  image of God He created him male and female He
  created them.

Imagine so many angels working together to make
our world. It is a wonderful privilege and
responsibility to be in their image.
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Imagine the discussions between angels to come up
with a plan and then their unity in carrying it
out together!

• Genesis 115-9
• 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the
  tower which the sons of men had built.
• 6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one
  and they all have one language, and this is what
  they begin to do now nothing that they propose
  to do will be withheld from them.
• 7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their
  language, that they may not understand one
  another's speech."
• 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there
  over the face of all the earth, and they ceased
  building the city.
• 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because
  there the LORD confused the language of all the
  earth and from there the LORD scattered them
  abroad over the face of all the earth.

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• Genesis 1817-22
• 17 And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham
  what I am doing,
• 18 "since Abraham shall surely become a great and
  mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
  shall be blessed in him?
• 19 "For I have known him, in order that he may
  command his children and his household after him,
  that they keep the way of the LORD, to do
  righteousness and justice, that the LORD may
  bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him."
• 20 And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against
  Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
  sin is very grave,
• 21 "I will go down now and see whether they have
  done altogether according to the outcry against
  it that has come to Me and if not, I will know."
• 22 Then the men turned away from there and went
  toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the
  Lord.

Angels discussed whether or not to tell Abraham.
They needed to go down to see for themselves!
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• Genesis 191-4
• 1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the
  evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of
  Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them,
  and he bowed himself with his face toward the
  ground.
• 2 And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn
  in to your servant's house and spend the night,
  and wash your feet then you may rise early and
  go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will
  spend the night in the open square."
• 3 But he insisted strongly so they turned in to
  him and entered his house. Then he made them a
  feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
• 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city,
  the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the
  people from every quarter, surrounded the house.

Lot didnt realize they were angels! Note how
the angels responded to Lots plea and ate a meal
in his house.
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• Genesis 195-9
• 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where
  are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them
  out to us that we may know them carnally."
• 6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway,
  shut the door behind him,
• 7 and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so
  wickedly!
• 8 "See now, I have two daughters who have not
  known a man please, let me bring them out to
  you, and you may do to them as you wish only do
  nothing to these men, since this is the reason
  they have come under the shadow of my roof."
• 9 And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said,
  "This one came in to stay here, and he keeps
  acting as a judge now we will deal worse with
  you than with them." So they pressed hard against
  the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

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• Genesis 1910-13
• 10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled
  Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
• 11 And they struck the men who were at the
  doorway of the house with blindness, both small
  and great, so that they became weary trying to
  find the door.
• 12 Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone
  else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters,
  and whomever you have in the city-- take them out
  of this place!
• 13 "For we will destroy this place, because the
  outcry against them has grown great before the
  face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to
  destroy it."

Once again angels can affect the sight of
men. Note the loving compassion of the angels who
wanted to save Lots family for Abrahams sake.
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• Genesis 1924-26
• 24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on
  Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the
  heavens.
• 25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain,
  all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew
  on the ground.
• 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she
  became a pillar of salt.

Angels probably didnt know Lots wife would look
back. In their excitement of destroying Sodom,
they also had to destroy Lots wife!
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• Exodus 2320-23
• 20 "Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep
  you in the way and to bring you into the place
  which I have prepared.
• 21 "Beware of Him and obey His voice do not
  provoke Him, for He will not pardon your
  transgressions for My name is in Him.
• 22 "But if you indeed obey His voice and do all
  that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your
  enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
• 23 "For My Angel will go before you and bring you
  in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the
  Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and
  the Jebusites and I will cut them off.

Angel had authority and power to forgive or not
forgive sins! Dont provoke your angel! Jesus
claimed this same authority, but the Jewish
leaders thought it was blasphemy
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• 2 Kings 1935
• 35 And it came to pass on a certain night that
  the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the
  camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five
  thousand and when people arose early in the
  morning, there were the corpses-- all dead.
  (angels cause death of Sennacherib too in v. 37)
• Daniel 417
• 17 'This decision is by the decree of the
  watchers, and the sentence by the word of the
  holy ones, in order that the living may know that
  the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives
  it to whomever He will, and sets over it the
  lowest of men.'

Note the power of angels and their authority to
make decisions. Angels listen to us and know our
thoughts just like they did with Nebuchadnezzar.
Be careful about taking Gods Glory, judging
others, and speaking unkind words!
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• Jude 18-10
• 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh,
  reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
• 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with
  the devil, when he disputed about the body of
  Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling
  accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!
  (from Zech. 32)
• 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not
  know and whatever they know naturally, like
  brute beasts, in these things they corrupt
  themselves.

Powerful Michael could have ranted and raved
before God about the Samaritans, but simply let
God rebuke them. We better be careful about what
we think and say about others. Vengeance is Gods
He will repay.
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Break time!

• Next Class will look at how the Angels work for
  YOU!