All About Angels

-Invisible Insights-

All about Angels: Separating Fact from Fiction

1. Who created the angels?
You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host… You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you. (Nehemiah 9:6) Praise him, all his angels… for he commanded and they were created (Psalm 148:2-5) For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible (Colossians 1:16)

2. When were angels created?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array (Genesis 1:1-2:1)

3. How many angels are there?
He looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. (2 Kings 6:17) Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? (Matthew 26:53) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly (Hebrews 12:22)

4. What do angels look like?
Are not all angels ministering spirits… (Hebrews 1:14)

5. Do angels have free will?
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned… (2 Peter 2:4) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home… (Jude 1:6)


6. For what purpose did God make them?
Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his heavenly hosts. (Psalm 148:2) Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? (Hebrews 1:14)

7. Where do angels live?
Angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. (Matthew 18:10) When the angels had left them and gone into heaven… (Luke 2:15)

8. Who is ‘the angel of the Lord’?
But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven… “Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." (Genesis 22:11-12) There the angel of the LORD appeared to him… Then he said, "I am the God of your father (Exodus 3:2-6)

9. Are they different from one another?
Types: Cherubim (Genesis 3:24), Serephs (Isaiah 6:2)
Individuals: Michael (Jude 1:9), Gabriel (Luke 1:19)

10. Are there really guardian angels?
At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise (Daniel 12:1) See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven (Matthew 18:10)

11. Do we become angels when we die?
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven (Matthew 22:30) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly…You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect (Hebrews 12:22-23)