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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

The Mysterious World of Angels

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If God doesn't make 2 snowflakes the same and if every human on the world has got a different iris and fingerprint, then why would you think that God has a big cookie cutter factory where he makes his angels and he just stamps them out and they're all the same?

The prophet Elisha was sort of the secret weapon for the king of Israel.

Every time the king of Syria wanted to launch an attack on Israel, he wanted to ambush them, he'd have his spies find out where the king of Israel was going to be travelling and try and get him through some narrow canyons so he could surprise him, but every time they tried to launch these surprise attacks it seems like the king of Israel found out in advance and the king of Syria was so frustrated he said to his servants 1 of you must be a spy, how else can the king of Israel always know what my secret plans are?

And 1 of the servants for the king of Syria said, it's none of us, we're not betraying you, he said it's Elisha the prophet in Israel, he knows the things that you say in your bedroom, which would make any king nervous.

He said, well we can't have that, where is he?

He said, well he's staying in a little town called Dothan.

Dothan, by the way, is where Joseph went to look for his brothers.

So, the king of Syria says, let's get the army together.

And a great army came, and during the night they surrounded this little hamlet of Dothan where Elisha was with some of the people and his servant.

Early in the morning his servant wakes up to go to the well and get water, and he looks over the little walls of Dothan, they were just big enough to keep the cattle out.

And he sees the glimmer of armor and hears the snort of the horses and his eyes get adjusted and he realized they are now surrounded by the Syrian army.

In a panic he runs and he shakes Elisha awake and says, Master, what will we do?

He gets up and he walks to the door and then he walks outside to the city walls and he prays a prayer.

2 Kings 6 verse 17, and Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see.

And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

You've heard that expression, chariots of fire.

And when Elisha saw Elijah taken up to heaven, that's when he got his first glimpse of these chariots and horses of fire.

These are the ministering spirits of God.

I don't think that God is galloping around up in heaven on an Appaloosa.

You know, this is the biblical terminology to talk about you know, it says when Elisha was caught up, chariots and horses of fire, you sing the spiritual.

It says, I looked over Jordan and what did I see?

These are angels of God that they saw protecting them.

There's a lot of misunderstandings about angels, which is why we're talking about it today.

Typically when people see pictures of angels, they see fat little babies on clouds looking extremely bored.

More times than not, if you type angels in the internet and look at pictures, you're going to see they look like Greek goddesses, they're ladies.

Now, typically when angels appeared in the Bible, it says they appeared as men.

It says when the disciples saw Jesus ascend to heaven, there stood by them 2 men in white raiment at the tomb, it says they were men.

When the angels came for judgments on Sodom, it says they were men.

There is 1 vision in Zechariah where he said, I raised my eyes, Zechariah 5, 9 and there were 2 women coming in the wind, wind in their wings for they were the wings of a stork and they lifted up a basket, this is an apocalyptic vision, so it never says they are angels, it's really a vision, typically they appear as men, but don't take that too far because angels don't have gender like we do.

Jesus made it pretty clear in Mark 12, 25, For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry or are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven." Angels do not procreate like humans.

Sometimes people read in Genesis chapter 6, And the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took them wives of all they chose.

And you know some Bibles, you might even have 1 here, translates that.

These fallen angels married humans and had babies that were giants.

That is 1 of the goofiest teachings I've ever heard.

That verse, the sons of God are talking about the children of Seth, Adam and Eve that were faithful, they were still worshipping God, they were offering there at the gates of the garden of Eden, And then you had Cain that he departed from the Lord and they had 2 separate groups of people.

And Cain was Enos, children of men, they weren't the sons of God.

Behold with manner of love the fathers bestowed on us that we should be called sons of God when we believe we are adopted in.

Jesus said to...God said to his son when he was baptized, this is my beloved son, and when we're baptized and we accept Christ, we become sons and daughters of God.

So it's when the children of Seth began to intermarry with the daughters of Cain, then wickedness was great in this world because of the mixed marriages.

It had nothing to do with angels marrying people.

And Lucifer may have been 1 of the first of his angels.

There are typically 3 terms that we find being used in the New Testament, it's usually angel, means messenger angelos, In the Hebrew you've got malach, or malach if you say it with a Jewish pronunciation.

You've got the seraphim, a seraph is 1, seraphim, cherub is 1, cherubim would be 2, and these are the ministering spirits, literally seraphim means the burning ones, and the malak is, they're like deputies, they're the people of authority, it's also translated messengers, And so there seem to be different levels of angels, different ranks of angels, and they're organized servants of God.

You read about them in...by the way the word cherubim means minister more precisely.

Hebrews 1 verse 14, speaking of the angels, are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit eternal salvation?

God has His army of angels that watch over us to minister.

Psalm 103 verse 20, Bless the Lord, you His angels who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding the voice of His word.

Bless the Lord, all you his hosts, you ministers of his who do his pleasure.

These are ministering spirits sometimes in the bible it calls it the...he's called the lord of hosts so there you would have the Lord of Angels, 1 place you can see where he's called the Lord of Sabaoth, that doesn't mean the Lord of Sabbaths, it's a completely different word, it means the Lord of Armies, it's an army of angels.

You read in Daniel 7 verse 10, a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him.

A thousand thousands ministered to him, and 10000 times 10000 stood before him, because surrounding the dwelling place of God are clouds of angels.

When Jesus comes, it says He's coming like He left.

He was caught up into this cloud, not H2O, but a brilliant cloud of holy ones, burning ones, angels.

And when He comes again, it says He will come with all the angels.

You know, we look through the telescope and we see these nebulae and we call them nebulous clouds.

But as we get a little closer, what we thought were cloudy images, we find out these are actually burning suns.

And they just look like clouds from a distance.

And so when Christ comes, He's coming with clouds of angels.

Now, I probably should say right here you don't want to worship angels.

See, there are good angels and there are bad angels.

That great dragon, the serpent, was cast out who deceives the whole world.

He was cast to the earth and his angels...

Who deceives the whole world, he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

You read in 2 Peter 2 verse 4, For God did not spare the angels who sinned, yep, there are angels who sinned.

In order for you to sin you must have a free will.

If God doesn't make 2 snowflakes the same, and if every human on the world has got a different iris and fingerprint, then why would you think that God has a big cookie cutter factory where he makes his angels and he just stamps them out and they're all the same.

They're created by God to live forever and they're probably, I don't know what they're, you know, they part their hair differently and they've got different idiosyncrasies, I'm not sure, but they've got their unique personalities yet they're holy, the good ones, and you've got the fallen ones.

Jude 6, and the angels who did not keep their first estate, their proper domain, but they left their own abode, He has reserved an everlasting chains under darkness.

The Bible says that 1 angel is going to come down and chain Satan.

And these chains are, they are chained to our world.

They are not free like the other ministering spirits.

An everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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