LAST WORDS ON THE SUBJECT OF ANGELS 10

This has been a LONG series of blogs!  I hope you’ve been enjoying them and learning some things you didn’t know before. You can find out more about angels as they appear in the pages of the Bible in the books on the subject written by Billy Graham and David Jeremiah.

 I don’t want to close out the series however, before giving some principles to remember when studying the subject of angels.  

#1  BE CAREFUL NOT TO SHAPE ANGELS INTO BEINGS OF OUR OWN MAKING

·    The Bible is our authority on ALL things having to do with God – and that includes angels.  Hopefully, as you’ve read through these blogs, you learned that some of the things we and others have believed about angels are not consistent with what God says in His Word!  

·    Like this line from the classic Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life”: “every time you hear a bell an angel gets his wings”!  If the classes of archangel and angel do have wings, they were created that way.  They didn’t have to earn their wings!  Sorry Clarence!  

·    If we get our ideas about angels from anywhere else – books we buy, or movies we see, or family traditions that aren’t based on the Bible, then we’re moving from the arena of TRUTH, into error.  

#2  ANGELS MUST NEVER REPLACE GOD IN OUR LIVES

·    The study of angels is fascinating – but my prayer is that it will simply give us a greater hunger to know GOD – the One who created these wonderful creatures and the One whom ALL the angels themselves worship.  

·   The magazine, Christianity Today, warns:  

“Angels too easily provide a temptation for those who want a ‘fix’ of spirituality without bothering with God Himself.”  

·   The theologian AW TOZER said:

“Forever God stands apart, in light unapproachable.  He is as high above an archangel as above a caterpillar, for the gulf that separates the archangel from the caterpillar is but finite, while the gulf between God and the archangel is infinite.  Both belong to the category of, “that which is not God, and are separated from God by infinitude itself.”  

·    Preferring angels to God Himself is an insult to God who is ABOVE all of His creation.

#3  ANGELS MUST NEVER RECEIVE OUR WORSHIP

·    In Romans 1: 25 Paul says, that when man “worships and serves created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised – he has exchanged the truth of God for a lie.”   

·    As we look at Scripture passages in these blogs, we discover that angels NEVER allowed man to worship them.  Both angels AND man have been created by God for the purpose of worshiping and serving HIM.  

So, who has the greater place of honor in your thinking:  angels or God Himself?