What Does The Bible Say About Angels? Psalm 91:11

We wonder about angels. What do they do and why? The Bible has many references to angels; one of the most familiar is in Psalms 91.

"If you make the Most High your dwelling- even the Lord, who is my refuge- then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angles concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." Psalm 91:9 -11, NIV.

These verses offer some general answers to questions about angels.

PLURAL
The reference to angels is a plural.  We often think of "A" Guardian Angel, but it seems God commands many to action and to watch over each his faithful, like a royal body guard.

OBEDIENT
Angels obey the command of God.  The verse says, "He will command his angels..."  The Lord of heaven rules the angels; he orders them to do what he pleases.  It does not appear that angels are free agents with free will; the Bible indicates that they completely obey.

CONCERNING PEOPLE
In this verse the Almighty is directing the angels to influence his people.  God seems to be more concerned in the well-being of people than he is of the angels.

GUARDING AND PROTECTING
Angels guard and protect.  Maybe angels exert an influence on the spirit of people.

In the spiritual conflict between good and evil demonic forces seek to influence our lives for evil; it must be in the context of the unseen realms that angels guard over the Faithful.  Angels stand between demons and the harm they would do us.

REAL
The angels are a real presence in our lives since they lift us up in their hands.  The hands may be actual or the statement may be symbolic of power, but the point is clear that they manifest good in our lives, in some way.

THE CONDITION
There is an "if" in the passage.  If we make the Most High our dwelling and refuge then the promises in these verses are for us.  It is unreasonable to expect God's angelic protection if one is disobedient and rebellious against His holy will.

The wrong things to look for dwelling place and refuge things are...
     * Angels
     * Saints
     * Heritage
     * Tradition
     * Our own goodness
     * Or our religion
But we are instructed to make the Lord God our refuge.

If God is not our abiding place we are living precarious lives and are exposed to all sorts of evil without the refuge of the Almighty.

If you want to know more about making God your abiding place follow this link: click here.

(c)Adron Dozat

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What is God Like? Isaiah 6:1-3.

Can we know what God is like? We may guess by what we see around us or what we feel inside, but what can we really know? What if your guess about God wrong?

"In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying and they were calling to one another; "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty the whole earth is full of his glory." 

Isaiah 6; 1-3, NIV.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
The prophet had a vision of God and the angels surrounding him. Those angels were singing a song, which said "Holy, holy, holy."  The angles who observed God's acts for eternal ages would have witnessed his love, forgiveness, righteousness, justice, creativeness, power, and more- yet though they could have sung about more appealing character traits they sing of His holiness.

DEFINE HOLY:

Can We Know What God Is Like

"Holy" means more than we discuss here. It says someone or something is separated from everything else. Here, this tells us that God is so different from anything that we can think of that we will never comprehend him without his revelation. Holy also means clean, pure, uncontaminated, sinless, righteous, beautiful, and more.

THRICE HOLY:
The angels say "holy" three times. (To some this implies the trinity; a holy for the father, Son, and Holy Spirit). The threefold statement of holy is clear; it is the one thing you can know for sure. If they said holy only once it would be a trivial factoid, or twice it would suggest duality like the other gods of the day, four times it would suggest a square like completeness; but the three times is more powerful, there is no mistake that God is holy.  The triplet of Holy raises his holiness to the supreme. If you know only one thing about God it is that he is holy; everything God is and does is founded in his holiness. His love is holy, his power is holy, his wisdom is holy, etc.

HOLINESS SOLVES THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM:
His holiness is so significant that it separates God from everything else; therefore you can't compare him to anything else.  This creates a barrier, for how can sinful people know The Thrice Holy God? He could not allow our Sinfulness to contaminate his holiness. But a holy God would solve this problem, so since we can't reach up to him he came down to us in the person of his Son, Jesus, who while still being holy lived a perfect life and gave his life to perfectly pay for our sins therefore becoming the way to God, and the resurrection proves the sufficiency of Jesus to be the way to the Father.

©Adron 2/18/12