A Study of Angels
(part 1)
What are my beliefs
about angels based upon?
Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing
you may discern what is the will of
God, what is good and acceptable
and perfect.”
1. How do we know
Angels exist?
2. Where Did Angels
Come From/
Who or What are
Angels?
Created by God:
• Nehemiah 9:6 "You are the LORD, you alone. You
have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all
their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and
all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and
the host of heaven worships you.”
• Colossians 1:15-17 “He is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of all creation. (16) For by him all
things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities--all things were created through
him and for him. (17) And he is before all things, and
in him all things hold together.”
Do We Become
Angels After We Die?
- Matthew 22:23-30
-Luke 16:19-32
3. Are Angels
Free Moral
Agents?
• Joshua 24:14-15 “Now therefore
fear the LORD and serve him in
sincerity and in faithfulness. Put
away the gods that your fathers
served beyond the River and in
Egypt, and serve the LORD. (15) And
if it is evil in your eyes to serve the
LORD, choose this day whom you will
serve, whether the gods your fathers
served in the region beyond the
River, or the gods of the Amorites in
whose land you dwell. But as for me
and my house, we will serve the
LORD."
• Some Angels choose to do God’s Will:
• Psalm 103:20-21 “Bless the LORD, O you his
angels, you mighty ones who do his word,
obeying the voice of his word! (21) Bless
the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who
do his will!”
• Some Angels Choose Not To Do God’s Will:
• Judge 1:6 “And the angels who did not stay
within their own position of authority, but
left their proper dwelling, he has kept in
eternal chains under gloomy darkness until
the judgment of the great day…”
• 2 Peter 2:4 “For if God did not spare angels
when they sinned, but cast them into hell
and committed them to chains of gloomy
darkness to be kept until the judgment…”
4.What Do
Angels Look Like?
• Angels are spiritual beings: Hebrews
1:5-7 14
• Do they have wings?
– Revelation 1:1; Revelation 14:6
– Isaiah 6:1-6
• Some Angels Appeared To Men In a
Visible Form.
– Used accordingly for God’s purpose.
– This does not mean guarantee that it
is what they look like.
• Some appearances: Joseph (Matthew
1:20), Zacharias (Luke 1:5-13), Mary
(Luke 1:26-31), Resurrection (Matthew
28:1-11), Ascension (Acts 1:9-11).
5. What Attributes/
Abilities do they have?
Superhuman in Knowledge, but not all Knowing:
• Luke 1:11-19 – Gabriel appeared to Zachrias and told
him that his wife Elizabeth will have a son.
• Acts 1:9-11 “And when he had said these things, as
they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud
took him out of their sight. (10) And while they were
gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood
by them in white robes, (11) and said, "Men of Galilee,
why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus,
who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in
the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
• Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour no one
knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father
only…”
Superhuman in Power, but not all Powerful:
• 2 Kings 19:35-36 “And that night the angel of the LORD
went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the
Assyrians. And when people arose early in the
morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. (36) Then
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home
and lived at Nineveh.”
• Daniel 6:22 “My God sent his angel and shut the lions'
mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was
found blameless before him; and also before you, O
king, I have done no harm."
• Matthew 28:2 “And behold, there was a great earthquake, for
an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and
rolled back the stone and sat on it.”