God sent angels to deliver messages to man, particularly at critical moments in God’s dealings with mankind.įor example, the angel Gabriel was sent, first to Zechariah, to announce the coming birth of John, the forerunner of the Lord, and then to the virgin Mary, to announce that she was to give birth to the Christ child himself. In fact, the word “angel” means “messenger.” The Greek word “angelos” can be translated as that, “messenger.” That’s the word that used to identify these unseen spirit beings, because often when we encounter them in the Bible, that’s what they’re doing: delivering a message. No, only in God’s Word do we get the solid truth about angels.Īnd the truth about angels, as we survey the Sacred Scriptures, we can briefly summarize in three words: messengers, worshipers, and warriors. Do not base your theology of angels on what you have seen in TV shows or movies or what some person claims an angel told them in a private revelation. And that’s the only place where we have reliable information about angels, that is, in the Bible. Sometimes at key moments in salvation history God did let humans catch a glimpse of what’s going on in the spirit realm, and we have those moments recorded for us in the Scriptures. We may see the results, but we do not see the angelic activity itself. We may see the results of this unseen spiritual activity in our world–in human history, in the rise and fall of nations, in the protection and safety of the church, or even of individual believers. The Bible is clear throughout that there is an unseen spirit world, with lots going on that we mere mortals are not privy to. “God’s secret agents,” you could almost call them: “secret,” in the sense that we human beings rarely have ever been allowed to see angels, to know exactly what they are doing at any given time and “agents,” in that the angels act at God’s direction and by his authority. They are unseen spirits, doing the will of God–“ministering spirits,” the Bible calls them. Sometime during the six days of creation, the Lord God created these beings we call angels. We can begin by saying that angels are created beings. Michael and All Angels: Messengers, Worshipers, Warriors.”įirst of all, we should explain just who angels are, their nature, what kind of beings they are, according to Holy Scripture. So with that by way of introduction, we begin our theme today, “St. And we’ll even get into who this mysterious figure St. It always falls on September 29, and since this year that date falls on a Sunday, that’s why we’re celebrating this festival today.Īngels, thus, will be topic of this sermon: who they are and what they do and why we thank God for them. Today in the Christian church year is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels: Messengers, Worshipers, Warriors” (Revelation 12:7-12)
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