The Angels of God

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The Angels of God

• Class 4 The Angels are your Friends

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Fun things Angels did

• Create this world and all the living creatures
• Guide a stone from Davids sling into Goliaths
  head
• Bring the plagues on the Egyptians
• Knock the wheels off Pharaohs chariots
• Chase the Philistines out of the land with
  hornets
• Tear the veil in the temple when Jesus died
• Lead Peter out of prison
• Arrange a worldwide tax so Jesus born in
  Bethlehem
• Shower fire brimstones on Sodom
• Lengthen the day for Joshua to take the land
• Bring the animals to Noah in the ark
• Rain manna quail on the Israelites
• Guide the arrow that just happened to hit Ahab

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• Job 417-19
• 17 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can
  a man be more pure than his Maker?
• 18 If He puts no trust in His servants, if He
  charges His angels with error,
• 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of
  clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are
  crushed before a moth?

Dont mistakenly think Eliphaz was right! God
entrusts His angels with awesome power and
authority as they work to accomplish His will
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• Matthew 1810
• 10 "Take heed that you do not despise one of
  these little ones, for I say to you that in
  heaven their angels always see the face of My
  Father who is in heaven.

Every brother, sister, and young person has an
angel assigned to them. God doesnt leave
anything to chance! Be aware of their presence,
thank God for them, and dont frustrate their
work. Angels dont know the final outcome anymore
than we do today with our converts (1 Cor 3)
until the fire tests our work. This adds to their
excitement!
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• Acts 125-9
• 5 Peter was therefore kept in prison, but
  constant prayer was offered to God for him by the
  church.
• 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that
  night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains
  between two soldiers and the guards before the
  door were keeping the prison.
• 7 Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him,
  and a light shone in the prison and he struck
  Peter on the side and raised him up, saying,
  "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell off his
  hands.
• 8 Then the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and
  tie on your sandals" and so he did. And he said
  to him, "Put on your garment and follow me."
• 9 So he went out and followed him, and did not
  know that what was done by the angel was real,
  but thought he was seeing a vision.

Note the power of this angel to free Peter, and
his compassion in dealing with Peter
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• Acts 1213-16
• 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate,
  a girl named Rhoda came to answer.
• 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, because of
  her gladness she did not open the gate, but ran
  in and announced that Peter stood before the
  gate.
• 15 But they said to her, "You are beside
  yourself!" Yet she kept insisting that it was so.
  So they said, "It is his angel."
• 16 Now Peter continued knocking and when they
  opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

They knew Peter had an angel watching over him
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• Genesis 2812-15
• 12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set
  up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven
  and there the angels of God were ascending and
  descending on it.
• 13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said
  "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the
  God of Isaac the land on which you lie I will
  give to you and your descendants.
• 14 "Also your descendants shall be as the dust of
  the earth you shall spread abroad to the west
  and the east, to the north and the south and in
  you and in your seed all the families of the
  earth shall be blessed.
• 15 "Behold, I am with you and will keep you
  wherever you go, and will bring you back to this
  land for I will not leave you until I have done
  what I have spoken to you."

This angel stayed with Jacob all his life, and
Jacob learned to trust him!
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• Genesis 3111
• 11 "Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream,
  saying, 'Jacob.' And I said, 'Here I am.'
• Genesis 3124
• 24 But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a
  dream by night, and said to him, "Be careful that
  you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad."

Angels can influence human lives through dreams.
Angels took care of Jacob in all his troubles.
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• Genesis 3129
• 29 "It is in my power to do you harm, but the God
  of your father spoke to me last night, saying,
  'Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good
  nor bad.'
• 42 "Unless the God of my father, the God of
  Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me,
  surely now you would have sent me away
  empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the
  labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

The angels are very aware of the way others treat
us. They do intervene to help us out.
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• Genesis 321-2, 9-12
• 1 So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God
  met him.
• 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's
  camp." And he called the name of that place
  Mahanaim.
• 9 Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham
  and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to
  me, (an angel 3111-13) 'Return to your
  country and to your family, and I will deal well
  with you'
• 10 "I am not worthy of the least of all the
  mercies and of all the truth which You have shown
  Your servant for I crossed over this Jordan with
  my staff, and now I have become two companies.
• 11 "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my
  brother, from the hand of Esau for I fear him,
  lest he come and attack me and the mother with
  the children.
• 12 "For You said, 'I will surely treat you well,
  and make your descendants as the sand of the sea,
  which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"

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• Genesis 3224-27
• 24 Then Jacob was left alone and a Man wrestled
  with him until the breaking of day.
• 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail
  against him, He touched the socket of his hip
  and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as
  He wrestled with him.
• 26 And He said, "Let Me go, for the day breaks."
  But he said, "I will not let You go unless You
  bless me!"
• 27 So He said to him, "What is your name?" And he
  said, "Jacob."

Jacob knew his family was in trouble. He needed
his angel to save his family and held on till he
received the angels blessing. This angel could
have easily gotten free!
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• Hosea 123-5
• 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb,
  and in his strength he struggled with God.
• 4 Yes, he struggled with the Angel and prevailed
  he wept, and sought favor from Him. He found Him
  in Bethel, and there He spoke to us--
• 5 That is, the LORD God of hosts. The LORD is His
  memorable name.

Jacob prevailed through tears! He pleaded
with his angel for help. Thats what we need to
do.
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• Genesis 3228-30
• 28 And He said, "Your name shall no longer be
  called Jacob, but Israel for you have struggled
  with God and with men, and have prevailed."
• 29 Then Jacob asked, saying, "Tell me Your name,
  I pray." And He said, "Why is it that you ask
  about My name?" And He blessed him there.
• 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel
  "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is
  preserved."

Part of Jacobs personal relationship with God,
was through his relationship with his angel. This
is an important step for ourselves.
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• Genesis 4815-16
• 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said "God, before
  whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God
  who has fed me all my life long to this day,
• 16 The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
  bless the lads let my name be named upon them,
  and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and
  let them grow into a multitude in the midst of
  the earth."

There is no separation between God and his
angels. Their work is His work. Their blessing is
His blessing. Some angels may work in families.
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• Exodus 331-3
• 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up
  from here, you and the people whom you have
  brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of
  which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
  saying, 'To your descendants I will give it.'
• 2 "And I will send My Angel before you, and I
  will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and
  the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and
  the Jebusite.
• 3 "Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey
  for I will not go up in your midst, lest I
  consume you on the way for you are a stiff-necked
  people."

Angels send other angels on missions. This angel
was running out of patience with this
stiff-necked people and wanted to send another
angel in his place.
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• Exodus 339-11
• 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the
  tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended
  and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the
  LORD talked with Moses.
• 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud
  standing at the tabernacle door, and all the
  people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent
  door.
• 11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a
  man speaks to his friend. And he would return to
  the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun,
  a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

Moses knew this angel personally and had
developed a trusting relationship with him.
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• Exodus 3312-16
• 12 Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to
  me, 'Bring up this people.' But You have not let
  me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have
  said, 'I know you by name, and you have also
  found grace in My sight.'
• 13 "Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace
  in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may
  know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.
  And consider that this nation is Your people."
• 14 And He said, "My Presence will go with you,
  and I will give you rest."
• 15 Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does
  not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
• 16 "For how then will it be known that Your
  people and I have found grace in Your sight,
  except You go with us? So we shall be separate,
  Your people and I, from all the people who are
  upon the face of the earth."

Moses really wanted this angel to stay with him!
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• Exodus 3317-20
• 17 So the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do
  this thing that you have spoken for you have
  found grace in My sight, and I know you by name."
• 18 And he said, "Please, show me Your glory."
• 19 Then He said, "I will make all My goodness
  pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of
  the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I
  will be gracious, and I will have compassion on
  whom I will have compassion."
• 20 But He said, "You cannot see My face for no
  man shall see Me, and live."

This angel mercifully agreed to stay with Moses
and help him personally lead the nation. This
angel was one of the most powerful manifestations
of our heavenly Father.
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• Exodus 241-11
• 1 Now He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you
  and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the
  elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
• 2 "And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but
  they shall not come near nor shall the people go
  up with him."
• 9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and
  Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
• 10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was
  under His feet as it were a paved work of
  sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens
  in its clarity.
• 11 But on the nobles of the children of Israel He
  did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they
  ate and drank.

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• Leviticus 101-3
• 1 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each
  took his censer and put fire in it, put incense
  on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD,
  which He had not commanded them.
• 2 So fire went out from the LORD and devoured
  them, and they died before the LORD.
• 3 And Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD
  spoke, saying 'By those who come near Me I must
  be regarded as holy and before all the people I
  must be glorified.' "So Aaron held his peace.

Nadab Abihu had seen an angel revealing the
glory of God, but it didnt change their lives.
Feeling the presence of the angels with us will
help us to glorify honor God at all times
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• Daniel 813-16
• 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking and another
  holy one said to that certain one who was
  speaking, "How long will the vision be,
  concerning the daily sacrifices and the
  transgression of desolation, the giving of both
  the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under
  foot?"
• 14 And he said to me, "For two thousand three
  hundred days then the sanctuary shall be
  cleansed."
• 15 Then it happened, when I, Daniel, had seen the
  vision and was seeking the meaning, that suddenly
  there stood before me one having the appearance
  of a man.
• 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of
  the Ulai, who called, and said, "Gabriel, make
  this man understand the vision."

Some angels know more than others! Angels may
help us understand Gods word.
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• Daniel 817-19
• 17 So he came near where I stood, and when he
  came I was afraid and fell on my face but he
  said to me, "Understand, son of man, that the
  vision refers to the time of the end."
• 18 Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a
  deep sleep with my face to the ground but he
  touched me, and stood me upright.
• 19 And he said, "Look, I am making known to you
  what shall happen in the latter time of the
  indignation for at the appointed time the end
  shall be.

Angels want to help! Like true friends they
touch, strengthen, and help us understand.
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• 1 Samuel 31-10
• 1 Then the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD
  before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in
  those days there was no widespread revelation.
• 2 And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was
  lying down in his place, and when his eyes had
  begun to grow so dim that he could not see,
• 3 and before the lamp of God went out in the
  tabernacle of the LORD where the ark of God was,
  and while Samuel was lying down,
• 4 that the LORD called Samuel. And he answered,
  "Here I am!"
• 5 So he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you
  called me." And he said, "I did not call lie
  down again." And he went and lay down.

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• 1 Samuel 31-10
• 6 And the LORD called yet again, "Samuel!" So
  Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I
  am, for you called me." And he answered, "I did
  not call, my son lie down again."
• 7 (Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was
  the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.)
• 8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third
  time. Then he arose and went to Eli, and said,
  "Here I am, for you did call me." Then Eli
  perceived that the LORD had called the boy.
• 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down
  and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must
  say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears.'" So
  Samuel went and lay down in his place.
• 10 Now the LORD came and stood and called as at
  other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel
  answered, "Speak, for Your servant hears."

This angel patiently introduced himself to the
young boy Samuel!
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• Luke 244-8
• 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed
  about this, that behold, two men stood by them in
  shining garments.
• 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces
  to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek
  the living among the dead?
• 6 "He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He
  spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,
• 7 "saying, 'The Son of Man must be delivered into
  the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and
  the third day rise again.' (see Mark 930-32)
• 8 And they remembered His words.

Angels are with us all the time. Even when we
think we are alone. They hear and see everything
we do and think. Its essential for their work.
They patiently wait for us to develop.
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• Acts 2722-25
• 22 "And now I urge you to take heart, for there
  will be no loss of life among you, but only of
  the ship.
• 23 "For there stood by me this night an angel of
  the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,
• 24 "saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul you must be
  brought before Caesar and indeed God has granted
  you all those who sail with you.'
• 25 "Therefore take heart, men, for I believe God
  that it will be just as it was told me.

Angel reassured Paul in a crisis time for him.
Angels will stand by you too during tough times
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• Luke 158-10
• 8 "Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she
  loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the
  house, and search carefully until she finds it?
• 9 "And when she has found it, she calls her
  friends and neighbors together, saying, 'Rejoice
  with me, for I have found the piece which I
  lost!'
• 10 "Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the
  presence of the angels of God over one sinner who
  repents."

Angels rejoice together. Share each others joy.
Theres no jealousy and no competition! Now is
our opportunity to practice living like angels!
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• Acts 19-11
• 9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they
  watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received
  Him out of their sight.
• 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward
  heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by
  them in white apparel,
• 11 who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you
  stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who
  was taken up from you into heaven, will so come
  in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."

As Jesus ascended into heaven, angels remained to
continue their work as ministering spirits for
the sake of those who will inherit salvation!
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Cherubim Chariots of God
Ezekiel 1 Angels brought the Babylonians down to
destroy Jerusalem and picked up Gods Glory from
the ark in the temple Revelation 4 5 The
faithful saints have become members of Gods
family and manifest his spirit in the Kingdom of
God

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• Matthew 410-11
• 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan!
  For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord
  your God, and Him only you shall serve.'"
• 11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels
  came and ministered to Him.

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• Matthew 2636-38
• 36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called
  Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here
  while I go and pray over there."
• 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of
  Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply
  distressed.
• 38 Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly
  sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch
  with Me."

In his time of great sorrow and distress, Jesus
needed his friends
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• Matthew 2639-41
• 39 He went a little farther and fell on His face,
  and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is
  possible, let this cup pass from Me
  nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."
• 40 Then He came to the disciples and found them
  asleep, and said to Peter, "What? Could you not
  watch with Me one hour?
• 41 "Watch and pray, lest you enter into
  temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the
  flesh is weak."

The disciples were overcome and bewildered by
what Jesus was going through. They let him down.
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• Matthew 2642-43
• 42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed,
  saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass
  away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be
  done."
• 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for
  their eyes were heavy.

Luke 2243-44 43 Then an angel appeared to
Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And
being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then
His sweat became like great drops of blood
falling Matthew 2643 43 And He came and found
them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
When Jesus friends failed, an angel came
through for him!
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• John 2010-14
• 10 Then the disciples went away again to their
  own homes.
• 11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping,
  and as she wept she stooped down and looked into
  the tomb.
• 12 And she saw two angels in white sitting, one
  at the head and the other at the feet, where the
  body of Jesus had lain.
• 13 Then they said to her, "Woman, why are you
  weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have
  taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they
  have laid Him."
• 14 Now when she had said this, she turned around
  and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know
  that it was Jesus.

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