Angels
Angels
ANGELS
God’s holy angels carry out a variety of tasks and deeds, as well as the angels of Satan. They carry out what the will of heaven is on earth when god Himself wants. Sometimes they appear as normal humans and sometimes with all the radiance of heaven shining upon them, and making known that a part of heaven is on earth. What I am going to try to explain is that I don’t think that angels have a role. I think that any angel does whatever heaven’s will wants it to do, when it wants it. In other words, angels do as they are told, not what they want. I’m going to review one by one what jobs or roles God has given to the angels.
Roles of the Angels
Messenger
Most likely the angels’ main role that God gave to them was to be a messenger to those that were in need. Many times angels have appeared to someone just in the nick of time to deliver an urgent message from God. This is evident in the following stories: Abraham is just about to sacrifice his firstborn child before an angel comes and reveals to him why he had to do this. Many times in Acts angels appear to the Minor Prophets to give them important messages ranging from not being afraid for things to come or telling them they must seek out someone. Then there are the angels that are spoken of in Revelations. Sometimes the angels speak directly to John, and sometimes appear in visions of the end of times. The angel at the end of times is yet to come, and will proclaim in a loud voice to all the world the glory and majesty of God. There are many other examples of angel revealing a message to God’s people, both in the Old and New Testament. Many of them are very brief, (an angel appeared to John and told him not to enter Samaria), yet still important. We don’t know God’s reasoning for sending His angels, yet every message was in God’s plan and could not have been overlooked.
Guardian
Although the Bible does not actually use the term “guardian” angels, it does speak of angels protecting people. God is our protector and cornerstone, and yet He includes in His Word that angels also protect us. Specific instances of this are, for example, two times in Psalms angels are said to encamp around those that fear Him, and angels will guard you in all your ways. They don’t specifically guard one single person in these chapters, but refer to all believers of the world, from who was and who is to come are guarded by all of heaven. More passages where angels act as guards for the whole world can be found in Daniel when the archangel Michael is being spoken of as the great prince who protects your people. This, again, shows angels as watchmen over a flock. Its very evident that God and the angels have been guarding and watching us from many other stories as well that don’t even describe angles or note their presence. Daniel in the lions den is a very good example because through Daniel being saved, a king and his people were converted to Christianity. So God and the angels have a big part to do with the bible and our everyday lives with keeping us safer than we think we might be.
Therefore angels played 2 very big roles in the old and New Testament. They proclaimed the will of heaven onto earth by visiting people in person, and they guarded and still guard people all over the planet today. Sometimes they helped in other ways like joining an army of Israel to destroy their enemy, or guarding the Garden of Eden. But if the majority is taken into account, the angels official roles would be guardian and messenger.
Named Angels
Gabriel
Thought to be one of the arch-angels or head angels of heaven that is set above the rest of the angels. He is mentioned in both the old and new testament by name. He tells Daniel what his vision he had meant about an upcoming war