(119) WHAT ARE ANGELS?

Yes, what are angels? Angels are God’s servants and soldiers. They do special assignments for God. Sometimes God uses angels to rescue or help people from danger. Remember when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit at the Garden of Eden and they were punished by God? God sent an angel with a fiery sword to keep Adam and Eve away from the Garden of Eden.

When Apostle Peter was in prison for preaching the words of God, King Herod had put Peter in prison to be executed, but an angel appeared before Peter while he was sleeping and chained. The angel woke Peter and removed the chains from him and Peter followed the angel.

God used angels to bring messages to people, like the three angels that came to Abraham and one of the angels told him he would have a son. The angels came to Abraham and told him that God was going to destroy the city where his nephew (Lot) lived.

Two angels in the Bible have names: Michael, the Archangel and Gabriel, the angel who brought the news of Jesus’ birth to Mary. One of the most powerful angels we understand is Michael, the archangel. He is the commander, whose chief responsibility is to guard the children of Israel. Gabriel made special announcements about God’s plans to the prophet Daniel and he announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a son. Gabriel is a powerful and wise angel.

Cherubim are fearsome creatures with four faces and four wings. What is written in Ezekiel 1:5-6? (NLT) From the center of the cloud came four living being that looked human, 6 except that each had four faces and two pair of wings. (NLT) Ezekiel 1:10 Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle at the back. Their job is to protect God and his holiness.

Seraphim, fiery angels have six wings. Seraphim means “to burn.” Some of the angels have wings and some don’t, for instance to my knowledge Gabriel didn’t had any wings at all. In other words, not all angels have wings. Always listen to the Angels, the Holy Spirit and most of all to the Lord Jesus Christ; they will lead you to the godly paths within your life.

We as strong Christian believers must try as much as possible to save the souls of our brother and sisters in this world. Each time a sinner turns to follow God, I truly believe heaven will rejoice and the angels will sing. Amen to that!

Angels are mentioned many times in our bible as messengers and soldiers, they existed before humans were created on this planet.

I encourage every one of you to read your bible about angels; you will be very surprised to see how many times they are mentioned in our bible. Believe me, they are mentioned many times.

As you can see there are so many angels and all kinds of different angels and they all have different responsibilities and none of them look alike. The book of Hebrews mentioned there are so many angels we can’t count them. For example, can we count all the sand on this planet? No! We cannot count it at all, it is the same scenario, and so as you can see it is impossible to count all the angels. Right? Right on!

We must not worship any angels; let’s see what Apostle John found out after he had a vision of heaven. He wanted to worship the angel who was guiding him, but the angel told him not to. He was to worship only God.

I pray this message will be very informative to you.


Aloha from Pastor Jimmy Nishimoto and Chris Eliason