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This is taken from a bible study by Pastor Lassman found here:
http://messiahseattle.org/education/aic/videos/lesson-3/
There is a video and the text I have is from the complete lesson but I can't find the updated link at the moment. This is a copy and paste of the study from part of that video in the link:
Angels: Good & Evil
1. At the beginning of time, God created a multitude of holy and might angels. What are the holy angels?
Psalm 148:2,5
2 Praise Him all, His angels, praise Him all His heavenly hosts.
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created.
Angels are not “eternal” in the sense that they had a beginning but they do have eternal life. They have not always existed because they are not equal to God; He created them. We are never told exactly when they were created, but some theologians believe it was Day 1.
They are invisible, powerful creatures differing in ranks of which we don’t know much about. The word Angel appears 169 times in the New Testament and means Messenger. Sometimes the word Messenger will even be used of human people but more often it refers to these spirit beings.
Hebrews 1:14
They are all spirits who serve God and are sent by Him to help those who are to receive salvation. (GN)
From this we learn:
The holy angels are unseen heavenly creatures who are constantly serving God. Their special duty is to be helpful to Christians.
1. There are many angels (Daniel 7:10, Revelation 5:11..there are many others)
2. They are powerful (Psalm 103:20, 2Kings 19:25…1 angel destroyed an army of 185,000 Assyrian soldiers)
3. The good angels are holy (Acts 10:22) God doesn’t allow anything sinful in His presence…my question, what about Satan and the book of Job?
4. They never die (Luke 20:35-36)
5. There are ranks or grades of angels such as angels and archangels, thrones and dominions, etc… (Genesis 3:24, Isaiah 6:2, Colossians 1:16, 1Thessalonians 1:16)
2. How are the holy angels helpful to Christians?
Psalm 91:11, 12
He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew 18:10, 11
“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”
Luke 16:22
The beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom.
Abraham’s bosom is Paradise or heaven. They didn’t carry his body because that was put in the ground. Death is the soul leaving the body so his soul was carried by the angels to heaven.
This shows that the angels not only watch over us when we’re alive, but when we’re dead as well!
Luke 15:10
“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
From this we learn:
(A) The holy angels watch over and protect the Christian while he lives.
(B) (B) When he dies, they carry his soul to his heavenly home.
3. But there are other angels who are trying to prevent from ever reaching that home. What does the Bible say about the evil angels?
2 Peter 2:4
God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment. (GN)
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
These 2 verses state that the Devil has been sinning since the beginning and did not remain in the truth. The “chains” in 2 Peter are not physical chains because the evil angels are spirits. It is used for us to understand that they are restrained in some way and being in darkness they are condemned with no chance of being restored; waiting for the day of judgment.
There are 2 words for Hell in the Bible. One is Hades and the other is Gehenna. Gehenna is for the last day judgment, it exists already but is empty because judgment hasn’t happened yet…it is the hell that will last forever. Hades is right now and is only for souls or spirits…Gehenna will someday have the bodies of unbelievers.
Jude 6
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Some of these evil angels asked Jesus in the NT, We know who you are, are you going to judge us now? Because they do not know when Judgment Day will come.
Their fall was a sin of pride and rebellion which was also the temptation of Adam and Eve in the garden. They had free will just like Adam and Eve did in the garden. They were created sinless and had the capacity to sin…the good angels chose not to, the evil ones chose to. Now, each angel is sealed into his fate. They holy ones are called the Elect Angels in Timothy.
They know they are condemned forever, and still hate God, so to get back at Him, their plan is to take as many human beings as they can to Gehenna with them to hell.
Mark 5:9
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” (RSV)
There are many evil angels but we don’t know how many good angels there are or how many evil angels there are because the bible never tells us.
1 Peter 5:8, 9
Be alert, be on the watch! For your enemy, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Be firm in your faith and resist him. (GN)
The devil is planning one of two things. If a person doesn’t have faith in Jesus, do everything possible to make sure he remains that way or if a person does have faith in Jesus, do everything possible to make sure he loses faith. The evil angels don’t care how they manage this, whether it’s through tragedy (How could God do this to me?) or slowly drift away through other desires such as the love of money or whatever keeps a person away from God. Since the Devil is God’s enemy, he is our enemy as well.
From this we learn:
(A) Many holy angels sinned and so became evil angels who are forever rejected by God (the chief of the evil angels is called the devil or Satan).
(B) The devil is a cunning and powerful enemy who is intent on our damnation.
Devil means Liar. There are many devils but THE Devil is the leader of all the evil angels and is known as Satan which is a Hebrew term that means adversary.
http://messiahseattle.org/education/aic/videos/lesson-3/
There is a video and the text I have is from the complete lesson but I can't find the updated link at the moment. This is a copy and paste of the study from part of that video in the link:
Angels: Good & Evil
1. At the beginning of time, God created a multitude of holy and might angels. What are the holy angels?
Psalm 148:2,5
2 Praise Him all, His angels, praise Him all His heavenly hosts.
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created.
Angels are not “eternal” in the sense that they had a beginning but they do have eternal life. They have not always existed because they are not equal to God; He created them. We are never told exactly when they were created, but some theologians believe it was Day 1.
They are invisible, powerful creatures differing in ranks of which we don’t know much about. The word Angel appears 169 times in the New Testament and means Messenger. Sometimes the word Messenger will even be used of human people but more often it refers to these spirit beings.
Hebrews 1:14
They are all spirits who serve God and are sent by Him to help those who are to receive salvation. (GN)
From this we learn:
The holy angels are unseen heavenly creatures who are constantly serving God. Their special duty is to be helpful to Christians.
1. There are many angels (Daniel 7:10, Revelation 5:11..there are many others)
2. They are powerful (Psalm 103:20, 2Kings 19:25…1 angel destroyed an army of 185,000 Assyrian soldiers)
3. The good angels are holy (Acts 10:22) God doesn’t allow anything sinful in His presence…my question, what about Satan and the book of Job?
4. They never die (Luke 20:35-36)
5. There are ranks or grades of angels such as angels and archangels, thrones and dominions, etc… (Genesis 3:24, Isaiah 6:2, Colossians 1:16, 1Thessalonians 1:16)
2. How are the holy angels helpful to Christians?
Psalm 91:11, 12
He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew 18:10, 11
“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”
Luke 16:22
The beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom.
Abraham’s bosom is Paradise or heaven. They didn’t carry his body because that was put in the ground. Death is the soul leaving the body so his soul was carried by the angels to heaven.
This shows that the angels not only watch over us when we’re alive, but when we’re dead as well!
Luke 15:10
“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
From this we learn:
(A) The holy angels watch over and protect the Christian while he lives.
(B) (B) When he dies, they carry his soul to his heavenly home.
3. But there are other angels who are trying to prevent from ever reaching that home. What does the Bible say about the evil angels?
2 Peter 2:4
God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment. (GN)
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
These 2 verses state that the Devil has been sinning since the beginning and did not remain in the truth. The “chains” in 2 Peter are not physical chains because the evil angels are spirits. It is used for us to understand that they are restrained in some way and being in darkness they are condemned with no chance of being restored; waiting for the day of judgment.
There are 2 words for Hell in the Bible. One is Hades and the other is Gehenna. Gehenna is for the last day judgment, it exists already but is empty because judgment hasn’t happened yet…it is the hell that will last forever. Hades is right now and is only for souls or spirits…Gehenna will someday have the bodies of unbelievers.
Jude 6
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Some of these evil angels asked Jesus in the NT, We know who you are, are you going to judge us now? Because they do not know when Judgment Day will come.
Their fall was a sin of pride and rebellion which was also the temptation of Adam and Eve in the garden. They had free will just like Adam and Eve did in the garden. They were created sinless and had the capacity to sin…the good angels chose not to, the evil ones chose to. Now, each angel is sealed into his fate. They holy ones are called the Elect Angels in Timothy.
They know they are condemned forever, and still hate God, so to get back at Him, their plan is to take as many human beings as they can to Gehenna with them to hell.
Mark 5:9
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” (RSV)
There are many evil angels but we don’t know how many good angels there are or how many evil angels there are because the bible never tells us.
1 Peter 5:8, 9
Be alert, be on the watch! For your enemy, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Be firm in your faith and resist him. (GN)
The devil is planning one of two things. If a person doesn’t have faith in Jesus, do everything possible to make sure he remains that way or if a person does have faith in Jesus, do everything possible to make sure he loses faith. The evil angels don’t care how they manage this, whether it’s through tragedy (How could God do this to me?) or slowly drift away through other desires such as the love of money or whatever keeps a person away from God. Since the Devil is God’s enemy, he is our enemy as well.
From this we learn:
(A) Many holy angels sinned and so became evil angels who are forever rejected by God (the chief of the evil angels is called the devil or Satan).
(B) The devil is a cunning and powerful enemy who is intent on our damnation.
Devil means Liar. There are many devils but THE Devil is the leader of all the evil angels and is known as Satan which is a Hebrew term that means adversary.
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