Angels & the Superior Christ

Hebrews 1:4-2:4

Angels - A Definition• Messenger• Spiritual Beings Distinct

from Humans• Holy and Fallen Angels

Created Beings

Psalm 148:2-5Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.Let them praise the name of the LORD,

for at his command they were created,

Col 1:15, 16The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

Created BeingsStrength and Wisdom

2 Sam 14:20Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”

2 Kings 19:35That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Psalm 103:20Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousMatthew 26:53Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

Revelation 5:11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanGen 19 - Lot in Sodom

Gen 32 – Jacob Wrestles with an Angel

Exodus 3 – An Angel Appears to Moses

Number 22 – An Angel Appears to Balaam’s Donkey

Judges 6 – An Angel Appears to Gideon

Luke 1 – The birth of John

Luke 1 – The birth of Jesus

Luke 22 – Comforting Jesus in the Garden

John 20 – At Jesus Death

Acts 12 – Peter’s Release from Prison

Heb 13 – Some have Entertained Angels

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansMatthew 22:30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

Luke 20:35, 36But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansPsalm 8:4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

Revelation 5:11All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike Humans1 Peter 1:10.12,13Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you… 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansEntrusted with our Care1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansEntrusted with our CareHebrews 1:14Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Psalm 91:11For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;

Matthew 18:10See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansEntrusted with our CareParticipate in JudgmentMatthew 13:39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansEntrusted with our CareParticipate in Judgment1 Corinthians 6:3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

Matthew 25:41Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Created BeingsStrength and WisdomExceedingly NumerousCan Appear as HumanUnlike HumansEntrusted with our CareParticipate in JudgmentNot to be WorshippedRevelation 19:10At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”

Created Beings

Strength and Wisdom

Exceedingly Numerous

Can Appear as Human

Unlike Humans

Entrusted with our Care

Participate in Judgment

Not to be Worshipped

Creator

Omnipotent Omniscient

All Authority

Fully God & Full Man

Unlike Angels

Savior of the World

Judge of all Things

To be worshipped

Applying What We’ve Learned…

• Our focus must always be on Christ• Angelic Intervention in day to day affairs

happens, but is not to be expected.• Avoid fanciful speculation