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What Are Angels?

Angels are mentioned 344 times in the Bible.

God created all angels.	Nehemiah 9:6	"Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee."

Angels report to God.	Job 1:6	"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them."

Angels were already present when God created the world.	Job 38:7	"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

Angels are innumerable.	Psalms 68:17	"The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place".

Angels are spirits.	Psalms 104:4	"Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:"

Some angels are in the highest order.	Isaiah 6:2	"Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."

Angels have a will of their own.	Isaiah 14:12-14	"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

Some childlike angels are in the second order.	Ezekiel 10:1	"Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne."

Angels are faster than humans.	Daniel 9:21	"Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation."

Angels have intelligence.	Daniel 9:22	And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

Angels cannot be everywhere at the same time.	Daniel 10:12	"Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words."

Angels do not have unlimited power.	Daniel 10:13	"But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia."

Angels are smarter than humans.	Daniel 10:14	"Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days."

Angels cannot marry.	Matthew 22:30	"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."

Angels do not know everything.	Matthew 24:36	"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

Some angels hurt humans.	Mark 5:1-5	"And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones."

An angel announced Jesus' birth.	Luke 2:10	"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."

Angels are invisible.	Romans 1:20	"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse::

Some angels help humans.	Hebrews 1:14	"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"

Angels will join all believers in heaven.	Hebrew 12:22-23	"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,"

Angels are stronger than humans.	2 Peter 2:11	"Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord."

Angels live forever to glorify God.	Revelation 4:8	"And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come."

Most angels remained true to God.	Revelations 5:11	"And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;"