
COMPLETED Unseen World, Angelic Forces
UNSEEN WORLD
Angelic Forces
July 16, 2023
Genesis 18:1-2 - The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby.
Genesis 19:1-2 - The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
Hebrews 13:2 - Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
WHO ARE ANGELS?
1. ANGELS ARE WORSHIPPERS
Hebrews 1:6 - And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
Revelation 5:11-12 - Then 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. 12 In a loud voice they sang: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
2. ANGELS ARE WARRIORS
1 Chronicles 21:27 - Then the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
2 Kings 19:35 - That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp.
Revelation 12:7 - And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
3. ANGELS ARE MESSANGERS
Judges 6:12 - When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
Luke 1:30-31 - But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus.
WHAT DO ANGELS DO
1. ANGELS GIVE YOU DIRECTION
Matthew 1:20 - …an angel of the Lord appeared to (Joseph) in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Numbers 22:21-23 - Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab. 22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road.
Numbers 22:28-31 - Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?” 29 Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.” 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said. 31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.
2. ANGELS PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.
Psalms 91:11-12 - For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
Acts 12:7-8,11 - Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. 8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him….11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
3. ANGELS MINISTER TO YOU.
Hebrews 1:14 - Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Matthew 4:11 - Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
Diakoneo (dee-ak-on-eh’-o); to be an attendant, wait upon, to minister as unto a friend.
Luke 22:43 - An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.