When I Think About Angels

Many people exalt angels and in turn, lose sight of Jesus Christ, forgetting to call on Him. God has used them to communicate His words and His will, and to carry out various assignments. Angels are not our messengers, or go-betweens to God. We should pray to God because we recognize that He is all-knowing, all-powerful and present everywhere.

Only He can answer prayer.

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Sometimes the prayers we lift up to God have unexpected answers. Because of this, we are often unprepared for the answers we receive from God. His answers frequently do not look at first like answers. They look like problems. They look like trouble. They look like loss, disappointment, affliction, conflict and sorrow. They cause deep soul wrestling and expose sins, doubts and fears. They are not what we expect, and we often do not see how they correspond to our prayers.

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It means that we continue turning to God who answers prayer and know that through Him, we can expect the unexpected. Place your trust and faith in Christ alone for your salvation, for He is our Savior. I guess if we consider that fallen angels correspond to self-deceptive thinking, we'll get some idea of the direction in which self-deception leads. But before we hit bottom, we can save ourselves by calling forth our cherubim and seraphim love and faith. These are the mental attitudes that guard our thrones.

So what I was getting at is that there are different kinds of thoughts and different kinds of thinking. You can create a thought. You can just sit there and totally bloom a thought, and it's not necessarily motivated by anything outside of you. It's a thought-angel that you send forth. It's not a thought that is dependent on, or a reflection of, the world around you.

It's a thought-angel that you originate. You can create a thought for no reason a thought- angel , and then you can create a reason for having created that thought. The second thought is inspired by the first thought a response , but the first thought—that's your seraph! It was not a response to anything else. It was not a comment or an opinion about reality. It was a thought-angel that you created. Now this idea comes as a surprise to some people.

They start wondering if their stimulus-response model—where the world is stimulus and thought is response—might have some holes in it. I'd say it does. For one thing, they're going to have a devil of a time explaining where the world that causes them to think "came from. That is a pretty neat trick. Let's not go down that path this time. Let's just sit on our I-am-thrones and send our cherubim and seraphim to create the world the way we want it. The world begins as thought-angels.

That's where reality comes from. Create the thought, "I am happy. You just create it. You don't have to consult reality to see if there is any reason to create it; it is true because you say it is true. Now create the thought, "I create love. You also could create, "I can't create love.

When the world causes you to think—the world you created—you have fallen into the regions of self-deceptive thought. Do you see the difference? A created thought an angel creates a reality, but a response thought creates a lie. What is the lie?

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Well, you might be able to pull that on your mother, but you're wasting your time trying to convince me. When you are God of your universe and you decide something, your angels make it happen. But you have to be God of your universe to do that. Some people try to make something happen with a response thought a lie rather than a created thought an angel.

It's the difference between a fantasy and a thought that creates a reality. A thought-angel becomes a fact. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? Bless the Lord , O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,. Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short! In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. And one called to another and said: A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan also came among them. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;. For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

And he stood on the sand of the sea. After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place.

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He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

For they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. A Psalm of David.