Editor’s Notice: Dr. Roger Barrier went to be with the Lord on February sixteenth, 2024. Dr. Barrier’s household is honoring his legacy by persevering with the ministry of Ask Roger and preachitteachit.org for years to return as they share greater than two thousand still-unpublished sermons and Ask Roger articles. All articles authored by Dr. Barrier which can be revealed and republished are accomplished posthumously.
Expensive Roger,
What do we actually learn about angels, and the way do they reveal themselves to us? How do angels seem to individuals within the Bible?
3 Methods Angels Seem within the Bible
Angels appeared to individuals within the Bible in 3 ways. First, some angels appeared to individuals in a recognizable kind, even seeming to be human. For instance, the angel that introduced the virgin beginning to Mary appeared in some sort of recognizable kind (Luke 1:26-38), as did the angel who appeared to the shepherds and the angelic multitude who praised God (Luke 2:8-15). The angels who appeared to Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18-19 had been people from the lads’s standpoint.
Second, different angels appeared to individuals in goals. This was very true surrounding the beginning of Jesus. An angel appeared to Joseph, the person engaged or betrothed to Mary, in a dream to inform him to take Mary as his spouse and that their son could be Jesus, the Messiah (Matthew 1:20-21). An angel additionally appeared to Joseph in one other dream to warn him to flee to Egypt along with his household (Matthew 2:13).
Third, some angels appeared to individuals in visions. This was true of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1 and 10), in addition to John’s imaginative and prescient in Revelation. These visions had been distinct from goals, as they passed off when the people had been awake. Nonetheless, these visions had been additionally totally different from appearances wherein angels got here to individuals in a recognizable method, or as people, and might be seen by others.
Most of us appear to know little or no concerning the existence and ministry of Angels. We use them to embellish our Christmas bushes, to put on as jewellery, to embellish our nurseries or carve into our tombstones. Youngsters don cherub costumes for Christmas packages.
Angels have loads to do, particularly for individuals who have eyes to see. I imagine that almost all of their work goes on behind the scenes the place they’re often not observed.
Let me provide you with a brief Biblical primer on the character and work of angels.
16 Issues We Find out about Angels
1. God created the angels earlier than He created the rest within the universe.
The angels watched God work and shouted for pleasure on the outcomes of the creation (Job 38:4-7).
2. The entire angels had been created concurrently.
They’re unable to procreate (Matthew 22:28). The variety of angels has all the time been fixed.
3. The variety of angels is meaningless.
Revelation 5:11 information the variety of Angels: “Ten thousand instances ten thousand and hundreds and hundreds.”
4. Some angels rebelled towards God.
Lucifer, who was accountable for guarding the throne of God and with bringing God reward and worship, selected to insurgent (Isaiah 14).
An enormous variety of angels rebelled with him. Fallen angels (demons) reside in one in all two locations immediately: (1) On earth, attacking and discouraging people; and (2) In Tartarus, a jail cell within the lowest hell, ready to be launched in the course of the Nice Tribulation.
5. Angels are highly effective.
Just one angel was wanted to wipe out 185,000 Assyrians in a single evening (2 Kings 19).
6. Angels had been created to reward and worship God round His throne.
Revelation 5:11-12: “In a loud voice they sang, “Worthy is the Lamb, to obtain energy and wealth and knowledge and energy and honor and glory and reward!”
7. Angels are charged with the accountability of guiding the affairs of countries.
We study from Daniel 10 that angels are intricately concerned in guiding our heads of state. Each nation additionally has a demon charged with the accountability of bringing that nation to destruction (Ezekiel).
Daniel additionally revealed that each nation has a demonic spirit assigned to it to convey ache and destruction.
8. Angels battle Devil and his demons till the victory is received on the finish of time.
Revelation 12:7-9: “And there was warfare in heaven. Michael and his angels fought towards the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought again…”
9. Each church is assigned an angel to observe over it and to assist defend it.
Revelation 1:20: “The thriller of the seven stars . . . the seven stars are the angels of the seven church buildings, and the seven lampstands are the seven church buildings.”
10. Angels will separate the wheat from the weeds on the remaining judgment (the saved from the misplaced).
Matthew 13:38-42: “The sector is the world, and the nice seed stands for the sons of the dominion. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the satan. The harvest is the tip of the age, and the harvesters are angels.”
11. Angels minister to those that imagine in Christ.
Jacob’s dream of a ladder, by which angels ascended and descended between heaven and earth, is a phenomenal image of their incessant exercise for us (Genesis 28:12).
12. Angels present for the bodily wants of believers as within the case of Elijah beneath his juniper tree (1 Kings 19:5-7).
After a Wednesday evening service a number of years in the past, a girl instructed me of an angelic safety. Driving on a lonely desert highway in her VW along with her kids the automobile’s engine caught hearth. She stopped and tried to open the hood. She couldn’t; it was too sizzling. Instantly, one other automobile pulled up behind her. She thought that this was unusual as a result of she’d seen no different vehicles on the highway.
He pulled out this massive pair of asbestos gloves, opened the hood, and used a fireplace extinguisher to place out the blaze. She turned to thank the person and he was gone. Each he and the automobile had disappeared.
13. Angels defend believers from hazard.
As within the case of watching over the three Hebrews within the furnace (Daniel Chapter 3), or by watching over Daniel within the lions’ den (Daniel chapter 6).
As soon as when Brianna, our oldest daughter, was simply studying crawl, Julie heard me yell from the again rest room. “Julie, come rapidly!” On the identical time, I heard Julie name from the again rest room, “Roger, come rapidly.” We each ran rapidly to find Brianna about to tumble headlong onto the tile of our three-foot-deep sunken tub. We grabbed her simply in time.
Julie mentioned, “I’m certain glad you known as me to get again right here rapidly.”
“I didn’t name you,” I mentioned. “You known as me.”
“I didn’t name you,” she mentioned.
We had an angelic visitation from Brie’s guardian angel!”
Experiences like these make Psalm 34:7 come alive: “The Angel of the Lord encamps round those that concern God and ship them.”
14. Angels generally reveal the Lord’s plans.
We see this with Daniel (Daniel 9:21-23), Cornelius (Acts 10:3-6), and Mary on the beginning of Jesus (Luke 2).
15. Angels minister to us at our time of dying.
Luke 17:22: “The time got here when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s facet.”
A chilly chill runs up a lot of our backs to suppose that someday sooner or later, and maybe within the very close to future for a few of us, the Loss of life Angel will likely be dispatched from Heaven to Earth.
If we’re Christians, we want not be afraid of the Loss of life Angel. They could be our rod and workers which brings us by the Valley of the Shadow of Loss of life.
D.L. Moody, a Billy Graham kind evangelist from a earlier era, noticed angels on his dying mattress: “Earth recedes, Heaven opens earlier than me… that is no dream, it’s lovely… angels, usher me into the presence of God. God’s permitting me to see past the veil that separated this life from the subsequent. I see the faces of family members lengthy misplaced.”
Dying sufferers immediately are given so many medication that we don’t appear to listen to many tales like these anymore. However to those that face dying in Christ, it’s a wonderful expertise. It’s a assured angelic escorted journey into the presence of God.
16. Not all angels are good.
Galatians 1:8-11: “However even when we or an angel from heaven ought to preach a gospel aside from the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. …I would like you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached shouldn’t be one thing that synthetic up. I didn’t obtain it from any man, nor was I taught it; fairly, I obtained it by revelation from Jesus Christ.”
This jogs my memory of the story of the Angel Maroni giving to Joseph Smith the golden plates upon which Mormonism stands. I’ve little doubt that an angel appeared to Smith. Nonetheless, the angel was not from God.
How are you aware? The Angel was preaching one other gospel than the gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul was preaching!
Have you ever ever puzzled about guardian angels?
Matthew 18:10: “See that you don’t look down on one in all these little ones. For I inform you that their angels in heaven all the time see the face of my Father in heaven.”
I pray typically for my guarding angel. I pray for him/her (it?) to be “sturdy” on my behalf within the non secular battles that I battle. When I’m praying for somebody about to endure surgical procedure, I by no means fail to wish for his or her guardian angel, assigned to them at beginning, to assist information the hand of the surgeon for a profitable surgical procedure. I would like him/her (it?) and me to be good pals. I’m trying ahead to seeing him/her (it?) in heaven.
I hope that this brief primer on angelology is useful to you in understanding the work and ministry of angels.
Sincerely, Roger
Associated Useful resource: What Does the Bible Say about Angels?
From the cult basic “Touched by an Angel” tv present to the extensively held idea of “guardian angels,” many people have conceptions of angels which can be shaped extra by the tradition round us than what the Bible has to say. However what does the Bible need to say about angels? What’s their function? What do they appear like, and the way do they function on the earth––in each a non secular and a bodily sense? On this episode of Kainos Venture, we dive into the totally different sorts of non secular beings described in Scripture and the way they match into God’s plan. We additionally make a stunning variety of musical references within the course of.
Picture Credit score: ©GettyImages/umbertoleporini
This Ask Roger article could function insights from Roger’s spouse, Dr. Julie Barrier, co-founder of Preach It, Train It, worship minister, live performance artist, and adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, or his daughter, Brie Barrier Wetherbee, a sought-after Bible instructor and convention speaker, writer, analyst, and Christian theologian.
Initially revealed November 11, 2025.
Editor’s Notice: Dr. Roger Barrier went to be with the Lord on February sixteenth, 2024. Dr. Barrier’s household is honoring his legacy by persevering with the ministry of Ask Roger and preachitteachit.org for years to return as they share greater than two thousand still-unpublished sermons and Ask Roger articles. All articles authored by Dr. Barrier which can be revealed and republished are accomplished posthumously.
Expensive Roger,
What do we actually learn about angels, and the way do they reveal themselves to us? How do angels seem to individuals within the Bible?
3 Methods Angels Seem within the Bible
Angels appeared to individuals within the Bible in 3 ways. First, some angels appeared to individuals in a recognizable kind, even seeming to be human. For instance, the angel that introduced the virgin beginning to Mary appeared in some sort of recognizable kind (Luke 1:26-38), as did the angel who appeared to the shepherds and the angelic multitude who praised God (Luke 2:8-15). The angels who appeared to Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18-19 had been people from the lads’s standpoint.
Second, different angels appeared to individuals in goals. This was very true surrounding the beginning of Jesus. An angel appeared to Joseph, the person engaged or betrothed to Mary, in a dream to inform him to take Mary as his spouse and that their son could be Jesus, the Messiah (Matthew 1:20-21). An angel additionally appeared to Joseph in one other dream to warn him to flee to Egypt along with his household (Matthew 2:13).
Third, some angels appeared to individuals in visions. This was true of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1 and 10), in addition to John’s imaginative and prescient in Revelation. These visions had been distinct from goals, as they passed off when the people had been awake. Nonetheless, these visions had been additionally totally different from appearances wherein angels got here to individuals in a recognizable method, or as people, and might be seen by others.
Most of us appear to know little or no concerning the existence and ministry of Angels. We use them to embellish our Christmas bushes, to put on as jewellery, to embellish our nurseries or carve into our tombstones. Youngsters don cherub costumes for Christmas packages.
Angels have loads to do, particularly for individuals who have eyes to see. I imagine that almost all of their work goes on behind the scenes the place they’re often not observed.
Let me provide you with a brief Biblical primer on the character and work of angels.
16 Issues We Find out about Angels
1. God created the angels earlier than He created the rest within the universe.
The angels watched God work and shouted for pleasure on the outcomes of the creation (Job 38:4-7).
2. The entire angels had been created concurrently.
They’re unable to procreate (Matthew 22:28). The variety of angels has all the time been fixed.
3. The variety of angels is meaningless.
Revelation 5:11 information the variety of Angels: “Ten thousand instances ten thousand and hundreds and hundreds.”
4. Some angels rebelled towards God.
Lucifer, who was accountable for guarding the throne of God and with bringing God reward and worship, selected to insurgent (Isaiah 14).
An enormous variety of angels rebelled with him. Fallen angels (demons) reside in one in all two locations immediately: (1) On earth, attacking and discouraging people; and (2) In Tartarus, a jail cell within the lowest hell, ready to be launched in the course of the Nice Tribulation.
5. Angels are highly effective.
Just one angel was wanted to wipe out 185,000 Assyrians in a single evening (2 Kings 19).
6. Angels had been created to reward and worship God round His throne.
Revelation 5:11-12: “In a loud voice they sang, “Worthy is the Lamb, to obtain energy and wealth and knowledge and energy and honor and glory and reward!”
7. Angels are charged with the accountability of guiding the affairs of countries.
We study from Daniel 10 that angels are intricately concerned in guiding our heads of state. Each nation additionally has a demon charged with the accountability of bringing that nation to destruction (Ezekiel).
Daniel additionally revealed that each nation has a demonic spirit assigned to it to convey ache and destruction.
8. Angels battle Devil and his demons till the victory is received on the finish of time.
Revelation 12:7-9: “And there was warfare in heaven. Michael and his angels fought towards the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought again…”
9. Each church is assigned an angel to observe over it and to assist defend it.
Revelation 1:20: “The thriller of the seven stars . . . the seven stars are the angels of the seven church buildings, and the seven lampstands are the seven church buildings.”
10. Angels will separate the wheat from the weeds on the remaining judgment (the saved from the misplaced).
Matthew 13:38-42: “The sector is the world, and the nice seed stands for the sons of the dominion. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the satan. The harvest is the tip of the age, and the harvesters are angels.”
11. Angels minister to those that imagine in Christ.
Jacob’s dream of a ladder, by which angels ascended and descended between heaven and earth, is a phenomenal image of their incessant exercise for us (Genesis 28:12).
12. Angels present for the bodily wants of believers as within the case of Elijah beneath his juniper tree (1 Kings 19:5-7).
After a Wednesday evening service a number of years in the past, a girl instructed me of an angelic safety. Driving on a lonely desert highway in her VW along with her kids the automobile’s engine caught hearth. She stopped and tried to open the hood. She couldn’t; it was too sizzling. Instantly, one other automobile pulled up behind her. She thought that this was unusual as a result of she’d seen no different vehicles on the highway.
He pulled out this massive pair of asbestos gloves, opened the hood, and used a fireplace extinguisher to place out the blaze. She turned to thank the person and he was gone. Each he and the automobile had disappeared.
13. Angels defend believers from hazard.
As within the case of watching over the three Hebrews within the furnace (Daniel Chapter 3), or by watching over Daniel within the lions’ den (Daniel chapter 6).
As soon as when Brianna, our oldest daughter, was simply studying crawl, Julie heard me yell from the again rest room. “Julie, come rapidly!” On the identical time, I heard Julie name from the again rest room, “Roger, come rapidly.” We each ran rapidly to find Brianna about to tumble headlong onto the tile of our three-foot-deep sunken tub. We grabbed her simply in time.
Julie mentioned, “I’m certain glad you known as me to get again right here rapidly.”
“I didn’t name you,” I mentioned. “You known as me.”
“I didn’t name you,” she mentioned.
We had an angelic visitation from Brie’s guardian angel!”
Experiences like these make Psalm 34:7 come alive: “The Angel of the Lord encamps round those that concern God and ship them.”
14. Angels generally reveal the Lord’s plans.
We see this with Daniel (Daniel 9:21-23), Cornelius (Acts 10:3-6), and Mary on the beginning of Jesus (Luke 2).
15. Angels minister to us at our time of dying.
Luke 17:22: “The time got here when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s facet.”
A chilly chill runs up a lot of our backs to suppose that someday sooner or later, and maybe within the very close to future for a few of us, the Loss of life Angel will likely be dispatched from Heaven to Earth.
If we’re Christians, we want not be afraid of the Loss of life Angel. They could be our rod and workers which brings us by the Valley of the Shadow of Loss of life.
D.L. Moody, a Billy Graham kind evangelist from a earlier era, noticed angels on his dying mattress: “Earth recedes, Heaven opens earlier than me… that is no dream, it’s lovely… angels, usher me into the presence of God. God’s permitting me to see past the veil that separated this life from the subsequent. I see the faces of family members lengthy misplaced.”
Dying sufferers immediately are given so many medication that we don’t appear to listen to many tales like these anymore. However to those that face dying in Christ, it’s a wonderful expertise. It’s a assured angelic escorted journey into the presence of God.
16. Not all angels are good.
Galatians 1:8-11: “However even when we or an angel from heaven ought to preach a gospel aside from the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. …I would like you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached shouldn’t be one thing that synthetic up. I didn’t obtain it from any man, nor was I taught it; fairly, I obtained it by revelation from Jesus Christ.”
This jogs my memory of the story of the Angel Maroni giving to Joseph Smith the golden plates upon which Mormonism stands. I’ve little doubt that an angel appeared to Smith. Nonetheless, the angel was not from God.
How are you aware? The Angel was preaching one other gospel than the gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul was preaching!
Have you ever ever puzzled about guardian angels?
Matthew 18:10: “See that you don’t look down on one in all these little ones. For I inform you that their angels in heaven all the time see the face of my Father in heaven.”
I pray typically for my guarding angel. I pray for him/her (it?) to be “sturdy” on my behalf within the non secular battles that I battle. When I’m praying for somebody about to endure surgical procedure, I by no means fail to wish for his or her guardian angel, assigned to them at beginning, to assist information the hand of the surgeon for a profitable surgical procedure. I would like him/her (it?) and me to be good pals. I’m trying ahead to seeing him/her (it?) in heaven.
I hope that this brief primer on angelology is useful to you in understanding the work and ministry of angels.
Sincerely, Roger
Associated Useful resource: What Does the Bible Say about Angels?
From the cult basic “Touched by an Angel” tv present to the extensively held idea of “guardian angels,” many people have conceptions of angels which can be shaped extra by the tradition round us than what the Bible has to say. However what does the Bible need to say about angels? What’s their function? What do they appear like, and the way do they function on the earth––in each a non secular and a bodily sense? On this episode of Kainos Venture, we dive into the totally different sorts of non secular beings described in Scripture and the way they match into God’s plan. We additionally make a stunning variety of musical references within the course of.
Picture Credit score: ©GettyImages/umbertoleporini
This Ask Roger article could function insights from Roger’s spouse, Dr. Julie Barrier, co-founder of Preach It, Train It, worship minister, live performance artist, and adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, or his daughter, Brie Barrier Wetherbee, a sought-after Bible instructor and convention speaker, writer, analyst, and Christian theologian.
Initially revealed November 11, 2025.
Editor’s Notice: Dr. Roger Barrier went to be with the Lord on February sixteenth, 2024. Dr. Barrier’s household is honoring his legacy by persevering with the ministry of Ask Roger and preachitteachit.org for years to return as they share greater than two thousand still-unpublished sermons and Ask Roger articles. All articles authored by Dr. Barrier which can be revealed and republished are accomplished posthumously.
Expensive Roger,
What do we actually learn about angels, and the way do they reveal themselves to us? How do angels seem to individuals within the Bible?
3 Methods Angels Seem within the Bible
Angels appeared to individuals within the Bible in 3 ways. First, some angels appeared to individuals in a recognizable kind, even seeming to be human. For instance, the angel that introduced the virgin beginning to Mary appeared in some sort of recognizable kind (Luke 1:26-38), as did the angel who appeared to the shepherds and the angelic multitude who praised God (Luke 2:8-15). The angels who appeared to Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18-19 had been people from the lads’s standpoint.
Second, different angels appeared to individuals in goals. This was very true surrounding the beginning of Jesus. An angel appeared to Joseph, the person engaged or betrothed to Mary, in a dream to inform him to take Mary as his spouse and that their son could be Jesus, the Messiah (Matthew 1:20-21). An angel additionally appeared to Joseph in one other dream to warn him to flee to Egypt along with his household (Matthew 2:13).
Third, some angels appeared to individuals in visions. This was true of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1 and 10), in addition to John’s imaginative and prescient in Revelation. These visions had been distinct from goals, as they passed off when the people had been awake. Nonetheless, these visions had been additionally totally different from appearances wherein angels got here to individuals in a recognizable method, or as people, and might be seen by others.
Most of us appear to know little or no concerning the existence and ministry of Angels. We use them to embellish our Christmas bushes, to put on as jewellery, to embellish our nurseries or carve into our tombstones. Youngsters don cherub costumes for Christmas packages.
Angels have loads to do, particularly for individuals who have eyes to see. I imagine that almost all of their work goes on behind the scenes the place they’re often not observed.
Let me provide you with a brief Biblical primer on the character and work of angels.
16 Issues We Find out about Angels
1. God created the angels earlier than He created the rest within the universe.
The angels watched God work and shouted for pleasure on the outcomes of the creation (Job 38:4-7).
2. The entire angels had been created concurrently.
They’re unable to procreate (Matthew 22:28). The variety of angels has all the time been fixed.
3. The variety of angels is meaningless.
Revelation 5:11 information the variety of Angels: “Ten thousand instances ten thousand and hundreds and hundreds.”
4. Some angels rebelled towards God.
Lucifer, who was accountable for guarding the throne of God and with bringing God reward and worship, selected to insurgent (Isaiah 14).
An enormous variety of angels rebelled with him. Fallen angels (demons) reside in one in all two locations immediately: (1) On earth, attacking and discouraging people; and (2) In Tartarus, a jail cell within the lowest hell, ready to be launched in the course of the Nice Tribulation.
5. Angels are highly effective.
Just one angel was wanted to wipe out 185,000 Assyrians in a single evening (2 Kings 19).
6. Angels had been created to reward and worship God round His throne.
Revelation 5:11-12: “In a loud voice they sang, “Worthy is the Lamb, to obtain energy and wealth and knowledge and energy and honor and glory and reward!”
7. Angels are charged with the accountability of guiding the affairs of countries.
We study from Daniel 10 that angels are intricately concerned in guiding our heads of state. Each nation additionally has a demon charged with the accountability of bringing that nation to destruction (Ezekiel).
Daniel additionally revealed that each nation has a demonic spirit assigned to it to convey ache and destruction.
8. Angels battle Devil and his demons till the victory is received on the finish of time.
Revelation 12:7-9: “And there was warfare in heaven. Michael and his angels fought towards the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought again…”
9. Each church is assigned an angel to observe over it and to assist defend it.
Revelation 1:20: “The thriller of the seven stars . . . the seven stars are the angels of the seven church buildings, and the seven lampstands are the seven church buildings.”
10. Angels will separate the wheat from the weeds on the remaining judgment (the saved from the misplaced).
Matthew 13:38-42: “The sector is the world, and the nice seed stands for the sons of the dominion. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the satan. The harvest is the tip of the age, and the harvesters are angels.”
11. Angels minister to those that imagine in Christ.
Jacob’s dream of a ladder, by which angels ascended and descended between heaven and earth, is a phenomenal image of their incessant exercise for us (Genesis 28:12).
12. Angels present for the bodily wants of believers as within the case of Elijah beneath his juniper tree (1 Kings 19:5-7).
After a Wednesday evening service a number of years in the past, a girl instructed me of an angelic safety. Driving on a lonely desert highway in her VW along with her kids the automobile’s engine caught hearth. She stopped and tried to open the hood. She couldn’t; it was too sizzling. Instantly, one other automobile pulled up behind her. She thought that this was unusual as a result of she’d seen no different vehicles on the highway.
He pulled out this massive pair of asbestos gloves, opened the hood, and used a fireplace extinguisher to place out the blaze. She turned to thank the person and he was gone. Each he and the automobile had disappeared.
13. Angels defend believers from hazard.
As within the case of watching over the three Hebrews within the furnace (Daniel Chapter 3), or by watching over Daniel within the lions’ den (Daniel chapter 6).
As soon as when Brianna, our oldest daughter, was simply studying crawl, Julie heard me yell from the again rest room. “Julie, come rapidly!” On the identical time, I heard Julie name from the again rest room, “Roger, come rapidly.” We each ran rapidly to find Brianna about to tumble headlong onto the tile of our three-foot-deep sunken tub. We grabbed her simply in time.
Julie mentioned, “I’m certain glad you known as me to get again right here rapidly.”
“I didn’t name you,” I mentioned. “You known as me.”
“I didn’t name you,” she mentioned.
We had an angelic visitation from Brie’s guardian angel!”
Experiences like these make Psalm 34:7 come alive: “The Angel of the Lord encamps round those that concern God and ship them.”
14. Angels generally reveal the Lord’s plans.
We see this with Daniel (Daniel 9:21-23), Cornelius (Acts 10:3-6), and Mary on the beginning of Jesus (Luke 2).
15. Angels minister to us at our time of dying.
Luke 17:22: “The time got here when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s facet.”
A chilly chill runs up a lot of our backs to suppose that someday sooner or later, and maybe within the very close to future for a few of us, the Loss of life Angel will likely be dispatched from Heaven to Earth.
If we’re Christians, we want not be afraid of the Loss of life Angel. They could be our rod and workers which brings us by the Valley of the Shadow of Loss of life.
D.L. Moody, a Billy Graham kind evangelist from a earlier era, noticed angels on his dying mattress: “Earth recedes, Heaven opens earlier than me… that is no dream, it’s lovely… angels, usher me into the presence of God. God’s permitting me to see past the veil that separated this life from the subsequent. I see the faces of family members lengthy misplaced.”
Dying sufferers immediately are given so many medication that we don’t appear to listen to many tales like these anymore. However to those that face dying in Christ, it’s a wonderful expertise. It’s a assured angelic escorted journey into the presence of God.
16. Not all angels are good.
Galatians 1:8-11: “However even when we or an angel from heaven ought to preach a gospel aside from the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. …I would like you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached shouldn’t be one thing that synthetic up. I didn’t obtain it from any man, nor was I taught it; fairly, I obtained it by revelation from Jesus Christ.”
This jogs my memory of the story of the Angel Maroni giving to Joseph Smith the golden plates upon which Mormonism stands. I’ve little doubt that an angel appeared to Smith. Nonetheless, the angel was not from God.
How are you aware? The Angel was preaching one other gospel than the gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul was preaching!
Have you ever ever puzzled about guardian angels?
Matthew 18:10: “See that you don’t look down on one in all these little ones. For I inform you that their angels in heaven all the time see the face of my Father in heaven.”
I pray typically for my guarding angel. I pray for him/her (it?) to be “sturdy” on my behalf within the non secular battles that I battle. When I’m praying for somebody about to endure surgical procedure, I by no means fail to wish for his or her guardian angel, assigned to them at beginning, to assist information the hand of the surgeon for a profitable surgical procedure. I would like him/her (it?) and me to be good pals. I’m trying ahead to seeing him/her (it?) in heaven.
I hope that this brief primer on angelology is useful to you in understanding the work and ministry of angels.
Sincerely, Roger
Associated Useful resource: What Does the Bible Say about Angels?
From the cult basic “Touched by an Angel” tv present to the extensively held idea of “guardian angels,” many people have conceptions of angels which can be shaped extra by the tradition round us than what the Bible has to say. However what does the Bible need to say about angels? What’s their function? What do they appear like, and the way do they function on the earth––in each a non secular and a bodily sense? On this episode of Kainos Venture, we dive into the totally different sorts of non secular beings described in Scripture and the way they match into God’s plan. We additionally make a stunning variety of musical references within the course of.
Picture Credit score: ©GettyImages/umbertoleporini
This Ask Roger article could function insights from Roger’s spouse, Dr. Julie Barrier, co-founder of Preach It, Train It, worship minister, live performance artist, and adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, or his daughter, Brie Barrier Wetherbee, a sought-after Bible instructor and convention speaker, writer, analyst, and Christian theologian.
Initially revealed November 11, 2025.
Editor’s Notice: Dr. Roger Barrier went to be with the Lord on February sixteenth, 2024. Dr. Barrier’s household is honoring his legacy by persevering with the ministry of Ask Roger and preachitteachit.org for years to return as they share greater than two thousand still-unpublished sermons and Ask Roger articles. All articles authored by Dr. Barrier which can be revealed and republished are accomplished posthumously.
Expensive Roger,
What do we actually learn about angels, and the way do they reveal themselves to us? How do angels seem to individuals within the Bible?
3 Methods Angels Seem within the Bible
Angels appeared to individuals within the Bible in 3 ways. First, some angels appeared to individuals in a recognizable kind, even seeming to be human. For instance, the angel that introduced the virgin beginning to Mary appeared in some sort of recognizable kind (Luke 1:26-38), as did the angel who appeared to the shepherds and the angelic multitude who praised God (Luke 2:8-15). The angels who appeared to Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18-19 had been people from the lads’s standpoint.
Second, different angels appeared to individuals in goals. This was very true surrounding the beginning of Jesus. An angel appeared to Joseph, the person engaged or betrothed to Mary, in a dream to inform him to take Mary as his spouse and that their son could be Jesus, the Messiah (Matthew 1:20-21). An angel additionally appeared to Joseph in one other dream to warn him to flee to Egypt along with his household (Matthew 2:13).
Third, some angels appeared to individuals in visions. This was true of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1 and 10), in addition to John’s imaginative and prescient in Revelation. These visions had been distinct from goals, as they passed off when the people had been awake. Nonetheless, these visions had been additionally totally different from appearances wherein angels got here to individuals in a recognizable method, or as people, and might be seen by others.
Most of us appear to know little or no concerning the existence and ministry of Angels. We use them to embellish our Christmas bushes, to put on as jewellery, to embellish our nurseries or carve into our tombstones. Youngsters don cherub costumes for Christmas packages.
Angels have loads to do, particularly for individuals who have eyes to see. I imagine that almost all of their work goes on behind the scenes the place they’re often not observed.
Let me provide you with a brief Biblical primer on the character and work of angels.
16 Issues We Find out about Angels
1. God created the angels earlier than He created the rest within the universe.
The angels watched God work and shouted for pleasure on the outcomes of the creation (Job 38:4-7).
2. The entire angels had been created concurrently.
They’re unable to procreate (Matthew 22:28). The variety of angels has all the time been fixed.
3. The variety of angels is meaningless.
Revelation 5:11 information the variety of Angels: “Ten thousand instances ten thousand and hundreds and hundreds.”
4. Some angels rebelled towards God.
Lucifer, who was accountable for guarding the throne of God and with bringing God reward and worship, selected to insurgent (Isaiah 14).
An enormous variety of angels rebelled with him. Fallen angels (demons) reside in one in all two locations immediately: (1) On earth, attacking and discouraging people; and (2) In Tartarus, a jail cell within the lowest hell, ready to be launched in the course of the Nice Tribulation.
5. Angels are highly effective.
Just one angel was wanted to wipe out 185,000 Assyrians in a single evening (2 Kings 19).
6. Angels had been created to reward and worship God round His throne.
Revelation 5:11-12: “In a loud voice they sang, “Worthy is the Lamb, to obtain energy and wealth and knowledge and energy and honor and glory and reward!”
7. Angels are charged with the accountability of guiding the affairs of countries.
We study from Daniel 10 that angels are intricately concerned in guiding our heads of state. Each nation additionally has a demon charged with the accountability of bringing that nation to destruction (Ezekiel).
Daniel additionally revealed that each nation has a demonic spirit assigned to it to convey ache and destruction.
8. Angels battle Devil and his demons till the victory is received on the finish of time.
Revelation 12:7-9: “And there was warfare in heaven. Michael and his angels fought towards the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought again…”
9. Each church is assigned an angel to observe over it and to assist defend it.
Revelation 1:20: “The thriller of the seven stars . . . the seven stars are the angels of the seven church buildings, and the seven lampstands are the seven church buildings.”
10. Angels will separate the wheat from the weeds on the remaining judgment (the saved from the misplaced).
Matthew 13:38-42: “The sector is the world, and the nice seed stands for the sons of the dominion. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the satan. The harvest is the tip of the age, and the harvesters are angels.”
11. Angels minister to those that imagine in Christ.
Jacob’s dream of a ladder, by which angels ascended and descended between heaven and earth, is a phenomenal image of their incessant exercise for us (Genesis 28:12).
12. Angels present for the bodily wants of believers as within the case of Elijah beneath his juniper tree (1 Kings 19:5-7).
After a Wednesday evening service a number of years in the past, a girl instructed me of an angelic safety. Driving on a lonely desert highway in her VW along with her kids the automobile’s engine caught hearth. She stopped and tried to open the hood. She couldn’t; it was too sizzling. Instantly, one other automobile pulled up behind her. She thought that this was unusual as a result of she’d seen no different vehicles on the highway.
He pulled out this massive pair of asbestos gloves, opened the hood, and used a fireplace extinguisher to place out the blaze. She turned to thank the person and he was gone. Each he and the automobile had disappeared.
13. Angels defend believers from hazard.
As within the case of watching over the three Hebrews within the furnace (Daniel Chapter 3), or by watching over Daniel within the lions’ den (Daniel chapter 6).
As soon as when Brianna, our oldest daughter, was simply studying crawl, Julie heard me yell from the again rest room. “Julie, come rapidly!” On the identical time, I heard Julie name from the again rest room, “Roger, come rapidly.” We each ran rapidly to find Brianna about to tumble headlong onto the tile of our three-foot-deep sunken tub. We grabbed her simply in time.
Julie mentioned, “I’m certain glad you known as me to get again right here rapidly.”
“I didn’t name you,” I mentioned. “You known as me.”
“I didn’t name you,” she mentioned.
We had an angelic visitation from Brie’s guardian angel!”
Experiences like these make Psalm 34:7 come alive: “The Angel of the Lord encamps round those that concern God and ship them.”
14. Angels generally reveal the Lord’s plans.
We see this with Daniel (Daniel 9:21-23), Cornelius (Acts 10:3-6), and Mary on the beginning of Jesus (Luke 2).
15. Angels minister to us at our time of dying.
Luke 17:22: “The time got here when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s facet.”
A chilly chill runs up a lot of our backs to suppose that someday sooner or later, and maybe within the very close to future for a few of us, the Loss of life Angel will likely be dispatched from Heaven to Earth.
If we’re Christians, we want not be afraid of the Loss of life Angel. They could be our rod and workers which brings us by the Valley of the Shadow of Loss of life.
D.L. Moody, a Billy Graham kind evangelist from a earlier era, noticed angels on his dying mattress: “Earth recedes, Heaven opens earlier than me… that is no dream, it’s lovely… angels, usher me into the presence of God. God’s permitting me to see past the veil that separated this life from the subsequent. I see the faces of family members lengthy misplaced.”
Dying sufferers immediately are given so many medication that we don’t appear to listen to many tales like these anymore. However to those that face dying in Christ, it’s a wonderful expertise. It’s a assured angelic escorted journey into the presence of God.
16. Not all angels are good.
Galatians 1:8-11: “However even when we or an angel from heaven ought to preach a gospel aside from the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. …I would like you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached shouldn’t be one thing that synthetic up. I didn’t obtain it from any man, nor was I taught it; fairly, I obtained it by revelation from Jesus Christ.”
This jogs my memory of the story of the Angel Maroni giving to Joseph Smith the golden plates upon which Mormonism stands. I’ve little doubt that an angel appeared to Smith. Nonetheless, the angel was not from God.
How are you aware? The Angel was preaching one other gospel than the gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul was preaching!
Have you ever ever puzzled about guardian angels?
Matthew 18:10: “See that you don’t look down on one in all these little ones. For I inform you that their angels in heaven all the time see the face of my Father in heaven.”
I pray typically for my guarding angel. I pray for him/her (it?) to be “sturdy” on my behalf within the non secular battles that I battle. When I’m praying for somebody about to endure surgical procedure, I by no means fail to wish for his or her guardian angel, assigned to them at beginning, to assist information the hand of the surgeon for a profitable surgical procedure. I would like him/her (it?) and me to be good pals. I’m trying ahead to seeing him/her (it?) in heaven.
I hope that this brief primer on angelology is useful to you in understanding the work and ministry of angels.
Sincerely, Roger
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This Ask Roger article could function insights from Roger’s spouse, Dr. Julie Barrier, co-founder of Preach It, Train It, worship minister, live performance artist, and adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, or his daughter, Brie Barrier Wetherbee, a sought-after Bible instructor and convention speaker, writer, analyst, and Christian theologian.
Initially revealed November 11, 2025.
