Several years ago, when my son was a very young child, I went into the garage to get the family van ready to go. The vehicle had a sliding door for backseat occupants on the passenger’s side. That day my son did something unusual. He climbed up inside the van through the driver’s door. This was a surprise to my spouse as our son normally entered through the sliding door on the other side.
I buckled my son up in his car seat and backed out, taking him to the preschool at our church.
Later when I returned, my spouse informed me that a lengthy poisonous snake had been lying in wait right under the sliding door. When he went forward to kill the serpent, it raised itself up and tried to bite.
That day was a day of protection for my son by God. We believe angels took part in moving him away from the deadly reptile. (Psalm 91:11)
Angels. We don’t generally see them, nor hear them, but they are present. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. (Hebrews 13:8) His ways are the same. His ways include the use of angelic beings.
In the Scriptures, the first angel mentioned was stationed by God in the Garden of Eden, guarding the way to the Tree of Life. (Genesis 3:24)
Angels are God’s servants.
The last angel appears to the disciple John to say in Revelation 22:9, “….I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God.”
Angels are also the servants of believers, both Old Testament (the prophets) and the New Testament.
God uses His servants, the angels to be an interactive point between Heaven and Earth, between the spiritual and the physical. Mighty beings, they are not to be worshiped. They also are part of God’s creation.
When Moses went up to Mount Sinai to receive the Law, God descended from Heaven. At His arrival a trumpet was sounded by an angel, there were great thunderings and lightnings. (Exodus 20:18) More than 10,000 angels descended from Heaven to witness this event. (Deuteronomy 33:2, Galatians 3:19; Acts 7:53; Psalm 68:17)
The giving of the Law, or the Word of God, written by His very finger, is a type of shadow of the arrival of Lord Jesus, come from Heaven.
He shall return with the sound of the trumpet.
His angels, myriads of them will come with Him as they did to Mount Sinai.
Lord Jesus stated 2,000 years ago what would come at the end, “But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” (Matthew 24:29-31)
The angels come with Him to help us, to gather us together, we who are left, for the Lord says this is “after the tribulation.” We will be spread across the Earth, “from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
God the Father will keep a remnant upon the Earth until Lord Jesus returns. (Revelation 14:1-5)
Are you part of God’s elect?
(C) 2020 Kelly Jadon