What are angels, truly?

Question

My only knowledge of angels are the fat happy little babies with wings. I hardly imagine that Gabriel in the Bible was like that. What are they? Do they have free will, like humans? Does God assign each of us one as a guardian?

Answer 1

Angels are spirit beings created by God. They have a will, and some of them used their will to rebel against God and they are known as the demons, including their leader Satan. The holy angels are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who will be heirs of salvation. They are constantly before the face of God waiting to receive commands from Him to help believers when needed. There are ranks of angels. I have not seen anywhere in scripture where angels are spoken of in a female gender. They war against the evil angels. They can take on human form. I have not seen anywhere in scripture where believers are assigned a guardian angel.
1. Angels are created by Lord God
2. Worship the Lord God
3. Communicate the will of the Lord God
4. Obey the will of the Lord God
5. Execute the judgments of the Lord God
6. Celebrate the praises of the Lord God
7. Announced the conception of Christ, the birth of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, the ascension of Christ and the conception of John the Baptist.
8. They ministered to Christ
9. Are subject to Christ
10. Will execute the purposes of Christ
11. Will come with Christ at His second coming
12. Know and delight in the Gospel of Christ
13. Rejoice over every repentant sinner
14. Watch over and protect the children of God and take them to the Lord when the believer dies.
15. Are not to be worshiped
16. They are wise, mighty, elect, meek and innumerable.

Answer 2

Great question! No angels are not these fat happy little babies with wings. They are mighty spirit creatures. How mighty? Well look at the account of King Hezekiah.

The Assyrian army was threatening his nation. They had alreaad left behind a string of devastated cities and mutilated corpses lay in the army’s wake. The final target was Jerusalem. The King prayed for help. The answer was swift, even on the night of Hezekiah’s prayer. In one night, Jehovah's angel ... ONE angel ... had struck down the Assyrian army of 185,000. Hardly the act of one of those baby-like angels. (2 Kings 19:35)

Answer 3

Well if you read the Bible (in which I do) Angels are not dead people, Nor are they bi-sexual. Most of the Angels you read about in the Bible are of Men. Gabriel, Herald, Michael. It's rather hard to explain. I don't believe that Gabriel or Herald was a fat baby because in the Bible the Angels do speak to the humans or appear to them in dreams. I do believe that God protects those of us who are living for the Lord with Angels because in the Bible it says That He(God) will give his Angels charge over thee- Psalms 91 Verse 11.

Answer 4

There is a great deal written about them in the Bible. Hebrews 1:14 "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?" So not all have a gaurdian angel but those who will be saved have them of sorts. They are spirit beings but can take on human form and interact with humans. There are several kinds, the Cherebim (Which falsely are depicted by the Cupid idea) are actually the most powerful and are the ones that surround the thromne of God and protect His holiness. There are also Serephim, an Archangel or ruling angel who was originally Lucifer but is now Michael.

Answer 5

Angels are spirit beings that were created by God. They are as ageless as God is. They are neither male nor female and they certainly are not little babies. They have great powers and can do many things that we might consider impossible. They are basically God's servants and messengers. The Devil and his demons were once angels but rebelled against God. There is nothing in scripture about guardian angels. Since Satan seems to act with free will, I would guess that angels have free will, but scripture does not really discuss that.

Answer 6

Well angels originally came from Zoroastrianism, along with Demons.

They were later borrowed, also along with demons into judism and other religions.

Basically, According to most religions, and what paranormal experts who claim to be able to summon them say,

Their the same thing as demons, but, their beliefs crash with the demons.

both angels and demons are beautiful, blond hair and blue eyes for the most part, and no wings.

most are bi-sexual.


Angels seek to use man to feed off of.

Their Physic Vampire if you will. Their very good at trickery.

Gabriele himself, has been talked about long bew christianity and juedism, by older religions.

He is just one of the more powerful angels.


Demons, for the most part, do the same as angels.

As with angels, some are jealous of man, and are ver bad.

Others want to help man to become like them, like gods.


Really it jsut depends, never trust and angel or a demon, because either could like or dislike humans,

Answer 7

        Angels are a race of perfect beings God created to directly serve Him, in Heaven, as His Heavenly Messengers. (None of our human dead become angels -- the dead are merely sleeping in their graves until the resurrection.) Though the angels were created to serve God, they still have a will of their own and have been known to make mistakes which are not sinful in nature. They are also charged with our protection if we are surrendered to His Will (Psalms 91:9-16).

        Proof they have a will of their own is that Lucifer, the highest angel at the time and the Covering Cherub next to God's Throne (Ezek. 28:13-15), this most privileged of angels, chose to rebel against God and His Kingdom (Isa 14:12-20). He took a third of God's Angels with him in his rebellion (Rev. 12:4). They were all cast out of Heaven. Thus, for every evil angel, there are two good angels.

God bless.

Answer 8

The word “angel” actually comes from the Greek word aggelos, which means “messenger.” The matching Hebrew word mal'ak has the same meaning.

Sometimes, the Bible uses these words for human beings:

ordinary people who carry messages (Job 1:14; Luke 7:24; 9:52)
prophets (Isaiah 42:19; Malachi 3:1)
priests (Malachi 2:7)
church leaders (Rev 1:20)
Sometimes, it speaks figuratively of things or events as “messengers”…

the pillar of cloud (Exodus 14:19)
pestilence or plagues (2 Samuel 24:16-17)
But it usually describes the whole range of spirits whom God has created, including both good and evil angels, and special categories such as cherubim, seraphim, and the archangel.

Angels are mentioned at least 108 times in the Old Testament and 165 times in the New Testament (Chafer, Systematic Theology, II, 3). Hence, there is ample information available in Scripture to allow us to build a foundation for our knowledge of angelic beings.

HOW DID ANGELS ORIGINATE?
The Scripture speaks about the creation of angels, therefore, it is clear that they have not existed from all eternity (Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:2,5). Colossians 1:16-17 explains:

“For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

The time of their creation is never definitely specified, but it is most probable that it occurred in connection with the creation of the heavens in Genesis 1:1. It may be that God created the angels immediately after He had created the heavens and before He created the earth—for according to Job 38:4-7, “the sons of God shouted for joy” when He laid the foundations of the earth.

Answer 9

God created Angels from bright light. God probably put solar sells in them to get their energy from Sun. They fly as fast as light, they can change themselves into any living being. They are the most powerful in strength. God has created Angels to obey God. They never disobey God and are the most obedient servants of God. They managed for God oceans, winds, rains, mountains, rivers and move clouds. They implant souls in fetus in the wombs of mothers. They take human souls out at their death and take the souls to God. Angels give report of each person''s daily activities to God what ever good or bad they do. There are atleast two angels assigned by God to each human to keep record of their good and bad deeds and also to protect humans all their lives from dangers until the moment of their death.

But God says Humans are His best creations because of the intelligent mind He has given them. They have Free will to obey or disobey to God. Even though their inner selfs and satans try to deviate the good humans all the times from the right way, some of the humans even with Free Will keep themselves on the straight path that leads to God. They never disobey and supercede even Angels. Humans have super itelligence than Angels and can create highly sofisticated machines. For this reason God calls humans superior to all His creations.

Answer 10

Angels are messengers. They are messengers from spirit allowing us a greater understanding and connection to Spirit. The word angel comes from angelos which is the Greek word for messenger. Not only are angels messengers, they are also part of our consciousness, representing realms beyond thought and idea. The human mind needs form, so the Light of Spirit takes on the physical form of an angel, to encourage direct communion with God. We create a dimensional blending that enables them to appear in a form that is acceptable to us.