Hello everybody, it's me, Stahl23, back in our video, there we go, okay, so I'm just
gonna check the sound real quick to make sure it's working. Okay, so the sound
is working. All right, so in this video I want to talk about the
subject of angels in the Bible, and this really was prompted by something I
was thinking about the other week with one of the videos I made on Colin
Michael where I was addressing that false prophet explaining why his
teachings are false, and he mentioned a verse about angels, and it really got me
thinking about this particular subject, and I just want to do a kind of a
general overview of the subject of angels in the Bible. It's a subject
which I don't think I can cover in full detail in the video, just
angelology, as it's called, the study of angels. It's a very complex subject
because the Bible has a lot of verses about angels and explaining what
they are, what their purpose is, but I'll just do a general overview in
this video, and not only that, but the Bible does not just come out right and
explain everything about angels, what they are, where they come from, what
their role is, etc. It's kind of something that we have to study in
depth and piece together from numerous mentions in Scripture, so that's what I'm
going to be doing today, looking at different mentions in the Bible. I want
to talk about the different angels and different heavenly beings, which are not
specifically called angels, such as the the carabim and the seraphim as well,
that we see in heaven ministering to the Lord in several cases in the Bible,
and I want to talk about what all this means and different
interpretations about that. So like I said, this is just a general overview of
the subject. Don't expect me to do like in-depth study. This will just be my
average, I don't know how long, 30-40 minute video or whatever, maybe even
shorter than that. We'll see, I don't know. But first, the first thing I want
to talk about is the purpose of angels. What do they do and what is
their role in the world? Well, the word angel simply means messenger. That's
where we get the English word from, because angel is not a translation.
It's not a word that has a root in the Germanic languages, it's not an
English word. It's actually a transliteration of the Greek word
agalos, which is the etymology of the English word. That's where we get it
from, and that's the role of angels, first of all in the Bible, to be
messengers, to be people who are sent out by, or not people, but spirits that
are sent out by God from heaven to do his will on this earth. But I first
want to talk about what the angels do for us as believers. The Bible teaches
that angels are one of God's ways of helping us who are upon the earth, who
are sent from heaven to do a variety of tasks for the Lord. For example, it's
written in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 13 to 14, but to which of the angels said
he at any time, sit on my right hand until I make fun enemies I footstool.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation? Now notice in verse 14 that it calls angels
ministering spirits. Now that's a good description of what an angel is. If we're
asking the question, what is their purpose? What are they? That's the main
purpose of this video, that's the answer. First of all, it's not a
physical being like those who dwell upon the earth, it's just a spirit
whose task is to minister, meaning to attend to or provide for them which
are heirs of salvation. So who is that? Well that's us as believers. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. We're saved, we're the ones who
are heirs of salvation, so their task is to minister unto us, we who are saved. The
Bible says that angels are spirits whose task, whose purpose is to
assist us on this earth. And we see several examples of that in the Bible.
For example, in Acts chapter 12, when Peter is put into prison there's an
angel that sets him free and leads him out of the prison. He's assisting
the believer that's on the earth. It's written also in Psalm 34 verse 7, the
angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them.
Here again we have a promise of the Lord to deliver those that fear him
through the angels, showing us again that that's the primary task of the
angels. And again that brings us back to the example already given of Peter
in Acts chapter 12, who was literally delivered from prison. He was put into
prison by Herod and he was set free at this time by an angel with the
assistance of that angel. Now another passage in the book of Psalm which
outlines his truth is Psalm 91 verse 10 to 12. It says, there shall no evil
befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling, for he shall give
his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee
up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Now if you
remember in Matthew 4 and in Luke 4, this is the passage that Satan
misquotes and twists while he's tempting Jesus in the desert. And he
tries to get him to jump off the cliff but Jesus replies with the
scriptures that say that thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. So
nevertheless, even in times of trouble when we are not tempting the Lord, God
promises that if we have faith and are living right with God then the angels
are sent forth to protect us. Again that goes back to what's written in the
book of Hebrews chapter 1, that they're ministering spirits, they minister
unto us, they assist us, they provide for us. Now that detail is important for
other reasons which I'll get to later, not just talking about the purpose of
angels but also their rank and their authority etc. where they fall in
that rank of God is highest and we're subject to God where they are in that
if they're in between or lower than us or whatever. I'll talk about that a
bit later in this video. But right now I just want to continue to look at
additional scriptures about other things that angels do and then specific
examples in which the angels carry these tasks out. The first time that the
word angel appears in the Bible is when the angel of the Lord appears to
Hagar after she could seize Ishmael and Sarai is attacking her and
criticizing her and she runs away and the angel comes and finds her in
Genesis 16 verse 7 to 11 it says and the angel of the Lord found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to Shur and he
said Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou and whither wilt thou go and she
said I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai and the angel of the
Lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself under
under her hands and the angel of the Lord said unto her I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude and the
angel of the Lord said unto her behold thou art with child that shall bear
his son and shall call his name Ishmael because the Lord hath heard thy
affliction. So here is the first instance of the word angel we see in
the Bible and this angel appeared to Hagar and delivered a message unto her
from the Lord. Notice that in verse 10 he speaks in first person despite this
message being a promise from the Lord so he's telling Hagar what the Lord
said because he is sent from God to speak this message. Remember the word
angel literally just means messenger and that's why often the Bible it talks
about angels it says that God sent the angel at the Lord sent the angel a
good angel in the service of the Lord is always sent out by God and commanded
directly by God to do what they do so as already pointed out often it's
just to be a spoke person that's the purpose of these angels they're
ministering by delivering messages from God by telling the believers what God
wants them to hear. As in the case of Genesis 16 when the angel gives Hagar the
promise of multiplication of her seed of Ishmael. Now we read about the same
type of event in the beginning of the book of Luke when the angel Gabriel
appears to Zacharias in Luke chapter 1 verse 19 it says and the angel
answering said unto him I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and
am sent to speak unto thee and to show thee these glad tidings. So this is when
the angel Gabriel comes to Zacharias tells him about the birth of John the
Baptist and he says that he's been sent by God to speak with him again
shows us that one of the main purposes and roles of the angels is to
deliver messages from God. Another role of the angels is executing judgment
upon the earth and that should be obvious just from the book of
Revelation if you've ever read that because it uses the word angel more
than any other book in the Bible there's angels mentioned in like every
chapter in the book of Revelation and it plays an important role in the end
times there's the angels with the seven vials the seven trumpets they're
executing God's wrath upon the earth they're pouring out God's wrath on the
earth so there's the seven angels the seven trumpets the seven vials
there's the mighty angel in Revelation 10 who has one foot on the sea and
one foot on the land there's the three angels in Revelation 14 which
declare God's judgment etc now of course it would take a long time to go
through every mention of an angel in the book of Revelation because as I said
it's in almost every chapter and every angel partaking in the judgment
of God and other scriptures so I just want to give a few examples from the
Old Testament showing that they execute God's judgment upon the earth
now these verses also tell us that God has sent the angel when they go
forth to execute judgment so this is just their own power this isn't by
themselves this isn't them doing it it's God doing it through them in 1st
Chronicles chapter 21 verse 15 it says in God sent an angel into Jerusalem to
destroy it and as he was destroying the Lord beheld and he repented him of
the evil and said to the angel that destroyed it is enough stay now thine
hand and the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of oran on the
Jebusite now this is when David numbered Israel in 1st Chronicles and
the parallel passages in 2nd Samuel I think it's the last chapter of 2nd
Samuel 2nd Samuel 24 I believe maybe wrong about that but this is when
David numbered Israel and a plague was sent to come upon Jerusalem the Bible
tells us that it's the angel which was sent to destroy the city that's a
common theme in the Bible of a destroying angel an angel which is sent
out to destroy people for example in Exodus chapter 12 there is an angel
which is sent out to kill the firstborn of those in Egypt another example is
the following in 2nd Chronicles 32 verse 21 it says and the Lord sent an
angel which cut off all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and
captains in the camp of the king of Assyria so he returned with shame of
face to his own land and when he was coming to the house of his God they
that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword the book of
Isaiah and the book of Kings gives us more details about this event it's
written as follows in Isaiah 37 verse 36 then the angel of the Lord went
forth and spoke in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and
five thousand and when they arose early in the morning behold they were
all dead corpses on Isaiah 37 it tells us exactly how many Assyrian
soldiers died and that would be a hundred and eighty five thousand who
were all spin and destroyed by an angel of the Lord that was sent out
from God that's pretty amazing that a hundred eighty five thousand people
that's a pretty large army that's such a great large army would be destroyed by
God but of course we know that nothing is too hard for the Lord according to
the Bible God can do everything we're interested now is the fact that it
says that it was the angel which carried out God's tasks so not only are
the angels sent to send messages and to minister to the years of
salvation but also they're sent to destroy now we know that ultimately this
destruction comes from God the angel would not be able to do this without
the Lord in Deuteronomy chapter 7 when the Lord is promising to drive out the
heathen from Canaan he says that he is the one who will destroy them with
the mighty destruction until they be destroyed so it was God's power that
destroyed the Assyrian armies that were coming up against Israel and which
unleashed the plague upon Jerusalem but he had sent the angel to go and
fulfill this destruction and in a way we can also say that this is also an
example of ministering unto them which have the ears of salvation of being a
ministering spirit in a way and if you know the context of this destruction of
the Assyrian army it's that Judah was threatened by Senecarib it was
thrown by an invasion by the Assyrian King Senecarib who had sent his
messenger Rapsheki to blaspheme God and to tell the people of Jerusalem
then that sit on the wall that the Lord would not be able to save them
from the Assyrian army and of course he was definitely wrong because God did
indeed save them from the Assyrian army he destroyed the entire army of
the Assyrians and therefore the angels are ministering unto God's people
at that point so the angels will also assist in the rapture that's
another thing that we see in the Bible that the angels will partake in
it's written that when Christ comes back in the clouds the angels will be the
one that are sent forth to gather God's people together with Christ it's
written in Matthew chapter 24 verse 30 to 31 and then shall appear the sign of
the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and
they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of
heaven to the other and then in Mark chapter 13 verse 27 it says and then
then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the
four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of
heaven when the trumpet sounds and the angels will go forth and gather the
elective God meaning to save together with Christ so we see a general
description of things that angels do and are responsible for and if we're
just going to summarize then Hebrews 1 14 is a great way to explain that
truth that they are ministering spirits they're sent forth to minister unto
them that shall be heirs of salvation again they're sent forth from God for
that purpose of ministering to us who are saved who are believers but one
detail that we could talk about concerning angels also is their rank
and their authority so where are they in terms of subjection to God
because we know that God is greater than all but where are they under
that right I've heard some strange heresy from a false prophet Colin
Michael who I was talking about at the beginning of this video a few weeks
ago he said that angels can be saved he was trying to use a verse about
angels being kept in everlasting chains and Dartmouth and darkness unto the
judgment of the great day he was using that first to try to teach that we
can lose our salvation even though it had nothing to do with man and
everything to do with angels so he was twisting that scripture and saying
that we can lose our salvation because it says that angels won't be saved but
that angels will be damned to hell since they sinned against God now that
doesn't make any sense because the task of the angels is to minister to
those who are saved so that's their purpose and the Bible clearly says that
Jesus died for mankind it says in Hebrews 2 9 that he tasted death for
every man it says he's a propitiation for the sins of the
whole world in 1st John 2 not of the angels of heaven there's nothing
in the Bible that says that angels can be saved God didn't come on this
earth to save angels he came to save mankind he came to save that which
was made in the image of God and I'll get into that a bit later in this
video but right now the point I'm trying to make is that the scripture show us
that angels are actually lower than man in terms of authority rank and how God
views them while we were created in the image of God there's no indication
that angels are in fact many descriptions of what people call angels
in the Bible such as the cherubim and the seraphim show that they have a
very strange appearance which is nothing like what the Lord or man appears to be
they have different heads and different faces of different animals and have wings
and things like that that's not how man looks that's not how God looks or
according to the description of Jesus in Revelation 1 or in Daniel 10 you
know that's just really strange to act like angels are the same as man
they have nothing to do with mankind so if we look at Hebrews chapter 1 and
we go a few verses back from the verses that we've already read this is
what's written in verse 3 to verse 7 speaking of Jesus in verse 3 it says
who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person
and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself
purged our sin sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high being made
so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they front to which of the angels said he at any
time thou art my son this day have I begotten thee and again I will be to
him a father and he shall be to me a son and again when he bringeth in the
first begotten into the world he saith and let all the angels of God
worship him and of the angels he saith who maketh his angels spirits and his
minister of the flame of fire again here we have the reference to angels
being ministering spirits so of course as if it's not clear already crisis
above the angels and that should be a no-brainer for anybody who's saved
and understands who Christ is he and being God in the flesh so although
while on this earth it says that he was made a little while lower than the
angels in the Bible before his incarnation and after his ascension the
scriptures teach that Christ is better than the angels says that he has a more
excellent name than all of them and that the angels of God worship him so of
course this makes sense because it's written wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him and given him a name that which is above every name that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in the
earth and things under the earth and that every tongue shall confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father in Philippians 2 but
Jesus's name is exalted way above the angels therefore the angels are
definitely in subjection to Christ and written also in 1st Peter chapter 3
verse 22 who has gone into heaven it is on the right hand of God angels and
authorities and powers being made subject unto him so of course the
Bible teaches that all things except the Father himself are subject to Jesus
Christ and therefore it's no surprise okay we know that the angels are
subject to God both the Father and the Son and also the Holy Ghost but we
should understand also that it's not just Christ who the angels are subject
to but to us as well at least they shall be as it's written also in the book of
Hebrews in chapter 2 verse 5 for unto the angels hath he not put in
subjection the world to come whereof we speak of course we know that the
world to come will be in subjection to believers who are faithful in good
works will receive the reward of ruling over cities in heaven says in the
scriptures and I think it's second Timothy I might be wrong either
first Timothy or second Timothy it says that if we suffer with him we shall also
reign with him and then in the book of Revelation chapter 20 it says that
those who were beheaded for the cause of Christ lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years so we will definitely have the world to come
subjected unto us that's the reward of Christians who work for the Lord
even says in Revelation 20 verse 4 that judgment was given unto them talking
about those who were beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast this
judgment is not just talking about the judgment of men because the Bible says
in first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 3 know you not that we shall judge
angels how much more things that pertain to this life so it's not
just men that we're judging we're also judging angels according to the
scriptures and then as mentioned earlier the angels are supposed ministers
unto us that shows that the angels are not viewed as highly as mankind
which is created in the image of God angels their only purpose is to serve
God the ones that are in heaven are to serve God and to serve us as well now
we can also learn this from an examination of fallen angels the
subject of angels that have fallen that have sinned that will be cast into
everlasting fire at the lake of fire now the subject of what people call
fallen angels that's not a biblical term but that's just what people call
Devils that's what people call the angels that fall after Satan in the
book of Revelation and I think that's a very complex subject that's more
complex than just normal angels so I'm just going to do a quick look at the
verses which come to mind when we think about this and although it's not
directly stated as implied that the devils or demons are angels who had
sinned and we can infer that by the fact that Jesus says to the damned in
Matthew 25 when he talks about separating the sheep from the goats he
says depart from me he cursed it into the everlasting fire prepared for
the devil and his angels and then several times throughout the Gospels
the devils which Jesus cast out talk about being tormented for example in
Matthew chapter 8 when Jesus meets the devil's in the country of the
Gergesenes they say art thou come hither to torment us before the time
and then since Satan is referred to as the prince of the devil's in Matthew
chapter 12 it's reasonable to come to the conclusion that the devil's angels
mentioned in Matthew 25 are the lesser devils or the demons as some people
would say the Bible tells us that there are indeed some which may appear as
good angels unto us but which are in fact deceivers and of course that's
Satan himself in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 to 15 it says and
no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light
therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the
ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works and
there are even angels who preach another gospel it says in Galatians 1 8
but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed Paul warns against
angels bringing deceptive messages and false gospels and he warns that Satan
and his ministers may appear as angels although they are not that's why I
believe that rich religions which teach gospel contrary to what the Bible
teaches contrary to what the word of God says which are started by the
appearance of angels such as Islam and Mormonism I believe that those are
founded by Satan himself Gabriel did not appear to Muhammad Satan
appeared to Muhammad and Moroni did not appear to Joseph Smith
Satan appeared to Joseph Smith and another thing we can say about these
fallen angels is that they in following Satan
have sinned against God however the Bible is not clear about why this is
or what exactly they did or anything like
that it just shows us that angels do not get a chance for
salvation and redemption like mankind does
says in Jude chapter 1 verse 6 and the angels which kept not their first
estate but left their own habitation he has reserved an everlasting chains
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day
that's the verse which Colin Michael twisted and misquoted
or used it for a false reason he did not rightly divide the word of truth
he used this to teach that mankind can lose their salvation even though
it's about angels not man it also says in second peter chapter 2 verse 4
for if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell
and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment
therefore unlike mankind who can be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ by
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ the angels once they had sinned were
immediately brought down and imprisoned to be
reserved unto judgment on the last day
so the angels therefore are not like man and they cannot be saved
jesus tasted death for every man the bible says he's appreciation for the
sins of the whole world he's not an appreciation for the sins
of the angels the bible promises us that the
the angels have been reserved in in uh
reserved in everlasting chains everlasting we know that what that means
it means it lasts forever so these chains whether or not they're
real chains or just figurative chains they're keeping the angels to be
reserved unto that final judgment okay there's no hope for them that
what's imprisoning them be sent to hell
is forever it's everlasting the bible says
and therefore that's it for the devils now that they've sinned
these people these fallen angels uh they now that they've sinned they
have no hope of salvation the bible describes satan and being cast out of
heaven along with his own angels is written
in revelation chapter 12 verse 7 and 9 and there was war in heaven michael and
his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels
and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven
and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and
satan which deceived with the whole world
he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with it
for the great dragon who was identified as satan
and is a major character in the end times prophecy of revelation he is the
same dragon that gives all the authority unto the beast in the next chapter
uh this is one who fights against michael
who is called the archangel in another scripture which we'll look at
shortly so michael and the good angels of
heaven win this battle they cast out the devil from heaven along with his
own angels and that shows us that even now satan and the other fallen
angels are not truly fallen in the sense that they've
been cast out of heaven this is something that takes place at the end
if we're to identify fallen angels with devils which again i think is a good
identification based on what the gospels say about
the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels
well who are his angels i mean it talks right here in revelation 12 about
his angels i mean why would we assume that it's different from
these angels that are fighting with satan against michael they're the same
angels that it's talking about and you compare those scriptures
the devil and his angels with the other um
verses about him being about satan being the prince of the devils etc
i think it's obvious that uh the fallen angels are devils
so now i want to talk turn to talking about different types of angels
firstly the archangel which is mentioned in this passage in relation
12 michael the bible says in jude 1 9
yet michael the archangel when contending with the devil he
disputed about the body of moses dare snot bring against him a railing
accusation but said the lord rebuke thee and beside this verse the only other
time the word archangel is used in the
bibles in first thessalonians 4 which says that there will be a voice
of the archangel sounding at the time of the rapture
now there's a lot of myths surrounding what an archangel is and
and who the archangels are uh there's a lot of different
concepts of angelology that have come from different
traditions in roman catholicism there's all kinds of different
uh archangels in eastern orthodoxy in oriental orthodoxy etc and a lot of
it comes from the apocrypha such as the book of enoch and
things that are not in the bible and medieval traditions etc
and from the talmud and other jewish writings that are not part of the
bible so the roman catholics they say
that gabriel is another archangel and they also say that rafael is
another archangel and that's just that's an angel that's mentioned in the
deuterocanonical books i don't remember exactly which one it
is i think it's like tobit or judith one of those
those fake books that are in the catholic bible that's not in the real
bible uh he's mentioned in those books but
he's not mentioned in the actual scriptures and then the eastern
orthodox they believe in seven archangels however
michael is the only angel in the bible ever called archangel which literally
just means chief angel or head angel that's what arch means
so he's the head over them all however we can assume that there are
more based on the statement made in daniel chapter 10
uh which is the first reference to michael the archangel it's written in
daniel chapter 10 verse 13 but the prince of the kingdom of persia
withstood be one and 20 days but lo michael one of the chief princes
came to help me and i remained there with the kings of persia
now since it calls michael one of the chief princes it doesn't just say he's
the chief prince it says he's one of the chief princes
we can assume that there are more chief princes
uh but it doesn't tell us who these are the bible never mentions any of
them by name so i don't think we should just come up
with names uh for who these archangels are now it's
reasonable to say gabriel possibly because as quoted earlier in luke one
he does say i am gabriel which stand in the presence of god
when he's speaking to zacharias so because
he and michael are really the only angels who are given names
and because he says he stands in the presence of god
i mean i guess you can make a case that gabriel is an archangel
although the bible does not expressly say that
if it doesn't name the other ones then it doesn't really matter and the word
is only used twice in the bible and yet people will make their own
complicated complicated complex tradition about
who these are and what it means or whatever even though it's not
emphasizing the scriptures it's just a a minor title that's used twice so
besides these besides the archangel there's also the caribbean which would
many would consider angels because of their presence with god however
remember technically an angel is a ministering spirit who is sent out by
god to minister to the saints now the caribbean and similar
heavenly entities that are described in the bible they
minister unto god but they're never described as interacting with man
whenever we see these entities they're always around god's throne
or there's the the caribbean and genesis chapter
three that guard the garden of eden but there's never
a time in the bible where the caribbean are just on earth and
appearing as a normal angel would
now concerning the caribbean or some people would say cherubim i don't like
saying cherubim honestly uh because the hebrew
there's no chuff sound it's the letter het
so it would be like the word chrome you know google chrome
you know just because it has ch doesn't mean it's always pronounced ch
so cherub just i don't know that just sounds weird to me
so i just don't say it cherub tomatoes whatever
anyway so it says in psalm 80 verse 1 give ero shepherd of israel thou that
leadest joseph like a flock thou that dwells between the cherubims
shine forth or caribbeans psalm 99 verse 1 says the lord reigneth
let the people tremble he sitteth between the caribbeans
let the earth be moved isaiah 37 verse 16 oh lord of
hosts god of israel that dwells between the caribbeans thou art the god
even thou art the god even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth
thou has made heaven and earth so this is one of the titles that's used in the
bible god that dwell us between the
caribbeans now we know that this refers to
two things firstly the throne of god that's on earth
during the old testament where the spirit would dwell in the tabernacle
was on the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat of
the ark of the covenant had two caribbeans on each side of the seat
but according to the book of hebrews these buildings these things of the
old testament these buildings of the hands were not
perfect but they were a shadow of the heavenly things they're just picturing
things that are in heaven so in heaven the caribbean actually
surround god's throne and we see this in the field chapter
1 verse 5 to 14 it describes the caribbean detail it
says also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures and this was their appearance they had
the likeness of a man and everyone had four faces and everyone
had four wings and their feet were straight feet and
the soles of their feet were like the soles of a calf
a calf's foot and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass
and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides
and they four had their faces in their wings their wings were joined one
to another they turned not when they went they went everyone
straight forward as for the likeness of their faces they
four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side
and they four had the face of an ox on the left side
they four also had the face of an eagle thus were their faces and their wings
were stretched upward two wings of everyone were joined one to another
and two cover their bodies and they went everyone straight forward whether
the spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went
as for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like
burning coals of fire and like the appearance of lamps they
went up and down among the living creatures
and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning
and the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of
lightning now it also says in ezekiel chapter 10
verse 14 to 15 and everyone had four faces
the first face was the face of a carib and the
second face was the face of a man and the third of the face of a lion
and the fourth the face of an eagle and the caribbeans were lifted up
this is the living creature that i saw by the river of kbar and if you look
at the beginning of is equal one it uh identifies the place
where he is as the river kbar so he's referring back to the vision in
ezekiel one and the first chapter of ezekiel it
simply tells us that these figures which ezekiel sees are
living creatures it says now these are not men
these entities they have four faces uh one which looks similar to man
the other appears like different types of beasts
these living creatures are identified as caribbean ezekiel 10
now the book of ezekiel uh in chapter one further identifies these
creatures as standing before the throne of god or
near the throne of god it says that they're under the throne of god later
in the chapter ezekiel sees at the end of the chapter the likeness of the
glory of the lord which is jesus christ sitting in the
throne of god above the caribbeans and these caribbeans live in the
presence of god and they surround his throne
they're under his throne they're not men they have quite a bizarre
appearance so they're not just like normal
angels as we would see in um with with gabriel or michael or the
other angels like the one that appeared to hagar
genesis 16. now the bible also talks about another type of heavenly entity
which people will sometimes call angels
that surround god's throne called the seraphim
i want to read the passage that talks about this as the only place where the
word seraphim is used in the english bible
uh and then i want to talk about what that word means exactly
in isaiah chapter six verse one to six it says in the year that king uzziah
died i saw also the lord sitting upon a throne
high and lifted up and his train filled the temple above it stood these
seraphims each one had six wings with twain he
covered his face and with twain he covered his feet and with twain he did
fly and one cried unto another and said holy
holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory
and the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried in the
house was filled with smoke then said i woe is me for i am undone
because i'm a man of unclean lips and i dwell in the midst of the people
of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts
then flew one of the seraphims unto me having a life coal in his hand
which he had taken with the tongs from out the altar so
in verse two and also verse six those are the only verses
where the word seraphims is used directly in the king jane's bible
now the only evident difference between the caribbean and the seraphim
is the number of wings that they have and how close they are to god
in ezekiel chapter one the caribbean are not right near the throne of god
but they are under it it's written that the throne is
above their heads and they also had four wings now the
seraphim on the other hand they had six wings and there it said
flying above the throne of god according to verse two
now this is the only passage in the bible as i said where the
word seraphim appears in english but it's not the only place where the
word seraph or seraphim appears in hebrew
now seraphim is not an english word if you couldn't tell that little
suffix em is just the plural for uh if this is the plural for in hebrew so
really would be seraph and seraphim is plural
it's left untranslated in this verse just as caribbean is
i tried doing a little bit of research on the word caribbean it's of
uncertain origin and it's never translated directly into another word in
the bible it's always just written as caribbean in the bible
however the other five times that seraphim is used there's it's used
seven times in the whole bible it's translated as fiery serpent
for example in numbers chapter 21 when god sends fiery serpents among the
people the word there is seraph and if you
don't believe me you can look that up see
all the times that the word seraph is used in the bible and see how it's
translated in the king james version now i'm going to go into a little bit
of speculation right here but because of the identification of
seraphim in the bible with serpents in many other places
uh it could be said that satan himself was at one point a seraphim
or a seraph the bible says that satan is an anointed carib
that covereth in ezekiel 28 verse 14
perhaps this means that a seraphim is like in nature to a caribbean
but has been exalted in rank so a seraph is an anointed carib
which had the task of covering as it says in isaiah 6 that the seraphim
covered their face and their feet with their wings and they only use two
of their six wings to fly so that's just a theory but to me it
makes sense to say that that's what a seraph is
seraph is it's an anointed carib not just a normal carib
because they've been exalted they've been they're now flying above the
throne of god and they now have these six wings instead of four
now like i said i don't want to go too much into detail with the subject
there's probably a lot of other things i could say about this subject of
angels and heavenly beings etc but i don't think the bible really
itself goes into a lot of detail about what angels are where they come
from or uh who they are and what they will
do and everything like that and i don't think it goes into detail with
that for a reason because the focus of the
bible is on god and his relationship with mankind
i mean we just just by listening to people who are obsessed with the book of
enoch and all this other garbage out there
all the other apocrypha and the deuterocanonical works and
the jewish fables out there the medieval traditions
they focus on that rather than what the bible says people who do that they
just want to put a large emphasis on angels they have their own
little mythology with all these angels with their different names and they
have these own roles and they did this in the past
and there's all these stories about these angels and things like that
the book of enoch really emphasizes angels for example
but in the bible god puts angels as more of a mystery because the attention
and glory is supposed to go to him everything the angels did in the
scriptures are for the power and the guidance of god they were sent out from
god and of course they were created by god
as all things were so that's just a general overview about what the bible
teaches about angels they're ministering spirits that's really
their main purpose they're sent out by god to fulfill certain tasks upon this
earth they're lower than god they're lower
than christ but they're also going to be lower than us we will judge them
one day when we sit upon uh thrones and rule and reign with
christ and the maleno kingdom so they'll be subject unto us one day
as well so that's all i have to say for
this video i thank you buddy for watching
god bless you and goodbye