Top 7 Bible Verses About Angels

What are some of the top Bible verses about angels?  What ones would you include and tell me why?

Angels Bible Scriptures

The word angel basically means “messenger of God” and we see angels involved heavily in doing these very same things throughout the Bible.  We may have been visited by angels and not even known it, which will make it all the more interesting someday in heaven to see how many times we were visited by them and didn’t even know about it and how often angels may have intervened on our behalf to save our lives or spare us from serious injury.  Here are some of the top Bible verses about angels.

Hebrews 13:2 “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

If you knew that you could be visited by an angel or may have had contact with one or more already, you might be more careful in how you show treat strangers and them hospitably wouldn’t you?  It makes us all think differently about the way we should treat others who we don’t know, even though we are commanded to live like Christ anyway.  Think about that the next time you see a stranger and perhaps offer them a helping hand or neglect in doing so.

Hebrews 1:14 “Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?”

Once again we find a great Bible verse about angels in the Book of Hebrews.  The author had just been writing about the supremacy of Christ over angels and over all of creation in the first chapter of Hebrews.  When we consider that angels are “ministering spirits” that are “sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation” you do understand that this speaks about believers, right?  Imagine that we have angels around us, ministering to us, in unknown ways, but they are there…for our sake.  That is remarkable.

Matthew 4:11 “Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.”

Even Jesus Christ had angels ministering to Him so we are not alone in this regard.  Today, the angels are glorifying Jesus and praising Him continuously.  How difficult that must have been to be directly tempted by the Tempter, and to endure 40 days and nights in fasting, hardship, living in the Wilderness with the heat of the day and the cold of night.  We don’t see our angels when they minister to us…but I wonder and might conclude that Jesus probably did see the angels that came to minister to Him after the greatest temptation that has ever been given to anyone, at any time, and in any place.

Luke 22:42-44 “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”  And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.  And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”

Didn’t’ something just like this happen in Matthew 4:11?  Yes, but this was much different because it was after the temptation in the Wilderness that the angels came to minister to Jesus while here in the Garden of Gethsemane, the angels ministered to Him before the greatest suffering and sin bearing that anyone would ever endure, again for anyone, at any time, and at any place in all history.  These angels ministered to Him prior to this “cup” that Jesus prayed three times to have removed from Him but the Father said no but Jesus said “Not my will, but yours be done” so the angels ministered to Him at the time that He needed them most.  I wonder if angels also come at our most desperate times to.   It is quite possible that they do.

Psalm 91:11 “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”

This is one of the most precious verses about angels in the entire Bible to me.  I sense that angels are given charge over us.  I don’t mean that we have specific angels that are just for us, like guardian angels, but the fact that angels are given charge over us I believe is certain.  Psalm 91 is a Psalm about facing all kinds of obstacles, hazards, and the potential for death all around the author.  I believe that God knows just when to dispense the angels, having all foreknowledge, but the part I like most about this verse is that these angels are given “charge over” us and that they are directed (commanded?)  “to keep [us] in all [our] ways.”  In what ways we don’t exactly know today and so we will have to wait to hear just how when we see the Lord face to face.

Acts 7:23 “For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’”

Here is direct evidence that angels not only minister to us but they are also messengers of God and this must have truly comforted, not only Paul, but the whole crew on the ship for they all feared that their lives would be lost in a great storm at sea.  The angel clearly denotes that “God has granted you all those who sail with you” meaning that God sent the angel for the express purpose of communicating to Paul some reassurance and words of great comfort.  This message not only comforted Paul but all the crew as well.   If that is not ministering to him, I don’t know what would be.

Acts 5:17-21 “But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.  But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”  And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach.”

I included several verses here for context and not only the verse about the angel.  The reason I did was because the apostles had no idea if they would be killed or not or if they would be imprisoned for a long period of time.  Apparently God wanted to let the apostles know that it would only be for a short time and so God sent an angel with yet another message to not only let them know they would immediately be returning again to the temple preaching the gospel, but the angel gave them the help that they needed to make it possible to continue to preach by opening the prison doors and then bringing them out.

Conclusion

If you have never repented and trusted in Jesus Christ as Savior, the angels are not available to help you, they are not able to keep  you from danger or death, and they cannot minister to you because angels are only sent to minister to believers (Heb 1:14).  I strongly urge you today to come to saving faith in Jesus Christ today, if you haven’t already done so, then someday you can directly ask God about all the times that angels intervened for you and perhaps even saved your life.  So be careful in how you treat strangers…they could be angels and you wouldn’t even know it.

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Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book  Blind Chance or Intelligent Design available on Amazon