Who or What is/are
Angels? Members of divine council - "*sons of God" "Morning
stars"
Job 1: 6,
28:7
"gods" Ps 8,
"host of heaven" Neh
9:6
"prince of the army
of Yahweh" 5:13-15, Exod 23:23
Guardians of eden:
Gen 3:24, Exek 28:14-16
God's bureaucrats:
Deut 32:8 cf 4:19, 29:26
Are all of these angels? The Greek
word aggelos (angels) Hebrew word malak means messanger. However we now-a-days
use the word to refer to all sorts of intellegent, non-human creatures.
Cherubim and seraphim are
definetly not aggelos, but they are angels by the modern definition of the word.
It also from these angels that we get the concept of angels having wings.
There is no evidence that other intellegent creatures have wings.
Cherub/Cherubim:
(single/plural)
Guardians:Gen 3:24, Exek 28:14-16,
Exod 25-18-20
Exod 25:22, Num 7:89
1 Sam 4:4, 2 Sam 6:2, Isa 27:16
Ps 80:1, 99:1
1 Kings 8:4-8
1 Kings 6:23-28
1 Kings 6:29-35
God's horses: 2 Sam 22:11 = Ps 18:10
Seraph, Saraphim (single/plural)
Isaiah 6
Num 21:8, Deut 8:15, Isa 14:29
30:6.
"man like" Gen 18:2,
Josh 5:13,
Ezek 9:2,11,
Dan 9:21, 12:6-7
Zech 1:8
Cherubim 4 angels each with 4 faces. Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel 10
Envoys with messages and various other tasks:
1 Kings 22:19-22
Job 1:6-12
No names: Gen 32:29, Judg 13:17-18
The two named angels in the OT:
Gabriel Dan 8-9 - reveals the future
Michael Dan 10, 12 - warrier opposing forces of evil
God does not trust them always Job 4:18. But we have to be careful. Is this
statement "canonical"?. My first thoughts were NO, it is not canonical because:
This verse is in the 1st speech of Eliphaz. He states "If God places no trust
in his servants, if he charges his angels with error," as if it were a given
fact. He then goes on to say "how much more those...." We know that God later
said that Eliphaz spoke wrongly of God. So my 1st thought is that neither the
statement nor the inference drawn could trusted. I then decided to read Job's
response, indeed as I write this I have not read Job's response. My thinking is
that, if Job argues the 2nd point but not the first, then the first can be
trusted as canonical. If Job argues neither, then we are still unsure. If Job
argues the 1st, then it is wrong. Se we read Job's reply - Chapters 6 and
7. In reading these two we find that Chapter 6 to Chapter 7:7 is a reply to
Eliphaz, Chapter 7:7 on is a new plea directly to God. Job seems to agree with
Eliphaz on the"facts" but on the inference to the facts he says in 6:24 "Teach
me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are
honest words! But what do your arguments prove?" It appears to be correct to
conclude that God charges his angels with error (the honest words) but the
inferences, the arguments that are derived from that is what Job is railing
against.
Angels Rebel: Gen 6:1-4
Ps 82
Isa 14:12-15
Ezek 28
God=Angels, Why are both used? Gen 16:7-13, 22:11-12 .31:11-13
Exod 3:2-4
Judg 6:11-23
Angels are sexual beings: Gen 6:4
Sons of God:
Gen 6: 1-4 (marry with humans)
Job 1:6, 2:1
Deut 32:8
Psalms 29:1 & 89:6
Ps 82:6
..... further required
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