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Whilst crusing through these forums I have noticed a number of comments about Guardian Angels. Whilst I have no doubt that the LORD will send his angels when we are in need of them, I doubt that we are appointed our own angel as some posters seem to suggest.

Is there a Scriptural reference to support this idea? Do you have a Guardian Angel? What evidence do you have to support such an idea?
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I've read some websites on Angels, God's Angels. The good websites have scripture in them. However, I don't have one bookmarked at this time. Try a net search... or perhaps someone has that scriptural info for you in their head?

I know the Bible says to always be hospitable, we we might be entertaining Angels unawares. I also know there are God's Angels sent to keep watch over us. (I think the word is keep charge over us, but charge means watch, I think.)

Good topic!

Try a web search though, as there are some good websites on God's Angels.
 
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yea you just have to be careful where you search as the "secular" world seems to love the idea of Angels and especially Guardian ones... and how their gran is now an Angel who sits on their shoulder and wispers the lottery numbers in their ear...

Funny how a world can belive so blindly in the existance of angels but not in any kinda of "god"
 
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yea you just have to be careful where you search as the "secular" world seems to love the idea of Angels and especially Guardian ones... and how their gran is now an Angel who sits on their shoulder and wispers the lottery numbers in their ear...

Funny how a world can belive so blindly in the existance of angels but not nesserserally in any kinda of "god"

True, but I did come across some really good Christian websites on Angels a while ago. Unfortunately though, I did not bookmark them. So, an internet search is a search.
 
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Whilst crusing through these forums I have noticed a number of comments about Guardian Angels. Whilst I have no doubt that the LORD will send his angels when we are in need of them, I doubt that we are appointed our own angel as some posters seem to suggest.

Is there a Scriptural reference to support this idea? Do you have a Guardian Angel? What evidence do you have to support such an idea?
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This passage makes me wonder if not only were they (NT believers) taught about guardian angels but too, if our GAs have a similar appearance as us.

OR, they were filling in their own ideas.

Acts 12:13-16
13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.
14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
15 "You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, "It must be his angel."
16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

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I'm not sure if the Angels in heaven protect us while we're on Earth, however the Holy Spirit is our protector on earth. He's our earthly guardian, all you have to do is repent and accept him.
[bible]matthew 18:10[/bible]

Can you explain what Jesus intended when He said this?
 
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This passage makes me wonder if not only were they (NT believers) taught about guardian angels but too, if our GAs have a similar appearance as us.

OR, they were filling in their own ideas.

Acts 12:13-16
13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.
14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, "Peter is at the door!"
15 "You're out of your mind," they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, "It must be his angel."
16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

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sunlover1, don't quote me on this but at times the word Angel in the bible was understood to mean messenger or someone who brought good/bad news
 
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I'm not sure if the Angels in heaven protect us while we're on Earth, however the Holy Spirit is our protector on earth. He's our earthly guardian, all you have to do is repent and accept him.

[bible]matthew 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven

Can you explain what Jesus intended when He said this?

It probably means that they're innocent and are already accepted in Heaven.
 
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The express purpose of Angels are to minister to Christians. This verse says that. The verse before sets the subject as Angels.

Heb 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
KJV

Once we know their purpose, we as Christians must learn how to allow them to minister to us. :)
 
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The express purpose of Angels are to minister to Christians. This verse says that. The verse before sets the subject as Angels.

Heb 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
KJV

Once we know their purpose, we as Christians must learn how to allow them to minister to us. :)
yea thats an interesting one: in another version its a little easyer for me to understand lol :)

Heb 1:14
Therefore, angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation. (NLT)
 
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[bible]matthew 18:10[/bible]

Can you explain what Jesus intended when He said this?

I think that He wanted to let them know that God is always aware when one of these little ones is ill treated. Their angel is keeping tabs.
Is that how you see it?

Is ArmorVincit the only one who has a scripture. I am curious because this questing came up in a home group discussion, so I would like some good scripture to present on the topic next time.

Thanks

I gave and Myriah gave Scripture.
Do you have a Bible program for your computer?
If not you can get a very good one free online.

sunlover
 
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sunlover1, don't quote me on this but at times the word Angel in the bible was understood to mean messenger or someone who brought good/bad news
Thank you Tyndale.
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yea thats an interesting one: in another version its a little easyer for me to understand lol :)

Heb 1:14
Therefore, angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation. (NLT)

It is interesting, it is also a very important part of how we as Christians are protected, given opportunities, receive our needs met, etc.. :)
 
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I'm not sure if the Angels in heaven protect us while we're on Earth.

Oh, they certainly do, my young friend.


The Hebrew word for Angel does mean Messanger, However they do much more than that. The Angel Michael lead God's army of Angels to drive Lucifer (called the dragon) out of heaven after they rebelled.


God does indeed send His angels to help us:


Gen 24:40 and his reply was, "Yahweh, in whose presence I have walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, for you to choose a wife for my son from my own kinsfolk, from my father's house.


and protect us:


Gen 48:16 theAngel who has saved me from all harm, bless these boys, so that my name may live on in them, and the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and they grow into teeming multitudes on earth!

Exo 14:19 Then theangelof God, who preceded the army of Israel, changed station and followed behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from their front and took position behind them.
Exo 14:20 It came between the army of the Egyptians and the army of Israel. The cloud was dark, and the night passed without the one drawing any closer to the other the whole night long.


OR even to strike down or punish:


Num 22:31 Yahweh then opened Balaam's eyes and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head and threw himself on his face.
Num 22:32 And the angel of Yahweh said to him, 'Why did you strike your donkey three times like that? I myself had come to bar your way; while I am here your road is blocked.
Num 22:33 The donkey saw me and turned aside because of me three times. You are lucky she did turn aside, or I should have killed you by now, though I would have spared her.'

2Samual 24:16 But when the angel stretched his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh felt sorry about the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, 'Enough now! Hold your hand!' The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Samual 24:17 When David saw the angel who was ravaging the people, he said to Yahweh, 'I was the one who sinned. I was the one who acted wrongly. But these, the flock, what have they done? Let your hand lie heavy on me and on my family!'



God's Holy Angels are always among us. Indeed, some of us have entertained Angels though we did not even know it.
 
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[bible]matthew 18:10[/bible]

Can you explain what Jesus intended when He said this?
Observe here, 1. A cautionary direction given by Christ to the men of the world concerning his members; Take heed that ye do not offend one of my little ones; that is, that ye do not undervalue and neglect, much less injure and afflict, them.
2. A reason assigned, Because their angels being constantly and immediately in the presence of God, are perpetually ready to execute his will, by revenging any wrongs and injuries done unto his friends and children.
Learn, 1. What is the office and employment of the glorious angels; namely, to be the immediate attendants upon the royal person of the supreme King and Sovereign of the world.
Learn hence, 2. In what esteem good men are with God, and what a mighty regard he has for the meanest of his children, that he commits the care and preservation of them to the holy angels, who are nearest to him, and in highest favour and honour with him.
It is St. Jerome's note upon this place, That great is the dignity of these little ones, seeing every one of them from his birth hath an angel delegated to preserve him. But though others think that the opinion of a tutelary angel, or of one particular angel's having the custody of one particular saint, as his continual charge, has not a sufficient foundation in the holy scriptures! yet all the angels in heaven are ministering spirits unto them; and though they do not always attend upon their person (for they stand before the face of God) yet it is to to receive his commands, either to help them in their exigencies, or punish those that injure them. - Burkitt Commentary

Another commentator brings up other verses which talk about guardian angels:
Despise not one of these little ones. Not merely one of the children, but those saints whom the world regards as insignificant and unimportant. "To despise" is, literally, "to look down upon," and hence, to neglect. This forbids all caste in the church.
In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father. The doctrine of guardian angels is emphatically taught in the Scriptures. See 2Ki 19:31; Ps 91:11; Heb 1:13; Ac 27:23. Who can afford to despise the children who have representatives right at the throne of God? -PNTC

Ps 91:11 - For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

St. Thomas Aquinas stated in his Summa Theologica about the verse stated by Jesus in Matt 18:10: "That every individual soul has a guardian angel has never been defined by the Church, and is, consequently, not an article of faith; but it is the "mind of the Church", as St. Jerome expressed it: "how great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it." (Comm. in Matt., xviii, lib. II)."
One can see his whole article at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm.

I think this subject is interesting, and before this post I have to admit, that I was very skeptical of this doctrine; but it seems to me that the esistence of guardian angels seem to make sense Scripturally speaking.
 
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