| "7. We can\'t prove that guardian angels exist
The Bible clearly tells us that God sends angels to protect people: “He will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone†(Psalm 91:11–12).
But are these what we think of as “guardian angels� Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:10 seem to support the idea that individual people (or at least children) have guardian angels, “in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.†But Jesus may only mean that angels are assigned to protect little children in general. (In sports terms, the angels may be playing “zone†rather than “man-on-man†defense.)
When the disciples in Acts 12:15 say that Peter’s “angel†must be knocking at the door, this doesn’t necessarily imply that they believe in individual guardian angels. It’s possible that they believed an angel was simply guarding Peter at that time.
While arguments can be made, there seems to be no definitive biblical proof for the existence of “guardian angels.â€
8. Angels do not marry
Jesus taught that in the resurrection people “neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven†(Matthew 22:30, see also Luke 20:34–36). This clearly suggests that angels don’t marry.
No other passages address relationships between angels, so anything beyond this is simply speculation.
9. Angels are very powerful
Angels are called “mighty ones who do his word†(Psalm 103:20), “powers†(see Ephesians 1:21), and “dominions†and “authorities†(Colossians 1:16). They are certainly “greater in might and power†than humans (2 Peter 2:11, see also Matthew 28:2). Angels use their power to battle against Satan’s demonic forces (Daniel 10:13, Revelation 12:7–8, 20:1–3).
During our earthly lives, we’re “lower than the angels†(Hebrews 2:7). But as powerful as angels are, when Jesus returns, followers of Christ will be raised higher than them (1 Corinthians 6:3).
10. We don’t know when angels were created
Genesis 2:1 tells us that the angels were made at some point before the seventh day of creation: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them†(“host†here refers to the heavenly beings).
Exodus 20:11 is even more explicit: “In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.†We can at least confirm that all the angels were created by the sixth day of creation.
But can we be any more specific? There may be a hint at the creation of angelic beings on the first day of creation, when we read that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth†(Genesis 1:1), immediately followed by, “the earth was without form and void†(Genesis 1:2). There’s no mention of the heavens in this second verse. This may be intended to contrast the emptiness of the earth is with the heavens, where God already created angelic beings. This idea could be supported by Job, where we read that “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy†when God laid the “cornerstone†of the earth and sunk its “bases†(Job 38:6–7). If the angels (“the sons of Godâ€) shouted for joy when God was forming the earth, this could imply that God created the angelic beings early on the first day. However, this is only speculation."
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