What Are Some Things That Unfallen Angels Do?
By David E. Thompson
Although angelic action manifests itself in many ways, we should always remember that the primary purpose of an angel is to serve God. The main task of an unfallen angel is to carry out specific assignments and to accomplish various purposes for God. Just as there are different classifications and identifications of the angels, so there are different functions, responsibilities and ministries for the angels. This section is designed to explore these various areas of ministry.
Angelic Responsibility Area #1 – Unfallen angels have a ministry to God. There are at least nine ministries we may determine:
- Angels praise God for His creation (Psalm 148:1-2; Job 38:6-7 ).
- Angels praise God for His holiness (Isaiah 6:3).
- Angels worship God for His holiness (Revelation 4:8).
- Angels worship God for His majesty (Revelation 5:13-14).
- Angels worship God for His Son (Revelation 5:11-12; Hebrews 1:6) .
- Angels serve God by obeying God’s Word (Psalm 103:20).
- Angels serve God by promoting God’s worship (Revelation 22:9).
- Angels serve God by carrying out God’s judgments (Genesis 3:22-23; Revelation 8:2).
- Angels serve God by being personally accountable (Job 1:6; 2:1).
Angelic Responsibility Area #2 – Unfallen angels have a ministry connected to God’s program . Since angels were created very early by God, logically speaking they would have an active interest and role to play in any program of God. It certainly appears that whenever God moves His program in a new direction, angels become very active. We may observe six:
- Angels were very active concerning God’s creation (Job 38:6-7 2).
- Angels were very active concerning God’s Word (Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 2:2; Revelation 1:1; 22:8-9; 16:3).
- Angels were very active concerning God’s nation, Israel (Revelation 7:1-8).
God’s unfallen angels have always had a profound and important ministry to Israel. They were involved in blessing Abraham (Genesis 18:1-2, 16, 22; 19:1). They were involved in protecting Abraham’s family (Genesis 19:1, 15). Angels protected Elisha and were used to deliver Israel from the Arameans (2 Kings 6:15-20). Angels have had and undoubtedly still have a profound connection and association with the nation Israel.
- Angels were very active concerning God’s Son. Angels were very active concerning Christ’s first coming (Matthew 1:20; 4:11) and they will be very active at His Second Coming (Matthew 25:31).
- Angels are very active concerning God’s church.
- They were active at the beginning of it (Acts 8:26; 10:3, 7; 12:11).
- They were active during the development of it (Revelation 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14).
- They will be active at the end of it. (1 Thessalonians 4:16
- Angels are very active concerning Tribulation wrath (Rev. 7:1; 8:2; 10:1; 12:7-8; 16:1; 17:1; 18:1). We may certainly see that during every one of God’s new programs or epoch times, angels are very active. From the beginning of creation to the calling of Israel, to the development of the Church right to the end, angels are involved in the whole program of God. We may assume from this that when God’s program changes, so in some way do the ministry assignments of angels.
Angelic Responsibility Area #3 – Unfallen angels have a ministry connected to Jesus Christ . Since Jesus Christ is God, we may assume that the same basic purpose of angels pertaining to God the Father, which is to serve Him, also pertains to God the Son (Colossians 1:16). Scripture certainly supports the fact that angels have an intense relationship to God the Son:
- Angels announced His coming (Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:26).
- Angels announced His birth (Luke 2:8-15).
- Angels protected His life (Matthew 2:13-15, 19-21).
- Angels strengthened Him after His temptations:
- They strengthened Him in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1, 11).
- They strengthened Him in Gethsemane (Luke 22:43).
- Angels would defend Him at any moment that He requested (Matthew 26:53).
- Angels testified of His resurrection. Matthew 28:1-7; Luke 24:1-9 7.
Angels announce His future returns:
An angel will announce the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:16 b).
An angel will announce Christ’s Second Coming (Revelation 19:17).
Angels will participate in future worship (Revelation 5:11-12).
Unfallen angels are closely associated with Jesus Christ at all times. They love Him and serve Him and worship Him. Chafer quoted Dr. Cooke concerning the connection angels have to Jesus Christ and it is worthy to consider (Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, pp. 20-21):
How constant their attendance on the Incarnate Savior during his mysterious life among men! At his birth they are his heralds, and with songs exultant announce glad tidings to mankind. In his temptation they minister to him; in his agonies they succor him; on his resurrection they are the first to proclaim his triumph; on his ascension they come to escort him to the mediatorial throne; in his glorified state they render him supreme homage as their Lord; and when he returns to judge the world they will form his retinue!
What sublime thoughts would be suggested, what emotions of wonder and joy would be excited, by the scenes they witnessed on earth and still witness in heaven, in reference to Christ, his two-fold nature, and his great redeeming work. God incarnate! This was new to them. They had seen the Son in his Deity; but never till now enshrined in humanity. What amazing condescension!
Obeying his own law as if he were a mere creature, and in the attitude of a servant!
This was new. They had seen him as the governor of the universe; but never till now as
a subject! Encountering Satan in conflict and prolonged temptation! This was new. They had seen him frown the arch-rebel from his presence and hurl him to perdition; but never till now submitting to be tempted by him whose subtlety and power had seduced myriads to eternal ruin.
Suffering the scorn and reproach of sinful men! This was new. They had seen myriads
of happy spirits worship, adore, and love him; but never till now had they seen him personally insulted, reproached, and maltreated by his creatures. Groaning in Gethsemane, and crucified between two thieves, and dying as a sacrificial victim! was new.
They had seen him supremely happy and glorious; but to see him agonize, to hear that dying wail, and to behold him a bloody corpse, and all this to save the world which had revolted from him! What mysterious love! To see him, after all this, enthroned and glorified in human nature. This was a new fact in the moral history of the universe. The whole scenes were full of interest, wonder, and mystery; a gradation of wonders rising in succession, until they culminated in the permanent presence of the God-man, resplendent with a glory that fills the heaven of heavens.
Here were chapters of instruction for angelic minds to ponder; here were developments of hidden truths; here were discoveries of the Divine perfections, never known before; and still unfolding in brighter effulgence as ages roll on!
Angelic Responsibility Area #4 – Unfallen angels have a ministry to believers.
There is no question that God’s unfallen angels are actively involved in the life of a believer in many ways. One of the main differences concerning the ministry of angels, in this Church Age as opposed to other ages, is their visible appearance. Angels have ministries connected to every believer, but probably would never be physically seen by the believer.
In other dispensations when angels were present, they were, for the most part, visibly seen. However, their ministries for the most part in this dispensation will remain unseen. Dr. Chafer thought one reason for this is that every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and are subject to the leading of an actual member of the Trinity, which is more “constant, vital and exalting than angelic visitations could possibly be.”
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Pastor David E. Thompson is pastor/teacher at Texas Corners Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan with a nationally syndicated radio show reaching all across the United States. Pastor Thompson may be classified as a true systematic Bible expositor and communicator of God’s Word. He carefully expounds books of the Bible in a way that is contextually, exegetically, grammatically, historically, and theologically accurate to the text and relevant to the time. He is also an very skilled in New Testament Greek.
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2Thess 2:10..because they received not THE LOVE (Agape)of the truth, that they might be saved. 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
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#1 “ONE” not triune: ……PART 4 & 5 HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE FOR THE ONE GOD TO TALK TO?? Who was Jesus praying to??!?…. The real question should be … How does having multiple different persons keep this one God/being/entity from praying to himself?! (The trinitarian “schizophrenic” “god-head”) The Trinitarians want to have their cake and eat it too as the saying goes. On the one hand they need to say they only worship one indivisible God being/ entity but on the other hand they feel the need for some reason to keep Jesus or God from praying and talking to himself by dividing him up into different persons!?! It never occurs to them that that since there is only one indivisible God to pray too and Jesus is that indivisible God come in the flesh that he would need to talk to himself as to show us how to live, suffer, pray and die for our/ flesh) benefit not his!?!….. So while Trinitarians are quick to complain that God was not talking to himself at Christ baptism or in Gen “let us” they ignore the logical demands of their own theology! If Jesus is the ONE GOD in flesh and the Father is the SAME ONE GOD in heaven then Trinitarianism demands THE ONE GOD is talking to HIMSELF the same “being”! Claiming that God is multiple different persons as the reason for why God is not talking to himself (because God is three different “selfs”) only demonstrates that what they really worship is in fact not a ONE GOD who talks to himself but three different god “selfs”/ and they all talk to each other! When they speak about who God was talking and praying to, they are quick to say “the other person, NOT HIMSELF!” But if you ask them how many gods do they pray to then they will say “ONLY ONE”!?! They expect you to believe that those three different persons are THE ONE GOD-BEING” which is like calling three different cars “THE ONE VEHICLE” (they are text book examples of prov 26:12)
Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all? 29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the first commandment….. 31. And the second is….. IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON LOVE & SIN IS MOOT
PART 6: THE ANTI CHRIST….WHERE? WHERE?….EVERYWHERE!!! …..IT”S YOU O TRINITARIAN!
“WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh) they all deny “WHO” it was (what person) that came (to be the Christ) in the flesh!?!…….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the same person that came in the flesh!
JOHN 14: 8-20 ….Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father ….The son, father/Holy Spirit are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?!
Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Note: The spirit of Christ is the sprit of God and the holy spirit that is why Christ said “I will come to you” (to comfort them, because Christ is the comforter). The spirit was standing next to them in flesh… ….latter it would come to them to be inside of them (inside of their flesh as the spirit we are given)…..that is why. he would send the spirit…… However, Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his person” ( the person of God; singular not plural).Any attempt to lay claim otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense
TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…No, Trinitarians confess & preach literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
- Like a thief in your house caught stealing your things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5;
…… should have given you a hint, harking back to Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you will be more WISE……today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and by your traditions and vain imaginations have taken the words of God and made them of no effect, refashioning God into your image!
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#2 SECOND COMING Thou Fool! “I come quickly” so “Hold fast
till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 yrs I might be coming soon any time now, so hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70 are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the lord that bought them ( 2Peter 2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the 2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim 4: 4. And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES.
2Thess 2: 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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#3 There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups :
(1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
(2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27; (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
(3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I
will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
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