Thursday, May 18, 2017
Angels - We Are Not To Pray To -
Bible Questions Answered:
“...so I prayed to my guardian
angel...”
Theresa/ Santa Ana, California U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Nowhere, nowhere, are we ever taught in
The Word Of God, to pray to angels!
Jesus our example:
John 13:15 KJV
For I have given you an example,
that ye should do as I have done to you.
Jesus prayed, and told Christians to
pray, to The Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:9 KJV
After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Luke 11:2 KJV
And He said unto them, When ye pray,
say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
John 14:12-15
KJV
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in My
name, that will I do, that The Father may be glorified in The Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in My
name, I will do it.
15 If ye love Me, keep My
commandments.
We should live as
the “noble-Bereans.
Acts 17:10,11 KJV
10 And the brethren immediately sent
away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into
the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble
than those in Thessalonica, in that they received The Word with
all readiness of mind, and searched The Scriptures daily, whether
those things were so.
Noble:
An exalted moral or mental character or
excellence.
Dictionary.Com
It is God The Holy Spirit, and our
Savior, Jesus Christ, who intercede for the people of God.
Romans 8:26,27 NLT
26 And The Holy
Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what
God wants us to pray for. But The Holy Spirit prays for us with
groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
27 And The Father who knows all
hearts knows what The Spirit is saying, for The Spirit pleads for us
believers in harmony with God’s own will.
Hebrews 4:14-16 NLT
14 So then,
since we have A Great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus The
Son Of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.
15 This High
Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the
same testings we do, yet he did not sin.
16 So let us
come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive
His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Angels are a part of Gods
great creation, not eternal, created.
Colossians 1:15-17 NLT
15 Christ is the visible
image of The Invisible God. He existed before anything was created
and is supreme over all creation,
16 for through Him God
created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made
the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as
thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities
in the unseen world. Everything was created through Him and for Him.
17 He existed before
anything else, and He holds all creation together.
And although it is true,
angels have more power than mere mortal man...
Hebrews 2:7 KJV (The
Apostle speaking of man stated...)
"Thou madest him a
little lower than the angels..."
Yet, they are not God, and
“not,” to be prayed to or to be worshiped. Who said so, why the
very angels of heaven have said so!
Revelation 19:9,10 NLT
9 And the angel
said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the
wedding feast of the Lamb.” And he added, “These are true words
that come from God.”
10 Then I fell down at
his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me.
I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters
who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For
the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.
Revelation 22:8,9 NLT
8 I, John, am the one who
heard and saw all these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell
down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me.
9 But he said, “No,
don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your
brothers the prophets, as well as all who obey what is written in
this book. Worship only God!”
Our God told Israel...
Exodus 20:3-5 KJV
3 Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me.
4 Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The LORD thy God am a
jealous God..."
Exodus 34:14 KJV
For thou shalt worship no
other god: for The LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 4:24 KJV
For The LORD thy God is a
Consuming Fire, even a jealous God.
Isaiah 48:11 KJV
"...I will not
give My glory unto another."
No one, be he angel or
saint, is to usurp the position of Almighty God!
As the angels of heaven told
the beloved John...
Revelation
19:10/ 22:9 KJV
“...“No, don’t
worship me (Angels of heaven...Worship only God!”
Revelation 22:8,9 KJV
8 And I John
saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I
fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me
these things.
9 Then saith
he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which
keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Worship
Of The Angel Of The Lord (A Theophony Of Christ):
The Angel Of The Lord, is
none other than the preincarnate Lord Jesus.
Genesis 12:5-8 KJV
5 And Abram took Sarai
his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that
they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and
they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of
Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed
through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh.
And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 And The Lord
appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:
and there built he an altar unto The Lord, who appeared
unto him.
8 And he removed from
thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built
an altar unto The Lord, and called upon
the
name of The Lord.
Genesis 16:7-11-13 KJV
The Lord finds Hagar.
7 And The Angel Of The
Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the
fountain in the way to Shur.
8 And He said, Hagar,
Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she
said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And The Angel Of The
Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself
under her hands.
10 And The Angel Of
The Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11 And The Angel Of
The Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt
bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because The Lord hath
heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild
man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against
him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13 And she called the
name of The Lord that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after Him that seeth me?
Hagar called The Angel Of
The Lord, God!
The Lord appeared unto Abram
as a man, claiming to be The Almighty God!
Genesis 17:1 KJV
And when Abram was ninety
years old and nine, The Lord
appeared to Abram, and said unto him,
I am The Almighty God;
walk before Me, and be thou perfect.
The Lord, and two of His
mighty angels appeared to Abraham as men.
Genesis 18:1,2 KJV
1 And The Lord
appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door
in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes
and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he
ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward
the ground,
The Angel Of God, reveals to
Jacob that He is...The God Of Bethel!
Genesis
31:11,13 KJV
11 And The Angel Of
God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am
I.
13 I am The God Of
Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst
a vow unto Me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return
unto the land of thy kindred.
Jacob referred to The Angel,
as God!
Genesis 48:15,16 NLT
15 Then he (Jacob)
blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my
grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac, walked—the God who
has been my Shepherd all my life, to this very day,
16 The Angel who
has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. May they
preserve my name and the names of Abraham and Isaac. And may their
descendants multiply greatly throughout the earth.”
The Angel Of The Lord,
revealed to Moses that He was God!
Exodus 3:1-6 KJV (Moses
worshiped The Angel Of The Lord.)
1 Now Moses kept the
flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led
the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of
God, even to Horeb.
2 And The Angel Of The
Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the
bush was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will
now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4 And when The Lord
saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the
midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am
I.
5 And He said, Draw not
nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground.
6 Moreover He said,
I am The God of thy father, The God Of
Abraham, The God Of Isaac, and
The God Of
Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon
God.
Was
The Angel Of The Lord, God,yes!
God
told Moses...
Exodus
23:20-23 NLT
20 “See, I am sending
an Angel before you to protect you on your journey and lead you
safely to the place I have prepared for you.
21 Pay close attention to
Him, and obey His instructions. Do not rebel against Him, for He
is My Representative, and He will not forgive your rebellion.
22 But if you are careful
to obey Him, following all My instructions, then I will be an enemy
to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you.
23 For My Angel
will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, so you may
live there. And I will destroy them completely.
Gideon
met The Angel Of The Lord and exclaimed, A” Oh, Sovereign Lord.”
Judges
6:11,12;17-21 NLT
11 Then The Angel Of
The Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which
belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was
threshing wheat at the bottom of a wine press to hide the grain from
the Midianites.
12 The Angel Of The
Lord appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, The Lord is
with you!”
17 Gideon replied, “If
you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is
really the Lord speaking to me.
18 Don’t go away until
I come back and bring my offering to you.” He answered, “I will
stay here until you return.”
19 Gideon hurried home.
He cooked a young goat, and with a basket of flour he baked some
bread without yeast. Then, carrying the meat in a basket and the
broth in a pot, he brought them out and presented them to The Angel,
who was under the great tree.
20 The Angel Of God
said to him, “Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock,
and pour the broth over it.” And Gideon did as he was told.
21 Then The Angel Of
The Lord touched the meat and bread with the tip of the staff in
His hand, and fire flamed up from the rock and consumed all he had
brought. And The Angel Of The Lord disappeared.
22 When Gideon realized
that it was The Angel Of The Lord, he cried out, “Oh,
Sovereign Lord, I’m doomed! I have seen The Angel Of The
Lord face to face!”
The Angel Of The Lord, was
the preincarnate Lord Jesus. Don't let anyone tell you its OK to
worship angels, or to pray to them, because angels of God, were
worshiped in the Old Testament!
Preincarnate
Of, relating to, or having
existence before incarnation.
Merriam-Webster.Com
Isaiah
42:8 KJV
I am The Lord:
that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither
My praise to graven images.
Now
the most wonderful news about this study is ….
Psalm
34:7 KJV
The Angel Of The Lord
encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.
Psalm
125:1,2 KJV
1 They that trust in The
Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth
for ever.
2 As the mountains are
round about Jerusalem, so The Lord is round about His people
from henceforth even for ever.
Are you
a child of The Lord? You can be, ask Him into your heart and life
today!
Prayer:
Isaiah 45:22 KJV
Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Matthew 10:32
KJV
Everyone who acknowledges Me
publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before My Father in
heaven.
John 1;12,13 KJV
12 But as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name:
13 Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.