Angels in the Bible ...Are they more or less bringers of death or plagues when God wanted to punish?
818182
Angels are God's messengers,sent to do His bidding, whatever that might be.
1183301
Not too hard to understand..\nThe two angels went into sodom to bring Lot and his family out so that God could destroy the city...\nGen 19:5 The men of the city wanted Lot to bring the 2 men out so that they could have homosexual sex with them.\nGen 19:9  They are saying that Lot came in to visit and live in Sodom and now he was trying to become a judge, or change the customs of the people there..  \nGen 19:11,12  The two angels (were in the form of men) and they pulled Lot back inside the house and made the people outside of the house blind.  V12 they are telling Lot that they are going to destroy the city and that he needs to get his family together and go with them..  \n\nLev 18:22  It is an abomination to God when men have homosexual or sodomite sexual relations..  Man was made for woman not man for man..  \nThis is pretty straightforward and I just preached on the whole theme two sundays ago.\n\nGen 13:13  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. \nTHIS throws a little light on Sodom, they were wicked people and their sin was so bad that their wickedness had come up to God, and he had to deal with it..  I also take this to mean that they had some understanding of what God's rules were and just didn't care..
790899
Why is there suffering?\n\nPeople of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. As you have learned, though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.\n\nDo you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches. \n\nThe real ruler of this world is Satan the Devil. The Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.\n\nA second reason why there is so much suffering is that, mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\nIt is comforting for us to know that God does not cause suffering. He is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppression, or even the natural disasters that cause people to suffer. Still, we need to know, Why does Jehovah allow all this suffering? If he is the Almighty, he has the power to stop it. Why, then, does he hold back? The loving God that we have come to know must have a good reason.—1 John 4:8.
468458
Because AIDS can be contracted in many ways, it would be a mistake to assume that everyone with AIDS is suffering the consequences of God’s judgment on behavior. At the same time, we ought not to ignore the fact that in the Old Testament God warned His people that violating His law would result in disease, sickness, and plague: \n\n\n“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed” (Deuteronomy 28:58-61). \n\nRomans 1:21-32 also implies the serious physical and spiritual consequences of sexual immorality: \n\n\n“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. . . . Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion (Romans 1:21-32 NIV). \n\nAIDS, along with many other sexually transmitted diseases, only reaches epidemic proportions when large numbers of people depart from biblical standards for behavior. This doesn’t mean that individual AIDS-sufferers are under God’s judgment, but it does mean that the cultures of the world—including the dominant Western secular media culture that is currently exporting the irresponsible and culturally arrogant ideals of a “sexual revolution”—need to think carefully about whether the consequences of a choice-related disease is pointing to deeper moral and spiritual issues.
1140150
When in heaven, Satan was turning good angels into demons (his followers).  The demons formed human bodies for themselves and came down to earth.  The Bible says that this happened because the demons saw pretty women on earth and wanted to be with them.  They came down to earth and married these women.  When the women bore babies, they grew to be very big, hence, GIANTS.  They were corrupted and very bad when they grew up.  \n\nRead this passage in the Bible, it talks about the giants.  I don't wanna paste it here, it's big.\nGenesis 6:1-8\n\nAnd also this:\n\nJude 6 And the angels that did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place he has reserved with eternal bonds under dense darkness for the judgment of the great day.
1119647
God sent His Son, Jesus, to die for our sins.  Because He paid the penalty, we who accept and believe God will go to Heaven when our bodies die. \n\n "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John, chapter 3 verse 16)\n\n"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, that no one should boast." (Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 8 & 9)\n\nSome of God's mighty acts in the old testament include:\n\nall the plagues in Egypt, most of which did not occur in the land of Goshen, which was the part of Egypt the Israelites lived in.  (Exodus, chapters 7 through 12)\n\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego surviving a fiery furnace (Daniel, chapter 3)\n\nElijah and the widow and her son being miraculously fed during famine (I Kings, chapter 17)\n\nThe widow's son being raised back to life (I Kings 17)\n\nProof that God is the only true God to the Israelites who had been worshipping idols (I Kings, chapter 18)\n\nMany times God won battles for the Israelites without any effort on their part\n\nThere are so many, and God still works today, sometimes in ways we find miraculous.
517144
I do believe in angels but I don't think they would fall in love with any of the women now, when they lusted after the daughters of men before, they were much closer to perfection than we are now and would have been more beautiful than we are now.  Also I think that once the angels saw what happened to the angels who tried this before, they thought better of it, who wants to be kicked out of heaven?  I don't understand the bit about a woman having a sign of authority on her head, what does that mean then???
130184
Satan Cast Out of Heaven\n\nIn the early part of our century, there was a war in heaven. The Bible book of Revelation describes what happened: “And war broke out in heaven: Michael  and his [good] angels battled with the dragon [Satan], and the dragon and its [bad] angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his [bad] angels were hurled down with him.”\n\nWhat was the result? The account continues: “On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!” The good angels could be glad because Satan and the bad angels, or spirits, were no longer in heaven. But what about people on earth? The Bible says: “Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”—Revelation 12:7-9, 12.\n\nYes, Satan and his wicked companions mislead and cause great woe for people on earth. These wicked angels are called demons. They are enemies of God. All of them are evil.
1006995
In the Holy Bible there is one archangel: "the" archangel Michael: Jude 1:9. \n\nHowever in the plural and divided "heavens" of a Majesty(God) on "high"(Heb 1:3; 8:1), of such high/higher heavens/heaven... in "high" heavens divided left and right there would be two archangels, one for law to the left and one for grace to the right. So we have another mention of "the" archangel in 1Thess 4:16; But this archangel is unnamed, kinda like the horse Death rode in on in Revelation 6:8 is unnamed, and the king of Nineveh who disrobed and sat in the ashes when the people believed God in the great fish story of Jonah is unnamed. \n\nAll these unnamed allegoric things refer to Law, the first of two trumps of a pluralized God(majesty) in plural "heavens" on high of high/higher; Grace being the last trump played in Revelation 22:21, and it's notably Grace with you all, the "you all" thereof begins with "you", in which all the KofG is located. And since all the KofG is located within you, it's you made perfect by "the God of all grace" (no law at all), which speaks of "that God" is light having no darkness at all, which speaks of "higher than the heavens". To wit: "that God" was in "Christ"(the end of the law) reconciling the world unto himself(the God of all grace), and notably by not law imputing their trespasses(sins) unto them.\n\nPerhaps you are referring to four beasts in Revelation, which is written as a "latter end worse" case scenario to avoid, since it mentions "seven spirits", which are "seven other spirits more wicked" mentioned as the state of man being "worse".\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Revelations9.htm\n\nAs for being serious, my serious answer is your question is trivia, a mute point, since Satan(Law) is disguised as an angel of God.\n\nThe "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
217025
I believe it was the angels that laid with daughters of man in Genesis -- "Sons of God" \n\nSome believe it were the righteous who died before Christ since they ressurected when He died.
194423
Since the vision in Revelation chapter 19 reveals only armies in heaven as participating in the warfare as supporters of Jesus Christ, The Word of God, it indicates that none of God's  Christian servants on earth will participate in the fighting. This is in harmony with the words of Jesus Christ at Matthew 26:52 that his disciples not resort to weapons of physical warfare. (Compare Ex 14:13, 14; 2Ch 20:15, 17, 22, 23; Ps 2:4-9.) The birds that fly in midheaven will dispose of the bodies of those slaughtered.—Re 19:11-21.\n\nHar–Magedon is thus seen to be a fight, not merely among men, but one in which God’s invisible armies take part. Its coming is certain and it will take place at the time set by Jehovah God.\n\nIf one angel of God could destroy 185,000 of the chief men and leaders of the Assyrian army in one night, how long would it take all the myriads of angels under Christ’s command to annihilate the armies of this world, even though they should number into tens of millions?—2 Ki. 19:35; 2 Chron. 32:21; Dan. 7:9, 10, 13, 14.\n\nJehovah’s people on earth will have no part in the fight and the destruction. It will be Jehovah’s invisible forces under his Field Marshal Jesus Christ who will come into violent conflict with his enemies and defeat them in a final, decisive war that will need no repeating. God will gain an everlasting victory, just as he did over the ancient “kings of Canaan” by the waters of Megiddo.\n\nSatan and his demon forces in the heavens will be put out of action, not at Armageddon, but immediately thereafter, when Jesus Christ hurls them into the abyss of deathlike inactivity.—Rev. 19:19 to 20:2.
447479
welcome to Judaism my friend. We mearly see the "devil" as the angle of death and a servant of Gd. Personally I do not know where that whole fallen angel garbage came from.
432961
we read of the plagues God sent upon the land of Egypt, but Pharaoh would not let the people go.  But God knew that after the final plague, Pharaoh would let the people go.\n\nAnd so Moses told the Israelites that each house was to take one perfect lamb,  which was under a year old. And the lamb was to live in the house with the people for 14 days, and at the end of the fourteenth day they were to kill the lamb in the evening.\n\nAnd they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the house, and they were to roast the lamb and eat it, and nothing was to remain.   And that night the LORD would pass through the land, and all the people who were the first ones born in their family,  would die, but the blood of the lamb was to be a sign, and whenever God saw the blood on the doorposts, he would pass over the house, and no one in that house would die.  And this day was to be called the passover, and was to be celebrated each year.\n\nAnd so the people of Israel did as the LORD had commanded, and at midnight on the chosen day, all the people born first in the land who were not protected by the blood of the lamb died, including Pharaoh's first born child.\n\nAnd so on that day Pharaoh agreed to let the people of Israel go with their flocks, and with jewels and clothing that the people of Egypt gave to them, and there were 600,000 men, not counting women and children. \n\nAnd so after 430 years, the time had come for the Israelites to leave the land of Egypt, and God brought them out of the land.\n\nThe blood of the lamb which protected the people of Israel is a perfect picture of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us.   What a wonderful thing it is that the Lord Jesus did for us because he loves us.\n\nMemory verse:  Exodus 12:13 "...when I see the blood, I will pass over you."\n\nQuestions:\n1. What was the LORD going to do to the people of Egypt?\n2. What instructions did the LORD give about the lamb the people chose?\n3. What were they supposed to do when the lamb was killed?\n4. What happened when the LORD came through the land?\n\nAnswers:\n1. He was going to cause the first born person in each family to die.\n2. There was to be one for every house, it was to be perfect, it was to be less than a year old, and it was to live with them in the house for 14 days.\n3. They were to put its blood on the sides and top of the door of the house.  They were to roast it and eat it.\n4.  When He saw the blood on the door posts, no one in that house died, but all the people who were born first who were not protected by the blood of the lamb died.
368911
Yes there are angels, they are all through the Bible and tho we may not always see or hear them they are around. Hebrews 13:2, Be not forgetful to entertain strangers;  for whereby some have entertained angels unawares. Gen. 48:16 Psalms 8:5 We are made a little lower than the angels. Angels freed Acts 5:17 Acts 12:1-17 Acts16:22-35.  The Bible calls satan a dragon/serpent Genesis 3:1-24 And an Angel was placed in the garden. Also Revelations 20:2. And the Bible tells us people were sometimes demon possessed. Mathew 8:28-34, Mat 4:24 &12:22. You will find it all there if you have the courage to read the Bible.
761773
as far as I am aware the Angels good or bad cannot create as God has created, and so I doubt that they used materialized human flesh as this would not be physical flesh and bones as we have, and therefore could not transmit the seed of man this way.\nI think it is more probable that these demons actually posessed real human beings at the time, and if you consider that there were many pagan peoples at the time who worshipped false deities with human sacrifice, and dark incantations etc, then possession of these pagans would have been very likely.
490792
Revelations 9:4-6\n\nAnd it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.\n\nThat's who Christ wants to torture. He wants to torture nonbelievers. He wants them to beg for death but just keep torturing them and torturing them for months on end.
484100
That is a fantastic question... Moses gave us the law. The law was giveing to man that he might find out that he could not live up to it. now God is righteous so he could not look upon sin. So at the time of Moses God allowed sacrificeces to be made thes sacrifices were a temporary solution and they reflected Gods plan to save mankind... as often a lamb was used.Now the way for a permanant salvation could only come from God... understand that the angels had turned on God the angels were creation so like man the angels were falable all things crated by God were falable while they may have at one time been perfect they could corrupt as did Lucifer..,. God ned someone who was not creation to be the sacrifice for man.So God came to earth in the form of man This man was Jesus the son of God... he was a part of our father in heaven he was not creation... he was God. Jesus came from heavin to be tempted by Satan to overcome sin. and then to die for all of our sins one time and forever.Jesus was the Lamb of God and the only one who could save us from sin.