Angels: Servants of Man

About every culture in this world knows what an angel is. From East to West, angels are part of many religious beliefs. But who are these creatures? and are they really for real? The answer is: yes.

An angel is a supernatural being that like us, was created by G-d. However, its hard to make many more comparisons as they are drastically different than we are in nature. Whereas humans were created in the likeness (the look) of G-d, angels have different forms. They also don’t follow the same set of “rules” we have to completely obey when it comes to things like gravity, distance, and solid matter. Angels are stronger than humans, and smarter. They were intentionally made to be superior to us in ability.

Angels have an interesting history that we as humans only know a little about. They were created before we were and shortly thereafter were told by G-d that G-d was going to make us humans a half-ape half-divine creature just like they were. The angels rejoiced because G-d’s goodness allowed the creation of another “family” of His divinity. However, G-d threw a curve-ball to the angels when he revealed what his plan was to them.

Angels must serve man.

Something about G-d is His propensity to love and give more to those who have less. I think G-d wants us all, angel and man, to know that whoever is humbler becomes more powerful. Its almost as if G-d is rooting for the underdog constantly and whatever you and I do to make ourselves the underdog, the more we’ll be blessed in the end. But this didn’t occur to many of the angels who thought that because of their superiority they should come between G-d and man, instead of man being between them and G-d.

Exactly how much G-d loves us is a subject of many future blog posts, but the important thing is that the angels rebelled. Approximately a third of them, as it is believed by tradition rebelled against G-d. They refused to serve a smelly stupid human and humbly put them between themselves and G-d. So, they became the fallen angels and Satan was their leader.

Today, just as in the old days, angels roam about the earth to and fro doing all kinds of things. The fallen angels, or ‘evil ones’ as Christ would call them, do everything they can in their power to make us not go to heaven after we die. They will badly influence us, lie to us, tempt us to sin and make us look ugly in front of G-d so that he would reject us. They are destroyers of souls, and they are murderers. Its hard to say how many of these there are, but I would estimate that there are no less than 3 billion evil angels.

The good angels are like our older brothers and they embody some of the qualities of a good mother. They watch out for us, they defend us by chasing away the evil ones and they tempt us to do good works for G-d and they pray for us. Some are called to have a vocation to guard us. Each person has one guardian angel whose job it is to watch us 24/7/365. More on those later. There are no less than 6 billion of these types of angels

Ilts remarkable to think that angels are so proliferate. There’s ways to tell if there is an angel influencing you or if something is purely your own nature (self) acting. I will be glad to share with you more about my own ways of discovering when it is that an angel is “talking” to you. But until next time, just consider angels as a reality — because they do exist and they do interact with us human beings.