Showing posts with label Angels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angels. Show all posts

20080930

Genesis 37:11 - Overwhelming Feelings of Reverence

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Joseph's dream was too wonderful for his father to fathom. However, his father understood to power of dreams so his father observed the saying. Just like when the shepherds spread the word concerning what the angel had told them about baby Jesus; everyone was too amazed to believe Jesus was the Messiah, but Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:17-19).

20070730

Genesis 24:56 - Business before pleasure.

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
An angle was sent forth with Eliezer to accomplish God's will of finding a wife for Abraham's son, Isaac (Genesis 24:40). Eliezer said Hinder me not because he was putting God's business before the pleasure that he was enjoying as Laban's guest of honor.

20070718

Genesis 19:27 - Where Abraham communed with the LORD.

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
And Abraham gat up early shows how eager Abraham was to see the result of Sodom and Gomorrah. the place where he stood before the LORD refers to the place where Abraham communed with the LORD the preceding day just after the angles left to overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 18:22.

20070320

Genesis 7:23 - Judgement is inescapable.

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Just as Noah and his family were delivered during the time of God's wrath, Lot and his family were delivered from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:12-13). God gives his angels charge to keep the righteous in all their ways because the righteous love and know God (Psalms 91:11-14).

20070308

Genesis 6:4 - The inbreeding of angels with humans.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Where Is the Beast? (Part 2) by John W. Ritenbaugh explain how these "men or renown" were called giants because of the influence and that they "were establishing evil, deceitful, violent, and enslaving leadership."

GENESIS 6 – WHO WERE "THE SONS OF GOD"? by Bryan T. Huie examines the theory that these "men of renown" were created by fallen angles that committed fornication with human women. First, Bryan Huie takes a look at all of the Old Testament references to "sons of God" to see if the scripture is referring to angles
Genesis 6:1-4; Deuteronomy 32:8; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:4-7; Psalm 29:1-2; 89:5-6
The author also makes the connection of the angles mention in Jude 1:6-7 to the "sons of God" mentioned in this scripture.

20070111

Genesis 6:2 - The sons of God

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

The "sons of God" are angels; the same "sons of God" mentioned in Job 1:6, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD; the same "sons of God" mentioned in Job 38:7 that shouted for joy when God laid the cornerstone of the earth's foundation; the same "sons of God" mentioned in 1 John 3:1 & 2 that states:
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
In the Old Testament, the sons of God were angels. In the New Testament, Jesus gives humans "the power to become sons of God" (John 1:12). Today, the sons of God are all that are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).