Dr. David Jeremiah - What the Bible Says about Angels

A NGELS . Small golden pins on lapels. Angels. Trumpeting china figures on coffee tables. Angels. Accounts of unknown friends performing unmistakable acts. Angels. They seem to be everywhere. From clothing to furniture to testimonies.

How are we to interpret this phenomenon? A flurry of heavenly kindness? A demonic counterfeit? How can we be sure of the good without indulging in the evil?

David Jeremiah has set out to offer some guidance. What a welcome work from his pen. David has that uncanny ability to be deliberate without being dull. You get the details and you dont get sleepy!

How thankful we are to God that he has turned his skills toward this vital issue of angels. His words will deepen your gratitude for Gods messengers in light of Gods Word.

MAX LUCADO
author and pastor
San Antonio

S IMPLY PUT , this is an outstanding book! As one would expect from David Jeremiah, this book reflects a theologians concern, a pastors heart, and a Biblicists accuracy.

But more than anything else, this book reflects the power of the pulpit! It preaches in the best and most honored sense of the word, carrying the reader toward convincing closure, chapter after chapter. In a day of many choices, I would recommend this book as a firstand maybe lastselection on angels.

DR. BRUCE WILKINSON
New York Times best selling author
Johannesburg, South Africa

W ITH ALL the curiosity and excitement over angels these days, David Jeremiah presents a refreshing and encouraging look at What the Bible Says about Angels. Thank you, David, for drawing me closer to God through this wonderful book.

DAVE DRAVECKY
author and director of Outreach of Hope,
Colorado Springs

D R . D AVID J EREMIAH has written a powerful and insightful book about angels. He shifts the focus from contemporary angel hype to the fascinating biblical truth about Gods powerful messengers and what their miraculous presence reveals about our loving Creator. It is a must read for anyone interested in the dramatic truth about angels.

DR. JOHN C. MAXWELL
founder, INJOY, Inc.
San Diego

W HAT THE B IBLE S AYS ABOUT A NGELS
published by Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
1996 by David Jeremiah

International Standard Book Number: 1-57673-336-X (PB)
International Standard Book Number: 0-88070-902-2 (HD)

Most Scripture quotations are from:
The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV) 1973, 1984 by International Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House
Also quoted:
New American Standard Bible (NASB) 1960, 1977 by the Lockman Foundation
The New Testament in Modern English, Revised Edition (Phillips) 1972 by J. B. Phillips

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jeremiah, David.

What the Bible Says About Angels: Powerful Guardians, A Mysterious Presence, Gods Messengers/David Jeremiah.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 0-88070-902-2
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-83126-2
1. AngelsBiblical teaching. I. Title.
BS680.A48J47 1996
235.3dc20 96-16251

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to my wifes mother

A NNIE T HOMPSON

who at ninety years of age
still prays for us every day
and every night

All glory be
to the God of the angels

I N A DOCTOR S OFFICE one fall day last year, I was told I had cancer. Im sure youll understand when I say I was fearful. It was one of those times when I would have cherished having an angel with me in the room, assuring me everything would be okay.

In the months that followed I felt the same fear when I prepared to have surgery on two occasions. An angels hand holding mine as I was wheeled into the operating room would have been treasured comfort.

But as far as I knew, Id never seen an angel. Never. Did that mean something was wrong with me? Why did only other people have that privilege? Wasnt I spiritual enough?

Maybe youve asked the same questions. And maybe youre dissatisfied with the answers youve received. The explosion of interest in angels has thrown a lot of information your waybut also confusion and contradiction and flimsy speculation. Where can you go for solid, meaningful information? How can you gain a balanced and accurate perspective thats built on Gods reality and eternal truth?

Thats what this book is all about.

Suddenly in the 1990s you found angels everywhereor rather you found them talked about everywhere, from major magazines and bestselling books and popular TV shows to kitchen conversations and university seminars. Lots of people said they had actually seen or felt the presence of an angel. Never in history, I suppose, had so much attention been directed at these heavenly beings.

So whats the significance of it all? Is the Lord delighted by this burst of curiosity and belief? And does he want you and me to join in the funor at least to take a bit more notice of angels than we did before? Should we be looking around on earth for these heavenly beings? Should we be confident of daily care and protection from angel guardians?

Or is all this a waste of time? Maybe the angel craze of the 90s has been at best just another trivial fad, and at worst a deceptive tactic of Satans to divert peoples spiritual attention away from real truth. Like young children at the Grand Canyon who cant see beyond the spoiled chipmunks darting along the rim seeking tourist handouts, if we start focusing on angels, we might miss the grand, sweeping view of God.

On the other hand, could more attention on angels actually be Gods desire and plan for his people at this moment in history? Is it perhaps a clue and signal that were on the threshold of something bigger in Gods timetable for the world? Is the present age about to end? In Gods mercy and love for sinners, is he suddenly causing a belief in spiritual angels to be more respectable so people can better accept the spiritual message of the gospelbefore its too late?

Or as some highly respected Bible teachers say, is there no such thing as angelic activity in our world anymore, since the close of Bible times?

The questions go on and on. (I wonder if the angels are asking them too.)

Probably no major theological issue has received as much secular attention in modern times as the doctrine of angels has in the 1990s. You would expect Christians to be delighted at this, and start rushing in to make the most of this fresh opportunity for spiritual dialogue with the non-Christian world. But a good many Christians dont know what (if anything) to think about angels.