What Does The Bible Say About Angels?

What Does The Bible Say About Angels?

Have you ever met an Angel? What do they look like? When were they created? How many are named in the Bible? Man has always been fascinated with Angels.

 

Artists have painted them for centuries; musicians sing songs about them; books, television shows and movies depict them. However, most of these are devoid of God's revelation, The Bible. Did you know there are 273 references to Angels in the Bible? 

WHEN WERE ANGELS CREATED?

HOW MANY ANGELS ARE NAMED IN THE BIBLE?

 

 



In a highly significant passage, Gabriel explained the events of the seventy weeks for Israel in Daniel 9:21–27.


  • "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation." — Dan 9:21


Gabriel explained to Daniel the succeeding kingdoms of Medo-Persia and Greece as well as the untimely death of Alexander the Great in Daniel 8.

 


  • "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." — Dan 8:16


Gabriel also announced the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias (Luke 1:11–20).

 


  • “I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.” — Luke 1:19


Gabriel told Mary that the One born to her would be great and rule on the throne of David.

 


  • “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin . . . and the virgin’s name was Mary” (Luke 1:26–27).

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