#4 Angelology: Good Angels, Pt. 3

4-ANGELOLOGY: GOOD ANGELS, PT. 3
DISCUSS: Guardian Angels – Ps 91:11; Mt 18:10
2.4 ORGANIZATION OF THE GOOD ANGELS
HOSTS
Josh 5:14-15 “Commander of the LORD’s army”
1 Sam 1:3, 11; 4:4; 15:2; 17:45 “LORD of hosts”
2 Sam 5:10; 6:2, 18; 7:8, 26, 27 “LORD of hosts”
1 Kgs 18:15; 19:10, 14 “LORD of hosts”
1 Kgs 22:19/2 Chr 18:18 “host of heaven” on YHWH’s left and right hand.
2 Kgs 3:14 “LORD of hosts”
1 Chr 11:9; 17:7, 24 “LORD of hosts”
Neh 9:6 “the host of heaven worships you”
Ps 24:10; 46:7, 11; 48:8; 59:5; 69:6; 80:4, 7, 14, 19; 84:1, 3, 8, 12; 89:8;
103:21; 148:2 “LORD of hosts”
Is 1:9, 24; 2:12; 3:1, 15; 5:7, 9, 16, 24; 6:3, 5; 8:13, 18; 9:7, 13, 19; 10:16, 23,
24, 26, 33; 13:4, 13; 14:22, 23, 24, 27; 17:3; 18:7; 19:4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25;
21:10; 22:5, 12, 14, 15, 25; 23:9; 24:23; 25:6; 28:5, 22, 29; 29:6; 31:4, 5;
37:16, 32; 39:5; 44:6; 45:13; 47:4; 48:2; 51:15; 54:5 “LORD of hosts”
Is 24:21“host of heaven”
Jer 2:19; 5:14; 6:6, 9; 7:3, 21; 8:2, 3; 9:7, 15, 17; 10:16; 11:17, 20, 22; 15:16;
16:9; 19:3, 11, 15; 20:12; 23:15, 16, 36; 25:8, 27, 28, 29, 32; 26:18; 27:4, 18,
19, 21; 28:2, 14; 29:4, 8, 17, 21, 25; 30:8; 31:23, 35; 32:14, 15, 18; 33:11, 12;
35:13, 17, 18, 19; 38:17; 39:16; 42:15, 18; 43:10; 44:2, 7, 11, 25; 46:10, 18, 25;
48:1, 15; 49:5, 7, 26, 35; 50:18, 25, 31, 33, 34; 51:5, 14, 19, 33, 57, 58; 52:25
“LORD of hosts”
Hos 12:5; Amos 3:13; 4:13; 5:14, 15, 16, 27; 6:8, 14; 9:5; Mic 4:4; Nah 2:13;
3:5; Hab 2:13; Zeph 2:9, 10; Hag 1:2, 5, 7, 9, 14; 2:4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 23; Zech
1:3, 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 17; 2:8, 9, 11; 3:7, 9, 10; 4:6, 9; 5:4; 6:12, 15; 7:3, 4, 9, 12,
13; 8:1-4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 18-23; 9:15; 10:3; 12:5; 13:2, 7; 14:16, 17, 21; Mal
1:4, 6, 8-11, 13, 14; 2:2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16; 3:1, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17; 4:1, 3
“LORD of hosts”
Lk 2:12 “multitude of the heavenly host”

This title for the angels implies at least two ideas.
1.
2.

NUMBER OF THE ANGELS
Deut 33:2
Dan 7:10
Heb 12:22
Rev 5:11-12

We don’t know for sure how the angels are organized, but we do understand that they are.
ARCHANGEL
1 Thess 4:16
Jude 9
“Chief” angel
CHIEF PRINCES
Dan 10:13 Are these equals to Michael
(equivalent of archangel)?
SERAPHIM
Is 6:2, 6
Root is “fire.”
Compare Ezek 1:5-14ff. and Rev 4:6-11.
Compare Cherubim.

MICHAEL
Dan 10:13
Dan 12:1
Jude 9
Rev 12:7
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CHERUBIM
Gen 3:24
Ex 25:18-22
Ps 18:10
Ezek 10:1-20
Ezek 28:14, 16
ADDITIONAL TERMS
Principalities and powers (Rom 8:38; Eph
1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col 1:16; 2:10, 15; see 1
Pet 3:22)
2.5 DESTINY OF ANGELS
1 Cor 6:2-3
Mt 25:41
1 Tim 5:21
1 Pet 1:12
Rev 5ff.

GABRIEL
Dan 8:16
Dan 9:21
Lk 1:18
Lk 1:26
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