I realized that during those times I was far from my Lord, it became easier for me to fall into sin. Like I mentioned on my previous post, I failed to look into myself and instead focused on other people’s shortcomings. I could no longer count the many times I complained about other people’s irritating attitudes and/or the number of times I sat in silence observing a crowd and picking on individuals to criticize. I noticed every inconsistency, every wrong grammar used in every conversation, every unlikable attitude, every wrong choice of clothing, everything! I became a fault finder that I noticed even the most trivial there is!
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“When a child dies, he or she will automatically become an angel of God.”
This is common belief, but what is the biblical basis for this claim? Do dead children really turn into angels? If not, then where do their souls go? Why is it important to know the truth behind this claim?
Angels
Angels are spiritual beings and are part of the universe that God created. They are intelligent and the fact that there are fallen angels prove that they also exercise moral judgment. Lucifer is, in my humble opinion, the very best model of this fact. It is also interesting to note that angels are classified by rank, Michael, as we all know, is an “archangel” and in Daniel 10:13, we see that an “archangel” is one who holds a leadership position, he is one of the “chief princes”. Quite obviously, the cherubim and seraphim are the ones next in rank. Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology discusses that the cherubim were tasked to guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden, travel with God as His chariot, and in Ezekiel 10:1-22, we see that “God is enthroned on the cherubim”. The seraphim are specifically mentioned in the book of Isaiah where they worship God by continually calling to one another (Isaiah 6:3).
In Matthew 22:30, Jesus says thus, ” For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.” (emphasis added), therefore we can assume that angels do not marry nor pro-create. Angels are also powerful, many times across Scripture, they are referred to as “powers”, “authorities” and “dominions”. But, here is a surprising fact: Angels may be powerful and may be authorities, but in 1 Corinthians 6: 2-3, Paul asks the brethren in Corinth thus, “do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!” (emphasis added). Yes, we will be positioned higher than the angels on the day of the Lord’s coming and we will judge even the angels then.
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When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”
And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
And the commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
I was reading along the book of Joshua the other night and this passage made me stand up straight on my bed. I must have re-read it three more times then offered to read it aloud to Warren. Incidentally, he was reading along another passage (another book!) that has a connection to what I was reading:
“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
“When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. – Exodus 23:20-24
A bunch of questions started swirling in my mind most of which were;
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