 Is there any instance that we as human beings see angels physically? There are people who have said that they have seen angels, so yes it is possible because I mean in Hebrews it actually talks about angels who come in physical form, so yes. So it could also be... There have been occasions where people have seen angels. Okay, it could also be that we have interacted with angels but we didn't know that it was an angel. That could also be... And one more question I had is like, we have the names of Gabriel, Michael as angels, archangels and all. So where these people first in human form passed away and then became an angel, what appointed them or is it like from inception only, they have been an angel? Yeah, when we look at that some passage which we started off with, there it talks about angels being created as a separate form of a species of creatures. So it's not that sometimes humans become angels and sometimes angels become humans. There's no intermingling of the species, if you can call them that. Humans are a separate created species by themselves. Humans are a separate species by themselves. God has got certain plans and status in mind for angels and he has a separate status in mind for humans because humans were created in the image of God to be rulers of this earth. Angels on the other hand were created in the heavenlies for some other purpose. So there's no intermingling of these two species. They are two separate categories of species, if you can use that term. So Gabriel and Michael and all these other angels, when they were created, they were created right from the beginning as angels. They are not humans who later became angels. There's no interaction between the species simply because there's no verse anywhere in the Bible which indicates that such a intermingling can happen. So in fact, we will touch upon that further now. So we have been looking at different things that are mentioned in scripture regarding angels so that we can have the correct perspective regarding these things. So we will move into the next point, which in fact was just brought up now because there's this teaching that humans, at least some humans after dying become angels. So and they base that teaching on some verses which are found in the book of Acts. So let's look at what actually those verses mean because what the impression that we get from scripture is that angels will always be angels. Humans will always be humans. You cannot just have a kind of metamorphosis where angels sometimes become humans and humans sometimes become angels that is not possible. They are two distinct species but there's this verses which are misunderstood in the book of Acts which has led to this wrong teaching. So let's actually look at that for a little bit. Acts chapter 12 verses 13 to 16 which basically is talking about Peter's deliverance. He's arrested by Herod and then the angel comes and sets him free from the prison. So he comes out of the prison and he comes to John Mark's house where all the believers are gathered in all night prayer. They're praying basically for him. So that's basically the event which is mentioned over here. Acts chapter 12 verses 13 to 16. And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate a girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter's voice because of her gladness she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate but they said to her you are beside yourself yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said it is his angel. Now Peter continued knocking and when they opened the door and saw him they were astonished. Alright so in this passage the verse 15 it says it must be his angel. So you know the background is basically that Herod had very recently killed James who is the brother of John. So James has been killed the Jews are very very happy and so Herod thinks okay this is nice these people like it whenever I kill a believer so he arrests Peter. So the church is now gathered in John Mark's house and they are praying for him so that his life will be spared so that he will not be killed in the same way that James has was killed but they are not very sure that the prayer will be answered or not and so in the middle of the night they hear a knock on the door and so you basically have Rhoda the servant going to the door and when she hears Peter's voice she is so happy that their prayers are answered she comes running back inside and she says you know what Peter is alive our prayers have been answered and they say how can that be in the middle of the night you know I mean how could he possibly be here and she continues to insist that it is him and so then they say oh it must be his angel the word that is used over there is the Greek word agelos so it's literally the word for angel which is used over there so there are two ways in which people try to understand this one set of people they say this must be referring to Peter's guardian angel so you know the people thought that Peter must have been killed and now the guardian angel is coming to inform the believers that Peter is dead so they must have thought of it in that way so when they said it must be his angel maybe they were thinking that Peter's guardian angel was knocking on the door but to basically look at the passage it says that Drodha recognized Peter's voice so are we saying are we coming up with a theory saying that guardian angels will have the same voice as the person whom they are guarding you know we are making a lot of assumptions which are not backed up by scripture so this may not really be what they had in their minds when they said it must be his angel in Jewish mythology you know they had their own set of beliefs and not all their beliefs were in line with the Old Testament scriptures so among their you know folklore one of the ideas which they had in their minds back then the Jewish people was that when a person dies now this is not scriptural the Old Testament does not say this but the Jewish people you know in their mythology in their belief system they generally believed that when a person dies his soul continues to you know be there for three days just in case you know the body comes back to life so their belief among their popular mythology was that when a person dies his soul continues to hang around for three days and the end of three days when the body begins to decompose then the soul goes either to Sheol or goes to Abraham's bosom depending on whether the person was a good person or a bad person so this was their belief system though of course it is not backed up by the Old Testament so the chances are when they said it must be his angel they had that in their minds because the Jewish mythology it basically taught that after hanging around for three days that person was a good and godly person he would get changed into an angel and he would go into Abraham's bosom on the other hand if he is not a good person then he would not turn into an angel he would instead be condemned and sent to Sheol that was their mythology so these people because they know they believed that Peter is a good person they probably thought that his spirit has come knocking on the door and which is why it has the voice of Peter okay so we got to understand that in Acts chapter 12 the believers are still at a very young stage in their faith they still have not absorbed the scriptures been taught the scriptures clearly they have not had time to really grow in the scriptures so they still have a lot of wrong belief systems in their minds so when they said it must be his angel they are not declaring something from the Old Testament scriptures they are resorting to the popular beliefs that were prevailing in their times so in this passage it is most definitely not talking about humans becoming angels after death okay that is simply not the doctrine which is being presented in this particular Bible passage what does the Bible say about what happens to us after we die I mean that's very you know in a very simple way 2 Corinthians 5-8 this is what 2 Corinthians 5-8 says where Paul is talking about himself and he says you know I would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord so when once a person leaves his body he immediately goes to be at home with the Lord he doesn't hang around over there his soul doesn't keep hanging around the body that is more the mythology which people believe in the Bible plainly says that after a person leaves their body they immediately go to be at home with the Lord and then of course in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 35 onwards it talks about how one day we will be transformed but we won't be transformed into angels no we will be transformed into the resurrected body which God will give us that is what we are going to be transformed into okay so let's actually look at a few of those verses 1 Corinthians 15 if we could maybe read out verses 35-37 1 Corinthians 15 35-37 but someone will say how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come foolish one you what you sow is not made alive unless it dies and what you sow you do not sow that body that shall be but mere grain perhaps wheat or some other grain yeah Paul uses the imagery of a seed to talk about this whole idea of a resurrected body he says when you put a seed into the ground what comes out doesn't look anything like the seed the seed is round and small and really tiny but what comes out of the ground is so completely different it's an entire plant or a tree or it can even be one of those huge trees which grow very high so a seed and what comes out are so completely different he says it's like that with us when we die our physical body will be buried under the ground but what comes out that resurrected body which we will receive when the rapture happens that will be so gloriously different you know so he says there's no real resemblance between what we are now and what we are going to be so we will be transformed into something very grand we will I'm sure look as grand as the angels so you know we don't have to feel inferior that somehow we don't look as special as the angels when we receive our resurrected bodies we will be as awesome as the angels but we will never become angels you know so this wrong belief which the Jewish people held you know in the time of Jesus about how good people will get transformed into angels and then go into the Abraham's bosom that was a wrong teaching a wrong belief that they held in those days on the other hand scripture tells us that we will go to be with the Lord I'm assuming that in the time we go to be with the Lord we will just be in spirit form but we will receive a resurrected body at the time of the rapture another thing that we need to talk about is you know we've been happily saying demons fallen angels and all of that so maybe we should look at some verses about how they came into being of course we are familiar with these things you know but just to go over it once again Jude verse 6 so if we could look at how fallen angels came into existence Jude verse 6 it says over here that certain angels did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling God assigned to angels certain positions God gave them certain authority they were given certain tasks but these angels did not keep the positions of authority which they had been given they abandoned their proper dwelling rather than continuing to stay in the posting which where God had placed them they wanted something more they wanted something different they wanted something greater they became greedy for power which is what we see about even Satan right so let's look at another scripture Isaiah 14 verses 12 to 15 how you are fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning how you are cut down to the ground you who weakened the nations for you have said in your heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will also sit on the mount of the conjugation on the farthest sides of the north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the most high yet you shall be brought down to Sheol to the farthest depths of the pit so here we see one example it only talks about Lucifer over here but then there are many other angels also who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling so Lucifer we know he was appointed to be the guardian of the holy mountain that was his position that was his proper dwelling but he chooses to abandon his proper dwelling he says I will raise my throne above the stars of God he says I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly that was not the proper position or dwelling that was given to him he was appointed for another task he was supposed to be the guardian of the holy mountain so he went against the position and authority that was given to him and in verse 6 we are told that some of these angels who participated in this rebellion against God they have been chained in a place of darkness so it says over there in Jude verse 6 it says DC has kept in darkness bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day so there are some fallen angels and demons which are allowed to move about freely on the earth but there are some who have already been bound and placed in a place of darkness for the future judgment let's look at some more verses regarding this 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 4 which repeats almost the same thing 2nd Peter 2 verse 4 but if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell and deliver them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment so when these angels who have sinned they were sent to hell to a certain portion of hell where they are being held in chains of darkness and the demons in a popular passage which we are familiar with Luke chapter 8 30 to 33 Luke 8 30 to 33 Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain so they begged him that he would permit them to enter them and he permitted them then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine and the herd land violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned Now if you were to look at verse 30 and Jesus asked them saying what is your name and he said Legion because many demons had entered him so Jesus is addressing the demons which are there in a particular person and there are many demons inside that poor man and these demons they you know it says in verse 31 they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the abyss so this abyss seems to be the place where certain demons are already being held in chains and so these angels which are you know freely moving around on the earth and who have taken position of this man they begged Jesus and they say when you cast us out of him please don't make us go into the abyss allow us to you know rather to go and live in the pigs so there is a place called the abyss maybe it's one particular portion of hell and there some angels have already been placed in imprisonment some other fallen angels are allowed to roam around at present but whenever God orders them to go into the abyss they will have no choice but they will have to go and be enslaved over there be chained over there all these fallen angels which are already in the abyss and all the fallen angels and demons which are roaming around in the earth today they all have one final destination which is mentioned in Matthew 25 verse 41 Matthew 25 verse 41 then he will also say to those on the left hand depart from me you cursed into the everlasting fire for the devil and his angels. So there's a place of eternal fire the lake of fire which has been specifically prepared for the devil and his angels the sad thing is that even some humans are going to end up over there simply because they have chosen not to place their faith in Jesus who is the only way to the Father so you know the so actually this lake of fire was not created for humans it was meant only for the devil and his angels but of course all the people who refused to believe in Jesus they will also end up over there. So right now some of the demons are being held in chains in the abyss but ultimately all the demons and the devil will be put into the lake of fire that will be their final destination and it seems to indicate that believers will have a role to play in this event. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 3 if someone could read out 1 Corinthians 6 verse 3. Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? So when these angels are all fallen angels when all these fallen angels are judged and thrown into the lake of fire there will be various degrees of punishment which they will experience. Maybe the higher demons which were you know involved in greater rebellion will be given a harsher punishment in the lake of fire and it looks like believers will have a part to play in judging these demonic beings. So imagine this high status which has been given to believers where believers will even participate in the judging of these fallen angels. So believers will have a role to play in what level of punishment would be given to these demonic beings. So we kind of get indication regarding that from 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 3. Let's move on to another concept regarding this whole you know subject of angels. Angels are known by different names you know there is a hierarchical system so you have demons belonging to different levels of power and authority and we see an example of that in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12. We also see that repeated in Colossians. Colossians 1.16 also talks about that where the demons are divided into various categories based on the level of power which they possess. So if we could have someone read out Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this age against spiritual hosts of wickednesses in the heavenly places. I am assuming that I have not covered this point over here. I have not talked about this right very difficult to remember. Okay so there are four levels of demons being mentioned over here. The highest ones you know it depends on the translation that you're reading in different English translations you'll have different wordings used for these four categories but basically in the original Greek these are the four categories. The highest seem to be what are called as the arcas Now that's basically the word which means ancient ones. That's basically the Greek word from where you get archives arcake. Now it's talking about ancient very very old things. So the highest ranking demonic powers are probably these ancient ones these arcas. They are the highest level of demons and then the next Greek word that is used they are the exousia These exousia they hold delegated authority which the arcas have given to them. So at the topmost level you have the devil and the arcas and the power which they hold they delegate some of their authority and power to the ones below. So the next line of leadership in the demonic world is the exousia they hold the word exousia literally means power authority. So they hold power which has been delegated to them. And then the third Greek word that is used that is basically kosmo kratos kosmo basically means world and that word kratos basically means ruler. So world rulers So under the exousia you have a series of world rulers So you have different world rulers controlling different territories of the earth. They talk about territorial spirits right So that's basically where the idea comes from that different regions of the world are controlled by different demonic powers. So these are the kosmo kratos and then you have the lowest level of demons which are just simply called spiritual forces of evil. These are your just average evil spirits which do the work which has been assigned to them by the higher demonic powers. So there is a hierarchical system in the demonic world as well. In the same way when it comes to God's angels you have the arc angels which are at a very high level when it talks about the prince of Persia that is a demonic prince. So you have all these designations given when it talks about these angelic beings Another common word that is used for angels is the one which is used in Job chapter 1 verse 6 and in fact in many other places what is the term that is used for angels over here? Job chapter 1 verse 6 Job 1 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them and the Lord said to Satan. So here the angels are referred to as sons of God. That's the term that is used for them. Daniel 4 13 Yeah uses a different term. Daniel 4 was 13 if someone could read out. I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed and there was a watcher She is reading it. Only thing can we have more volume so that we can hear her reading out. I saw in the visions of my head. At our end the volume is low so we are not able to hear you read. He will just increase the volume. Go ahead. I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed and there was a watcher Holy One coming down from Heaven Yeah so here the word that is used for the angel is the term watcher. So and again the same thing is mentioned even in the same passage. Daniel 4 verse 17 where it says this decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the word of the holy ones. So the angels are referred to as holy ones and they are referred to as watchers in this passage. This basically is your Nebuchadnezzar passage where Nebuchadnezzar has a dream and in his dream he sees an angel coming to him and declaring judgment against him saying that because he has not honored God but because he regards himself as being equal to God or superior to God he will be reduced to the level of an animal. So the watcher Holy One comes and gives him this judgment in his dream. So these terms which are used are sons of God and watchers and holy ones they all refer to angels Why are the angels being called watchers over here? This is just basically a normal word which means messenger. Let's look at Isaiah 21 verses 6 to 8 where it talks about a human watcher. Isaiah 21 6 to 8 For thus says the Lord said to me go set a watchman let him declare what he sees and he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys and a chariot of camels and he listened earnestly with great care So here in this passage it talks about a human watcher. So a watcher is basically someone who delivers a message a watcher is someone who is basically like a messenger. So you have human watchers the prophets the Old Testament prophets are referred to as watchers in the sense they listen to what God has to say they wait upon God and watch what he has to say and then they come to the people and they deliver that message. So in the same way angels are also watchers in the sense they spend time in the presence of God and whatever message they have received from him they come and they deliver it to people So when we come to the Genesis 6 passage which talks about the sons of God and it talks about the angels who are watching the earth you know the whole thing is kind of taken in a very wrong sense. So there are the series of apocryphal books called the books of Enoch. There isn't just one book there are many many books of Enoch in the second book of Enoch he talks about I mean the person who ever wrote that particular book he gives his own interpretation for Genesis chapter 6 where he says that God has appointed a bunch of angels as watchers and their duty is to watch over the people and guard them. So while these angels are living here on the earth and watching and guarding over the humans they begin to observe that human women are very beautiful and so they decide to take some of these human women as their wives and so as a result of the intercourse between these watchers and these human women a race of giants was formed you know that is basically what is said in the second book of Enoch which is a apocryphal book and then the same stories almost you know the same stories repeated in another apocryphal book called Jubilees. So even in the Jubilees it says that these watchers began to lust after the human women who were very beautiful and so when they had intercourse with these human women it led to a race of giant monsters who corrupted the people of the earth. So this apocryphal interpretation of Genesis 6 is basically what majority of the Christians hold on to and it's a little sad because this interpretation doesn't come from the Old Testament this interpretation is coming from apocryphal books which are not inspired so maybe when we look at this interpretation of Genesis 6 we should take it with a pinch of salt don't fully accept what is being said over here because these are apocryphal writings and it is their interpretation of Genesis chapter 6 so maybe we should not just so welcomingly so innocently and naively accept the apocryphal interpretation of Genesis chapter 6. Let's actually look at Genesis chapter 6 verses 1 to 4. Yeah, someone could read out Genesis 6 1 to 4. Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men and they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose and the Lord said my spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh yet his days shall be 120 years. There were giants on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them those were the mighty men who were of old men of renown. So there are two ways in which people interpret this passage. I will just explain both the beliefs which are there. It is up to you which belief you would like to go with but I know I'll start off with a popular belief you know the popular interpretation of this passage which is basically that the sons of God over here meaning angels the fallen angels they chose to marry human women and so when they married human women they were able to give birth to children and those children were born as giants that is basically the popular belief that is accepted by almost the entire church but this belief is based on two apocryphal writings which were most definitely not inspired by the Holy Spirit so maybe we should be more careful in accepting this explanation because there are many assumptions being made when we present this theory. The first assumption that we are making is that angelic beings which are spirit beings who don't actually have a physical body we are making an assumption that spirit beings are designed in such a way that they can actually have intercourse with a human woman so that is an assumption that we are making it nowhere in scripture does it actually say that. Another assumption that we are making is that these angels actually have the ability if not for intercourse at least to be able to produce human genetic material and be able to produce babies. Do angels really have that ability to be able to produce human genetic material do they have permission from God to be able to produce genetic material whenever they feel like it. These are all a series of assumptions being made and there is no worse in the Bible backing up any of this. In the Bible in fact we only see one example of Mary where the Holy Spirit creates human sperm and places it inside the womb of Mary because there is no man involved in the birth of Jesus so God literally must have created the genetic material required and placed it inside Mary's womb so that she is able to produce a fully human Jesus Christ. Now were angels given this kind of an ability that God given the permission to be able to do that and if there was actual intercourse can spirit beings have intercourse with a human a series of assumptions are being made over here with no backing of any kind from the Old Testament and the only backing for this theory is from two apocryphal books which were written during the inter-testamental period, the time period between the Old Testament and the New Testament when people were doing whatever they wished living however they wished and there was no profit from God speaking in those days so maybe we should be a little careful about accepting this theory. This is second belief which seems more likely the second belief basically this that when we read that particular verse, what is the verse? Genesis chapter 6 verse 2, if you could just read out that verse once again. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. The wording over here it basically says that the sons of God the angels they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose so the second theory is that these fallen angels they took wives in the same way that they take human beings now through demon position. So one way that we could look at this verse is they took these beautiful women in the sense they possessed them, those beautiful women became demon possessed and we are very familiar with this old temple prostitution ritual which existed in those days. So men would go to these temple prostitutes and they would have intercourse with them so the theory is that maybe the fallen angels took beautiful women they possessed them, these women became possessed and maybe when men would come and perform demonic rituals, those witchcraft rituals and sleep with these women then the babies which were born out of that kind of an intercourse probably were deformed and very huge in size because they were born out of witchcraft rituals so when we look at this theory there is no unbiblical assumptions being made in the sense we are not saying that spirit beings can have intercourse with humans nor are we saying that they have the permission to create genetic, human genetic material which can actually be viable in a human womb we are not making any of those assumptions, we are basically talking about demon possession, we are talking about temple prostitution where men did sleep with prostitutes who probably were demon possessed and so the offspring which would come out of such an intercourse would be demonic in nature so maybe these children which were born were in the form of giants so again this is another theory, nobody really knows a clear interpretation of this so the reason that we are only talking about this is because it talks about the sons of god angels interacting with humans leading to a race of giants but one thing is sure when the flood comes all these demons which were, all these giants which were created which were born, every single one of them died and was wiped out the word that is used for them in Genesis chapter 6 it calls them the nephilim, that word nephilim it talks about the word nephilim is a Hebrew word which basically comes from the Hebrew verb to fall naphal, naphal means to fall so these giants are called nephilim because they cause people to fall, they are very powerful, they are very mighty, they are able to oppress and cause people to fall in that sense the word nephilim talks about very powerful, mighty people so all the nephilim were wiped out during the flood, not a single one of them survived in the book of Numbers you have again the term nephilim being mentioned, let's look at that Numbers chapter 13 verses 32 and 33 Numbers 13, 32 and 33 32 and 33 Numbers 13 verses 32 and 33 and they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out saying the land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature, there we saw the giants, the descendants of Anak came from the giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own site and so we were in their site the nephilim who are being talked about over here are most definitely not the nephilim who were there before the flood because in the flood only 8 persons were saved the ones who had entered the ark, every other living being was wiped out so the nephilim over here are basically the descendants of somebody named Anak, Anak was a descendant of Noah and his sons so Anak is not a descendant of those giants which were there before the flood, so these giant people who were living in the land of Canaan, they are just the descendants of Anak maybe again there was some kind of demon position involved maybe there were temple rituals which were performed leading to this kind of a giant race of people because nowhere in the Old Testament do we see any of these giants showing their allegiance to Yahweh, all of them were against Yahweh so we don't really know how they became giants again were there some kind of temple witchcraft rituals involved but one thing is for sure these nephilim are not in any way connected to the nephilim which were there before the flood because during the flood all of the nephilim were wiped out so the second belief does not involve too many assumptions where we just simply say that human women were taken by the fallen angels they were possessed by the fallen angels and when men had intercourse with these human women, babies were born and those babies were born as a result of witchcraft and so therefore they probably were giants. So this is one way of looking at it. Now if we had a little more time we could have looked at all the things, the activities that angels do maybe let's look at one or two verses in the little time that we have. Angels, one of the main activities of the good angels is that they continually praise and glorify God and this one point that I want to make over here very specifically regarding the way the angels worship and glorify God. Job chapter 38 verses 4 to 7 Job 38, 4 to 7 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding who determined its measurements surely you know or who stretched the line upon it to that to what where its foundations fastened or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. It says that when God was creating the earth the angels were so excited it talks about them as morning stars if you remember Lucifer was also a morning star so over here it's not talking about stars it's talking about angels. So the morning stars sang together and the angels shouted for joy the thing about the worship and praise which angels do it's not out of a sense of duty they do it because they are so excited by the things which God does and they are so excited about who he is. You know when they keep crying out holy, holy, holy it's not that they are performing a solemn ritual they are crying out holy, holy because they are excited about who he is and when they praise and worship the works which he has done it's because they are excited about the things which he is doing you know not like the worship which we sometimes give to God on Sunday we stand over there and we do the whole thing like as if it's a responsibility that has to be done our worship should be like the worship of these angels it says that they were singing together and the angels were shouting for joy because they were so excited about what God was doing. That should be the same kind of worship that we should offer you know so even though we have no time for all the other activities of the angels I thought maybe we could dwell upon this one point because angels set an example of what true worship should be like. As we are out of time we will close. If you can close with the word of prayer. Lord we just thank you so much for all the things that we could learn today from the scriptures about angels. We thank you O Lord that you have created these very powerful beings to help us to assist us to protect us. We thank you O Lord that you care for humans so much that you made us in your own image and you appointed powerful superior beings to serve us. How high we are O Lord in your eyes. How deeply we are treasured and loved by you. So we pray O Lord that our main focus will always be you that you will be the center of our worship that we will not focus on angels or get attached to them but rather we will always focus on you and worship you and honor you and as and when angels are required you will send them O Lord to help us to serve us to assist us in our ministry. We thank you O Lord for this name. Amen.