Angels Tutorial - Part One

Angels - Part One

I need to get some information out there about the true nature of angels. Its bothered me for quite a while some of the misperceptions. Part One I'm going to deal with the only angels that humans directly deal with, that being guardian angels.

Few things irritate me more than the caponization of angels in the media and popular perceptions. In the 1980-90's I was baffled by the squads of people who think that angels are female or feminized men, that they are everywhere ordering the affairs of humans in a new age kind of way ("Touched by an Angel" a show that stills brings vomit into my mouth when I think of it... the only episode I watched was because Muhammad Ali was on it and despite him it was still truly awful.) Every lucky break or spiritual insight is attributed to some new age EEO balanced troupe of angels tromping around the countryside. Trust me, angels are not touchy feely. And if angels were ordering the affairs of humans we'd not see a lot of the crap we see now.

Any angel that is actually perceived by a living human being is a manifestation of either one's own guardian angel or someone else's guardian angel. So if you read those "angel rescue" stories, those that are truly angelic manifestations are initiated by and instrumented by guardian angels. Guardian angels are the only class of angels that have any interaction with humans at this time. I will discuss angels such as Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael in subsequent posts. They appear and intervene only in great prophetic events, and those events have been documented in the Bible and the Qur'an.

Learn what is told by Jesus about angels:

Matthew 18:10

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

In these two sentences Jesus instructs the true nature of angels. One is assigned to each child, and is the guardian angel. Angels by their nature constantly "face God." You can think of this as the analogy that angels, while they have personalities, their entire being is like a mirror that reflects God's will. One side of the mirror constantly faces God. It is that side of the mirror that gathers like light what God intends for them to do. This is why angels have different appearances as described in the Bible. Angels don't look like Irish ladies or racially diverse humans; they look like whatever is the will of God in an energy format (such as fire, water, nurturing presence, etc.) The other side of the angel faces whatever form of physical reality that the angel implements God's will upon. In this case, guardian angels constantly face God and constantly face a child, whom they accompany throughout life. Thus the third point that Jesus is making is that even the humblest of child has an angel of the same order as anyone else who walks the earth.

There is no human walking earth who is receiving favors or interaction from an angel other than one's own guardian angel, either singly or as the guardian angel interacts with other guardian angels. That's a lot of angels! Humans really don't need to make up in their minds for their ego the existence of other angels interacting with them, because as Jesus points out, guardian angels ARE in constant contact with God in heaven.