Another thing to help in understanding angels

In the Bible there is mention of different “types” of angels. Michael, for example, is referred to by an angel as a “prince” of angels and his prince. Angels are said to be cherubim, principalities, and so forth. Great minds, such as Thomas Aquinas, have analyzed and explained these classifications of angels, and they are sound so far as they go. But because earthly human minds tend not to fully comprehend how to translate human concepts (such as hierarchy) into their relevance in heaven (which is the total expression of God’s will) they overly humanize what is described in the Bible.

In the previous post I explain that angels are constantly in existence and fueled by God’s will and love. This is what Jesus called “constantly facing God.” I explained that even the guardian angels love “their individual human” purely as a result of God’s will and love, and not of their own volition or impetus. Angels as an entirety exist only to be harmonious with God’s will. Angels are living beings who are friends and companions to God, but because they are created by God within the timeless realm of heaven, you must understand that they are born of the very substance of God’s will. So when ever they interact with humans, such as being a guardian angel, they do so as extensions of God’s will. That is why they seem to have different classifications and categories because angels are performing different services on behalf of God’s will at various times with various people. This does not mean that there is a hierarchy that is based on human concepts such as superiority. The different categories arise from the different God’s will functions that they perform. A prince who is human is someone who is an heir to governmental, military and monarchical power. This does not describe an angel who is a prince. An angel who is a prince is performing an overarching role that spans a multitude of people and purposes that fulfill God’s will. This does not make the princely angel more “powerful” than other angels, or more “sophisticated” than other angels, or more “trusted” than other angels. It simply means that the angel is empowered with a specific scope to perform God’s will.

When Jesus had his agony in the garden before he was betrayed by Judas, he was comforted by an angel. That is all that is said, that an angel comforted him. Could there have been a more important “job” than that? Yet the angel was not given a name, a title, or described in glorious terms. This example illustrates the pointlessness of imagining a human power structure among angels. In substance there is no difference between an angel that simply resides in the court of heaven and an angel that is performing a function for the Lord among earthly matters. Both are equally in total of God’s will, both are totally of God’s love, and both are entirely equal in their esteem and position in eternity. There are literally countless numbers of angels; their number approaches infinity. Only a few dozen have been involved in activity in earth’s sacred history. Really, the rest of the countless infinite angels have “nothing to do” so idea of human hierarchy and so forth are ridiculous and a misunderstanding of the information about the few who are recorded in Biblical writings.

I’ve written about the true nature of angels in previous posts, but wanted to add this blogging to supplement the previous one about guardian angels. I could intuit that it would be a logical question after reading what I wrote about guardian angels to “compare” them in “influence” and “power” to the other angels, since that is how people think. [They must think that way because it is a survival trait.] So I need to anticipate this question and explain what I have said in this blog that there is no hierarchy in a human sense, just differences in the activities and scope of activity that an angel is performing at a particular time as explained in the sacred literature of the Bible.