Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Theme · theological

Angels and Demons

Angels appear throughout Scripture as God's messengers and warriors: they guard Eden, announce births, deliver Lot, commission Gideon, and protect Daniel. The 'angel of the LORD' is a mysterious figure who sometimes seems to be God himself. Satan appears as the accuser in Job and the tempter in Eden and the wilderness. The Gospels reveal a world teeming with demons whom Jesus commands with absolute authority. Paul identifies 'principalities and powers' as part of a spiritual hierarchy. Hebrews calls angels 'ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation,' while Revelation shows angelic armies executing God's final purposes.

Passages expressing this theme

  • 2Cor 11:14 — And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
  • 2Pet 2:4 — For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
  • Acts 12:7 — And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
  • Col 1:16 — For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by hi
  • Dan 6:22 — My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
  • Dan 10:13 — But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
  • Exod 23:20 — Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
  • Ezek 28:14 — Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
  • Gen 3:1 — Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
  • Gen 16:7 — And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 19:1 — And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
  • Gen 28:12 — And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
  • Heb 1:14 — Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
  • Heb 13:2 — Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
  • Isa 14:12 — How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
  • Job 1:6 — Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
  • Jude 1:6 — And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
  • Matt 4:11 — Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
  • Matt 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.
  • Matt 25:41 — Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
  • Ps 34:7 — The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
  • Ps 91:11 — For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
  • Ps 103:20 — Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
  • Ps 148:2 — Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
  • Rev 12:7 — And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,