What Is The Angel Hierarchy?

We all have our ideas of what angels are, whether it’s a glowing figure in white robes and massive wings. Or cherubim’s that look like plump little children with halos, tiny wings,and white loincloths, floating around on clouds with their harps.

But, it is inaccurate by biblical standards. Though the Bible doesn’t give a specific form for all angels, it does describe a few of them and this description is very different from what many people have imagined.

So, how did the Bible Describe Angels? Let’s take a look what the Scriptures say about them:

Luke 20:36 says “ The are spiritual beings and are immortal. “and they can no longer die; for they are like angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.”

Hebrews 1:14 say they are messengers. “Are not angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation.?” They carry God’s command on earth.

Psalm 78:49 says Some are warring angels and those meant for destruction. “He unleashed against them His hot anger, His wrath, indignation, and hostility – a band of destroying angels.”

Biblically accurate angels make God’s heavenly Army. They constitute the warriors that went to war in heaven before Satan’s fall, and they still provoke war and destruction at God’s command.

They have emotions. Old Testament angels were desirous of the women of the earth and so mated with them and created the Nephilim and giants.

They also had the choice to choose to rebel against God with Satan or not. This means they possess a will and even desire.

They are not to be worshipped. A biblical angel is God’s messenger or servant. As awe-inspiring as they are, the point back to the Lord and are not to be worshipped in place of Him

An angel in Revelation 22:9 reinforces this by saying to John,

“You must no do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

They do not take any glory or any form of worship in God’s stead.

Revelation 4:8 mentions four living creature before God’s throne that has six wings and were covered with eyes all around, even under their wings,

In Ezekiel 1:16-18, Ezekiel also describes creatures that are like a wheel within a wheel with each of their four rims filled with eyes all around.” This particular angels serve as the wheels of God’s throne.

Ezekiel also describes other angles called cherubim’s, that have four wings and four faces, one of a Lion, an ox, a man, and a eagle. (Ezekiel 10:14).

On the other hand, maybe look at the accurate angles, also appeared to men in a form of humans. Daniel describes the one who appeared to him as having the form of a man. (Daniel 8:15).

In Genesis 18:22, the three angels, who appeared to Abraham also looked like human travelers, and that was why he was hospitable to them. The same angel led a lot, and his family out of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In the New Testament, the ones who were at Jesus‘s tomb, on the morning of his resurrection, were described to have been two-man and dazzling clothes (Luke 24:4).

When Jesus ascended to heaven and acts 1:10, it was recorded that there were two men with white cloth who addressed His disciples. Biblical scholars, naturally, assume them to be angels.

You can note that the Bible consistently gives a bizarre description of angels when it comes to revealing the glory of heaven, to men, like John, Daniel, and Ezekiel.

But when it comes to earthly errands, all the people who saw them in a form they could relate to.

This tells us that they can probably take any form, because they are spirits, but God makes some simple things our mind still can’t comprehend.

Just imagine one of the Hazard, looking angles around gods throne, appearing to a human to give them His message. The words “fear not” wouldn’t do the slightest thing too quell their fears. They’d probably have a heart attack on the spot from fright, or take off, screaming their heads off.

Taking on a human like figure helps people focus on God’s message, rather than the messenger.

What is the angel hierarchy?

First-tier Angels

  • Seraphim

Their name translates to mean ‘the burning ones.’ They are described in Isaiah 6:2 as having six wings; 2 to cover their feet, 2 for their flight, and 2 covering their face. They are attendance of God’s throne, and praise Him forever.

  • Cherubim

Ezekiel 1:19, in Ezekiel’s vision of God Cherubim’s are described as having for wings, 2 for covering their feet and 2 for flight and have four faces: human, lion, ox and an eagle. Their name means ‘fulfillment of wisdom.’ Satan was once a cherub.

  • Thrones or Ophanim

These beings bear up God’s throne. They are described by Ezekiel as wheels wishing wheels and have eyes all over their body. Like the Seraphim, they also chant God’s glory. They are the most unique in appearance compared to others.

Second-tier Angels

Their tier of biblical angels goes forth to fulfill God’s plan in the world.

They include Dominion, Virtues and Powers.

  • Dominions:

Mentioned in Ephesians 1:21, they Lord over humanity and the remaining choir of angels.

  • Virtues:

Also, mentioned in Ephesians 1:21, they are majorly associated with control over the elements. They also go on the earth in human form after receiving orders for God to bring help or miracles to humans. Their primary appearance is a beam of light,

  • Powers:

They are the warring beings and are mentioned in Ephesians 6:12. They are also tasked with governing the natural order.

Third-tier Angels

This tier of angels interact with humans more closely than the rest.

They include Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.

  • Principalities:

They guard over places in groups, like nations, states, communities, and churches,

  • Archangels:

These are Leader angels. Angels, like Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael fall under this category. They are tasked with Carrying out God’s specific plans.

  • Angels:

Regarded as the foot soldiers of heaven, they work the most closely with humans.

To answer the question of what is the highest level of angel among these? The Seraphim is believed to be the highest in the rank of biblically accurate angels.

Instead of the wings and harps we’ve come to know, we found wheels and numerous eyes in biblically accurate angels. However, their role in the divine order doesn’t change.

They are ministering spirits created for the benefit of believers. Imagine the power of God, who created these beings. They display His wisdom and majesty in a special kind of way.

How Does Satan Keep People In Spiritual Darkness?

According to Scripture, Satan does the following things to keep those who do not believe in Christ in spiritual darkness.

1. Deny His Existence

One of the favorite ways in which Satan operas to get people to deny that He exists. He seems to be most effective when people do not believe there is such a creature as Satan. If he can get people to doubt his existence, then he can do much of his work with them even knowing.

Disguise

In the Bible it talks about how often Satan approached people in disguise. In Genesis 3. It talks about how he came to Eve as a serpent. In 2 Corinthians 11:4 Paul warned the Satan appears as a angel of light

To His Advantage

This unbelief in his existence works to Satan’s advantage. When people are either uninformed if misinformed about the existence of Satan, they become like the Sadducees in Jesus’s day, who did not believe in angels of spirits. When someone rejects the idea of Satan’s existence they are a easy target for him to manipulate.

2. Blind’s People Of God’s Truth

The truth of the gospel is what sets people free. Satan attempts to blind people from the truth.

And even I’d our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

3. Energizes His Own Ministers

Satan gives power to his own ministers.

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 11:15

4. Controls People’s Hearts And Minds

Satan has the ability to control and minds.

And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of twelve.

Luke 22:3

5. Hinders The Gospel

The message of the gospel in hindered by Satan

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away when as sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.

Matthew 13:19

6. Prevents People From Hearing The Gospel

Satan’s main goal is to prevent people from hearing the good news about Jesus. The message of forgiveness offered through Jesus Christ sets people free. Jesus said.

7. Misrepresents The Truth

Satan lies, denies, and misrepresents the truth. To Eve he said.

And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die

Genesis 3:4

8. Takes Away The Gospel

He also takes away that which the unbeliever has heard.

And those by the way side are they that have heard; them comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

Luke 8:46

Satan attempts to get the unbeliever to think about subjects other than the gospel of Christ.

9. Encourages False Trust In Religion

Satan attempts to get people falsely place their trust in themselves, religion, or good works. He wants people to feel satisfied , but without having the saving knowledge of Christ. The Bible says.

There is a way which seems right unto a person, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 16:25

10. Satan’s Goal Is Destruction

His ultimate goal is the destruction of people.

And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28

11. The Hope For Escape

Fortunately, there is hope for unbelievers to escape the traps of Satan.

And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

2 Timothy 2: 24-26

Satan has his methods with unbelievers. He wants to keep them from hearing the good news about Christ – the forgiveness of sins. To accomplish this he prevents people from hearing, blinds them to the good news, takes away the good news once they have heard it, and had them falsely trusting something apart from Christ and His gospel. This is his strategy to keep people from hearing and believing the truth about Christ.

We live in a time where Satan doesn’t even hide anymore. And people still don’t see him.

What Is God Trying To Teach Me?

When tough times strike, do you find yourself saying “why me?” Sometimes I think issues happen over and over and you think “it’s happening again.”

It’s normal to want to be free of our problems. We seek immediate answers in the hopes of returning to normal. You might ask yourself why is it happening to me again? But what if we asked what is God trying to teach me.

But is that what we’re really asking maybe what we’re really asking is, “what is God trying to teach me, then we can learn from it, and this problem will go away.”

Our first priority is to escape, and we so secretly think: i’m supposed to learn something to make that happen, them let me know what it is. Just get me out of this.

There’s some flawed assumptions when we think this way, however. The first is that everything has to happen to us is all about us. In reality, everything is about God, not us, and there’s no hope in the world that we can live perfectly. Not that God expects us to. What does He expect is that we grow closer to Him in times of joy and suffering.

There is no education like adversity, not all of our problems exist solely to instruct us. It’s a flawed assumption that our problems can be shortened by discerning what God is trying to teach us.

The second flawed assumption is that bad things always come with instructions from God. If we had lived perfectly, nothing bad would ever happen, because God wouldn’t need to teach us anything.

There are other very real possibilities. Maybe instead of teaching us something. God is giving us an opportunity to live out our faith in front of others. Maybe the adversity reface is an opportunity to deepen our trust in Him when the outcome is unknown. Or maybe it’s simply that we can be an example to others that joy doesn’t need to be based on circumstances, but on Jesus.

So when the next challenge comes your way, and you find yourself, asking what God might be teaching you, remember that not every trial is wrapped in a lesson for you, and you can’t learn your way out of adversity. The only thing that you can do is draw closer to God as you trust Him for your future,

Maybe that’s all God is ever trying to teach us.

How Can A Nation Know God Is Testing or Judging It?

Most nations in their leaders, view secularism as being neutral related to religion. But the truth is a person is either for Christ or against Christ. Secular wrists are not just religiously neutral. They do not want to submit to Christ. Jesus said.

He who believes in Him is not a judged; he who does not believe has been charged already, because he has not believed, in the name of the begotten Son of God,

John 3:18

This means that when I nation drift away from God, it is anti-God. It should not be surprised if and when God test it, and eventually punishes it. So, is it God testing us or judging us?

And Jeremiah 17:10 God, Himself, says that He searches the heart of every individual -man and women. He tests the mind. Then He repays then according to their ways and deeds.

I, the Lord, Search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to each man, according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

Jeremiah 17:10

The Hebrew word for “test” means to try, to test, to examine, or to probe. God probes and examined every man and woman he knows I thought of man (Psalm 94:11). The tests demonstrate the truth of our character. Then He rewards them, according to their ways and deeds. Galatians 6:7 warns us,

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, or whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Galatians 6:7

Proverbs 11:18-19

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but he who sells righteousness, get a true reward. He who is steadfast in righteousness will I came to life, and he who pursues evil will bring down about his own death.

Proverbs 11:18-19

God tests the nations. Each half them so that they will demonstrate if they are evil. Their behavior is recorded in gods books. Then he will use this information against them on the day of judgment (Revelation 20:11-14). Examples of God, testing a nation is given in many passages in the Bible. For example, in Exodus 16:4 we read,

Then the Lord said to. Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a days portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in my instruction.

Exodus 16:4

Noticed that God stated that He would test them. He gave him bread from heaven, and hold them to take only enough food for the day. It was a test. They failed the test. They ate more than He commanded. Add examples of God testing the nations are Exodus 17:7; Numbers 14:22-24 and Hebrews 11:17.

God has a nation so that it can demonstrate it willingness to obey Him. Call already know what our nation will respond. It’s responsible prove to others. It is an evil nation. How a response will be used to justify God’s punishment of it.

2 Samuel 24:1-17 and 1 Chronicles 21: 1-17 reveal one way in which God tests an evil nation. Together the two passages reveal that God test nations by testing the leader of the nations. 1 Chronicles Revealed that God may give permission to Satan to test the leaders of the nation.

Jeremiah 18:6-19 gives us a divine principle that God punishes nation and pursues evil . If He was planning to punish the nation and then turns away from evil. He will not punish it.

So, how can a nation know God is testing or judging it? The answer is that when a nation have to choose between obeying or disobeying God’s command, it is being tested. God gives nation the time to repent and change for God is slow to anger (Numbers 14:18). But if it does not repent, it will eventually be punished. The ride of homosexuality is a sign of God‘s judgment. (Romans 1:24, 26, 28). The rise of various evils, including the worship of sex, is a sign of God‘s judgment upon the nation. The rising crime is the abandonment of God ordained purpose of the nations (Roman 13:1-5). God’s purpose is establishing nation was to suppress evil. The list is long of evil that exist in our world. Some nations are already in the process of being judged. The question that we can ask, “Is when will God finally destroy some of these evil nations?”

Prayer For The Nations: Psalm 2

Like many psalms, the theme of Psalm two is emphasize in the final verse. We can defy God and Perish, Or we can surrender to him and be blessed.

In Psalm 2:1-3. The nations rebel. The nations speaking

Why did the nations rage and all the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the Earth, except themselves, and the rulers of the nation state Council together, against the Lord, and against his anointed one saying Let us break their bonds in peace’s and cast away their cords from us.

In Psalm 2:4-6. God laughs. God speaking

He who sits in the heavens, shall laugh; The Lord to hold them in derision. Then he will speak to them and His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: Yet I have sent My King on My holy My in Zion.

In Psalm 2:7-9 . The decree of the Son. Jesus speaking.

I will declare and decree: The Lord has said to me, You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give to the nations for Your Inheritance, And the ends of the Earth for Your possession. You will break them like a rod of iron; you shall dash them into pieces like a potters vessel.

In Psalm 2:10-12. Be instructed. The Holy Spirit speaking.

Now, therefore, be wise, O’ kings; be instructed you judges of the Earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is Kindled but a little. Blessed are those who put their trust in Him.

Praying For The Nations: Psalm 2

Many Psalms have a theme, the theme for Psalm 2 is emphasized in the final verse. We can defy God and perish.

Prayer For The Nations

Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let’s break there bonds apart, and cast their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will hold them in derision verses 1-3.Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath: Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to, You are my Son, Today I have become your father. Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Self-discipline: Staying Focused

Self-discipline. Let’s be honest. For most us, it’s a work in progress wrapped in good intentions, procrastination, and feelings of regret. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Self-discipline, like everything else, is practice. Not everyday will be perfect, but each day – with its regrets and small wins is progress, and that’s what self-discipline is all about.

Every year I sow a seed and pray that it will grow into a fruit in my life. The idea is to sow (plant a seed) and pray over it each day (water it). This year I sowing the seed of self-discipline. Last year I got so used to doing what ever I wanted that things really got out of control.

I’ve rounded up some steps I can take everyday to build self-discipline. And coupled it with a healthy understanding of what self-discipline is and with a little inspiration, I hope to gain the tools to develop a practice of self-discipline in everything I do.

1. Willpower is what separates us from animals. It the capacity to restrain our impulses and resist temptation. To do what’s right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now.

My day used to be so structured. I used to get up at 5 in the morning work out, and then go swimming, get finished and study my Bible for an hour. Get my daily chores and errands done come home and make sure dinner was on the table by 5.

Now my life is such a mess I don’t know whether I’m up or down.

2 The only way to do something in depth is to work hard, The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking this will pay off in the end, instead of thinking I don’t feel like doing anything. You will start make progress.

3 One pain-filled duty fulfilled makes the next easier.

4 The quality of self-denial in the pursuit of a long-term goal is indeed the willpower to maintain the denial is excellent training.

5. You don’t have to be smarter than anyone, you just have to be more disciplined.

6. Your will, will shape your future. Whether you fail or succeed will be no ones doing but you’re own. You are the force; you can clear any obstacle that is front of you, or you can remain , most in the maze of life. It’s your choice win or lose, you hold the key to you’re own destiny .

7. It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general, the bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

8. The ability to discipline yourself to set clear goes, and then to work towards them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor,

9. It’s our choices, that show what we truly are, for more than our abilities.

I know for myself if I don’t do something that I know I should be doing I feel an instant moment of regret or dread. And think “why did I do that?”

It’s like being in bad mood and eating a whole tub of ice cream to drown out the emotions. Then on the last spoonful thinking, I just ate about 3000 calories, what’s wrong will girl, Then you have to contend with being sick and suffering the whole next day.

Lack of self-discipline only gives satan a way in to torture you through your thoughts. And that leads to more regret.

To start becoming self-disciplined, you have to know where you struggle. You might have to write it down, then reflect on what you value and ask yourself whether your behaviors uphold those values. There are likely a few things you’re doing each day that don’t honor your value. Mine are sweets and drinking coffee at night. If I have a treat, I can’t stop until there completely gone. And drinking the coffee I crave at night that I know will keep me awake, which affects me the next day.

I’m started with these

  • Know where you struggle
  • Know how you succeed
  • Identify and write down clear goals
  • Visualize your outcome
  • Don’t wait for it to feel right (Just Start)
  • Start small
  • Practice, fail, start over
  • Know how you’ll measure your progress
  • Take care of yourself
  • Treat yourself
  • Forgive yourself

Realize this is my goal for the entire year. So start to become self-disciplined. I look at this list often. Let yourself be excited for the new you. You are bound to make mistakes, but the goal is to, never give in and never give up.

Piece Be With You