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Jack Hibbs: The Bible says that Jesus Christ Himself created the angels. Not the Holy Spirit, not God the Father, Jesus. The Bible says Jesus created the angels.

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David J.: That's *Stop in the Name of God* by Charlie Kirk. Get your copy at jackhibbs.com. On today's edition of Real Life Radio, Pastor Jack continues his series now called *The Life and Times of Jesus Christ* and a message titled "Christ and the Angels."

Now, this is a series about who Jesus really is, not the Jesus of popular opinion, but the Jesus of the Bible, God Himself, who stepped into our world. In this message, we'll discover that Jesus is the very one who created the angels. You see, people are fascinated by angels, but most of what we picture is wrong.

The Bible shows us powerful, awesome creatures who worship God without ceasing. The amazing truth is that Jesus Christ Himself made them. So today, Pastor Jack teaches us that the angels were created with a passion to worship God. They never grow tired or bored. And if we're honest, they probably wonder why we don't worship with the same joy. Before we get into the message, I had a chance to sit down with Pastor Jack and talk about it with him. So let's get into that.

Guest (Male): "Christ and the Angels." This is really interesting. You tell us an incredible story about a man named Glen who was pulled from a burning car by just an ordinary-looking stranger who then just vanished. It happened with the door still crushed in, right? Still shut, never opened. Walk us through that one real quick, would you?

Jack Hibbs: I was at a men's gathering at the church back in those days that I was attending. He would be there early in the mornings to prepare the breakfast for the men's gathering once a week. We actually thought he was killed. Even when the first responders showed up, they immediately assumed that they'd have to somehow extract his body from the wreckage. It was just beyond survivable.

But he was alive. Not only alive, but when he made his recovery, he began telling his family and eventually he told the church what happened. It was quite remarkable. Even the officers, the traffic officers, had made mention in their report that they were looking at the vehicle expecting to find his body, where he was out and away from the vehicle laying down on the grass when he came to.

They talked about how there was no way for him to have been ejected. He technically should have been cut in half by the nature of the accident. And then he went on to say that he remarkably, without him knowing, slouched down at the second of impact. He saw this individual speaking to him, helping him throughout this location of the crash, which is impossible.

Then this individual was comforting him and said, "You're going to be fine." And then he was out and came to with the officers discovering him and then arousing him to be awake. Look, that doesn't happen every day. But we do know from the life of several in scripture in the Gospels that it does happen.

So we need to be always very aware and conscious of the fact that people around us, maybe they're not exactly people around us. Maybe there's a person that is an angelic presence, an angelic deliverer, because the Bible tells us that we need to be careful how we treat strangers because unknowingly, we could be entertaining an angel. That's like TV stuff and yet it's what the Bible says.

Guest (Male): My grandmother had these plaster of Paris cherubs up on the wall in the bathroom. Back when I was a kid, I thought, "Oh, that must be what an angel looks like, a fat little plaster of Paris."

Jack Hibbs: They definitely do not look like that.

Guest (Male): This is good stuff. Let's get into this, "Christ and the Angels."

Jack Hibbs: This morning, we come to a very interesting and, look around you today, obviously a very exciting topic. People are nuts about angels. They have angels everywhere. They have angel lapel buttons, they have angel ties, they've got little angel things on license plates, bumper stickers. It's just a craze right now.

I don't know if it's just national or worldwide, but it's everywhere. But the interest in angels has always been. Ever since the beginning of time, there seems to be this mysterious curiosity regarding angels and what they're all about and how they traverse regarding the heavenly realm and regarding earth.

You might want to jot this down. Out of the 66 books of the Bible, 34 of them make reference to angels. And by the way, they are some awesome creatures. They're not like angels that you see in drawings or what some artist might render. I know and I understand that the New Age movement is really big on angels.

And they have these cute angels. Have you seen them? They're angels and they're waving and they have this big smile. I'm not saying angels don't smile, and I'm not saying angels don't wave. But every instance of an angel appearing in the Bible, the people are greatly affected. More often than not, they are absolutely scared to death of the angelic appearance.

Daniel, when he sees the angel that appears to him while he's praying, it says in the end of Daniel's book, Daniel chapter 12, it says there that the angel and his appearance left Daniel sick for many days, and all strength had left him and he lay in bed after having an encounter with an angel. That's an awesome thing.

Whatever our perception or our understanding of angels might be, it's probably wrong. It is pathetic that in some of your bathrooms or somewhere in your hallway, you might have a little fat cherub on your wall with a little arrow, a little baby, somewhere around 11 or 12 months of age with little stubby wings and a big round butt. He's just there like Cupid, and he's so cute. That's not in the Bible. You don't see those kind of angels in the Bible.

You see these awesome creatures that you're going to get a look at this morning. Remember this, the Bible says that Jesus Christ Himself created the angels. Not the Holy Spirit, not God the Father, Jesus. The Bible says Jesus created the angels. That's pretty amazing.

We'll see just exactly how that all works. We know first of all that there are some angels that never leave the presence of God. In Revelation chapter 4, verses 6 through 8, you might want to jot that down and listen. We have a lot of verses this morning, so you might want to run with me as we give you these passages.

But by way of introduction, we know that there are some angels who never leave the presence of God. Revelation 4:6 says that before the throne, there was a sea of glass like crystal. And in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures. This is how John describes them: full of eyes in the front and in the back of them.

The first living creature looked like a lion on one side. The other side of him looked like a calf. The other side of him looked like a man. And the other side, he looked like a flying eagle. It says there the four living creatures, each having six wings, full of eyes. That ought to blow your mind. Put that in your bathroom or on your hallway.

They have eyes, full of eyes around and within, and they do not rest day or night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who is to come." By the way, that is the reference to Jesus Christ. The one who was, who is, who is to come. But they say it three times: holy, holy, holy. Personally, holy for the Father, holy for the Son, holy for the Spirit. They rest not day and night saying that in the presence of God for all eternity.

Now you might think, "Wow, that's a long time. Don't they get tired?" They're there for a long time. Easy answer to your question: there is no time in eternity. The moment that they're there is the moment that is, and it's the moment that they'll always be, and you don't have to worry about time. It's eternal.

We know from scientific examination that wherever there's a material or physical realm, time exists. And when there is no physical appearance or physical attributes of this universe as we know it, there is no time. Scientists have been able to bombard atoms and for a millisecond—nanoseconds, actually—have been able to cause time in a chamber to stand still. Interesting, flirting with eternity where there is no time.

There are some angels that appear before His throne to give God reports. In Job chapter 1, verse 6, it says, "And there was a day when the sons of God," a reference to the angelic host, "came and presented themselves before the Lord, and Satan came among them." More on him later. But Jesus Christ Himself was aware of and taught regarding the existence of angels.

You can buy many books on angels. I'm going to encourage you to be careful about that. I want to recommend three books to you that are very good. Billy Graham's book, *Angels, Angels, Angels*, is a good book. There's a book by Merrill Unger that's currently out of print. It's called *Angels and Biblical Demonology*, written back in the 1950s. Very, very good book.

And there's a book entitled *God's Secret Agents* by Donald Grey Barnhouse. I believe the same title is shared by Greg Laurie who wrote a book recently about it as well, *God's Secret Agents*. Who? Angels. And by the way, they are very real and equally powerful. You need to realize that. We kind of make jokes about angels, and yet angels will, as we'll see in the Bible, make no joke one to another about other angels. The Bible says even the highest-ranking angels of heaven do not joke around about Satan, who was once a cherub or a very special angel. They don't mess around.

So this morning, we want to look at our first point. There will be three of them this morning. The first thing we want to consider regarding Christ and the angels is that Christ has created the angels. It's an amazing fact. A lot of people don't realize this, but Christ has created the angels.

In Colossians chapter 1, verses 14 to 16, it says there, "In whom we," that is Jesus, "have the redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn," or the preeminent one, "over all of creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions, or principalities or powers, all things were created through Jesus Christ and for Jesus Christ."

So the first thing that we'll see this morning regarding the fact that Christ has created the angels, in His creating of them, get this: He has, outside of the animal creation, outside of the celestial creation—heavenly bodies, planets, celestial realms—outside of those, outside of the animal kingdom, God has made two types of beings that have the ability to worship. Only two. One is the angelic world, and second is the human race.

Only those two. I don't want to depress anybody, but the Bible says that the soul of an animal when it dies, it returns to the earth. The body returns to dust and its consciousness ceases. Don't ask me later if there's going to be animals in heaven. Read your Bible. It talks about animals in heaven. At least there's horses. We know that for a fact in heaven. But will your little poodle be there? I don't think any poodles will be there personally. That was a joke. My dog will be there.

They have a soul. When they die, there's no more consciousness. That's not true about the human being. The human lives forever in heaven or in hell. The Bible makes it very clear. Angels live forever. We'll talk about that later. But we want to look at the passion that angels have to worship God. Christ and the created angels. The first thing that we see is that they have a passion to worship God.

They have what is called a free moral agency. They can choose to worship Him or not. Angels can choose to obey Him or not. Revelation 4:8 says they worship God with meaning. I laugh because you'll see why I'm laughing in a minute. Revelation 4:8 says, "The four living creatures, each having six wings full of eyes within and without, and they do not rest day or night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who is to come the Almighty.'"

Listen, one angel—we'll address it later—is a seraphim. It's a type of angel. Weird angel. Sounds scary. They have a face or they have a head. They have one head. They have a face of a man pointing this way. Remember how it said they have eyes on the front and back? They have two eyes that face north, face of a man.

Then there's a face of an ox, what you would think would be the side of the ear, the eastward side. It's a face of an ox with two eyes looking that way. On the back side, there's a face of a cow—actually, the lion's coming, the lion's on the other side. A man, an ox, a lion facing south with two eyes, and on the left side an eagle with two eyes.

Interesting, all those animals, including the bird, the eagle, have eyes facing forward on its head. This one seraphim has one head with four faces. That ought to keep you up all night if you saw one. And it has six wings. While they are in the presence of God, they shield their body with two of their wings. Why do they need to shield their body? I don't know, it's interesting, though, isn't it?

And with two other wings, they cover their faces. They can't look at Him, it appears. And then with the remaining two wings, remember they have six, they must fly like the dickens with those two wings in His presence, because it says, "And with two they do fly." Seraphim, amazing.

And what is their message? "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who is to come the Almighty." Now, do you think they're going, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who is to come, He's the Almighty. Okay, now you say it, this side of my face, you say it"? No, they're not bored. For all eternity, they mean exactly that. They are in absolute awe.

Angels worship God. And I bet you that angels are in some sort of a shock that we don't worship God more. They must scratch their head and four faces, stroking those chins, saying, "What is wrong with those people down there? When worship is sung, why don't they all just praise God instead of thinking about the meatloaf or did I unplug the iron?"

They worship God with a passion. So should we. Isaiah chapter 6, verse 3 says, "And one cried saying to another, 'Holy, holy, holy'"—it sounds like the same story, doesn't it?—"'is the Lord of hosts, and the whole earth is full of His glory.'" Isaiah chapter 6, verse 3. In their creation, we know this: they existed before the physical world was created.

We know that for a fact because Job chapter 38, verse 7 tells us that at His creation, the morning stars—another reference to angels—sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Another reference to angels in the Old Testament: sons of God. Morning stars and sons of God, they sang at the day of creation. Isn't that neat? I wonder what they sang. I wonder how they sang. I wonder what it sounded like. It must have been incredible.

We know that angels were created, as I said earlier, free moral agents or having a free moral capacity, meaning that they can choose. You and I are living in a world right now where everybody's complaining and arguing: "I want the right to choice. I want the right to perform an abortion or not. I want our right to choose this and a right to choose that."

You can choose anything you want, Christian or non-Christian. You can choose anything you want. Just know this: your choice will result in answering to God for your choice. You and I have been brought up in a culture that says there is no responsibility regarding our decisions. This is humanism that we live in. "Well, go ahead and do what you want, if it feels good, do it."

What they don't tell you is later you're going to reap of your bad decisions or your good decisions. Every one of us has a choice. There's no doubt about it. Am I pro-choice? You bet I'm pro-choice. I think everybody should choose Jesus Christ and live.

Hebrews chapter 1, verse 6 tells us, "But when He again brings forth the firstborn into the world," speaking of Jesus, He says, "Let all of the angels worship God." That's Hebrews 1:6. The Lord says when He brought forth Jesus—brought into the world as a physical being, Christ born in Bethlehem—the Father turned to the angelic realm and says, "All you angels, worship Him." They couldn't wait to get going. I can prove this in a moment.

Revelation chapter 22, verse 9 says an angel announces to John and the spectators, "Worship God." Listen, we know that angels possess a will and they possess emotions. In Luke chapter 2, verse 9, concerning angels, it says, "And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before the shepherds"—in the hills of Bethlehem—"and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were greatly afraid."

Then the angel said to the shepherds, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people," that means Gentiles too. "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: you will find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a food trough for cattle or otherwise known as a manger."

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly host, praising God, saying this: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man." Actually, in the Greek, it's: "Glory to God in the highest, and among men of goodwill, peace be to them." So great is this passion, Hebrews chapter 13, verses 1 and 2 says, "Continue to love one another as true brethren. Don't forget to be kind to strangers that might pass by, for some who have done this have unknowingly entertained and ministered to angels."

The Bible says in various places that angels have the ability to appear as mortal human beings and then disappear. Isn't that wild?

David J.: Pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs, here on Real Life Radio and his message called "Christ and the Angels." Thanks for spending part of your day with us today. This message is part of Pastor Jack's series called *The Life and Times of Jesus Christ*. It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh, and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything. And we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio.

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