Avenging Angels.

 God's angels, do you imagine they are unable to execute God's judgments upon the earth? We often picture beautiful angels, and we don't picture the angels with the weapons of judgment in their hands. Angels with swords, not angels with harps, are these what we imagine? Angels causing death, not angels protecting life. God's angels work under His command- to protect, to minister, to destroy. 

God has destroyed a lot of wickedness. The Old Testament is filled to overflowing with the deaths of the wicked. Whole armies, whole cities destroyed because of wickedness. THIS is by God's command, this is with JESUS' knowledge. Jesus was there at Creation, he didn't disappear after Creation until His birth as a human being. Jesus was there from the beginning and will be until the end of wickedness and on unto eternity!

Jesus, did not alter God the Father's truth in any way. The God of the Old Testament is still God in the New Testament. God and Jesus have been in agreement on all things. We can't say Jesus changed things, Jesus is the God love, and God the Father the God of wrath, it just isn't true. Jesus approved of every single wicked person  that was destroyed, yes, even those women and children caught up in the destruction of entire cities. Jesus was in agreement with that! He was. And if you are shaking your head and saying, no way, then you're delusional. Many are caught up in the delusion, Satan loves using delusions to get men to err so he can capture them unaware… yes, unaware! Not all wicked are aware of their wicked states. Read that again. NOT all wicked are AWARE of their wickedness!  Jesus told the rulers of Jerusalem during His ministry that thy were evil, did the rulers of Jerusalem, the high priest, the priests, the majority of them believe in any way that they were wicked? NO! They believed Jesus to be the wicked one! Why do people think that there isn't going to be a whole slew of people who believe they are God's but they are really wicked? There will be many who are not God's who are deceived into believing they are and they will NOT know their true state until our Savior returns and it's way too late to do anything.  Is this wrong of God? NO! The wicked who are deluded into thinking they are truly God's WANT to believe this, they choose to believe they are God's without sincerely wanting to be God's at all, not really, not in their hearts- God knows the heart!

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 

God's angels have brought destruction upon the wicked in the past and will again in the future and most likely are in the present, as God wills. Destruction is not all evil, destroying evil is something God will do entirely one day.

Angels are loving, angels do all they do through the love of God- protecting, ministering, and destroying evil. 

God help us to not be delusional, to not be deceived by Satan in any capacity! We would belong to YOU LORD! PLEASE! PLEASE DON'T LET US BE DECEIVED! All through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!! AMEN! 

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THE ANGELS EXECUTE GOD'S JUDGMENTS UPON THE WICKED

While the angels are messengers of mercy to those who do good, they are also messengers of wrath to those who do evil. 

Thus the Lord commissioned angels to go and destroy Sodom. The angel said to Lot, "We will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it." Gen. 19:13. When Balaam went to prophesy against Israel, the Lord sent His angel to slay him. Num. 22:22. So when David had sinned, the Lord sent His angel to destroy Jerusalem. 1 Chron. 21:14-30.  When the Assyrians blasphemed God, the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of Valor, and the leaders and the captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. 2 Chron. 32:21.  When Herod was exalted in himself, and received praise as a god, "immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." Acts 12:23.

We have reason to believe that the sudden judgments which frequently overtake evil-doers are executed upon them by the angels of God. When the mystery of God is finished, and the work of the gospel is ended, all the wicked will be gathered and cast into the wine press of the wrath of God. Thus Jesus says: "The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire." Matt. 13:39-42.

The judgments of the Lord, both in this life and at the final gathering of the wicked to meet their doom, are all executed by the angels. See Rev. 15:1; 16:1-17. In these texts the wrath of God is said to be poured out upon the wicked by the angels.

Texts- 

Rev 15:1  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 

Rev 16:1  And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 

Rev 16:2  And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. 

Rev 16:3  And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 

Rev 16:4  And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 

Rev 16:5  And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 

Rev 16:6  For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 

Rev 16:7  And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. 

Rev 16:8  And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 

Rev 16:9  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. 

Rev 16:10  And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 

Rev 16:11  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 

Rev 16:12  And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 

Rev 16:13  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 

Rev 16:14  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 

Rev 16:15  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 

Rev 16:16  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. 

Rev 16:17  And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 

Num 22:22  And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. 

1Ch 21:14  So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 

1Ch 21:15  And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 

1Ch 21:16  And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 

1Ch 21:17  And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. 

1Ch 21:18  Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 

1Ch 21:19  And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. 

1Ch 21:20  And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 

1Ch 21:21  And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 

1Ch 21:22  Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. 

1Ch 21:23  And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. 

1Ch 21:24  And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 

1Ch 21:25  So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 

1Ch 21:26  And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 

1Ch 21:27  And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. 

1Ch 21:28  At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 

1Ch 21:29  For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 

1Ch 21:30  But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. 

2Ch 32:21  And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. 

Angels: Their Nature and Ministry-  (Excerpt - for continuing study) Revised by J.H. Waggoner.  1891 by Pacific Press Publishing Co.)