tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post114692730128734140..comments2024-01-30T02:30:05.862-06:00Comments on Refreshment in Refuge: more on angelsRefreshment in Refugehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109290647409291383noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post-1147105900758845032006-05-08T11:31:00.000-05:002006-05-08T11:31:00.000-05:00Isn't that so amazing? We are so stuck in our fin...Isn't that so amazing? We are so stuck in our finite world that it is hard to fathom that one single angel could wield that kind of havoc to that many men.Refreshment in Refugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109290647409291383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post-1147093205074606222006-05-08T08:00:00.000-05:002006-05-08T08:00:00.000-05:00Here is what John Calvin had to say about angels i...Here is what John Calvin had to say about angels in his Institutes. This is just a snippet. All of what he said about angels can be found here.<BR/><BR/>http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes/books/book1/bk1ch14.html#four.htm<BR/><BR/>6. The angels as protectors and helpers of believers<BR/><BR/>But the point on which the Scriptures specially insist is that which tends most to our comfort, and to the confirmation of our faith, namely, that angels are the ministers and dispensers of the divine bounty towards us. Accordingly, we are told how they watch for our safety, how they undertake our defence, direct our path, and take heed that no evil befall us. There are whole passages which relate, in the first instance, to Christ, the Head of the Church, and after him to all believers. "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." (Ps. 90:11-12). Again, "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." (Ps. 34:7p). By these passages the Lord shows that the protection of those whom he has undertaken to defend he has delegated to his angels. Accordingly, an angel of the Lord consoles Hagar in her flight, and bids her be reconciled to her mistress (Gen. 16:9). Abraham promises to his servant that an angel will be the guide of his journey (Gen. 24:7). Jacob, in blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, prays "The angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads." (Gen. 48:16.) So an angel was appointed to guard the camp of the Israelites (Ex. 14:19; 23:20); and as often as God was pleased to deliver Israel from the hands of his enemies, he stirred up avengers by the ministry of angels (Judg. 2:1; 6:11; 13:3-20). Thus, in fine, (not to mention more,) angels ministered to Christ (Matt. 4:11), and were present with him in all straits (Luke 22:43). To the women they announced his resurrection (Matt. 28:5,7; Luke 24:5); to the disciples they foretold his glorious advent (Acts 1:10). In discharging the office of our protectors, they war against the devil and all our enemies, and execute vengeance upon those who afflict us. Thus we read that an angel of the Lord, to deliver Jerusalem from siege, slew one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the king of Assyria in a single night (II Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36).confederatesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07496913394907380603noreply@blogger.com