June 30, “Will I Ever See Angels?”

“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (II Corinthians 5:8)

“Will I ever see angels?” Has this question crossed your mind? The answer is another question: do you believe God?

If you have accepted Him as your Savior, you say, “Of course I do, and I know I will see God in heaven. There will be angels there. But will I see angels here on earth?”

Most of us do not see angels on a day-to-day basis. This lack of viewing celestial creatures is not evidence of a lack of worthiness or holiness. Don’t trouble yourself about it.

"Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God." (Colossians 2:18-19)

We must not allow people to convince us we should worship angels. We must not pay attention to people who become puffed up over their tales of the angels they have seen.

Whether or not you see angels, you are being helped by them on a daily basis. There comes a time when every Christian will be lifted into the arms of one or more angels and carried from the natural world into the spiritual world. Remember the story of Lazarus, the beggar, who was carried to Abraham’s bosom by the angels. (Luke 16)

We will go on the journey that begins with the discarding of these old bodies composed of carbon elements. At some time in the not-too-distant future, we will stop breathing, and our hearts will stop beating. The spiritual world is no more than a heartbeat away from our limited existence here on earth. None of us know exactly where heaven is, but we can be sure that we will be carried in a fine style by angels to the presence of God!

As the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody explained, our clay bodies will die: but our spiritual bodies will never die. He had the experience of drifting into heaven and coming back to earth. He told his family about seeing loved ones who had gone before. Also the Texas minister and author Don Piper has written some inspiring accounts of his death,journey to heaven, and return to earth. And we have the glorious information found in the word of God.

In conclusion the answer to the question, “Will I see angels here on earth?” is that if you have given your heart to the Lord Jesus, the angels will come to take you home at the point of death. If you don’t see angels before then, you will see them at the time of your departure.

What is much more wonderful is that you will see God!


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