We are looking one last time at the spirit world as we think about a biblical worldview. There are spirits. However, there are two extremes we want to avoid when it comes to spirits and the spirit world:
1. Spirits do not exist. Throughout the world, most people would not question the concept that spirits exist. They believe in spirits, they fear spirits, they do no understand spirits, but they believe in them. Especially in our western culture society, we sometimes act as if there is nothing but the material and physical. Scripture clearly says otherwise. There are angels and demons. They do exist, so one extreme is to say they do not exist at all.
2. Angels are everywhere doing everything. The other extreme is that they are everywhere and doing everything so that under every rock you see an angel, and in some cases, when people get into this, they claim to see angels here and there and angel feathers are falling on their heads at church and other nonsense like that. That is the other extreme.
When we come to the Scriptures, we get a pretty good look at what angels are about and what they do. We find that angels are mentioned about 300 times in the Bible scattered about thirty to forty different books. Over half of the books in Scripture mention angels. Some more than others. That is a lot of references to angels, so we know they exist.
The word angel means messenger. Therefore, we know one of the primary things that angels do is they give messages. They are proclaimers. The Lord is sending them with a message from Himself to humanity. That is one of the things that they do. One of the main messages proclaimed concerns the Law. They were involved in delivering the Law to the Jewish people. We read Gabriel coming with a message and other angels showing up throughout the Old and New Testament bringing messages from God to people. That is one of the things they do outside of worshiping the Lord.
We find they are powerful. In some cases, the Lord sent angels to the earth to be in combat and to destroy people that have resisted Him. So, they are very involved in many things . . .
