Do angels walk among us?
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it,” (Hebrews 13:2). Does that mean that angels walk among us?
The Bible is full of references to angels in both Old and New Testaments. From what we are told, they are a part of God’s creation, different from human beings in that they do not have a physical body like ours, and have powers beyond our abilities. They love God and did not join Lucifer, later called Satan, in the rebellion where some angels fell from heaven and became demonic beings.
Hebrews 1:14 asks the rhetorical question, “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” In other words, it is clear they are active behind the scenes in this world and especially in the lives of Christians. They are seen only rarely – when God has a purpose for their visibility – and there is a good reason for this. In the Book of Revelation, the apostle John is so overcome by the sight of an angel, he twice falls down to worship him. Being only a created being himself, the angel is horrified and tells John that only God is to be worshipped (Revelation 22:8).
Angels can appear in human form. In fact, the Bible reveals a whole invisible, spirit world around us, inhabited by both fallen angels and good angels. But the latter far outnumber the former and are clearly, at God’s bidding, invisibly involved in the welfare of Christians.
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