Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation
The Bible assumes a populated universe. Alongside the world we can see, Scripture describes an entire order of created beings — messengers, burning ones, living creatures, archangels, thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities — made by and ranked under God.
The Bible assumes a populated universe. Alongside the world we can see, Scripture describes an entire order of created beings — messengers, burning ones, living creatures, archangels, thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities — made by God, ranked under Him, and active in the affairs of both heaven and earth.
This two-part series works through what Scripture actually says about them, passage by passage, and where the popular picture has drifted from the text.
The Series
- Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are
- Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do
Related Studies
The Invisible Creation
The Bible's opening declaration — "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" — encompasses not only the physical cosmos but also the invisible creation. Angels are real, personal beings: not human projections, not allegories, not symbolic language for natural forces. They are created, they possess intelligence and will, they exist in the presence of God, and they serve as His messengers and ministers.
What they are not is autonomous. Every one of them was made through Christ and for Christ, and the series ends where Colossians ends — with the Son who is supreme over all of them.
Author
Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.
