Q: “DO CHRISTIANS NEED ANGELS
AS GUARDIANS AND PROTECTORS?”
A: “NO” 

The following teaching will show that the Old Testament saints did not have the permanent indwelling of the Holy Ghost … and therefore did not have the eternal security of Holy Ghost protection … and therefore needed protection and guidance form angels.

Old Testament Israel was thoroughly familiar with angel messengers and protectors until the kingdom of God dispensation as outlined in Paul … which brought the permanent indwelling of the Holy Ghost.

Q: “With this sort of Holy Ghost protection … being in Christ … which Christian needs angel protection?”

A: “No Christian.”

The following table lists the frequency/percentage of the words ‘angel’/‘angels’ in the Bible, the old testament, new testament, the gospels, Paul, Revelation:

Note:

* There are fewer mentions of “angels/angel” in Paul compared to the whole Bible.

* There are more mentions in the gospels and Revelation … WHY? No-one is in Christ in these dispensations. 

1. There is no praying to angels in Paul … no need.

2. There is no worshipping angels in Paul … no need.

3. There is no entreating angels in Paul … no need.

4. There is no asking God to send a protecting angel in Paul … no need.

5. An angel simply appears to Paul without any entreating, prayer or solicitation

6. In Acts 27:23-24, the angel of God appears to Paul as a one-off messenger not a protector. God saw that even Paul, in horrific circumstances, needed assurance on his important journey to Rome.

7. The Christian is in the body of Christ, and therefore there can be no greater protection than the permanent indwelling of the Holy Ghost

8. Angels are created beings whereas Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost aren’t, therefore any protection offered by countless angels still could not equal the protection of an uncreated God.

9. The book of Revelation speaks of other dispensations that do not have eternal security … and this is why there are so many references to angels in them … for guidance and protection.

Q: “But I still reckon angels are important to me as a Christian!”

A: Grow up!

Paul says “The worshipping of angels is called ‘voluntary humility’ … being a vain puffing up of the fleshy mind.”

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, (Colossians 2:18)

CONCLUSION:

As the Christian has permanent indwelling in the body of Christ, there can be no greater protection than that … ANGELS NOT NEEDED.  

Angels are created beings whereas God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost aren’t … therefore any protection offered by countless angels would be zero compared to the protection that the current believer has with the indwelling God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost (Romans 8:11).

Harley Hitchcock
April 2025

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