“Do angels have souls?”

0:00Do angels and souls the answer to that and other questions on Key Life? If you think laughter isn't spiritual or that faithfulness to God means conformity to Christian stereotypes, then this program probably isn't for you, but if you're looking for honest biblical answers to hard questions, then welcome to Key Life. Here's our host author and seminary professor Steve Brown, along with Pete Allensson from Ford's Truth. Thank you, Matthew. I beat. Hey, man. I can't wait to hear how you're going to answer that one. No. You're taking all the things you're doing now. No, I'm not. Yeah, you are. I'm going to give it to you and say, you know, you know, we get these questions and isn't it funny how so many ideas come into your mind when you read the question and then you think, you know, I don't have an answer.

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4:04We want to trust you more. We want to have less anxiety, less fear. We want to look to you. And we ask that this weekend, as we go to church and as we worship, that the music, the songs, the teaching would be used to grip our hearts and to take us to that deeper level of trust in you. Be with our leaders. All who will stand before us this weekend, Lord, give them grace, extend your kingdom, build your church and build us. We commit this time of Q&A to you right now. Thank you all that we could pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our phone lines. Did angels get souls? I mean, I know the Lord brought souls into us. I just don't understand a couple of things about stuff. We don't either. Wow. We've already discussed that. We don't have the fault. No, we do have an idea. The truth is angels are a different kind of creation.

5:06They were created to serve God faithfully and they do. An angel of another word for that is messenger. And the angels that we read about in Scripture are always doing the work of God. And there's an exception, and God was over this too. Some of the angels made an obscene gesture to God, got kicked out of heaven, and that was Satan and his demons. But do they have souls not in the sense that human beings do? They're a different style of creation. And Paul said that the angels like to even look at what's happening with us because it's kind of a new thing to them. Yeah. Now, are angels saved? And if they don't have souls, can they be saved? They're eternal. They don't get old. They don't get young. They don't lose their hair. They don't lose their mind.

6:07They're just angels. And if you want to read a great book, get Billy Graham's book titled Angels, one of the best Bible studies I've ever read on the subject of angels. As on the side, the staff kidded Mr. Graham, and they don't anymore is in heaven. They used to kid him because he did a lot of things he should have had to pay for and never did. He was landed on his feet, and they said his book on angels was a thank you note. Would you add something to that? That's a very good question. And I would say, you're right, I mean, if they're a righteous angel, they stay righteous. They stay righteous. If they're fallen, they're fallen. God makes no provision for salvation for angels. No. There he is.

7:07So we are made in the image of God, the ability to think, feel and decide like God and relate to God. That's right. And angels are different. So I would say no, in that sense, they're spirits. Yeah, that's I agree with you. And we'll get more information when we get home, but then you won't care. This is an interesting question. I don't think we've ever gotten this before in Acts 18. I read that Paul was a tent maker. The notes in my Bible say that tent makers worked with leather. I thought that leather workers were considered richwelly and clean since they touched dead bodies. How then could Paul, as a Pharisee of Pharisees, work in a trade that regularly made him richwelly and clean? Yeah. That's a thoughtful question. It's a very thoughtful question.

8:09And now I would say that the tent makers probably did work with leather some, but that probably the tents were more made out of fabric overall. So the straps, maybe some of the leather straps. The question is, does working with the leather or the hides of animals make you richwelly unclean? That's to me is the question. I would say no, but the ritual unclean, this uncleanness came from touching a human body. That's true. Yeah. So the priest touched hides all the time. That's right. That's right. And so it's not an issue to tell you what to do in the notes of your study Bible where they say that, get a black marker and mark through that because they're leading you in a direction. This is just not true. You know, people saying, can you imagine going camping and having a leather tent?

9:11Oh my goodness. And having to carry that into the mountains? Even on an animal. It would break the back of a donkey, you know, a family of five carrying a leather tent. So it was probably straps and stuff. Yeah. Okay. That works. Yeah. You know, when we pray for people who have cancer, dementia, drug and alcoholic abuse, why can't our prayers be answered the way we can understand? The word teaches us to pray. And those of us who have Jesus Christ in our heart are also given the Holy Spirit to have the power to heal and deliver, how are negative answers to prayer encouraging for our faith? That's an interesting way of putting it. It is. You know, I think that the study of healing, go back through, my incursion, be number one, go back through it. I believe God heals. Oh, yeah. But look at how Jesus even healed and look at the apostles in the book of Acts.

10:11There's no consistent consistency to the healing. Really true. It's not how much faith they had. Some people didn't even know who he was when he healed them. Sometimes they did have faith. And so, and sometimes when Jesus healed, he did it with mud in the eyes. And sometimes he didn't. Two steps. You know, to spit. I know. I'm not loud. And you know, you know what we would do? We would form a denomination of spitter. Oh, man. No. Oh, that's incredible. Well, getting away from spitting, I would say, I would say that at one level, it is true that a lot of people we do pray for are not healed. That's true. And we are not promised, I don't believe, that every one of us is going to be healed in this life. But we will be healed and have perfect bodies for eternity, you know, in a restoration of all things. And that, I love it and see us, Lewis, in the screw table letters, he says that what

11:14Satan wants us to focus on is the future. And what God wants us to focus on is the present and eternity, living now and what's coming in eternity. Not the future that we want, like when we get the big job or when we get healed. Yeah. And so he wants his folks to know what is coming. And recognizing that, you know, it's a cliche, but it has been said by everybody, God has three answers. He listens. And answers are for all of them. He says no, or yes, or wait. But in every case, here to every prayer, and there is a sense when you look at this subject where you can affirm that God is good, that He's sovereign, that there's a purpose. And I believe that's biblical. And I think it's faith building. And in that sense, unanswered prayer, in the sense that somebody wasn't healed, is

12:18a way to affirm the sovereignty of a good God. That's right. That's right. But it's hard. It is hard. It is hard. Seriously, those negative things, but we do have to hold each other and look ahead to what's coming. That's true. Sometimes you say, I know, because God says, I know I've been there, I've done this. Sometimes we've got to go, sure to appreciate your spending this time with us, that's a gift and we see it as a gift from you to us. One other thing. E-Life is a listener supported production of E-Life Network.