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5<\/small><\/span> There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell on him.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> But the angel said to him, \"Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Zacharias said to the angel, \"How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.\"<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> The angel answered him, \"I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.\"<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled while he delayed in the temple.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> \"Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.\"<\/p><\/div>\n

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#9: An Angel Wrestles With Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genesis 32:22-32<\/p>\n

Chapter 32<\/h4>

22<\/small><\/span> He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> The man said, \"Let me go, for the day breaks.\" Jacob said, \"I won't let you go, unless you bless me.\"<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> He said to him, \"What is your name?\" He said, \"Jacob.\"<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> He said, \"Your name will no longer be called 'Jacob,' but, 'Israel,' for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.\"<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Jacob asked him, \"Please tell me your name.\" He said, \"Why is it that you ask what my name is?\" He blessed him there.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, \"I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.\"<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#8: An Angel Instructs Gideon To Lead His People Into Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judges 6:1-28<\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not listened to my voice.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#7: An Angel Instructs Joshua How To Defeat Jericho<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua 5:13-6:27<\/p>\n

Chapter 5<\/h4>

6<\/small><\/span> For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Their children, whom he raised up in their place, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> It happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, until they were whole.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> They ate of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the same day.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?<\/p><\/div>\n

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#6: An Angel Appears In The Fiery Furnace With Shadrach, Meshach And Abednego<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel 3:1-30<\/p>\n

Chapter 3<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> and whoever doesn't fall down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> and whoever doesn't fall down and worships, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came forth out of the midst of the fire.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Angelic Appearances In The Bible\u00a0Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not all angelic appearances are good news.\u00a0 Sometimes angels appeared to protect God\u2019s children or to fight on behalf of them. Here are some times angels did not bring good news to share.<\/p>\n

John Sees A Vision Of Angels In The End Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revelation 8:1-13<\/p>\n

Chapter 8<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> When he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven for about half an hour.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were thrown on the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> and one third of the creatures which were in the sea died, those who had life. One third of the ships were destroyed.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> The name of the star is called \"Wormwood.\" One third of the waters became wormwood. Many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, \"Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound.<\/p><\/div>\n

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An Angel Warns Balaam About Cursing Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Numbers 22:1-41<\/p>\n

Chapter 22<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No.<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> When Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.<\/p>

40<\/small><\/span> Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.<\/p>

41<\/small><\/span> It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Angels Destroy Wicked Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genesis 19:12-29<\/p>\n

Chapter 19<\/h4>

12<\/small><\/span> The men said to Lot, \"Do you have you anybody else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.\"<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, \"Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.\" But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, \"Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.\"<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, \"Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Lot said to them, \"Oh, not so, my lord.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have showed to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live.\"<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> He said to him, \"Behold, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there.\" Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#5: An Angel Leads Peter Out Of Prison<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acts 12:1-19<\/p>\n

Chapter 12<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Now about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to oppress some of the assembly.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> When he had captured him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, \"Stand up quickly!\" His chains fell off from his hands.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> The angel said to him, \"Put on your clothes, and tie on your sandals.\" He did so. He said to him, \"Wrap your cloak around you, and follow me.\"<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> He went out, and followed him. He didn't know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and passed on through one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> When Peter had come to himself, he said, \"Now I truly know that the Lord has sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.\"<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter stood before the gate.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> They said to her, \"You are crazy!\" But she insisted that it was so. They said, \"It is his angel.\"<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him forth out of the prison. He said, \"Tell these things to James, and to the brothers.\" He departed, and went to another place.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#4: Gabriel Tells Mary She Will Be The Mother Of Jesus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 1:26-38<\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/h4>

26<\/small><\/span> Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Having come in to her, the angel said, \"Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!\"<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> The angel said to her, \"Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name JESUS.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give to him the throne of his father, David,<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end of his kingdom.\"<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Mary said to the angel, \"How will this be, seeing I am a virgin?\"<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> The angel answered her, \"The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one which is born from you will be called the Son of God.<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> For no word from God will be void of power.\"<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Mary said, \"Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word.\" The angel departed from her.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#3: An Angel Tells The Disciples Jesus Will Return<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acts 1:1-11<\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> To these he also showed himself alive after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and spoke about God's kingdom.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Being assembled together with them, he charged them, \"Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> For John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.\"<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, \"Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?\"<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.\"<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> who also said, \"You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.\"<\/p><\/div>\n

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#2: Angels Announce The Birth Of Jesus To Shepherds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 2:8-20<\/p>\n

Chapter 2<\/h4>

8<\/small><\/span> There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The angel said to them, \"Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.\"<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> \"Glory to God in the highest, On earth peace, good will toward men.\"<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, \"Let's go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.\"<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the feeding trough.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken to them.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#1: An Angel Announces Jesus Has Risen From The Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew 28:1-10<\/p>\n

Chapter 28<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> The angel answered the women, \"Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you.\"<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, \"Rejoice!\" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Then Jesus said to them, \"Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they may go into Galilee, and there they will see me.\"<\/p><\/div>\n

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