We Don't Become Angels When We Die

One of many silly beliefs in the public mind is that people become angels when they die. The Bible doesn't say that at all. And since it's God's word, we must heed it.

We know that angels were never born. Some did appear in material bodies but never were they born to human parents.

Unless the Lord allows them to have physical bodies for a time, angels are always spirit beings.  Psalms 104:4 (KJV) tells us it's God, "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:"

Furthermore, Angels are the Lord's servants. Jesus tells us this through Matthew 13:39 (KJV) what these spirits will do. "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."

Now some folks might point to Matthew 22:30 (KJV) as their proof text. But it merely means that there won't be any wedlock in the world to come. "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." It also shows that angels don't marry one another.

Angels never die either. Ponder what Jesus said in Luke 20:36 (BBE). "And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead."

Additionally, the Apostle Paul grouped humans apart from angels in 1 Corinthians 4:9 (BBE). "For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men."

It's clear to me that people who think we'll become angels when we die are ignorant of Holy Scripture's contents.

And if Christ hasn't come by Saturday, I hope to post about demonic possession and one spooky woman.