Identifying Some Types, Part 3 of 9

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The examples in 1 Corinthians 10 reach much further than what Paul explicitly outlined. For instance, if the passage through the Red Sea represents baptism, it would seem that bondage in Egypt represents our bondage to sin before we came to Jesus the Christ. The entire analogy is rich with lessons for the Christian.

The Red Sea was a very physical separation from Egyptian slavery. The fact that baptism “seems” physical, “seems” something that “we” “do,” can obscure the spiritual nature of baptism.

But the key to baptism is the work of
the Holy Spirit.

Paul says,

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, …”
1Cor 12:13 KJV

That would make the key to true Christian baptism, not who baptized us, or where, or all the details of what we were thinking, but the actions of God’s Spirit on our spirit in the act of baptism. Similarly, Paul compares baptism to one of the signs of the Old Covenant, circumcision.

“11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”
Col 2:11-12 WEB

Once again, baptism is not something you do, but something done to you. In this case it is described as something “not made with hands.” You and I do NOT “do” baptism (the One Spirit does), rather we “are baptized” by someone else: the Spirit of God. Baptism, true baptism (not just a dunking) then is not a work of man, but a work of God on the spirit/soul of man.

This also parallels the passage through the Red Sea. Israel did not baptize herself “under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,” but God who baptized them through the sea and under the cloud.

This is not contrary to grace, this is grace!

So if the Red Sea separated Israel from
Egyptian bondage,

then that would imply that our being baptized into Jesus is what separates us from bondage to sin. So after Paul came to believe in Jesus on the road to Damascus, he was told, “But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Acts 9:6 WEB. And what was he told?

“’Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’”
Acts 22:16 WEB

That would imply Peter was right, that we need to,

“… “Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, …”
Acts 2:38 WEB

It is shameful how some belittle the work of God in baptism. Others have called baptism our initial test of faith.. God is the only one who can truly separate us from our sins, and that is grace.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 2 of 9

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Some practice with types.

Paul indicates the trials of Israel in Egypt and in the wilderness “were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.” 1Cor 10:6

Israel went in for evil partying.

“… As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.””
1Cor 10:7 WEB

The events in the wilderness are types/ examples for the Christian, that they should not be involved in fornication, as Israel was and twenty-three thousand of the them died in one day, 1Cor 10:8. Now Yahweh tests His people, but His people are NOT to put their Lord to the test. This was explicitly pointed out in Moses Law.

“You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.”
Deut 6:16 WEB

Paul notices what can happen if we are not thankful.

It is fine to ask for things, but it is not right
to despise what we are given.

The number of Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, along this line are too many to mention.

“Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call on his name;
Make known his doings among the peoples. ”
1Chron 16:8 WEB

“I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness …”
Psa 7:17 WEB

Or again,

“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Phil 4:6 WEB

The opposite of a thankful attitude would be grumbling
and complaining against God.

“10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.”
1Cor 10:10 WEB

Indeed, we need to count our blessings, and not discount all the good with which we are supplied. Israel was not the last nation that through despising what was right, and bitterly complaining about what was thought wrong, neither gained what they wanted, nor kept what they had! The Russians being baited into the Bolshevik Revolution by dissatisfaction with the Tsars is an example. They ended up with a tyranny much worse that they ever imaged under Communism. It was an evil system that has left Russia prostrate and in recovery mode to this very day.

“these things happened to them by way of examples …”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

The Greek word translated as “example” in 1Cor 10:11 is tupikos, a adverbial form of the word tupos or type. Paul statement says in effect that God had these things happen and recorded for us, so that we can learn from their tragically bad examples.

“… and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

All of this indicates God’s fine-grained over-ruling
in history.

And the purpose? What would be the purpose? That men,

“… should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
Acts 17:27 WEB

Further, all of this lab work in types should help us deal more intelligently with types in prophecy.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 1 of 9

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Some practice with types.

“I don’t want you to be ignorant,” Paul says, 1Cor 10:1

Paul goes on to say that

“1 … that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”
1Cor 10:1-2 WEB

It has been discussed that Moses was indeed a type, a shadow, symbolic of Jesus the Christ. Here Paul takes the subject further. If we analyze what is said here and in other places, it paints a picture of God as having things happen that are meant to be symbolic of future things. The symbolic people, things or events often come very near in time to the prophecy. The ultimate fulfillment of the prophecy is often in the distant future, sometimes even thousands of years into the future.

So Paul talks about ancient Israel as being
baptized into Moses,

as we are baptized into Christ. As was discussed in the post “Multiple Types of the Christ: Moses,” God announced Moses as being a type, symbolic of the Christ. God will send “a prophet … like you,” that is to say, like Moses. Here Paul continues that analogy and says that the children of Israel passing through the Red Sea with the cloud of God’s presence over them, was like our being submerged in water into Jesus Christ.

Further Paul says that the analogy is not accidental. Jesus said we must feed on him to have life in us.

“Jesus therefore said to them, “Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.””
Jn 6:53

Then astonishingly, Paul tells us that ancient Israel ate of the same spiritual food that Christians eat.

“3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.”
1Cor 10:3-4 WEB

Christian eat of the Christ who came before them. Ancient Israel ate of the Christ who followed them! All of us in the Lord our God have all along eaten of the same spiritual food. We are not under Moses Law, but contrary to many false teachers, the Old Testament and the New Testament are a unity.

Paul then points out that Yahweh, the Lord our God, was not pleased with most of them, and they died in their sins. Paul essentially says that the full history in the wilderness was intended to be a parallel to the Christian life.

“Now these things were our examples,”
1Cor 10:6

The word that is here translated “examples” is the Greek word tupos or type. The Greek word means a blow or impression, an example, an image of something, a model, a pattern, a type. Or as I say, a prototype of something.

The dark failures of Israel in the wilderness
are warnings to the Christian.

We should not lust after evil things, as they did, or be idolaters, 1Cor 10:6-7.

Understanding types is essential for understanding prophecy. This is some practice.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: King David

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David’s kingdom was to last forever, 2Sam 7:16.

Also it was by a “seed”/ son of David that the temple of the Lord would be built, and David’s kingdom continued (2Sam 7:12), “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever,” 2Sam 7:13 WEB. This was all discussed in the posts on “The Two Sons of David.”

David was a specially chosen king, a man after God’s own heart, 1Sam 13:14. It was by David that Israel was at last freed from all of their enemies, and given peace all around. He was exemplary in so many ways: In courage in battle based on faith in the Lord, In being so sensitive of his own failings and shortcomings as shown in psalm after heart felt psalm. Even though very richly blessed by the Lord, and clearly an inspired prophet of God, still a man though, and capable of great and grievous failures, as indeed we all are.

Still, many verses bear witness to the
promises as still valid.

“He gives great deliverance to his king,
And shows loving kindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, forevermore.”
Psa 18:50 WEB

“3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your seed forever,
And build up your throne to all generations.’”
Psa. 89:3-4 WEB

There are even pleas for these promises to be fulfilled.

“10 For your servant David’s sake,
Don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne”.
Psa. 132:10-11 WEB

After over 400 years the first promise was confirmed by Isaiah.

“Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, …”
Isa 9:7 WEB

This ultimate of David’s descendants will give the ultimate decisions.

“The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”
Isa 22:22 WEB

This future king is even symbolically
called “David.”

“Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.”
Hos 3:5 WEB

At the last it seemed all of this was doomed to fail.

But the prophets affirmed that God will again raise up the dilapidated tent of David.

“In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;”
Amos 9:11 WEB

A hero, a conquering king, a mighty man of God. So David is indeed one of the key types of the Christ. And the things which were missing, like David’s kingdom nevery failing, only show that David was only a type, a shadow of the Christ.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: Moses

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There are many types/ symbols of the Christ in Scripture. One of them is great lawgiver Moses. The symbolism is very explicit. There is someone all Israel, and everyone will have to listen to

A Special Prophet Will Come.

“Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;”
Deut 18:15 WEB

So Moses says explicitly that his word would be superseded by someone “like me,” “to him you shall listen.” So there were things which were to be told men later.

There are many ways the Christ is
like Moses.

You might says Moses primary trait is that he was a lawmaker and brought a new law. If this special prophet was to be like Moses, and to be listened to, it would seem that this new prophet would bring a new law. And so He does. As Paul says,

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Gal 6:2 WEB

So there is a law which Jesus brings, “the law of Christ.” The center of it is a new commandment.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
Jn 13:34 WEB

It includes instructions for daily life, for prayer, for the meetings and government of the church, instructions for how what we would call formal worship should be conducted, relations to civil government, sex, family relations and on and on.

Further, there were attempts to kill both Moses
and Jesus at birth.

The baby Moses came under the edicts of the Pharaoh that all male children were to be killed at birth, and he was delivered by being given to an Egyptian princess. Herod feared that this new “king of the Jews who had been born, was a baby to be groomed to take over his throne, so he killed all the infant males in Bethlehem (Mtt 2:16-18) trying to make sure he got this would be ruler. Both attempts failed.

Both Moses and Jesus were initially rejected
by the Jews.

Moses had to flee to the land of Midian for forty years, and was later accepted by the Jews. Jesus is overall still rejected by the Jews to this day, but one day the new covenant of Jer 31:31-34 (which Jesus brought) will be accepted, and it say,

“At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
Jer 31:1 WEB

Moses prayed to be sacrificed
for God’s people.

““Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin— and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.””
Ex 32:32 WEB

God declined Moses offer, Ex 32:33.

But Jesus WAS sacrificed for God’s people.

“… even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”
Eph 5:2 WEB

There are many other parallels, but this is a start.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: The Passover Lamb

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Often there will be multiple types/ shadows/ symbols in Scripture of what will be. Such is the subject of the Christ and it makes an ideal platform for seeing how symbolism works in Scripture.

Moses was leading Israel
out of bondage to the
promise land.

Their stay in Egypt had started as a rescue from famine, and had ended as slavery for the people of Israel. God had heard the pleas of His people for rescue and sent Moses. However, the Pharaoh of the Egyptians proved stubborn and harsh in his resistance to their release.

Then signs were given to convince Pharaoh
to release Israel.

These signs increased in focus and severity on Egypt and its Pharaoh. First there was turning a staff into a snake (which also the magicians of Egypt also did). Then there was turning the river and waters of Egypt into blood (which again the Egyptian magicians also did). Then there was a plague of frogs. (Likewise the magicians also did). Then there was a plague of lice/gnats, to which the magicians responded to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” Ex 8:19. Still Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to release the people. Next came swarms of flies, then the death of Egyptian cattle, then painful boils on the Egyptians, then terrible hail large enough to kill both men and animals. Then came locusts, and then thick darkness even in the daytime. Then came the very last plague.

God would strike all the firstborn of Egypt.

From the firstborn of Pharaoh, to firstborn of every man, whether slave or free, to the firstborn of every animal.

But there was a way out. A Passover lamb.

The ultimate passover lamb was Jesus. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Jn 1:29 WEB. Then in 1Cor 5:7 Paul said, “For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.”

The original was a literal lamb.

Everyone was to take a lamb, and kill it. A male lamb without blemish, Ex 25:5. The blood of the lamb was painted on the side posts of the doors, and the lintels over the doors. Then when God went through the land to kill all the firstborn of Egypt, he would see the blood of the sacrifice and “passover” that house.

They were also to eat of the lamb. We must eat of Jesus.

“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Jn 6:54 WEB

They were not boil it or eat it raw. They were to roast it in a fire. So Jesus went to the heart of the earth for us, Mtt 12:41; to the abyss (Greek abusos in Rom 10:7). Peter says,

“in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, …”
1Pe 3:19 WEB

Jesus is that sinless suffering lamb of God of Isaiah 53, the ultimate way we can be “passed over” for our sins.

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Men, Angels and the Christ in Prophecy, Part 9 of 9

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The author of Hebrews concludes that the purpose of angels is to serve those who will inherit eternal life, Heb 1:14. Then he turns to the subject of men in chapter two. He quotes part of Psalm 8 by David about “man,” and “the world to come,” Heb 2:5.

“6 … “What is man, that you think of him?
Or the son of man, that you care for him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels;
You crowned him with glory and honor.
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” …”
Heb 2:6-8a WEB

This is man made in the very image of God, for now a little lower than the angels, and ordained for great things.

So mankind is SUPPOSED TO HAVE dominance
over ALL.

Then comes those things which we all run into in prophecy. Those things which seem odd or out of place. The author notes it appears nothing is left out of man’s control.

“… For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. …”
Heb 2:8b WEB

Indeed this is the fabric of much of our lives here on earth. We work at this function or that function in managing this earth, and bringing to usefulness its many resources. Those functions may range from killing flies in the kitchen, to managing water resources, to making useful tools and machines for using these resources.

But then there is that part which just does not fit the facts.

“But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.”
Heb 2:8c

Man does not yet have all of this power. There are things missing. There are holes in man’s dominance. We would like to have control of this or that, but, frustratingly, despite great progress in many arenas, much remains outside our control, just as Heb 2:8c says so clearly!

As my books note, such gaps between what is often prophesied, and what is seen in reality, is often the sign of symbolism in the prophecy, of a “type” or a “prototype”.

So man does not have the mastery he should have, yet.

“But we see him who has been made a little
lower than the angels, Jesus,

“because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone. ”
Heb 2:9 WEB

So Hebrews sees man’s dominance as always to be accomplished through Jesus! Through Jesus man recovers his position before God, and achieves his rightful position over creation. So it is not Satan and his angels, or even angels overall, who will dominate the world to come. It is man.

“Don’t you know that we will judge angels?” 1Cor 6:3.

Permanent punishment is prepared for those that oppose God, whether in heaven or in earth.

“Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;”
Mtt 25:14 WEB

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Men, Angels and the Christ in Prophecy, Part 8 of 9

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Satan was able to appear to Jesus in the flesh.

Compare the story in Matthew chapter four. Both knew who the other was. Satan has been granted considerable latitude in testing and trying to seduce men. He tries to get Jesus to worship him, and fails. He is “the ruler of this world” Jn 12:31. He is allowed to make great offers to Jesus.

“8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. 9 He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.””
Mtt 4:8-9 WEB

Yes, though constrained to this creation in our day, Satan has much power, but that is not all of the story.

Elisha was in a terrible bind in 2 Kings chapter 6.

The King of Aram has Elijah surrounded in the small town of Dothan. What the Hebrew text calls “Aram,” the KJV calls Syria (which it is today.) When Elisha’s servant arose the next day, look! The whole city was surrounded by horses and chariots. He asked Elisha, What shall we do?

Greater are those who are with us

“16 He answered, Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them. 17 Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”
2Kfs 6:16 WEB

But it not just the number of men versus the number of angels, or even of good angels versus bad angels.

“What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Rom 8:31 WEB

We as Christians have the living God Himself living in us, if we stay with Him.

“Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?”
1Cor 3:16 WEB

What good news it is to have Yahweh God Himself as our deliverer. Or as the apostle John put it,

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”
1Jn 4:4 WEB

Or as the psalmist put it,

“Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
For Yahweh holds him up with his hand.”
Psa 37:24

What is it then that can overcome us?

“38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ”
Rom 8:38-39 WEB

Powerful enemies for us? Yes! But powerful supporters also.

and book of Revelation?

It is a series of parallel overlapping visions which show … many trials? Yes. And ultimate victory! Also yes!

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Men, Angels and the Christ in Prophecy, Part 7 of 9

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In the fall of man, the key conflicts of our age
have been set off.

The serpent of the old has successfully drawn mankind into conflict with the Lord our God. Now on one hand, Satan is described as the the god of this age.

“among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.”
2Cor 4:4 New English Translation,

Here the New English Translation copyright 1995-2005 is more accurate in translating this as “age” (ai?n), but it is sometimes translated as “world.”

“Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.”
Jn 12:31 WEB

Here the regular word for world is used, kosmos. And Satan has enough power to deceive the whole world.

“The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ”
Rev 12:9 WEB

“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. ”
1Jn 5:19 WEB

So God ordained that there be opposition, hostility,
between the woman, and Satan.

““I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.””
Gen 3:15 WEB

Now it speaks of warfare between the seed/ offspring/
descendant, of Satan,

and the offspring of the woman. But the Hebrew word (zera) is here singular in both cases. The hostility is between the singular descendant/seed of woman, and the singular descendant/seed of the serpent.

As the fall came through the woman,

so also came the deliverer (Jesus the Christ, the singular seed of woman) through the woman (not through the man).

“4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.”
Gal 4:4-5 WEB

The word that is translated as “bruise” in the WEB and KJV in Gen 3:15 can also be translated as to snatch or grab or seize or a blow per the Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Koehler and Bumgartner, 1994,2000. Surely the Bible in Basic English 1965, gives the sense of that last phrase in Gen 3:15 as well as any:

“by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.”

And the “seed”/offspring of Satan?

He still remains to be revealed in our own day, as it was with the Thessalonians (2Thes 2:6). He is what 2Thes 2:3 calls the “man of lawlessness,” and what Revelation calls “the beast.”

So Gen 3:15 is still in the process of being fulfilled.

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Men, Angels and the Christ in Prophecy, Part 6 of 9

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The proper function of angels is still observed by
MOST of the heavenly angels

Now angels in Scripture are called “sons of God” in Job chapters one and two, and are associated with “stars.” I am not trying here to explain that association, rather I am just trying show you that it is there. A clear example is,

“When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Job 38:7 WEB

There is an account of the battle in heaven in Revelation 12 between good angels and bad angels. There is a “great red dragon” Rev 12:4, who is called the devil and Satan,” Rev 12:9. This “dragon” is able to draw one-third of the angels/stars of heaven into his revolt, Rev 12:4.

So it is that most of the angels of heaven
(a good two-thirds of them)

are still serving God. The purpose of angels is given in Hebrews 1.

“Aren’t they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?”
Heb 1:14 WEB

This is clearly reflected the many verses and stories in Scripture. They are not, however, always seen by men. An angel helps Hagar in Genesis 16 in a very visible way. Angels arrived as men in Sodom in the beginning of Genesis 19 in order guide Lot to safety. Satan appeared as serpent to Eve, and angels appear as men when they meet Abraham in Genesis 18, and Abraham prepares a meal for them and they eat that meal. The author of Hebrews counsels us,

“Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
Heb 13:2 WEB

Angels diligently look after the righteous.

“For he will give his angels charge over you,
To guard you in all your ways. ”
Psa 91:11

There is a special angel of the presence of the Lord that is mentioned in Scripture. This is a “messenger” who is intimately involved with Yahweh. (Some speculate that it is Jesus Himself, but if so, that is not clearly stated.)

“In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.”
Isa 63:9 WEB

They are mighty in power and can have astonishing results when they are instructed to do so.

“The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.”
Isa 37:36 WEB

Those who are inclined to abuse children
are warned by Jesus,

“See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.”
Mtt 18:10 WEB

Knowledge of that should affect how men treat children, today, and always.

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