Angels, we learn from the Bible, are spirit creatures who have real bodies, can wear clothing, eat, cook, drive chariots, ride horses and fight.

They can be visible and invisible—at will and at need. They travel at incredible speeds. They speak a multitude of languages. In fact, there isn't a language they can't speak.

While we don't see angels today, they certainly see us. Angels are literally watching us, watching our walk, our work and our worship.

"Angels are not fooled by external religious activity but when they see a person pass from death to life into the family of God, they begin to watch him or her and they begin to observe because there's something in the Believer's life in Christ that is designed to teach them," says my pastor, Richard Jordan of Shorewood Bible Church in Rolling Meadows, Ill. "You see, angels are not omniscient. They're not like God—they don't know everything. In fact, Mark 13 says 'no man knows the day or hour, not even the angels.' Angels gain knowledge just like you and I do, just like any other creature does—progressively."

There are two classes of angels in the angelic host—those who are with God and those who traded their allegiance to Satan.

When Jesus Christ delivered His Olivet discourse only a couple of days before His death on the Cross, He said of His planned return, "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory." (Matt. 25:31)

In this same sermon, Christ warns of the "everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

The world's religions put false humility in people and cause them to worship angels. That's just what the Apostle Paul's warns against when he says, "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." (Col. 2:18)

"Humility is normally a good thing, but this kind is a bad thing," explains Jordan. "They come along and fraud you and take away from you the things God has for you in Christ—your complete standing in Christ—and, instead, have you over here worshipping intermediaries."

Angels in the Bible are mainly charged with the well-being of the nation Israel, acting as messengers to bring word from God, and the reason Believers today don't need their help today is precisely because they have the completed Word of God to communicate God's message.

People who try and say they've had an encounter with an angel, or an angel interacted with them, are exactly who Paul's warning of with the phrase, "vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind."

"You've never had an angel bring a message to you from God and if you ever thought you did it was just the pride of your flesh, wanting to exalt your experiences over the Word of God," says Jordan. "Besides, if an angel were to preach a message to you, the only purpose of the angel would be to beguile you—robbing you of the completeness God has given you in His Son and in His Word. The reason you and I as members of the Body of Christ don't need angelic intervention to come minister to us, strengthen or comfort us, is because we're strengthened by His Spirit in our inner man. You've got God the Holy Spirit to strengthen you so why use a bellhop when you've got the boss? You have the completed Word of God."

Satan's plan is to blind the minds of people and any unsaved person is under the control and dominion of Satan and his angelic host.