Heavenly beings created by God and associated with Him in His rule over the world refers to Host of Heaven. God is a social beings who brings others families into being and implants His divine image in them. The families of earth bear the image as does the host of heaven.

The heavens declare the glory of God,
the vault of heaven proclaims his handiwork;
day discourses of it today,
night to night hands on the knowledge.

No utterances at all, no speech,
no sounds that anyone can hear;
yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their message to the ends of the world.

High above, he pitched a tent for the sun,
who comes out of his pavilion like a bridegroom,
exulting like a hero to run his race.

He has his rising on the edge of heaven,
the end of his course is its furthest edge,
and nothing can escape his heat. - Psalms 19:1-6 -

I, it was who made the earth,
and created man who is on it,
I, it was who spread out the heavens with my hands
and now give orders to their whole array. - Isaiah 45:12 -

At the angel's announcement to the shepherds of the birth of Jesus, a multitude of the heavenly host praised God. They served as a great choir of created heavenly beings who glorified their Creator and participated in the background of the new age of salvation.

And suddenly with the angel there was a great throng of heavenly host, praising God and singing;
"Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and peace to men who enjoy his favour". - Luke 2:13-14 -

God is also called "the Lord of hosts". The host of heaven consists of angelic beings and celestial bodies whom God has created and whose principal role, like ours, is to serve and glorify Him.

Had Yahweh not left us a few survivors,
we should be like Sodom,
we should now be like Gomorrah. - Is. 1:9 -

As Isaiah foretold: Had the Lord of hosts not left us some descendants we should now be like Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah. - Rom. 9:29 -

Micaiah went on.'Listen rather to the word of Yahweh. I have seen Yahweh seated on his throne; all the array of heaven stood in the presence, on his right and on his left. - 1Kings 22:19 -

Lift your eyes and look.
Who make these stars
if not he who drills them like an army,
calling each one by name?
So mighty is his power, so great his strength,
that not one fails to answer. - Is. 40:26 -

But the host of heaven can become demonic, rebel against God and come under His judgment. - Is. 24:21, 34:4 - God's people must not give undue attention or worship to the host of heaven. Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible warns of God's judgment upon those who love and serve created things like the host of heaven.

He did away with the spurious priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who offered sacrifice on the high places in the towns of Judah and the neighbourhood of Jerusalem; also those who offered sacrifice to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations and the whole array of heaven. - 2Kings 23:5 -

God turned away from them and abandoned them to the worship of the army of heaven, as scripture says in the book of the prophets; - Acts 7:42 -

Now before we came of age we were as good as slaves to the elemental principles of this world but when the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons. - Gal. 4:3-5 =
but now that you have come to acknowledge God - or rather, now that God has acknowledged you - how can you want to go back to elemental things like these that can do nothing and give nothing and to be their slaves? - Gal. 4:9 -

All things are created by God to demonstrate His glory and should be enjoyed as such. But these must never displace God the Creator.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -