Angels can’t be killed though. The two witnesses end up dead and then resurrected.
Hi Curtis, Welcome to the forum.
Yep, Long reply, but detailed, you can read or skip, your option.
Absolutely correct, spirits can not die.
* God "IS" a Spirit, without a Beginning,
and God "Has" 7 Spirits.
...Gods Spirit IS Absolute Pure LIGHT.
...Gods Spirit IS Absolute Supreme POWER.
...Gods Spirit IS His Glory.
...Gods Spirit IS UNSEEN by human man.
(Should a human SEE Gods Spirit, that human would be consumed to ash.
...The Spirits God "HAS" Can come forth OUT of Him, While Remaining "IN" Him.
(Sort of like, your word can come forth out of you, while your word continues to remain IN you.)
And...
* Why Gods Power is called a consuming fire.
* Why men bow their face to the ground to speak (pray) to God.
* Why men close their eyes when they pray to God.
* God "created" holy spirits, to Serve Him, in many capacities. Messengers, Warriors, Teachers, Examples.
* Created holy spirits, Were given great power, talents, authority positions, great knowledge and freewill, that they could REMAIN faithful, or Fall from Faithfulness.
* Created spirits...have a similitude with mankind...in that, While provided Great Knowledge...it is by and through their absolute allegiance to God, they are gifted with GODS UNDERSTANDING of His Provided Knowledge.
* Angelic spirits that have freely chosen to stand Against God...ARE full of Gods great Knowledge, but fall short of being Gifted with Gods Understanding Of His Knowledge.
Mankind IS a created Body, (of dust) of a created Earth. The Breath of God, MAKES a mans Body, Become its own individual Living Body, via a SOUL. All SOULS belong to God, and Are the Source which bring a BODY of man into a Living state.
The Life of a Body IS BLOOD.
The thoughts of a mans BODY IS;
Via...His Natural Carnal mind.
Via...His Natural spirit, natural mans (natural TRUTH ) in his Heart.
Both...the Natural Mind & Natural spirit of man are MORTAL, meaning Subject to DEATH.
The mystery of God...Is God CAN "MAKE" changes "IN" a man.
"MAKE" what God Created...Changed.
And Why God is Called:
The Creator AND Maker.
* God created mans Body, then MADE the body Alive...via His Breath...a Living Soul.
* God created a mans Natural spirit, in his heart and can MAKE that spirit changed, ie (Born Again).
* a mans NATURAL spirit in his heart, IS the mans Absolute Truth.
* a mans Natural spirit, becomes "changed" when the man is Converted, born again from Gods seed, which is the man Receiving, Gods Seed, births the mans new spirit, WITH Gods TRUTH. (That is man receiving Gods "Spirit of Truth"...)
* a mans Living Soul, that is "saved", is a soul that is " restored". (Pss 23:1) It "WAS" very good, became corrupt (via sin, ie standing Against God), forgiven, restored, (again good), and thereafter forever, can never stand against God again. Ie Saved soul.
* A man having Received, a Restored soul...is a soul, that will continue Forever living, with Gods Breath in it.
* A man having Received, Gods Seed, births a mans spirit, that it shall Remain Alive Forever.
* A mans Body shall and MUST DIE. (God requires it to Die)...since it can NOT be raised, FOREVER Alive, without first Dying.
Thus...
* God IS Spirit and Has a Spirit.
God Can APPEAR (to be SEEN) IN A BODY likeness AS A MAN, an animal, a bush, as His power dictates.
* created angelic and fallen demonic spirits, also have the power to APPEAR as a man, animal type creatures.
* Human men, can only SEE, God, SEE heavenly spirit, SEE demonic spirits....WHEN those Spirits....APPEAR IN A FORM, ie BODY...
Human Eyes ARE ABLE TO SEE, without being destroyed to Look at it.
* ALL Spirits...God, Angels, mans born again spirit....ARE LIGHT, and IS the POWER of the "thing"; God, Angel, Man....that Light IS IN.
Human MEN, always APPEAR AS THEY ARE, A BODY.
SPIRITS (GOD, ANGELS, DEMONS)....APPEAR TO HUMANS, FOR HUMANS TO SEE.
HUMANS can hear...but fall short on Believing WHAT they hear, UNLESS they can also process in their MIND...what they ARE HEARING, can be verified as a sounds source, by what they CAN SEE.
A human, is more naturally accepting to believe...what they can HEAR and SEE.
VIdeos, movies, are modernly preferred over books and radios.
** AND THAT ^ IS one of the biggest condunrums of Mankind...between men who believe IN God and men who DO NOT believe in God....
Some man CAN NOT believe without SEEING.
And men WHO DO belive in God without SEEING...are blessed with FAITH and inner Peace, Comfort and Results From God, FOR committing to Believe, without SEEING.
SO... Angels HAVE great Power (given them By God), to APPEAR, in the LIKENESS "as a man", expressly FOR MEN to "hear AND SEE", them. (You at any time, may encounter, "see", A MAN... that may BE, a holy angel...OR a demonic angel.
In Ancient days...Biblical History, Angels APPEARED to men... in the LIKENESS (bodily look) AS a man...and MEN "called" those "angels"....BOTH by what a man SAW...
Calling them...Angels / Spirit / (by what man KNEW) and Calling them Angels /Spirits (by what man SAW...ie a man form).
* The Word of God...IS a Spirit of GOD. His Spirit that comes forth out of Him, YET, remains IN HIM.
* Gods Word from the Beginning of Creation, has EXPRESSLY came forth out from God...
AND SPOKE...What things, were GODS WILL to come into Existance.
* As well Gods SPIRIT of POWER, came forth out from God, that What He Spoke, Came into Existance.
When Scripture reveals...God speaking, OF Himself ....as "US" and "OUR" in Genesis....
He is Expressly revealing...
His WILL (idea), His Word, His Power....ALL work together....to Create and Make...what did not exist, to BECOME in existence.
( and THAT is the basis of the TRI- 3...UNITY- of ONE God....ie Trinity...called by different Names & Titles, but Always ONE Supreme God).
Gods Word came forth out from Gods mouth, many times in the OT...was called An Angel of the Lord, and Appeared AS A MAN, and also called a man.
IN the NT, Gods Word came forth out from Gods mouth, and was Expressly called;
JESUS, Son of Man, Son of God, High Priest, Savior, Christ, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Way, Savior, etc.
Each NAME / TITLE, are clues, Knowledge...Of WHAT exactly a man Can KNOW, the precise ability of WHAT Gods Word, CAN DO.
The BODY...Jesus APPEAR IN...was Prepared BY GOD, (IN the LIKENESS AS A man), expressly FOR Earthly men TO SEE, and expressly to BE AN EXAMPLE for earthly men TO HEAR...AND SEE...
TO HEAR, a mans body shall Die, and God WILL raise up that body and change it to an everylasting living body....IS ONE THING.
TO SEE, a mans body hung, blood spilled to the ground, completely Dead....and then Be risen UP....ALIVE, WIHTOUT BLOOD, (which IS a natural mans LIFE)...IS ASTOUNDING!
Imagine being present...to First hand Witness, such a phenomenal Event...the Wonderment of men, the News, the Discussions, the overwhelming belief and men falling face down to the ground, praising and worshiping God....and today...how THAT phenomenal EVENT is minimized to a time for shopping, decorating, playing, having fun, getting drunk, etc. etc.
Bottom LINE...Spirits have power to APPEAR in Multiple fashions that a man CAN SEE.
And Some men, WHO Can SEE, WHO Can believe the Testimony of those who SAW first hand, and CAN "KNOW" ***AND*** "Understand", WHAT they SEE, "IS NOT" WHAT they SEE.
Gen 1
[
1] In the beginning
God created...
[
2] ...
the Spirit of God...
[
3] ...
God said
THE US, THE OUR;
Gods, WILL, SPIRIT, WORD
Gen 1
[
26] And God said, Let
us make man in our image, after
our likeness:
Gen 1:
[
31] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good...
Gen 2:
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3] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which
God created and made.
Gen 9:
[
4] But
flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof ....
[
5] And surely
your blood of your lives will I require; ...I require the life of man.
Isa 55:
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11] So
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Luke 1:
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35] ....that holy thing...
Heb 10:
[
5] Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast thou prepared me:
Phil 2:
[8] ...as a man.
John 1:
[
1] ...
beginning was the Word...Word was with God...the Word was God.
[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Heb 1:
[2] Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
John 16:
[27] ...I came out from God.
[28] I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world...
Jesus Sacrificed unto DEATH, the body God Prepared Him...(He did NOT sacrifice His Spirit or His Soul) ...Heb 10:5
God IS Desiring mankind to freely Choose to Sacrifice their "BODY", willingly (crucified with Chirst Jesus)....that their soul and spirit may be converted (by Gods POWER to MAKE the (very good created and made thing, that became corrupt...AGAIN MADE good)....and / KEPT in FOREVER LIFE, and their body raised IN Glory of Forever Life...(By the supreme POWER of God...) and Forever BE WITH God.