Angels Have No Wings

Prologue

               Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people 

               have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2

This piece would like to correct the common notion that angels  have wings.

In fact, when they appear to people they look like men. Always, they appear only to true believers and bear a message from God.

In contrast, fallen angels, i.e., demons usually are depicted in the Bible as spirits that enter humans, e.g. Mary Magdalene.

The Pre-incarnate Christ and Two Angels
Visited with Abraham

Genesis 18:1-5

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. ABRAHAM LOOKED UP AND SAW THREE MEN STANDING NEARBY. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.”

“Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”

Continue reading the rest of Chapter 18.

Angels Rolled Away the Stone
Cover Of Jesus' Tomb

Luke 24: 1-8

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, SUDDENLY TWO MEN IN CLOTHES THAT GLEAMED LIKE LIGHTNING STOOD BESIDE THEM [Read Matthew 28:1-7]. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” Then they remembered his words.