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CHAPTER TEN

Wetin Bible Teach Us About Angels?

Wetin Bible Teach Us About Angels?

1. Why we need to learn about angels?

JEHOVAH get family and e want make we know about-am. The angels na part of this family. Bible talk say angels na “sons of God.” (Job 38:7) Wetin angels de do? How they don help people for Bible time? They fit still help us now?​—Check Endnote 8.

2. Na who make the angels? How many angels God make?

2 Make we know the person wey e make the angels. Bible tell us for Colossians 1:16 say after Jehovah make Jesus, e still make “all other things for heaven and earth.” And angels dey among. How many angels God make? Bible talk say na millions of angels dey.​—Psalm 103:20; Revelation 5:11.

3. Wetin Job 38:4-7 tell us about the angels?

3 Bible still teach us say Jehovah make the angels before e make the earth. How the angels feel when they see the earth wey God make? The book of Job talk say the angels glad. That time, all the angels de serve Jehovah as one family.​—Job 38:4-7.

ANGELS DE HELP PEOPLE WEY THEM DE SERVE GOD

4. How we know say angels like people?

4 Angels like people and they want know the things wey God want do for people and for this earth. (Proverbs 8:30, 31; 1 Peter 1:11, 12) The angels go don feel bad when Adam and Eve no obey God. The angels go still de feel bad more when they see say plenty people no de obey God for this our time. But if person repent and come back to God, e de make the angels happy. (Luke 15:10) Angels de like people wey them de serve God. Jehovah de use angels help and protect e people for earth. (Hebrews 1:7, 14) Make we see some examples.

“My God send e angel and e come close the mouth of the lions.”​—Daniel 6:22

5. How angels don help people for Bible time?

5 For the time wey Jehovah want destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, e send two angels make they help Lot and e family run comot from the place. (Genesis 19:15, 16) After plenty years, they throw prophet Daniel for place wey lions dey. But the lions no chop Daniel because “God send e angel come close the mouth of the lions.” (Daniel 6:22) Later, Jehovah send angel make e free apostle Peter from prison. (Acts 12:6-11) Angels still help Jesus when e be dey for this earth. For example, e get help from the angels after e baptize. (Mark 1:13) Before they arrest Jesus, one angel “tell Jesus the thing wey go make e heart strong.”​—Luke 22:43.

6. (a) How we know say angels de help the people wey them de serve God for this our time? (b) Na which questions we go answer?

6 For this our time, angels no de appear to people again. But God still de use angels help e servants. Bible talk say: “The angel of Jehovah de stay around the people wey them de fear Jehovah, and e de save them.” (Psalm 34:7) Why we need person to protect us? Na because plenty enemy dey wey get power, and they want do us bad. Who they be? Na which place they come from? Wetin them de do to cause trouble for us? To know the answers, make we see the thing wey happen small time after God make Adam and Eve.

ENEMIES WEY WE NO DE SEE

7. Wetin Satan don make people do?

7 For Chapter 3, we learn say one angel be strong-head for God, and e want rule other people. This angel na Satan the Devil. (Revelation 12:9) Satan still want make other people no obey God. E fool Eve, and e don still fool plenty people since that time. But some people like Abel, Enoch, and Noah, no stop to obey Jehovah.​—Hebrews 11:4, 5, 7.

8. (a) How some angels become demon? (b) Wetin the demons do when the heavy rain come?

8 For the time of Noah, some angels no obey God. They leave heaven come this earth as people. Why? Bible talk say they want marry women. (Read Genesis 6:2.) But angels no suppose do like that. (Jude 6) People for that time come be like this bad angels, they like fight and other bad things. Na e make Jehovah use heavy rain destroy all the bad people wey be dey the earth, but e save the good people. (Genesis 7:17, 23) But the bad angels no die. They go back to heaven. Bible call this bad angels demons. They choose to join Satan, and e come de rule them.​—Matthew 9:34.

9. (a) Wetin happen when the demons go back to heaven? (b) Wetin be the next thing wey we go learn?

9 Because the demons de strong-head for Jehovah, e no welcome them for e family. (2 Peter 2:4) Demons no fit turn to people again, but they still de “deceive the whole world.” (Revelation 12:9; 1 John 5:19) Make we see how them de fool plenty people.​—Read 2 Corinthians 2:11.

HOW DEMONS DE FOOL PEOPLE

10. How demons de fool people?

10 Demons de fool people for plenty ways. Some people de talk to demons. And other people still de go meet native doctor make e help them. This na some of the ways wey people de do things with demons. But Bible don warn us say make we no do anything with demons. (Galatians 5:19-21) Why? As hunter de use trap catch animal, na so demons de use cunning de catch and control people.​—Check Endnote 26.

11. Wetin some people de do to know the future, and why we no suppose do this kind thing?

11 One way wey demons de fool people na to de tell them things wey they no know, or things wey e go happen for future. People wey they want know this things fit de look stars, de look for signs, or they fit tell person make e bring e hand make they look-am. Plenty people think say this things no bad. But that one na lie, e fit put us for big trouble. For example, Bible show-am say demons and people wey them de see the future de work together. Acts 16:16-18 talk about one girl wey e de tell people things wey go happen. Na demon de give the girl power. When apostle Paul remove the demon from the girl, e no fit talk things wey e go happen again.

12. (a) Why e bad to talk with dead people? (b) Why Christians no go follow the things wey people de do for dead person?

12 Demons still de use another cunning way to catch people. Them de try to make us think say we fit talk with dead people. They want make we believe say this people de live for another place, and say they fit talk to us or cause trouble for us. For example, person wey e friend or family member die fit go meet native doctor. The native doctor go talk say e fit talk with the dead person. E fit talk some things about the dead person, and e fit even talk like the person. (1 Samuel 28:3-19) Because plenty people believe say dead people de live for another place, e de make them do some kind things when their person die. Some of this things na wake keeping, sacrifice for dead people, remembrance, and second burial. When Christians no agree for this kind things, their family and country people fit de talk bad about them. They fit even insult them, or stop to do things with them. But Christians know say dead people no de live for another place. We no fit talk with them, and they no fit cause trouble for us. (Psalm 115:17) No ever try to talk with demons or dead person. And no ever do the things wey demons de make people de do.​—Read Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Isaiah 8:19.

13. Wetin don happen to plenty people wey they be de fear demons?

13 Demons no only de fool people, they still de do things wey e go make them fear. For this our time, Satan and e demons know say na “small time” remain before God go remove them from this earth. Na e make them de vex pass before. (Revelation 12:12, 17) But plenty people wey them de fear demons before no de fear them again. Na wetin help them?

NO ALLOW DEMONS MAKE THEY CONTROL YOU

14. Like the Christians for apostle time, how we fit free ourself from demons?

14 Bible tell us how we fit fight demons make they no de control us. For example, some people for the city of Ephesus be de talk with demons before they come be Christian. How they fit free theirself? Bible talk say: “Plenty people wey them de do magic be bring their book together, they burn-am for front of all the people.” (Acts 19:19) Because they want be Christian, they destroy all their magic books. Na the same thing for this our time. If person want serve Jehovah, e must troway anything wey demon power dey inside. This things fit be books, magazines, film, music, games, and other things wey e de make people think say e no bad to play with magic or demons. The person go still troway anything wey e de wear to protect e self from bad things.​—1 Corinthians 10:21.

15. Wetin we go still do if we want fight Satan and the demons?

15 Some years after the Christians for Ephesus destroy their magic book, apostle Paul talk say they still de “fight . . . wicked spirits.” (Ephesians 6:12) Even though say they don burn the books, the demons still de cause trouble for them. So wetin them need to do? Paul tell them say: “Carry the big shield of faith. This one go help wuna quench all the arrow wey e get fire from the wicked one.” (Ephesians 6:16) Just as shield de protect soldier for war, na so faith de protect us. If we get strong faith say Jehovah go protect us, we go win Satan and the demons.​—Matthew 17:20.

16. How we fit make our faith de strong more?

16 How we fit make our faith for Jehovah de strong more? We need to read Bible every day, and make we trust Jehovah say e go protect us. If we get strong faith for Jehovah, Satan and the demons no go fit do us anything.​—1 John 5:5.

17. Which other thing go protect us from the demons?

17 Which other thing the Christians for Ephesus need to do? Plenty people for that town de use demon power. Na e make Paul tell them make them “de pray and de beg God all the time.” (Ephesians 6:18) They need to beg God to protect them every time. What about us? Plenty people for this our time still de use demon power. So e good make we beg God make e protect us, and we must call e name when we de pray. (Read Proverbs 18:10.) If we continue de beg Jehovah to free us from Satan, Jehovah go answer our prayer.​—Psalm 145:19; Matthew 6:13.

18, 19. (a) How we fit win the fight against Satan and the demons? (b) Na which question we go answer for the next chapter?

18 Make we troway all the things wey we get wey demon power dey inside. And make we trust say Jehovah go protect us. If we do this one, we go fit win Satan and the demons. We no suppose de fear them. (Read James 4:7, 8.) Jehovah get power pass the demons. E punish them for the time of Noah, and e go destroy them for future. (Jude 6) Remember say no be only we de fight this fight. Jehovah de use angels de protect us. (2 Kings 6:15-17) We fit trust say Jehovah go help us win the fight against Satan and the demons.​—1 Peter 5:6, 7; 2 Peter 2:9.

19 But as Satan and the demons de cause plenty suffer for this earth, why God never destroy them? We go answer this question for the next chapter.