Where does the Bible say that angels are amazed to see people worship despite their circumstances?

3 Responses to Where does the Bible say that angels are amazed to see people worship despite their circumstances?

1. Mr Ed

   December 16, 2011 at 11:22 pm

   It isn’t in the Bible. You will find, however, in the book of Ephesians that the angels look at the church and learn. Different preachers and writers have developed thoughts from that, speculating, for instance, on what would amaze the angels. Personally I think that the angels are amazed by the grace of God forgiving and redeeming sinners.
2. Romantic_Rebel

   December 16, 2011 at 11:51 pm

   In Judaism tradition humans are above angels. Which we have the free will to worship G-d and so forth.
   Angels vs. Humans

   Notwithstanding the great spiritual level of the angels, the holiness of the Jewish soul supersedes that of the angel. Only the Jewish soul has the ability to descend to this physical and corporeal world and refine and elevate it.15 For the human’s divine soul is a “veritable piece of G‑d Above,” a “piece” of the Creator; as opposed to the angels which are creations—albeit very holy ones.

   This reflects itself in that fact that angels are one-dimensional: each angels has one specific form of Divine service. The human soul, on the other hand, serves G‑d in many different ways, expressing itself through love, awe, etc.

   In the Tanya,16 Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi writes that he heard from his masters that “if one angel were to stand in the presence of a gathering of ten Jews, even if there were no words of Torah [being discussed] between them, such a boundless and infinite terror and dread would then befall him on account of the Divine Presence that abides over them, that he would become utterly nullified!”

   Furthermore, angels have no free-choice and are pre-programmed to serve G‑d, whereas the human is entrusted with the mission of serving G‑d—but is given the freedom to choose to do otherwise. As such, the mitzvot performed by the human are of much greater value than the angels’ service, and propel him or her to infinitely greater spiritual heights, as opposed to the angels who are “trapped” in a consistent level of spiritual consciousness.

   Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch once described the feelings he experienced while reciting the daily morning prayers: “When I recite the part of prayer which describes the praise that the angels sing before G‑d, I envy them. But when I read the Shema, the praise that the Jew sings before G‑d, I wonder: ‘Where have all the angels gone?’”
3. darleneintj

   December 17, 2011 at 12:15 am

   While that possibly may be true, I don’t know of any scripture that talks about the angels in that way. Sorry. It’s possible the preacher was embellishing a little.