R.C. Sproul

But God had given His angels charge over Him.

And the angels came to him in the midst of that crisis experience in his life.

Immediately after the fallen angel departs, the heavenly hosts come and they minister to Jesus.

And it's significant that this host of angels attend Jesus again and again throughout his lifetime.

not only at the announcement of His birth, which we will look at separately, but also at the time of His resurrection when the disciples come and when the ladies come, there are the angels in the garden, one at the head, one at the foot, you know, saying, the one that you seek is not here.

He's risen.

He's gone into Galilee before you.

and the angels of God who are performing the function of messengers, of course, at that point, at the same time are sentinels in the tomb.

They're guarding the body of Christ.

Probably the most tender activity

that the angels ever engaged in, in all of redemptive history, because God had ordained that His Holy One would not suffer corruption.

And so He appoints the angels to be at the tomb.

The angels are the escorts of Christ when He ascends into heaven, when He goes to His enthronement for His coronation as the King of kings.

He declares that when He returns, the end of the age, He will be accompanied by the heavenly host, that same heavenly host that were present in the fields of Bethlehem when Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

Again, I have to say to you, I don't know how you are, but when I think of the events that transpired during the life of Jesus and then how the disciples, at least some of them, were eyewitnesses of almost every one of them,

I asked myself, if I could have been an eyewitness of any event in the life of Jesus, what one would I choose?

What one would I really like to have seen with my own eyes?

And that's really a hard one.

I mean, obviously, I would just be delighted to witness a resurrection.

Who wouldn't?