ANGELS.
1. Angels are the Same Class of Beings as Men—differing only in the scale of progressive being. In heaven there are two kinds:
DOC. & COV. 129.—Spirits of just men made perfect, and angels who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and bones. Of the latter class we have examples in
LUKE 24:39-43.—The resurrected Jesus.
ACTS 10:30-32.—The angel who taught Cornelius.
ACTS 5:19.—Who released Peter from prison.
REV. 19:10.—Who visited John on the Island of Patmos.
2. Evil Spirits are those who
JUDE 6th verse.—"Kept not their first estate," but
Isaiah 14:12; 1 PETER 2:4.—Were with Lucifer, cast out of heaven.
ACTS 5:3.—These spirits tempt men to do evil.
MATT. 8:28-32.—They so desire bodies that they strive for the possession of man's—sometimes, even the bodies of swine.