A very important verse regarding angels and their relation to believers on earth is Hebrews 1:14, “Are they not MINISTERING SPIRITS sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?” God does use angels to “serve believers” but this verse does not assure us that each believer has a “guardian angel.” In what way do they serve us? In Acts 12:1-10 we have a good example, for an angel helped Peter escape from prison and certain death. After the angel’s intervention Peter said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people” (verse 11). Another good example is found in Acts 5:17-20 where some of the apostles were thrown into prison and yet we read in verse 19, “But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out.” Some teach that these are cases of believers being delivered by THEIR GUARDIAN ANGEL. That could possibly be true in Peter’s case but in the case of the apostles there was only ONE ANGEL that delivered ALL THE APOSTLES. The truth is we are not told that God assigns one angel to a certain believer as his or her “guardian angel.”

There are two other passages that some have used to teach there are guardian angels for each individual believer. The first one is Psalm 91:9-12 which reads, “Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; for He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Like we have seen before, this passage teaches us that God uses angels to protect believers in times of trouble, but it says nothing about one having a “personal guardian angel.” In fact, verse 11 mentions God giving “His ANGELS charge over you,” so there may be many angels protecting us at various times in our lives.

The other passage is Matthew 18:10 where Jesus said, “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven THEIR ANGELS always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.” The problem with using this verse to teach we each have a “guardian angel” is that Bible teachers differ as to who is being referred to in the words “little ones.” Some believe they refer to “all believers” and other teach it is referring to “little children.” If you read verses 1-9 it would seem that “little children” are in view and thus it would mean “only little children have guardian angels.” There is also a THIRD VIEW, for some believe the word “angel” here refers to the “departed spirit” of a child who has died and that “they are in heaven beholding the face of their heavenly Father.” Whatever the true meaning is, we could never conclude from these words that “each believer has a guardian angel protecting them.”

As to the Holy Spirit being “an angel or wind,” Scripture is crystal-clear that the Holy Spirit is “one of the Three Persons that make up the Holy Trinity”; in other words, He IS GOD. Jesus brought this out when He told His disciples in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This means He IS A PERSON, not an angel and certainly not wind. Regarding the thought of Him being wind, His work of bringing sinners to Christ, resulting in them being born again, is likened unto the wind in John 3:8, “The WIND blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is BORN OF THE SPIRIT.” His work in souls cannot be seen (just as the wind is invisible), but we can see the effects of His work in the sinner who is born again (just as we see and hear the effects of the wind). See also Acts 2:1-4 where the Holy Spirit’s coming to form the church is said to be like “a rushing mighty WIND, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting” (verse 2). Here too, the Spirit “could not be seen” but His presence was obvious by “the results that were seen.”  (DO)  (693.3)