Acts 12:15

[simplejeff]

1 hour ago, JTC said:

Because at the time I didn't realize she knew almost nothing about her religion. I jujst met her not long before that. But by asking her questions about Judaism I slowly realized she knew little to nothing. I was then disappointed but I still tried to stay friends with her.

COOL @JTC !   (Amazing Unexpected BLESSING from YHWH in store if truly you help her,  bless her.   AS YHWH PROMISED TO ABRAHAM ---- still TRUTH TODAY -------    whoever blesses you I will bless,  whoever seeks your harm, I (YHWH) curse.) 

So,  BE A BLESSING !  < SMILE >    NO NEED TO BE DISAPPOINTED - YHWH'S BLESSING IS PHENOMENAL ! (HE IS EXTREMELY EXTRAVAGENTLY GENEROUS, WITHOUT MEASURE (beyond measuring)

[Willa]

Read the whole passage in context.  An angel of the Lord had just delivered Peter from prison.  It departed from him when they walked down a road.   Peter goes to the house of Mary where they were having a prayer meeting.  Rhoda recognizes Peter's voice and in her excitement she fails to open the door but go tell the others, who didn't believe it was really Peter.  So they first said she was mad and then claimed it was an angel.  v. 16 Peter is still knocking and finally they let him in, and he tells them the whole story.

It was Peter knocking, not some angel.   Acts 12:5-17  

[missmuffet]

4 minutes ago, Willa said:

Read the whole passage in context.  An angel of the Lord had just delivered Peter from prison.  It departed from him when they walked down a road.   Peter goes to the house of Mary where they were having a prayer meeting.  Rhoda recognizes Peter's voice and in her excitement she fails to open the door but go tell the others, who didn't believe it was really Peter.  So they first said she was mad and then claimed it was an angel.  v. 16 Peter is still knocking and finally they let him in, and he tells them the whole story.

It was Peter knocking, not some angel.   Acts 12:5-17  

Ok Willa, that makes sense.

[Guest Judas Machabeus]

2 hours ago, JTC said:

Because at the time I didn't realize she knew almost nothing about her religion. I jujst met her not long before that. But by asking her questions about Judaism I slowly realized she knew little to nothing. I was then disappointed but I still tried to stay friends with her.

Oooooh. Well that makes sense. Lol I got the impression that you knew she was uninformed but you asked her anyways. 

[Your closest friendnt]

On 3/30/2017 at 6:56 PM, zorgblar said:

Does acts 12:15 talk about guardian angels?

I understand that your question is about quardian Angels. 

Yes they are quardian Angels, and we see that in the story of Peter how the Angel took him out from prison. 

But they are many questions within questions. 

Was this Angel a quardian Angel assign  to Peter within the meaning of been with him all the time to protect him. 

(Angels have many different assignments and missions) 

In this specific situation with Peter, did the Angel came only to assist Peter or the Angel was with Peter all the time. 

How would someone know, we do not have specific details , we just have what the writer said , that the Angel went to the prison, how he got Peter out, how walked with Peter and how the Angel became invisible to Peter.  

Keep in mind that the writer is not a wittnes to these events , only Peter is. But he must have interviewed people who were closed to Peter. 

The story is gredible, not just because we want it to be gredible, and not only considering Peter's character, but also looking at how the Authorities dealed with the Guards,

(they may have been severely punished, and I have to look in their time, how they deal with those situations, even to be able to give a speculative opinion)

We can not tell, whether or not the Angel was with Peter during the time of his arrest, or earlier than that. 

But we know that later when the Angel and Peter were walking together, suddenly the Angel went another way and was invinsible to Peter. 

That tell us only one thing, that the Angel was invisible to Peter. 

So Peter can not say what happened to the Angel. 

Peter can not say that the Angel left, only that he can not see the Angel anymore. 

The Angel could still be with Peter, or minding Peter's bessisnes . 

That doesn't mean that the Angel did not guide or help Peter, even without Peter been consious of his presence. 

There are questions as to why JESUS did not prevent Peter's arrest, or why he did not help James in the same way, he help Peter with. 

The friends and close family of James who was beheaded earlier by the same people who arrested Peter, could have a grievance as to why JESUS did not help them, the same way he helped Peter. 

Going to when the maiden went to answer the Knock at the door. 

We have to look at the reactions of the People who were gather in the room. 

To begin with James was just beheaded a few days earlier,

(the same group of people must have prayed earlier for James, and quite possibly Peter was with them, but we know what happened, and then Peter was arrested, and he was just waiting for his execution).  

The faithful in that room, perhaps were of the mind that Peter was executed , or his excecution was so imminent , that when the maiden told them that she recognized Peter's voice, and perhaps she asked at the knocking on the door, "who is this", means she responded to knocking on the door. 

The faithful been very sorrowful, they did not analyze what the maiden was telling them. 

The knocking and the conversation that took place between the maiden and Peter, that proves that it was Peter, and he was still alive. 

Overcome with their afflictions, thought that Peter was executed already and that his spirit came to visit them. 

That's what they ment by saying "Peter's Angel", but believing Peter was dead, they thought his spirit or Peter came to see them, before going to Heaven. 

From what I know , yes we have Angels to our help, for our protection and many other situations. 

I can not say all the time as absolute for everyone, 

But as with Peter we see he came and went. 

Does not mean that this was the last time an Angel helped Peter. 

Yes there Devils and there Angels, and the all want to have a piece of us. 

Anyway JESUS knows , one way or another, how to protect us. 

God bless

PS

We don't need all the time JESUS to protect us, by resisting evil we are protecting our selfs, and the devil can only go that far with us. 

And he can not go with us to Heaven, only we bothered from him, and from our self while we are here on earth.