The Lord’s ministering angels are helping us find our way back to our heavenly home, while Satan’s are doing everything they can to deceive us. Did you know you have ministering angels watching over you?
There are nearly ten times more angels above us than there are people on Earth. Satan has half as many to do his dirty work. Hell is their dwelling place. Separate from hell is paradise. Within paradise is the Kingdom of Heaven, which is perfectly organized to carry forth God’s work on earth.
Treasure Up His Word
As we treasure His Word, we will not be deceived, and His angels will help us with learning God’s truths. (JS-M 37) As we think of these two places, paradise, and hell, they are both nearby in the Lord’s dimensionality. Alma teaches us, there is a space between death and the resurrection (Alma 40:11-14). For the righteous, it is paradise; for the wicked, it is “outer darkness,” [hell] in contrast to the light of Christ. (John 8:12)
Freedom of choice is fundamental to Heavenly Father’s perfect plan of happiness, and our choices determine where we go when we die. The Lord will force no one to heaven; to do so would make it, not heaven. Matt. 7:7-8 is a law of heaven: ask, seek, and knock and then you will receive, find, and have opened. Angels speak the words of Christ; we ask, and they minister (2 Nephi 32:3). Mormon shares the “job description” of the Lord’s angels:
For behold, they are subject unto him, [Christ] to minister according to the word of his command, showing themselves unto them of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness. And the office of their ministry is to call men unto repentance, and to fulfill and to do the work of the covenants of the Father, which he hath made unto the children of men, to prepare the way among the children of men, by declaring the word of Christ unto the chosen vessels of the Lord, that they may bear testimony of him. And by so doing, the Lord God prepareth the way that the residue of men may have faith in Christ, that the Holy Ghost may have a place in their hearts, according to the power thereof; and after this manner bringeth to pass the Father, the covenants which he hath made unto the children of men…
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen. (Moroni 7:30-32, 48)