God’s Angels

“When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, ‘Peter is at the door!’  ‘You’re out of your mind,’ they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, ‘It must be his angel.’ “ – Acts 12:15,16 One of the most amusing moments in Peter’s escape from jail is how his friends reacted when he appeared at the door. Even though they had been praying earnestly for his safety, they could not believe it was really him. Instead, they said, “It must be his angel!” It’s interesting that they found it easier to believe an angel had come than Peter himself had returned. It’s probably because it was deeply rooted in Jewish thinking that every person had a heavenly helper assigned to them that bore a striking resemblance to the individual himself. As they were praying, Peter’s friends