After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

While he was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is by the Holy Spirit that she has conceived.

But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,

Then the angel went away, and Cornelius called two of his house servants and a soldier, a religious man who was one of his personal attendants.

"Captain Cornelius sent us," they answered. "He is a good man who worships God and is highly respected by all the Jewish people. An angel of God told him to invite you to his house, so that he could hear what you have to say."

Then Peter realized what had happened to him, and said, "Now I know that it is really true! The Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod's power and from everything the Jewish people expected to happen."

God never said to any of his angels: "Sit here at my right side until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet."

What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by him to help those who are to receive salvation.

When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

The woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she will be taken care of for 1, 260 days.

She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go back to the land of Israel, because those who tried to kill the child are dead."

When the priests who carry the Covenant Box of the LORD of all the earth put their feet in the water, the Jordan will stop flowing, and the water coming downstream will pile up in one place."

While the people walked across on dry ground, the priests carrying the LORD's Covenant Box stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until all the people had crossed over.

The priests stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything had been done that the LORD ordered Joshua to tell the people to do. This is what Moses had commanded. The people hurried across the river.

and when the priests reached the riverbank, the river began flowing once more and flooded its banks again.

"Then why do I see four men walking around in the fire?" he asked. "They are not tied up, and they show no sign of being hurt---and the fourth one looks like an angel."

So Nebuchadnezzar went up to the door of the blazing furnace and called out, "Shadrach! Meshach! Abednego! Servants of the Supreme God! Come out!" And they came out at once.

So the jailer told Paul, "The officials have sent an order for you and Silas to be released. You may leave, then, and go in peace."

When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger---this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: "Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live."

and she bore him a son. When she saw what a fine baby he was, she hid him for three months.

But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.

At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.

God speaks to make them stop their sinning and to save them from becoming proud.

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.