But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;

When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife,

The Escape to Egypt

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

The Return from Egypt

But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge of you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.

The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,

So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,

For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The Necessity for Watchfulness

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

The Judgment of the Nations

“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

The Necessity for Watchfulness

“But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.