There are many stories of supernatural protection from angels. In April he had an appointment with destiny. When he heard about riots breaking out in Los Angeles, Tope took to the streets and preached to the rioters.
A gang of hoodlums beat him so severely that he fell into a coma. Tope died the following year, never regaining consciousness after his beating.
If everyone or at least every Christian has a guardian angel, where was his guardian angel that night? Belief in guardian angels is nothing new. Ancient thinkers of the Greco-Roman world such as Plato, Plutarch and Plotinus believed in spiritual guardians, as did Babylonian and Assyrian writers.
Many of the church fathers believed in guardian angels, but they disagreed on their function. The Shepherd of Hermas c. The saints were to struggle through life without celestial help in order to obtain a greater future glory In Psalmos Davidicos If each one of us has an invisible angel always protecting us, why do so many calamities befall us? On our bad days, did the good angel also have a bad day and the evil angel won out?
Are there enough angels and demons to protect or alternatively harass over seven billion people who live on earth? We must dig further to arrive at a feasible conclusion about guardian angels. In what sense do guardian angels protect us more than any other angel that God could send to protect us?
