And the messenger said unto him, “I am Gabriel that stands in the presence of Yaweh, and I am sent to speak unto you and to show you these glad things.”

This same Gabriel is the one sent to Daniel some 500 years before this and was the one who dictated the Book of Daniel. Here Daniel relates his meeting with Gabriel;

“Yea, while I was speaking in prayer even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in a vision…touched me about the time of the evening oblation.” Dan 9:21,22

This informs us that Gabriel is a man. Many times in the new Testament we have these messengers appearing to people and they are always called men. For instance, when the women went to dress the body of Jesus in the tomb, they were met there by two men in shining clothes who asked them, “why seek ye the living among the dead?” And later on, just as he ascended into Heaven, it says;

“And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, two men stood by them in white apparel…” Acts 1:10

There are lots more examples of these men, who are messengers, appearing throughout the NT. We are even advised to be gracious to strangers as “some have entertained angels thereby.” In other words, people have met and interacted with men and were unaware that these men were angelic beings.

So these beings that we call angels are both spirit in nature and are like men in appearance. There is only one mention of female angels in the Bible and that is in Zachariah where it describes them as having wings. Nowhere are we told male angels have wings. But their nature is spirit just as out nature is flesh and blood. Because they are spirit, they exist in the plane of the supernatural and can accomplish things that are beyond us as we are mere human and are constrained to the sphere of the natural.

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