- [Narrator] Who are angels?
Welcome to Grace Digital presentation.
The angels of God are also referred to in the Scriptures
as the hosts of Heaven.
They are real beings.
They are not ideas or mythical figures.
They are spiritual personalities
that have a physical impact.
Just like the demonic world is hidden,
the angelic world is also hidden.
They surround us.
Their physical impact is indisputable.
There is nothing the angels of God do not see.
You might not be able to touch them, yet they touch people.
You cannot handle them, yet they destroy Kings.
The Lord selected a single angel to go ahead of Moses,
to Egypt and he alone wiped a whole nation.
The angels of God are invincible.
"Only the hosts of Heaven transcend in strength."
Psalm 103:20.
There was a war in heaven once upon a time.
Angel Michael and other angels battled against Satan
and his fallen angels.
God used his serving men to face Satan's retired
and ill-equipped army.
Satan could not prevail and there was no more place
found for him in Heaven.
Revelations 12:7-9 tells us, "Then war broke out in heaven.
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon
and the dragon and his angels fought back,
but he was not strong enough
and they lost their place in heaven.
The great dragon was hurled down,
that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan
who leads the whole world astray.
He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him."
In any conflict, the angels always win
in the absolute flushing out the opposition entirely.
Angels have never been known to fail.
There is nothing that can rise against you
that matches their strength.
They formed the most effective bodyguards of the saints.
Apart from surpassing and physical strength,
the angels also excel in intellect.
The widow of Taccoa in describing king David's wisdom,
likens to that of angels.
"My Lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God,
he knows everything that happens in the land."
2 Samuel 14:20.
In his writings,
Lester Sumerall said very stoutly,
"We need to establish the idiomatic expression
as smart as an angel
to acknowledge the wisdom and intellect of angels.
The next question we may have is
what is the significance of these invisible, invincible,
excellent individuals?
Do we need them as latter-day Christians
filled with the Holy Ghost anointing?
what are the relevance of angels?
A peak at the lives of the distinguished men in the Bible
reveals that they all experienced angelic fellowship.
An angel appeared to Moses and chatted with him.
An angel appeared to Gideon and told him that
he had to come to complete the battle for him.
Abraham also encountered an angel who paved the way
for the fulfillment of his destiny.
Lot was safely guided out of Sodom by an angel
just before the city was destroyed.
Daniel excelled in strength
and operated the wisdom of angels
because he had such a wonderful fellowship with them.
Also remember Peter, who was locked up in prison,
Peter was released and left to safety by an angel.
Remember the man, John, who saw what was impossible
for natural eyes to see,
he said an angel showed them to him.
That was the entire book of revelation.
There is almost no man of worth in scriptures
who did not have physical.
The real proof of angelic companionship.
God has said, "I, the Lord do not change.
So you, the descendants of Jacob are not destroyed."
Malachi 3:6.
It follows that what he did yesterday
he is also doing today, all through the scriptures.
There are a total of about 300 references
to angelic appearances and angelic operations.
The new Testament holds 165 of this number.
And the book of revelation alone has 65 references.
There is a lot packed for this time we live in,
angels are an essential and vital part of God's package
for the redeemed.
The anointing cannot replace the services of angels.
Jesus Christ was born of the holy ghost
and he had the holy ghost anointing without measure,
and yet he needed the services of angels.
I'm glad to think that Jesus believed in angels
and he enjoyed their ministry.
Even as the son of the most high God,
even he who knew no sin needed the services of angels
even before his birth, an angel announced his coming.
But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary,
you have found favor with God.
You will conceive and give birth to a son
and you are to call him Jesus."
When he was born,
a mighty host of angels came amongst the shepherds
and declared his arrival.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby,
keeping watch over their flocks at night,
an angel of the Lord appeared to them
and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were terrified.
But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid.
I bring you good news that will cause great joy
for all people.
Today in the town of David, a savior has been born to you.
He is the Messiah, the Lord.
This will be assigned to you.
You will find a baby wrapped in clothes
and lying in a manger."
Luke 2:8-14.
When danger loomed because of the news of his birth,
and the angel told Joseph to move to Egypt
with the baby Jesus, that the scripture may be fulfilled.
Matthew 2:13-15 says, "When they had gone
an angel of the appeared to Joseph in a dream, 'Get up.'
He said, 'Take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.
Stay there until I tell you for Herod
is going to search for the child to kill him.'
So he got up,
took the child and his mother during the night
and left for Egypt where he stayed until the death of Herod.
And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said
through the prophet, 'Out of Egypt I called my son.'"
After the devil left Jesus on the mountain of temptation
angels came and ministered to him.
Matthew 4:11 says, "Then the devil left him
and angels came and attended him."
Angels were present with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane
as seen in Matthew 26:53-54 says,
"Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father,
and he will at once send me more than 12 legions of angels,
but how then should the scriptures be fulfilled
that it must be so?"
One of the most notable events are at the resurrection
was the angelic work that rolled the stone away.
"There was a violent earthquake for an angel of the Lord
came down from heaven and going to the tomb
rolled back the stone and sat on it."
Matthew 28:2.
That stone was placed there permanently by the enemies.
There was no thought of it ever being moved.
I cannot tell what type of equipment was used
in placing the stone there,
but an angel came and rolled it away.
Two angels were later seen at the head and foot
where Jesus was laid, as seen in John 20:12 says,
"And saw two angels in white seated where Jesus's body
had been one at the head and the other at the foot."
These two angels symbolize the two cherubims
that would be put around the mercy seats.
At the time of the sanction,
the angels were again present, comforting the men
in declaring that Jesus shall come back again,
the same way he was taken up.
Acts 1:10-11 says,
"They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them,
'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'Why do you stand here
looking into the sky?'
This same Jesus who had been taken from you into heaven
will come back in the same way
you have seen him go into heaven."
Please understand that Jesus
was sent after the order of Moses
for Moses truly said onto the fathers,
a prophet, shall the Lord your God raise up onto you
of your brethren.
"Like onto me, him shall you hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say onto you."
Acts 3:22, Moses was prophesizing those times
of the coming of Jesus.
So Jesus came after the order of Moses,
and we have also come after the order of Jesus.
Therefore, if Moses's ministry had angels it
and Jesus's ministry engaged angels at all its aspects,
then we also are to be tended to by angels as well.
God said to Moses, "Behold,
I send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way
and to bring the into the place which I have prepared."
Exodus 23:20.
There are things provided for us in this age also,
but we do not have any hope of getting there
without recognizing the ministry of angels.
They are the heavenly forces made available to us by God
to bring his plan and purpose for our lives to pass.
God has prepared his manifold wisdom for the last days
and we are going to walk in it.
You cannot afford to be restricted
or stranded in this period
when the redeemed has taken off on a flight.
The Lord has said by the mouth of the prophet that,
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,
because thou hast rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me.
Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children."
Hosea 4:6.
If you are born again,
the word of God says it is given onto you to know,
confess the following words out loud to yourself.
I am a disciple of Christ.
It is given to me by God to know the mystery of the kingdom
of heaven.
I am a disciple of Christ.
He has given me the gift of supernatural insight
to unravel heavenly mysteries.
Therefore, from now on no secret shall be too tough
for me to absorb.
Lord, I ask specifically, open my understanding
to the fantastic ministry of angels,
open my understanding to the mystery
of the activity of angels,
help me to appreciate their presence consciously on my side
at all times and in all my affairs from today,
spirit of the living God quicken my understanding,
enlarge my understanding, grant me extra insight
that I may be able to comprehend all that matters to me
as contained in your book, amen.
The angels are available on the line, engage them.
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