Angels: True Stories - Robert J. Morgan - Host, Dr. Freda V. Crews

>>YOU HAVE JUST JOINED TIME FOR HOPE, A FAITH BASED MENTAL
HEALTH PROGRAM. I'M DR. FREDA CREWS, YOUR HOST, AND I AM
DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU COME ALONG WITH US TODAY AS PASTOR,
SPEAKER, AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROBERT MORGAN, JOINS ME TO SHARE
WHAT HE HAS LEARNED RELATED TO ANGELS AND HOW THEY SERVE US.
PASTOR MORGAN HAS DONE HIS HOMEWORK ON THE SUBJECT AND HAS
CHOSEN TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS IN HIS BOOK TITLED ANGELS TRUE
STORIES. I AM A FIRM BELIEVER THAT ANGELS ARE REAL PERSONS,
AND THAT THEY ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES
STANDING READY AT ANY TIME TO CARRY OUT THE CREATOR GOD'S
ASSIGNED MISSIONS FOR THEM. FOR MORE STAY WITH US.
>>ROBERT, IT'S GREAT HAVING YOU ON AGAIN ON TIME FOR HOPE.
>>THANK YOU SO MUCH DR. CREWS.
>>HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING ON THIS BOOK SINCE YOU WERE HERE? IT
MUST HAVE TAKEN A LOT OF WORK TO PUT TOGETHER WHAT YOU HAVE
BETWEEN THESE TWO COVERS.
>>YES, THANK YOU. WELL, IT'S A WONDERFUL SUBJECT. THE BIBLE
TALKS ABOUT ANGELS 234 TIMES, THEY ARE IN 39 BOOKS OF THE
BIBLE, 19 OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS, 20 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
BOOKS. THE RANGE OF MATERIAL ABOUT ANGELS IN THE BIBLE GOES
FROM GENESIS 3 TO REVELATION 22, SO THERE IS A LOT OF MATERIAL TO
WORK WITH AND ALL OF IT IS ENCOURAGING.
>>AND ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT PEOPLE READ THE BIBLE, I'M
GUILTY OF THE SAME THING, AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS NEVER
REALLY REGISTER WITH THEM. BUT BY THE WAY, THE ISRAELITES,
GOD'S PEOPLE THAT WERE AHEAD OF US, NOW THEY'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED
IN ANGELS SO THAT COULD ACCOUNT FOR THEM SHOWING UP SO OFTEN IN
THE SCRIPTURES.
>>YES ANGELS WERE VERY INVOLVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND SOME
OF OUR GREAT ANGEL STORIES HAD TO DO WITH THE ISRAELITES AND
WITH THE STORIES OF THE PROPHETS, AND SOME OF THE KINGS
OF ISRAEL, AND SOME OF THE JUDGES. THERE WERE SOME VERY
INTERESTING ANGEL STORIES ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT. BUT
THEN WE TURNED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND THEY ARE ALL
AROUND CHRIST DURING HIS LIFE. OF COURSE THEY'RE HELPING THE
APOSTLES, FOR EXAMPLE IN ACTS CHAPTER 12 WHEN AN ANGEL GETS
PETER OUT OF PRISON. AND THEN THEY SHOW UP PARTICULARLY IN THE
BOOK OF REVELATION, WHERE WE HAVE INTENSE ANGELIC ACTIVITY.
SO TO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE IS TO BELIEVE IN ANGELS. IT IS FULL OF
ANGELS AND THEY POP IN AND OUT OF THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE THE
WAY WE WOULD POP IN AN OUT OF A COFFEE SHOP.
>>YES, BUT YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE, AND SOME OF OUR VIEWERS
WILL SAY YES, BUT THOSE WERE PARTICULAR PEOPLE, PARTICULAR
CHARACTERS, YOU KNOW PETER, JESUS, BUT THAT DOESN'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO WITH US. BUT YOU HAVE SHOWN, AND YOU DO SHOW IN
YOUR BOOK THAT IT DOES HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH US AND THAT VERSE
THAT YOU SAY IS THE BEST VERSE ON ANGELS IN HEBREWS I HAVE
ALWAYS, ALWAYS RELIED ON THAT VERSE AND AS I'VE ALREADY
MENTIONED I'M A FIRM BELIEVER IN ANGELS. WE AT ONE TIME THERE WAS
A SONG THAT WAS SUNG IN CHURCH QUITE OFTEN AND I REMEMBER AS WE
WERE PASTORING A CHURCH IN SOUTH GEORGIA THAT ONE OF OUR SOLOIST,
I HAD TO CHANGE IT OUT OF ONE KEY INTO A LOWER KEY, FOR HER
AND MANY TIMES SHE SUNG HE COULD HAVE CALLED 10,000 ANGELS.
>>YES TO DESTROY THE WORLD AND SET HIM FREE.
>>YES, BUT HE CHOSE TO DIE FOR YOU AND ME.
>>THAT'S A WONDERFUL OLD SONG ABOUT ANGELS, AND IT'S BASED ON
WHAT CHRIST SAID THAT HE COULD'VE CALLED ALL OF THESE
LEGIONS OF ANGELS TO HAVE DELIVERED HIM FROM THE CROSS,
BUT HE DIDN'T. AND WHEN YOU STUDY ANGELS IN THE LIFE OF
CHRIST THEY ARE ACTIVE AT EVERY POINT EXCEPT AT THE CROSS. WHEN
HE'S BORN, THE ANGELS ARE EVERYWHERE WITH THEIR
ANNOUNCEMENTS, WHEN HE'S TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS THERE'S AN
ANGEL THERE TO STRENGTHEN HIM, AS HE GOES THROUGH HIS MINISTRY
HE REFERS TO ANGELS AND TEACHES ABOUT THEM. IN THE GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE THERE'S AN ANGEL THERE TO STRENGTHEN HIM. OF
COURSE AT THE RESURRECTION THE ANGELS ARE THERE TO ANNOUNCE IT,
IT IS A SANCTION THERE ARE ANGELS. BUT THE ANGELS WERE TOLD
TO STAND DOWN DURING THOSE SIX HOURS ON FRIDAY, PASSOVER DAY
WHEN HE WAS CRUCIFIED. THEY COULD HAVE DELIVERED HIM BUT HE
GAVE HIS LIFE FOR US. AND THAT'S ONE TIME WHEN ALL OF THE ANGELIC
HOSTS OF HEAVEN, MUST HAVE JUST BEEN STILLED IN STUPIFICATION
WONDERING, WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? AND CHRIST COULD HAVE
CALLED THEM, BUT HE DIDN'T BECAUSE HE WANTED TO DIE FOR OUR
SINS.
>>CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THEY FELT BECAUSE WE DO BELIEVE THEY HAVE
EMOTIONS LIKE WE DO THAT THEY'RE REAL PERSONS, AND THEY HAVE
EMOTIONS, INTELLECT, VOLITION, HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR THEM TO
STAND BACK, AS IT WERE, AND ALLOW HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED. BUT
THEY DID, OF COURSE, BECAUSE THEY FOLLOW THEIR HEAVENLY
FATHER'S DIRECTIONS AND COMMANDS.
>>IT MUST HAVE BEEN ASTOUNDING TO THEM, AND I THINK IT SHOULD
BE ASTOUNDING TO US AS WELL. I THINK THAT ANGELS AND HUMAN
BEINGS AND CHRISTIANS, WE ALL SHARE THIS AMAZEMENT AT THE LOVE
OF GOD THAT WAS EXPRESSED AT CALVARY. BUT OF COURSE AS SOON
AS JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD THE ANGELS WERE UP AND AT IT AGAIN
AND BUSY ANNOUNCING AND WITH A THRILL I THINK THEY HAD NEVER
EXPERIENCED BEFORE JUST TO SEE WHAT THE LORD WAS DOING AND THE
POWER OF THAT RESURRECTION
>>AND YOU KNOW, AND YOU SAID IN YOUR BOOK AND I'M GOING TO JUMP
AHEAD THAT THEY COME FOR US AND TAKE US TO HEAVEN. ONE OF THE
BIBLE SCHOLARS OF THE PAST, I BELIEVE IT WAS J. C. RYLE THAT I
WAS STUDYING ACTUALLY BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT THEY'VE GOT TO
TAKE US THROUGH SATAN'S TERRITORY TO GET US TO HEAVEN.
AND THESE BEAUTIFUL STORIES OF PEOPLE GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF
SEEING THEM BEGINNING TO GATHER FOR THEM AS THEY'RE DYING, THE
PURITANS WERE REALLY BIG ON THAT, AND I ACTUALLY BELIEVE I
KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THEY ENTERED THE ROOM FOR MY HUSBAND. AND
SOMETHING TOOK PLACE, AND THERE WAS A SENSE, BECAUSE HE WAS
UNABLE TO MAKE ANY SOUNDS, ANY MOVE, ANYTHING, AND THEN
SUDDENLY THERE WAS SOMETHING UP ABOVE, THAT HE DID HIS DEAD
LEVEL BEST TO GET US TO SEE WHAT HE WAS SEEING. AND WE COULDN'T,
AND HE HAD ONLY ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT HOURS LEFT AT THAT TIME.
>>YES I DO BELIEVE THIS AND IN LUKE CHAPTER 16 JESUS SAID IT
WAS THE ANGELS THAT CARRIED THE BEGGAR LAZARUS UP INTO HEAVEN. I
HAD A FRIEND, AGNES FRAZIER, WHO WAS ELDERLY, SHE WAS IN HER 90S
AND SHE WAS ON HER DEATHBED AND SHE CALLED FOR ME, AND I WENT TO
SEE HER AND SHE WAS VERY FAINT. HER VOICE WAS VERY LOW, I HAD TO
BEND OVER TO LISTEN TO HER BUT SHE SAID BROTHER MORGAN, SHE
SAID, CAN YOU TELL ME WHO THESE TWO MEN ARE AT THE FOOT OF MY
BED? AND I SAID MRS. FRAZIER THERE'S NO ONE HERE EXCEPT YOUR
NURSE AND ME. SHE SAID NO THERE ARE TWO MEN DRESSED IN WHITE AT
THE FOOT OF MY BED AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO THEM. AND I
SAID WELL, IF THEY ASK YOU ANYTHING, TELL THEM YOU BELONG
TO JESUS. AND SHE SAID THAT'S WHAT I'LL TELL THEM. AND SHE
JUST INSISTED WITH HER DYING WORDS, THAT THERE WERE TWO MEN
THERE DRESSED IN WHITE AT THE FOOT OF HER BED, BUT AFTER I HAD
TALKED TO HER, I SAY JUST TELL THEM YOU BELONG TO JESUS, SHE
HAD ABSOLUTE PEACE, SHE JUST LEANED BACK AND CLOSED HER EYES
AND SEEMED HAPPY. AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THOSE WERE TWO
ANGELS THAT SHE COULD SEE BUT I COULDN'T, BUT THEY WERE THERE TO
ESCORT HER TO HEAVEN SAFELY.
>>IT WAS THE SAME WITH MY HUSBAND AND IT WAS JUST SHEER
PEACE AFTER THAT, NO STRUGGLING AND JUST PEACE AND IT WAS A
PEACEFUL SENSE IN THE ROOM, AND SO FORTH. YOU KNOW JOHN WESLEY,
THOUGH, ENCOUNTERED ANGELS APPARENTLY OF A DIFFERENT KIND
WHEN HE WAS DYING. HE WAS ATTACKED, HE WAS ASSAULTED, HAD
A VERY DIFFICULT TIME AND HE WAS SUCH A GODLY MAN. SO MAYBE
SOMETIMES THERE IS ACTUALLY A CONTEST, I'M JUST SAYING THIS
BUT, BETWEEN THE GOOD AND THE BAD ANGELS OVER SOMEONE'S SOUL
OR BODY.
>>WELL THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE DEVIL IS THE POWER OVER THE AIR
AND I DO THINK THAT J. C. RYLE WAS CORRECT WHEN HE SAYS THAT
THERE IS ENEMY TERRITORY WE PASS THROUGH TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT
THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN THESE ANGELS WHO OPERATE IN
THE NAME OF CHRIST AND THEY GET US THERE SAFELY. AND I DON'T
THINK WE EVER HAVE TO WORRY AS CHRISTIANS ABOUT DYING. I THINK
THE PROCESS OF DYING, FRIGHTENS US, BUT I THINK THE SECURITY
THAT WE HAVE IN KNOWING THAT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A SAFE PASSAGE
IS GUARANTEED TO US IN THE SCRIPTURE.
>>THE LORD SAID NONE OF HIS, NOT ONE OF HIS WOULD EVER BE LOST.
THEY MIGHT TRY, SATAN AND HIS DEMONS MIGHT TRY, BUT THEY CAN'T
GET IT DONE, THEY CAN'T GET IT DONE. SOME GO FAR ENOUGH ROBERT
TO BELIEVE THAT ACTUALLY UFOS, THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE, THAT
THEY'RE COMMANDEERED BY ANGELS THAT ARE TAKING GOD'S PEOPLE
THROUGH THAT TERRITORY TO HEAVEN.
>>YES WELL, I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF SPECULATION THAT WE COULD
HAVE AND THERE ARE A LOT OF WONDERFUL STORIES IN CHRISTIAN
HISTORY AND MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHY ABOUT ANGELS. THE SPECULATION, I
WILL SORT OF LEAVE TO OTHER PEOPLE, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT
ELIJAH WAS TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN IN A CHARIOT SURROUNDED BY ANGELS.
WE KNOW THAT WHEN THE RESURRECTION OCCURS THAT THERE'S
GOING TO BE ANGELS WHO ARE USHERING US AND ESCORTING US
INTO THE LORD'S PRESENCE BECAUSE JESUS TALKED ABOUT THE ROLE OF
THE ANGELS AT THE TIME OF RESURRECTION. SO WE DO KNOW IN
THE BIBLE THAT ANGELS ARE VERY INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF
TRANSPORTING US SAFELY TO HEAVEN, BOTH AT THE MOMENT OF
DEATH, AND AT THE TIME OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY TO COME
LATER. AND THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE VERSE YOU INDICATED EARLIER ARE
NOT ALL ANGELS MINISTERING SPIRITS SENT TO SERVE THOSE WHO
WILL INHERIT SALVATION, HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 14, AND THAT I
THINK IS THE CORE TEACHING IN THE BIBLE ON THE SUBJECT OF
ANGELS.
>>WELL YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS SEEN THAT ALSO IN THINKING ABOUT
MY OWN LIFE AND MY OWN EXPERIENCE THAT THAT ACTUALLY
MEANS FROM THE DAY OF OUR BIRTH TILL WE'RE SAVED THEY ARE SEEING
THAT WE ARE KEPT SAFE, PEOPLE LIKE JOHN NEWTON, AND OF COURSE
ALL OF US, BUT WATCHING OVER THEM. I KNOW YOU KNOW THE STORY
OF JOHN NEWTON THAT CAUSED HIM TO WRITE AMAZING GRACE AND SO
FORTH. SO IT BEGINS AT BIRTH, THAT HE'S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF
US UNTIL WE ARE SAVED AND THEN FROM THEN ON UNTIL WE ARE IN
GLORY.
>>THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ENCAMPS AROUND THOSE WHO FEAR HIM AND HE
DELIVERS THEM IT SAYS IN PSALMS 34.
>>WHEN IT'S TIME, A BREAK IS COMING UP, AND WHEN WE COME
BACK, WE'RE GOING TO GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW WHAT
KIND OF PERSON OR WHAT KIND OF BEING ARE ANGELS SO STAY WITH ME
AND WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
>>WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO DOUBT THAT ANGELS ARE REAL,
SINCE THERE ARE AT LEAST 250 TO 300 REFERENCES TO THEM IN THE
HOLY BIBLE BEGINNING WITH GENESIS, THE FIRST BOOK OF GOD'S
INSPIRED WORD. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT CONFINED TO A PARTICULAR
BODY THEY ARE BEINGS WHO MANIFEST AN INTELLECT, EXPRESS
EMOTIONS AND VOLITION. ANGELS WERE CREATED BY THE OMNIPOTENT
CREATOR GOD TO SERVE HIM, AND TO MINISTER TO THOSE OF US WHO ARE
HIS CHILDREN THROUGH A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
ANGELS POSSESS GREAT STRENGTH BUT ARE NOT ALL POWERFUL LIKE
THEIR CREATOR, AND NEITHER ARE THEY ALL KNOWING LIKE THEIR
OMNISCIENT CREATOR. THERE ARE BOTH GOOD AND EVIL ANGELS - THE
GOOD ANGELS REMAINED WITH THEIR CREATOR WHILE THE EVIL ONES
CHOSE TO JOIN SATAN IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE
THE SOVEREIGN GOD WHO CREATED HIM. SINCE SATAN IS STILL
DETERMINED TO UNSEAT THE SOVEREIGN OMNIPOTENT GOD, HE AND
HIS FALLEN ANGELS CREATE A CONTINUING BATTLE ON EARTH AND
IN THE HEAVENLIES AS THEY WAGE WAR AGAINST THE GOOD ANGELS
WHOSE COMMANDING OFFICER IS THEIR CREATOR. ANGELS ARE SPIRIT
BEINGS WITHOUT A BODY BUT CAN ROBE THEMSELVES IN A BODY. THE
BIBLE RECORDS ANGELS APPEARING AS MEN AND NOT AS WOMEN. THE CAN
FREELY TRAVEL WHEREVER THEY ARE SENT, WHICH COULD REQUIRE WINGS
WHEN NEEDED. THERE ARE SCRIPTURAL RECORDINGS OF ANGELS
TALKING AND DELIVERING ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THEIR
HEAVENLY COMMANDER -EXAMPLES BEING ABRAHAM AND GABRIEL
VISITING ZECHARIAH TO INFORM HIM THAT HIS WIFE ELIZABETH WAS SOON
TO BEAR HIM A SON, JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT
VISIT TO THE VIRGIN MARY TO INFORM HER THAT SHE HAD BEEN
CHOSEN TO GIVE BIRTH TO ISRAEL'S LONG AWAITED MESSIAH - THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. ANGELS MINISTERED TO THE LORD JESUS AS HE
STRUGGLED WITH HIS APPROACHING DEATH ON THE CROSS. THEN AS
HEBREWS 1:14 RELATES THEY ARE BUSILY ENGAGED IN MINISTERING TO
US WHO ARE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST, AS DELIVERERS, PROTECTORS,
PROVIDERS AND EVENTUALLY STANDING BY TO TAKE US TO
HEAVEN. ANGELS WILL ACCOMPANY CHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS TO EARTH
THE SECOND TIME TO GATHER HIS ELECT BY RAISING THEM FROM THE
DEAD AND CHANGING THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AT HIS COMING. IN SPITE OF
THE PREEMINENCE IN GOD'S KINGDOM THESE AMAZING CREATED BEINGS
HOLD, THEY ARE NEVER TO BE WORSHIPPED. INSTEAD, THEY ARE TO
BE RESPECTED, APPRECIATED AND RECOGNIZED FOR THE ROLES THEY
HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY THEIR CREATOR IN MINISTERING TO US HIS
CHILDREN.
>>I'M SURE YOU'VE HAD NO TROUBLE STAYING WITH US AS MY GUEST
ROBERT MORGAN AND I ARE DISCUSSING ANGELS AND STORIES
RELATED TO ANGELS ACTIVITY IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE. AND ROBERT,
I NEED TO TELL THIS STORY BEFORE WE GET STARTED, BECAUSE I
PROBABLY WON'T GET IT IN WITH AS MUCH AS COULD BE TALKED ABOUT
AND ALL THE STORIES THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR BOOK. MY TWO
DAUGHTERS WERE IN ONE CAR HEADED ON 85 GOING SOUTH OUT OF
SPARTANBURG TOWARDS GREENVILLE, THEY WERE HEADED TO ATLANTA FOR
A BUSINESS MEETING AND WE GOT A CALL THAT THEY HAD BEEN IN AN
ACCIDENT. AND THE ONE DAUGHTER THAT WAS DRIVING HAD JUST BOUGHT
A NEW CAR AND SHE LOST CONTROL OF IT, BECAUSE SHE WASN'T
ACCUSTOMED TO THE STEERING, AND SO IT HEADED OVER, IT WENT AIR
BOUND AND HEADED OVER TO THE NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC COMING
TOWARDS SPARTANBURG AND PEOPLE WERE REALLY SCARED IT WAS GOING
TO LAND IN FRONT OF THEM AND ON THEM. WELL ANYWAY, THEY LANDED
UPSIDE DOWN IN THE MEDIAN, IN THE GRASS MEDIAN WHEN ALL OF
THIS WAS OVER. PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE, HAD NO REASON
TO IMPRESS ANYBODY WERE TELLING THOSE AROUND THEM, THE ONES THAT
WERE HEADED NORTH, THAT IT APPEARED TO THEM THAT THE CAR,
THAT BIG HANDS TOOK THAT AUTOMOBILE, TOOK IT AND LAID IT
DOWN IN THE GRASS MEDIAN BETWEEN THE TWO ROADS. NOW I'LL LET YOU
CONCLUDE WHAT I BELIEVE HAPPENED.
>>WELL, WE DO BELIEVE THAT ANGELS PROTECT US, DON'T WE AND
THEY PROTECT OUR LOVED ONES. I HAD A VERY SIMILAR INCIDENT. MY
DAUGHTER A FEW MONTHS AGO HAD A TERRIBLE WRECK WITH OUR
GRANDCHILDREN AND HOW THEY WALKED AWAY FROM THAT I DON'T
KNOW. BUT PSALM 91:11 SAYS HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER
YOU TO PROTECT YOU IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS. NOW LET ME GIVE YOU A
LITTLE CLUE FOR PSALM 91:11, YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT VERSE BY 911,
BECAUSE THAT'S THE EMERGENCY NUMBER THAT WE CALL WHEN THERE'S
A PROBLEM IS 911, YOU JUST ADD A ONE TO IT AND YOU HAVE 9111,
THAT'S PSALM 91 VERSE 11, AND IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT ANGEL
VERSES IN THE BIBLE. HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU,
TO GUARD YOU IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS AND IT'S VERY COMFORTING FOR US
AND FOR OUR FAMILIES TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE PROTECTIVE ANGELS
AROUND US AS WE TRAVEL OR AS WE GO THROUGH OUR DAY.
>>AND THAT THEY'RE POWERFUL, YOU TALK ABOUT THE POWER OF ANGELS,
AND THAT THEY'RE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO DO THAT. YOU KNOW AND NEITHER
DAUGHTER WAS HURT. THEY WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND
CHECKED OUT, AND THEY WERE SHAKEN UP BELIEVE ME FOR AWHILE,
BUT THEY WERE NOT INJURED.
>>SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
>>SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR, AND WHEN WE PRAY WE CAN HAVE
CONFIDENCE THAT GOD CAN AND DOES CALL FORTH HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT
US AND OUR LOVED ONES. SO WE SEE THEM AS POWERFUL BEINGS, AND YOU
TALK ABOUT THAT. ALSO, HOW ABOUT BEING THERE TO DELIVER US,
BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GOOD ANGELS. THERE ARE BAD ANGELS.
LET'S FIRST OF ALL TELL OUR VIEWERS WHERE THEY COME FROM.
WHERE DO THE BAD ONES COME FROM? WHERE DID ANGELS COME FROM
ANYWAY? LET'S TALK ABOUT THEIR ORIGIN.
>>WELL, GOD CREATED ANGELS AT THE VERY BEGINNING I THINK
BEFORE HE CREATED THE WORLD BECAUSE JOB INDICATES THAT THEY
WERE WATCHING AS GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE, SO THEY WERE VERY
EARLY IN THE ORDER OF CREATION. THEY ARE CREATED BEINGS, THEY
ARE NOT ETERNAL THE WAY THAT GOD IS. AND WE HAVE INDICATIONS IN
THE BIBLE, THAT ONE OF THEM, LUCIFER, AT SOME POINT LED A
REBELLION OF SOME OF THE ANGELS. AND ISAIAH TALKS ABOUT THIS,
EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT THIS, WE HAVE IT IN THE BOOK OF
REVELATION, AND SO THOSE BECAME THE DEMONS THAT PLAGUE US TODAY.
BUT THE NUMBER OF GOOD ANGELS OUTNUMBER THE NUMBER OF DEMONS
AND THE BIBLE HAS AN AWFULLY LOT TO SAY ABOUT THESE GOOD ANGELS
AND ABOUT THEIR MINISTRIES AND ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY DO
DELIVER US. AND THE BIBLE INDICATES THAT THEY MAY BE
AROUND US ON ANY DAY AND WE MAY SEE THEM AND NOT RECOGNIZE THEM
AS AN ANGEL. YOU KNOW, HEBREWS 13 SAYS THAT WE SHOULD TREAT
STRANGERS KINDLY, BECAUSE PEOPLE IN BIBLICAL TIMES, WOULD
ENTERTAIN ANGELS UNAWARE. AND THE INDICATION SEEMS TO BE
ANGELS ARE STILL FUNCTIONING IN OUR WORLD TODAY AND YOU KNOW, WE
DON'T WANT TO SEE ANGELS BEHIND EVERY TREE OR AROUND EVERY
CORNER, BUT I DO THINK THAT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE
ANGELS WHO ACTUALLY COME WHO HELP US, WHO DELIVER US. WE MAY
EVEN SEE THEM AND SOMETIMES THEY APPEAR AS MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS
IN OUR WORLD BUT THEY HAVE A JOB OF DELIVERING GOD'S PEOPLE IN
TIMES OF TROUBLE OR DANGER.
>> AND THEY ARE SPIRITS AND THEY CAN APPEAR IN WHATEVER FORM GOD
NEEDS THEM TO APPEAR IN. BUT WHEN WE THINK OF MICHAEL AND
GABRIEL, THEY DID APPEAR AS MEN, DIDN'T THEY? FROM WHAT I CAN
READ IN THE SCRIPTURES IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THEY APPEARED
AS MEN.
>>THEY DID ABSOLUTELY, IN FACT, THE TWO ANGELS THAT VISITED
ABRAHAM IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS, ABRAHAM THOUGHT THEY WERE
REGULAR, ORDINARY WAYFARING TRAVELERS. IT WASN'T UNTIL LATER
THAT IT BEGAN TO DAWN ON HIM THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY ANGELS.
BUT I THINK ANGELS CAN APPEAR IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS. I HAVE A
FRIEND WHO IS A MISSIONARY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. HIS MISSION
COMPOUND WAS SURROUNDED BY SOME ATTACKERS, BY MOBS OF PEOPLE WHO
WANTED TO ATTACK HIM. AND THEY EXPECTED ANY DAY FOR THAT ATTACK
TO COME. IT NEVER DID. AND LATER, HE WAS TOLD BY ONE OF THE
LOCALS THAT THE REASON THE ATTACK NEVER CAME WAS BECAUSE OF
THE FLAMES OF FIRE THAT WERE SURROUNDING THE BUILDING. AND HE
SAID WELL THERE WASN'T ANY FIRE, I WAS THERE I DIDN'T SEE ANY
FIRE. BUT YES, THEY SAID THE BUILDING WAS SURROUNDED BY
FLAMES OF FIRE AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT FIRE TO
ATTACK THE BUILDING. WELL THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HIS ANGELS CAN
BE MINISTERS OF FIRE. SO I THINK THAT ANGELS ARE VERY VERSATILE
CREATURES WHO CAN HELP US IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. BUT I DO
THINK THAT THEY ARE, VERY OFTEN THEY WOULD APPEAR AS MEN, AND
PERHAPS THEY DO HAVE BODIES. THEY ARE CERTAINLY SPIRITS, WHO
CAN ASSUME BODIES. BUT WHO KNOWS, WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN WE
MAY BE WALKING DOWN THE STREETS SIDE BY SIDE WITH AN ANGEL, WHO
ISN'T MAYBE ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM YOU OR ME.
>> YOU KNOW WHEN WE THINK OF SATAN AND YOU MENTIONED HIM,
WHAT A POSITION HE WAS GIVEN, YOU KNOW, THE HIGHEST RANKING
ANGEL AND HE WAS GIVEN THE EARTH TO LOOK AFTER FROM WHAT I
UNDERSTAND FROM THE SCRIPTURES. BUT THAT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR HIM.
ISN'T IT FUNNY, WE THINK, OH WHERE DID THAT EVIL COME FROM,
THAT HE DESIRED TO BE GOD INSTEAD OF REMAINING IN THE
POSITION THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM. BUT THAT'S WHAT BRINGS, THAT WE
ARE IN THAT BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND BAD AND GOOD ANGELS
ROBERT.
>>YES, WE ARE BUT CHRIST IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND THE WORD
HOSTS THERE INDICATES THE ARMY OF THE ANGELS AND IN ALL THINGS
HE MUST HAVE THE PREEMINENCE.
>>HE MUST HAVE THE PREEMINENCE, HE WILL HAVE THE PREEMINENCE AND
WHATEVER HE DESIRES TO ACCOMPLISH, HE'S GOD ISN'T HE?
>>YES.
>>HE'S GOD. IT'S GREAT HAVING YOU AS I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU.
THE LORD BLESS YOU AND YOUR MINISTRY, AND I CERTAINLY
ENCOURAGE OUR VIEWERS TO GET A COPY OF YOUR BOOK, ANGELS TRUE
STORIES, WHAT ANGELS DO FOR US. I THINK WE'VE DONE A GREAT JOB
OF PUTTING THAT INFORMATION OUT. BUT I HOPE WE HAVE JUST WETTED
THEIR APPETITES SO THAT THEY WILL FIND THE REST OF THE STORY,
AS IT WERE IN YOUR BOOK. AND THEN I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE
WITH YOU FROM A VIEWER BY WAY OF A PRAYER REQUEST.
>>AND WHAT ROBERT AND I, MY GUEST AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT
AND HIS BOOK ABOUT ANGELS JUST FITS RIGHT IN. YOU CAN ACTUALLY
CALL ON THE LORD TO SEND ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU FROM THESE
HOSTILE PEOPLE. AND I REALLY WOULD SUGGEST JUST ASKING THE
LORD TO GIVE YOU THOSE ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU AND THE OTHER
TEACHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL. AND THEN I HAVE ONE THAT OF COURSE
IS GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT.
>>THAT IS VERY ENCOURAGING BECAUSE THAT'S OUR MISSION,
THAT'S OUR VISION THAT WE ARE DELIVERING HOPE IN ANY GIVEN
SITUATION. AND WE CERTAINLY TAKE YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS TO OUR
HEAVENLY FATHER, KNOWING WITH HIM THAT THERE IS HEALING. AND
IF HE NEEDS TO SEND ANGELS THAT HE CAN DO THAT. SO BE ASSURED
WHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS AND YOUR NOTES OF
ENCOURAGEMENT TO US AS I JUST READ THAT WE GREATLY APPRECIATE
KNOWING YOU'RE THERE. AND WE ALSO TAKE OUR MAIL AND OUR
VIEWERS AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO SHARE
VERY SERIOUSLY.
>>FOLLOW ON-SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS TO ORDER
>>UNTIL NEXT TIME, HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND REMEMBER, IT IS TIME
FOR HOPE.
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