March 31 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
WHAT ABOUT THE ANGELS?
The people who make up the “three angels” of Revelation 14 are often as forgetful as the people of the world. In moments like the sudden strike of the COVID-19 assassin, they panic, forgetting that the angels under the High and Holy One who inhabits eternity are commissioned to save the godly, not when in safe Heaven but on extremely-dangerous, calamitous Earth.
In the same manner that Peter took his eyes off from looking at Jesus, enabling him to do the impossible of literally walking on water, that same moment he began to drown. Psalms 34: 4-10 should be read again by God’s people at this very time. Remember that like the Holy Spirit, these angel spirit-beings have pure and undefiled feelings that are far superior and sensitive than that of sinners like us. Do nothing to grieve them away. The evil angels are constantly poised to attack us. We can ill afford to be sport to these evil spirits, and yet how often we expose ourselves and vulnerabilities to these demonic opportunists.
Being “wise as serpents” is now even more important “than we first believed.” Note the following carefully today: — “Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity shall we understand what we OWE to the care and interposition of His angels. CELESTIAL beings have taken part in the affairs of men. They have in garments that shine as the lightning; they have come as men, in the garb of wayfarers. They have accepted the hospitality of human homes; they have acted as guides to benighted travelers. They have thwarted the spoiler’s purpose and turned aside the strike of the destroyer…..
“Every redeemed one will understand the MINISTRY of angels in his own life. The angel who was his guardian from his earliest moment; the angel who watched his steps, and covered his head in the day of peril; the angel who was with him IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, who marked his resting place [at death], who was first to GREET him in the resurrection morning—what will it be to hold converse with him, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity!
ALL the perplexities of life’s experiences will then be made plain. Where to us have appeared only confusion and disappointment, broken purposes and thwarted plans, will be seen a grand, overruling, victorious purpose, a divine harmony.” (From My Life Today, 367).
With the Holy Spirit’s indwelling, the angelic presence is also how Jesus in His glorified human body yet in the most holy in heaven is “Lo, I am with you ALL WAY, even unto the end of the world.”
Again, do and say nothing that will grieve your guardian angel away. We need their protection and deliverance right now! NMF