What About Angels

My faith is grounded on the Word of God, and the wonders of one.

I trust the finished work of Christ alone, I'm saved by wondrous grace divine.

Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! My heart keeps singing as I go.

I dwell in David, in the waiting night, and live where no cannot be found.

My joy is boundless since in Christ I live, and all I live and now defend.

A refuge from the world of sin and strife, where heavenly blessings never end.

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I dwell in David, in the waiting night, and live where milk and honey flow.

My life has taken on a purpose true, since Christ is on the throne.

This spirit fills and gives me victory too, and now I live for him alone.

Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah! My heart keeps singing as I go.

My dwelling, taken in the waiting night, and live where milk and honey flow.

My life where milk and honey flow.

You can't honey flow.

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God is so wonderful. I can't explain.

God is so wonderful. I can't explain. But I can say, glory, hallelujah, praise his holy name.

Oh, God is so wonderful. I can't explain. But I can say, glory, hallelujah, praise his holy name.

It's wonderful because he saved me. It's wonderful that he forgave me.

It's wonderful, wonderful, so very wonderful, wonderful that he is mine.

Oh, God is so wonderful. I cast on him my every burden. Lay at his feet my every care.

It's wonderful, wonderful, so very wonderful, wonderful that he is mine.

Oh, God is so wonderful. I can't explain. But I can say, glory, hallelujah, praise his holy name.

Okay, glory, hallelujah, praise your holy name.

Oh, God is so wonderful, but I can't point to you.

This is the only one of the things you have in the world.

It is the only one of the things you have in the world.

It is the only one of the things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

The things you have in the world.

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His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord.

He is the mighty King, Master of everything.

His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord.

He's the great Shepherd, the rock of all ages.

Almighty God is He.

Bow down before Him, love and adore Him.

His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord.

Amen.

Amen.

we're in the book of daniel and tonight again in chapter 10 but not staying there in totality

it would be very easy for us to hurry on to chapter 11 because of the fact that's the chapter that

seems to be the most prominent today and everybody is interested what's going to take place at the

signs of the times and further information on the antichrist from daniel's first vision in chapter

seven and second vision in chapter eight and it seems that chapter 11 is the one we're always

running to when we get to daniel after we've gone through chapter eight and chapter nine

but to me from a purely bible standpoint the 10th chapter of daniel is one of the most interesting

in the book number one because it deals with so many different subjects we have studied at least

two or three of those in the last couple of weeks and tonight the lord allowing we go on to a third

one of the great teachings of the 10th chapter of daniel is how long do you keep on praying

daniel was a very good prayer normally he prayed and got an immediate answer

but in chapter 10 that didn't take place prayed for 21 days and didn't get an answer

that was unheard of in daniel's prayer life

we've studied an extent what do you do when answers to prayer do not come

well if we're honest with ourself according to the word of god we look at ourself

to see if there's any problem with us something between us and the savior and that's what you find

in daniel 10 verse 12 that's what he did for three weeks he kept on praying kept on being persistent

Daniel 10:12

kept on being concerned the 10th chapter of daniel also speaks of the lord jesus christ twice

i personally believe that verse 5 and verse 6 of the 10th chapter ties it to revelation

for the very vision of christ that daniel saw except for one phrase is found in revelation chapter 1

Revelation 1 · chapter mention

so it is very possible that the events which follow the 10th chapter of daniel

are more exclusively given to us in revelation chapter 5 through the end of the book

Revelation 5 · chapter mention

for revelation deals with the world apart from the believer

and daniel deals with the world apart from what we call the age of grace

and therefore we not only see persistent prayer and we'll see that in a moment and why it wasn't

answered but we see the lord jesus christ the next interesting subject in the 10th chapter of daniel

is the subject of angels and demons now if you'll just cast your eyes for a few moments to pick up the

thread my conviction is in verse 9 where we see yet heard i the voice of his words is the closing

description of the lord jesus christ as he appeared to daniel in the old testament

beginning with verse 10 i believe he is describing in his own words the angel which spoke to him

of the answer to his prayer notice what it says and behold a hand touched me which set me upon my knees

and upon the palms of my hands i've told you for two weeks daniel could never get the message with his

face to the ground there is a place for repentance there is a place for prostration but there is not a

place for that if you're going to do something for the lord and so the angel says to him and he said unto me

oh daniel a man greatly beloved and that's where we were last week why was he that because of his

uncompromising position of his continual spiritual tone certainly of his prayer quality of the place

he put god in his life his interest always to seeking christ first understand the words that i

speak unto thee and stand upright for unto thee am i now sent in other words here we see that an angel

is a messenger of god with an answer to prayer now we may not stop on that tone tonight but i would

remind you in your bible reading that something might startle you of how many times in the bible god refers to

angels as the messengers of answered prayer now in this day and age we do not pay attention much to that

there is no doubt that when we pray and ask god for direction as the writer of proverbs says and as the

writer of new testament timothy says god hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love

and of a sound mind there is no doubt that the holy spirit because he indwells us and infills us answers

prayer given to god through christ through our very lives and yet we cannot turn aside from the fact that god uses angels

now i think probably why fundamental believers have not paid much attention to the subject of angels is

the fact that we've always pictured them sort of effeminate and we've always looked at angels as kind of being weird

i'd like to have you think with me for a few moments tonight kindly notice something as i get you

acclimated the angels angel speaks to daniel and said he was spoke sent to speak something to him

verse 12 then said he unto me fear not daniel from the first day that you began to pray in other words

when we speak of angels we have to find out something about them first of all i'm sure that all of us agree

tonight and will agree that angels are beings which were created by god now we don't totally understand

we have a lot of theories and we have a lot of conjecture about the creation of angels we have a great

deal of misconception about angels first of all i would remind you that angels are limited

very often we think of angels as synonymous with god that is not true i might say to you by my own

conviction and i personally believe that an angel can only do one thing at a time

an angel can only be one place at a time now it may be that an angel has some speed involved

but he also is not as quick quick as the wink of an eye nor is he omniscient and omnipresent and

omnipotent and i sometimes believe this is why we have stayed away from the subject of angels now you

are aware daniel had a great deal to do with angels in the previous chapter when he had that long prayer

of confession of sin when he was agonizing for israel when that great four-verse prophecy comes to us about

the 70 weeks you realize it was an angel that brought him that message in answer to his longest prayer

that's recorded are you aware tonight that it was an angel that released peter from prison

it was an angel that spoke to zacharias in the temple about the birth of john the baptist

we forget that angels seem to have a singular mission to carry out when god sends them

certainly we believe that angels were created before the creation which we know as heaven and earth

now that's a debatable point but turn to job chapter 38 and look with me at verse 4 5 6 and 7

Job 38 · chapter mention

very slowly tonight i'd like to develop a little thought on angels now realize that not only is an

angel introduced to daniel but the subject of demons and their area of operation is introduced to daniel

three times in the 10th chapter now we're turning to job 38 if you have a commentary at home you can read

these same words but i think it's very well that we look at this tonight very carefully now job is being

questioned by god about his own knowledge he says in verse 1 then the lord answered job out of the whirlwind and said who is this that darkeneth

counsel by words without knowledge gird up now thy loins like a man for i will demand of thee and answer thou me in other

words he's going to question job on some godly knowledge where was thou when i laid the foundations of the earth

declare if thou hast understanding now because we have a full bible we know more about creation than job knew

but we do not know god's entire creative situation as well as we'd like to he has only given us enough to

operate in the realm of the word of god and it's not necessary for us to know creation in its totality

except it hinges on the fact of calvary and the gospel in the lord jesus christ

i am very interested in the first three chapters of genesis as you were when mr greer was here last

sunday morning we have a great debate going on nowadays about homosexuality and lesbianism i don't care what

you say it's contrary to the word of god and i don't care if you call it intolerance or you call it any

place else you have to face to the word of god yesterday we had a marriage in our family oh i

forgot that some of you are angry with me all right somebody said to me how come you don't tell us when

things are going on well how come you don't read the bulletin board yes the announcements of kevin's

weddings been on a bulletin board for one month you don't read the bulletin board okay so we're even okay

i was interested as i preach at all weddings and use genesis 2.

god gives the definition of marriage a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his

wife and they too shall be one flesh now you say pastor what are you talking about in my introduction

in describing the institution of marriage and using that i said to the audience i would have you notice

that divine marriage is always between a man and a woman

and it can be nothing else

now let's get it straight we know enough about god's creation we like to delve into the philosophy

and scientific aspect of creation but god has given us enough to accept by faith to see if we believe he is god

now there's where job is and the interesting thing is he asked job where were you when the foundations of

the earth were laid verse five who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line

upon it whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the cornerstone thereof now all of

that is questioning the magnificent creation of god which he did by the word of his mouth god spoke and it was

so now all i'm leading up to is the next verse he says in this matter of my describing creation i would

remind you that there was somebody already there that looked at it and that appreciated it and that sang

now everyone agrees that verse 7 refers to angels there is no commentary liberal unorthodox orthodox or

any place else that will argue the point that verse 7 refers to the fact that angels were there when creation

took place as listed in genesis 1 1 they are called here the morning stars when the morning stars sang together it

seems and i'm only saying this personally it seems that there are and i'll show you that in a moment again there are ranks of angels

now notice something else in this verse when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of god now that has nothing to do with man

two references in this verse refer to angels they are called the morning stars that sang whether that is a designated group with a purpose

or a godly description of the eliteness and the brilliance of his creation before genesis 1 1 it doesn't make any difference

secondly we have the reference to the sons of god now i'm not going to debate the point

but everyone agrees that the sons of god here are angelic beings therefore it is not without bible comparison

that the sons of god in genesis 6 are the same in type of individual

a rank of angels so angels are created being in essence we don't know when they were created

whether god in his threefold aspect and person a father son and holy spirit who has always existed

at one time in their creative minds and a being which has power to do it decided to create beings

that were for their own purpose we do not know now we do know that the bible teaches us one of the ministry of angels is to worship god

but we do know that angels were present at the creation of genesis the first chapter and that which is listed there in fact they sang at that creation

and the sons of god the angelic beings shouted for joy now

how many angels are there that's an interesting question we're just going to be simple we're not going

through any difficult situations in this little study because we're still studying daniel

turn to daniel chapter 7 where we when we've been before

Daniel 7 · chapter mention

in the second vision that daniel gets or the first vision of his own which is not an interpretation of a

heathen dream daniel of course saw the antichrist which we have already studied

the purpose of the vision of chapter 7 is to show us

that the ancient of days a picture of the lord jesus christ will take over the kingdom of the antichrist on earth

you come to verse 9 i beheld till the thrones were cast down that's the thrones of those who rule the universe with the antichrist

christ during the tribulation and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool

his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire

a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten

thousand times ten thousand stood before him no doubt a reference to a number of angels

there is no word in the hebrew language for millions

therefore whenever we want to see a multitude above

that goes towards the million mark the hebrew has to lose this kind of a phraseology ten thousand

stood before him and a thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten times ten thousand that is almost an incalculable number

i wonder how big heaven is

now your idea of angels is that they don't take any space

that's not true angels do take space look if you will to hebrews chapter 12.

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

maybe we should have started in hebrews chapter one but we didn't

hebrews chapter 12 in referring again to some of the old testament situation

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

says in verse 22

but ye are come unto mount zion and unto the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem no doubt

speaking of heaven and its place again and to an innumerable company of angels

again an undesignated number your reference bible and some of your new newer bibles translate it myriads

well all it's saying is that's a great many

turn to revelation chapter 5 and you will see the same thing

Revelation 5 · chapter mention

in this chapter you're a little more familiar with

look at verse 11. the little book is now going to be opened by the lamb of the lion of the tribe of

judah and he says and i beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast

and the elders and here's the same phrase as daniel which again gives me license to say daniel and

revelation are talking always about the same things the angel described in the greek language are the

same problem we have a little problem with a billion in greek of them was ten thousand times ten thousand

and thousands of thousands how many angels are there it almost seems apart from god and the mind that he has

they are uncountable in our language now why is that necessary well because of what i said a moment ago

an angel can only do one thing at a time

if god created the angels before his creation of earth and man to worship himself

and in the present economy of his creation he uses the angels which are still called good angels to do his

ministry and he still wants worship of himself by the angels then there has to be a myriad of them

to carry on turn to hebrews chapter one

we very facetiously talk about guardian angels i don't believe we should be facetious in that subject

if you have a reference bible hebrews chapter one verse 14 is always referred to in your reference

bible and i'm not so sure that the references are always good there in speaking of the lord jesus christ

you come to come to verse 13 but to which of the angels said he at any time

sit on my right hand until i take make thine enemies thy footstool he never said that to an angel

are they not now what's the next word all ministering what all right now notice something

he would never compare evil angels or demons in a paragraph with the lord jesus christ

therefore we conclude that his comparison of angels to christ here has to be only the good angels as we

designate them such all right are they not all ministering spirits let me parenthesis it good angels

and you realize something happened to the angelic creation where did we get evil angels

where do we find and what happened to the angels that are presently bound that we find in jew

where do we get demons were the angels at one time there was some upheaval in the angelic creation

certainly we believe that isaiah 14 gives us some glimpse of that so that we presently have good angels

that's who came to daniel he was sent on the first day of daniel's prayer he didn't get there till the 24th

day he had the answer to daniel's prayer

what i want you to see in verse 14 is a very unique little phrase or word are they not all ministering

spirit all good angels are ministering spirits now don't become involved in the word spirits that always

scares you send forth to minister for them now he designates who good angels are ministering to and

it's a strange phrase in our bible are they not all sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of

total salvation i can make a bold statement good angels are never involved with unsaved people

it's impossible it's impossible for example it is not an angel that convicts a sinner of sin it is the holy

spirit it is not an angel that brings a message of salvation to a sinner it has to be a human being

good angels are connected only to those who have accepted jesus christ as their personal savior

if he had said here heirs of the gospel we would have had to inferred the salvation which the person

receives by the gospel but he uses the word which you know is the word salvation it is not just getting

to heaven it is not just eternal life it is an old testament and a new testament word which engulfs the

gospel as the foundation romans 1 i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ

for the gospel of christ is the power of god unto what class now salvation and the gospel are not synonymous

the gospel is the vehicle which brings salvation and salvation does not just include eternal life in

heaven it includes all that which god has though we cannot be dogmatic that every believer does have a

ministering spirit a good angel whether it always is the same one i do not know but i do know this that in

daniel's life only two angels were ever connected with him gabriel and michael and they are not ordinary angels

so it would seem that it's very possible that as an heir of salvation there is a sign to you

and angel a ministering spirit now that can either scare you

or help you in daniel's case it was a very interesting situation go back to daniel 10 for a second

i'm a little bit where i don't want to be but that's okay you will be interested i trust just because you're here

i am concerned that we have some responsibility toward our angel

now you never heard that before did you

angels are certainly above the rank of men

because christ was made a little lower than the angels when he took upon the form of man you

understand that from hebrews right

now angels do not change rank it is very unfair but they don't

you see because an angel tried to take and change rank that's why we have the position of angels and

evil angels and demons today lucifer tried to change rank

and that's what caused the upheaval now theologically speaking class you have a real problem

if a higher creation is not allowed to change rank because god has put them where he wants them to be

even though they had the privilege just as adam and eve to walk away from their rank

then there is no right for us to believe that god does not have the privilege over us that he has over angels

and we never think about that now notice daniel 10 the angel comes to him in verse 12

and remember now this is not michael or gabriel this is another angel

then said he unto me fear not daniel from the first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and

to chasten thyself before thy god thy words were heard now his prayer was being heard from the first day

was it daniel's responsibility to stop praying daniel the man of god who never wavered

did not stop praying he has told us he prayed for 21 days the same way to find in verse 12

what if he had stopped he would have defeated for the moment if you allow me a little personal imagery

he would have defeated the work of his personal angel

what did his personal angel had to do he had to go through the realm of the operation of satan

now somebody's gonna say to me pastor you've mentioned this for three weeks i keep mentioning

it because i think it's one of the most important things in our bible to learn

i do not believe in studying demons i do not believe in studying satanism

but i do believe we have to realize there are forces and created beings around us

that can affect our lives and what we are doing and i'm convinced of this just as this morning when

the word of god is preached the first thing the devil wants to do is snatch that away

and that is not only true with the sinner that is true with the saint

and for some reason or other and we know this to be true the angel that left heaven on the first day

did not get to daniel with the answer to the 24th day because the realm of the demons fought with him

and didn't want to let him through and i personally believe that if daniel had stopped praying his angel

would have been defeated he would have had to turn back with the answer to his prayer now that's where you

are in verse 13 he gives to daniel his reason not an excuse but the prince of the kingdom of persia now

don't get involved in a lot of terminology if the liberal will agree with us on this we might be white

for once because we don't have any problems with commentaries on this either if there are ministering

spirits to the saved there are also ministering spirits to the unsaved

and there are ministering spirits to every government

and to every nation and it would seem that the power of the evil spirit of the demon is so powerful

that it only takes one demon to control the government of one nation

kindly notice he uses a singular word

but the prince of the kingdom of persia a reference to an evil angel a demon appointed by satan to control

the persian government

the government

now you've got two things and i don't want to confuse you

did daniel live through the rule of the medes and the persians

all right so you are talking about eye observation of a government of where daniel stood true

so he is talking about the ruler of persia the government of persia of which he could see was idolatrous and heathen and etc

going with that in the atmosphere in the heavens

is an evil angel or a demon i prefer to refer to a demon

that controls from there although coming to here the government of persia

it is hard for us to see that what's going on on earth

is being influenced by what comes down from the prince of the power of the air

the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me one and twenty days daniel prayed and he prayed and he prayed and he prayed and he prayed

and then in very imagery god sent an archangel to help him why

because

of daniel's prayer

now daniel's angel could not be defeated and destroyed because they now cannot change the bible

gives us this by good conviction that wherever the angel is in authority or rank now it will never change

but he can be defeated in his mission

now i say that with reservation because some of you can become so emotional

that you'll become more involved with angels than you are with god and i don't want that to happen

now read further with me but lo michael one of the chief princes came to help me and i remained there with

the kings of persia now he refers to the plural rulership of the princes that he came through

again you see rank you follow me one is called the prince but over the prince are kings

now you drop over so we will not forget our lesson to verse 20

the angel is speaking again now there's a discrepancy here with a lot of people i do not again believe

that this is christ in form speaking i think this is an angel then said he knowest thou whereof i come

unto thee and now i will return to fight with the prince of persia again i got to go back through that mess

all i'm doing is imagining class to get daniel's answer down he had to fight through that mess and

he had to get michael's help all right now the angel has to go back

why doesn't he why doesn't the demonic force want him back in heaven

because if he gets back in heaven and daniel prays again he can send back with another answer

now he goes further than this now will i return to fight with the prince of persia and when i'm gone

forth when i'm victorious over him and we get persia you remember that the medes and persians one came

over the other and then we had alexander the great who came over the whole mess so fast that nobody he

got sick of fact he couldn't have any more kingdoms to get rid of so he just killed himself

all right now he compares the world again with the demonic force and he says

and when i am gone forth victorious over the prince of persia then i'll have to um

work through the prince of greece what's he say if you got persian rule today daniel

and the persian king goes out of office because of the overrunning of the land by another king

then the evil person or the demonic force of that government i'll have to fight with him

and when that's finished if the area of greece comes into governing power then whoever is the evil

angel in charge of the government of greece i'll have to get through him every time to get victory

it's the only smattering of scripture that we've got about this type of teaching

so what do we have

we have a creative force that came before god's creation

now broken up into possibly three areas good angels evil angels that's a hard one to look at and demons

they're incalculable in number they seem to have rank now let's look at that for a second

turn to ephesians chapter one and you will disagree to start with

we will not go too much further because you must have time to digest

ephesians chapter one

again speaking of the lord jesus christ you come to verse maybe 19 let's start there and get the flavor

all right and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe according to the

working of his mighty power which he wrought in christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his

own right hand in the heavenly places now let's stop and be simple where is christ today class

where he's in heaven you all agree with that

he's sitting at the right hand of the father you agree with that all right now you notice verse 21

far above now you got a little word it's the next word

all principality

and power and might and dominion

no reference to earth

right now nothing is said here about any human beings

all it says is that christ sits in the heavenly seas in heaven and we know this from hebrew

and christ is presently above principality and power and might and dominion all i'm saying to you is

our best thinking seems to indicate that those are ranks of angels

look at colossians chapter one and you'll see it easier in a minute on the other side of the fence

begin with me at verse 15

who is the christ again who is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of every creature for

by him were all things created that are in heaven that are in earth visible and invisible

now you have a designation again whether they be thrones now let me stop there is no doubt that

lucifer was created with a special position and a special operation in god's economy before creation of

heaven and earth i have my own theory on this

we'll read it maybe next week in isaiah 14 my personal conviction is

is that lucifer in his original created form as an angel was a merchandiser

and if you read isaiah 14 you'll find it out

his purpose was to take all the glory of the angels and hand it to god he merchandise

the go-between between he and god the angel to give glory and honor and worship that was the creation

and lucifer's rank was such that he took all the glory and the worship of the angels and he delivered it to god

that was the purpose then he decided to merchandise some of it for himself

and keep it so that if he got enough of the glory and the worship of the angelic force

he could merchandise himself as god now my personal conviction is that the angels that allowed him to

keep their glorious merchandise are the ones that fell with him because they were cohorts in the merchandising

and that's why lucifer fell in his ranks now all god does in ephesians colossians is to show us how above

christ is about any other creative force thrones and dominions and principalities or powers christ is

above that and these are ranks i remember in college i had an argument with a professor on this and i know

he is right now and i should go back and apologize to him but he's died

i never could see it i always look at thrones on earth well any dummy knows christ is above any throne

on earth right power on earth any dummy knows that christ is above power on earth but why does he write

it twice through paul by the holy spirit that christ is above thrones and dominions and principalities

and powers because he's giving to us a picture of a rank of something that's not on earth now you turn

to ephesians 6 and you all fall into place

verse 10

finding in my brethren be strong in the lord in the power of his might put on the whole armor of god

that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood

people right now i don't like this verse my greatest problem is people

all if i could get rid of people i could have a happy life your greatest problem is people or is it

or is it people touched by a power outside of the human realm

look at it he says to you i am not describing people

what are you describing paul by the holy spirit why do i need the whole armor of god to help me with

people no i don't need any help with people

now you know what the rest is but we do wrestle against same words again principalities and powers

and here he adds to us where the principalities and powers are and daniel's angels tell us where they

are i had to come through that for 21 days

and the angel was conditioned on daniel's prey

for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we wrestle against principalities against powers

against the lords of this world against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies that's exactly what daniel's

teaching us and there are ranks some are princes and some are kings and when he came through and

argued and fought with the prince of persia and michael helped him he got to daniel but he says when i go

back and if the evil angel of persia is defeated because persia is no longer in government then i'll

probably have to fight with the evil angel of greece to get victory over him to come back

so there are ranks all angels do not have the same position all demons do not have the same position all

evil angels do not have the same position we see gabriel and michael referred to in the word of god

especially in the light of the nation of israel it would seem if you'd like to read it that michael is the

guardian angel of the guardian angel of the nation of israel one angel not a whole lot of them just one

gabriel of course is always connected in revelation as an archangel so we seem to have ranks we have lucifer

who had a rank and who presently has a rank above all the other evil angels and demons right he is called notice the phrase

the prince of the power of the air that part between here and heaven which there is some space of which

the angel has to go through now kindly remember something angels have bodies

yes they do

may i just give you this and we'll stop i'll pick it up next week and one more week on this and then i'm

in daniel 11 okay 10th chapter of daniel's most important chapter in the bible when it comes to

practical things of the word of god turn to luke chapter 24 we don't see it quite as clearly here

Luke 24 · chapter mention

as we will in a moment but i want you to see something

angels do have bodies now my theology class understands this already so they have no problem

in luke 24 i'm at verse 36

and as they thus spake jesus himself stood in the midst of them and saith unto them peace be unto you

but they were terrified and affrighted and supposed that they had seen a spirit

now that very often designates an angel

and he said unto them why are you troubled why do thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hands and my

feet that it is i myself handle me and see now notice what he says a spirit hath not flesh and bones

but parentheses he asked something

a spirit is not nothing

in my theology class i always say when you say take this body away my spirit falls on the ground as a blob

no it doesn't turn to first corinthians 15

now it's very possible because most of you are scholars that fallen angels or demons are disembodied

spirits

therefore in order to operate they have to have a body of some kind

why did satan pick up the body of a serpent because he can't operate without some kind of a body

first corinthians 15 with this we close we've come through the creation we've come through

what the angels did at creation we've come through the number of them we've come through their ministering

spirit we've come through their rank we've come through their bodies first corinthians 15 verse 38

1 Corinthians 15:38

but god giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and whoever exceed his own body all flesh is not the same

flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beast another of fishes and another of birds

there are also celestial bodies

bodies

and terrestrial bodies but i want you to see something

celestial or heavenly bodies are still bodies

why didn't he just say there are celestial and terrestrial that's not what he said he added to it

the word soma body there is a heavenly body although it's not flesh and bone he just said that how can

a spirit have flesh and bone but he does say a spirit and angel if you allow me to take that translation

has a body

a spirit is something

now the problem you have is the only kind of body you can realize is this kind of a body he calls that a

fleshly body

but there is a heavenly body

and i might say to you that you all have one too

if this earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved

we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heaven

i'm being facetious

if you die tonight and we put you in a box

are you in the box

yes or no

where are you

what what went there a blob

huh

and your spirit is not a blob

your spirit has a heavenly body

angels

have bodies

now i'll go on from that next week the angel came to daniel and said i had the word from the first day

but i had a problem getting through the atmosphere with the prince of persia until michael came to help me

i wasn't going to make it now i'm here but i had to fight him back to get back up there again

it would seem

that daniel teaches us a great deal about the construction of angels

the ministry of angels the habits of demons and that which is above us

called principalities power lords of the air and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly

you have a ministering spirit because you are an heir of salvation

heavenly father

we have come very slowly tonight

maybe to whet our appetites to realize that the bible has some things that maybe we ought to look at

we are not here to become scholars on angels and demons

but we ought to be aware

that you have not only given us christ and the holy spirit

but you have a myriad of messengers that's your beck and call for our benefit

but we also realize in the economy of the present situation satan also has his messenger

direct our attentions as we study together for these that have been here tonight in the savior's name

amen all day i wanted to sing the little chorus which is number one in your little green book great

peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them it sort of fits our singing part tonight of the word of god

and faith and the anchor and the ground and the resting place

that we've been singing about may we close the day by singing this a couple of times great peace have they which love thy law

let's stand together and sing

great peace have they which love thy law great peace have they which love thy law

and nothing shall offend them

we bow in a moment of prayer and then we're going to sing this as a benediction or an invitation

i would not try to translate a teaching message such this into salvation

but i would just say to you i don't want to ever leave this room on sunday morning or sunday evening

if the lord leads to say to you if you have a spiritual decision to make you have opportunity to make it while you're here

and i don't know what that might be we taught this morning that we sow the word and

and we have to leave it with the lord and maybe the word's going to bear fruit tonight

maybe something has grasped behold throughout this day in your life and you said i must do that tonight

when i get to church i must make some inquiry i must make some decision and that's the opportunity you have

our heads are bowed and we just ask the lord to do his work as we sing this little song once more through

with our heads bowed we'll not sing again if you'd like to step from your seat with some need tonight

some decision some testimony some praise just what's on your heart i'd remind you it's not of men

it has to be of god this is our invitation just sing the little hymn with your head bowed as we begin to close

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