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Doug Batchelor: Angels
are unique and individual.
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If God doesn't make two
snowflakes the same, and if
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every human on the
world has got a different iris
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and fingerprint, then why would
you think that God has a big
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cookie-cutter factory where
he makes his angels and he just
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stamps them out and
they're all the same?
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Doug Batchelor: There was
an amazing story in the Bible,
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the prophet Elisha was
sort of the secret weapon
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for the king of Israel.
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Every time the king of
Syria wanted to launch an attack
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on Israel, he wanted to ambush
them, he'd have his spies find
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out where the king of Israel was
going to be traveling and try
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and get them through some narrow
canyon so he could surprise him.
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But every time they
tried to launch these surprise
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attacks, it seems like the king
of Israel found out in advance.
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And the king of Syria was
so frustrated he said to his
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servants, "One of
you must be a spy.
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How else can the king of Israel
always know what my secret plans
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are?"
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And one of the servants
for the king of Syria said,
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"It's none of us,
we're not betraying you."
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He said, "It's Elisha
the prophet in Israel.
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He knows the things that you
say in your bedroom, which would
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make any king nervous.
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He said, "Well,
we can't have that!
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Where is he?"
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He said, "Well, he's staying
in a little town called Dothan."
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Dothan by the way, is where
Joseph went to look for his
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brothers, it
means wells, two wells.
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So the king of Syria says, Look,
let's, get the army together.
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And a great army came,
and during the night they
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surrounded this little hamlet
of Dothan, where Elisha was
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with some of the
people and his servant.
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Early in the morning,
his servant wakes up to go
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to the well and get water and
he looks over the little walls
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of Dothan, and they were just
big enough to keep the cattle
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out, and he sees the glimmer
of armor and hears the snort
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of the horses.
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And his eyes get adjusted and he
realized they are now surrounded
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by the Assyrian army.
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In a panic he runs and he shakes
Elisha awake and says, "Alas,
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Master, what will we do?"
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Elisha doesn't
look one bit troubled.
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He gets up and he walks
through the door, and then he
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walked outside the city
walls, and he prays a prayer.
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2 Kings 6 verse 17, "And Elisha
prayed, and said, 'Lord, I pray
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thee, open his
eyes that he may see.'
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And the Lord opened the eyes
of the young man, and he saw.
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And behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots
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of fire round about Elisha."
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You've heard that
expression, chariots of fire.
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And when Elisha saw Elijah taken
up to heaven, that's when he got
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his first glimpse of these
chariots and horses of fire.
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These are the
ministering spirits of God.
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I don't think that God is
galloping around up in heaven
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on an Appaloosa.
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You know, this is the Biblical
terminology to talk about, you
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know, it says, When Elisha was
caught up, chariots and horses
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of fire using the spiritual.
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It says, "I looked over
Jordan and what did I see?
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A band full of angels."
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That's good theology.
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That's what they were.
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These are angels of God
that they saw protecting them.
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The mysterious world
of angels, there's a lot
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of misunderstandings
about angels, which is why we're
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talking about it today.
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Typically when people see
pictures of angels they see fat
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little babies on clouds
looking extremely bored.
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More times than not, if you type
angels in the Internet and look
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at pictures, you're going
to see they looked like Greek
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goddesses, they're ladies.
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Are angels male,
female, or babies?
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Now typically when angels
appeared in the Bible, it says
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they appeared as men.
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And it says when the disciples
saw Jesus ascend to heaven,
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there stood by them two men
in white raiment at the tomb.
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Says they were men.
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When the angels came
for judgments on Sodom, says
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there were men.
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There is one vision in
Zechariah, where he said, "I
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raised my eyes," Zechariah
5:9, "and there were two women,
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coming in the wind in their
wings, for they were the wings
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of a stork, and
they lifted up a basket."
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This is an apocalyptic vision.
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So it never says they're
angels, it's really a vision.
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Typically they appear as men,
but don't take that too far,
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because angels don't
have gender like we do.
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Jesus made it pretty clear
in Mark 12:25, "For when they
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rise from the dead, they neither
marry or are given in marriage,
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but are like the
angels in heaven."
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Angels do not
procreate like humans.
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Sometimes people read in Genesis
chapter 6, "And the sons of God
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saw the daughters of men that
they were fair and took them
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wives of all they chose."
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And you know, in some Bibles
you might even have one here,
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translates that these fallen
angels married humans and had
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babies that were giants.
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That is one of the goofiest
teachings I've ever heard.
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Angels do not
procreate with humans.
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Jesus is very clear about that.
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That verse, the sons of God
are talking about the children
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of Seth, Adam, and Eve that
were faithful, they were still
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worshiping God, they were
offering there at the garden,
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at the gates of
the Garden of Eden.
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And then you had Cain, he
departed from the Lord, and they
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had two separate groups of
people, and Cain was in us,
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children of men.
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They weren't the sons of God.
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How did he become a son of God?
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Behold with manner of love
the father's bestowed on us that
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we should be called sons of God.
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When we believe we are adopted
in, God said to his son when he
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was baptized,
this is my beloved son.
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And when we're baptized and
we accept Christ, we become sons
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and daughters of God.
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So it's when the children
of Seth began to intermarry
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with the daughters of Cain then
wickedness was great in this
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world because of
the mixed marriages.
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It had nothing to do
with angels marrying people.
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They don't have gender that way.
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Angels do not
procreate with humans.
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Angels are created,
they're made by God.
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He makes them uniquely.
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And Lucifer may have been
one of the first of his angels.
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There are typically three
terms that we find being used
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in the New Testament.
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It's usually angel,
means messenger, angelos.
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In the Hebrew you've got
malakh, or malach, if you say it
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with a Jewish pronunciation.
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You've got the seraphim.
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A seraph is one seraphim, cherub
is one, cherubim would be two.
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And these are the
ministering spirits.
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Literally seraphim
means the burning ones.
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And the malakh is,
they're like deputies.
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They're the people of authority.
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It's also translated messengers.
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And so there seem to be
different levels of angels,
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different ranks of angels,
and they're organized servants
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of God.
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You read about them in--By
the way, the word cherubim means
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minister, more precisely.
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Hebrews 1 verse 14, speaking
of the angels, "Are they not all
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ministering spirits sent forth
to minister for those who will
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inherit eternal salvation?"
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God has his army of angels
that watch over us to minister.
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Psalm 103 verse 20, "Bless
the Lord, you his angels, who
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excel in strength, who do
his word, heeding the voice of
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his word.
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Bless the Lord, all you.
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his hosts, you ministers
of his, who do his pleasure."
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These are ministering spirits.
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Sometimes in the Bible it
calls it--He's called the Lord
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of hosts, so there you
would have the Lord of angels.
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One place you can see where
he's called the Lord of Sabaoth.
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That doesn't mean the
Lord of the Sabbath, It's
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a completely different word,
it means the Lord of armies.
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It's an army of angels.
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You read in Daniel 7 verse 10,
"A fiery stream issued and came
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forth from before him.
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A thousand
thousands ministered to him.
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And ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before him."
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Because surrounding the
dwelling place of God are clouds
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of angels.
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When Jesus comes it says
he's coming like he left.
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How did he leave?
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He was caught up into
this cloud, and not H2O,
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but a brilliant cloud of holy
ones, burning ones, the angels.
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And when he comes again,
it says he will come with all
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the angels.
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He's coming in
a cloud of angels.
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We look through the telescope
and we see these nebula and we
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call them nebulous clouds.
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But as we get a little closer
what we thought were cloudy
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images we find out these
are actually burning suns.
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And they just looked
like clouds from a distance.
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And so when Christ comes, he's
coming with clouds of angels.
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Now, I probably should say right
here, you don't wanna worship
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angels.
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See, there are good
angels and there are bad angels.
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"There was war in heaven, that
great dragon, the serpent, was
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cast out, who
deceives the whole world.
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He was cast to the
earth, and his angels--"
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Satan means adversary.
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He's gone from
Lucifer to adversary.
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"They who deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth
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and his angels
were cast out with him."
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You read in 2 Peter 2
verse 4, "For God did not spare
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the angels who sinned."
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Yup, there are angels who sin.
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You know what that
means about angels?
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In order for you to sin
you must have a free will.
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Angels are
unique and individual.
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If God doesn't make two
snowflakes the same, and if
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every human on the
world has got a different iris
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and fingerprint, then why would
you think that God has a big
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cookie-cutter factory where
he makes his angels and he just
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stamps them out and
they're all the same?
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I'm sure these
angels are unique.
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They are created, not born,
they're created by God to live
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forever, and they're probably, I
don't know what their, you know,
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they part their hair differently
and they've got some different
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idiosyncrasies, I'm not sure.
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But they've got their unique
personalities, yet they're holy,
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the good ones, and then you
get the fallen ones Jude 6, "And
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the angels who did not keep
their first estate, their proper
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domain, but they left
their own abode, he has reserved
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in everlasting
chains under darkness."
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Bible says that one angel's
going to come down in chains,
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Satan.
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And these chains are,
they are chained to our world.
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They cannot leave.
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They're not free like the
other ministering spirits.
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In everlasting chains
under darkness for the judgment
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of the great day.
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Angels said to Christ,
the fallen angels, "Have you
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come to judge us
before the time?"
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They know their
judgment's coming.
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Satan's come down with
great wrath, because he what?
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Knows his time is short.
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God's fixed a day in which
he'll judge the world and Satan
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and his angels.
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The Bible says, "Depart you
cursed into everlasting fire
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prepared for
Satan and his angels."
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So there are some
bad angels out there.
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How many?
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I don't know, I can
tell you the percentage.
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So Satan, when he was cast out,
he drew a third of the stars,
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were drawn in the wake
of the tail of the dragon.
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A third of the angels followed
Lucifer in his rebellion
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against God.
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We don't know how many
that is, I'm guessing billions.
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Because, if God has
guardian angels for each person,
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and they're eight billion people
roughly in the world, then
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there's gotta be a
lot of good angels.
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And we're not the only
world that they take care of.
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Look at how big the cosmos is.
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I'm sure they're going
through the whole creation
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of God.
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So there are billions
of angels, I would think.
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Doug Batchelor: So,
what do the angels do?
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Angels guard and protect.
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Job 1:9, "Satan was angry
with the Lord, he said, 'Does
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Job fear God for nothing?
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Have you not made a
hedge about him, and about his
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household, around
all that he has?"'
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Is it a hedge of bushes?
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Or was he hedged
in with the Lord?
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Bible says, "The angel of
the Lord," Psalm 34:7, "The
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angel of the Lord encamps
round about those who fear him."
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You sometimes, you just--I
remember one time, you all got
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your stories, I posted I
was going to preach about angels
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today online, all these people
started telling me their angel
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story, because I
think it's really neat.
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And don't build your
theology on angel stories.
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When someone says, I had an
angel spoke to me, you gotta
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be careful.
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It might be an
angel that spoke to them.
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You know, there's a
lying prophet in the Bible.
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He went to a prophet
of the Lord, God told that
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prophet after you pronounce your
judgement on King Jeroboam, you
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do not eat bread, you do not
drink water in this place, you
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go home, you do not pass go.
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Well he was on his way home,
and this false prophet said, God
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told me you're
supposed to come to my house.
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An angel of the Lord, he says,
told me disregard what you heard
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earlier, I got a message
from an angel, you're to come
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to my house.
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He listened to that false
prophet, who had an angelic
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message, and he died.
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And so you gotta be very careful
when people say, an angel
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told me.
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I mean, people have angel
experiences, I believe that.
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Don't base your theology on
someone's angelic experience.
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But they got all kinds of movies
and TV programs and people talk
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about this, and they'll say,
yeah, angels were talking to my
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dead relatives in heaven.
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And so there's a lot of
bad theology that has come
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through that corridor of
people saying an angel told me.
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But I do believe angels guide.
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And I remember one time
in particular, I was driving
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to Central Church, and I always
have to cross several streets
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where there's lights.
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And I'm an aggressive driver,
and if the light's green, you
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know what that means?
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Go fast!
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And I'm going' along, and
I'm coming up and the light is
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green, and I felt the strongest
urge to hit my brakes on
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a green light.
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And I hit my
brakes and slowed down.
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Somebody ran the light, went
right through, they would've
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T-boned me, they were
speeding right through.
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And I knew right then that
an angel had said, Hit your
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brakes.
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Because everything else in
my world would've said, Go.
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Have you had
experiences like that?
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And it just, it was uncanny,
it's like a voice told me.
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So often when we say the Lord
did this for me, or the Lord did
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that for me, it's
not generally the Lord.
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The Lord works through his
agency, it's usually angels.
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God gets the glory, but he
often works through his angels.
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And he's guiding them.
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And people will say, Oh,
the devil made me do this,
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and the devil tempted me.
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It's typically not the devil.
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Matter of fact, the devil
doesn't know who most of us are.
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God knows all of us,
but the devil, he's not
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omniscient, he
doesn't know everybody.
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It's usually his fallen angels
that are doing these things.
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And so I just, the
Bible says a lot about it.
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It's probably healthy for
us to know what the Word says.
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So you've got these
angels, and they guide us.
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God told Moses, "I will send
an angel before you to keep you
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in the way, to bring you
to the place that I prepared."
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Angels do guide and, if we
ask for it, I think they're more
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inclined.
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Angels have feelings.
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Now, you have a guardian angel,
but I don't recommend you try
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and talk to 'em.
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And I know some people,
they say, I've given my angel
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the name Wilbur, and I'm
always talking to Wilbur.
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So you gotta be very careful.
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You might think it's Wilbur
and it could be some other
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wicked angel named Ernest.
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So nowhere in the Bible are
we told to talk to the angels.
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Angels might appear to
us, but talks about worshiping
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angels, that's forbidden
in the Bible, the angels
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loathe that.
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John fell on his knees,
John Revelation 19, to worship
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the angel.
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The angel says,
"See you do not do it."
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And Daniel and Ezekiel and
they all saw angels, they felt
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inclined to fall
down and worship.
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The Angels always pointed
the glory and the worship back
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to God, because it's a sin
to have any other God besides
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the Lord, right?
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Angels are co-laborers with us.
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Now, people, the Bible tells us,
that we are made a little lower
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than the angels.
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We do not have the same
power and strength and knowledge
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and connection with
God that angels have.
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But humans are made in the image
of God and, in some ways, we
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have advantages.
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And one of those is something
that really bothered the devil.
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Humans, like God, made in
the image of God, are able
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to procreate in our own image
through an act of cooperative
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love.
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The devil can't create life.
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And it really bothered him that,
in this world, these humans
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could
procreate, and he couldn't.
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And so, in some ways,
you know, we've got blessing.
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But angels have emotions.
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"All the morning stars
sang together, and they shouted
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for joy."
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Jesus said, Luke 15, "Likewise
there'll be more joy in heaven
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over one sinner who repents than
over ninety-nine just persons
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who need no repentance."
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So if it's true that angels
can feel joy when the lost are
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saved, how do angels
feel when people are lost?
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Do angels feel sadness?
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What do you think the angels
did when Jesus was on the cross?
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Were they strumming their harps,
or is it like Psalm 137, where
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they hung their harps on
the willows, how can we sing
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the song of Zion in Babylon?
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And the angels, it's like when
Daniel was in the lion's den, it
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says, "In the king's palace,
there was no music brought
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before him, and
the angels were sad."
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They've got
feelings, they've got emotions.
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Even good angels can be
devastating, they're very
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powerful, they can be deadly.
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Psalms 78:49, "He cast on them
the fierceness of his anger,
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wrath, indignation, and trouble.
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By sending angels of
destruction among them."
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1 Chronicles 21:16,
"Then David lifted his eyes."
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This is when David numbered
Israel and a plague was going
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through the land.
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"David lifted his eyes and saw
the angel of the Lord standing
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between heaven and earth,
having a drawn sword stretched
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out over Jerusalem."
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You know, we've sometimes heard
about the grim reaper, you've
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heard the
expression the angel of death.
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Many times in the Bible
these angels of death are not
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diabolical, they're actually
good angels that were sent
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with judgment.
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"And David prayed and the
angel put his sword back in
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its sheath."
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Acts chapter 12, King Herod was
trying to wipe out the church.
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The beginning of Acts
chapter 12, Herod the King kills
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the apostle James.
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He sees it pleases the Jews.
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He says, I'm
going to kill Peter too.
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You see a battle going on,
a spiritual battle, a great
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controversy between the Word
of God and the devil working
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through Herod the King.
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Herods are typically not good
in the New Testament, and try
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and kill the
babies in Bethlehem.
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And you know what
happens at the end of the story?
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Peter escapes from prison, Herod
then makes a speech, and they
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say, Oh, it's the voice of God.
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And he doesn't
give the glory to God.
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Herod wants to be
God, like Lucifer.
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It says, "And then the angel
of the Lord struck him, because
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he did not give God glory.
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And he was eaten
by worms and he died."
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By the way, Josephus actually
mentions that very event
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in history.
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And then, as we began our
message this morning, we noticed
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that throughout the
life of Jesus we see angels.
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Every time in the life of
Christ when the devil would try
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to destroy him,
you remember Nazareth?
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Well, first of all, they
wanted to kill him as a baby
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in Bethlehem.
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He was delivered.
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Through his youth, I'm sure
angels were guarding Christ.
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Can you imagine how vulnerable
Jesus would've been as a child
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and a baby if it was not
for angels that were guarding
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him?
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And then when he began
his ministry, he fast 40 days
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in the wilderness.
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You know it says after he
fasted, It's his angels came
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and ministered to him.
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I believe they did for him what
the angel did for Elijah when he
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was hungry.
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I think they fed him at
the end of those 40 days.
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And then, in the garden
of Gethsemane, when Jesus--
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Well, several times through his
life they tried tried to kill
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Jesus.
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You know, they wanted to throw
him off a cliff in Nazareth, it
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says, and he passed
through their midst.
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Who do you think parted
the crowd so Jesus could pass
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through?
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I think the angels of God
said, This is not as time.
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Other times, they took up stones
to stone Jesus, and Jesus was
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protected.
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And in the garden of Gethsemane,
when he prayed and he wept three
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times and said, Not my
will, thy will be done.
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You know, at that moment,
it may have been Gabriel.
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We don't know who took the
place of Lucifer, maybe Gabriel.
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Gabriel may have already
been in one of those positions.
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But I think Gabriel came and it
says angels ministered to him.
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I think they were there to
comfort him, but do you know
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at that moment in the garden,
as the Angels, left him, he got
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up and he went to the disciples,
he said, Now is the hour
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of darkness.
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And as Jonah was three days
and three nights in the belly
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of the fish, the sufferings
of Christ began that night.
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God's presence, God's angelic
protection, was withdrawn
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from Jesus for the first time
in his life, maybe the first
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time in history.
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And the devil and his forces
had their way with Christ.
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He paid the penalty,
they tortured him, they tried
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to extract all the
suffering they could.
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More than anything, they wanted
Jesus to sin, because then
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the plan of
salvation would have imploded.
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And so they didn't just want
to kill him, they wanted him
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to do something wrong, to sin,
because then there'd be no hope
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for us.
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And the angels had to
watch and they had to veil their
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presence, just like
you and I can't see them.
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And Peter said,
Lord I'll save you.
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And Jesus said, Don't you
know I could pray for 12 legions
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of angels right now?
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That means they weren't
there helping him, they withdrew
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from him.
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They were watching as he
hung on the cross, they watched
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the whole scene.
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They watched the mob,
they took careful notes.
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You know, angels are recording,
not only are they guiding.
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Jesus said, In the judgment
we'll give an account for every
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idle word that we speak.
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And I think God's got these
angels, the angels are there
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when the books are open.
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And I don't know if the Lord
uses a hard drive or how he does
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that, but he's got
some way the angels record.
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Talks about books.
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And angels were watching
and they were recording those
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who mocked Christ on the cross.
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And they took notes when that
thief said, Lord, remember me.
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They saw when Jesus was laid
in the tomb and the angels could
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not wait for Sunday morning when
the signal was given that Jesus
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had paid the penalty
of suffering and death.
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He had fulfilled those
three days and three nights
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in the hands of Satan, the
heart of the earth suffering
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for the sins of the world.
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And God said, Okay go for it.
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And they came and
threw aside the stone.
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And angels were
there to tell the women.
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when he rose.
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Angels were there when he
ascended to heaven, and angels
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are gonna be with
him when he comes again.
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It's good to know
you're not alone, isn't it?
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You know, Jesus said,
I'll be with you always.
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Now Christ is at the
right hand of the Father.
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So how is Christ with us?
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Through his spirit?
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And that same spirit is given,
God the spirit to the angels,
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and it's given to us, and it's
reassuring to know that they're
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always here, present.
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It's also little sobering.
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Jesus said, If you confess my
name in this evil and adulterous
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generation, I will confess your
name before my Father and his
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angels.
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If you deny me and my name
in this evil and adulterous
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generation, I will deny your
name before my Father and his
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angels.
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