Angel Ministry #4
Brief History& a Safe Place
This study is going to shed some light on some Angels that oppose you. These are fallen Angels that are set to cause you to turn from God and stop you from enjoying all the benefits of being a child of God.
Gen.1: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
IN THE BEGINNING
When was it?
Religionists say it was 6000 years ago; it can be documented by history that the beginning was 6000 years ago. The Bible records Adam and Eve as the first people.
Scientist say the beginning was 15 billion years ago. Carbon dating and fossils can prove it.
The only Reliable source that we have is the Word of God.
God, who was before the beginning, inspired the Word of God and has plenty to say on that subject.
The Bible seems to support more like 15 billion years.
This study may blow your theology about the Beginning.
This has nothing to do with Salvation but it does have to do with the quality of life that you can enjoy here.
Gen.1: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
When we read “The heaven and The earth” it seems clear to me that if Earth is a planet then Heaven must also be a planet.
We know heaven is a real place where God’s throne is and is a place beyond compare in its beauty.
Earth is where the Image and likeness of God was created
These were the center of Gods focus but we also know other planets and solar systems were created at the same time.
When The Heaven and The Earth were created Angels were watching and rejoicing.
Job 38: 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job had been complaining about the way he had been treated. Then God asked Job where was he when the foundations of the Earth were laid and the Angels rejoiced.
The Angels were created before The Earth, and were set in ranks, and order to rule over the creation. One rank is Seraphim with 6 wings that worship around the throne.
One rank is cherubim that ruled over the Earth with 3 “Leading” Rulers or Archangels Michael =a warring Angel, Gabriel= messenger Angel and Lucifer= leader of worship and praise and only second to God.
They make appearances as young men without wings. See Gen. 18:2,16 and Heb.13: 2.
Gen. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep., There is a time gap between Gen.1:1 and 2, how long we don’t know.
Does God create anything without form and void? The answer is, No.
It is fallacy to think that an all-powerful God would create something halfway or something in chaos and darkness.
Isa.45: 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited I am the LORD; and there is none else.
God created the heavens and earth not in vain but he did form it to be inhabited.
The fact of an inhabited world before Gen.1:2 is proven in 2Pet.3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.. Verse 5 refers to the original creation in Gen.1:1 which was dry land. Verse 6 reveals that this world perished and verse 7 reveals the heavens and the earth, which are now.
God gave us more insight by allowing his prophet Jeremiah to see the chaotic state of Gen.1:2.
In Jer.4: 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled and all the hills moved lightly
25 I beheld and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled
26 I beheld and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. He saw the earth when it was without form and void, sound familiar? You’ll find the only time earth was in this condition was in Gen.1:2.
Jeremiah also saw that the heavens had withdrawn their light, in other words there had once been light but now there was darkness. He saw mountains and hills but they now trembled.
He saw where there had been men but how there was no man to be found, (please note here that during Noah’s flood there were men to be found, Noah and family in the ark.)
He also beheld that all the birds had fled, and the one time fruitful places now made a wilderness. Jeremiah saw all the cities of this world now broken down, there had to be men present to build the cities and in order for a city to be a city it must have had inhabitants. But all this now has broken down at the fierce anger of the Lord. Why? What happened to cause God to allow such mass destruction? Let’s find out.
Before we do I would like to make one more point out of Gen.1:28. God here commanded Adam and Eve to REPLENISH the earth. The same command given to Noah in Gen.9:1, this word does not mean to fill for the first time (that word is “plenish”), but to fill again because it had already been filled once before. Why the chaos of Gen.1:2 & Jeremiah 4?
To find this out we must look into a time long before Adam. Ezek.28: 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created till iniquity was found in thee.
This character is no doubt Lucifer himself as we look at his attributes. He was perfect in beauty, sealed up the sum full of wisdom and had been in Eden. Stones covered him, tabrets (tambourines, timbrels) and pipes was put in him when he was created. This character was the anointed cherub that covereth God, cherubs are angels not men. He walked in the mountain of God, in the midst of the stones of fire. Men don’t do this. He was a perfect being until one day iniquity was found in him. He was filled with violence, and God said he was going to cast him out of the mountain and down to the ground (earth). In other words God will put down this rebel.
Jesus watched his fall in Luke 10:18, he fell as lightning. Revelation 12:3,7-12 refers to this same fall and reveals that Satan drew a third of all angels with him in this rebellion and they all were cast out into the earth. Verse 9 tells us that he also deceived the whole world that then was. Notice that Satan has never deceived the whole world since Adam’s day, God has always had a people.
Isa.14: 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Lucifer (Satan) fell from heaven and was cut down to the ground he weakened the nations. What nations? There is no biblical evidence of this happening since the time of Adam’s creation. Satan had already fallen in Genesis 3 during the temptation and falling of man? Therefore these nations clearly existed before Adam. Look again at Isa.14: 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
Satan who made the world a wilderness and destroyed the cities. Some even believe that the earth once sat upright on its axis before this mighty fall which shook the earth off kilter and hurled it into chaos.
What were the cities and men that was destroyed and deceived and brought to ruin?
This is the cave man that built a civilization.
These were man like animals but were not man like God created.
Gen. 1: 26 And God said Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen. 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary:
14,15 God passes sentence; and he begins where the sin began, with the serpent. The devil’s instruments must share in the devil’s punishments. Under the cover of the serpent, the devil was cursed of God; War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
Satan devised a plan to pollute the seed of woman to avert the judgment of God.
Gen 6: 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God (remember Job) saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose
3 And the LORD said My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
This is the cause of the flood of Noah. The seed of woman was without choice to sin.
God sentenced those Angels to be locked up.
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
This keeps Satan from imposing his will on you without your permission. He doesn’t want to be tied up in chains.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour
I believe from this evidence we are safe to say that it was very possible for dinosaurs to have existed. The plants and animals archeologist are supposed to be digging up all could have come from this time period. This theory sure does help explain
A lot of our formerly unanswered questions and shows why Satan hates you but is limited in his attack on man.
THERE IS A WAY TO HAVE POWER, PROVISION AND PROTECTION
This will show you a wrap up of the Angel Ministry in one set of scriptures. PS. 91
The key to this Ps. Is in verses 9,10, 11.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;(Fellowship)
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. (Protection)
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. (Provision)
I want to read this Psalm and make some comments on each verse.
To start we must see this as an Angelic Ministry manual.
In the Old Testament they had to depend on Angel ministry, but in the New Testament we have Blood of the Lamb, Holy Ghost, Gifts of the Spirit, AND ANGEL MINISTRY.
We have talked about Angels moving at the Word of God, but if you are not in FELLOWSHIP it will not work.
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Fellowship is a must to receive Angle Ministry.
Fellowship only happens when you spend time (Dwell) with God.
Fellowship is different from relationship. Relationship is by blood and Fellowship is by choice.
The Secret Place is a special place where you begin to know God and believe in his character, that he has good things in mind for you, and know his love.
Some get there with prayer, music, reading his Word, but it is spending time in his presents.
You can live (abide) under the shadow of the Almighty.
SHADOW means anointing Lu 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Ac 5:15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
FELLOWSHIP PRODUCES POWER.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust The person that dwells, is in fellowship can say
“I have a hiding place”
Where is your hiding place? TV, Bath Tub, Hobby. Where do you go when things get rough? Where do you go when the pressures are extreme?
To him that has fellowship, the Lord is their hiding place.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Surety of deliverance is based upon fellowship. 1Sa 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
The snare of the fowler You are delivered from the unseen traps.
The noisome pestilence. You are delivered from an onrushing calamity when it seems your world is at an end. ONLY IF YOU ARE IN FELLOWSHIP.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
This is a picture of an eagle covering its babies. They don’t know about the storm, all they know is a warm safe place.
his truth shall be thy shield and buckler Truth is the Word of God and it is your protection, from a Large attack or a small personal attack.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
You are protected from the things you can’t see as well as a broad open attack that you do see in the middle of the day.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. This is not Sinners, this is your brothers and sisters that fall because they did not have FELLOWSHIP.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. All of the attacks of Satan are successful against the wicked.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Anything the devil throws at you will be UNDER your feet; you will be lifted over all stumbling blocks. By ANGELS.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet You can trample ON FEAR, real or imagined FEARS.
14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
God is speaking about the reason of this Angel Ministry, Fellowship.
Then when you are ready to go home, when you are satisfied with long life you can step into glory.
Let me show you Angel Ministry.
Front= V 4,14
Side= V7
Behind= V11, 13
Top= V 1, 4, 10, 14
Under= V 12, 13
Day Night= V 5, 6
Home= V 10
Anywhere= V 11
Through this life and for all eternity= V 16
