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I got to thinking about the angel thing, and related matters. People tend to make a big deal out of the fact that some folks are seeing angels these days, and talking about it.

I’m not talking about new agers thinking they saw Glitter Sparkle Puff - I’m talking about Bible-believing, God-fearing, Jesus-loving Christians like you and me.

Argument #1 seems to run that there’s just not very many angel encounters in the Bible, so we shouldn’t be having them today. Um. Yeah. Have you ever read it? When I started investigating this, I discovered there were an awful lot of interactions between mankind and angels in the Bible.

Argument #2 seems to run that if a person sees an angel, they really shouldn’t talk about it, they should talk about Jesus instead. But let’s look at the facts…in the Bible, anytime anyone saw an angel, they talked about it and it got written down (else we wouldn’t even know about it, right?)… the folks who see them DO tend to give Jesus the glory, just as people in the Bible did (for example, Acts 12, an angel lets Peter out of jail and Peter acknowledges its presence. He MUST have talked about the angel because the record doesn’t indicate that anybody else was there (and if they were, then THEY talked about it). When he showed up at Mary’s house, he declared to them how God had brought him out of prison. God got the glory… but I bet he told them an angel let him out of jail!)

I think all too often, we read the Bible and get hung up on the fact that it doesn’t record it all. We’re reading history and not seeing the level of passion and drama behind it… and so we assume we should act like what we’re reading into it. Does that make sense to anyone?

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One of her stories is less “fiction” and more a word from the Lord to this generation. It’s called, “Come Back“. Excellent work - share it with friends and family who are lost or struggling.

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JunglesWife posted a link to a blog I’ve never seen before, but will undoubtedly start reading - “The Not So Daily Timmy”, by Tim Brownlee.

Tim posted an assessment of the Lakeland revival which makes several excellent points - most notably this:

The fact is for many of these cult watcher groups, their prophets are all dead. They can’t trust anybody alive to bear the oracle of God besides themselves.

and also this:

Because if all you are concerned is with deception then it will become your God.

Do you?

Well?

Just curious for some responses - especially from my readers who are in ministry.

Found out this morning that the reason the girl I referenced in this post about raising a baby from the dead had been watching the Lakeland meetings with her church on GodTV before the missions trip — that’s how she got the idea that she could/should pray for the dead baby.

By their fruits, INDEED… Glory to God…