When angels rush in . . .

Angels are watching us and it’s like a spectator sport. They’re watching and scrutinizing.

The most fascinating thing about the angelic creation is they want to learn all things about Grace Believers. Anything and everyone they can get an insight into!

In an old article on this subject (one that Jordan tackled just this evening to the intent interest of the angels, no doubt) he recalled how, “Daniel is just fascinated by this creature he sees and he begins to try to describe him to you. He writes in Daniel 10: 5-6, ‘Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
[6] His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.’

“You know, you take your wife out on a walk in the moonlit night, maybe just out for a stroll, and you look down into her eyes and you say, ‘Your eyes are like stars. They’re like diamonds.’ You’re trying to be romantic and you begin to tell her how she compares with priceless jewels, and that’s what Daniel’s doing here. He’s looking at this angel and he’s comparing him with all these wonderful, fascinating, beautiful, precious things in the earth because the angel’s a fascinating creature and they are!

“Angels are (not made out of Carbon-14) but they wear clothes and eat. Psalm 78:25 is one of those funny little verses: ‘Man did eat angels’ food.’ Now you know what they drink? They drink Dr. Pepper. It’s the ‘elixir of the gods.’

“Asap says man ate angel’s food. Manna is the bread of the angelic host and Israel was able as the agents of God to participate in that. Angels know how to cook. Now that’s a blessing if you know how to cook good! In I Kings 19, Elijah comes out there and the angel says, ‘Get up, guy, and come over here and eat,’ and he goes over and the angel’s got a meal cooked for him!

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“Angels know how to drive chariots. They know how to ride horses and they know how to fight. They have activities to carry on and they can be visible or invisible. They can appear where people can see them or they can be invisible where you don’t see them. They can travel at incredible speeds. You see them in the Bible where there here and then they’re over there—zrrrooom! Incredibly fast-moving creatures. In fact, because of their connection with light, it is very possible and probable that their speedometer goes up to 186,000 miles per second; the speed of light.

“They can speak multiple languages. Paul said, ‘Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels . . .’ The angelic host can speak every language that is available to be spoken. In the Bible you never see an angel come up and have to talk to someone through an interpreter. No matter what language they might be speaking the angel can communicate directly to him.

“In Revelation 14 an angel stands and speaks to the nations of the earth and communicates to them. They have all these tremendous abilities.

“What you learn is the main thing you see them charged with is the Word of God and they’re charged with the well-being of the nation Israel. They minister to the nation, they care for the nation, they fight for the nation and they provide for the nation. We also saw how they don’t do those things for us. We don’t need what angels can provide.

“Angels are the agent of God to come and provide things and they do all these things for Israel, but what they do for Israel we don’t need them to do for us. Why? Because we have the completed written Word of God.

“While we don’t see angels today, they do see us. In fact, they do more than see us. They watch us, they observe us, and they pay close attention to us. In fact, they follow you home. They are fascinated by members of the Body of Christ.”

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I Cor. 11 says, “For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
[9] Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
[10] For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.”

Jordan explains, “Lady you ought to live in submission and under the authority of God. If you’re a wife, you ought to live under the God given authority of your husband. The angels are watching and they’re interested to see whether or not, and how it is, believers function under the authority of the Word of God. They’re wanting to see the impact that Word of God has in your life and whether it’s important to you and whether it works. And when it works, how it works.”

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There were things about the prophetic program angels, who watched the prophets write down, desired to look into. I Peter 1 says, “Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
[11] Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
[12] Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”

 Jordan says, “The prophets would write down the information about the sufferings of Christ and then they would write down the information about the glory of His Kingdom. And then they would say, ‘Lord, we don’t understand what we wrote! What are we talking about here?! And how is this stuff going to work together?! How is it time wise gonna fit together?!’

“There’s something you need to notice in verse 11 very clearly. They didn’t understand what the sufferings of Christ was a reference to.  They write it down and then they say, ‘What are we writing?!’

“Now I know something from that. Nobody in time past in the prophetic program—Moses, Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, David, any of the prophets back there—they were not looking forward in faith to the Cross, believing one day God would send the lamb to die at Calvary for their sin.

“When Isaiah wrote Isaiah 53, he didn’t understand he was writing about Calvary. That’s what the verse says. They were not looking forward in faith. What they did is they looked at what they wrote and said, ‘What is this?!’ and God told them, ‘It isn’t for you to know. It’s for people after it happens to know.’

“And the angels are watching the prophet write it and they’re saying, ‘C’mon, man, get it! Figure it out, would you! Study a little harder!’ They desired to look into that but they couldn’t get it because the time hadn’t come for it hadn’t been revealed yet.

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“In Acts 8 the Ethiopian eunuch has been to Jerusalem. He’s a proselyte to Judaism and he’s left Ethiopia and gone all the way to Jerusalem to worship, and he goes home and he’s reading Isaiah 53, and Philip says, ‘Do you understand what you’re reading?’ And he said, ‘How can I? I need somebody to teach me. I can’t get this.’ And he says, ‘Who’s he talking about here?!’ And that’s in Acts 8 that they don’t understand it!”

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Ephesians 3: 9-10 says, “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
[10] To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.”

Jordan says, “What the angels were curious about finding out about and couldn’t, now is made known and now they can learn it. Now they not just saying, ‘Well, tell it to us!’ and the prophet says back, ‘But I don’t know it yet.’ Now they’re saying, ‘Man, all those years we were trying to figure that out! . . .’

“They learn from us as members of the Body of Christ what they were looking for. What’s manifested there is the manifold wisdom of God. It’s important to understand what it is we’re demonstrating. They’re not looking at you and me to see a demonstration of the power of God. If they wanted to see God’s power, they were witnesses to the creation of the universe (look in Job for references).

“There’s something about His wisdom that WE’RE manifesting. The issue today is demonstrating God’s wisdom, not His power. You need to remember that in the details of your life-- it’s the wisdom of God that He’s manifesting!”

“No. 1 we’re going to be fellow heirs. Angels’ watch this and say, ‘What in the world?! Explain  this!’ They’re trying to comprehend what does it mean to be a ‘fellow heir.’

Romans 8:15-17: ‘For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
[16] The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
[17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.’

“I mean, we’ve been made members of the immediate family of God. Able to cry, ‘Abba Father!’ The only person in all of the Bible who ever addresses God the Father as Abba Father is Jesus Christ. We have the same relationship with him as Christ does. That intimate FAMILY relationship. Angels never … they don’t know anything about being a part of the IMMEDIATE family of God.

“They’re part of the creation, but to be a part of the immediate family and sit at His table and to call Him Daddy. They don’t know anything about that and they’re saying, ‘A bunch of old lost sinners? Wow, what is that?!’ That’s the wisdom of God through the Cross.

“In Galatians 3 He says were of the same body. When they see us standing as who we are in Christ as heirs, part of the family of God, and accessing into the presence of God and Abba Father . . .  They see you do that and they’re instructed about the wisdom of God that made it so.

“Galatians 3:27 says, ‘For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.’ That word ‘put on,’ it’s like this: Here’s my coat. I take my coat off the hanger and I put on the coat. What did I do? I clothed myself with the garment, didn’t I?

“When you look at me today, what do you see? You don’t see my t-shirt, do you? You see my coat. When God the Father looks at you today, you know who He sees? He sees His Son, Jesus Christ. You stand before God in the identity and accomplishments of His Son. Oh my friend, don’t waste your time trying to define yourself by your failures.

“That’s sure not the way God defines you today! And when He looks at you He sees Christ and the angels look behind and they see you! And they say, ‘Wow, man, look at this!’ and they see the wisdom of God manifested!”