While you're getting your Bible turned I want to just say it's been a blessing to be back in Jerusalem for a month.  We've had four weekends together now.  This is our last weekend here, and we've had a wonderful time.

The blessings of the Lord, His favor, has been upon us.  He has fulfilled His Word.  I thank Him for a very powerful dream He gave me when we first arrived.  I thank Him for a glorious vision that I had two nights ago, last night.  I mentioned some of it yesterday in the service.  It's what I'd been waiting on.  It's what the Lord had promised.  And I'm still working to sort of digest all the information that the Lord gave.  


                                                                
Psalm 91.  You know these Scriptures.  You could probably quote them.  Psalm 91 and verse 9 said,

9.  Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10.  There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

You believe that?  No bird flu . . .  You believe that?  No plague shall come nigh thy dwelling.

11.  For he shall give his angels . . .

It's not in their power alone, but it's in the charge that He gives to them.  

11.  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

There's no way in the world that you're going to be able to be lost with all of God's angels watching after you.

11.  . . . to keep thee in all thy ways.

12.  They shall bear thee up in their hands (yes, they have hands), lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13.  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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.


Yesterday we were speaking about the Fire.  And I believe that the Fire is with us, and yet I believe there's a greater portion of the Fire of God just ahead for those who will reach up for it.  We ended the service by saying the Fire precedes the glory of God.

And as I was meditating last night, I began to think about the fact that Elijah was in a cave.  He was wanting to hear from the Lord.  There was an earthquake.  There was a whirlwind.  There was a fire that passed by.  And the Bible said that the Lord was not in any of them.  But then there came something that the prophet could relate to.  How many of you know what that was?  

The Bible said it was a still, small voice.  And so, I can say that not only does the Fire of God precede His glory, but the Fire of God precedes His Voice.  And so I believe that if we will somehow come to that place where we can receive that extra portion of the Fire of God into our lives, that it will prepare us to hear His still, small voice in a way that we have never heard it before.

Is there anybody in this room this afternoon who could use a little more of God's Voice in your life?  Well, I can.  I need His voice.  I have never spoken, I've never taken a text, on angels in all my ministry.

I have preached about angels.  I've believed in angels.  I've seen angels (I don't think I would be exaggerating to say) hundreds of times, but I've never just come and spoken in a particular service about angels.  But I guess you can imagine why I would do that.  

Because for those of you who didn't hear it, two nights ago I had a very powerful vision.  It was no longer my birthday in Jerusalem, but, just so you'll know, I'm going to claim it because at home where I live it was still my birthday when the vision came.

So when you hear me talking about it, you'll hear me giving the date as the 28th and not the 29th.  So you don't have to correct me - I know what I'm doing.  I'm claiming it on my birthday.

But as I was . . .  I had been asleep.  And I had awakened from sleep and was very aware immediately that there was an angel, a very large angel, standing at the foot of my bed.

I am not going through the details of the vision, even what I shared yesterday, every detail.  I'm not going to be adding any details just now.  But the nucleus of what I shared yesterday has set me on a determination to understand something.

You know, if we see things in dreams or visions and we immediately understand it all, then we just thank the Lord for it.  But if there's some things that we don't understand, it makes us want to search God's Word to find out what the real message is.

You see, I believe that every dream and every vision, every prophecy, every word of knowledge, every tongues and interpretation, all the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Ghost must be able to be brought back and lined up with the Word of God.  We have that in the Scripture.  Everything must line up with the Word of God.

Some of the things that I hear today I don't believe them.  And the reason why I don't believe them is because they have no basis in God's Word.  Somebody said, "I believe God's doing new things."  Every new thing that God does today has to have a Scriptural basis somewhere.  Amen.

It's got to have a foundation somewhere in the Word of God.  I wasn't thrown off when people began to experience jewels and gold dust and rain and oil.  That doesn't bother me at all because I believe we can find some Scriptural foundations for those signs and wonders.

But some of the things that people are seeing and experiencing, I'm afraid they're not coming from heavenly realms.  You know, there are deceiving spirits out there.  Everyone will be very quiet here, of course.  You know, this is not what people really want to hear.

But there are deceiving spirits out there that have deceived a lot of people in this hour.  And you know, we get a little arrogant sometimes.  And if we're not careful, the Lord knows how to bring us down a notch or two.

The Bible said, "When you think you stand, take heed lest you fall."  We could all get on the wrong rabbit trail.  But I want to thank the Lord that He is giving angels charge over us to keep us in the way, to make sure that we don't get too far off.  

I believe that sometimes if we get on the wrong trail . . .  Let me tell you what we do sometimes.  The Lord inspires us with something, and we don't know where to stop.  We go to the extreme.  The body of Christ is so full today of extremes (Amen) - extreme extremes.

There's an awakening . . .  I'm getting to a point.  There's an awakening in America among people to find their Biblical roots.  The sad thing is there are people who don't know where the middle of the road is and they go to the extreme of things.

And this is something that we have to really watch in the Spirit.  We have to be very careful that when God starts opening our eyes to truths, that we don't go so far to the extreme that we miss the leading of the Spirit of God.  He will keep us in check.  He will keep us in balance.

And this subject of angels . . . this is a subject which people have often gone to extreme on - extremes.  And they've started communicating and talking to angels and commissioning angels and telling angels what to do and naming angels, calling them by name, and making pictures and paintings.

You can go very, very far.  There's one thing the Bible tells us clearly and that is that we're not to worship angels.  They're not to be the focus of our affection.  There is an extreme on angels.  But because of what the Lord showed me on Friday evening, I feel like I need to spend some time looking at Scriptures concerning angelic ministry.

Because I believe that the Lord was saying to me in that dream that there's a new commissioning of angels, that God is commissioning angels with a new mandate in this hour that we're living in.  They're coming from heaven, I believe, with a new job to do.

And I believe that their ministry and the frequency of us being aware of their ministry is going to increase tremendously as we come to this time of really needing to overcome.

I want to share with you a few things that I found that I believe will be of some interest, at least to Bible students.  Look at Psalm 103 for just a moment.  Psalm 103 and verse 20.

20.  Bless the Lord, ye his angels . . .

Look at verse 19.

19.  The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

20.  Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

There's no doubt in Hebrew that this word "angel" is the same word that is used over and over and over again concerning these heavenly created beings - beings that God has created for specific purposes.

When we get to the New Testament, there are several words for angels.  And one of those words often indicates a messenger that is not a heavenly messenger but an earthly messenger with a heavenly message.

But in the Old Testament, this word here for angel is the same word that's used over and over and over again concerning these created beings that the Lord has made.  He says they excel in strength that do His commandments and hearken unto the voice of the Word or His Word.

We don't find any Scripture in the Bible where angels do their own will, where they are able to move in their own will to carry out acts on the earth.  We do have the example of the angels that listened to Lucifer, the fallen angel, and they followed after his pattern.

But we don't see any movement of angels in the Bible according to their own will.  We only see them doing the commands of God or carrying out the Word of the Lord.  We don't see angels moving in our will either.  We don't see the personal commissioning of angels by individuals, although I do believe that we can call on the Lord.  And when we call on the Lord, He can send angels and commission angels to come and minister and prepare the way and tear down and deliver and provide.

But Biblically, the example is not that we are sending angels here and sending angels there.  Perhaps at times the Lord may tell angels to listen to us.  But Scripturally . . .  I'm just giving you the Scriptural report, we don't find the example of that.  

There are . . .  I know statistics are boring for intercessors, but here it goes anyway.  A hundred and four times in the Bible, angels appear to men.  I think that's outstanding, an outstanding number.  They're mentioned 108 times in the Old Testament.  

There are 32 times that angels are mentioned in the writings of Moses.  In the history books of the Old Testament, angels are mentioned 37 times relating to the building up of the kingdom of Israel - 37 times.  The Psalms talk about angels helping, protecting and even delivering at times the people of God.

All the major prophets except Jeremiah speak about angelic ministry.  Daniel goes as far as to reveal the names of two archangels, Michael and Gabriel.  Two of the minor prophets speak about the operation of angels.  That would be Hosea and Zechariah.

In the New Testament, even though it is smaller, angels are mentioned 165 times in the New Testament.  The Gospels are filled with the operation, the testimony, of angelic aid.  The book of Acts alone has 6 different references of the direct ministry of angels in the early church.

The Book of the Revelation, though it's smaller than many books of the Bible, speaks of angels 65 times.  Now that's an amazing number because the Book of the Revelation is smaller than many books of the Bible.  It's the last book of the Bible and yet it mentions angels more than any other book of the Bible.

Somebody said, "Of course, because it's talking about heavenly things and heavenly realms."  But what I noticed was there seemed to be an increase of understanding and mentioning of angels as we get closer and closer and closer to the end of what we know as the Scripture.

The Old Testament has all these testimonies of angels.  But the New Testament, smaller than the Old Testament, has many more references.  And then we come to the end of the New Testament and one book alone has 65 different mentionings of angels and their ministry.

I believe it's a sign.  I really do.  I believe that God is showing us that the closer we get to the end of the age, the more relevant angelic help and angelic ministry is going to be in our lives.  I believe that . . .  I don't mean that we're going to pray to angels.  I don't believe we're going to have to.

I believe that even right now God is commissioning angels to come and work their works among us and with us and through us and for us.  I also believe that God is going to open our eyes.  I believe that people who have never seen angels are going to see angels in the hour that we're coming into right now.

I believe it's going to be very important that we're able to see them.  I believe that we're going to need to recognize that this is not . . . we are not alone in this thing.  We are not fighting this fight alone, but we have two great things going on in this realm.  

First of all, we have the Holy Ghost in us who is helping us, of course.  We have the Lord Jesus who is taking care of us - our elder brother.  But in this realm alone we have two supernatural things or entities that are helping us.

One is angels.  Angels are here in this realm helping us, fighting for us, providing for us, directing us.  But we also have a great company that a lot of people are not aware of.  Did you know the Bible said that we are compassed about with a what?  A great cloud of witnesses.

There are many men of God who believe that in this last hour we are going to become aware of a cloud of witnesses among us in the Spirit like we have never recognized before watching over us, protecting us, warning us and giving us some aid and some help as we go on to do the work of the Lord.

How many of you have ever seen this painting?  I don't even know what it's called and I don't have it.  I wish I had a picture of it for you.  I really, really like it.  Maybe you've not seen it, but some of you Americans may have.  There's a simple looking preacher in the pulpit in the center of the painting.  It may be by that Ron somebody who does a lot of these nice spiritual paintings that are not flaky like some of them are getting but really, really nice ones.

He does one of the Lord Jesus wrapping his arms around a man.  He's just kind of dangling in his arms called "The Prodigal."  Maybe you'll be familiar with that.  He did another one of the Lord Jesus in a beautiful robe.  And in that robe is woven the flags of the nations of the world.  It's very priestly and very beautiful.

He may be the artist, but he may not.  But the preacher's standing in the pulpit.  And then all behind the preacher, all around the preacher (you could find it easily on the Internet), are these beings who are standing behind him, all gathered around his shoulders, from the Bible.  Some of them from the times of the Scripture, you know, like Abraham and Moses and Elijah, and so forth.  You can recognize some of these.

Maybe it's called "The Cloud of Witnesses."  I don't know.  But did you know that the Bible teaches us that they without us are not completed.  You see, I believe that all of these who have gone on in the things of God . . . they've got a reason to be concerned about what goes on in your life.

I'm going to say that again because that didn't go over.  They've got a reason to be concerned about what goes on in our life because without our perfection they are not made perfect.  Is that what the Bible said?  Amen.  Without us they are not made perfect.

And so they have a personal stake involved in what you're doing in your life.  And I believe they're gathered around.  Some people see them over the balcony of heaven.  That's the expression they use - that all the saints of God are gathered around the balconies of heaven cheering us on.

Well, I don't believe they're around the balconies of heaven some million miles away looking down.  I believe they're closer than that.  You see, I know that many people cringe if you mention a name, somebody's name, that they have a little bit of a different opinion about.

But I boldly, without apology, mention some of the wonderful things that I've learned in the ministry of William Branham.  And one of the things that he taught that was so, so special to me was he explained the dimensions that we're living in.

And he talked about the fact that the righteous dead are not a million miles away somewhere in the eons of space, you know, where heaven . . . you know, in the blue lofty clouds or whatever . . . how we get these images in our mind.

But he said actually we're living now where dimensions are parallel.  And they're very close together.  And he talked about our theophany body.  If I would have mentioned E. W. Kenyon, then everybody would have said, "Oh, yes, I've read him.  That's very interesting."

Or if I would've mentioned that some of these other brothers have taught these very same things, people strangely enough have no problem with it.  But if you attribute the teaching to somebody like Bro. Branham, then people's little sirens immediately start going off in their minds and they often miss this great revelation that I think is very, very important.

He talked about that we have a theophany body, a glorified body we used to call it in Pentecost.  And one day we're going to step out of this body into a glorified body.  And he said that in fact, we bypass that glorified body.  We could've had it in the beginning, but we bypassed it.  It was God's will that we not step into that glorified body, but that we come here to the earth and that we live in a body made of flesh and that we are now being tested and tried to prove our love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

But one of these days, when we have finished the test, hallelujah, passed the test, finished the course, we're going to step out of this fleshly body into this glorified body, this theophany body, that the Lord has promised us.

Now my idea of that body was it's not yet created, perhaps.  In the moment I need it, it's going to be created.  But that's not what Bro. Branham taught.  He taught that God has already made those glorified bodies and that they're just waiting on us.  Somewhere, they're waiting on us.

And he was preaching away sometime and he said, "You see, actually my theophany body is just waiting on me in another dimension where my loved ones are, perhaps."  And he said, "One of these days, we're going to speed up and they're going to slow down and we're going to meet in the middle."

Now that sounds very strange for some people to be able to get in their minds.  We'd rather think about all of the cloud of witnesses being . . . looking at us over the balconies of heaven or something.  But that's too far to get to us when we need help.

I'm beginning to come to an understanding that this great cloud of witnesses is with us and among us - just in another dimension from the one we're living in right now.  And they're ready.  They're limited.  Of course, they don't have all power.  And they don't have all ability like God does.  But they're cheering us on.  They're watching over us with the angels of God.

And I tell you, that encourages me.  I'm going to make it.  I don't care how dark it gets.  I'm going to make it because there's a great host of witnesses that are personally concerned about whether I make it or not.  Their future is at stake.  There are angels that have been given the commission and the assignment to watch over me, to help me come to the place where I can be perfected in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I just can't lose.  Do you understand?  I just can't lose.  I've got all the help I need.  The Holy Ghost is within me.  I've got angels around.  I'm compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses.  There's no way I'm going to lose.  I'm not going to miss out.  God is certainly taking care of us.



But this is what I need to close with because this was something I only felt the inspiration for this morning.

In this vision . . .  I'm cutting all the details down.  You know, I saw these angels on this huge ladder.  And this ladder was hanging between the Old City of Jerusalem on the right and the new city of Jerusalem on the left.  It was just extended.

When this angel led me out of the bedroom in the Spirit, I saw my neighborhood.  I recognized French Hill.  But by the time we got to where the ladder was, I no longer was seeing the streets of this neighborhood, but I saw the Old City down below on the right and the new city of Jerusalem down below on the left.

And the angels were both ascending and descending on this ladder.  You heard that part.  And when we got to the top of this ladder, I recognized that this was not the front door . . . this was not the front gate of heaven.

In fact, I recognized that this was not before the Throne.  This was not the Throne Room, but this was a place where the righteous dead were.  This was a place where angels were and where the righteous dead were.  And yet it wasn't all the way up before the Throne.

And of course I explained yesterday how we see that in the Scripture.  They without us are not yet complete.  I believe that we will all see Jesus in His fullness at the same time.  But the thing that so shook me was these angels were being taught.

Who would think that angels would have need to be taught anything?  They're angels, you know.  But they were being taught.  And the amazing thing was they were not being taught by other angels.  They were being taught by the redeemed, by those who had come to this earth and lived and died the death that separates the body from the inner being, but they had died as overcomers.

You know, I guess I hadn't thought about people dying as an overcomer.  But of course they did in these other ages.  They're not still walking around alive.  They died.  But many of them died as overcomers with all the promises and the benefits that are assigned and ascribed to the overcomer.

And these overcomers were teaching this great company of angels.  They were testifying.  I heard what they were saying.  I heard their testimony.  Some of them I recognized.  I'm not ready to speak about that yet.  Some of them I recognized.  Some of them I didn't recognize.

But I didn't want to leave.  Eventually the angel said, "We have to go higher."  And I found myself standing, Sis. Nancy, at that same staircase that I experienced in October or November of last year that I was . . .  Remember, I was climbing that staircase when Sis. Ruth, in the Spirit, called to me.  And I turned around.  

I had seen many people that I'd known in the faith that had gone to be with the Lord, but I hadn't seen Sis. Ruth.  But as I started climbing that staircase, getting a little higher, she called out to me.  And I turned for just a moment, and Sis. Ruth was in that great crowd of people that were waiting there.

I found that same staircase, but I didn't want to go on it.  I wanted to stay right there and listen to these overcomers give their testimony.  Brother, I tell you, it was powerful words.  And it was as though they weren't just testifying.  They were trying to instill this, whatever it was . . . you know, this story of the overcomer, into these angels.

And the angels were so excited.  They were hanging on every word with such excitement.  I looked.  I stood amazed.  I looked at their faces and I thought, "This is the most wonderful thing.  It's like the university of angels or something.  It's like angel school."

You just have to know my background to know this is a big stretch for me.  I mean, God has stretched me a lot.  No one comes to Jerusalem that's not murdered, I mean stretched, really, in the Spirit - just stretched until you're dead.  There's nothing left in you when you deal with . . .

Would you at least admit that the most unique people in all the world pass through this city?  And you didn't know you were so strange, did you?  You don't recognize how weird you really are until you realize that everybody who God calls to this city is unusual.  Of course, you think you're the most normal of the crowd.  I know you.  You think you're the only normal one here.  Wrong.  Halelujah.

So this was a stretch for me.  But I realize that these angels were getting ready to descend the ladder.  They were getting ready to come down into the earth to minister to a group of people that were about to need their help by what they were hearing - the teaching, the testifying, the details of how these other saints had overcome, some of them from Laodicea.  That's what was amazing.  Some of them were overcomers from Laodicea.

And they shared their testimonies.  These angels were learning, and evidently they needed to hear this to assist them in what God was commissioning them to do in the earth.  Because listen, brother, we're the hard cases.  

And the reason why I say that is this is the hard age.  Laodicea is the rough age.  All the evil of every other age has been gathered together into Laodicea.  This is a hard place to overcome from.  But just like that . . .  That's the truth and nothing but the truth.

But when I had the dream of the church age messengers, it was spoken to me that in the same manner that all the evil was gathered into Laodicea, all the overcoming anointing would be gathered into this age.  Hallelujah.

What has seemed so hard in yesteryear is we're coming to an hour where it's not going to be hard at all.  Because that overcoming anointing that is a consummation of the anointing of the overcomers of all the other ages . . . it's about to be released.

So not only are we going to be filled with this overcoming anointing, but we're going to have angels that have been specially tutored (hallelujah), schooled and trained to know how to deal with overcomers (hallelujah), to know how to deal with us.  And they're coming.  They're coming.

I saw them graduating.  Remember, I mentioned that yesterday.  I saw their graduation.  I knew they were getting ready to receive their commission.  And I asked one question.  I didn't mention this yesterday.  

But I asked a question.  And I said, "I want to know what is so important about what these angels are about to do?"  Because you could just sense that this was the most important event that was going on anywhere in the heavenlies - this training session for these angels.

And the answer from the angel was, "These angels are about to visit the earth, and they're going to announce the destinies of believers."  They're going . . .  This got me this morning again.  I have to be careful with these kinds of things because I have a human . . . a small human brain - not like others who are highly intelligent.

And my brain gets short circuited fast.  And after I was here yesterday just sharing a little bit of this, I was short circuited for the rest of the day.  Really, I couldn't think straight.  I couldn't concentrate.  I wanted to.  I wanted to put some more of this down, but I just could not get to that place of putting it together.

This morning I went down early and I checked my e-mail and I read the summary of the service [from Alabama].  And then I knew I had to go back upstairs to get this together, a few other things on angels.  

And I went back upstairs, I lay down, but first took a shower.  I put my pajamas back on.  You didn't need to know that, did you?  The reason why I think I'll share that, I think, is because my children are so amazed with these visions now.  

You know, when they were little . . .  I mean they've even been . . .  Benjamin, I know for sure, and maybe Joshua have been in the room when I was in a trance vision and when people were gathered around.  But they don't understand.  You know, they're just coming to an age where they understand.

And while I was telling this yesterday, Benjamin . . .  Was it you, Katie, that Benjamin said that to?  Benjamin gets right up in Katie's face while I'm sharing this yesterday and said, "Did my Daddy go to heaven in his pajamas?"  And before the day was over, Joshua asked me, "Daddy, did you see all those angels with your pajamas on?"

And you know, I couldn't answer them because I never looked down to see what I had on.  When I left my bedroom over there . . .  And then they asked their Momma, said, "Momma, did you look over and Daddy wasn't even in the bed with you?"

And she said, "No, Darling, he . . . his . . ."  And then she thought, "How am I going to explain this?"  She said, "Well, his body was in the bed, but his spirit had gone to heaven."  

And so anyway, I lay back down across the bed and I started writing a little bit about these angels who are coming to announce our destinies, and I just was overwhelmed by the Anointing of the Lord.  The Scripture that the Lord gave me to sort of put that in ground was Judges 6:12, where the angel of the Lord comes down and says to Gideon, "Rise up, you mighty man of valor."

Do you know that Gideon is not behaving like a mighty man of valor?  His knees are knocking.  He is afraid of his enemy and he hears a rustling in the bush.  And he hides in the threshing floor or near the wine press.  He hides.  And all of a sudden the angel says, "Get up from there you mighty man of valor."

The angel was telling Gideon something that he didn't know about himself.  The angels that are graduating from this class in heaven, that are coming down to render aid to the overcomers in the End-time, they're going to announce to us things that we don't even know about ourselves.

You may be in fear, and the angel is going to announce your destiny.  You are not to live the rest of your life in the bondage of fear, but God has called you to raise up with courage.  And there's going to be such authority in these angels because they're in such a serious job, they're coming in such a serious way, that we're going to believe that they're speaking to us the Word of God.

Our destiny is going to be released over us.  And then I saw that what I need more than anything (and this is just me) . . .  But I want to tell you what I need to know from God more than anything.  I need to know my next step.

I am not . . .  I don't have to know everything that's going to happen to me between now and eternity.  I don't have to know.  I am not so curious.  I am pretty nosey.  But I am not so nosey that I have to know everything God's going to have me to do between here and eternity.  

But you know what I would like to know?  I would be very satisfied to know my next step.  And when I spoke that, I sensed immediately that that's the desire of the body of Christ, not just my desire.  I'm not the only one.

You know, God, You don't have to tell us what we're going to be doing two years from now if You tarry.  I don't even have to know what I'm going to be doing at Christmas time.  Just reveal to me Your next step.  

And I saw that these angels were coming with such a special anointing to announce our destiny and to release to us the revelation of what our next step is.  That's why I need 'em to get here in a hurry.  Because I need to know what my next step is.

And the Lord gave me Scripture after Scripture after Scripture where angels have announced the next step in people's lives.  I'll give you the references and you can jot them down if you want to.  Genesis 21:18, the angel says to Hagar, "Arise, lift up the lad in your hand.  I'm going to make a great nation out of him."  That was Hagar's next step.

Study the story and you'll find out she didn't know where to go, what to do.  She didn't know what her next step was going to be.  And an angel is the one who came and released to her what her next step was.  

Judges 6:14, the angel released to Gideon that his next step was to go in this night - go now, tonight, and such and such and such.  You'll have to read the rest of it.  I didn't write the whole verse of Scripture down.  But I found these Scriptures this morning.

I Kings 19.  The angel said to Elijah his next step, revealed to him his next step.  Do you know what it was?  Arise and eat.  And it's a good thing he did because that had to sustain him for quite a few days.  

In Matthew . . .  I ran out of paper this morning.  I'd already made notes so I had to write on the back of paper.  Matthew, chapter 2 and verse 13, is when the angel of the Lord released to Joseph to arise and take the young child because Herod desires to kill him.  Take him to Egypt.

Acts 8:26.  Look at what a powerful release the angel gave Philip.  Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.  That's what I need.  I don't need the angel of the Lord to tell me to get up.  I can get up by myself.  I need him to tell me details like he told Philip.

Arise.  Go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.  Sounds like some of us need the angel . . .  Never mind.  Moving right along.  Moving right along.  And then to Peter.  I just did one more.

Acts 12:7.  The angel of the Lord said to Peter, arise quickly.  So here are Biblical examples where angels revealed the next step.  And I have to close, but this is my last chance to say this, quickly.  

Would you read 1 Peter 1:12 real quick?  My, my, my.  I'm so sorry.  Not really.  1 Peter 1.  Can I help it if takes me an hour to get started?  1 Peter, chapter 1.  I loved finding these.  I was on a treasure hunt.  1 Peter 1 and 12.

12.  Unto whom it was revealed . . .

And I would like to read . . .  You know me, I'd like to read three or four extra verses here.  But I'll try to stick with this one.  

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.

There are things that angels desire to investigate, to look into.  No wonder they're being taught and trained.  They don't understand what it means to overcome in Satan's Eden.  They don't understand it.  They desire to look into these things.  

And so I felt like that was a Scripture that the Lord gave me that was great confirmation for what I had seen.  And I asked Him specifically, "I've got to have some help, because I don't . . . I've never thought of this before."  And let me give you one more. 1 Corinthians, chapter 6.

I know man was made a little lower than the angels.  I thought, "How in the world could man be teaching angels anything if man was made lower than the angels."  And then this is what God reveals.  The other Scripture He gave me was 1 Corinthians 6, 2 and 3.

2.  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3.  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

God said the believer, the overcoming believer, will judge angels.  This is authority given to the believer.  So sure, if a man overcomes, he has something he should be able to share.  

This one may be a little heavy for you.  Good.  You need a little something.  If I put something heavy on your belly right now, you won't eat as much lunch.  See, this is better than a diet, what I'm doing for you right now.  Revelation, chapter 22, verse 8 and 9.  And the Lord gave me this verse so I know that it applies - 22 and 8.

8.  And I John saw these things, and heard them.  And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

9.  Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

Who did John think he was seeing and hearing from?  He must have thought . . .  I'm just saying he must have thought he was receiving this straight from the Lord Jesus.  It came, perhaps, with such authority and power that he thought he was receiving it straight from the Lord.  And he fell down to worship before the feet of the angel.

You said, "But it says the feet of the angel."  Yes, but John wasn't ignorant.  He knew that angels were not to be worshiped.  He thought that he was literally standing before the Lord Himself or what we have read about in the Old Testament as the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, which I believe is the Lord Jesus Christ.  

You see, I'm one of those fanatics that believe that it was the Lord Jesus, Yeshua, who was with the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace.  I'm one of those fanatics who believe that it was the Messiah who appeared to Abraham in his tent.  I don't believe that was just three angels like the church teaches so many times - just three angels.  I believe one of those men was a Messenger.  It was God in a theophany body.

I believe that Abraham met God Almighty on the road in the form of Melchizedek, the Priest.  But it was really God Almighty.  Somebody said, "Well, where do you get such an idea like that?"  The New Testament.

Because the Bible said that it was so amazing that Abraham recognized what he was seeing that he began to pay tithes to Melchizedek.  And the Bible said that Levi, who was in the loins of his father Abraham, received the blessing.  Powerful.

This Melchizedek, who has no beginning of days nor ending of life, no mother, no father . . . this was God Almighty.  And so, John believed that he was standing before the Lord or the Angel of the Lord.  It was so powerful - the Anointing and the Word that was coming out of his mouth.  He fell down to worship the angel which showed him these things.  And listen at what was said:

9.  . . . See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets . . .

He was saying, "I serve the Lord like you serve Him.  Don't worship me.  I'm a prophet just like you are.  Don't worship me."  Is that not what he said?  Okay.

9.  . . . and of them which keep the sayings of this book . . .

I'm under the same Commandment that you're under.

9.  . . . worship God.

Now that wasn't God talking to John.  That wasn't the Lord Jesus Christ telling John, don't worship me, worship God.  Don't look at me like I'm supposed to tell you who it is.  It was one of those who overcame.  It was one of those who overcame.  Hallelujah.

Somebody had already overcome and was standing there ministering, teaching, instructing and revealing things to John.  I don't know who it was.  One of the overcomers, teaching.  "Don't worship me.  I'm a servant of God like you are."

Somebody said, "Well, it was an angel."  Then why did he say, "I'm of thy brethren, the prophets?  Don't worship me, worship God."  Well, that was the Scripture that the Lord gave me.

At the end, He gave me those three verses to kind of clinch, seal, what He had shown me.  And I have to say that was the heaviest of them all, but I receive it in the Name of the Lord.

Right now, in this moment, they're finishing up their classes, praise God.  Because I saw the announcement of the commencement, the graduation.  The overcomers are coming to a close as they instruct those angels that are going to be commissioned to come in this hour and assist us.  Hallelujah.

The first thing they're going to announce is your destiny.  And for those of you that don't know what to do with the destiny once it's announced, don't worry.  Because they're going to follow that announcement by giving us our next step.  And we need it.

Lord, we need our next step.  Hallelujah.  Lead us.  Guide us.  Direct us.  We will not worship angels.  We're going to worship You.  We're not going to focus on angels.  We're going to focus on You.  But we thank You that You have promised that You would give us angels to keep us in the way, that they would have charge over us lest we dash our foot against a stone.

We thank You for the great company that You have promised us, the cloud of witnesses that are cheering us on.  It's right there in Your Word.

Hallelujah.  Praise God.  I always have this feeling when I come to the last service.  Hallelujah . . .

[Hebrews 12:1]

1.  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  

Because after the apostle Paul goes through that great chapter, the hall of faith, and he talks about all these mighty men of God being used, he comes to the end.  I love Hebrews 11, don't you?  He even mentions Rahab as one of the heroes of the faith.  

Gideon and Samson and David and Samuel . . .

33.  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,  

34.  Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.  

35.  Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:  

36.  And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:  

37.  They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Listen.  If anybody deserved to overcome in perfection, it's this people.  You ever heard of people like this?  This is our fathers.  These are our mothers.  These are those who walked before us,  

38.  (Of whom the world was not worthy:)  they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves . . . (we don't have much to complain about) . . . of the earth.

I want you to listen to these next few verses.  They sound like people that you and I couldn't touch.  But listen at these two verses.  

39.  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:  

40.  God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

You think these great men of God and women of God are going to stand by idly and watch you fumble the ball and not scream out to you, "Get in line.  Get in step.  Watch what you're doing," when their end is in your hand, so to speak - they without us are not made perfect?  No.

They're calling out to God on our behalf.  And no, we don't pray to saints.  That's ridiculous.  That's crazy.  No, we don't pray to angels.  No, we don't pray to Mary because God doesn't have a mother.  No, we don't do things like that.  

We have an intercessor.  We have a mediator - the Lord Jesus Christ.  Oh, how it seems that they're crying out on our behalf, "You can make it.  You can do it.  (Hallelujah)  You just run on."

How many of you believe by the help of the Lord you'll find the grace to run on?  I know you will.  I know you will.  You've been touched by God.  You've been touched by Jerusalem, the City that He loves.  You're going to make it.  Let's stand.

Hallelujah.  Hallelujah, Lord.  We need that Fire that precedes Your voice.  We want our destinies to be announced.  And we want to hear it and get it and receive it and accept it and recognize it.  We want our spirit . . .  I don't believe it's wrong for us to ask You that our spiritual eyes would be opened that we would become aware of the angels that You're sending to announce our destiny, to give us our next step.

Hallelujah.  My.  Thank You, Jesus.  Glory to God.  (Tongues)  

(Singing:)  "I feel like traveling on . . ."

Lord, we just agree in prayer that You will release upon this people Your favor, Lord, in a way that we have never known it before.  We ask that You will favor us in all things that we touch for Your kingdom purposes.

We pray that You will open our eyes and anoint us and make us aware of angelic assistance in our lives.  Let it be a reality.

Prophetic Word:

And Lord, I just sense that even believers around the world will start capturing even more and more . . .  In photos, in videos, they'll be able to capture the appearance of angels.

And I just sensed even . . .  I know this is strange, but I just even sense that there was somebody in this room that would soon be able to say, to see and to notice, that even with their own camera that they had taken something that looked a little mysterious and a little odd and just wanted . . . just kind of served as a reminder to them that truly the angels of God are among us today.

We know they're with us when we walk about Zion.  We know they're with us when we are commissioned and we go about doing the will of God, watching after us, protecting us, keeping us, even providing for us.  

Lord, but we look to You and recognize that You're the One who so loved us that You have provided these things for us.  (Tongues)  Lord, let the impartation of Your Fire be on us right now.  Let us receive Your heavy glory.  Let us receive the Fire that purifies, the Fire that quickens, the Fire that gives us clear vision to see, to hear.  

Lord, let Your Fire be upon our discernment that our discernment would be sharpened and that we would have the ability like never before, the gift like never before, to discern that which is good and that which is evil, that we would not in any way fall under the influence of deception.

Lord, I pray that You will protect us and keep us from extremes, that we will walk in the middle of Your Word, that we'll be rooted and founded and grounded in Your Word and not carried about by the wind that is not of You, but that we'll be sensitive to the wind that has come from You.

Oh, we thank You for healing our bodies and renewing our minds and spirits.  We thank You for giving answers to our questions.  We thank You for announcing our destiny.  We thank You for revealing our next step by the Spirit of Truth.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  

We thank You for raising up a holy standard around us that the enemy cannot penetrate, that he cannot touch us.  Holy.  Holy is the Lord.  Holy is the Lord.  Holy is the Lord.

Thank You for raising up those who will bear the Fire.  Hallelujah.  We're Fire-bearers.  We take it forth - the glory of God. We take it forth and carry it wherever we go.

Let lives be influenced and changed for the glory of God.  (Tongues)  Let our words, our lives, our behaviors exalt You.  You're our king.  Give us peace - peace, Lord, like never before.  (Tongues)

Let revelation be upon us.  Reveal Your Word.  Oh, hallelujah.  Let us step into heavenly realms and decree and declare and prophesy what we see.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)  

(Singing:)  "Where He leads me I will follow . . ."

Hallelujah.