ANGELIC ACTIVITIES ARE MORE AT CHRISTMAS OR AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS

ANGELIC ACTIVITIES ARE MORE AT CHRISMAS OR AT BIRTH OF JESUS

1.12.23 Edited WISDOM FOR TODAY

Prov. 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 

We have entered December, the last month of the year. Our custom in this daily post has been to take a verse or more from each of the 31 chapters of the book of Proverbs and open up it's implications concerning the body of Christ. We are starting another month and this, unlike November which has only 30 days, has 31 days. December is a special month to all of us. It is the month of Christmas. It has special meaning for me because my encounter that led to my conversion happened in December, on 30th. That I entered a day to the last day of the year has always left me with impression that I need to talk a lot of the last days. 

I therefore look forward to see what the Lord will enable me to write for us in each day of December 2020. I pray that the Lord will teach all of us the wisdom we need to behave well before, during and after this Christmas. Thank you ahead for reading. Make sure you read His wisdom for each day since wisdom is like a deep but flowing well. Use everything you have to draw it out first for your personal benefit and for the benefit of others who may hear you.

Our story starts with the need for wisdom.God is the source or the Father of all wisdom (Eph. 1:17). His wisdom can come to man in any of the following ways:

1. His direct audible voice as He thundered in Sinai.

2. His inner voice which only your heart can hear like Elijah heard in 1 Kgs 19:12.

3. Circumstances can speak to us as it did when Abraham was being stopped from killing Isaac and there was a ram caught by its horns.

4. There can be burden of the Lord - the tpe that made Nehemiah pray for the afflicted Jerusalem more than those who reported the situation to him.

5. God's wisdom has come to many through dreams, visions ad trances.

6. God spoke to some through other men - like Agabus spoke to Paul about the dangers in Jerusalem waitng for Him

7. Angels are also channels of God's wisdom to the earth. They are God's wisdom personified.

Let Us Look At Angels And Their Appearances To Men Before Us

People are looking for aliens and they are shuttling into planets and stars that are billions of miles away. We, Christians, are the ones to tell them where the aliens are and how we can see them coming and going on the Son of Man (JN 1:51).

Christmas times started off with the coming and going of angels. The first one came to Zecharias, then he retuned six months later to Mary. Thereafter their visits became more regular. It was urgent to tell Joseph that the pregnancy of Mary was of the Holy Spirit just like it was also urgent later to inform the shepherds in the fields to go and visit the baby Jesus. There are always urgent matters when Jesus is about to be manifested. How can God's angels not warn the wise men from the East to return by another way? Why should they not quickly inform Joseph of the impending danger to the baby Jesus? Then when Herod died, the Angel came to him in Egypt to return to Israel. When they landed in Israel, they also needed the information that the one that took over after Herod died was like his father, another enemy of righteousness. 

It is actually the fear of the Lord that is the beginning of knowledge and of wisdom. Since Herod had no correct knowledge and wisdom, he went ahead to kill innocent babies in Bethlehem. Without godly wisdom, Pharaoh raised Moses in his house. Moses was a man destined to wreck his Kingdom. Without their worldly wisdom, Egyptians gave cause to the Israelites to want to leave for the Promised Land. That is the way the world operates and God rides on their craftiness.

Imagine. 

There are innumerable numbers of angels here with us and scientists are roaming the whole space for aliens. The Bibles says that angels are here, yet the leaders of this world do not see them. As their eyes are out there on the ends of the earth, God will again surprise them by appearing on earth.

We, the preachers, are the ones to keep announcing the likely events leading to His advent or His coming. The angels started their work six plus nine months before He was born. That is fifteen month to His arrival as a baby. We are the angels I am talking about now. Angel mean messenger and there can be spirit messengers and human ones. God uses the same word when referring to both.

All the angels worked for Him. So let every minister of God know in whose vineyard he is working. All the angels delivered God's message and nothing more. So let every servant of God beware lest he becomes the servant of men or of money or of his belly. All the angels left the scene the moment the message was delivered. Therefore learn to spend more time waiting on God than pleasing the people. 

All the angels had to be heard. So, learn to hear the Lord. The best method is read the Bible from cover to cover and over and over. Why? Because you are not the first to begin hearing Him. Therefore knowing how He spoke to others before you gives you an edge over other men. 

Conception

Conception was important when the angels were first delivering their messages. It's like, the first thing God wants us to do is to become pregnant. Let Jesus be born and formed inside each one of us. In Gal. 4:19, Paul said that he was praying for believers in Galatian Church till Christ would have formed in them. We are talking of having a vision and we can do that. We can pray that the believers under us have Christ formed in them.

We need these preparations because another revival is here. Angels will again multiply their presence and appearances. Their coming and going will keep building up till resurrection power is here again. That is when the angels shuttle here and there more and they can be rightly called ministering spirits sent forth to minister to us (Heb. 1:14). 

Remember that the curtain was torn from up down. There were plenty at the tomb. They appeared to Mary Magdalene and to the other women. They were at His ascension to tell the followers to accept the reality of His going away to heaven and to announce that He will one day return the same way. Thereafter they ministered to the brethren in the revival that kicked off then.

They were with the disciples and so there so many miracles. They spoke to Philip and helped him get the Ethiopian Eunuch saved. One came to Cornelius. Maybe the same one or another informed Peter that the servants of Cornelius were looking for him. Another or is it the same one, stood with Paul in Corinth (Acts 18:9-10) to assure him that no one would be able to harm him there. An angel stood by Paul in that terrible storm (Acts 27:23-24) to assure him that none would die on that ship. I like to see angels again. What of you?

Since we can only get what we believe, let us preach and make their roles popular again. The denominations have 'highlighted' demons and what they can do. Our people fear demons more than they fear good angels. And they see demons more. And good angels are more powerful and more numerous. One smote the mighty Herod (Acts 12:23) and he was eaten up by worms. Have we forgotten that? One killed 185,000 soldiers in one night (2 Kgs 19:35). Which fallen angel has been able to do that? 

Let's share this to every minster till we open our hearts to receive ministry of good angels. Let us not so train our members to see even good angels as demons. Welcome, dear angels. Do your work. After all we have at least one thing in common. We both rejoice when souls are saved.

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