CHRISTIAN SINGLES DATING
GUIDE: WORKING WITH ANGELS
SENSITIVITY TO ANGELS
The question is how do we work with them? I want to point
to the fact that angels speak in the first person. They
speak just like a person is prophesying, "I the Lord
your God..." That doesn't mean that the person had
become God. It just means that the person has become the
mouthpiece of God. Now angels speak in the same way. When
Moses met God in the wilderness, he met an angel who had a
message about God's name and who gave God's instruction.
Moses worked with angels. Exodus 3: 2ff And the angel of
the Lord appeared to him in the flame of fire in the midst
of a bush. So he looked and behold the bush burning with
fire but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, "I
will now turn aside and see this great sight why this bush
does not burn." So when the Lord saw that he turned
aside the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush and
said, "Moses, Moses," and he said, "Here I
am."
Now suddenly it looks like God is speaking. It looks like
God is in the bush. Let me tell you God was not in the bush.
An angel representing God was in the bush. Now the bible has
a way of recording things like that. It looks like God was
saying it directly. God was saying it indirectly through the
angel. And we know the amount of revelation given was
tremendous. God revealed His name as I am the I Am.
Cross reference to the book of Galatians 3: 19. There is a
summary of the revelation that Moses received at the burning
bush where he met an angel of God. It was on the Mount of
Sinai that Moses began to meet God face to face. Galatians
3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added
because of transgressions till the Seed to come to whom the
promise was made. And it was appointed (notice this
word) through angels by the hand of the mediator. Now
the mediator was Moses. It summarized the work of Moses'
primary interaction with angels. Now you see God didn't
speak the messages Himself but assigned an angel to deliver
them is such a way that it appeared that He Himself is
speaking. That is the way the bible records things.
For example Moses didn't actually talk directly Pharaoh.
But you find that in the bible the arrangement was this
between Moses and his brother Aaron. This was the
arrangement in Exodus 4: 15, 16. Now you shall speak to
him (that is Aaron) and put the words in his mouth
and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and I will
teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman
to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you.
And you shall be to him as God. So Aaron was a
spokesman. Whatever Moses wants to say he just tells Aaron
who would deliver the message for him. And while they were
encountering Pharaoh Moses was just standing not saying
anything. Aaron was the one who was saying everything. But
you read in the encounter between Moses and Pharaoh it looks
like Moses was the one doing the talking. Moses said etc.
etc. there were many of such incidents. But it was more
Aaron doing the talking.
