CHRISTIAN SINGLES DATING
GUIDE: WORKING WITH ANGELS
SENSITIVITY TO ANGELS
Turn to Exodus 6: 29-30 and 7: 1 The Lord spoke to
Moses saying I am the Lord. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt
all that I say to you. And Moses again said I speak with
faltering lips how shall Pharaoh believe in me. So the
Lord said to Moses see I have made you as God to Pharaoh
and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall
speak all that I have commanded and Aaron your brother
shall speak to Pharaoh that he set the children of Israel
out of this land. Now in all the encounter it looks
like Moses was talking directly to Pharaoh but it was not.
It was through Aaron. Aaron was an invisible medium.
This is the way God does it. When an angel comes, he
speaks in the first person. It's like a prophecy. The
prophet of God or someone functioning to give a prophecy
don't say, "The Lord says..." Sometimes they do
say that but sometimes they begin to speak in the first
person, "I am the Lord your God..." Now they are
not saying that they have become God. But they have become
the mouthpieces of God. We need to bear that in mind as we
function and work with angels that when they bear a
message, they bring that message in the first person.
Let me point to the relationship between an angel
bearing a message and a prophet bearing a message. There
are a lot of similarities that we need to take note of.
Deuteronomy 18: 17 ff And the Lord said to me,
"What they have spoken is good. I will raise up for
them a prophet like you from among their brethren and will
put my words in his mouth." (Now this is a
prophecy about Jesus Christ. You find it fulfilled in the
book of Acts. And this same scripture is quoted in the
book of Acts.) I will put my words in his mouth and he
shall speak to them all that I have commanded him. And it
shall be that whoever will not hear my words which he
speaks in my name I will require it of him. But the
prophet who speaks in my name in which I have not
commanded him to speak or he speaks in the name of other
gods that prophet shall die. Now in verse 18 it says
that we have to hearken to the prophet as he speaks in the
name of God and he speaks as a mouthpiece of God. The New
Testament did say that when you receive a prophet as a
prophet you receive a prophet's reward. When you reject a
prophet as a prophet you receive God's judgment and
punishment for rejecting the prophet of God. It's
important for us to understand the consequences of
rejecting a messenger from God. Jesus when he sent his
disciples two by two to every city, He tells them that
those who receive them receive Him. Those who reject them
reject Him. "They don't reject you. They reject Me
because you are now representing Me." So that is
happening in the church age.
