CHRISTIAN SINGLES DATING
GUIDE: WORKING WITH ANGELS
THREE KEY PRINCIPLES
Daniel 9: 20-22 Now while I was speaking, praying
and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and
presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the
holy mountain of my God, yes while I was speaking in
prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I have seen in the vision at
the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me
about the time of the evening offering. And he
informed me, and talked with me, and said (look at
Gabriel's words to Daniel), "O Daniel, I have now
come forth to give you skill to understand. You must
be a seeker after God. In verse twenty three at the
beginning of his prayer God has already started
initiating. Now what was interesting is Daniel 9: 2 In
the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by the
books the number of the years specified by the word of the
Lord given through Jeremiah the prophet, that he would
accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Then I set my face towards the Lord God to make request by
prayer and supplications with fasting, sack-cloth and
ashes. The most interesting thing was that Daniel was
seeking God because of the bible reading that he read in
the scroll of Jeremiah that he partially understood and he
thought that he fully understood. And because of the
revelation of Jeremiah from the word of God, he sought
after God. Daniel was a seeker after God. And because he
sought after God, the Lord granted him to understand all
that he could understand according to his time in history.
Now we all don’t understand everything perfectly. We
understand a little bit at a time. When Daniel read the
book of Jeremiah which was already written in his time and
saw the prophecy of seventy years, he understood that it
should have to pass. And he sought God for the meaning of
the prophecy, which according to his understanding, should
have come to pass. As a result, God sent Gabriel to tell
Daniel that it will come to pass but there is more meaning
than that. It also points to the coming of the Messiah
where the seventy years represent seventy times seven
years.
When we look at Daniel 9 I would dare to say this fact:
if Daniel had not been a seeker after God for the meaning
of the bible, the whole of Daniel chapter nine would not
have happened. So don't ever say angels will just move as
they will. There has to be some response from our part.
And if Daniel had not been a seeker after God and after
truth, the whole Daniel chapter eight would not been
written. We would have two chapters short. I wonder
whether in our life story, some chapters have been cut
short because we did not take the initiative to seek God.
As you can seek God about a vision or a dream, don't
expect that God must reply immediately. Let God take His
time. But for you, you must set aside time to seek after
those things to understand the visions and prophecies and
their meaning and fulfillment.
