Section 02 – Ministry of Angels

Matthew 18:18 to 20 says:

Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven: and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.
Again I say to you, That if two of you shall agree on earth concerning anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in Heaven.
For where two or three have been gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

We have been looking at the way of blessing and how God's power is released into the earth through human vessels. 

We saw that the power and the forces of the spirit are released through words that are spoken into the earth. But once that word has gone forth and a creation is taking place, there are other forces that come into play. 

If God's power is to manifest in the earth, there has to be a physical manifestation of that power. When God first spoke a Word of creation into the earth, the Scripture says He did it by His Word.

God's Word was a whole lot more than just a voice going out into the earth. God's Word was a tangible manifestation of the presence of God in the earth and the presence of God in the Word. 

In John 1:1 to 3 we read: 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

In the beginning was the Word; the logos. If you read through the rest of this chapter in John, you see that the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. This is speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ. 

When God manifested Himself originally in creation, He created through the Lord Jesus Christ. He created through the Word or the logos. Logos was a manifestation of God in the earth.

The Angel of the Lord

As we look back at the Old Testament we see that when God revealed and manifested Himself to man, He did so by a manifestation or presence.

When God appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai there was thunder and lightning. Moses and Joshua and the elders of Israel walked up into the mountain, and the Bible says,

And they saw the God of Israel.

But the Bible also says,

No man has seen God at any time.

There seems to be a contradiction here. How could they have seen the God of Israel if God cannot be seen? 

As we read the New Testament, we see that God gave the law through the mediation of angels. There is also a term that occurs throughout the Old Testament. It is The Angel of the Lord. 

God manifested His presence in the earth through what is known as a 'theophany,' which means 'a manifestation of God; an appearance of God' in some form. The Angel of the Lord was that form. 

The Angel of the Lord appeared to all the patriarchs of old. And whenever God appeared to man in the Old Testament it was in the form of the Angel of the Lord. 

The Scriptures tell us that Jacob wrestled with a man. When he asked Him His name He said,

Do not ask me, because it is Wonderful.

It was a secret. The prophecy concerning Jesus says,

And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God.

Who do you suppose Jacob wrestled with? Later as Jacob laid his hands on Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh, he said,

The Angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.

What was he referring to? He was speaking about the Angel of the Lord. Whatever God does in the earth, He does by means of His special messengers or His angels.

However when He acts directly upon the creation, He does it by that special manifestation known as the Angel of the Lord. 

Seen in Both Testaments

You can see in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that there was a manifestation of the Angel of the Lord when God came to do something tangible in the earth. In Acts 12:7 we read,

And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him], and a light shone in the prison: and he struck Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Get up quickly. And his chains fell off from [his] hands.

Peter was in prison and was scheduled to be killed the very next day. The Scripture says that the Angel of the Lord appeared in that prison and loosed his chains, took him out of prison and brought him right out into the open. 

It was a miraculous physical intervention in the earth by the power of God, and it was carried out by the Angel of the Lord. 

In Revelation 1:1 when John writes concerning the revelation that was given to him he says,

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things that must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel to his servant John:

He sent it by His angel. 

What did John see? Revelation 1:16 to 18 says:

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his face [was] as the sun shines in its strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last:
I [am] he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of Hades and of death.

It was Jesus speaking, but John says it was the Angel of the Lord. Jesus was manifesting His presence to John in a theophany, or a physical manifestation of the presence of God. 

The Angel of the Lord is a very special angel. When God acts in our situation, He acts upon the creation to supersede the natural laws and actually cause a physical change to take place.

If it is a creative act or something miraculous in the sense of superseding the law of nature, God will intervene directly by that manifestation of the Angel of the Lord.




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