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Hebrews Jesus Is Higher Than The Angels

Chapter One My First Encounter With An Angel 3

Chapter Two What Are Angels’ 16

Chapter Three Around The World With Angels 27

Chapter Four Touched By Coals Of Fire 34

Chapter Five Angels On The Scene 43

Chapter Six Ministering Angels 65

Chapter Seven There Are Two Kinds Of Angels 77

Chapter Eight Angels Come In Different Colors 85

Chapter Nine Angel Vignettes 90

Chapter Ten Entertaining Angels Unaware 115

Chapter Eleven End-Time Dreams, Visions, Angelic Visitations 130

Revelation The New Jerusalem 140

Hebrews - Jesus Christ Is God’s Son
Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our
ancestors through the prophets. But now in these final days, he
has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to
the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he made the
universe and everything in it. The Son reflects God’s own
glory; and everything about him represents God exactly. He
sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command.
After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in
the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of
heaven.
Christ Is Greater Than The Angels
This shows that God’s Son is far greater than the angels, just as
the name God gave him is far greater than their names. For
God never said to any angel what he said to Jesus: “You are my
Son. Today I have become your Father.”
And again God said, “I will be his Father, and he will be my
Son.”
And then, when he presented his honored Son to the world,
God said, “Let all the angels of God worship him.” God calls
his angels “messengers swift as the wind, and servants made of
flaming fire.”
But to his Son he says, “Your throne, O God, endures forever
and ever. Your royal power is expressed in righteousness. You
love what is right and hate what is wrong. Therefore God, your
God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more
than on anyone else.”
And, “Lord, in the beginning you laid the foundation of the
earth , and the heavens are the work of your hands. Even they
will perish, but you remain forever. They will wear out like old
clothing. You will roll them up like an old coat. They will fade
away like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will
never grow old.”
And God never said to an angel, as he did to his Son, sit in
honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making
them a footstool under your feet.”
But angels are only servants. They are spirits sent from God to
care for those who will receive salvation. Hebrews 1:1-14 1 NLT

Chapter 1
Jesus is Higher
Than the Angels
By Frances

The study of angels is fascinating!

For most of my life, I never really gave any serious
consideration to angels.
I thought about angels at Christmas time more than any
other time of year, and if I happened to think about them, I
probably would have thought about little blonde girls in a
church play, draped in white sheets with chicken feathers
pasted on their backs to imitate wings, wearing little crowns
on their heads, That is the most consideration I had ever
given angels...
...until I met one!
When I was saved, I was so interested in learning
everything I could about God and Jesus that I didn’t think
about anything else. I didn’t realize what an important role
angels play throughout the Bible and what a surprisingly
large part they would later play in my own life!
The first time I was aware of encountering an angel
occurred in 1978 at the Civic Center in Abilene, Texas. It
was a night I will never forget! The entire day had been
extraordinary because during the morning worship service,
the worship gradually, but noticeably, intensified. As we
continued singing in an unusually high form of praise, there
was such an electrifying anointing present that it
encouraged us to go even higher in praise and worship.
Everybody felt that anything could hap– pen! No one
wanted to stop praising God!
At some point during this incredible praise and worship,
the pastor who was hosting the meeting glanced toward the
top of the Civic Center. To his amazement he saw an entire
row of angels positioned in front of the valance which hung
all the way across the stage. He was excited, he burst into
even higher realm of praise!
He looked up a second time, and was even more
shocked because he saw another row of angels behind the
first row. The second row was made up of much larger and
obviously stronger angels! He asked, “God, I don’t
understand! What is the meaning of this?”
God answered him, “The first row are the blessing
angels that I have sent to bless you because of the praise
and worship. The second row are the warrior angels which
I have sent to fight the spirit of religiosity in the city of
Abilene, Texas.”
Unfortunately, there is a deep-seated spirit of religiosity
in every city in the United States and across the world, So
many people go to their churches on Sunday morning and
have two songs, listen to a prayer, give in the offering,
“endure” a sermon and that’s it. They go home and seldom
think further about God until the next Sunday. They never
think about Jesus through the week. Bound by a “form of
religion,” a spirit of religiosity prevents them from
worshiping God in spirit and in truth and it keeps them
from enjoying the fullness of knowing Jesus.
God said to the pastor in Abilene that He had sent this
tremendous band of warrior angels to fight the spirit of
religiosity! We were overwhelmed by this good news.
After the morning service had ended, the pastor shared
with us what he had seen. Charles and I got so excited that
we decided to look for angels! We had never seen an angel,
so after seeing this pastor’s exhilaration we got so wound
up we thought we would just have to find some little angels
in the auditorium. We looked under the chairs. We looked
on top of the chairs. We looked in the choir section. We
looked under the pulpit! We looked every place we could
think of but we could not find a single, solitary angel!
We were so excited about what the pastor had shared
with us that we asked him to share his experience in the
evening service. At that time, we were unaware of the part
angels play in our daily lives, God must have been dealing
with us about angels to alert us and to send us to our Bibles
to discover a lot more about these supernatural beings.
That evening, the pastor shared; everyone in the
congregation was absolutely thrilled to learn about the
“blessing angels” and the “warrior angels” he had seen. We
could see by the expressions on their faces that they were
planning to examine every nook and cranny of that building
so they could see angels, too!
When the pastor completed his testimony, Charles
began to speak on the subject of marriage, We each had a
microphone, and since he was speaking, I began to move
back slowly so the attention of the audience would be
focused on Charles.
After I had retreated a few steps listening to Charles, a
most unusual sensation came over me. The musicians had
left the stage, and I knew there was no one there except
Charles and Frances Hunter, Yet in my spirit I sensed there
was another being on the stage to my left. I knew it wasn’t
God, and I knew it wasn’t Jesus, but I also knew it was not
a human being!
I was intrigued!
Not wishing to disturb the service, I continued backing
up very, very slowly. As I inched back, I could feel the
closeness of the being on the stage. I turned my eyes to the
right side of the audience and very slowly scanned all the
way across the audience, which I often do when Charles is
talking, but I did not stop when I got to the left side of the
Civic Center. I continued looking until I could see what it
was or who it was standing beside me.
Then I got the shock of my life! Standing beside me
was the tallest man I had ever seen! He was between seven
and eight feet tall with huge, broad shoulders.
Instantly I knew it was an angel!
Totally enraptured by this encounter, my first with an
angel, I forgot I was holding a microphone in my hand, I
screamed, “WOW!” and that word resounded throughout
the entire auditorium!
I had been so careful not to disturb the service but this
certainly disrupted it! Unable to suppress my feelings of
awe, I yelled, “WOW!” at the top of my voice, I wasn’t
afraid; the feeling I had was more of shock and amazement!
Then God spoke to me in a beautiful loving way. God did
not speak through the angel but spoke clearly to me through
my mind and my spirit.
The awesome words He said to me are branded on my
heart today, many years later, just as deeply as they were
burned into me that night:
“That is a special warrior angel I have sent to protect
you from the fiery darts of the devil until Jesus Christ
comes back again.”
Did you pick up the most special words in that
message? He said, ‘..until Jesus Christ comes back again,”
He did not say, “...until you die!”
He said, “...until Jesus Christ comes back again!”
There is no way I could ever express how completely
full and overflowing I felt with the love of God at that
moment. I was totally enveloped in His love, and filled with
a love for Him greater than I had ever felt before. I was
completely in awe of the fact that He had not only spoken
to me, but that He had sent an angel to protect me! This was
beyond anything my finite mind could even dream or
understand! There was such an awareness of the
awesomeness of God that to this day I do not remember the
rest of the service. I know we continued it, but all I could
actually think about was what I felt in my heart at that
particular moment.
It was a time of thanksgiving, a time of thankfulness, a
time of gratefulness, a time of appreciation that God would
take time out to make that particular night such a blessing
to me for the rest of my life!
The memory of this visitation and God’s words to me
have helped me through the many difficult challenges I
have experienced since that extraordinary night!
In 1988 there was a terrible day when the doctors told
me I had an incurable, fatal disease. They said that I would
probably not live more than four to six days, and at the
most I had six months, providing I spent those six months
in the hospital, taking massive daily doses of antibiotics.
After hearing that horrible report, a death sentence from
reputable doctors, I said, “God, You said for us to put You
in remembrance of Your Word” (Isaiah 43:26), I reminded
Him He had sent a special warrior angel to protect me from
the fiery darts of the devil until Jesus Christ comes back
again!
I put my hand over the mouthpiece of the telephone and
said, “I don’t receive that in the Name of Jesus!
Immediately, all worry and concern disappeared from
my heart. The peace of God which passes all understanding
flooded my soul because long before, in 1978, I had
received that beautiful personal word from God, God did
heal me and I have never had any recurrence of that
disease!

How Did You Know It Was An Angel?

Many times throughout the Scripture we find instances
in which God sent angels to give consolation or comfort in
times of distress.
 A question that most people ask me when I share about
my first encounter with the angel is, How did you know it
was an angel?”
I cannot explain how I knew except that I knew, I knew
that I knew that I knew that I knew! When you see an
angel, there will be absolutely no doubt whatsoever in your
mind. If there is a doubt, the “angel” just might be a result
of your dinner, or a product of your own desire to have an
angelic visitation. When an angel comes to you from the
awesome presence of God, though, there will be no doubt!
The next common question I hear is, “What does the
angel look like?”
The angel God assigned to me is really BIG. He stands
between seven and eight feet tall and looks as though he
weighs about four hundred pounds. He has sandy colored,
reddish blonde hair, perhaps a little more on the light red
side than on the blonde side. His hair is curly, and believe it
or not, he appears to be about twenty- five years of age. He
looks old enough to be out of the teenage years, yet young
enough to be strong, active and with the potential of being
extremely powerful.
The night I first saw him, he was wearing a warrior’s
outfit, a form of mesh or chain mail. It was somewhere
between a copper and gold color. The best way I can
describe his appearance is to say that what he was wearing
looked like what I might have expected a Roman soldier to
wear. I knew instantly that when he was around, I didn’t
ever have anything to, worry about!
Many people have asked me, “Does the angel have
wings?”
No, this angel doesn’t have wings! We see pictures
everywhere of beautiful feminine angels with wings and of
little cherub angels with wings. However, very few people
that I have ever talked with who have seen angels have
mentioned that the angels have wings. Although the Bible
describes some of the angelic host, such as seraphim and
cherubim, as having wings, in most cases the biblical
appearances, as well as those recent manifestations we have
experienced, involved angels appearing in the form of
human beings.
Apparently angels can move with the speed of light, the
speed of energy, or the speed of sound. Without the benefit
of wings, they are able to go where they are directed much
faster than if they were propelled with wings, faster than we
could imagine.
Angels are eternal. They were not born but created,
They do not age or die. God created them before the
beginning as part of His eternal plan, and they are involved
in His plan throughout the Bible. Angels don’t marry, and
they don’t multiply. As a result the angels we encounter
now have been around since the beginning of time! This is
a fascinating thought! Since the angels were created before
the beginning, they are old in years, but our angel, and all
those I have heard about in other testimonies, appear to be
young, strong and robust!
I am going to ask you to do something very special; as
Scriptures are quoted in this book, read them out loud. I
have discovered when I read Scriptures out loud, they
become more of a reality. I believe you’ll find that reading
them out loud will do that for you.

An Angel Visits Zacharias

In Luke 1:11, the story is told about how Zacharias
went into the temple at a very special time, Elizabeth, his
wife, was barren and they were both advanced in years, but
suddenly and unexpectedly the activity of angels began to
create miracles in their lives.
Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on
the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias
saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the
angel said to him, ‘Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your
prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a
son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have
great joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. -,

This should have been wonderful and exciting news to

Zacharias since both he and Elizabeth were elderly,
However, instead of being excited, Zacharias was full of
doubt as to the truth of what the angel said. One of the most
important things to note in this story is the fact that it says
fear fell on Zacharias,
Immediately the angel spoke to him, “Do not be afraid,
Zacharias. “There is such an intensity and such a presence
of God with the appearance of a holy angel, that it can
easily bring fear to your heart! The first words the angel
said were precious, loving words of comfort to calm
Zacharias’ fears.
Fear can put a tremendous number of unholy things in
your mind! The Living Bible says that Zacharias was not
only startled, but also terrified at the appearance of an angel
standing to the right of the altar of incense. When fear
comes in, it opens the door for the devil to barrage your
mind with thoughts that have never been there before!
Doubt, unbelief, worry, skepticism, uncertainty, suspicion
and distrust quickly rear their ugly heads at a time like this!
This is what happened to Zacharias. He questioned the
angel’s statement about having a baby, and with good
reason. At his age, babies are not the normal expected
happenings in life.
The angel then said to him, “I am Gabriel, who
stands in the presence of God, and was sent to
speak to you and bring these glad tidings “(vs. 19).
What a wonderful and exciting piece of information to
realize that one of the chief angels, Gabriel, had been sent
directly from the presence of God to speak to Zacharias.
Can you imagine the glow on him? What an honor and
what a privilege this was! God had sent a special angel to
bring a special message to a special person at a special
time.
 God is doing the same thing today!
The angel promptly supported this with a statement that
he would have joy and gladness and that many people
would rejoice at the birth of their son because he told him
that this son would be great in the sight of God. He also
gave him a prophetic word, giving instructions that the
baby must never drink wine nor strong drink and that he
would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s
womb. Gabriel went on to say that many of the children of
Israel would turn to the Lord their God because of this
miracle child,
“Zacharias was told before anyone else that God was
setting in motion his own visit to earth. Zacharias and his
wife, Elizabeth, were known for their personal holiness.
They were well suited to doing a special work for God. But
they shared the pain of not having children long seen by
Jews as proof of not having God’s blessing. Zacharias and
Elizabeth were old, and they had stopped even asking for
children.
“This trip to the Temple in Jerusalem for Zacharias’
turn at duty had included an unexpected blessing. Zacharias
was chosen to be the priest who would enter the Holy of
Holies to offer incense to God for the people. Suddenly,
much to his surprise and terror, he found himself face to
face with an angel. The angel’s message was too good to be
true! But Zacharias did not rejoice at the news of the
coming Savior as much as he expressed doubts about his
own ability to father the child the angel promised him. His
age spoke more loudly than God’s promise. As a result,
God prevented Zacharias from speaking until the promise
became reality.
“The record of the prayer in Luke 1 is our last glimpse
of Zacharias. Like so many of God’s most faithful servants,
he passed quietly from the scene once his part was done. He
becomes our hero for times when we doubt God yet are
willing to obey. We gain hope from Zacharias that God can
do great things through anyone who is available to him.” *

Gabriel Visits Mary With An

Announcement
Shortly after this event, there was a second appearance
of Gabriel, and this is the visit which changed the future of
the entire world, because it tells us about Gabriel’s first
visit to a young girl named Mary. Think about the
supernatural environment at this particular time! Gabriel’s
conversation with the virgin Mary was very shocking
because it says,
And having come in, the angel said to her, ‘Rejoice,
highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you
among women!”
Verse 29 reads,
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his
saying, and considered what manner of greeting this
was. And once again, the angel said, “Do not be afraid,
Mary, for you have found favor with God” (Luke 1:28-33).
It was the angel Gabriel who brought the good news to
Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus. It is interesting
to note that it was not a one-way conversation. They talked
with each other because when the angel said she was going
to have a baby, Mary said,
“How can this be since I do not know a man” and in
verse 35,
“The angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit
will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will
overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to
be born will be called the Son of God.”
Mary’s response was absolutely incredible! She said,
Let it be to me according to your word.”
Another translation says,
“Whatever the Lord wants me to do, I will do it.”
 As soon as Mary had accepted the word from the angel,
it says, “The angel departed from her.”
One of the exciting things about the appearance of
angels in the Bible is that they do whatever they are
supposed to do and they don’t hang around. They get on
with their other work!
It is very interesting that in both of these appearances
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the parents involved were told before they were pregnant

that they were going to have a baby.
Can you imagine how Mary felt at that particular
moment? She had just made the statement, “Whatever the
Lord wants me to do, I will do it.” The angel left. She was
standing there alone, trying to accept the magnitude of this
word that had just been given to her by Gabriel, the highest
of all the angels in heaven!
I am sure there were many thoughts racing through
Mary’s mind, the same thoughts that would run through our
minds today. Mary probably thought, “What am I going to
say to my mother? How am I going to explain this to her?
How am I going to explain this to Joseph? They will never
understand.” And yet, I am also sure that in her heart there
was a divine calmness that was totally unexplainable
because she realized it was the angel Gabriel who had
brought this most unusual news to her!
Surely there went through her mind such thoughts as,
“What am I going to do until the baby gets here, do I run
off and hide so no one will know what has happened to
me?” Many other thoughts along this same line must have
come to her, exactly as they would come to a young girl
today.
Think how blessed Mary was to have had such an
incredible angelic encounter; imagine how blessed she was
when she realized who this baby was whom the Holy Spirit
was going to place in her womb. I am sure she did not treat
this lightly, and even though many questions came into her
mind, there must have been a tremendous joy in knowing
that she had been chosen above all the other women in the
earth.
One of the most important commitments God ever
impressed on Charles was the expression, “Whatever the
Lord wants me to do, I will do it.” In 1968, from his heart,
Charles said, “God and Christ Jesus, I am willing to do
anything you want me to do. If I am doing anything you
don’t want me to do, tell me and I will never do it again. If
I’m not doing anything you want, tell me. I would rather
die than not obey your desires.”
The Bible says in Hebrews 13:2, Be not forgetful to
entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares (KJV).
Most have the form of a human being and walk or talk
just like an ordinary person. We need to be very sensitive to
the fact that angels are among us all the time, Psalm 34:7
says, The angel of the Lord [the angel that is from the
Lord] encamps or lives around them that fear him, and he
delivers us.
We have protecting angels who are encamped around us
all the time! What a blessing!
In Hebrews 1:13-14, God shows us that He sent them
forth into the earth to watch after us.
But to which of the angels has He ever saith Sit at My
right hand, till l make Your enemies Your footstool?” Are
they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for
those who will inherit salvation?
Angels have been sent to minister to us and on our
behalf at all times. They are part of the multitude of
blessings God has provided for us.
It may not be necessary, but we never get in our car
without saying, “Father, thank You for Your traveling
mercies. Thank You for the angels that surround us. Thank
You for protecting us from those people out there, and
those people from us, in the Name of Jesus.” God may not
need to hear this, but it is a comforting reminder to us.
 Psalm 103:20 says, Bless the Lord, you His angels, who
excel in strength, who do His word.
God tells the angels to bless Him. If angels need to
bless Him, then certainly we need to bless Him!
Another interesting fact is the statement that the angels
excel in strength. We may get weak; we may get tired; we
may get worn out; we may get sick; but they don’t! When
we ask God to send us an angel we know the angel is going
to be strong and healthy, not sick and puny. He is going to
be able to assist us in whatever areas we need help!
Before Jesus was born, there was tremendous angelic
activity and we are totally convinced that the same thing is
happening again today because of the imminent return of
the Lord Jesus Christ!
 Chapter 2
What Are Angels?
The word “angel” means “messenger” (from the Greek
word “angelos”).
Angels are mentioned in thirty-four of the sixty-six
books in the Bible, Seventeen times in the Old Testament
and seventeen in the New Testament. The word “angel” is
used 108 times in the Old Testament, 165 times in the New
Testament and 66 times in the book of Revelation!
It is also interesting to note that in the Bible there were
104 appearances of angels to men or women. John, in the
book of Revelation, had more angelic visitations than
anybody else (fifty-two) but a surprising thing is that in the
book of Zechariah, the angel appeared seven times, but
only five times to Daniel (and we remembered those visits),
and four times to Elijah.
Although the Bible mentions angels many times
throughout the Old and New Testaments, only four angels
are named.

Gabriel - Archangel
And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the
Ulai, who called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man
understand the vision” (Daniel 8:16).
The name “Gabriel” is made up of two Hebrew words:
geber, which means valiant man or warrior and El, which
means “God.” The name literally means “warrior of God”
or “valiant man of God.” This is very fitting since Gabriel
is an archangel, the order of angels given exalted rank and

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power. The archangels are also used by God to carry out
special assignments.

Michael - Archangel
Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil,
when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring
against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord
rebuke you!” (Jude 9).
“But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there
with the kings of Persia”(Daniel 10:13),
The name Michael is a combination of Hebrew words
which means, “Who is like God?” Michael is an archangel
like Gabriel, but Michael is also named as “one of the chief
princes.” His role could be compared to that of a military
leader, one who leads God’s angelic host against the forces
of Satan.

Abaddon or Apollvan
And they had as king over them the angel of the
bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in
Greek he has the name Apollyon (Revelation 9:11).
“Abaddon” means “destroying angel” and “Apollyon”
means “destroyer.” This verse is the only time this name is
mentioned in the Bible and it refers to the “angel of the
bottomless pit.”

Lucifer
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who
weakened the nations[’(Isaiah 14:12).
It’s strange to think that when we hear the word
“Cherub” we think of Cupid or picture fat little babies with
wings, but did you know that Lucifer was a cherub?

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Cherubim is the order of angelic beings which direct and
express worship toward God. Only the Cherubim are given
the task of protecting the glory and holiness of God and
proclaiming His grace. Before his rebellion, Lucifer was the
most exalted and powerful of all the angels and was
entrusted with the awesome tasks of directing the worship
of God and protecting His holiness and glory. No wonder
the betrayal was so great when the devil decided that he
wanted God’s glory for himself!

Seraphim
In addition to archangels and cherubim, the third order
of angels is called seraphim. The word seraphim comes
from the Hebrew term sâraph which means on fire. This is
the type of angel that came to Isaiah with a live coal and
touched it to his mouth.

Did You Know Angels Can Cook?

Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly
an angel touched him, and said to him, ‘Arise and eat,”
Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on
coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay
down again. And the angel of the Lord came back the
second time, and touched him, and said, ‘Arise and eat,
because the journey is too great for you”(I Kings I 95-7).

Angels Have Food and Eat

Men ate angels’ food; He sent them food to the full
(Psalm 78:25),
But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and
entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked
unleavened bread, and they ate (Genesis 19:3).

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Angels Take Orders and Give
Protection
If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most
High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will
come near your dwelling. For He orders His angels to
protect you wherever you go. They will hold you with their
hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone. You
will trample down lions and poisonous snakes; you will
crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet! The Lord
says, J will rescue those who love me. I will protect those
who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor
them. I will satisfy them with a long life and give them my
salvation. “(Psalm 91:9-16 NLT).
We can see that God uses angels to accomplish many
different and remarkable jobs!

Angels Have Ability to Speak

Languages
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but ha ye not love, I have become as sounding brass or a
clanging cymbal (I Corinthians 13:1).

Angels Are Glorious

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him
the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own
glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels (Luke
9:26).

Angels Are Immortal

But those who are counted worthy to attain that age,
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are
given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are

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equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the
resurrection (Luke 20:35-36).

Angels Are Powerful and Mighty

,..and to give you who are troubled rest with us when
the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty
angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ (II Thessalonians 1:7-8).
After these things I saw another angel coming down
from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was
illuminated with his glory(Revelation. 18:1),
Then the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the
camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five
thousand,’ and when people arose early in the morning,
there were the corpses —all dead (Isaiah 37:36).

Angels Need No Rest

And the four living creatures, each having six wings,
were full of eyes around and within, And they do not rest
day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8).

Angels Can Appear Visibly

And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head
and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain
(John 20:12).
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing
some have unwittingly entertained angels (Hebrews 13:2).

Angels Operate In The Material

Realms
But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven
and said, ‘Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am”
(Genesis 22:11).
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Angels Travel At Inconceivable
Speeds
And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the
midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe
to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining
blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to
sound!” Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star
fallen from heaven to the earth, And to him was given the
key to the bottomless pit. (Rev. 8:13; 9:1). Also read the
entire book of Ezekiel.
Angels travel at an inconceivable speed. They move at
the speed of light but they can be here and they can be there
without even missing one second of time. We move in the
natural material realm, and they move in the spirit realm.
Charles had to go out of town to see his mother one
time and he said, “How can the angel be with both of us,”
But then he said, “It doesn’t really make any difference
because if you need the angel, the angel is with you. If I
need the angel, the angel is with me.” Isn’t that an exciting
thought?

Angels Wear Clothes

And she saw two angels in white... (John 20:12),
The work of angels is varied and wide. They are
constantly at work in the spiritual and physical realm, even
though we might not always see them, Here are some other
interesting things angels do:

Angels Drive Spirit Horses

Now Elisha saw it, and he cried out, My father , my
father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw
him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore
them into two pieces (II Kings 2:12).
So he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send
and get him. “And it was told him, saying, “Surely he is in
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Dothan. “Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great
army there, and they came by night and surrounded the
city. And when the servant of the man of God arose early
and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with
horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ‘Alas, my
master! What shall we do?” So he answered, “Do not fear,
[or those who are with us are more than those who are with
them. “And Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his
eyes that he may see. “Then the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man, and he saw, And behold, the mountain was full
of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha (II Kings
6:13-1 7).

Angles Guard Gates

Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates,
and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of
Israel (Rev. 21:12).

Angels Wage War In Actual

Combat
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels
fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast
out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who
deceives the whole world, he was cast to the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him (Revelation 12:7-9).
...and to give you who are troubled rest with us when
the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty
angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and
from the glory of His power (II Thessalonians 1:7-10),

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Angels Execute Judgments
Then the Lord sent an angel who cut down every mighty
man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of
Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And
when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his
own offspring struck him down with the sword there (II
Chronicles 32:21).
He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, wrath,
indignation, and trouble, by sending angels of destruction
among them (Psalm 78:49).
The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will
gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those
who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the
furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth
(Matthew 13:41-42).
Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him,
because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by
worms and died (Acts 12:23).

Angels Minister To Saints

My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so
that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent
before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before
you (Daniel 6:22).
Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and
ministered to Him (Matthew 4:11).
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister
for those who will inherit salvation? Hebrews 1:14).

God’s Angels Win

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there
with the kings of Persia (Daniel 10:13).

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 At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince
who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there
was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your
people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in
the book (Daniel 12:1).

Angels Strengthen In Trials

Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and
ministered to Him (Matthew 4:11).
Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven,
strengthening Him (Luke 22:43).
Angels Lead Sinners To Gospel
Workers
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a
vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him,
“Cornelius!” And when he observed him, he was afraid,
and said, What is it, Lord? So he said to him, ‘Your prayers
and your alms have come up for a memorial before God
Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose
surname is Peter” (Acts 10:3-4),

Angels Direct Preachers

Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, ‘Arise
and go toward the south along the road which goes down
from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert, So he arose and
went, And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great
authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who
had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem
to worship, was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was
reading Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said to Philip,
“Go near and overtake this chariot. “So Philip ran to him,
and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do
you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How

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can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to
come up and sit with him (Acts 8:26-31).
For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to
whom I belong and whom I serve, saying, ‘Do not be
afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and
indeed God has granted you all those who sail with
you”(Acts 27:23-24).

Angels Appear In Dreams

But while he thought about these things, behold, an
angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary
your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy
Spirit” (Matthew 1:20).

Angels Protect The Believers

The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who
fear Him, and delivers them (Psalm 34:7).
For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep
you in all your ways... (Psalm 91:11).
Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a
light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side
and raised him up, saying, ‘Arise quickly!’ And his chains
fell of his hands. Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself
and tie on your sandals”,’ and so he did. And he said to
him, “Put on your garment and follow me. “So he went out
and followed him, and did not know that what was done by
the’ angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
When they were past the first and the second guard posts,
they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which
opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and
went down one street, and immediately the angel departed
from him (Acts 12:7-10).

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Angels Impart God’s Will
But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison
doors and brought them out, and said, ‘Go, stand in the
temple and speak to the people all the words of this life”
(Acts 5:19-20),
Angels Bring Answers To Prayers
…yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel,
whom I had 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, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you
skill to understand. At the beginning of your supplication
the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you
are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and
understand the vision...” (Daniel 9:21-23).
Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from that
first day that you set your heart to understand, and to
humble yourself before your God, your words were
heard; and I have come because of your words”(Daniel
10:12).
We know that God is the One to whom we pray and the
One who answers our prayers. He is our source of strength
in trials. God is the One Who takes care of us and meets our
needs. But He can send the answer to our prayers via an
angel. God can give us His strength through His
messengers, the angels, and God can send His supernatural
provision to us in the hands of His angels!

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 Chapter 3
Around The World
With Angels
By Frances

Thus he became far greater than the angels, as proved

by the fact that his name ‘Son of God,” which was passed
on to him from his Father, is far greater than the names
and titles of the an gels. For God never said to any angel,
“You are my Son, and today I have given you the honor
that goes with that name. But God said it about Jesus.
“

Another time he said, I am his Father and he is my Son.

“And still another time when his firstborn Son came to
earth God said, “Let all the angels of God worship him”
–

(Hebrews 1:4-6 TLB),

Angels were created to worship God and to worship
Jesus. This is one of their primary functions!
Anointed worship and praise directed to God will often
bring the presence of angels into a meeting. Several times
this has happened in services we were conducting, or in
services we have attended. When God sends His angels into
your presence, look for the supernatural to happen!
While at a church in California I was privileged to
experience some of the most awesome praise and worship I
have ever felt or participated in during my entire life. I use
the word “felt” because the presence of God was so strong
you could literally feel it. There are many times when
praise and worship is wonderful, but it does not always
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it that makes you actually physically feel the presence of
God.
This particular church is pastored by an ex-Mafia
member whose beautiful Spirit-filled wife leads in the
glorious praise and worship. One of the reasons for the
incredible praise is that they require their praise and
worship team to have a total and complete commitment to
God in their lives. Praise and worship in this church often
lasts for a long time but it seems to be for just a moment
because the Holy Spirit-charged atmosphere so engulfs you
that you are not aware of the passing of time.
At this particular service, I was praising and worshiping
God with my eyes closed. Although there are a lot of
people who worship with their eyes open, if I praise and
worship God with my eyes closed, to me it is possible to
block out everything else and really become absorbed in the
presence of God!
During this very intense praise and worship, I opened
my eyes for a brief moment. The entire front of the theater-
style auditorium was filled with worshiping angels. It
seemed as if there was an army of praising and worshiping
angels standing there ready to block any activity of the
devil!
The rest of the church had a cloud of glory floating over
and permeating it. The cloud appeared to be a silvery
gossamer fabric similar to, but thinner than chiffon. It was
floating over and covering the entire church. Then it
seemed to nestle down and cover everybody in the entire
audience including me.
As we continued praising and worshiping, the presence
of God became stronger and stronger. Energized by the
presence of angels, I could actually feel a pressure on the
outside of my body. It seemed as if God was literally
squeezing my spirit out of my body because I felt His
presence and His power so vividly.

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 Because I was sensing something in my spirit that I had
never felt before, I leaned over and said to Charles,
“Because of the intense praise and worship you could really
just leave this earth very quickly, couldn’t you?” That was
exactly the way I felt. The praise and worship was so
powerful and so anointed that it was lifting us into heavenly
realms more than I had ever experienced. In fact, I really
felt as if we were not even still on the earth during the
praise and worship!
The church continued in wholehearted worship and I
continued to participate. There is a tremendous difference
in being a spectator and participating, and as I continued,
my entire spirit, soul and body were so in tune with this
incredible praise and worship that a very unusual thing
happened.
I do not know how long it was after I said to Charles
that you could just leave this earth, that the pressure on my
physical body became stronger and stronger until it was so
great and powerful that my spirit could no longer be
contained in my human body!
Suddenly two angels appeared, one on either side of
me, The angels were larger than the worship angels but not
nearly as large as warrior angels. One on each side, they
picked me up from where I was sitting, and my spirit and
soul zoomed right up through the ceiling, escorted by these
heavenly messengers!
I distinctly remember exactly where we went through
the ceiling of the building! There was no sensation of
passing through the ceiling even though I could clearly see
my body as it went through. Before I knew it, we were in
the heavenlies! The sky was the most brilliant midnight
blue I have ever seen, and stars were twinkling by the
millions. The same beautiful glory-cloud of gossamer-like
appearance seemed to cover the entire sky that night as
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 It was an incredible, never-to-be-forgotten journey!
Immediately after taking off from the church, we were over
the North Pole. Even though the speed at which we were
traveling was immeasurable, I had no sensation of wind
blowing in my face or my hair blowing; only a slight ripple
in my chiffon dress and the outfits of the two angels
escorting me.
When we arrived at a place which was apparently close
to the North Pole, the angels allowed me to drop down and
see a church that was praising and worshiping God. This
was very interesting because the light from this church
radiated out about a hundred miles or even further. It was a
brilliant light shining in the dark night; and even from as far
away as we were, this light was easy to see.
It was an experience almost impossible to describe
because as we dropped down to get closer to this church, it
was as though we actually went down through the ceiling –

just as we had gone out of the ceiling of the first church –

and we could see the people inside the building. They were
praising and worshiping God with their hands raised. There
was a tremendous glory in this church because of the
inspirational praise and worship.
Our visit was very short, or at least it didn’t seem to me
that we remained for long, but it was ample time for me to
really see that this was a church which understood the value
of genuine praise and worship, In just a few seconds, or a
few minutes however long it was, because I had no idea of
–

the passing of time we went back through the ceiling of the

–

church into the sky.

But the journey wasn’t over! Traveling rapidly through
the night, the angels suddenly dropped me down so I could
see another church. It was necessary for us to come very
close to earth to detect the tiny light coming out of this
church, whereas the light from the first church had radiated
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been in the sky, the brilliance of that body of believers had
been visible because of their praise and worship.
After we had descended close enough to this church, we
entered it in the same way we had the other one. We
observed that the people here had their faces buried in
songbooks and they were merely singing verse one, two
and four. There is a huge difference between praising and
worshiping God and merely singing words from a
songbook.
We stayed for just a little while and then once again we
took off. In a whirlwind of time before returning to
California, we had gone all the way around the world!
Wherever we paused to observe a local church body, the
exact same thing was true. When we could see a brilliant
light radiating forth, we knew this was a church where they
were offering true praise and worship to God. When we had
to search to see a faint little light, we could see this was a
group of people just singing. Singing never goes into the
heavenlies as praise and worship does.
My trip around the world was so exhilarating and
exciting that I cannot think of enough adjectives to describe
the sensation I felt as the angels transported me for this
special on—site learning experience! Then, suddenly we
were back in the little theater church and I returned to my
body in a very interesting way. As we entered the
auditorium in the same way and place we had left, I saw my
body sitting there, and in a flash of time the angels took me
over to my seat and squeezed me right back into my own
body!
I have absolutely no idea how long I was gone. All I
know is that everyone was still praising and worshiping
when I came back in, and after I was settled back in my
body the worship stopped.
I have learned that when you have a supernatural
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who comes to steal, kill and destroy will try to rob you of
–

it.
Because of having been in the presence of these angels
who have been in the presence of God, I was so drunk I
could hardly stand up. I asked Charles if he would take me
up to the man speaking at the microphone because I knew I
had to share what God had done. Charles had no idea that I
had been on a celestial trip because he had been sitting
there the entire time praising and worshiping God with me
and was totally unaware of the fact that I had temporarily
left this earthly realm.
Charles took me up to the stage because I was totally
incapable of standing up by myself, and I asked the man
who was making announcements if I could have the
microphone so I could share this adventure with the entire
crowd. The audience was spellbound!
Immediately after that, it was time for Charles and me
to minister, and I had to have someone help mc up the
steps. I was so full of the presence of God that I felt as if I
was totally and completely inebriated, drunk on the Holy
Spirit, so lest I topple over, I said to Charles, “Help me up
to the pulpit,” which was another two steps higher. I
hurriedly exclaimed, “I have got to have something to hang
on to!” I simply could not get my head together after such a
supernatural out-of-this-body experience!
Charles started the meeting which he normally never
does! I was hanging onto the pulpit with every ounce of
strength I had when I finally looked back and saw a chair
three or four feet behind me! I decided that I might possibly
be able to make it that far! It seemed as though it took me
an eternity to travel those few feet, I finally made it! After I
stepped back and sat down in the chair; it was over an hour
before I finally got my mind focused enough so that I could
minister.
What happened as a result of this angelic visitation is
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 Words of knowledge and healings spontaneously broke
forth immediately after I shared this around-the world
experience. It was a night of complete glory! The pastor
said he had never before seen such instant miracles as he
saw that night!
No wonder we had been invaded by angels!
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 Chapter 4
Touched By
Coals of Fire
By Frances

Each meeting gets more and more exciting as God

reveals Himself in different ways daily!
A certain Tuesday night was a night we will never
forget! It all started as Charles and I read the daily
confession for that day, “Thank You, Father, that angels are
in charge of me. I am surrounded by angels at all times who
minister to me and protect me, even from accidents, I am
accompanied by angels, defended by them and preserved
by them because You have ordered them to do so”
(Reference Psalm 91:11, from our devotional book, A
Confession A Day Keeps The Devil Away’).
We were sitting in a restaurant as I read this and as soon
as I finished, God spoke to me in that precious way He
speaks to our hearts just because He loves us so much. He
said, “Tonight there will be a visitation of angels in the
church!”
I almost fell off my chair!
As we can see from the previous chapters, there are
many promptings that can bring an angel on the scene. A
believer’s commitment, obedience, praise and worship,
earnest prayers and speaking God’s Word are just some of
the catalysts which can initiate angelic involvement. There
are also times when God chooses sovereignly to release
angels into a situation, whether it’s just for one person or
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 There is an incident which occurred when we were
ministering in a tremendously anointed service, which
taught us that there are things which will keep an angel
who is all poised and ready to minister to us, from being
released to do so.
During our morning service we excitedly shared with
the people at the meeting that God had spoken to me and
had said there was going to be a visitation of angels that
night. Now watch what happened!
The organist nearly came up off of her bench because
she said, “Last night I felt the presence of an angel so
strongly down on the front row that I prayed, ‘Oh, God! Let
me see an angel!’ And God said, ‘Not tonight, tomorrow
night.”
She really got excited when she heard that God had
spoken to me and this, of course, served as a tremendous
confirmation to me!
Then the pastor jumped up and said, “You know, I’m
going to share something I have never shared in all my life.
Sixty years ago I was converted and I heard angels singing.
I told my father the next morning that I had heard angelic
singing and my father said, ‘Don’t ever tell anybody that,
they’ll think you’re crazy!” This pastor had never shared
his experience with anyone else. About six or seven nights
before we came to the church, he was talking to God and he
said, “Oh, God! I have never heard the angels sing since the
day I was saved. Could I hear them sing again before I
come to heaven?” And he said God let him hear the angels
sing again that night angels singing in that beautiful way
–

that only angels can!

Isn’t it really wonderful to know how much God loves
us and really cares about us? Here was a man who for sixty
years had kept a secret locked in his heart and now
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 We all sensed in our spirits that something fantastic was
going to happen that night. We could hardly wait to get
back to church to see how God was going to move.
There was great anticipation at the start of the evening
meeting with an awareness of the presence of God in an
unusual way. Suddenly a prophecy came forth saying that
fire would come down from heaven that very night. The
excitement mounted!
You just don’t sit down and say, “All right, God, send
those angels. I’m going to wait until You do.” No, we
conducted the service just like we normally do. I won’t say
I was “on edge” but I will say I was a little more sensitive
to the Spirit of God because I kept looking around and
wondering, “When are the angels going to come? When are
the angels going to come?”
We spoke that night on the subject of “Total
Commitment to God and Holy Living” because in these last
days those qualities are extremely important in our lives.
Our lives must be set apart from the rest of the world and
holy because we don’t involve ourselves with the things of
the world!
I waited and waited, and we talked and talked, and I
began to wonder whether or not the angels were really
going to make an appearance after all. Where did the doubt
come from? Satan, of course! We made an invitation at the
end of the service for the people who wanted to make a
total commitment to God to come forward and as they were
coming up without any fanfare, without any advance
–

warning, in came the first angel blowing a horn that looked

like a trumpet! He had wings and was not nearly as large as
the angel that watches over us. This apparently was the
signal for the other angels to come and in the twinkling of
an eye, there were angels all over the place!
The only angel that I saw with wings was the first angel
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their positions and then stationed themselves over certain
individuals.
It was very fascinating because each angel had a pair of
tongs and in those tongs were live burning coals of fire.
In Isaiah 6:6,7, where Isaiah had a vision in which a
seraphim, an angel with wings, flew over to him, having in
his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from
the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said:
‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken
away, and your sin purged.”
After that cleansing and purification, Isaiah could
answer God’s call by responding, “Here am I! Send me.”
Not everyone in the service could see the angels, but I
could, so I just followed God’s instructions. I walked over
and touched a young man where an angel was hovering. As
soon as I touched him on the lips, the angel placed the coal
of fire on his lips and then immediately departed. The
young man fell under the power of God and instantly began
to speak in tongues. He had just been converted and didn’t
know anything about the baptism with the Holy Spirit!
As I walked through the audience, directed by the Holy
Spirit, it was so exciting to feel the presence of God. The
holiness of the angels was also something awesome! As I
would see an angel hovering over this one, and then another
angel over another one, and then over another one, an
interesting fact surfaced! The angels did not place the coal
on the lips of all the people involved! They were just at
attention over an individual. They didn’t place coals on
anybody’s lips until I walked over and touched the person
very lightly on the mouth. Not everyone got a coal. I didn’t
understand it. All I knew was that I was only to go to the
people God showed me had an angel standing over them
with a live coal.
I felt that God was anointing them to really take the
message of the full gospel out and carry it to the world, but
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would receive the coal did not receive a coal. However, I
only touched the lips of those as directed by the angels.
Jesus said He only did what He saw they Father doing, and
during this trial, I was walking carefully in His pattern.
Suddenly, the Spirit of the Lord led me to the pastor
who was sitting on the platform. There was an angel there
and as I touched the pastor on the lips, God said to me,
“The biggest coal is for him, “And as I related this to him
he really got excited, and so did I.
Then I went over and touched the lips of the associate
pastor and his wife and he fell under the power. While he
was on the floor, he reached up to feel his lips. Later he told
me that he felt like I had hit him right in the mouth with a
two-by-four! He thought his mouth was bleeding because
he felt such an impact of power!
Some of the angels left with the same coals they
brought.
Then God gave to Charles a tremendous prophetic
word. “Some of these angels will visit you between two and
three o’clock in the morning and some of you who did not
receive coals will receive a message.”
After a prophetic utterance like that, everybody wanted
to go home and jump into bed and get ready for the angels,
I have wondered since then if more supernatural things
happened in the night than actually happened at the meeting
Just to show you that God had everything planned in
advance, we were not scheduled to speak at this church the
following night, but God had graciously given us an open
night between engagements. The pastor pleaded with us to
stay over; we had the night open and we were available, so
we agreed and then we understood why God had given us
that extra night.
No sooner had we gotten to the meeting the next night
than a lady came running in with a sack that looked like
groceries. She gave them to me and said, “Here, I don’t
ever want these again” When she had asked God the night
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before why she and her husband didn’t get a coal on their
lips to give them a special anointing, the only thing God
had said to her was, “Cigarettes.” During the night the
angel came to this lady and said, “The coal is for you when
you give the cigarettes to God,”
I looked in the sack and discovered she had brought
nine unopened packages of cigarettes and laid them on the
altar of God. It’s a wonderful exchange, isn’t it? They gave
up an addiction for a coal of fire from the altar of God.
There was another woman who came that night who
told me an interesting story after the meeting. The way God
does these things is sometimes almost unbelievable. That
night God led me to talk on a very interesting subject from
Numbers chapter 12. Let me share this with you because I
think this is something very vital that we all need to
understand.
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because
of the Ethiopian woman whom lie had married; for he had
married an Ethiopian woman. Miriam and Aaron began
gossiping because Moses had entered into an interracial
marriage. And they said, Has the Lord in deed spoken only
through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also? And
the Lord heard it.
Of course He did, because He hears everything we say!
These are two people who were favored of God but who
decided they would like to criticize one of their brothers.
The Bible goes on to say,
(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all
men who were on the face of the earth.) Suddenly the Lord
said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Come out, you three, to
the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
I wonder what the three of them were thinking about
when they came. It says, Then the Lord came down in the
pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and
called Aaron and Miriam (not Moses). And they both went
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 They were probably expecting to get something really
good from God but He said, ‘Hear now My words: If there
is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make myself known to
him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream.”
In other words He said, “If you are a prophet I’ll make
Myself known to you in a vision and I’ll speak to you in a
dream.”
“Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My
house.
“I speak with him face to face, even plainly, and not in
dark sayings; and he sees the form of the Lord. Why then
were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses.”
So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and
He departed.
That’s what happens when you begin gossiping about
people God leaves.
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And when the cloud departed from above the

tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as
snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she
was, a leper.
Because she gossiped, God let her become leprous,
white as snow!
So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not
lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in
which we have sinned. “Please do not let her be as one
dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of
his mother’s womb!”
And bless his heart, So Moses cried out to the Lord,
saying, ‘Please heal her, O God, I pray!” Then the Lord
said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would
she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the
camp seven days, and after that she may be received
again.” So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days,
and the people did not journey on till Miriam was brought
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 Everything had to be shut down and nothing could be
done until Miriam could be brought back into the camp.
I had no reason to be sharing this story except that God
told me to. The penalty for gossiping is spiritual leprosy!
Beloved, in the Christian world today if we could just
remember that when we hear a juicy little tidbit of gossip
about some ministry or person, we shouldn’t repeat it! We
should pray for them because when we are hearing gossip,
it’s an indication that that particular ministry or person
needs prayer.
When the service was over, a woman came out to me at
the book-table and she said, “Do you know what? Last
night at two-thirty in the morning, God came into my room
and spoke one word, He spoke the word, ‘Miriam.’ I didn’t
understand,” She understood as I taught because she had
been extremely envious of somebody in the church. She
was probably guilty of talking against them because God
said the one word to her, Miriam,
Do you know what we do when anyone says that they
want to give us a little juicy gossip? We throw our hands up
in the air and say, “Leper, leper, we don’t want to be a
leper!” It is amazing how fast this will stop gossip!
I want you to try that sometime when somebody starts
to give you some juicy little gossip that they heard about
somebody else. Throw your hands up in the air and say,
“Leper, leper, I don’t want to be a leper!”
There was another young man in that service who years
before had stolen a diamond ring. He had been in a hospital
for the criminally insane. The police arrested him, he
swallowed the ring and they couldn’t find it but he later
retrieved it only to have it stolen from him. God woke him
up at three o’clock in the morning and said, “You might
think you don‘t owe for that ring because it was stolen from
you, but you still do,” Immediately the congregation
generously took up an offering to allow him to make
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 There were people in that church who had an
appointment with God that night, but who didn’t receive the
hot coal from the angel and didn’t get to move out into their
calling because something in their life was preventing it
cigarettes, gossip, or failure to make restitution for a wrong.
These and many other things are weaknesses in the flesh
which we are responsible to deal with before we can
receive all the blessings God has for us.
We can do things to initiate angel participation in our
lives, and we can hold onto bad habits and sins that will
hinder or prevent angels from ministering to us. It’s not that
we have to be perfect, because all of us are still maturing
every single day! However, our willingness and sincere
efforts to correct things that are not pleasing to God will
both catch His attention and make it easier to have the
angels involved in our lives!
Hebrews 1:14 says, Are they not all ministering spirits
sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
According to God’s Word, we have angels who are just
waiting to minister to us.
Angels are sent to glorify God!
They are sent to exalt Jesus!
They are sent to carry out God’s plan!
They are sent to follow His instructions in accordance
with the Word of God!
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 Chapter 5
Angels On The Scene
There are different types of angels with many different
purposes and jobs. Some of them are assigned to help and
assist you and me! The more we learn to realize the
potential of angels and remember to thank God for sending
special ministering spirits to us, the more they will be a
blessing to us. We are absolutely certain that angels are
with us and performing mighty acts on our behalf day and
night, without our ever being aware of their presence. We
need to understand what the angels do in the Bible, so we
will know what we can expect and be prepared for and
praise God and Jesus for!
You can probably think of a time, perhaps when you
were a small child, and were protected from danger; or
maybe a time when you were driving and nearly had a
wreck but didn’t. God probably sent an angel at that
instant!
Shortly after we were married, our daughter Joan was
driving us on the freeway and exited onto the feeder street,
It was early morning and traffic was heavy and the feeder
street crowded, To her horror and ours, she discovered she
had no brakes.
We were about to plunge into a truck or other cars. A
bad crash was inevitable. All three of us instantly screamed
“Jesus!” We are not sure what happened, but a small hole
opened, seemingly not large enough for our car to go
through. We missed the truck and the brakeless car came to
a halt at the red street light! We know at the spontaneous
impulse of calling on Jesus, God surely used one or more of
His angels to protect us.
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 We instantly praised and thanked God for another life-
saving miracle of protection! Hallelujah!

Angels From Birth Until Death

The most glorious account of angels being present at
birth is, of course, the night of Jesus’ birth in that lowly
stable in Bethlehem.
That night some shepherds were in the field outside the
village, guarding their flocks of sheep. Suddenly an angel
appeared among them, and the landscape shone bright with
the glory of the Lord (Luke 2:8-13 TLB),
Don’t you wish you could have been present and seen
enough angels that it would absolutely light up the whole
landscape with the glory of God? This was just one angel
whose radiance lit up the whole countryside! Then the
angel reassured the shepherds because they were terrified.
‘Don‘t be afraid!, “he said. ‘1 bring you the most
joyful news ever announced, and it is for everyone! The
Savior – yes, the Messiah, the Lord has been born tonight
in Bethlehem!” Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast
host of others – the armies of heaven – praising God:
The very armies of heaven came out that night, Luke
wrote, a vast host of others the armies...
Can you imagine how many armies there are in God’s
angelic army? I have a feeling that we don’t even know
how to count on our greatest calculator the awesome
number. I don’t believe there is any number in the human
mind that we could possibly imagine which would tell us
how many angels there are in heaven,
One Scripture which refers to the countless number of
angels is in Revelation 5:11. Then I looked, and I heard the
voice of many angels around the throne, the living
creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten
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 And then the Bible says, “Glory to God in the highest
heaven,” they sang, “and peace on earth for all those
pleasing him” (Luke 2:14 TLB).
Hallelujah!
When the angels finished heralding the birth of Jesus
and rejoicing, what did they do?
When this great army of angels had return ed again to
heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Come on! Let’s
go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this wonderful thing that has
happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Then the shepherds, after they went to see Mary, went
back again to the fields and Rocks, praising God for the
visit of the angels, and because they had seen the child, just
as the angel had told them (Luke 2:20 TLB).
Angels are sent not only to be there when you are born
but angels are sent to be there when you die.
In Luke 16:22 (TLB) we learn angels are charged with
our safe arrival in heaven. The devil is going to be up there,
I’m sure, to accuse us before we get in, but the angels are
charged with our safe arrival in heaven. This is for all the
saints. Luke wrote, Finally the beggar died and was carried
by the angels to be with Abraham in the place of the
righteous dead. The rich man also died and was buried,
(not ministered to by angels) and his soul went into hell.
Just as the angels are active at birth, they are also active
when a saint dies, They were ordered to carry the beggar up
into heaven.
God is accelerating the exciting work the angels are
doing right now in the present century.

Commitment Brings Angels

I love reading about and being involved in the
supernatural things of God! Whatever God does that is
beyond the power of man excites me more than anything I
know of, so I especially love to read the Bible stories about
angels.
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 Some of the most tremendous angelic experiences of
the Bible occur in the book of Daniel. In the third chapter,
the three Hebrew boys, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
are ordered along with everyone else to fall down and
worship a golden idol which had been set up by King
Nebuchadnezzar. These young men had honored God all
their lives and they were not about to worship any graven
image or pay respect to any god other than the one true
God!
Nebuchadnezzar, of course, was furious and screamed
at them, “Who is the god who will deliver you from my
hands?” (Daniel 3:15).
In other words, “If that God you worship is so powerful
and awesome, why don’t you have Him get you out of the
fiery furnace you’re headed for?”
I love what they replied, which in essence was, “Our
God is able to save us, and if He chooses to do that, it’s
great; but if He doesn’t choose to save us, that’s still great,
because regardless, we’re still going to serve Him.”
That is what I call real commitment, total commitment
to God, I wonder how many of us would have the courage
to say, “God, I would rather burn in a fire than to deny
you?”
In verse 21 the narration continues, Then these men
were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and
their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the
burning fiery furnace,
where the fire was so hot it burned up all the men who
threw our three heroes into the furnace! But then the king
and his counselors watched in amazement as they saw not
three but four men walking around inside the fire!
In utter astonishment, Nebuchadnezzar called the
Hebrew boys to come out of the fire, and then he and all his
advisors examined them to see if they had any scorched
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 Even if you burn wood in a fireplace, you have a little
smoky smell on you when you leave the house, but the king
and his staff couldn’t even smell any smoke on these three
youths, So the king changed his mind! He made a loud
declaration in verse 28.
“Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants
who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s
word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve
nor worship any god except their own God!”
What a blessing to know that God cared enough about
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego that He sent a special
angel into that fiery furnace to protect them from the heat.
He was the first fire extinguisher ever invented! A huge
angelic ice cube! That’s all I could think about when I read
that, how God sent an ice cube angel to keep the boys cool
in the midst of all that fire!
Notice that angels are indestructible. Metal, fire or
mountains are no obstacle to them. When our angel appears
on airplanes, part of his body may be inside the plane, part
through the metal, and part outside!
When we are flying in airplanes, although Charles
doesn’t see our “big” angel physically, he often tells me
exactly where he is. He says it’s like a magnetic field of
energy, and he says he could touch the angel on his nose,
ears or any other part of his body. When I physically see
the angel, he is exactly where Charles tells me.
God sent so many angels throughout the book of Daniel
that I find it one of the most exciting books to read in the
whole Bible! Another incredible account of unshakable
commitment to God is found in chapter six. Most of us
learned in church how Daniel, who was highly favored by
the king, got into a real predicament because of the jealousy
of some of his co-workers, These guys grew to hate Daniel
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find to use against him was the fact that he worshiped God
and prayed regularly throughout the day to his God.
They got real sneaky and went to the king, saying,
“Let’s make a law that whoever prays to anyone other than
you will be thrown alive into a den of hungry lions.
This was extremely flattering to the king, so he fell for
it and signed the law to make it effective, Daniel refused to
acknowledge the new law, and kept right on worshiping
God and praying openly throughout the day. He didn’t run
into a dark corner, or hide in the basement to pray. He went
to his regular place, and his attitude was, “I’ve been serving
God all my life and I’m not going to stop now!”
When Daniel was brought before the king for
disobeying the law, Darius recognized what had happened,
and was grief stricken, I love what this king said to Daniel,
as he was being thrown into the lions den (Daniel 6:16),
“Your God, whom you serve continually, he will deliver
you.
Isn’t that incredible? Even this king, who was a
heathen, felt in his heart that God would not fail Daniel.
The princes and conspirators rolled a huge stone over
the pit, to be sure Daniel didn’t climb out and run away
while King Darius went to his palace and spent the night
fasting: and no musicians were brought before him. Also
his sleep went from him, (In other words, he had insomnia).
Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in
haste to the den of lions.
What do you think the king expected to find? Would
Daniel actually be able to greet him, or would he be chewed
up into little pieces? Darius called out, the Bible says, with
a lamenting voice to Daniel to see if Daniel was in any
shape to answer. That means Darius didn’t have much hope
at all and was already weeping and mourning in his heart
that Daniel was gone! But I love what verse 21 says!
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 I imagine that from beneath the stone, from way down
in the pit, a hearty, robust voice broke through the silence
and the shock probably nearly knocked Darius off his feet!
Daniel went on to brag on God a little bit, “My God
sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they
have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before
Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before
you.”
Daniel had reaped a miracle because of his unbending
commitment!
Those Old Testament accounts are so vivid, you can
really get involved and almost feel you are participating
vicariously. But let me share an exciting New Testament
example of how commitment brings angels on the scene. In
Acts chapter five we read ...so that they brought the sick out
into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at
least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of
them.
Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to
Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were
tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
This is where the devil shows his agitation at what the
apostles were doing.
Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were
with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were
filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles
and put them in the common prison.
But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison
doors and brought them out, and said, “Go, stand in the
temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.”
And when they heard that, they entered the temple early
in the morning and taught.
Wow! Can you imagine the surprise of the high priest
and all the Sadducees when they got out of bed the next
morning and saw Peter and the other apostles preaching
again? They immediately rounded up the apostles and
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brought them in for a reminder, saying in effect, “Didn’t we
command you troublemakers to stop preaching in the Name
of this Jesus and confusing everyone with all your
doctrine?”
I just love what the apostles answered.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said:
“We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Because of their commitment, God had sent an angel to
open the prison doors, to let them out of jail so they could
get back to preaching as soon as possible!
When you honor God, He honors you!

Obedience Brings Angels On The

Scene
Closely related to commitment is obedience. God
always favors those who are obedient to do what He says,
even when they don’t understand His purpose. God usually
doesn’t give a lot of details when He gives instructions, He
Just waits to see what we are going to do about it.
In Genesis, God asked Abraham to leave his family,
friends, and neighbors to go to a land unknown to him.
Abraham had the rare quality of unquestioning obedience.
God liked what He saw in Abraham, and He promised him
a child whose offspring would be as the stars of the heaven
and as the sand which is on the seashore. But Abraham and
Sarah had to wait many years before the child of that
promise was born.
Can you imagine how much Abraham and Sarah loved
little Isaac? Talk about the “apple of their eye!” I imagine
there was nothing in the whole world as precious as each
and every minute that Abraham and Sarah spent with their
miracle son!
But God made a request of Abraham in chapter 22. It
was simply, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac,
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there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I
shall tell you.” (God probably didn’t bother to even
mention this request to Sarah because she might have put
her foot down and said, “Absolutely not!” or would have
hidden him away in a blanket and run away, perhaps back
to their homeland.)
Abraham loved God, and also feared and respected
Him, more than he did even his own son. And that kind of
unwavering obedience brought an angel onto the scene, just
at the split second he needed one! For, as Abraham had
bound Isaac and laid him upon the altar, and had his hand
lifted up with the knife that would kill him,
...the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and
said, ‘Abraham, Abraham!” and he said, Here I am.”
And He said, ‘Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do
anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since
you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
God has always looked all over the earth to find
someone who would obey Him, whose heart is perfect
toward Him (II Corinthians 16:9). He doesn’t want to push
and persuade, coax and struggle with the people He
chooses, and yet, He will extend as much love and patience
as it requires just to get some people who will finally say
“No” to their own desires and “Yes” to His plans. When
God finds this kind of people, their obedience will bring
angels right on the scene to help out at their time of need!

Praise and Worship Brings Angels

The incredible high praise and worship that I wrote
about previously brought a whole row of blessing angels
and then another row of warrior angels into the service that
night in Abilene, Texas. There was another time when I
believe the highest form of worship possible went forth to
God, and it had earthshaking results! This is another one of
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 Paul and Silas had been out there preaching right and
left, and as always had results that really turned the world
upside down.
Their preaching was really irritating the devil, and that
means he reared up his ugly head and caused the town
people to become enraged. However, when Paul cast the
demon out of a young woman who had been making her
masters rich through soothsaying, it was the last straw!
Almost immediately Paul and Silas were dragged away,
beaten with a cat o’ nine tails, and thrown into jail.
Have you ever visited inside a jail? It is almost
unbelievable how cramped, cold, damp and unpleasant
even our modern jails are. But those jails in Paul’s day were
literally a mess! Covered with caked blood from the many
stripes, Paul and Silas were thrown into the dark, foul-
smelling chamber and their shredded bodies locked in
chains.
I love what the Bible tells us. But at midnight Paul and
Silas were praying and singing h ns to God, and the
prisoners were listening o them. Suddenly there was a great
earth-qua e, so that the foundations of the prison were
shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened an
everyone’s chains were loosed (Acts 16:25-26).
Look what praise and worship did!
Who do you think shook the prison doors until they
opened? Who unlocked all the prisoners’ chains? It had to
be strong warrior angels sent from the Lord God Himself to
minister to God’s servants!
Praising G d caused the angels to come and shake that
prison of its foundation, Praising God resulted in the guard
and his entire family getting saved that night! Praising God
opened the doors so Paul and Silas could be back in tow
preaching again in the temple early the next morning,
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Prayer Beings Angels 
Daniel must have been one of the most godly men ever
to live. He certainly had a lot of encounters with angels! He
was a devoted man of prayer which had gotten him thrown
into the lion’s den! He was also a humble man. God had
given him great spiritual insight, and abilities to interpret
dreams and visions. Yet Daniel never claimed to have any
special power, but always sought God in every situation
which needed an interpretation or explanation. Someone
would come running to him with a problem that needed
immediate attention, and Daniel would respond, I have to
talk to God first.
Daniel 8:15-16 tells of a vision Daniel had which he
didn’t understand, He sought God. He simply went to his
room to pray, and suddenly there stood before him one
having the appearance of a man. Daniel then heard a voice
say, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision. “The
Bible says when the angel came near, Daniel fell on his
face, and at first he couldn’t even move but was as if in a
deep sleep. Daniel had been slain in the Spirit as the glory
of this mighty angelic messenger approached him. His
physical body just couldn’t handle it. The angel had to help
him up, and then began to explain the very troubling vision
which was a revelation of the last days.
There was another time though, that Daniel sought God,
and sought Him, and continued to seek Him, and it seemed
that absolutely nothing happened. This went on for three
weeks, and Daniel, having had such good results with
prayer in times past, surely began to wonder if the heavens
had turned to brass or was God mad at him, or what in the
world was going on!
Then one day Daniel was down by the river. Maybe he
didn’t stay in his room all the time to pray, but liked to take
little walks and talk with God outdoors and suddenly he
looked up and someone had joined him! I lifted my eyes
and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen,
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whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz! His body was
like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes
like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like burnished
brass in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of
a multitude (Daniel 10:5-6).
Again Daniel fell on his face when he looked up and
saw this magnificent angel clothed in the glory of God, He
did the same thing you or I would! He fell flat on his face
again! And he couldn’t get up!
The angel helped Daniel up and began to speak to him
in such a loving way that reveals the closeness God felt
with this man,
And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved,
understand the words that I speak to you, and stand
upright, for I have now been sent to you”(Daniel 10:11-1
3).
He must have known Daniel’s thoughts. Daniel had
been wondering what had taken him so long.
‘Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day you set your
heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your
God, your words were heard; and I have come because of
your words, But the prince of the kingdom of Persia
withstood me twenty-one days.”
Then he explained how Michael, one of the chief
princes, had come to help him break through the demonic
activity in the heavenlies.
I love this account, because it says to me, “Just keep on
hanging in there, because your answer is on the way! Don’t
quit! Don’t even think about giving up!’
God’s Word has power that’s working right now, and
whether you see it or not, remember the angel said, “I have
come because of your words. “Keep praying and speaking
God’s Word! Your miracle is on the way!
God doesn’t respect time or circumstances or give more
favor to one person than another. God sent an angel to
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his life; but He also sent an angel to Peter, who at the time
was a new Christian, who had probably been a pretty rough
and rowdy character in his fishing profession.
Look at how prayer brought angels on this scene. About
that time King Herod moved against some of the believers,
and killed the apostle James, (John brother), When Herod
saw how much this pleased the Jewish leaders, he arrested
Peter during the Passover celebration and imprisoned him,
placing him under the guard of sixteen soldiers. Herod’s
intention was to deliver Peter to the Jews for execution
after the Passover. But earnest prayer was going up to God
from the Church for his safety all the time he was in prison
(Acts 12;1-5 TLB).
Beloved, pray that people are praying for you. As a
matter of fact, I’m going to ask every person who reads this
book to spend one minute every day praying for Charles
and Frances Hunter. I don’t think we could ever maintain
the tremendous schedule we do or accomplish the things we
do for God if people were not praying for us!
The story continues.
The night before he was to be executed, he was asleep,
double-chained between two soldiers with others standing
guard before the prison gate, when suddenly there was a
light in the cell and an angel of the Lord stood beside
Peter!
The angel was coming directly from heaven and the
glory of God was shining all about him. I love what the
angel did because he was so informal he just whacked Peter
on the side. Can’t you just see him going “pow”?
Have you ever awakened your children that way? When
my children were little I used to tap them on the upper part
of their leg and say, “Come on, come on, come on! Let’s
get out of bed!” And that’s probably what the angel did to
Peter, Peter was supposed to be executed the next day, but
he was sleeping so soundly that the angel had to slap him to
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 Verse 7, The angel slapped him on the side to awaken
him and said, “Quick! Get up!” And the chains fell off his
wrists!
When the angel spoke the words that he had been
directed by God to say, notice that the chains fell off Peter’s
wrists.
Then the angel told him, “Get dressed and put on your
shoes.”
It is beautiful that even though God could have instantly
had him dressed, He didn’t. He let Peter do a little
something. God intends for us to do a little something, too.
He lets us do things on our own to see if we are as
interested in ourselves as He is.
And the Bible says,
And he did. “Now put on your coat and follow me!” the
angel ordered,
So Peter left the cell, following the angel. But all the
time he thought it was a dream or vision, and didn‘t believe
it was really happening. They passed the first and second
cell blocks and came to the iron gate to the street, and this
opened to them of its own accord!
Peter didn’t open the door, the guard didn’t open it,
nobody opened it. The door just opened. The angel
probably opened it without even touching it. Think how
God by His Spirit or by angels, opens doors for us,
And it says, So they passed through and walked along
together for a block, and then the angel left him.
He simply vanished. When the angel disappeared, Peter
finally realized what had happened! “It’s really true!” he
said to himself ‘The Lord has sent his angel and saved me
from Herod and from what the Jews were hoping to do to
me!
Isn’t that just wonderful to think that if you had the
same problem Peter had, getting locked up in jail for
preaching God’s Word, that God would say, “Angel, go
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Speaking God’s Word Brings Angels

Psalm 103:20 proclaims, Bless the Lord, you His
angels, who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding
the voice of His word.
God is moved when His saints demonstrate
commitment, obedience, praise and worship and dedication
to prayer. He is willing and ready to speak a word and send
angels to minister to and for the heirs of salvation when we
ask Him.
We are also able to speak God’s word, In Isaiah 43:26,
God says to remind Him of His word, and later on in Isaiah
55:1 1 He promises that His word will not return to Him
void but will accomplish what He pleases. When God
speaks, angels will hearken to perform His word.
Always look to God for your help, but thank Him for
the ministry of the angels through whom He works. We can
ask God to send angels but we cannot command angels to
do anything.
Be committed! Be obedient! Be prayerful! Praise God
all the time! Speak His word all the time! I believe in these
last days you and I are going to see more of the
supernatural than ever before. We are going to see more
and more activity of angels than ever before in history.

God’s Love For Souls 

The writer of the book of Hebrews wrote, Are they not
all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who
will inherit salvation! (Hebrews 1:14).
There are messenger angels. There are warrior angels,
and there are angels who minister to those who will inherit
salvation. I think this is one of the most exciting functions
of the angelic realm.
God’s plan of salvation is written all through the Bible
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the night Jesus was born, and the glory that shone all over
the place because of the brightness of the angels who came
to announce that event. But remember, angels were
involved in the thread of salvation even before Mary
conceived. An angel had visited Mary to tell her what was
going to happen. An angel appeared to Joseph to tell him
what was going to happen. Then, when it was time to leave
Bethlehem so baby Jesus wouldn’t be killed, an angel
warned Joseph to leave quickly and go to Egypt. The
conception and birth of the Savior received a lot of angelic
attention!
One of the main purposes for angels is one of the most
exciting of all, God is really interested in the salvation of
every person on the face of the earth. Think about this in
connection with your own family. The closer we draw to
the end of time, the more and more we are going to be
aware of the activity of angels. The more we are going to
ask God to send angels to do specific things in our lives.
God can and does send angels even when we don’t ask.
Angels are directed by God, and His heart yearns for
souls to come into a right relationship with Him. Angels
can be directed by God to go out and encourage, or push, or
pull, or shove, or whatever it may take, to get unsaved
people to those who will lead them into salvation. An
excellent case of this in the Bible concerns Philip, who had
returned to Jerusalem and was preaching the gospel in
many villages of Samaria. Now watch what happened in
Acts 8:26-27.
Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying,
“Arise, and go toward the south along the road which goes
down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is desert.”
Philip listened. It might not have been convenient, or on
his daily agenda, but he listened and he obeyed!
So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a
eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the
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come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in
his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet, Then the
Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go near and overtake this chariot.
Did you notice that, when he was sent, he was sent by
an angel; and yet when he got there, verse 29 says, The
Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and overtake this chariot.
Did you see how God moved on Philip when the angel
said what the Spirit said, “Go over there in the desert on the
way between Jerusalem and Gaza because I’ve got
something for you to do.” He sent an angel to Philip for the
purpose of bringing the Ethiopian eunuch into salvation,
God is doing exactly the same thing today! We have
people walk up to us in miracle services who say, “I don’t
know why I’m here, I have no idea why I’m standing here.”
We will say, “We know why you’re here, You need to be
saved,” God has sent angels out to bring them to the people
who will minister salvation to them!
Right now while you’re reading this book, let’s stop for
a moment. Charles and I are praying and want you to join
your faith with ours and ask God to send angels out to bring
your loved ones to the people who will minister salvation to
them,
Father, in the Name of Jesus, we thank You that You
created angels. Thank You, Father, that You created them
for such exciting purposes.
Thank You that You sent an angel down to protect
Shadrack, Meshach, and Abendego right in the middle of
the fiery furnace. They didn‘t even get singed and they
didn‘t even smell like smoke because the angel You sent
protected them.
Oh, Father, how we thank You that You protected
Daniel in the lions’ den. Thank you that You sent Gabriel
down to explain the vision to him so that things he didn‘t
understand were revealed through the angel who brought a
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 Father, we thank You for Philip, too. We thank You that
he heard when an angel of the Lord spoke. We thank You
that when the angel said, “Go near, “he got over there and
did what You wanted him to do, and that was to present the
plan of salvation to the Ethiopian eunuch!
There are many of us who have unsaved loved ones in
our family. Father, we ask You in the name of Jesus to
loose the vast armies of heaven. We ask You to send angels
out there to bring (name of your loved one) to a person, to
a point, to a place where they will find the living Jesus,
where they will find Jesus as their Savior and Lord, We
thank You right now! Thank You for dispatching angels and
for sending them out. We thank you that those angels can
do miracles in the lives of our loved ones and we rejoice
even now, Oh, Father, the next time we see one of our
family who is not saved, we are going to chuckle to
ourselves and say, ‘You don ‘t know it (name), but you’ve
got angels all around you shoving you right to ward that
person who is going to lead you to salvation. “Hallelujah!
We ask this in the name of Jesus!
Here is another example of how God sees a person’s
heart and will sovereignly initiate angelic intervention in
order to bring them to salvation:
In the tenth chapter of Acts, Cornelius, an Italian
Gentile, who was devoted to prayer and helping the poor,
was really seeking to please the God he believed was out
there somewhere, but he wasn’t saved! So God sent an
angel down to tell him there was a man he must talk with,
the apostle Peter, who would show him the way of
salvation. God knew Cornelius’ heart had really been
seeking salvation, and He made sure he would find it! As a
result, Cornelius’ heart was divinely prepared and he and
his whole household were gloriously saved. He was the first
of the Gentiles to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit!
The mighty angels of God are everywhere. There are
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God’s bidding! One of the ways we pray for the lost is to
ask God to send someone with the good news of Jesus to
each one whose heart would be willing to receive Him. We
believe that there are angels working in every tribe and
nation, preparing laborers to go and hearts to receive, In
Psalm 2:8, God says, ‘“Ask of Me, and l will give you the
nations for your inheritance.”
I’m certain we would be absolutely amazed if we knew
all that God was having angels do all over the world right at
this instant, because of His love for souls.

God’s compassion 
There are times when God will look upon someone in
their circumstances with such love and compassion that He
will “move heaven and earth” so to speak, just to let them
know He’s in control. It might be someone who has served
Him faithfully, or it might be someone who belongs to
someone who has served him faithfully.
One of the stories which I have always thought was
very beautiful involved Abraham’s first son Ishmael, not
Isaac, Ishmael was not the son God had promised Abraham
and Sarah, which was a special covenant agreement, but
was the offspring of a union between Abraham and Sarah’s
maid, Hagar. Nonetheless, Ishmael was Abraham’s seed.
One day, because of strife in the household, Hagar and
Ishmael had been cast out into the desert to fend for
themselves.
The Bible says, Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast
out this bondswoman and her son; for the son of this
bondswoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with
Isaac “(21:14).
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread
and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave
it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away! Then she
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 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed
the boy under one of the shrubs. She went and sat down
across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she
said to herself ‘Let me not see the death of the boy. “So she
sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.
And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of
God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, ‘What
ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of
the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with
your hand, for I will make him a great nation. And God
opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. Then she
went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink
(Genesis 21:10-1 9).
God was moved with compassion because this was a
child of His friend Abraham, so He sent an angel
messenger to encourage Hagar with a promise for the future
and provided the miracle of provision they needed right at
that moment.
Another account which really shows the compassion of
God is in Acts where Paul had been taken prisoner and was
on a ship bound for Rome. After putting out to sea, they
had run into a tremendous storm which lasted day after day
after day, The crew all feared for their lives because they
knew the ship was going to break into tiny splinters before
the storm passed.
Finally the ship ran aground, and began to break up.
But, before everyone panicked, Paul said to them in Acts
27:22-24, ‘And now I urge you to take heart, for there will
be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
What he was telling them was, “The ship is going down
but cheer up and don’t worry, nobody’s going to lose their
life!”
Paul could speak so positively because an angel had
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 “For there stood by me this night an angel of the God
to whom I belong and whom I serve, saying ‘Do not be
afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and
indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you!”
God did not have any obligation to all those sailors to
send an angel to cheer them up. His plan was to take care of
Paul and get him to Rome. He could have just comforted
Paul by the Holy Spirit, or made sure Paul got hold of a
piece of wood to hang onto and test his faith. God’s heart is
one of compassion. Sometimes He will send an angel from
the throne room to the earth just to encourage and bring
peace to a faithful servant.
God is so interested in every single believer that not
only will He use supernatural means to protect them, He
will also send angelic messengers seen or unseen to –

comfort, strengthen or encourage His child during a time of

crisis, In this situation, God also knew the sailors were
scared, and He sent an angel to give Paul a word of
encouragement not just for himself but for everyone
traveling with him!

God’s Judgment 
Although I believe God’s preference for angelic
visitations is for blessing and ministering to His people,
there have been throughout the Bible, and will be in days to
come, instances where God used and will use the angels to
enforce His judgment on wickedness.
Angels were involved in the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah. God first sent an angel to warn Abraham’s
nephew Lot. Then angels hurried Lot and his wife and
daughters out of the city, even grabbing their hands and
yanking them along because they were poking along too
slowly!
And while he lingered, the men (angels) took hold of his
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and set him outside the city (Genesis 19:16).
One of the angels warned the group not to look back,
but Lot’s wife disobeyed and remained on the edge of town
as a statue of salt.
Angels can still be sent to warn us of impending danger,
and ignoring them can be disastrous!
We need to be alert to realize the potential of angels and
remember to thank God for sending special ministering
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 Chapter 6
Ministering Angels
Beloved, did you ever think just a little tiny bit about a
subject in the Bible and then suddenly it came alive and
you had a tremendous desire an overwhelming feeling that
–

you had to find out everything there was about it?

That is exactly what happened to us on the subject of
angels. Two verses in Psalm became real to us and started
this tremendous interest in angels.

Angels Watching Over You 

He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you
in all your ways, They shall bear you up in their hands, lest
you dash your foot against a stone.
The Living Bible states it eloquently.
How then can evil overtake me or any plague come
near? For He orders His angels to protect you wherever
you go. They will steady you with their hands to keep you
from stumbling against the rocks on the trails. You can
safely meet a lion or step on poisonous snakes, yes, even
trample them beneath your feet! (Psalm 91:11,12).
Growing Up In The Lord 
We had such a tremendous time with and enjoyed our
little granddaughter Charity so much because Joan
and Bob, our daughter and son-in-law, have really
raised her in the fear and admonition of the Lord, When our
oldest granddaughter was only two years old, we would
say, “Charity, how are you?” She would answer, “I’m
blessed.” It always delighted us to hear her give her little
confession. That’s scriptural because all the blessings that
God gave to Abraham belong to you and to me! Then she
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would say, “I have favor with God.” All the blessings and
all the covenants that God made with Abraham are the
things that make us have favor with God. But the third
thing she said really fascinated me because she said,
“Angels have charge over me.”
Do you know what prompted this? One Halloween she
was afraid because kids were running around saying,
“Boo!” and jumping out from behind bushes dressed like
ghosts. When she came back into the house she said to her
mother, “Oooh, Mommy, I’m so scared!” Her mother said,
“You don’t ever have to be afraid because God gives His
angels charge over you. His angels watch over you all the
time, that’s why you don’t ever have to be afraid of
anything.” Jesus referred to children having angels when
He said, “Take heed that you do not despise one of these
little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels
always see the face of My Father who is in heaven”
(Matthew 18:10).
What a wonderful way to be brought up! How I wish I
had brought my children up in exactly the same way.
We believe the activity of angels is accelerating today
because the return of Jesus is imminent, We began an
intensive study of angelic activity in the Bible and we
began to hear more and more about the activity of angels at
the present time.
There are many times when angels have been with all of
us, but we have just not realized it. Perhaps because of too
little teaching or too little expectancy, we have not
recognized the tremendous amount of angelic activities all
around us.
Many times we think it is the Holy Spirit, and I’m sure
that the angels take instructions from the Holy Spirit, but
nevertheless, I believe there are times when angels are sent
out as spirit messengers from God. They are dispatched by
and instructed by the Holy Spirit but the angels actually
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Angelic Message For Abraham and
Sarah 
The Bible makes some very interesting statements
where it is talking about the birth or the anticipated birth of
a son for Abraham and Sarah. Notice very carefully that the
first time they were advised about having a baby it was
apparently God speaking to them directly. (Genesis 15:1-6)
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram
in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your
shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me,
seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of
Damascus?”
Then Abram said “Look, You have given me no
offspring indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
“This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come
from your own body shall be your heir.”

Descendants as Numerous As The

Stars 
Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now
toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to
number them. “And He said to him, “So shall your
descendants be. “And he believed in the Lord, and He
accounted it to him for righteousness.
The next time we hear about this is very interesting but
notice the difference! (Genesis 17:1-4) When Abram was
ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said
to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be
blameless,
And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and
will multiply you exceedingly.”
Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him,
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you shall be a father of many nations.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your
name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of
many nations.
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and l will make
nations of you, and kings shall come from you.”
A little bit later, God spoke to Sarah. Up until that time
she was called Sarai but then God changed her name to
Sarah which means “Princess.”

An Angelic Appearance 
In the 18th chapter of Genesis notice that the Lord
appeared apparently in the form of a human being, along
with angels, or was it an angel that appeared? Look what it
says.
Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of
Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the
day.
So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men
were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from
the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the
ground, and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in
Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. ‘Please let a
little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree.

Abraham Shows Hospitality 

‘And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may
refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch
as you have come to your servant.” And they said, “Do as
you have said.
So Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah and said,
“Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it
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 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good
call; gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it,
So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had
prepared, and se tit before them; and he stood by them
under the tree as they ate.

Again God Promises a Son

Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?
“And he said, “Here, in the tent.” (note that the Lord was
speaking through these three people who were apparently
angels,)

Have You Entertained Angels ?

In another place, the Bible says, “Be careful lest you
entertain angels unaware. I will certainly return to you
according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wile
shall have a son. “And Sarah was listening in the tent door
which was behind him.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in
age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself saying, “After I
have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also.?”
God knows everything we do and everything we say
and everything we think!
And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh,
saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’
“Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed
time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.”
In this instance God spoke directly to Abram for the
first time. The second time it was angels who spoke the
word of God through what appeared to be human beings.
Whenever angels speak, it is always the word of God,
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spirit messengers sent out by the Almighty God.
The Bible doesn’t specifically record whether the
angels were with Jesus all the time, although I think that
there are angels busy on our behalf at all times, if we only
could realize and appreciate what they are doing for us. I
have a feeling that many of us might be having a real bad
time if we didn’t have so many angels out there taking care
of a lot of our battles for us, because one of the purposes of
the angels is that God has given them charge over you to
keep you in all your ways. In other words, to keep you
healthy, or strong, or to keep you from danger. I have a
feeling if you looked around right now you might discover
yourself surrounded by angels wherever you are if you
could see with your spirit eyes instead of your natural eyes!
Even though the Bible doesn’t record whether the
angels were with Jesus all the time, there are many
instances given when they were.

An Angel Announces The Birth of

Jesus
In the life of Jesus, the angel was there to tell Mary
about Him before He was ever conceived and then the
angels were there again at His birth. Later an angel spoke to
Joseph and told him to take Mary and the baby away
because King Herod was going to issue an edict that all the
babies were going to be killed. It was an angel who brought
that message to Joseph to save Jesus’ life!
It was an angel who appeared to Joseph in Egypt and
told him to return home. Angels ministered to Jesus after
He was tempted in the wilderness. They ministered to Him
at Gethsemane and they were there when He rose from the
grave. At the sound of the trumpet angels will gather His
elect, and in the great end-of time, grand finale, angels will
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 Angels were totally involved in the life of Jesus and He
is our example. Angels are totally involved in the lives of
believers.
After Jesus was baptized in water and the Holy Spirit
came on him, descending like a dove and alighting upon
Him, the voice from heaven said,
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”
(Matthew 3:17).
Now watch what follows in Matthew 4. Here comes the
devil!
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit in to the wilderness
to be tempted by the devil.
And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights,
afterward He was hungry.
Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You
are the Son of God, command that these stones become
bread.”
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
The devil tempted Jesus in three different areas during
this time. The first time, we see Jesus being tempted on the
physical or fleshly level; He was hungry and the devil
offered him food.
Then the devil took Him up in to the holy city, set Him
on a pinnacle of the temple,
And said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw
Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give his angels
charge concerning you,’ and, 1n their hands they shall bear
you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. “
Jesus said to him, It is written again, ‘You shall not
tempt the Lord your God. “
In this instance, the devil tempts Jesus on the level of
emotions or the level of the soul. Satan was trying to tempt
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 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high
mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world
and their glory.
And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if
You will fall down and worship me,”
Then Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan! For it is
written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him
only you shall serve.
Finally, the devil tempts Jesus on a spiritual level.
Could he actually get Jesus to use His supernatural power
for selfish reasons or selfish gain? Remember, the devil
wanted to exalt himself above God, exactly what he was
trying to get Jesus to do!
Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and
ministered to Him (Matthew 4:1-1 1).
In all three temptations, we see Jesus overcame the
devil by the Word of God and immediately thereafter
“angels came and ministered to Him.”
You and I know that testing will inevitably come to us
if we are truly serving God. Many times, the temptations
we encounter are beyond human logic. That’s why we can
never counter the devil with logic or reason, only by the
Word of God. We can believe that, just as angels ministered
to Jesus after this victory over Satan, God will send angels
to minister to us.

Angels In Times of Sorrow, Grief

And Danger 
One of the purposes of angels is to minister to us in
times of sorrow, to minister to us in times of grief, to
minister to us in times of danger, to minister to us in times
of sickness and for innumerable other reasons.
The Bible doesn’t say exactly how the angels
ministered to Jesus. Maybe they brought Him food, maybe
they brought Him something to drink when this tempting
was all over, but it does say that the angels ministered to
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Him. They could have even held his head in their lap and
just let Him lie down for some much needed peace and
sleep. Angels are sent upon direct command by God
Himself, and everything God’s angels do is good and
perfect!
Whenever we get on an airplane, we always ask God to
send His angels to hold the plane up. Many times we tell
people on a plane who seem to be a little bit nervous or a
little bit upset if there is a storm in the air, “Don’t worry!
God has His angels holding up the wings of this plane, so
you don’t have to worry about it.”
That is exactly the way I feel. I feel that God’s angels
can do so much if we will remember to say, “God, would
you send your angels along?”
God oftentimes gives through an angel the greatest
messages He has to give and the most outstanding
information He wants to relate.
We need to remember one thing – that when an angel
speaks, it is the same as God speaking. When God is
speaking through angels, He does not give angels an
opportunity to change His own words and interject their
own thoughts. The angel is speaking the exact words of
God as He spoke them Himself! That’s why God can trust
them and that’s why He has trusted them on so many
tremendous occasions.

When the Angels Were Powerless 

When Jesus went to the cross, He took upon Himself all
the sins of the world, all the filth and all the sickness, all the
disease, all the vile things that everyone in the entire world
has ever done. Then He went down into the very pit of hell,
and came out victorious! As He hung on the cross and as
He went into hell, God’s angels were powerless to do
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 The sky must have been full of angels all the time.
Consequently I’m sure that the angels were there while all
this was going on, and yet they were completely bound.
They could not do anything because God had not given
them any orders. So they, like every person there, stood by
and watched Jesus be crucified on the cross.
Now watch what happened when Jesus came back to
life, when He arose for the dead! The great message of all
times concerning the resurrection was entrusted to an angel
to tell.
Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week
began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came
to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel
of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled
back the stone from the door, and sat on it(Matthew 28:2).
I can just picture the guards who had made sure that the
tomb was sealed with a stone and had watchmen around it
all the time! Angels have personalities and I can just picture
this angel sitting on that stone laughing and laughing and
saying, “Oh, wait until the priests find out what happened.”
This angel sat there on the stone just to watch and see,
even though they knew what was going to happen next.
He had been in the very presence of God! When Moses
was up on the Mount of Transfiguration and came down,
the glory of the Lord was upon him. The glory of the Lord
was on the angel, that’s why
his countenance was like lightning and his clothing as
white as snow (Matthew 28:3).
And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like
dead men (Matthew 28:4).
They fell under the power of God. I believe that is
exactly the same thing you and I would have done if we had
been sent there to guard the tomb of the man who had just
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stone had been rolled away and the tomb was empty! The
angel didn’t tell the guards not to be afraid.
But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not
be afraid, for l know that you seek Jesus who was
crucified”(Matthew 28:5).

Do Not Be Afraid
Notice that to those who are on God’s side the angels
always say, ‘Do not be afraid. “Don’t be frightened.
He wants to put us at ease. I imagine if we could see
into the face of an angel we would see something that
would bring peace and comfort to our hearts!
He is not here; for He is risen. Three of those words
have come down through history! On every newspaper in
the land, probably in almost every country around the
world, on Easter Sunday, those three words appear,
“HE IS RISEN”
They were direct words from God to the people, spoken
through an angel, “He is risen!” Jesus didn’t stay in that
tomb, He arose. Hallelujah!
“Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go
quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead,
and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you
will see Him! Behold I have told you.
So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and
great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word (Matthew
28:6-8).
Isn’t that interesting? Did you notice that it did say they
departed quickly from the tomb with fear even though the
angels had told them not to have fear. They really took off
because I believe they knew that they had received a
message from the Almighty God to go and tell the others,
“Jesus is risen!”
We were in Dallas, Texas, one week speaking at a
church. This was the last night and just before we began to
minister to those who were sick, more than eight hundred
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angels came into this church. Previously we had never seen
so many angels all at one time! They were different than
the angel which is stationed with us all the time.
These were what I would call blessing angels. They
were probably four-and-a-half to five feet tall, They were
all grouped together in little covies with five or six of them
in each. During the praise time of the service they were all
worshipping and praising God. I could see them clapping
their hands like they were saying, “Oh, glory hallelujah!
Here is a church that really knows how to praise God. Here
are some people who really know how to praise God.”
The reason that I say more than eight hundred angels is
because there were approximately eight hundred people in
the church and there were more angels than there were
people. Then a very interesting thing began to happen. I
watched groups of angels go down to certain people and
they brought them forward to the altar. As they were
brought forward by the angels they were healed, not by the
angels but by the power of God.
I especially remember one young couple had a little
baby who had a hole in the heart and a heart murmur. The
husband was not holding the baby, the wife was. He told us
later he had reached over, because his hands were
absolutely forced out by the angels, picked the baby up and
came to the altar, He looked completely dazed as he handed
the baby to us. We prayed and then handed the baby back
to him totally healed!
The angels nudged him to reach over and pick up that
baby and he did! They took the baby back to the doctor and
the doctor said the heart murmur and the hole in the heart
were totally and completely healed!
Special note: We recently attended this healthy young
man’s graduation from high school!

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 Chapter 7
There Are Two
Kinds Of Angels
Do you know there are two kinds of angels?
Holy angels and demon angels...
No sooner had the thought entered Satan’s mind, want
to be like God,” until he found himself thrown
out of heaven. Because God cannot stand sin, the
moment that thought started to enter Lucifer’s mind, the
devil was cast out of heaven like a bolt of lightning and on
this same bolt of lightning there were one-third of all the
angels in heaven cast out along with Lucifer.
And He (Jesus) said to them, “I saw Satan fall like
lightning from Heaven “(Luke 10:18),
As this bolt of lightning zoomed through space, it
carried all of these demonic angels who were no longer
holy angels but had become evil angels! Can you imagine
the storm that was created as this heavenly missile hurtled
through the earth’s atmosphere? The sound must have been
horrible, The once-beautiful voice of Lucifer, the most
magnificent voice in all of heaven had now changed to a
hideous scream as he was cast at a supernatural speed to his
unholy destiny. He could no longer be called Lucifer, a
praiser of God. He became Satan, the devil!
Even as the angels were cast down, their character
changed. They were no longer holy angels from God, but
became part of the devil’s kingdom, the evil angels.
No one knows the total number of angels in heaven. In
the book of Revelation, John refers to the angels around the
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thousands and thousands. There must have been multitudes
of angels who were cast out. Imagine the hideous screams
as these beings realized they would no longer be
comfortably nested in heaven, but were instead cast down
to earth, and ultimately into the bottomless pit.
Imagine the commotion that was created when this bolt
of lightning carrying all of these demonic creatures landed
on earth! Ever since that time they have continued to carry
out that same confusion and commotion!
We have found the notes on demons in the Life
Application Bible to be so helpful in this study that we have
included them below,

What Are Demons?

A man possessed by a demon was present and began
shouting, “Why are you bothering us, Jesus of Nazareth
have you come to destroy us demons? I know who you are –
the holy Son of God!” Jesus curtly commanded the demon
to say no more and to come out of the man. At that the evil
spirit screamed and convulsed the man violently and left
him (Mark 1:23-26).
Demons are evil spirits who are ruled by Satan. They
work to tempt people to sin. They were not created by
Satan, because God is the Creator of all; rather they are
fallen angels who joined Satan in his rebellion. In their
degenerate state they can cause a person to become mute,
deaf, blind or insane. But in every case where they
confronted Jesus, they lost their power. Thus God limits
what they can do; they can do nothing without his
permission. During Jesus’ life on earth demons were
allowed to be very active to show once and for all Christ’s
power and authority over them.
Many psychologists dismiss accounts of demon
possession as a primitive way to describe mental illness.
Clearly, however, a demon controlled the man described in
Mark 1:23. Mark emphasizes Jesus’ conflict with evil
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 powers to show his superiority over them, and so he
records many stories about Jesus casting out demons.
Jesus didn’t have to conduct an elaborate exorcism
ritual. His word was enough to send out the demons,
The demon mentioned above knew at once that Jesus
was the Son of God. Mark, by including this event in this
Gospel was establishing Jesus’ credentials, showing that
even the underworld recognized Jesus as the Messiah.

Why Didn’t Jesus Destroy The

Demons?
Jesus healed many people of the destructive work of
demon-possession, but He did not destroy the demons. Why
didn’t Jesus destroy or stop the evil in the world? His time
for that has not yet come. But it will. The book of
Revelation records the future victory of Jesus over Satan,
all his demons and all evil.

The Demons Recognized Jesus 

When they arrived at the other side of the lake a demon-
possessed man ran out from a graveyard, just as Jesus was
climbing from the boat. This man lived among the
gravestones, and had such strength that whenever he was
put into handcuffs and shackles – as he often was – he
snapped the handcuffs from his wrists and smashed the
shackles and walked away. No one was strong enough to
control him. All day long and through the night he would
wander among the tombs and in the wild hills, screaming
and cutting himself with sharp pieces of stone.
When Jesus was still far out on the water, the man had
seen him and had run to meet him, and fell down before
him. Then Jesus spoke to the demon within the man and
said, Come out, you evil spirit. It gave a terrible scream,
shrieking, “What are you going to do to me, Jesus, Son of
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More Than One Demon 
‘What is your name, “Jesus asked, and the demon
replied, “Legion, for there are many of us here within this
man. “Then the demons begged him again and again not to
send them to some distant land.

Into a Herd of Hogs 

Now as it happened there was a huge herd of hogs
rooting around on the hill above the lake. “Send us into
those hogs, “the demons begged. And Jesus gave them
permission. Then the evil spirits came out of the man and
entered the hogs, and the entire herd plunged down the
steep hillside in to the lake and drowned.

People Ask Jesus To Leave 

The herdsmen fled to the nearby towns and country
side, spreading the news as they ran. Everyone rushed out
to see for themselves, And a large crowd soon gathered
where Jesus was; but as they saw the man sitting there,
fully clothed and perfectly sane, they were frightened.
Those who saw what happened were telling everyone about
it, and the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and
leave them alone! (Mark 5:1-17).
The demons destroyed the pigs and hurt the herdsmen’s
finances, but can pigs and money compare to human life? A
man had been freed from the devil’s power, but the
villagers thought only about their pocketbooks. People have
always tended to value personal gain over other people.
Throughout history most wars have been fought, at least in
part, to protect economic interests. Much injustice and
oppression, both at home and abroad, is the direct fallout of
some individual’s or company’s urge to get rich. People are
continually being sacrificed to money. Don’t think more
highly of “pigs” than of people. Think carefully about how
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people from being harmed.

The Power of Demons 

Once as he was teaching in the synagogue, a man
possessed by a demon began shouting at Jesus, “Go a way!
We want nothing to do with you, Jesus from Nazareth. You
have come to destroy us. I know who you are – the Holy
Son of God. “Jesus cut him short. “Be silent!” he told the
demon. “Come out!” The demon threw the man to the floor
as the crowd watched, and then left him without hurting
him further (Luke 4:33-35).

The Goals of Demons 

The book of Mark often highlights the supernatural
struggle between Jesus and Satan. The demons’ goal was to
control the humans they inhabited; Jesus’ goal was to give
people freedom from sin and Satan’s control. The demons
knew they had no power over Jesus, so when they saw him,
they begged not to be sent to a distant land (called the
Bottomless Pit in Luke 8:31). Jesus granted their request
but ended their destructive work in people. He could have
sent them to hell, but he did not because the time for
judgment had not yet come. In the end, of course, all
demons will be sent into eternal fire.
The people were amazed at Jesus’ authority to cast out
demons – evil spirits ruled by Satan and sent to tempt
people to sin. Demons can cause a person to become mute,
deaf blind or insane. Jesus faced many demons during his
time on earth and he always exerted authority over them.
Not only did the demon leave this man; Luke records that
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The Ultimate Fate Of Demons 
They began screaming at him, “What do you want with
us, O Son of God. You have no right to torment us yet”
(Matthew 8:29).
The Bible tells us that at the end of the world, Satan and
his angels will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. When the
demons said that Jesus could not torment them “yet,” they
showed they knew their ultimate fate.

Demon Possession And Its Purpose


Although we cannot be sure why demon possession
occurs, we know that it uses the body in a destructive way
to distort and destroy man’s relationship with God and
likeness to him, Even today, demons are dangerous,
powerful and destructive. While it is important to recognize
their evil activity so we can stay away from them, we must
avoid any curiosity about or involvement with demonic
forces or the occult. If we resist the devil and his
influences, he will flee from us.
So give yourselves humbly to God. Resist the devil and
he will flee from you (James 4:7).

Jesus’ Power And Authority Over

Demons 
Satan must be bound before his demons are cast out],
just as a strong man must be tied up before his house can
be ransacked and his property robbed (Mark 3:27).
Although God permits Satan to work in our world, He
is still in control, Jesus, because He is God, has power over
Satan; he is able to cast out demons and end their terrible
work in people’s lives. One day Satan will be bound
forever, never again to do this evil work in the world (end
of note from Life Application Bible).

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Jesus Defeated The Devil 2,000
Years Ago
We felt we could not write a book about the holy angels
unless we wrote about demonic angels as well. Jesus
defeated the devil and all his demons 2,000 years ago. We
personally do not spend much of our time talking about
demonic spirits. We believe that every time we talk about
evil we’re taking away from the time that we’re talking
about Jesus. However, it is important to know that demons
have a place in the world today. We need to learn how to
stand against them.
In any study of demons, it is good to remember John’s
words, You are of God, little children, and have overcome
them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in
the world (I John 4:4).
We like to quote this verse saying, Greater is He that is
in me than he that is in the world. He that is in this world
includes the devil and every one of his demons.

Standing Against Evil Angels 

Put on the whole armor of God, that you maybe able to
stand against the wiles of the devil, For we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places,
(Ephesians 6:11,12),
And don’t ever take that armor off!
We fight against fallen angels over whom Satan has
control. They arc very real and we face a powerful enemy
whose goal is to defeat Christ’s church, We know that Jesus
will win in the end, but we must engage in the battle until
Jesus comes because Satan is constantly battling against
every born-again believer. To defeat him, we must have
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God provides us with this power through the baptism with
the Holy Spirit.
Always remember that you have more power than the
devil. In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said, All authority has been
given to Me in heaven and on earth.
114 The Angel Book
Jesus had all power, but then He displayed true
Christianity – He gave it away to us, so we would have
more power than the devil.
And in Luke 10:19 He said, Behold l give you the
authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means
hurt you.
In Jesus, we have more power than the enemy. He is a
defeated foe! We are more than conquerors through Him
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 Chapter 8
Angels Come In
Different Colors
Colombia, the nation most widely known because it is
the largest producer of drugs of any country in the world, is
also loaded with angels!
During a Healing Explosion there, the sponsor
anticipated so many people attending that he scheduled two
piggyback services.
We had spent an incredible week training the people
how to minister healing to the sick! We were told that over
six thousand had signed up to take the final training. The
sponsoring pastor had to reduce the number to fifteen
hundred and each seat was at a premium. The coffee
companies brought coffee wagons to the scene, and
everyone received free Colombian coffee!
Then came the day of the actual Healing Explosion.
There was a supernatural atmosphere in the morning
service, but even this did not prepare us completely for
what was to happen.
After we ministered to several people on the stage, we
released the healing teams to go into the audience and lay
hands on the sick, which they did with incredible results!
The second service started, and the pastor walked over
to the two of us and said, “I believe God would like for you
to lay hands on those in wheelchairs this time!” We looked
at the audience and saw about three rows of wheelchairs all
around the inside area of the auditorium floor, They do not
have Medicare and hospitalization like we have in the
United States so you see many more hopeless cripples than
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 We started to say, “We came here to teach your people
now to heal the sick, but didn’t because we realized this
was a special request from this beautiful pastor. As we
walked down the stairs Charles and I both looked up and
said, “God if you’re not in this we’re sunk!” But if God
isn’t in any Healing Explosion, we’re already sunk!
We know just a tiny little bit of Spanish and the only
thing we really knew to say was, “Recibe su sanidad en el
nombre de Jesus,” which means, “Receive your healing in
the Name of Jesus.” We didn’t ask them what their problem
was because that gets too complicated when you try to
translate it from Spanish to English,
We walked up to the first person in a wheelchair, a
hopelessly crippled man, laid hands on him and said,
“Recibe su sanidad en el nombre de Jesus!”
Acts 3:6 is a scripture we usually say when we lay
hands on someone in a wheelchair. “Silver and gold I do
not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
This is one of the few scriptures I know in Spanish, so I
quoted it until I got to the very last four words. Rise up and
walk and my mind went completely blank – completely and
totally blank! I remembered the word for rise up but I could
not remember the word for walk in Spanish. It had totally
vanished from my mind! I quickly searched all through my
memory, but that word would not come into my mind, but
God...
It is amazing how quickly and interestingly God can
insert thoughts into our spirit and into our minds. He
reminded me of a little song we had sung as children. This
is a song I think almost everybody knows, “La cucaracha,
la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar...” “ The cockroach, the
cockroach, now he is unable to walk...” There was the word
I needed – caminar “to walk” and God put it back into my
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 In the event you don’t know the rest of the words of that
song in Spanish they are, “Porque le falta, porque no tiene,
marijuana que fumar,” which means he can’t walk because
he lacks, because he doesn’t have, marijuana to smoke!
What a peculiar way for God to remind me of
something! He knew that was one way I would instantly
know the Spanish word for “to walk,”
We looked at the man and said, “Levantase y camina en
el nombre de Jesus!” which means, “Rise up and walk in
the Name of Jesus.”
The minute we said that the man got up from his
wheelchair and walked!
I was startled! I looked at Charles and said, “He must
not have been as crippled as we thought he was,” but we
were rejoicing.
If something is successful, do it again! We went to the
second person who was also hopelessly crippled and said
the same thing. We had no sooner said, “Get up and walk,”
than he got right up out of his wheelchair and walked!
This was exciting! We continued making the same
anointed commands in Jesus’ Name. We went down the
line and the first sixteen people got out of their wheelchairs
and walked! When we got to number seventeen we couldn’t
believe it. The man sat there and didn’t get up! We weren’t
discouraged! We went on to number eighteen and before
we made the circle, over one hundred people had either
gotten out of their wheelchairs, off of stretchers, or off of
crutches. One blind man was instantly healed, What a day
of glory!
How we praised the Lord! God sent us a real anointed
helper! There was a beautiful black man there with a
tremendous amount of gray hair! This is very unusual
because most black African people never really get a lot of
gray in their hair, As soon as we had told the first man to
get up and walk, this big black man walked over and took
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While he was walking him out there we could hear him
encouraging the man in Spanish who came out of the
wheelchair probably saying something like, “That’s right!
That’s right! Keep walking because you have to get your
muscles strengthened.” He was exhorting him to put his
faith into action and continue walking so he wouldn’t lose
his healing. What a blessing!
When we finished ministering to the second person, the
man quickly returned and took that person and escorted him
out to the center of the arena apparently with the same
encouraging words he had given to the first one. Without
exception, every person who got out of a wheelchair was
ministered to by this beautiful black man with the gray
curly hair. He had to have supernatural ability to be able to
move so quickly!
The last twenty people got out of their wheelchairs and
came up to us and said, “Would you please lay hands on
us?” They hadn’t even realized the power of God was so
strong that they were already healed!
As you can imagine, everybody was sobbing because of
the mighty move of God. We had never seen anything like
that before, nor have we ever seen anything like that since!
It was an extremely emotional moment.
I ran up to get to the stage where my purse was and my
daughter said, “Don’t look in there for Kleenex! They’re all
used up” Many people later told us they had never seen
such a dramatic service in their entire life!
After we regained our composure a little bit, we
released the healing teams to minister healing to everybody
else. We saw the black man leaving – he just disappeared
into the crowd before I could say anything to him. We ran
over to the pastor and asked, “Who is that black man? He
did such a wonderful job helping us by exhorting those
people and exercising them so they would continue
walking. We want to thank him.”
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was at least a foot taller than Charles who is six feet tall.
The pastor said again, “I didn’t see him!”
Many other people gave the same answer!
But our camera saw him and surprisingly, he appears in
many of our snapshots! The video camera caught him as
well!
God will send His angelic messengers to give you all
the help you need even if others can’t see him!
This was one of God’s invisible angels, but made
visible to us and to our cameras!
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 Chapter 9
Angel Vignettes
Introduction

We could fill volumes relating the wonderful things

God has done for us through His ministering angels. We
could write story after story, ours and our friends, about
angelic visitations to us. But our desire in writing this book
is not to entertain with marvelous accounts of angelic
visitation in our own lives, but to create within you a desire
to experience more of the supernatural power of God, The
more we share about personal encounters in our lives and
ministry, the more real is our relationship with God and
Jesus!
As you have been reading the accounts in this book,
you may have been thinking about an experience you or a
friend have had. Were angels involved in your own life? If
you have never considered it in that way, take time to do so
now and thank God for every remembrance He gives you.
King Solomon wrote, Trust in the LORD with all your
heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your
ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths
(Proverbs 3:5,6),
Take time to thank God for the supernatural
intervention He has already given you, and ask Him for
more.

Angels Visited Charles’ Mother

By Frances
Charles said, “I don’t even remember the first encounter
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ever forget anything as exciting as a live encounter with an
angel?”
I quickly found out!
Because of our tremendous interest in angels and the
intense studies we were making at the time, God brought
back to our minds several sheets of paper written by
Charles’ mother. She was a true saint of God if I ever saw
one! We had a letter dated June 15, 1969 in which she
wrote, “I really would like to tell you about some of the
visions I had, so I wrote them on paper. They are not as
good as if I told them because I just am not able to put in
words what I want to when I start to write. Maybe you can
say them better than I and yet still have the same meaning.”
The paper had a headline in mama’s handwriting.

“My visions of angels bringing our boy, Charles, to me.

“The night before he was born I saw a group of
angels coming down over my bed and one said,
‘This is your beloved son,’ They had a bundle they
handed to me and then they were gone.

What an awesome thing it was when I read her words. It

was a reminder to me that we must more fully realize that
supernatural angelic activities are happening all the time in
our own lives!
God put a call on Charles’ life even before he was
actually born, or possibly at the very moment he was born!
Charles’ mama knew this but kept it in her heart until a
few months before God joined us in marriage.
Charles said, “1 never went far away from God (just a
few bad attitudes) but I remember something I did as a
teenager. My parents were devout Christians and I knew
they didn’t want me to go to a movie. But I did. I ‘sneaked
away’ and thoroughly enjoyed a clean movie. Somehow I
believe my mother knew, but she also some way knew that
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away from God. Finally He put a divine hook in my jaw
and reeled me into the kingdom of God. After I made a
total commitment, an abandonment of my life, that ended
my desire to sin, even a little bit!”
Maybe an angel didn’t bring a special package to you,
but God has a call on every life He chooses!
Isaiah wrote, “Everyone who is called by My glory,’ I
have formed him, yes, I have made him “(Isaiah 43:7).

Seeing Angels In The Spirit 

By Charles
Angels can be seen just like we see a human or they can
be seen in any dimension God wants them to be,
They can appear large.
They can appear small.
They can come in the form of a male or female, or as a
child.
God has them appear in whatever form necessary in
order to fulfill their purpose at that time. They are not
restricted to our human vision.
One morning we were ministering on a stage in a large
auditorium. I was talking at that time and Frances was
seated possibly twenty or thirty feet over to my left
listening to what I was saying. Suddenly I stopped and said,
“Frances, I want to tell the people where our big angel is.”
Frances was rather shocked by that and she thought to
herself, “God, let him be in the spirit because he can’t see
the angel the way he’s standing.” She had seen this
heavenly presence physically standing just in front
of the drapes in back of me and she knew I couldn’t see
out of the back of my head.
I was looking directly into the face of the audience and
I didn’t change my position at all when I began to
describe where the angel was. I said, “The angel is
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of the people in the audience,”
Frances breathed a sigh of relief as she realized that
God had shown me, even though she knew I couldn’t see
him, exactly what she was watching and seeing clearly.
That caused us to realize that you don’t have to limit
God in any way with or without angels. It was very clear
that I was seeing him in my spirit but I wasn’t looking at
him as we would look at another human being. In the spirit
visibility can be any part of 360 degrees, any height or
depth, even through wood or steel. Hallelujah!
Moving in the spirit, I had “eyes in the back of my
head!”

Angels Give Heart’s Desires 

By Charles
A church in Wichita Falls reserved the front pew for our
family who had accompanied us to a meeting we were
having there, I was sitting about three feet from the end of
the pew, not even thinking about angels. Our plane had
been delayed, so things had been a little hectic. I decided to
completely enter into the worship service because there is
nothing that will calm you down after a hectic rough
airplane flight like worshiping God, so I really became
involved in doing just that.
I opened my eyes and looked at the stage and was
thrilled and surprised to sense our huge angel standing
there. It was a real comforting feeling! There’s a dimension
similar to a magnetic field and I could see the angel clearly
in the spirit even though I couldn’t see him physically. He
was standing on the stage looking at the congregation.
I prayed silently, “Father, it sure would be nice if you
would let him move down here and sit next to us on the
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me!
As I stood there I could clearly tell the whole height and
features of this great angel. I’m almost six feet tall, but he
was almost eight feet tall! My head was at the middle of his
forearm. He totally dwarfed me.
God had instantly responded to a little thought request
of mine and honored it by sending the angel down to sit
with us. What a blessing!
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your
heart’s desires (Psalm 37:4 NLT).

Angels Give Strength

By Charles and Frances 
An unusual thing happened in a California service. At
the very beginning of this meeting, a blonde boy about
eleven or twelve years old fell out under the power of the
Holy Spirit.
The minute he fell on the floor, his arms went right
straight up in the air! As the service progressed, we noticed
that he never moved and that his arms were staying in the
same position – straight up in the air! This went on for
approximately three hours, the entire length of the service.
During this time many people noticed this unusual
phenomenon! When his arms finally came down, we ran
over to him!
We were amazed that he could hold his arms up for
such a long time, so we said to him, “Didn’t your arms get
tired holding them up that long?”
He said excitedly, “No, they didn’t get tired! Didn’t you
see the angels? There was one on each side and they held
my arms up the entire time. That’s why they didn’t get
tired!”
That was about twenty-four years ago. How we would
love to see that young man today to find out what that
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Angels Bring Healing 

By Frances 
This angel has appeared and still appears many times in
our meetings or other places. I have never talked to him and
I do not see him all the time. But on the special occasions
when I do see him, something unusual always happens in
the audience.
At one meeting where this mighty angel appeared, there
was a man in the congregation who seemed to be unusually
tense. We were very much aware of him because it was as
if the Holy Spirit had shined a bright light on him. He later
spoke to us and said he felt like his head was going to burst,
or he was an applicant for a stroke, or something equally as
dramatic and traumatic.
At one point I had looked out and had seen the angel
ministering to this particular man and I knew there was a
miracle in the making!
He said, “The minute I silently expressed what I felt, I
felt somebody laid a hand on me and, whatever the problem
was, it absolutely totally and completely disappeared!”
God answered this man’s cry by sending a special angel
right to his seat!

Angels Protect Us From Accidents

By Frances
Praise the Lord that angels are given charge over us!
As we were being driven from our hotel to the site of a
meeting in Canada, we proceeded through a green light but
the person driving a van coming from the other direction
ran through their red light and obviously didn’t see us.
We were in an ordinary automobile, when the driver of
the van proceeded through the red light – drove right
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toward the engine of our car and went right straight through
it! I was sitting in the front seat and even though the motor
extended way out in front of our car, the driver’s face was
no more than six or eight inches from the windshield of the
car in which we were riding!
The van proceeded down the street, but not for long!
The people climbed out of the car with the most shocked
looks on their faces we’ve ever seen. They were looking to
see what had happened to their vehicle but there was
nothing the matter! We all said the same thing, “Did you
see that angel?”
An angel somehow supernaturally let that van run right
through the motor of our car with no damage whatsoever!
There was no accident, no clanging of metal, no jarring, no
nothing.

Jesus Walked Through walls

Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the
week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were
assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in
the midst, and said to them, ‘Peace be with you”(John
20:19).
Angels are a blessing. They protect us from harm!

Angels Guard Our Possessions

By Frances
The life of evangelists is oftentimes fraught with many
interesting and unexpected events. At a Canadian meeting,
our books and video tapes were displayed in the vestibule
of the church but the actual service was in the fellowship
hail which was slightly removed from the vestibule, leaving
the book table completely unattended until the conclusion
of the meeting, A we were ministering we were not
concerned about the books and videos even though there is
a lot of money involved producing these items.
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 I was not even aware that anything was happening, but
toward the end of the service a young man ran up, put his
arms around me, squeezed me tightly and started crying! I
said, “What’s the matter?” It was obvious he needed to be
saved, or that he had some sort of physical or over-
whelming personal problem he needed to discuss.
Imagine my surprise when he replied, “I was driving by
and saw all those books by the door and realized I could
sell them for a lot of money, so I came in and stole a whole
bunch of them! After I drove away, the funniest thing
happened to me. An angel came and told me to take all the
books and videos back, I was afraid not to, so here they
are!”
I said, “You need to be saved!”
He said, “I know it!” And he got saved right on the
spot!
But angels are only servants. They are spirits sent from
God to care for those who will receive salvation (Hebrews
1:14 NLT).

Angels Guard Our Home

By Charles
Christmas is a wonderful time to have special friends
and loved ones in to sing carols and worship God together.
One night during the time we had a Bible school at the City
of Light, we invited all our students to come to our home to
celebrate Jesus!
Frances and I went up to the balcony of our home
overlooking the living room. We were standing possibly
three feet apart, which is unusual for us because we
normally stand right together, but we soon discovered the
reason!
The students were all singing Christmas carols and we
all had our hands raised in the air when suddenly the big
angel who watches over us came and stood between us, The
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three of us were looking down over the Bible school
students. The students saw him first and they thought it was
an awesome thing to realize that God’s special warrior
angel was visible in our home,
None of them will ever be the same!
When we moved out of our previous home, a real estate
friend was selling our house. He said that almost everyone
who looked at the house said, “What is this we feel?”
Our agent replied, “I don’t know, but these people sure
are religious!’
When we moved out, we had asked God to station
angels over that home to protect it and to guard it. God
answered our prayer, and though they didn’t know it they
were actually sensing the presence of angels who were
watching over the house!
Praise the Lord, our angel moved with us, but God
stationed others to guard our house until it sold!

Angels Lift Us Up
By Frances
Do you have any idea what it feels like to get hit with
bursitis in the hip and have to be taken from an airplane to a
car, driven across an airfield, put in a wheelchair and taken
upstairs to be put on another plane so that you can get
home? I should add, especially when you’re in the healing
ministry!
I had been attacked with bursitis in my hip while we
were on a ministry trip and was totally unable to walk!
When we got to Atlanta, Charles called our office and told
them to make a doctor’s appointment quickly!
We always pray first, but we know God also uses
doctors, so our secretary picked us up and took us directly
to the doctor’s office. He promptly gave me a shot of
cortisone in my hip, but missed the joint just a little bit, so
it didn’t knock the bursitis out.
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 They loaned me a wheelchair to get back to our car. Our
secretary had gone back to work, so Charles was going to
drive us home. Charles is an excellent driver, but this
afternoon he was not driving very well. When we turned
the final corner to go toward our condo, I was aware that he
wasn’t driving normally at all. I said, “Charles, is
something the matter with you?”
He said, “Sweetheart, I am so sick I need to get home
and in bed as fast as I can!” He had been so concerned
about me, he hadn’t realized how badly he felt.
I limped into the condo as fast as I could with my hip in
agony and we both went to bed because neither of us was
able to do very much!
Shortly after this I took Charles’ temperature and
discovered it was over 102 degrees! My bursitis was so
painful that I could hardly get out of bed, but I remembered
we had some antibiotics which the doctor had given us to
take overseas in the event we picked up any kind of disease
or infection, I said to Charles, “Let me give you one of
those pills.”
The way I got out of bed to get the pill was really
something! I was hanging onto everything within my reach
because I couldn’t stand because of the pain in my hip! He
took the antibiotic and we went to sleep.
Somewhere around three o’clock in the morning I woke
up and reached over to give Charles a “love pat” (which I
always do when I wake up during the night) and discovered
he wasn’t there! I had not heard him get up, which was
unusual, and I almost panicked! I thought, “Surely he didn’t
rapture without me!” No, I decided he’s probably in the
bathroom so I rolled over and went back to sleep.
About thirty minutes later, I woke up and once again
reached over in the bed to give him a “love pat” but he still
wasn’t there. It was a horrible feeling! Somehow in my
spirit I knew too much time had elapsed and that something
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and told me something was wrong, so I called out,
“Charles, where are you?”
“I’m in the bathroom,” came his weak answer.
I said, “What are you doing in there?”
He very calmly replied, “I’m sitting on the floor.”
The minute he said, “Sitting on the floor,” I knew
something was wrong! Charles’ normal behavior does not
include sitting on the bathroom floor! In spite of the painful
bursitis, it is amazing the strength the Holy Spirit or angels
gave me, so I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom.
When I say I ran into the bathroom, that is a very poor
description of what I actually did. The bursitis was so
painful I had to hang onto every piece of furniture between
my side of the bed and the bathroom to even get there, but
God increased my adrenaline enough for me to make it!
When I saw Charles, I could not believe my eyes! He
was sitting on the floor in a totally dazed condition, Blood
was squirting from his head and covering his pajamas, the
rugs, and the floor!
I screamed, “What happened?”
He answered, “I remember falling and my head hitting
the floor, but that’s all.”
I asked, “Can you roll over on your hands and knees
and crawl back to bed after I get this blood cleaned up?”
I didn’t know how I was going to get it cleaned up
because I couldn’t even bend over myself.
He tried to get on his knees but he couldn’t even lift the
fingers of his left hand.
He couldn’t move anything except for a little wiggle in
one finger. He didn’t know what damage had been done to
his spine!
Normally I am the type of person who knows
immediately what to do in a situation like this, but I really
fell apart and said, “Charles, what shall we do? I can’t carry
you back to bed!
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 Then I said, “Should I call 911?”
Then I said, “Should I call the hospital?”
We had no idea what to do because I couldn’t walk with
the horrible bursitis in my hip, and Charles certainly
couldn’t walk, and there was no way I could get him back
to bed!
At exactly the same moment, both of us put in a 911
call to heaven. We only said two words, “Jesus, help!”
I would like to tell you what happened next... but I
can’t.
I have no recollection of getting the blood off of
Charles! I did not clean up the floor because I was totally
incapable of doing that, but the next thing either of us
remember was that the next morning we awoke at the same
time and both of us were in bed. I said to Charles, “How
did you get in bed?”
He said, “I don’t know. How did you get in bed?”
I said, “I don’t know.”
We looked at the bed. We looked at the floor. We got
up and looked at the bathroom and there was not a sign of
blood anywhere.
How did that happen?
There is only one answer!
We believe with our hearts and souls that an angel
picked us both up; put us back in our bed and washed the
blood off Charles and cleaned up the rest of the mess for us.
The only thing he had showing the next morning was a
badly skinned head and the blackest eye we have ever seen
in all of our life!
Praise the Lord that He gives His angels charge over us
- even an extra love touch in cleaning the house for us!
Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
even the Most High, your habitation, No evil shall befall
you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep
you in all your ways (Psalm 91:9-12).

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An Invisible Orchestra
By Charles
Will angels be visible to more of the body of Christ in
the end-time church than in the early church? About one-
third of all mentions of angels in the Bible is in the book of
Revelation, and we believe that is the day in which we are
now living!
In recent years hundreds of people have come to us with
testimonies of seeing angels or having had visits by angels.
The exciting thing about some of these witnesses is that we
have seen the angels appear in the same place they tell of
seeing them, and they describe the angels exactly as we
have seen them. God does confirm His word by many
witnesses.
Shortly after we received the baptism with the Holy
Spirit, we were ministering in a miracle service in Austin,
Texas. Frances and I, the worship leader and another man
were on the stage of the auditorium. During the beautiful
worship, Frances turned to the worship leader and said,
“Will you lead us in singing in the Spirit?” He looked
rather shocked that she would make such an earthly request
for such a heavenly act as singing in the Spirit. A lot of
Spirit-filled believers had not yet discovered you can sing
in the Spirit at any time, and do not have to wait until the
“Spirit comes on you!”
Just before the worship leader started to lead the singing
in tongues, we heard a sound which made us both instantly
turn toward the piano.
Coming from that direction, we heard what sounded
like a thousand piece orchestra tuning their instruments just
before a concert. But – the piano bench was empty and a
guitar was resting beside the bench! The volume began to
intensify as they seemed ready for the downbeat of the
orchestra leader, Then simultaneously with the worship
leader starting to sing in the Spirit, the whole invisible
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orchestra played in harmony with this beautiful singing in
tongues. We heard the music of a thousand angels and it
was awesome!

Angels in Witnessing
By Charles and Frances
Angels have a multifaceted job, and to make a job
description of all the things they do would be very difficult.
We just try to be ready for whatever happens when they
make an appearance!
At all times there is a burning desire in our hearts for
people to witness for Jesus! Over the years, this is one of
the subjects we have brought up at almost every one of our
services. We are always amazed because so many people
have a genuine fear of witnessing – fear of rejection or
failure,
A young man recently said to me,
“There may be a million reasons why
people don’t witness for Jesus but here
are the three most popular ones.
“The first reason is that Christians do
not have a real concept of what heaven
and hell are. The Bible tells us that
heaven is where we will see Jesus face to
face. It is a beautiful place where there
will be no sickness or poverty. However,
since we may be living a real good life
here, it’s possible just the idea of heaven
will not encourage us to tell people about
Jesus.”
If we really understand what hell is
like, it will encourage us to share Jesus
with everybody we meet. We should
visualize hell and envision our own
mother there because we didn’t talk to
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her about Jesus. (I have often said that
God gave me a vision of what hell was
like the day I got saved and that is why I
don’t want anyone to go there!)
He continued,
“We know we are not allowed to kill,
lie, steal, have sex outside of marriage.
Those are God’s commandments, But
Jesus’ last commandment is the Great
Commission, He said we are to into all
the world and preach the gospel to every
creature. “If we take this commandment
to heart and witness in every opportunity
to everyone we meet, we will be fulfilling
the number one commandment. “And
you shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, with all
your mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the First commandment. And the
second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself There is no other
commandment greater than these”(Mark
12:30,31),
“The second reason for not witnessing
is that we have not taken this as a
commandment. We have taken it as a
suggestion. Many people say, ‘I’m not
called to be an evangelist.’ Jesus was
sent to earth for one purpose, ‘to save
the lost.’ He gave His life in a horrible
way to provide for us a way to come into
a relationship with God, His last
instructions to His disciples whom He left
in charge just before He went back to
heaven was to ‘preach the gospel to
every creature” (Mark 16:15). It is our
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 responsibility as soon as we are saved to
tell somebody about our experience no
matter how we say it. The apostle Paul
wrote, That if you confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your
heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved (Rom. 10:9).
“Remember the rich man who went to
hell? It wasn’t until he got to hell that he
had a heart for missions. Once he was
there he said to Abraham, ‘Why don‘t you
send people to my relatives?’ Isn’t it a
shame for someone to have to go to hell
before becoming mission minded?
“The third hindrance to witnessing is
devil-instigated fear, The Bible tells us
that there is no fear in love; but perfect
love casts out fear (I John 4:18). The fear
of rejection and of failure causes even
long-time seasoned Christians to literally
‘freeze up’ when an opportunity
confronts them.” Jesus’ command:
‘Preach the gospel to every creature.”
“FEAR!” is the response of so many Christians.
During a meeting in Massachusetts, I was teaching the
people to start witnessing without fear. At God’s leading, I
commanded the spirit of fear to come out of every person
there and for a spirit of boldness to come into everyone!
Then,.,
Standing in military-like formation, shoulder-to-
shoulder along both sides and across the back of the
auditorium appeared rows of giant angels dressed like
warriors! It was a formidable sight because the angels were
pressed so tightly against one another that nothing could
possibly get through that wall of warriors! Both of us saw
this clearly!
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 Then God gave me a prophetic message for the peoples
“Don’t be afraid to talk about Jesus and the gospel, because
when you are doing this, you will never be alone. One of
these giant angels will be with you!”
Isn’t it extraordinary to know we don’t have to entertain
fear when we witness for God? There is a huge angel
standing there with us!
Look around you just might see him!

Angels Calling The People

By Frances
“Look at all those angels standing on the roof of the
church!” I exclaimed as we drove from the airport in Fargo,
North Dakota, to the First Assembly Of God Church where
we were to start a Healing Explosion. “Look! Look! Look!
There are angels standing on all four sides of that church!
There are angels stationed all the way around the roof and
they’re all blowing trumpets, calling people in from the
North, the South, the East and the West! Isn’t that
exciting!” The church building has a flat roof and in the
spirit I could see all four sides at one time.
The pastor who was driving said, “That really sends
goose pimples up and down my spine because just this
morning in the prayer meeting we asked God to bring them
in from the North, South, East and West for the Healing
Explosion! This confirms what we prayed this morning!”
When the time came for the Healing Explosion to start,
God’s angels had blown those trumpets so clearly that
people streamed in from all four directions, For the first
time in the history of the city of Fargo, they had a traffic
jam! Fargo is not a really big city but so many thousands of
people came to the Healing Explosion they had to park their
cars in the surrounding cornfields!
When angels get busy on their trumpets – watch out
things happen!
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Angel Touches The Unsaved Man
By Charles
Accepting an invitation to a wedding can bring
unexpected surprises! Shortly before it was time for the
ceremony to start, a man brought his badly crippled wife
into the foyer of the church. She was moaning because she
was in such excruciating pain from a bad back problem,
and we immediately began to minister healing to her in
Jesus’ Name!
The wedding was scheduled to start, but the woman
wasn’t completely healed. God had put her in traction, and
it took about ten minutes for the total healing to manifest.
She was so excited she was rejoicing! We couldn’t blame
her for that, but this delay made the groom extremely
nervous. We told him that we knew in our hearts God
wanted to finish the miracle first, He agreed, and the lady
was then totally healed of months of agonizing pain! The
lady got her miracle and the wedding began.
Something very supernatural happened while the
minister was conducting the wedding, and I asked him if I
could interrupt for a moment. The bride and groom were
facing us as we faced the audience, I told the people who
had come to share in the blessing of this couple, that it was
an unusual wedding because the giant angel whom God had
stationed with us was standing directly in back of the bride
and groom, facing us. Then he moved to my right, and then
back to Frances’ side.
At that time, I had never seen this angel nor any of the
large angels, but God has given me the ability in the spirit
to tell exactly where the angel is and to know his
movements.
Frances took the microphone and said, “Charles
described him perfectly,” (she saw him as plainly as she
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there,
That man accepted Jesus that night after the wedding!
Who wouldn’t get saved after being touched by an angel!?!

Angel Confronts A Backslidden

Pastor
By Frances
During the worship period of an awesome meeting, as I
looked out in the congregation, I saw our angel leaning
over a man. Instantly I knew something supernatural was
going to happen. I was wrapped up with anticipation, and as
soon as we stopped singing, I said to the audience, “Praise
the Lord, an angel is here tonight and he is ministering to a
man in the audience,” Mentioning the approximate area
where the angel was, everyone turned around to see if they
could catch a glimpse of the angel. Shortly after this, the
angel disappeared. Apparently he had done his work and
then had vanished!
When the service was over, I heard the most amazing
story! The man to whom the angel had ministered was a
backslidden pastor! He had left his wife, ran off with his
secretary, but apparently an angel brought him into our
meeting. Angels have ways that they can urge or prompt
you to do something according to God’s will and timing.
He said the angel ministered to him, encouraging and
strengthening him to make a decision to give his heart back
to Jesus that night and to return to his wife...and that’s just
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“Business” Angels

By Charles
The subject of angels is fascinating to teach in a Bible
school. Several years ago I got up early one morning and
studied as much as I could about angels since I was
teaching on that subject. I said, “God, why can’t we ‘shift
gears’ as though it were and see into the angel realm and
see their activities?” This was just a thought- prayer and I
didn’t say anything to Frances about it.
As we passed a small shopping area while driving from
our home to the teaching center Frances said, “Charles, do
you see all those angels out there today?”
I tried to see them but reluctantly said, “No.”
She calmly said, “They must really have a busy day
scheduled because they are rushing along carrying
something. It looks like a huge briefcase as if they are
headed on a mission somewhere.” They were just above
ground level!
God has blessed her to allow her to see into the spirit
realm. She can often see angels as though she is
turning on a television set, She sometimes says, “I just
back up in the spirit” and really she is saying, “I’ll block
out my normal thinking and open my heart to see the
angels.” She said there were hundreds of these “business
angels” going to and fro about their work.
Aren’t you glad they are out there taking care of your
business for you?

Big Jesus

By Charles 
A number of years ago Frances developed a horseshoe
shaped tear in her eye and had to have a surgical procedure
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“ironed” the eye back together surgically! It was considered
a minor operation but they gave her very strict instructions
when she left the hospital. The doctor said, “You cannot
travel for at least a week. Your eye must heal completely
before you travel. You cannot allow anything to bump
against you because you could lose the sight in that eye if
you are not extremely careful.”
We had already scheduled speaking engagements in
San Diego and Fresno, California, which we knew I would
have to take alone. We could not cancel this because of our
commitment to God to be there,
Before I left, we went into the kitchen and were talking
about how we felt about being apart. God joined our hearts
together so perfectly when we were married that we can
hardly bear being apart even for a short time. I looked into
her eye and was shocked to see there was a solid pool of
blood! Panic hit our hearts as we remembered what the
doctor had told us, so I touched her eyes and we both
instantly cried out, “In Jesus’ Name!”
We called the emergency ward of the hospital and
talked to the doctor on duty that night. He asked if she
could still see out of her eye. He instructed her to close the
other eye and test it to see if the sight was still there. We
were both relieved when we discovered her sight was there!
The doctor told us it was most likely a ruptured vessel and
would be all right!
That was wonderful to hear, but we still had a lot of
concern and trepidation in our hearts about the condition of
her eye, remembering that the doctors had said if the eye
tore in a complete circle she could be totally blind in that
eye.
Regardless of this, we knew we had to fulfill our
commitment to God! The next morning, after reluctantly
kissing my beloved good-bye, I went to the airport to fly to
San Diego for our first three-day engagement, feeling as
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 I prayed and fasted for three days, drawing very close to
God. There was nothing on my mind except what I was
doing for God and what He was doing for my beloved
during our separation. Even that short period of time
seemed like an eternity to me.
At the end of the three days I flew to Fresno, California.
Frances had healed sufficiently by that time, so the surgeon
gave her permission to travel. She met me in Fresno for
another three-day crusade, wearing dark glasses.
In our first service, the two of us, the pastor, his wife
and the worship team were on the stage during the praise
and worship.
Suddenly an amazing miracle happened! There were
about two thousand people in the auditorium which was
approximately as tall as a three-story building. in the
twinkling of an eye, as if someone had suddenly turned on a
light switch, I saw two giant columns. They resembled
pictures I had seen of Samson in the temple.
As I looked at these columns, there appeared a giant
angel in front of each one of them. I looked at them with
utter astonishment. They appeared as giant men standing
with their feet on the floor with their heads almost touching
the three-story-high ceiling. The entire atmosphere was
charged with the supernatural energy of God!
Each angel was standing as if in military formation and
with a large spear, in military terms “at rest,” as if they
were guarding something or someone!
As I was looking at both of these giant angels, suddenly
my spirit was taken to the back of the auditorium and there
was a whole group of angels who looked as though they
were active in some other way. I didn’t understand what
they were doing but they were clearly visible.
Then as my spirit—mind began to seemingly “float”
over the auditorium, my attention became riveted on the
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 As I continued watching that scene, I saw a third great,
giant man with His feet on the floor and His head almost
touching the ceiling. And there stood Jesus! What an
awesome feeling it was to behold Jesus! My heart stood
still!
I couldn’t even think of angels any more because of the
glory of God on our Lord Jesus! As I watched this
spectacular vision, the spirits of each of those
approximately two thousand people suddenly left their
bodies like vapors and went right into the body of Jesus and
disappeared!
When they had totally disappeared into Jesus, the scene
again changed and the only way I can describe it is to say
that Jesus became as big as the universe. No longer was He
contained in the building where we were worshiping, He
was out of the limits of space! As I watched this huge
mighty Jesus, the powerful Son of God, this vision
suddenly changed dimension when Jesus, as big as the
universe, became small enough to go into each of the two
thousand people in the auditorium! Then He disappeared!
What a revelation! It was almost too overwhelming to
comprehend, but as I continued to watch, God spoke.
“When you are completely in Jesus, then Jesus will be
completely in you.”
The apostle Paul wrote, Colossians 1:27, Christ in you
the hope of glory.
God was showing me very clearly that “Christ in you is
the hope of glory” and also that Jesus lives in and through
each of His believers,
This is a never-to-be-forgotten miracle-vision of our
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Escorted To Heaven By Angels
By Charles
In 1968 God had drawn me like a magnet into a very
close walk with Jesus. My wife was dying and ultimately
died of cancer and I was spending huge amounts of time in
the Bible just loving God and Jesus. My only desire was to
love them more and more and to have a more intimate
relationship with them. I spent hundreds of hours, perhaps
even thousands, in the Bible during which time stories
about angels didn’t necessarily impress me that much
because that was not what I was focusing on at that time!
One thing that vividly impressed me, though, was when
a Christian dies angels escort them to heaven! They can
also escort you to places in the natural while you are alive.
Finally the beggar died and was carried by the angels
to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead
(Luke 16:22 TLB).
When my wife died, the head nurse was checking her
pulse and suddenly said, “She’s gone.” I replied, “Yes, I
know.” I actually saw her spirit, almost like a vapor, leave
her body and zoom up toward heaven. I knew instantly she
had died, but believe, just like the beggar in Luke 16:22,
that angels came and took her soul and spirit to heaven.
That night God again blessed me by letting me see her in a
vision, in heaven, singing in a choir.
In 1968, while this was happening in my life, I was
lying on a cot in the hospital room looking up to God and
praising Him. Earlier that night God had audibly spoken to
me through my hearing mechanism. That was a
phenomenal experience and I could hardly comprehend that
the Almighty God would speak to an ordinary person in a
huge city like Houston, Texas, Because He audibly spoke
to me, I was lying on the bed looking up to God and
thanking Him and praising Him for letting me have that
remarkable experience. I was awed by this. I said, “God,
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people in the Bible have heard you speak and have talked to
you and we know you always listen.”
While I was lying there, suddenly I looked up above me
and saw a body suspended in air about eighteen inches
above my physical body. As I began looking at this and
pondering about it, I could see through this body like
looking through a thin fog or cloud but I could clearly see
this body! It was the same size as me, it was the same shape
as me and when I looked at the face, it was my face!
As I was watching this phenomenal scene I said, “God,
you have taken my spirit out of my wide awake healthy
body and allowed me to see it!”
A great prayer warrior had said earlier that night, “I am
going to lift you up in the light of God in prayer.” She was
actually praying for my wife but she spoke that to me and it
sounded peculiar that she would be praying for me, but she
did. She said, “I am going into my bedroom and pray and
I’m going to lift you up into the light of God.” I thought
that was simply an expression – I didn’t realize it was God
moving in a special way that particular night.
I saw a vision of this lady whom I had never seen, with
her hands under my back lifting me up. When I got as high
as her arms would reach, suddenly an energy began to flow
through my body from my feet up to my head like repeated
waves of the sea. I was aware of this tremendous surge of
the power of God, and that I was ascending into the air. I
began to move upward, first slowly like a rocket taking off
and then suddenly I was going at a very, very rapid speed. I
didn’t feel any resistance from gravity or any other thing
but I could tell I was moving extremely fast through space.
While I was watching this, suddenly my “thinker”
moved from my head into that other body. The thinking
never changed from the way I was thinking while I was in
this human body but it continued in a normal way as I was
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 I didn’t realize it at the time, but now I am quite aware
that the Bible says in Hebrews 4:12 (KJV), For the word of
God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two—
edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit...
Later I realized what God was doing. He had taken my
spirit out of my wide awake healthy body and then took my
soul out to join my spirit and I began to move upward at
this rapid rate. I didn’t see anything as I was going, but it
was as though I was able to see, yet not see. It seemed like
six or seven seconds passed until suddenly my spirit and
soul stopped and as I looked, the whole sky, which is
normally blue or cloudy, was absolutely the most beautiful
golden sky I had ever seen. It was far more pure than any
gold that I had ever looked at on earth.
I only stayed in the glory of the light of God as far as
my mind comprehended another six or seven seconds when
suddenly my body began to descend. It didn’t fall but was
lowered by an unseen force, just like when I went up, and
was moving rapidly back down to earth, When I got just a
little above my earthly body it was like I hit an air pocket
and my spirit and soul entered back into my physical body
and I was aware that I was back to my normal h man self,
My mind continued to think just as it always ad and then I
began to realize God had taken me on a journey to heaven
and allowed me to see all of this supernatural experience,
held in the marvelous light of God!
I had been escorted on a round trip journey to heaven!
When I understood that angels have the capability of
escorting your soul and spirit, I realized that these were
angels who escorted my soul and spirit up into the portals
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 Chapter 10
Entertaining
Angels Unaware
By Frances

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing

some have unwittingly entertained angels (Hebrews 13:2).
A heavenly angelic encounter can redirect your entire
life and change your plans forever!
One such meeting, which happened to me, has affected
Charles’ and my life and possibly the lives of the entire
world! Surprisingly, it occurred over a luncheon table in a
very small town in Missouri.
Several of our special friends had flown in to minister
with us in a series of meetings. Our planes had all arrived at
an early hour, so we were thrilled to be able to have lunch
together. It was a typical small town restaurant. Good home
—cooked food but not a lot of atmosphere! There were ten
or twelve of us at the table, and the excitement was at a
very high pitch as we were all sharing the miracles God had
been doing in our lives. We were anticipating all kinds of
Holy Spirit happenings in the upcoming meetings.
We had been seated for just a few moments when a man
completely unknown to me walked up to the table and said,
“May I join you?” I answered, “Yes,” because he spoke
directly to me. He then sat down at the end of our table.
Charles was sitting next to me at the side of the table and
the stranger sat at the end of the table next to Charles. I
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 Just for a moment it struck me as being a little peculiar
that the stranger began to talk to me. He didn’t say, “Hello,”
or even speak to any of the others at the table. He didn’t
even indicate that he was aware of anyone else being at the
table, including Charles, but focused his attention solely on
me.
To help you better understand what occurred next, I
want to explain that I was one of those Jesus fanatics from
the word “go!” The day I got saved, I had a violent never—
to—be--forgotten encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ!
When I say “violent,” I don’t mean I cried or rolled on the
floor or anything as dramatic as that, but when I met Him it
was a dynamic personal encounter that impacted my life
forever and ever and ever! I had walked into church with
the smell of cigarettes on my breath and alcohol in my
body, but with a determination in my heart that morning
that I was not going to leave that church until I knew that I
knew, that I knew, that I knew that Jesus Christ was actually
living in my heart!
I had a most unusual encounter with God in a hospital
room several months earlier when God’s finger, dipped in
the brilliant red blood of Jesus, wrote five words in my
Bible which are emblazoned on my heart even today:
“Frances Gardner (that was my name then), I love you!”
Those five precious, never-to-be-forgotten words changed
my life forever and ever! But it was about nine months later
that I made a momentous decision before I went to church
that I was not going to walk out of that church until I knew
beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ, the Son of
the living God, was actually living in my heart!
When that dramatic moment came and I knew Jesus had
taken up residence in my heart, I experienced an
instantaneous changeover from a wild sinner to a saint of
God! In the depths of my heart, somehow I knew that
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buried in the deepest sea never to be remembered again! I
was totally set free at the ripe old age of forty—nine!
I couldn’t wait to get out of the church because there
was such a compelling force burning within me from the
split second when I asked God to forgive my sins and Jesus
to come into my heart, that drove me to want to tell
everybody I saw about the saving grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ!
I stopped at every store that was open! People thought I
had lost my mind because all I wanted to do was talk about
Jesus! I had lost my mind – now I possessed the mind of
Christ! My only desire was to bring everyone I knew into
the kingdom of God. I walked out of church that day and
said, “God, I’ve got to win the whole world to Jesus
because nobody is talking about Him!’
Little did I know that some day Charles and I would be
called by God to coordinate a World Evangelistic Census
where, as Jesus said, the gospel will be preached to every
creature.
The reason I felt this way and burned with such an
intensity in my whole being to share the gospel of salvation
was because no one had ever shared the gospel with me
until I was forty—eight years of age!
I had gone to church all my life. I had done all the
“things” people involved in “churchianity” do, but there
had never been that personal confrontation with Jesus. Up
until that time, no one had ever asked me if I had ever met
Jesus, if I knew Jesus, or whether I was saved.
However, there was a day when I walked up on the
porch of the church where I eventually got saved, that a girl
said to me, “Hi, Frances! When did you get saved?”
There was something about that word ‘saved” that
stuck a knife right into the innermost depths of my heart. I
didn’t even know what it meant. So I asked, “Saved from
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penetrated the core of my very being, and unknown to me,
convicted me.
So when I knew that I knew that I was saved, I took off
determined that the whole world was going to get saved. I
didn’t care what I had to do to accomplish this impossible
task but I knew somehow or other that I had to do it!
As a result of this drive within me, which has never
ceased or even cooled down, I have been known as a soul
winner wherever I go. My second book, Go, Man, Go! was
strictly about witnessing and was written at a time when I
didn’t really even know how to witness, but I was still
leading a lot of people to Jesus.
Since then, my zeal for winning souls has only
increased! Because of this consuming drive, I believe God
planned a very special encounter for me in that little
Missouri restaurant.
The stranger who sat at our table was very interesting in
that he was dressed in a nondescript way. There was
nothing outstanding about his clothing that I could
remember, and I vaguely remembered his facial
characteristics later. The one thing I do recall quite clearly,
though, was the compelling personality he had! When he
began to talk to me, I could not hear or listen to anyone
else! There was a supernatural drawing to this individual
whom I had never met before.
Our conversation started in a very interesting manner.
He said, “Frances, I know about your reputation for being a
tremendous soul winner and I want to show you a new way
to win people to Jesus,”
Although I did not recognize this man, I assumed he
was a pastor or a friend of the pastor, so I responded, “Tell
me!” I’m always interested in whatever will bring people
into the kingdom of God, whether it’s an altar call, a one-
to-one basis, or however it is, so my attention was riveted
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 His answer, however, was not exactly what I had
expected at all because he said, “Do you see that waitress
over there?”
I answered, “Yes.”
He said, ‘She’s going to come over here and the very
first thing she’s going to say is, ‘What would you like to
drink?”
That’s a well-known approach, because that’s the first
thing every waitress or waiter asks when you sit down at a
table in a restaurant. They never ask first for your food
order; they always ask for your drink order first.
This man obviously knew she was going to be like
every other waitress in every other restaurant and he said,
“When she says that to me, I’m going to answer, ‘Water.’
Then I’m going to ask, ‘Now may I ask you a question?’
Her answer will be, ‘Yes.’
“I will say to her, ‘Do you know there are two kinds of
beautiful waitresses in this restaurant?’
“She is going to reply, ‘Really?’
“Then I’m going to say, ‘Yes, those who are saved and
those who are about to be. Which one are you?”
Without one second of time passing, something literally
exploded on the inside of me! From the minute the stranger
started to talk, I never took my eyes off him, nor could I
hear the other conversations going on at our table. It was
sort of a situation of, ‘Just you and me, brother, and I don’t
even know who you are!” When he said, “Those who are
saved and those who are about to be,” something happened
within me that I absolutely cannot explain.
Without any question or doubt in my mind, without
even trying it the first time, I saw that this was a “win/ win”
situation where there was no way you could lose. If the
person was already saved, you would say, “Praise the Lord!
That makes you my brother (or sister)!” and if they were
not saved, you’ve given them no other choice than to give
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 There are all different kinds of people in the world, and
I think it’s wonderful that God didn’t make us little carbon
copies of one another. He made each and every one of us
individual, distinct and different in our approach to life. I
happen to be one of those who is a real “eager beaver.” I’m
not the type who says, “Well, let me see you do it and then
let me see you do it fifty more times, then maybe I’ll have
the courage to try it,”
The minute I hear something that strikes me as being
exciting or outstanding, I want to try it right away! Because
this had so touched my heart, so electrified me, I couldn’t
wait to get started! As soon as he paused, I exclaimed, “Let
me do it! Let me do it! Let me do it!” I didn’t even want to
wait to see him do it because something in my spirit had so
leaped within me that I knew instantly this was an
incredibly effective way to win people to Jesus. Certainly it
was the simplest, easiest way I had ever heard or seen.
He very softly said, “Okay.”
When the waitress came up to me and asked what I
wanted to drink, I ordered water and then said, “May I ask
you a question?”
She said, “Yes.”
I said, “Do you know there are two kinds of beautiful
waitresses in this restaurant?” Please note that I said exactly
word—for--word what the man had said. I later understood
why I did that.
The waitress said, “Really?” (just like he said she
would!)
Then I said, “Yes! Those who are saved and those who
are about to be. Which one are you?”
Without any instruction from the man at the table, I
looked directly at the waitress, never taking my eyes off
her, and put on my very best smile, because somehow or
other I knew it was going to work even though I wasn’t
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 The Holy Spirit fell in a way that words cannot
describe, It was as if the waitress and I were enveloped in a
special supernatural sack, where everyone else was
excluded except the two of us. The presence and power of
God was incredible.
I did not say another word. I just waited until she
answered and her answer was certainly a shock to me!
She immediately burst into tears, “Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo
Boo-hoot” crying so loud she could be heard throughout the
entire restaurant. Then she stopped and immediately said,
“I’m about to be!”
I guess I hadn’t thought far enough ahead because all I
wanted to do was to try this new method of soul winning. I
was really prepared for an answer but I certainly wasn’t
prepared for such a spontaneous, emotional reply as this.
But, praise the Lord, we possess the mind of Christ and
He’s always there to tell us what to do in any situation!
I grabbed the waitress’s hand so she couldn’t get away
from me and immediately said, ‘Repeat this after me:
Father, forgive my sins.” Without questioning me at all, she
said, “Father, forgive my sins.”
Then I continued, “Jesus, come into my heart and save
me.”
She repeated, “Jesus, come into my heart and save me.
I said, “Thank You, Jesus for saving me!”
She replied, “Thank You, Jesus for saving me!”
Then I instantly asked her the most important question
of all, “Where is Jesus right now?” She burst into tears
again and said, “In my heart!”
She gave the answer which so many people who have
gone to church for many, many years do not understand,
and that is the principle of what Paul preached, “Christ in
you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
Her answer was so fast that there was absolutely no
question in her mind whatsoever that Jesus Christ had come
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hard that she had to go back to the kitchen where she cried
for ten more minutes before she returned to take our order!
As soon as this had happened, the man who taught me
this said, “I have another appointment and need to go now.
Would you mind if I left?”
I said, “No, but thank you so much for sharing this with
me because I think it’s tremendous!”
I remember that as I watched him get up and walk
toward the door of the restaurant, I had the most unusual
feeling when he left my presence, as though he was not an
ordinary person. Wondering whether he was a famous
evangelist or perhaps a pastor with a really special
anointing, I turned to the pastor sitting across the table from
me and asked, “Who was that man?”
The pastor answered, “What man?”
I said, “The man I was just talking to at the end of the
table,”
He replied, “I didn’t see anybody.”
I said, “The man who told me how to do ‘There Are
Two Kinds of...”
The pastor answered, “I didn’t hear anybody. I thought
that was your idea.”
“No,” I said, “it wasn’t my idea at all. That man told me
exactly what to do.”
Again he replied, “I didn’t see anybody!”
I turned to Charles, who was sitting right next to me,
between the man I’d talked to and me and asked, “Charles,
do you know that man?”
Again I heard the words, “What man? I didn’t see
anybody.”
“The man I was talking to.” By this time I was really
puzzled.
Charles answered, “I didn’t hear anybody.”
I turned to the people at the other end of the table
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 I asked, “Do any of you know who that man was who
told me how to do, ‘There Are Two Kinds of...’?” Of all the
people at the table, only two others thought they saw
someone but no one heard him speaking except me.
I didn’t really think too much about this except that this
encounter had so turned me on that I got up from the table
and said, “I have to find the rest of the waitresses, the
cashier, the cooks, let me get the busboys! This is the
easiest and most awesome way to win people to Jesus I’ve
ever seen!” I just exploded right there in the restaurant.
They had heard me speak to the first waitress and they
all thought it was an absolutely wonderful idea, so all of us
started using this method immediately with awesome
results.
We collectively decided, because of the success of this
simple little soul—winning tool, to eat at different
restaurants the entire time we were there so that we could
get all of the waiters and waitresses in town saved! We
shared it in the church that night and told them to go out
and do the same thing and the results were incredible.
The telephone lines were really busy for the next few
weeks because all of us who had sat at that especially
anointed luncheon table were saying, “There are two kinds
of... to everybody we met, and everyone was having exactly
the same wonderful success.
Every time they called, I would say again, “Are you
sure you don’t know who that man was?” And their answer,
of course, was always the same. We didn’t see him or the
two that thought they saw him said they had absolutely no
idea who he was.
Charles started in our grocery store. We have a big
supermarket very close to where we live and where there
are a lot of bag boys. He would have them carry the
groceries out to the car and on the way out he would say,
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We always try to put a complimentary adjective in there
because that really gets their attention!
We have been thrilled to discover that about ninety-
five of the possibly one hundred bag boys who were
working in the store at that time gave the same response.
“Really?”
Then Charles would tell them and they would say,
“Well, I’m the one who is about to be.” We had such an
exciting time that we got to the point where we wouldn’t
even carry a quart of milk out without a bag boy because
that was just one more opportunity to win a soul to Jesus.
A lady came into our office recently and said, “So me-
thing just happened at a grocery store that I have got to
share with you because it must be the store where Charles
and Frances Hunter shop.” She continued, “As I was
checking out, the bag boy was singing and looked like the
happiest person in the world. I said to him, ‘You are really
happy.’
“He answered, ‘Yes! Some “old man” came in here a
week ago and I got saved and I’ve been happy ever since!’
This really impressed the lady, but she was even more
impressed when a young man two counters down said, “Did
that ‘old man’ get you too? He got me about a month ago
and it changed my life when I got saved!”
Charles didn’t mind being called “an old man” when it
brings someone into the kingdom of God.
We have shared this exciting method around the United
States and some people have really caught the vision of
what the man said. Some friends of ours have done an
incredible job, and one of my favorite stories of theirs has a
real element of surprise!
A telephone call can be a very interesting opportunity.
This friend of ours answered the telephone and obviously
the person calling didn’t recognize her voice. He said, “I’m
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 She quickly answered, “No, you got the right number
but there are two kinds of people who think they dialed the
wrong number; those who are saved and those who are
about to be which are you?”
“I guess I’m about to be because nobody ever asked me
that question before,” the man replied. He prayed with her
asking Jesus to come into his heart and was very grateful.
He profoundly thanked her over and over again for asking
him that “two kinds” of question.
We challenge you to take advantage of every
opportunity (every person) who comes before you! Jesus
said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature, “and He also said to start in Jerusalem, your home
town.
As we were writing this book we went to have a quick
dinner at a local fast-food place. We were waiting for our
order when a little four-year-old girl walked up to our table
and asked, “Do you know Jesus?”
“Yes,” I replied with a smile, “Do you know Him?”
She said, ‘Yes.
I asked, “Do you love Him like I do?”
And she replied, “Yes, I love Him very much.”
While this conversation was going on, a young lady
came up to Charles and said, “I am the waitress here, so if
there is anything you need after you pick up your order, I’ll
be very glad to get it for you.” She added, “Is there
anything I can do for you right now?”
Charles said, “Yes, You can answer this question. Do
you know there are two kinds of beautiful waitresses in this
restaurant? Those who are saved and those who are about to
be, which are you?” There was no hesitation whatsoever.
She simply said, “I’m about to be,” so she prayed the
sinner’s prayer.
The lady at the next table overheard us and said, “I
couldn’t help but hear that Name. I want to talk to you
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She had no more than gotten these words out of her mouth
when this same waitress came back with a young man.
She said, “Would you please give him what you gave
me because he needs it, too.” So Charles asked the young
man the question and he accepted Jesus as his Savior and
Lord.
By this time, the conversation on our side of the
restaurant was about Jesus, so we were really having an
exciting time although we hardly had the opportunity to eat
any of our dinner (who cares?).
Soon the same waitress came back again. “I’ve got
another one for you. Would you give to him what you gave
to me because he really needs it. He stole my tip
yesterday!”
The thing that excited us so much was the fact that
when that one girl got the message she became an instant
disciple! When we left she said, “Please come back to
dinner again real soon because there’s a lot of them in here
that I would like to bring over to you!”
If we could just get one person like that at each of our
churches, wouldn’t it be exciting... especially if that one
person was YOU!
Because Charles likes to use the name of Jesus (which
is wonderful) he started sayings “Those who have accepted
Jesus and those who are about to.” This worked, but not
nearly as well as when we said, “Those who are saved and
those who are about to be,” And yet, there is so much
power in the name of Jesus that Charles said, “I really think
that gives it more credibility when you say the name of
Jesus.” He continued for a time saying it that way, and
while he led many people to Jesus, he did not have the
success he could have had and should have had.
We were discussing this with a pastor in the state of
Colorado, and I was telling him about the unusual
characteristics of the man who told me about “There are
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to me. I said that I really wished I could find out who he
was so I could thank him.
I also mentioned to the pastor about Charles changing it
to, “Those who have accepted Jesus...” and my saying,
“Those who are saved...” He looked at me and said words
that sent mountain-size shivers up and down my spine,
“Did it ever dawn on you that it was an angel bringing you
God’s special end-time revival message? That’s the reason
it has been so successful because it came straight from
God!” He continued, “I wouldn’t change one word the
angel said!”
The realization of the truth of what he had said was like
a bombshell exploding! I looked at Charles and exclaimed,
“IT WAS AN ANGEL!”
Suddenly I understood why only two thought they saw
the man and why no one heard him except me. It was an
angelic messenger God had sent directly to me to bring the
end—time revival message!
We all started saying, “Those who are saved and those
who are about to be...” and discovered without a doubt, it is
the most incredible way in the world to lead people to
Jesus. No wonder it was sent by God and personally
delivered by an angel!
Little did we realize that the angelic visitation we
received on an ordinary day in a little restaurant in
southeast Missouri would change not only our lives and our
way of witnessing but would change the world as well!
We immediately changed all of our World Evangelistic
Census packets to use the method brought by an angel. To
date over 125 million documented salvations have been
reported. That number is daily mounting as people all over
the world are excitedly knocking on doors and saying, “Do
you know there are two kinds of people.,.”
“Old” Birthdays can be The Most Exciting thing if the
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 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the
house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and
flourishing (Psalm 92:12-14).
Some birthdays are much more unusual than others! My
eighty-second birthday was one of those! I wanted
something special for my birthday, so I asked God to give
me 30 million souls!
We had seen the World Evangelistic Census go forward
in such tremendous leaps and bounds, so when 25 million
souls had been won to Jesus world-wide by the first of
April, 1998, I decided that surely we could get 30 million
by the beginning of May!
Reports came in every day and the totals climbed and
climbed and climbed. We had prayed and prayed, and the
salvations really came in, but the night before my birthday,
we were still 145,643 short of the 30 million! We called
everyone we knew and asked them to really pray that
somehow or another God would supernaturally send in the
salvations needed for my birthday.
Then we asked God to send angels out to bring in the
reports so that we would have it on my birthday!
Angels can move quickly so we knew they could do it
in a short period of time!
At bedtime we were still short of the 30 million, but
God answers prayers in the most incredible ways! Thank
God for faxes and e-mails in the world today! At 10:30 PM
we were abruptly awakened when we received a fax from
the coordinator in the Philippines with a partial report from
the eastern side of Region 6 showing 173,324 new souls
born into the kingdom of God. God not only gave us 30
million, He gave us exceedingly, abundantly above all that
we could ask or think! What rejoicing there was in our
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 Thank You, Father, that angels are special messengers
who bring good reports!

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 Chapter 11
End-Time Dreams,
Visions
and Angelic Visitations
By Frances

An angelic encounter can have eternal effects! Every

time I think about the angel at a luncheon table in Missouri
and what has happened as a result of that visitation, my
heart leaps with excitement!
Many other things have been tied into that angelic visit,
one of which was an end-time dream and vision.
Charles and I had gone to Terre Haute, Indiana, for a
meeting over the Memorial Day weekend. We had arrived
in the late part of the afternoon and, having had a no-food
flight, we decided to have a bite to eat before we went to
bed.
Once seated in the hotel dining room, we examined the
menu and noticed in the list of side dishes something that
caught my fancy. It simply said, “Mashed potatoes with
whole roasted garlic cloves.” That really grabbed my
attention because I had never seen that on a menu before.
Since both of us love garlic (but we can’t eat it too often
because of speaking dates!) we decided that, since it was
Saturday night and we didn’t have any meetings until
Sunday morning, it would be okay to eat it. So I ordered
mashed potatoes with whole garlic cloves. You might ask,
“How spiritual is garlic?”
The Jewish people ate leeks and garlic in Old
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you discover what happened as a result of our potent meal,
you might want to try some mashed potatoes and roasted
garlic cloves, too!
Shortly after eating, we went to bed because we wanted
to be sure we were totally refreshed for Sunday morning.
Sleep came over us very quickly and during the night I had
a dream, a very unusual dream!
Usually, when I dream, the dreams don’t make sense.
Since they don’t make sense while I’m dreaming them, I’m
never very concerned about the dreams which I have. This
particular night, though, I had a dream which will stay with
me as long as I live and it was not a garlic dream. It was a
godly message.
The dream started with Charles and I entering our office
one morning. This particular day we came in early, about
the same time that our staff was arriving, because we had a
tremendous work load staring u in the face that day. When
we walked through the door I saw and heard an unusual
thing!
All the telephones rang and the lines lit up at the same
time! In actuality there are six telephone lines coming into
our office, but in this dream we had increased them to ten
lines and all of them were lit up.
We have only eight other employees in the office and
the two of us make ten, so we knew when we saw the ten
lines lit up that we both had to answer a telephone. Charles
ran very quickly down to his office; I turned and went into
mine and picked up the telephone and got the shock of my
life!
The man on the telephone said, “We just ended an
evangelistic census in the country of , (some African nation
with which I was not familiar,) and 794,622 people were
saved!” I thought, Wow! This is really exciting! I didn’t
even know we had anyone working in that nation! When
people call in, we don’t just take down the figures, we
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who would like to throw the World Evangelistic Census off
by reporting false figures. I asked the gentleman for his
telephone number and asked him for a little more
information. He was so excited because when he first heard
about the census he said he wasn’t really too interested
because he didn’t think such a simple plan would work.
Then, he said the more he thought about it, the more he
talked to God about it, and the more he realized that this
was really God’s end-time message, the more excited he
became, particularly since the way to win people to Jesus
was brought by an angel directly from the throne room of
God. We had a little conversation, and the entire time I was
on the phone with him, I observed that all the other phone
lines continued to stay lit, As soon as one light went out, it
would immediately turn red again by another call coming
in.
When I finished the conversation, I was so excited I
could hardly wait to tell Charles! I thought, Wow! This is
really an awesome thing when you get a telephone call
from a country we weren’t even aware was involved in the
census! But I didn’t even get my telephone hung up before
it rang again. In my dream, I looked over toward my
secretary’s room and saw her foot stick out the door like
she was going to walk into my office but then it
disappeared when her phone rang.
This kept up all day long. All the telephone lines
continued to stay lit up. None of us could have made a call
out because there were no lines available, We wouldn’t
even have had time to make any calls because apparently
everybody was on the telephone the entire time. Every time
my secretary would start to come in to tell me something,
her phone would ring again and she would have to go back
in and answer it.
God’s Word says, “Not by might nor by power, but by
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we want to be walking in the spirit, we have to move when
God’s Spirit moves. So we stayed by the phones!
As the dream continued, I never got up from my desk,
and an amazing thing began to occur, The office was, of
course, in a state of confusion because everybody was
talking on the telephone and nobody got to share with
anyone else what was going on.
Suddenly I heard a tremendous roar outside the office.
Our office is in the country, and we have a little road that
runs in front of it where there is not a lot of traffic, But at
that moment I heard an unbelievable roar – and that’s
exactly what it was! a roar, a tremendously loud sound
coming down the street. It was coming closer and closer.
Strangely, I knew that the sound was not made by
automobiles or trucks because it wasn’t coming that fast but
it was advancing as though people were marching or
walking.
I could not get up from my desk to go see what it was
because I was on the telephone, and yet I continued to hear
this roar which kept escalating in volume. Before I even
had time to consider what it was, the front door of our
office burst open and in came what seemed like thousands
of people! We have both an office and a warehouse where
we store our books, and the funny thing is that the entire
building, including the warehouse, was suddenly and
completely filled with people.
There were thousands of faces, all shouting and yelling!
Each of them had their hands full of little white slips of
paper which I instantly recognized as being the forms that
we give out all over the world for people to sign when they
get saved. All the offices filled up rapidly with people and
suddenly, because there was no more room to stand in the
offices, people began climbing up on the desks! In the
spirit, even though I was sitting in my own office, I could
see into the warehouse and all the other offices and exactly
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around there were eight or ten people standing on my desk!
That’s a lot of people!
They were all shoving pieces of paper at me and yelling
and shouting, but I could tell that they were not an angry
mob but were people who were excited! They were so
excited about what was happening that they could hardly
contain themselves.
They utterly invaded our office! When the office got so
jammed that no one else could even attempt to squeeze in, I
happened to look out through one of the windows in my
office and saw crowds of people standing outside the
building all the way around. They were standing on one
another’s shoulders trying to see into my window, waving
little pieces of paper outside the window. The little pieces
of paper were all the slips telling the number of salvations
from various nations.
I can’t ever remember going through a day like that in
my entire life! All I know is that it was the most exciting
day I’d ever had, and even though I didn’t get to talk to
Charles or any of our office staff before the day was done, I
knew in my spirit that everything that was happening was
of God and was wonderful and exciting.
When the day finally ended and the people suddenly
disappeared, all of our employees ran into my office, They
were all talking at one time, each one saying exactly the
same thing about how many people had called. There was
no way that anyone had an opportunity to add up the totals
of the salvations, but everyone said the only phone calls
they took all day long were telling us about salvations,
Some of these were from nations we didn’t even know
existed, so we had to get the people to spell the name of
their country! The peculiar thing is that all the people who
called, even though they were from foreign nations, all
managed to speak English and communicate with us so we
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 When I awoke from the dream I could hardly contain
myself because it was so exciting. It had been so real that,
even as I write this, I can still see the faces of the people
who were standing on my desk. Then we found out later
that everybody in every office had people standing on their
desks too, because there wasn’t room to stand anywhere
else! The results were exactly the same from everybody.
Everyone was yelling and saying, “Oh, Frances! Look what
I’ve got! Look what I’ve got!” They were all showing me
nothing but Evangelistic Census reports.
I immediately began sharing with Charles and telling
him about what had happened in my dream. We both
decided that this was a visitation of the Holy Spirit in a
dream or possibly through an angel. Whatever His method
of speaking to us, we believed God was saying, “Get ready
for an explosion in the World Evangelistic Census because
this is what I’m going to do. Then when it’s over, Jesus will
be back and all will be ended!”
I could hardly wait to call our office on Monday
morning to tell our staff about the dream. In our spirits we
both knew that this was God preparing us to get ready
because He is going to do an outstanding work in the
Evangelistic Census.
When I called the office on Monday morning, the phone
was answered by our graphics man, who has been with us
for more than thirteen years. Normally he doesn’t answer
the telephone, but this particular morning, because this was
God’s plan, he answered. The first thing he said was not,
“How did the meeting go yesterday?” or anything like he
would normally ask. He simply said, “Frances, would you
like to hear a dream I had Saturday night?”
This, of course, shocked me since I’d had such an
unusual dream on Saturday night. I first responded, “Wait
until you hear the dream I had!” But then I politely replied,
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 He was really excited as he said, “You know I don’t
dream very often,” He had my attention because the same
thing is true of me, and in all the years he’s worked for us,
I’ve never heard him talk about any dream he’s had, He
went on, “I had the most unusual dream Saturday night. I
dreamed we moved our offices into a sixty story office
building, and our offices were on the top floor. I had to go
down to the first floor to take some work, so I got on the
elevator and pushed the button for the first floor, The
elevator started to move but suddenly it stopped at the fifty-
ninth floor.
“The doors opened and I never saw anything like it in
my life! The entire fifty-ninth floor of the building was
filled with thousands of people and they were all waving
these little slips of paper and shoving them at me because
they contained the names of people who had accepted
Jesus!” He continued, “I never saw so many people before
and never saw so many handfuls of these WEC forms as I
saw. The people were frantically waving them at me but
there was no way I could take them all! I thought, ‘What if
all these people try to get on the elevator? We’ll drop like a
stone!’ Somehow the people were prevented from getting
on the elevator. I pushed the button again and the doors
closed, but we stopped at the fifty-eighth floor this time!
When the elevator doors opened, it was exactly the same as
on the fifty-ninth floor!
“When the elevator doors opened, I saw that the whole
floor was full of people jammed together as tightly as
possible, waving thousands of little pieces of paper
showing the number of people who had been saved in the
various countries.” He said, “Somehow the people were
stopped from getting on the elevator by an invisible force,
but I never saw so much excitement and yelling and
carrying on!
“I pressed the button again, still trying to get to the first
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were on the fifty-seventh floor! It was exactly the same as
the previous floors! From there, the elevator stopped at
every floor from the top all the way to the first floor and it
was exactly the same every time the elevator doors slid
open,”
When I told him what I had dreamed, he responded that
God had said to him, “We need to prepare to enlarge in
order to take care of all the salvations that are coming in
through the World Evangelistic Census!”
If you will think back on both of these dreams, you will
realize that they are both exactly the same thing, just given
in a different manner!
I shared this at one of the church services and the pastor
came running up and said:
In 1984, in Louisiana, God awakened me in the middle
of a Wednesday night about 11:30 and while everyone was
in bed He spoke to me audibly. At first I was a little
frightened. I thought I was going crazy. I looked in the
kitchen to see if somebody was playing a game with me
and there was nobody there. My sons were in bed. My wife
was in bed.
“Again the voice came and said, ‘Get on the floor, I
want to talk to you.’ The Lord spoke to me audibly for
some time. That happened two nights in a row. The third
night He did the same thing, and then He gave me a vision.
I had never had a vision before or since like this. I have had
heart visions. I have had dreams that I knew were from the
Lord. I shook my head, opened my eyes, tried to get rid of
it but couldn’t. He wanted to show me something.
“The second night I think I left my body, the best I can
tell. I went above the earth and was standing in space
‘outside of time’ looking down at the earth, There was no
time involved, This was the first time I had been ‘outside of
time.’ I could feel the Lord standing close to me, but I
never turned to look at Him. I could feel Him there as He
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 “I would ask Him questions and He would answer. He
showed me a wave that billowed up at a certain point of the
earth. Picture looking at the earth. It billowed up and then it
started to move. On the front side of that wave there was a
cutting edge where great and mighty things take place. On
the back side there were millions of people getting saved,
“This wave which I called the wave of glory, went
around the entire world and He told me to tell everybody
about it.
“I was riding in the front of that wave. I saw people
getting legs who didn’t have legs, hands on people who
didn’t have hands, crippled bodies straighten up and all
kinds of incredible healings. People were preaching in bar
rooms, bowling alleys, people getting saved on the
sidewalks, miracles were happening.
“The third night God called me again. I got on my face.
Same thing. Same situation only this time He took me
behind the wave. On the back edge of the wave I saw boats
lined up. It would take at least three hours to tell you the
whole vision. That glory wave left a huge lake. Thousands
of boats were floating on that lake. These boats were lined
up nose to nose, side by side all the way around the earth,
There was no place where there wasn’t a boat. They were
everywhere. The people in boats were grabbing folks.
“These people were floundering in the water and that
was His glory! Some were drowning in it because they
refused help. People in the boats were reaching and
grabbing them by the hand, by the hair, by the face, by
anything they could get a hold of, pulling and throwing
them in the boats, kids, moms, dads, teenagers, just
throwing them in. These boats were full and the people
weren’t sitting orderly. You could see elbows, legs,
bottoms, heads!
“I was serious as I could be when I said, ‘Lord, those
boats are going to sink.’ That was my first thought when I
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sink.’ When you think they are full enough, there is always
room for more. You just keep on bringing the people in!”
As this wave went around the earth, the farther it got the
faster it got! When the wave of glory hit where it started, a
huge splash went into the air. As that gigantic water spout
went into the air, Jesus appeared, and that was the end!
Think about these three supernatural visitations. We
believe they are signals from the throne of God that the
days are here for which we have eagerly and earnestly
longed and of which the Bible says the saints in heaven are
envious! We believe in an incredible momentum of revival
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 Revelation
The New Jerusalem
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old
heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was
also gone. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven like a beautiful bride
prepared for her husband.
I heard a loud shout from the throne saying, “Look, the
home of God is now among his people! He will live with
them, and they will be his people. God himself with be with
them. He will remove all of theft sorrows, and there will be
no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old
world and its evils are gone forever.”
And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am
making all things new!” And then he said to me, ‘Write this
down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” And he
also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega -
the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will
give the springs of the water of life without charge! All
who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will
be theft God, and they will be my children. But cowards
who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt,
and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice
witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars - theft doom is
in the lake that bums with fire and sulphur. This is the
second death.”
Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls
containing the seven last plagues came and said to me,
“Come with me! I will show you the bride, the wife of the
Lamb.”
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 So he took me in spirit to a great, high mountain, and he
showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God. It was filled with the glory of God and
sparkled like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper. Its
walls were broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by
twelve angels. And the names of the twelve tribes of Israel
were written on the gates. There were three gates on each
side-east, north, south, and west. The wall of the city had
twelve foundation stones, and on them were written the
names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The angel who talked to me held in his hand a gold
measuring stick to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
When he measured it, he found it was a square, as wide as
it was long. In fact, it was in the form of a cube, for its
length and width and height were each 1,400 miles. Then
he measured the walls and found them to be 216 feet thick
(the angel used a standard human measure).
The wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure
gold, as clear as glass. The wall of the city was built on
foundation stones inlaid with twelve gems: the first was
jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth
emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carneian, the seventh
chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth
chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
The twelve gates were made of pearls – each gate from
a single pearl! And the main street was pure gold, as clear
as glass.
No temple – c ould be seen in the city, for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no
need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the
city, and the Lamb is its light. The nations of the earth will
walk in its light, and the rulers of the world will come and
bring their glory to it. Its gates never close at the end of day
because there is no night. And all the nations will bring
their glory and honor into the city. Nothing evil will be
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and dishonesty – but only those whose names are written in
the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And the angel showed me a pure river with the water of
life, clear as crystal, owing from the throne of God and of
the Lamb, coursing down the center of the main street. On
each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve
crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves
were used for medicine to heal the nations.
No longer will anything be cursed. For the throne of
God and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will
worship him. And they will see his face, and his name will
be written on their foreheads. And there will be no night
there—no need for lamps or sun – for the Lord God will
shine on them. And they will reign forever and ever.
Then the angel said to me, “These words are
trustworthy and true:
‘The Lord God, who tells his prophets what the future
holds, has sent his angel to tell you what will happen soon.”

Jesus is Coming
Look, I am coming soon! Blessed are those who obey
the prophecy written in this scroll.”
I, John, am the one who saw and heard all these things.
And when I saw and heard these things, I fell down to
worship the angel who showed them to me. But again he
said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just
like you and your brothers the prophets, as well as all who
obey what is written in the scroll. Worship God!”
Then he instructed me, “Do not seal up the prophetic
words you have written, for the time is near. Let the one
who is doing wrong continue to do wrong; the one who is
vile, continue to be vile; the one who is good, continue to
do good; and the one who is holy, continue in holiness.”
See, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to
repay all according to their deeds. I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
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 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can
enter through the gates or the city and eat the fruit from the
tree of life. Outside the city are the dogs - the sorcerers, the
sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and
all who love to live a lie.
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this message
for the churches. I am both the source of David and the heir
to his throne. I am the bright morning star.”
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let each one who
hears them say, “Come.” Let the thirsty ones come - anyone
who wants to. Let them come and drink the water of life
without charge. And I solemnly declare to everyone who
hears the prophetic words of this book: If anyone adds
anything to what is written here, God will add to that
person the plagues described in this book. And if anyone
removes any of the words of this prophetic book, God will
remove that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy
city that are described in this book. who is the faithful
witness to all these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!”

Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

The Grace of the Lord Jesus be with

you All
(Revelation 21, 22 NLT)

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