Angels of Life, and Angels of Death
JOB 33:21-25 This is Elihu speaking after Jobs 3 friends had finished all their discourses – Elihu represents Christ.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. (Describing a man that is sick and undernourished)
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. (This word destroyers = to die prematurely by neglect of wise moral conduct – we have all seen how easy it is for people to get mixed up with the wrong things of life that can cause premature death caused by a neglect of wise moral conduct)
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand (these are rare people), to shew unto man his uprightness: (This word messenger means Angel – in other words “if there be an angel that will minister truth of what is right to this person - to declare to this man what is right for him”)
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. (Exchange his ignorance for truth - truth will redeem him)
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: (Truth and wisdom is able to deliver a man back from the brink of death to a life of health and youth again)
Angels of Life, and Angels of Death
We are continuing with our study of “Angels of Life”.
We all know that there is the opposite to angels of life in that there are also angels of death. Messengers of life, and messengers of death. Truth revealed to a person will lead a person to life.
**So a message of truth is that which brings life. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life”, but the consequences of lies and deceit lead to death and destruction.
**At the beginning in Eden, only truth existed – there was never one account of fake news happening before the serpent told his first lie to Eve – up to that point he had always told her the truth. This is what the opening of the seven seals have done for us in this hour – it has given us access back to a realm of absolute truth – the connection between God and man has been connected again.
Yet right now we are living in a world that is full to the brim with deceit and lies – the papers and the internet are filled with fake news to the point that you can hardly know what to believe as true anymore, and all these things are what comes to us by information by a message, and messages come by messengers.
**If truth comes to us by a messenger with a message, then lies and deceit also come by messengers with messages.
*How do people get scammed and cheated? By a messenger telling them a false message, and them believing that that false message is true.
*Sometimes we only think of scams as being connected with financial loss – but what about all the loss of public health of what those smoking advertisements that Brother Branham spoke of back in the day, and all the immorality and indecency of what many of these modern pop songs and pop artists have influence among the people that have deprive society of its morals and even parents from their children, and it is so rampant that is it now accepted as the norm.
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311-631 …if you are Spirit-led by God, you became a messenger of God or an angel. God's messenger, God's angel is the very same word; can't separate it: God's messenger or God's angel.
And which has the greatest authority, a angel from heaven or an angel at the pulpit? Which has it? The angel at the pulpit.
**In Eden there was the tree of life and the tree of death – and both of these trees were messengers (angels), one was Christ and the other was Lucifer, and both trees bore fruit, and their fruit was their teaching, and their teaching was the message that they proclaimed, and they both had a different message from the other - and so life or death depended on the message that was partaken of. And so what applied in Eden applies today also.
GENESIS 28:10-12
10 ¶ And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set (Notice that it was evening time); and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
(Heaven and earth connected together by a ladder – in other words, a channel of communication that is established so that angels from heaven can have free access to earth by a ladder that connects earth and heaven together)
***Brother Branham preached a message called “Souls in Prison NOW” showing us that you don’t have to die to go to hell anymore because that dimension has come to earth and is actually here amongst us now, there has been a direct link to hell established on earth, a stairway to heaven and a stairway to hell, both stairways giving access to both dimensions – and so what Brother Branham as a young boy had to die and go to hell to see back in 1923 when he was only 14 years old, he was now seeing it on the earth in the 1960’s while he was still alive.
PSALM 78:47-49
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. (we read this scripture last week)
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. (This is Egypt under judgement at a time when an exodus prophet was on the scene)
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. (Notice “evil angels”, messengers of death among the people. At the time when the exodus prophet is on the scene, there are also evil angels released among the people with messages of lies and deceit.)
***Many times God will use people to become His angels (messengers) of life to others by the truth that he channels through them, and God will also use these same people to stand in the gap for others who are unworthily (We have seen many examples of this in the bible), and God will even cause these people to impart eternal life to others by the message that He has given them – the seven church age messengers are proof of that on an age level, but God will also do that at a local church level with the angel in the pulpit, or even on a personal level.
*And so the counterpart of these angels of life is that Satan also uses people as messengers and angels of death by a false message, a message that may sound right to the human reasoning, and be attractive to the flesh, but is contrary to the word of God.
PROVERBS 14:12
12 ¶ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man (A message that sounds right), but the end thereof are the ways of death.
EZEKIEL 33:11
11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
**We can trace both these angels of life and angels of death all the way through the bible right from the beginning of when the serpent became a messenger of death to Eve because of his message of deceit that he told her against the truth of the word of God – Eve fell from the estate that was hers and that she had held on to up to that point.
*God sent angels (Men) with messages of truth to each age in order to call out the elect of that age – and Satan has always had his counterpart of his angels of death to try to get the people to disbelieve the word of God.
**So this pattern applies from an age level to a national level, to a church level right down to a personal level by the influence of your friends.
*If you have a minister in the pulpit that teaches you things against the truth of revelation of the word of God for this hour, then that minister is at risk of becoming a fallen angel, especially in this age of when God has sent a prophet to straighten out all the false teaching of the word accumulated by man’s false ideas and concepts.
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... The hardest thing that God has ever had to do, is to get one mortal to believe another. It would be easy if that Angel that spoke to me was standing here on the pulpit tonight telling you this, why, you'd run up to Him and worship Him. You'd want to fall down to His feet. He was standing here looking the way that I seen Him when He comes: great stern man standing there. I know how I feel.
*Moses became a conduit and an angel of life when he stood in the gap for the people of his nation, but Pharoh became an angel of death to the people of his nation by rejecting the word of a prophet that God had sent him – he became a conduit of death for all the people that followed his ministry.
***The men that God chose as the head men for each of the seven church ages, they all became angels of life to the people of their age by the message that God sent through them – they were referred to as angels.
REVELATION 3:7
7 ¶ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write;
This is the pattern of the entire church ages… this is the ways of how God deals with man. Once we know the principle and pattern of how God does something, then we can begin to see that same pattern appear all over the bible.
For example - when we follow the pattern of Abraham’s journey of him coming out of Babylon, we find that it’s the same pattern of the time when Luther came out of the Catholic Church, because Luther coming out of the Catholic Church is the same thing as Abraham coming out of Babylon.
*In Genesis 12, Abraham came out of Babylon - that was Luther coming out of the Catholic Church with a message of “The just shall live by their faith”.
*In Genesis 15, God confirmed the covenant with Abraham by blood - that represented the Methodist Age of Wesley, the message of the Blood, of sanctification.
*Then in Genesis 17 – God revealed Himself in the form of a nursing mother. That was the Pentecostal Age representing Pentecostal babies feeding on the milk of the breast.
*And then in Genesis 18 it shows us what takes place at the end of the Pentecostal Age - God comes down in the form of a man with dust on His clothes and discerned the secrets of Sarah’s heart with his back turned to the tent, showing us that there would be a prophetic ministry of the revealing of the Son of Man in the last days just before Abraham and Sarah were changed back young again.
*What did Abraham call Him? “The Judge of all the earth”, because it was a time of investigation judgment just before Abraham and Sarah were changed back young and the people of Sodom were destroyed by fire.
*And so when Abraham understood that the judge of all the earth had arrived on the scene for judgement, then the bible is showing us that a spirit of intercession came upon Abraham so that he began to plead and to throw himself in the gap for the sake of his family relation - Lot.
**So when God was being revealed as Judge, Abraham became an advocate, and an advocate is one who pleads the cause of another.
*We cannot deny that we are living in a world of what the conditions of Sodom and Gomorrah are with us again.
Same-sex marriages have become legalized in almost all the nations of the world, and the world has become such a wicked and dark place (Remember that darkness is spiritual ignorance of the word of God). It has now become a time when you can hardly trust anyone anymore, a perverse generation as the Jesus called it, and that word perverse in the Greek means “to distort, turn aside, to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God, to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt”, and so the cry of all the perversion has come up before God, and God has come down as the judge of all the earth, but there is also a people on earth that have met with this God who is the same one that Abraham met with back then – and so there is to be a spirit of intercession that is to be upon these people in this hour because like Rahab, God has a people in the time of judgement who are qualified to stand in the gap for others of which will cause Him to pass over them with his judgement.
*So we find out that the angels that God sends among us are what we would consider as ordinary men.
God sent an angel of life at the end time age in the form of a prophet to an elected gentile people who have the ability to hear by revelation what the spirit is saying through the angel of their age, but this angel was actually a just and normal human being – a man.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
REVELATION 21:17
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
**This angel was a man – yet by the message of God that came through him, he was able to impart eternal life to an entire bride body of people in this last age.
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19-6 Now, notice, the greater works was to have the power in the church, not only to heal the sick by prayer, cast out devils by prayer, but to impart Eternal Life to believers. The Holy Ghost was coming and given into the hands of the church to impart life. Oh, that's what Calvary meant.
It took stooped, degraded men and women and lifted them into a place to be sons and daughters of God to heal the sick and to impart Eternal Life. By giving the Holy Ghost to obedient believers, men who were once unbelievers be made believers and impart spiritual Eternal Life.
HEBREWS 13:1-2
1 ¶ Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
**So when we look at the reality of this idea of God sending angels in the form of human beings, and that these angels could in fact be just ordinary people that live around us - yet these people have a message of truth and life from God, and they are able to impart that life to others.
So God uses men as angels of life at all different levels, by sending an angel to an age, right down to sending an angel to an individual.
*So the ministry of Malichi 4 and Revelation 10:7 was the ministry of an angel that was commissioned to impart truth and eternal life to an entire group of people of a bride age.
But then God also used the two men (angels) that were sent down to Sodom to pull Lot out of Sodom, and they were angels of life also, of another category of eternal life.
These two angels represented two men in this end time age – Billy Graham and Oral Roberts. And these two angels were men that planted seed, and their seed was their teaching.
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44-3 All right. Now, there has been three different kinds of seeds planted: A denominational: Billy Graham; he was a head planter. Oral Roberts for the Pentecostal... Pentecostal seed's been planted. (I'm talking about organization now.) And then the Word's been planted.
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361 You see, there was the church natural, the church natural, which was Lot and his group. They had a modern Billy Graham go down there, and--and so forth, and an Oral Roberts and them, calling them out.
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127 … We see a Billy Graham down yonder, and Oral Roberts, and all them people out there; the Pentecostal messenger and the denominational messenger down there, we see all that going on, carrying out the sign. Billy Graham, a theologian to the dot, what the denomination believes in. Oral Roberts, a healer to the dot, just exactly what the Pentecost...
128 But looky here, there's something else promised to the Seed of Abraham. There they are down in amongst them denominations; there's something out of the denominations supposed to happen, gathering the people.
**There will likely be millions saved under Billy Gramham’s and Oral Roberts ministries of what will be “saved” within those groups of the church natural – but there is another group who is under another ministry of the fullness of the revealing of the Son of Man.
When the angel came to Mary with a message of Life – and when she received that message of the word of that angel, then life was implanted in her by a seed.
**We have heard the term “Fallen Angels”.
People who are supernaturally influence with a false message, and then go on to influence others with that false message against the truth of the word of God, they have the spirit of a fallen angel on them.
In Heaven, Lucifer stood between God and a third of the angels with a message of deception, “follow me and make me great, and we will all have a better world to life in than that of Michael’s world” – “if you will just make me your leader, then it will be tremendous” - “we will make heaven even greater”
*Lucifer went from being an angel of life to an angel of death – from being an influence to God, to being a channel of lies and deceit to the people. He fell from his position of being able to impart life to others to now imparting death to all that would believe him.
**A third of the angels in heaven were deceived by a false message that they heard one day, maybe in the form of a podcast, maybe it was by the lyrics of some catchy tune on the radio.
So these angels fell by an angel with a message. And then we see how that Lot was rescued by two angels with a message – they were not fallen angels, but they were angels that had held to the truth amidst all the false messages that were going around heaven at that time, but in. II PETER 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
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543 Notice Lucifer, in the last days, is doing as he did at first. What did Lucifer do? The first thing that Lucifer done to separate the fellowship of God and man, he wanted to build him a united kingdom, a greater splendor and seemingly more cultured, a greater kingdom than Michael, Christ had.
*Fallen angels imparting eternal death by the deceitfulness of the sensational ways of fleshly attractions of all the things of this end time age that naturally attract the flesh.
Why are so many people attracted to Taylor Swift. I knew nothing about her until I began the hear her named mentioned.
II PETER 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned (how did they sin? By believing in the false message of Lucifer), but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Now this is all starting to make sense when we read…
II PETER 2:4-9
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 ¶ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
**It is being done by angels – people of influence who are among us of who are influencing the masses for either good of for evil – either to reunite fellowship with God, or to separate fellowship with God.
**How did Lucifer impart death and separation from God to a third of the angels in heaven? By a message that he influenced them by – he probably made up some catchy tunes of what he put his words of deceit to, and maybe had thousands of angels singing along to his pop music and his lying lyrics.
***What did God do to save the Jews in the time if Esther – He used Esther, she was an angel of life to her people.
***What did God do to pull a bride out of this evil age – he sent the Angel of Revelation 10:7.
When God wanted to save Lot out of Sodom – He sent Angels.
**So why would the devil try to do it any different himself? He also sends his angels.
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548 Notice, in this last days, Lucifer is doing the same thing. Can you see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The devil doing the same thing, building up a hybrid church, a hybrid by hybrid members, hybrid by knowledge instead of the Word, by intellectual men instead of born-again men, building an intellectual kingdom that will outshine Christ's little bitty flock. See? What is it that did that? Fallen angels.
549 The Bible said it was fallen angels who listened to Lucifer instead of Christ, Who they once belonged to. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
550 Now listen close, "fallen angels." What kind of angels? Luther, Wesley, Catholic, Pentecostals, who kept not their first estate like the Angels did, and has fell into organization, like Lucifer's main hold at Nicaea. And what have they done? Organized a great ecumenical association of ministers, to make "an image unto the beast," as the Bible said. And building a Christian economy that'll close the doors of this church and others like it. See Lucifer at his work?
551 I'm trying to bring you the threefold revelation, or mystery of God.
552 What did they do? Sold out to reasonings of wisdom and education, like Eve did, fallen angels did. Wesley was a man of God; but what followed him? Fallen angels got into it. What was the angels, first? Creative beings of God, but fell for Lucifer's wisdom, fell for Lucifer--Lucifer's wisdom. And you see what they become? Fallen angels. And organizations, from men of God who has went forth to establish Truths in the earth; before that Truth could go on and proclamate and get on to the real revelation of Christ, fallen angels come in and took it over and made denominations out of it.
553 That's the reason the revelation of the Seven-Seal mystery had to be unfolded.
What caused a third of the angels in heaven to fall out of fellowship with God and turn their allegiance to another leader? An angel that had already fallen – Lucifer.
So Brother Branham is showing us that what happened in Heaven is now happening on the earth, because Satan was cast out of Heaven, and so he is now doing on earth what he did in Heaven, he is using man on the earth, men with influence and charisma, men who stopped following God, men and woman who are full of talent and full of intellectual reasoning – and so he is using them as he did with the angels in heaven to separate the people away from the truth of the word which would go on to mature a person into a true relationship with the true God.
*People are identified under the ministries of fallen angels, and these fallen angels have no qualifying attributes to be able to stand in the gap for people for the purpose of life - they have not been acquainted with the revelation of the revealed word for their day, so they cannot deliver that people of what we read about of what Elihu spoke of – they have no words to teach people the right way of the ways of God, but in fact the people under their ministries who have become sold out to their message become like the people of the concentration camp of Auschwitz – there bones begin to show through their skin and they are just waiting for the grim reaper to take them prematurely.
*So this great drama of standing in the gap is being lived out in this day, but when we ourselves look at our own lives with our everyday struggles, and we can find it hard to see ourselves of how that we are a part of this great drama of the word being live out in this day – yet God is writing the mystery of these truths into the story of each of our lives.
**When God sends an angel to the earth, He doesn’t send some super-duper person of great talent and fame that will naturally attract the attention of the people by his great acting talents. ***But this is not so with what Satan does with His angels.
Satan knows that you have to have a first and second pull ministry to attract the attention of the people for the message that will follow, and that it is the message that really does the final trick that will achieve what he first set out to do.
**Hollywood was Satan’s first and second pull ministry.
*Audio/Visual – in the old days of Satan’s influence of pop music through the power of the radio was like his first pull of how he started out to begin to attract the attention of the people of the entire world.
And then after that he began to introduce visual by the way of television which is both sound and visual combined. And now today we have all these music videos – in other words, visions connected along with the audio message – symbols and words and music all combined together is the most powerful combination possible – and the combination of these things would then go on to reveal the very mind and thoughts of Lucifer through this channel of words and music and video into the hearts and lives of the masses until he would trick them into completely worshiping Him with all their hearts and with all their souls.