WHAT'S ALL THE TALK ABOUT ANGELS?

Part 1

By Erwin Bourne

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: I have just finished sending via e-mail a series of ten angel stories.  All these accounts were taken from my personal experiences as a missionary in Latin America.  These accounts and experiences have made such an impact on my own life that I never suspected that I was venturing on precarious territory.  Angels have been a part of my doctrine during all my ministry.  But there has been a major shift in thinking for the major population.  What was once mostly a myth is now a mysterious and fascinating reality. My wife very recently brought to my attention a book which I have never read, but is in my library here at the Casa Grande in Leticia, Colombia.  I asked Jean to find it and she did!  WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ANGELS, written by Dr. David Jeremiah.  I feel I should give you some further studies. Maybe the angel craze of the 90s has been at best just another trivial fad, and at worst a deceptive tactic of Satan’s to divert people’s spiritual attention away from real truth.  Like children at the Grand Canyon who can’t see beyond the spoiled chipmunks darting along the rim seeking tourist handouts, if we start focusing on angels. We might miss the grand, sweeping view of God. A good many Christians don’t know what, if anything, to think about angels.  A good many questions are being asked.  I wonder if the angels themselves are asking them too.  Scripture warns us that “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (II Corinthians 11:14).  The syrupy-sweet, spirit-tingling taste of a little angelism can ruin people’s appetite for the good, solid food of God’s Word and the gospel of grace and truth. By Erwin Bourne "To be continued" <HOME   <ARCHIVES