WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.440 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:13.160 Hey, did Jesus ever walk around before he was born? 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.120 That sounds crazy, right? 5 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:18.080 Did Jesus ever walk around before he was born? 6 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:21.480 Well, according to the Bible, we are going to be looking at what it means in the 7 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:27.080 scriptures when they announce the angel of the Lord appeared unto, well, we're going 8 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:30.080 to find out. 9 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:36.560 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:42.480 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 11 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:45.760 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 12 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:52.360 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:55.800 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 14 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:59.000 Here is Jack Hibbs. 15 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:05.800 So as we look at the word of God together, there is this remarkable thread that goes all 16 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:08.960 the way through from Genesis to Revelation. 17 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:15.560 And that is this title, this description, this label of one who is called the angel of 18 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:16.560 the Lord. 19 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.560 And the first thing that we want to make notice of is this. 20 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:21.680 It's in John chapter eight. 21 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.160 Please mark this down. 22 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:29.280 Of course, the scribes, the Pharisees, they're attacking Jesus at every turn. 23 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:30.280 That's what they did. 24 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:35.360 I'm actually grateful for them because it's because of their shenanigans that they 25 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:40.920 asked all kinds of atheistic type questions regarding the deity of Jesus. 26 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:47.760 And he busted them every time with his eternal answers and truths and wisdom. 27 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:49.040 And so we're grateful. 28 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:56.200 In John chapter eight, they are trying to say to Jesus that they, the religious hierarchy, 29 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.600 that they are the children of Abraham, they're the real deal. 30 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:07.560 And Jesus, we don't even know where you've come from because after all your mom got pregnant 31 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.400 and at least we know who our father is, who is your father. 32 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.080 And they're really laying into him. 33 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.160 And of course, he was never bothered by that. 34 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:19.160 He knew who he was. 35 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:29.640 And in doing that, Jesus offered up a remarkable answer that should have caused them to run 36 00:02:29.640 --> 00:02:37.040 back to their libraries and go to work on some research when he said this. 37 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:45.720 I tell you that before Abraham was, I am, he says, and by the way, the I am is the ego 38 00:02:45.720 --> 00:02:53.840 and me, which is before Abraham was, I am before Abraham was, I am the self contained eternal 39 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.200 existing one. 40 00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:56.760 I've never had a birth. 41 00:02:56.760 --> 00:02:58.720 I'll never had to have a death. 42 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:00.400 I never had a beginning. 43 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.720 I'll never have an end. 44 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:02.720 I'm eternal. 45 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.360 That's what ego and me is in Greek, the I am. 46 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:13.360 Which is, by the way, the same of the Hebrew when Moses meets the Lord in the burning 47 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:17.160 bush in Exodus. 48 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:25.520 When Moses meets the Lord on Mount Sinai, a whoreb, when the bush is burning, and the 49 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:31.200 Lord says, I want you to go and tell the children of Israel who sent you. 50 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:33.320 And thank God for questions, right? 51 00:03:33.320 --> 00:03:39.400 Abraham says, I mean, Moses says, who do I tell them sent me? 52 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.800 Isn't that amazing? 53 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:49.880 Moses is remarkably, Moses would have known the names of all these Egyptian gods, but 54 00:03:49.880 --> 00:03:59.080 Moses didn't know the name of the one true creator, God. 55 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:03.080 And God says to Moses out of the burning bush, you go tell them. 56 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:09.960 I am that I am sent you to them. 57 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:17.000 The self-contained eternal existing God. 58 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:23.760 So Jesus answers the scribes and Pharisees in John 8 and blows their minds, just blows 59 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:31.240 their minds because he says, Abraham came into existence. 60 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:32.240 I saw that. 61 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:34.040 I know that. 62 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:41.800 And Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it. 63 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:45.640 Jesus told the scribes and Pharisees, I met Abraham. 64 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:47.600 Abraham met me. 65 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.120 We had a conversation together at least once. 66 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:56.760 And you guys want to talk about pedigree, you guys want to talk about who knows who. 67 00:04:56.760 --> 00:04:58.760 You guys want to drop names? 68 00:04:58.760 --> 00:05:07.760 Well, I met Abraham and the scribes and Pharisees immediately respond and say, what? 69 00:05:07.760 --> 00:05:10.760 You're not even 50 years old, which is really weird. 70 00:05:10.760 --> 00:05:12.200 You're not even 50 years old. 71 00:05:12.200 --> 00:05:15.160 How is it that you claim that you have met Abraham? 72 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.160 See, what do they say 50? 73 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:22.800 When Abraham had been dead for well over a thousand years, nearly 2,000 years by Jesus's 74 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.640 day, it's kind of a cool thing. 75 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:32.920 Back in the first century era, and maybe this is too much information, but back in 2000 76 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:38.560 years ago in the first century era, the rabbis believed that when a man came to the age 77 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:47.960 of 30, he was a, for the lack of a better term, he was a functioning, viable, responsible, 78 00:05:47.960 --> 00:05:49.440 young man at the age of 30. 79 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:51.040 He could inherit property. 80 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.680 He could inherit all that the father owns. 81 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.400 He is, he and the father are one in life. 82 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:10.120 A 30 year old Hebrew, Jew, man enters into his, heritants, his existence, his prominence 83 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.360 at the age of 30, but they didn't say 30. 84 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.760 They said 50. 85 00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:20.600 They should have said, you're not even, you know, 16, you're not even 1500 years old. 86 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:23.480 How can you have met Abraham? 87 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.160 They said you're not even 50, 50. 88 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:33.720 They believed that the age of 50, a person entered into their absolute spiritual maturity. 89 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:41.680 They entered into the realm of wise, the elderly, the gray hair, 50. 90 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.200 How in the world can you talk about meeting Abraham? 91 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:53.640 And saying such a thing, when you're not even qualified to be 50 years old, where a Jew 92 00:06:53.640 --> 00:07:01.160 enters into their full maturity to know spiritual matters, you might be over 30 or 30 and over. 93 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.000 Okay, big deal. 94 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.920 We know that you didn't have an earthly father, okay? 95 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.080 We know that your dad is not known. 96 00:07:09.080 --> 00:07:12.000 Your mom got pregnant, who knows how? 97 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.400 Because we don't believe in you. 98 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:19.760 And we doubt your spiritual maturity even because you're not even 50 years of age. 99 00:07:19.760 --> 00:07:20.760 Jesus blows them up. 100 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:22.880 I mean, just blows their minds away. 101 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:26.560 They should have run back to their scriptures and studied that. 102 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:27.560 Why? 103 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.640 Market down, friends, this is pretty fun. 104 00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:34.280 Genesis chapter 16, verse 7. 105 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:40.920 Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water, Hey, Gar, in the wilderness by 106 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.920 the spring on the way to shore, the angel of the Lord. 107 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.520 There are angels who serve the Lord. 108 00:07:48.520 --> 00:07:51.160 There are angels who do the Lord's ministry. 109 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.280 There are angels who are around the throne of God. 110 00:07:55.280 --> 00:08:03.960 There are angels who are dispatched from God's presence to slay 185,000 Assyrians in the 111 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:05.720 day of battle. 112 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:15.840 There's the angel who brings Daniel's answer of Daniel chapter 9 and 10. 113 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:20.480 There's the angel Gabriel who makes, he's the public relations officer for God. 114 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.400 He makes the announcements to Israel, always announcing, always announcing. 115 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:28.080 There's the angel Michael who's always fighting. 116 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:31.600 Michael is always fighting and defending Israel. 117 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.000 And Gabriel is always making announcements regarding Israel. 118 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.400 These are angels. 119 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:42.400 Lucifer is the angel of the morning or the bright and morning star. 120 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:52.160 Angel Lucifer now, of course, fallen as Diablos, the devil Satan, the dragon, yet Lucifer 121 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:53.960 Satan is an angel. 122 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.720 There's fallen angels. 123 00:08:55.720 --> 00:09:01.760 There's holy angels, but there's only one angel of the Lord in every time. 124 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:07.960 When you read your Bible, look, I do believe I may be wrong about this. 125 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:12.400 You can go prove me right or wrong, it doesn't matter, I'm happy with being wrong on this. 126 00:09:12.400 --> 00:09:17.280 I know the old King James, I know the new King James. 127 00:09:17.280 --> 00:09:22.440 I don't know about the other versions, but the old and the new King James, they will always 128 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:30.920 have the angel of the Lord capitalized, angel capitalized, signifying that this is somebody 129 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:35.520 different than your run-of-the-mill, if they're such a thing, angel. 130 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:47.240 Hey, Gar, encounters the angel of the Lord, which is known as a Theophonies, or pre-incarnate, 131 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:51.520 that is a pre-birth Bethlehem, appearance of Jesus Christ. 132 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:53.080 Why is this important? 133 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.080 Because Jesus Christ is eternal. 134 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.440 The Son of God has always been. 135 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:04.280 And we have numerous accounts now in this podcast together, we can only touch on a few, 136 00:10:04.280 --> 00:10:08.600 but I hope this gets you excited to go find out more in your own personal study as who 137 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:09.600 is the angel of the Lord. 138 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.680 You're going to be delighted to find out. 139 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:21.480 And so how about this, Genesis, chapter 22, verse 11. 140 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:27.760 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. 141 00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:39.600 So Abraham said, here I am, notice the angel of the Lord called out to Abraham. 142 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.760 Exodus chapter 3, verse 2. 143 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:51.240 And the angel of the Lord, capital, angel, appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst 144 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:56.000 of a bush, so he looked and behold, that's Moses. 145 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.720 The bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 146 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:07.040 Notice that whole thing starts with the angel of the Lord appearing to Moses in a burning 147 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:10.600 bush or what looked like a burning bush. 148 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:12.600 That's Exodus 3.20. 149 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:13.600 How about this? 150 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:22.240 In chapter 22, verse 22, then God's anger was aroused because he went and the angel of 151 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:29.760 the Lord took his stand in the way as an adversary against Baileum. 152 00:11:29.760 --> 00:11:30.760 Watch this. 153 00:11:30.760 --> 00:11:40.520 And he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him. 154 00:11:40.520 --> 00:11:49.040 Verse 22, the angel of the Lord appeared to stop Baileum from performing his unsanctioned 155 00:11:49.040 --> 00:11:51.080 act as a prophet of God. 156 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.920 He prostituted his office. 157 00:11:54.920 --> 00:11:59.960 The donkey recognized that it was the angel of the Lord and it freaked out the donkey. 158 00:11:59.960 --> 00:12:03.320 And you remember the story, Baileum began to beat his donkey. 159 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.480 And all the while not recognizing. 160 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.320 And then the angel of the Lord speaks to Baileum and said, this donkey just saved your 161 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:14.080 life. 162 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.680 A donkey being ridden by a donkey. 163 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:22.480 But the donkey with four legs is smarter and more discerning than the donkey with two legs. 164 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.520 And the angel of the Lord intervened in Baileum's bad decision making. 165 00:12:28.520 --> 00:12:31.840 The angel of the Lord appeared remarkable. 166 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.440 Now we do know from Scripture in the New Testament that angels can appear and disappear. 167 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:44.800 In the Scriptures, the Bible warns us that on the negative side watch out because Satan who's a fallen angel, 168 00:12:44.800 --> 00:12:51.040 do you not know that Satan who's an angel of light can appear to deceive people? 169 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:56.880 Wow, we also know though in the positive that the book of Hebrews tells us that we need to be careful 170 00:12:56.880 --> 00:13:05.680 how we treat strangers that we are in contact with because many people have entertained angels 171 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:09.760 in their presence unaware. 172 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:10.760 Why would God do this? 173 00:13:10.760 --> 00:13:14.600 I don't know, but it happens. 174 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:18.880 I'm not aware of any time that happened in my life, but that's exactly what the Bible 175 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:20.680 said. 176 00:13:20.680 --> 00:13:28.560 Watch out, be kind, walk in the Spirit, be gentle, be nice to strangers because you may 177 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:37.800 be talking to, ministering to, hanging out with somebody you don't know, but they're an actual angel. 178 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:43.440 And I'm assuming, just an assumption that God would either have that angel there for my protection 179 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.800 or my guidance or warning or to test my heart. 180 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:52.000 I mean, who knows? 181 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.120 We don't know, so we need to check our attitude always. 182 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.440 How about this, Judges chapter 2, verse 1. 183 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:07.280 Then the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Buckham and said, I told you, I, sorry, 184 00:14:07.280 --> 00:14:14.960 I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers. 185 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:20.360 And I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 186 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:28.320 Judges 2, verse 1, the angel of the Lord appears and speaks. 187 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.360 How about Judges 6, verse 11. 188 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:39.080 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the tearment of the tree, which was in Ophra. 189 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:40.880 And watch what happens. 190 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:47.040 The Bible says the angel sat down, the angel of the Lord sat down under a tree, which 191 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:55.720 belonged to Joe Ash, the abogright, while his son, Gideon, thrashed wheat in the wine 192 00:14:55.720 --> 00:15:03.360 press in order to hide from Midianites, Judges chapter 6, verse 11. 193 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.640 Here's a, here's a description where the, it is written down where the angel of the Lord 194 00:15:07.640 --> 00:15:14.960 sat down under a tree, manifestation. 195 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:22.000 We know, we'll see this soon, looked like a normal guy, didn't glow, looked normal, 196 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.800 but he was the angel of the Lord. 197 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:26.800 Judges 13, verse 3. 198 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:31.760 And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, indeed now, you are 199 00:15:31.760 --> 00:15:38.360 barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 200 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:40.560 The angel of the Lord appeared. 201 00:15:40.640 --> 00:15:41.840 My memory serves me right. 202 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:48.000 I just have the reference here that I believe would be regarding Samson, because Samson's 203 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.680 birth was prophesied by the angel of the Lord. 204 00:15:54.680 --> 00:16:06.800 The mother, Samson's mom was, it was a miracle for her to conceive, because she couldn't 205 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:13.960 become a pregnant, and the angel of the Lord says, basically, you're going to be pregnant, 206 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:15.560 but it's the angel of the Lord saying this. 207 00:16:15.560 --> 00:16:22.080 You see, Jack, how do you know it's just not any angel, because it's capital A angel, angel 208 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:31.200 of the Lord is a manifestation of Jesus Christ Himself before Bethlehem. 209 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:32.440 There's more. 210 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.680 And Samuel, chapter 24, verse 16. 211 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:42.520 And when the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented 212 00:16:42.520 --> 00:16:49.880 from the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people, it is enough. 213 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:51.480 Now restrain your hand. 214 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.560 Watch this. 215 00:16:52.560 --> 00:17:00.280 And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Argana, the Jebusite, that second 216 00:17:00.280 --> 00:17:04.000 Samuel 24, 16. 217 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.480 You say, well, that's kind of weird. 218 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:15.400 It's consistent, because when you read Isaiah, chapter 60, out to chapter 66, when you 219 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:27.680 read Joel, chapter 2 and 3, when you read Revelation, chapter 19 to 22, you have passages 220 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:36.200 there that describe none other than the one who is the angel of the Lord, who is the 221 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:44.120 one who has on his thigh of his robe, written King of kings and Lord of lords, his robe 222 00:17:44.120 --> 00:17:50.600 is splattered in blood, because he makes war against those who are attacking his people. 223 00:17:50.600 --> 00:17:52.840 Israel, he will fight for Israel. 224 00:17:52.840 --> 00:18:02.640 The Scripture says, as he did in the day of battle, and in Revelation 19, he comes together 225 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:08.880 his church that's in heaven, the door is opened, and we exit heaven, Revelation 19 with him 226 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:15.040 coming back to earth, and he will strike the earth with his wrath, with the word of his mouth 227 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:19.080 as the sharp sword that proceeds from his mouth to judge the nations. 228 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:26.440 And all that, by the way, begins with the destruction of the Antichrist at Maguetto, 229 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.880 or Armageddon. 230 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:36.840 First King's 19, verse 7, and the angel of the Lord came back the second time and touched 231 00:18:36.840 --> 00:18:48.720 him and said, arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you, speaking about Elijah. 232 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.840 The angel of the Lord ministered to him. 233 00:18:50.840 --> 00:18:55.480 This is different, by the way, when angels came and ministered to Jesus in the Garden 234 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:00.600 of Gesemini, they were angels, no problem. 235 00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:05.240 The angel of the Lord, as I'm stressing, whenever that happens in Scripture, sit up and take 236 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:14.200 notice, market, highlight it, circle it, search that word out, and find out that Jesus, my 237 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:22.760 friends, especially those of you who are bound up in the cults, Jesus is not an angel. 238 00:19:22.760 --> 00:19:25.520 Jesus is not a created being. 239 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:29.320 Jesus is the anglios of the Lord. 240 00:19:29.320 --> 00:19:32.800 He is the spokesman. 241 00:19:32.800 --> 00:19:39.840 He is the logos, the word of God, the angel of the Lord. 242 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:46.960 First King's 19, 35, and it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord 243 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:52.800 went out and killed in the camp of the Assyrians, 185,000. 244 00:19:52.800 --> 00:20:01.680 And when people arose early in the morning, their corpses were there, all dead. 245 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:02.680 Yikes. 246 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.680 Wow. 247 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.680 Passages like that where people say, I don't read the Old Testament, the God of the Old 248 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.320 Testament scares me. 249 00:20:12.320 --> 00:20:13.920 I read the New Testament. 250 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.120 I like that God. 251 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:17.120 Same God. 252 00:20:17.120 --> 00:20:20.080 It's the same God, different dispensations. 253 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:27.120 The Old Testament economy was operated by God's Word and God related to mankind in a different 254 00:20:27.120 --> 00:20:32.280 way, certain way, all of it leading up to the fulfillment of the Old and the revelation 255 00:20:32.280 --> 00:20:33.280 of the new. 256 00:20:33.280 --> 00:20:34.680 It's the same God. 257 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:40.840 That's why during this age of grace, call it this dispensation of grace as Ephesians 258 00:20:40.840 --> 00:20:45.520 chapter 1 and 2 says dispensation. 259 00:20:45.520 --> 00:20:50.120 People will get all their knickers and all bound up when they hold dispensation. 260 00:20:50.120 --> 00:20:51.120 Oh my gosh. 261 00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:54.880 Hey, the word dispensation is in the Bible, folks. 262 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.760 And right now you and I are in the dispensation of grace. 263 00:20:58.760 --> 00:21:03.040 It appears, it seems to me if I understand Bible prophecy correctly, the dispensation 264 00:21:03.080 --> 00:21:09.560 of grace started at the birth of the church or you could push it and say at the ministry 265 00:21:09.560 --> 00:21:17.400 of Jesus commencing, but certainly by Pentecost, then the gospel of grace goes out to all the 266 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:18.400 earth. 267 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.440 It's been going out for 2000 years. 268 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:25.280 And I believe the gospel of grace as we know it in this dispensation ends at the moment 269 00:21:25.280 --> 00:21:26.760 of the rapture. 270 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:32.240 Then God focuses on Israel, the salvation of his people, those who will believe, and he 271 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:40.200 winds up using them and 144,000 of them and more to present the gospel to the ends of 272 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:41.880 the earth. 273 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:49.720 And that's a study for some other time, but do keep that in mind. 274 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:52.920 Second Kings, chapter 1, verse 3. 275 00:21:52.920 --> 00:22:00.640 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, the Tishbites, arise, go up to meet the messengers 276 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.360 of the king of Samaria, and say to them, is it because there is no God in Israel that 277 00:22:06.360 --> 00:22:18.240 you are going to inquire embeils above the God of Echron, the angel of the Lord appears. 278 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:23.920 Second Kings, chapter 19, verse 35, I thought I read that one, maybe not, yeah, I already 279 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:27.360 read that one. 280 00:22:27.360 --> 00:22:34.720 Second Chronicles, chapter 21, second Chronicles 21, beginning at verse 12. 281 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:39.480 Either three years of famine, this is the challenge. 282 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:44.560 You're either going to have three years of famine or three months to be defeated by your 283 00:22:44.560 --> 00:22:51.320 foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you or third option. 284 00:22:51.320 --> 00:22:57.880 For three days, the sword of the Lord, the plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord 285 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.920 destroying throughout all the territory of Israel, now consider what answer I should 286 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:08.520 take back to him, the Lord, capital, who sent me. 287 00:23:08.520 --> 00:23:12.800 And that is the angel of the Lord speaking to David regarding his transgression. 288 00:23:12.800 --> 00:23:18.200 Because you sinned, you're going to be chastised, you can pick how. 289 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:27.640 That came from the angel of the Lord, powerful, almost done, folks. 290 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:33.040 The angel of the Lord, sorry, this is Psalm 34, verse 7, the angel of the Lord encamps 291 00:23:33.040 --> 00:23:37.680 all around those who fear him and delivers them. 292 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:40.240 I love that. 293 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:41.240 You know, it's cool about that. 294 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.160 That's Psalm Psalm 34, seven, you know, it's neat about that. 295 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.120 Do you remember when God told Moses, I want you to, you're going to be leaving 296 00:23:48.120 --> 00:23:55.600 Egypt, okay, you're going to head out, you're going to go into the wilderness and Moses 297 00:23:55.600 --> 00:23:58.840 said, okay, all that's great. 298 00:23:58.840 --> 00:24:01.320 But I'm not going to go with an angel. 299 00:24:01.320 --> 00:24:03.160 I don't want an angel. 300 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.280 He said, I'm not going to go unless you go with us in the great. 301 00:24:07.280 --> 00:24:10.640 Moses said, I'm not going unless you're going with this. 302 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.000 And the Lord said, I'm going with you, I'm going to lead you. 303 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:15.000 I love that. 304 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:21.040 I'm going to do it by the angel of the Lord. 305 00:24:21.040 --> 00:24:27.760 Psalm 35, verses 5 and 6, Psalm 35, verses 5 and 6, let them be like chaff before the 306 00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:31.200 wind and let the angel of the Lord chase them. 307 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:34.600 The word chase is what you can imagine, pursue them. 308 00:24:34.600 --> 00:24:40.680 Let their way be dark and slippery and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. 309 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:47.440 It's scary, isn't it, to think that Psalm 35, verses 5 and 6, wow. 310 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:57.680 You know, I'm going to, I'm going to interrupt myself and put this in there where I believe 311 00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:59.960 it's the warning that's in Ezekiel. 312 00:24:59.960 --> 00:25:06.480 I may be wrong about that, but it comes to my mind that because the children of Israel 313 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.240 in the wilderness refuse to trust God. 314 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:14.560 You know, listen, when we don't trust God, I'm going to put it blunt. 315 00:25:14.560 --> 00:25:23.080 When you and I, when you and I trust ourselves, it's because we are looking to our own authority. 316 00:25:23.080 --> 00:25:30.400 When you trust someone else, you're looking to their authority. 317 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.840 When you don't trust yourself, you're not relying on upon your authority. 318 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:39.680 When you do not trust others, you are not relying upon their authority. 319 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.680 That's okay, I guess. 320 00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:49.840 But when you do not trust God, you are the whole thing about not trusting God means this. 321 00:25:49.840 --> 00:25:54.080 You do not believe in his authority. 322 00:25:54.080 --> 00:25:55.080 That's what it means. 323 00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:56.080 You say, I love God. 324 00:25:56.080 --> 00:25:57.080 I obey God. 325 00:25:57.080 --> 00:25:58.080 Are you sure? 326 00:25:58.080 --> 00:26:03.120 Do you worry about stuff that God said, don't worry about it? 327 00:26:03.120 --> 00:26:06.280 If God says, I'll never leave you or forsake you and now you're afraid that God's going 328 00:26:06.280 --> 00:26:09.320 to leave you and forsake you, you're not trusting him. 329 00:26:09.320 --> 00:26:11.880 You're telling him that he's not true. 330 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:13.360 He doesn't keep his word. 331 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:14.800 He can't be trusted. 332 00:26:14.800 --> 00:26:16.400 He's not honest. 333 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:18.400 Wow. 334 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:25.080 Well, when the Scriptures tell us that he'll never leave us or forsake us, that's beautiful. 335 00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:26.080 It's awesome. 336 00:26:26.080 --> 00:26:28.000 He's bound by his word, you know? 337 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:33.600 In Psalm 138, the Bible tells us that he will honor his word above his own name. 338 00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:38.880 That's huge because there's no other name given among men whereby we must be saved 339 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:43.280 that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus 340 00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:50.820 Christ, who is the angel of the Lord, that whoever confesses that Jesus Christ is 341 00:26:50.820 --> 00:26:53.180 Lord to the glory of God the Father. 342 00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:55.940 The shall be saved. 343 00:26:55.940 --> 00:27:00.980 Isaiah 37, verse 6, then the angel of the Lord went out and killed in the camp of the 344 00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:04.380 Assyrians 185,000. 345 00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:05.380 We read that earlier. 346 00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:08.660 And when the people arose early in the morning, the corpses were there. 347 00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:13.900 What about Zechariah 1, verse 12, Zechariah 1, verse 12, then the angel of the Lord answered 348 00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:20.040 and said, oh, Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the 349 00:27:20.040 --> 00:27:21.040 cities of Judah? 350 00:27:21.040 --> 00:27:22.040 He's entered. 351 00:27:22.040 --> 00:27:27.920 This is Christ's interceding against which you were angry these 70 years, the angel of the 352 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.600 Lord in ministry. 353 00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:34.040 Finally this before I make some more comment. 354 00:27:34.040 --> 00:27:42.640 Zechariah 3, verse 1, Zechariah 3, verse 1, then he showed me Joshua, the high priest. 355 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:46.080 This is not Joshua, the commander of the book of Joshua. 356 00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:51.240 This is a different Joshua, the high priest that is in Zechariah, chapter 3. 357 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:57.140 Then he showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan 358 00:27:57.140 --> 00:28:04.480 standing at his right hand to oppose him, Zechariah 3, verse 1. 359 00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:09.480 So I'm going to throw out some real quick and then we'll wrap this up. 360 00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:24.200 I'll give you one, Abraham is encamped, what seems to be the foothills overlooking Sodom 361 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:26.960 and Gomorrah. 362 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:33.680 You know that his nephew, Lot, is down in Sodom and Gomorrah. 363 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:44.120 Abraham is not, Abraham is looking from afar at this oasis, this incredibly oasis. 364 00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:51.160 The Bible says that Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding area was a well-watered plane. 365 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:52.920 That's a very nice way of putting it. 366 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:54.560 It was luxurious. 367 00:28:54.560 --> 00:28:59.160 And it's where Lot lived, Abraham did not. 368 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:10.440 But the Bible tells us that these three, let's just, I would just put it like this. 369 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:13.160 We'll kind of look through it with Abraham's eyes. 370 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:21.720 Three men approach, and Abraham greets them and realizes that in some way shape or form 371 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:33.040 it doesn't tell us how, but Abraham realizes these are holy servants of the Most High God. 372 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:41.040 What's amazing about this is, some Bible versions will tell you that it's three angels or 373 00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:44.320 it's the angel of the Lord and two angels. 374 00:29:44.320 --> 00:29:50.640 We know that there's three of them, but then as we keep going, it becomes clear of what 375 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:55.240 or who are they. 376 00:29:55.240 --> 00:30:00.160 The angel of the Lord is speaking with Abraham. 377 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:05.040 Abraham is speaking with him and with them probably no doubt. 378 00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:12.400 Abraham in true, oriental fashion offers them a meal. 379 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:14.840 It's very normal to this day. 380 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:21.680 The hospitality is a big deal in the Middle East, the ancient orient. 381 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:28.440 And he tells Sarah, prepare a meal. 382 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:41.480 The angel of the Lord says to the angels, should I reveal to Abraham what I'm about to do? 383 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:49.560 If two angels continue on and you know the tremendous account in Scripture where they 384 00:30:49.560 --> 00:30:55.880 make it into Sodom and Gomorrah, looking for a lot to deliver a lot in his family, but 385 00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:02.080 the homosexual community are seeking to rape these two visitors, which means think about 386 00:31:02.080 --> 00:31:03.280 this. 387 00:31:03.280 --> 00:31:09.800 If the homosexual community said we want to know them, the word is we want to know them 388 00:31:09.800 --> 00:31:12.760 intimately. 389 00:31:12.760 --> 00:31:20.880 They're beating on Lott's door and says, where's the man who came into your house earlier 390 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:21.880 today? 391 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:22.880 Bring them out to us. 392 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.520 We want to know them carnally. 393 00:31:27.520 --> 00:31:30.160 Lott says, no, no, no, don't do that. 394 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:31.160 Don't do that. 395 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:32.160 I'll give you my daughters. 396 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:35.600 I'll give you my, you could do whatever you want with my daughters. 397 00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:38.000 Isn't that horrible? 398 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.000 They didn't want. 399 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.000 They didn't want a woman or women. 400 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.000 They wanted guys. 401 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:47.120 They're thinking, these two guys are guys, they're men. 402 00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:48.360 We want them. 403 00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:50.680 That's how normal they looked. 404 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.440 And they're beating and beating and beating on the door. 405 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.440 Lott's talking to them. 406 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:55.440 The angels reach out. 407 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:02.160 They pull Lott back in and they try to break down the door and the angels strike them 408 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:03.160 with blindness. 409 00:32:04.120 --> 00:32:09.680 It didn't stop them from trying to commit this horrific sexual immorality. 410 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:15.680 But the angels, the Bible says, smoke them with blindness. 411 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:21.680 The angels got Lott and his children and his wife out. 412 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:26.680 But the Bible tells us as they're leaving, Lott's wife looks back. 413 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:30.840 Now God is not angry, rude, mean, and short-tempered. 414 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.800 To man, God turned her into a pillar of salt and killed her because she looked back. 415 00:32:36.800 --> 00:32:42.680 She didn't look back to see or to watch the place be destroyed. 416 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:46.240 She looked back because that's where she belonged. 417 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:47.440 That's the world she loved. 418 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:51.080 She wanted that world. 419 00:32:51.080 --> 00:32:57.120 And she was, according to the Bible, turned to a pillar of salt. 420 00:32:57.120 --> 00:32:58.760 Not continued out. 421 00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:03.960 The angels brought down fire and brimstone and consumed Sodom and Gomorrah. 422 00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:10.040 All the while, the angel of the Lord sat with Abraham the entire time. 423 00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:13.480 It wasn't three angels. 424 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:22.160 It was two angels being led by the angel of the Lord which is Christ Himself, a Christophonies, 425 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.520 a Theophonies. 426 00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:28.840 It's not unusual in the Old Testament which means we need to read our Bibles a little 427 00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:40.640 slower when we're going through the Scriptures and like the Psalm 40, Psalm 40, and the Book 428 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:47.240 of Hebrews echoes it and repeats it, behold, in the volume of the book it is written of 429 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.400 me speaking of Christ. 430 00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:52.880 It's true. 431 00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:01.440 The angel of the Lord is none other than Jesus Christ before He was born as a man in Bethlehem. 432 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:07.160 When I say man, it born as a baby coming into this world, taking upon Himself the form 433 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:12.160 of a man, mankind, becoming one of us. 434 00:34:12.160 --> 00:34:17.920 Isn't it amazing as I end right now at the right hand of God the Father is God the Son, 435 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:20.520 a glorified man? 436 00:34:20.520 --> 00:34:22.080 You ever stop to think about that? 437 00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:32.480 Jesus Christ is 100% God always has been, but He's also 100% man ever since He was conceived 438 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:42.760 in Bethlehem today at the right hand of God is your intercessor in mind, our advocate. 439 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:48.240 That's why Paul told Timothy that there's one mediator between man and God. 440 00:34:48.240 --> 00:35:00.200 It is the man, Christ, Jesus, the man, Christ, Jesus, the man, human, Christ, Messiah, Yahoshua, 441 00:35:00.200 --> 00:35:08.360 Yeshua, Yah, Jesus, the eternal God. 442 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:12.720 Listen, I hope there's been a blessing to you. 443 00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:17.880 We would love 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