Michael, Gabriel, and the Spirits You Were Never Taught to Call

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So the Protestant Bible names exactly two angels, Michael and Gabriel.
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Every other angel name you have ever heard, Raphael, Uriel,
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all of them, came from somewhere else. And in the
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year 745, a church council in Rome took one of
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those names, declared it belonged to a demon, and condemned
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the preacher who had been praying to it. That should
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matter to anyone who has ever been told to call
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on an archangel by name. Right now, in prayer circles
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and on social media and in best-selling books, people are
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invoking archangels for protection, for healing, for money, for help
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cutting emotional ties to their exes. You've probably seen posts
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about the seven archangels' angel names and and their meanings,
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and guardian angels you can call by name. If you
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don't know where those names came from, you don't know
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who is answering, folks. There's a royal advisor to Elizabeth,
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Queen Elizabeth I, who spent years taking dictation from a
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being that introduced itself as the angel Uriel. Until the
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spirits he was talking to gave him an order that
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broke one of the Ten Commandments. And there's a famous
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sighting of an angel on the First World War battlefield
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that started its life as a short story in a
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London newspaper. Here's the question I'm holding on to until
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the end of the hour. The word archangel appears exactly
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twice in the entire Bible. Once it comes first. with
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a name. The other time in 1 Thessalonians 4, it doesn't.
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When the Lord descends from heaven at the resurrection, Paul
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says he comes with the voice of the archangel. Whose
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voice is that? And why is it there? So by
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the time we're done, you'll be able to tell which
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angel names come from scripture, which come from tradition, and
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which come from the occult, and how to tell the
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difference when someone hands you one, okay? Now, in nuclear security,
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nobody gets through the gate on a name. You can
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wear the right uniform, know the right people, and say
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all the right things. And if your credentials don't check
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out against the access list, you don't get in. It's
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just how it works. That isn't rudeness. It's what it
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looks like to protect something that can't be allowed to
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fall into the wrong hands. I've come to think about
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angel names the same way. A name by itself is
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the easiest thing in the world to borrow. So. Welcome
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back to Broadcasting Seeds. I'm Bennett Tanton, and this is
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episode two of the Elohim. Yesterday, we walked the room,
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the council, and the sons of God, and the cherubim
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and the seraphim, and we saw how many different ways
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people have tried to organize the unseen realm. Today, we
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narrow in on the beings most people mean when they
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say the word angel with a capital A. We're talking
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about the archangels. And this episode lands two weeks after Michaelmas. Okay?
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September 29th is the day the Western Church has set
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aside four centuries to honor Michael. And since 1969, the
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Catholic calendar has honored Gabriel and Raphael on the same day. So,
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These names are on a lot of people's lips right now.
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Let's find out what's underneath them. And as always, I
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thank you for being here. You could be anywhere right now.
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And I'll try to make it worth your while. Section one,
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the two who are named. Start with the Bible, actually.
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Start with what he actually gives us, because it's less.
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It's so much less than you'd think. Michael appears by
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name five times. Three of them are in the last
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two chapters of Daniel, in Daniel 10. The messenger who
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comes to Daniel after his 21-day fast says, The prince
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of the kingdom of Persia withstood him, but lo, Michael,
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one of the chief princes, came to help me. A
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few verses later, the messenger says, There is none that
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holdeth with me in those things, but Michael, your prince.
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And in Daniel 12, verse 1, the most important of
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the three, And at that time shall Michael stand up,
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the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people,
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and there shall be a time of trouble. such as
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never was since there was a nation, even to that
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same time. Notice what Michael is in Daniel. He's a prince,
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a tsar, the same word used for the prince of
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Persia and the prince of Greece. If you were with
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us yesterday, you know what that means. The nations were
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handed power. over to members of the divine council at Babel.
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And Daniel shows us some of them in action. Michael
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is the prince who stands for Israel, the one nation
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God kept for himself. He's one of the chief princes,
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not the only one, one of them. Okay. So in
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the New Testament, Michael appears twice in Jude and Verse 9,
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Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he
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disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against
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him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
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And in Revelation 12, verse 7, And there was war
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in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,
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and the dragon fought. his angels. That line in Jude
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stops a lot of readers cold. A dispute over the
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body of Moses? We've done an episode on this, so
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go back and find it. Where is that in the
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Old Testament? It isn't. Deuteronomy 34 tells us that God
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himself buried Moses in a valley in Moab, and that
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no man knoweth of his sepulcher until this day. The
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early church father, Origen, writing in the third century, said
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Jude was drawing on a Jewish book known as the
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Assumption of Moses. The copy of that book that survives
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today breaks off before the ending, so we can't read
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the scene ourselves. But it tells you something about Jude.
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he was comfortable quoting the wider Jewish tradition of his
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day when it illustrated a true point, just as he
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quotes the book of Enoch a few verses later. And
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the point he takes from this one is about restraint.
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The greatest warrior in heaven, face to face with the
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devil over the body of the greatest prophet in Israel,
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would not pronounce judgment, on his own authority. So in scripture,
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Michael is a commander, a prince over Israel, the leader
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of an army in heaven, the one who stands up
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at the time of trouble at the end. But the
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most interesting thing about Michael might be his name. In Hebrew,
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it's Mikael. Mikael. That means who is like God. It
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isn't a statement, it's a question. And if you were
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with us on Sunday, you've heard that question before. Psalm 89,
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verse 6. Who among the sons of the mighty can
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be likened unto the Lord? Moses sang it in the
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Red Sea in Exodus 15. Who is like unto thee,
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O Lord, among the gods? The greatest warrior in the
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heavenly army carries a name that is a challenge. And
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the only possible answer to that challenge is no one.
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Every time someone says his name, they're confessing that he
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isn't God.
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Huh.
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Think about that. Think about what that means for a moment.
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The archangel most people have been taught to pray to
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has a name that every time you say it tells
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you not to. Michael's name points away from Michael, who
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is like God. not Michael. That's the whole point of him.
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Gabriel appears four times, twice in Daniel and twice in Luke.
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In Daniel 8, a voice calls out, Gabriel, make this
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man to understand the vision. In Daniel 9, while Daniel
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is praying at the time of the evening offering, the
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man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at
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the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me. And
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Gabriel delivers the prophecy of the 70 weeks, one of
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the most studied passages in the entire Old Testament. Then
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he disappears from the record for roughly 500 years until
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he walks into the temple in Jerusalem and stands at
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the right side of the altar of incense while an
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old priest named Zacharias is serving. When Zacharias doubts the message,
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the angel says, Luke 1, verse 19, I am Gabriel
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that stand in the presence of God, and I am
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sent to speak unto thee and to show thee these
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glad tidings. Six months later, he's sent to the village
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called Nazareth to a young woman named Mary. Gabriel's name
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means something like God is my mighty one. from the
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Hebrew word for a strong man or warrior. But in Scripture,
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he never fights. Every time we see him, he's explaining
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or announcing. Michael is the prince who stands. Gabriel is
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the one who stands in the presence of God and
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is sent to speak. The Bible never calls Gabriel an archangel.
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Not once. That title comes from tradition. The word archangel,
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archangelos in Greek, shows up only twice in Scripture. In
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Jude 9, it's attached to Michael. In 1 Thessalonians 4,
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verse 16, it's attached to no name at all. I
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read it. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
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with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and
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with the trump of God and the dead in Christ
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shall rise first. That's the verse I opened with, right?
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And we'll come back to it. So one more thing
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before we leave the Bible, Daniel's messenger in chapter 10,
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the one who fought the prince of Persia is never named.
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A lot of people assume it's Gabriel. And it may be,
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it absolutely may be, but the text doesn't say that
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it is. And I'd rather tell you what the text
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says than tell you what I wish it said. So
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that's the full biblical roster. A whopping two names. One
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of them with the title Archangel. Everything else is somewhere else.
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Okay?
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Section two, the names from outside. So where does everything
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else come from? There's so much, right? Start with Raphael,
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because he's the one name that sits right on the
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boundary of the Bible, right? He appears in the book
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of Tobit, which we looked at on Sunday, Tobit. is
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scripture for Catholic and Orthodox Christians and was printed in
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the original King James among the Apocrypha. At the end
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of the story, the traveling companion who has guided Tobias
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found a demon and healed his father's blindness reveals himself.
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In the Old King James Apocrypha, Tobit 12, verse 15 reads,
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I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which
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present the prayers of the saints and which go in
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and out before the glory of the Holy One. Seven
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holy angels who got in and out before the glory. Now,
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Put that next to Revelation 8, verse 2. And I
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saw the seven angels which stood before God, and to
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them were given seven trumpets. Revelation never names them. But
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Tobit and Revelation agree that there's a group of seven
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who stand in the presence of God. That's where the
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idea of seven archangels comes from in tradition. Raphael's name
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means God heals. And in Tobit, he does exactly that.
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He also does something else. A demon named Asmodeus has
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killed seven men on their wedding nights. And in Tobit 8,
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the demon flees into the utmost parts of Egypt and
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the angel bound him. Hold on to Asmodeus. We'll come
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back tomorrow to him. And his name has a history
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that goes back all the way to Persia. So, for
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the rest of the seven, we have to go to
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the Book of Enoch, which, as we said yesterday, is
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scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and nowhere else. 1
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Enoch chapter 20 lists the names of the holy angels
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who watch. Uriel, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael,
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over the spirits of men. Raguel, who takes vengeance on
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the world of the luminaries. Michael, set over the best
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part of mankind. Sarah Kyle, over the spirits who sin. Gabriel,
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over paradise and the serpents and the cherubim. And in
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some manuscripts, a seventh, Remiel, set over those who rise.
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Earlier in the same book, in chapters 9 and 10,
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four of these archangels look down from heaven and see
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the earth filled with blood and violence because of the
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watchers and their children, the giants. God sends them out
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on assignments. Raphael is sent to bind Azazel, hand and foot,
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and cast him into darkness in the desert, right? Gabriel
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is sent against the giants. Michael is sent to bind
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Semyaza and his companions. And Uriel, or in some copies, Sariel, S-A-R-I-E-L,
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is sent to warn Noah of the flood. If you
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watched our book of Enoch series, You've heard some of this,
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all right? But what I want you to see now
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is that the four names on the Towers of the
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Army of Light in the Dead Sea War Scroll, which
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I've done an episode on as well, Michael, Gabriel, Sariel,
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and Raphael match the four in Enoch. That was a
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shared tradition in Second Temple Judaism, not just one man's invention, okay?
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Uriel gets a second source. The book called Second Esdras,
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which is in the Apocrypha of the King James and
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in some Orthodox Bibles, opens its fourth chapter this way.
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The angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel,
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gave me an answer. Later in the chapter, it says, Jeremiah,
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the archangel, Uriel means, name means God in my light.
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And in Enoch, he's the guide who shows the seer
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the course of the sun, moon, and stars. So by
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the time Jesus, by the time of Jesus, Jewish literature
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outside the Hebrew Bible and a well-developed list, right? The
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Eastern churches kept much of it. Orthodox Church honors eight
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archangels on November 8th. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, uh, Sellafiel, uh, Ja, Gaidiel, Barakiel,
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and Jeremiah. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has a special devotion
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to Uriel. At some point after the New Testament period,
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Christian theologians began trying to map all of this into
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a system. The most influential attempt in the Eastern Church
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was a text called the Celestial Hierarchy, written around the
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late 400s and attributed to a convert of Paul named
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Dionysus of Aeropagati, though scholars today call the author Pseudo-Dionysus, right?
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I've talked about this person before. Since the dates don't
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line up, right? That's what they call him. His nine
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orders of angels, arranged into three tiers, become the architecture
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that later writers build on. In the West, Pope Gregory
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the Great took a similar pass at organizing the angelic
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ranks in the late 500s, and his framework shaped Western
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Christianity piety for the better part of a thousand years.
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And in the 1300s, Thomas Aquinas, sometimes called the angelic doctor,
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which is fitting, devoted large sections of his Summa Theologica
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to exactly these questions. He wanted to know what angels are,
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how they know things, whether they have bodies, and how
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many there might be. What strikes me about all three
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of them is this. None of them were trying to
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teach you which angel to call. They were trying to
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understand a realm they knew they couldn't see. There's a
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humanity in the project that a lot of modern angel
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content has lost. Humility in the project that a lot
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of modern angel content has lost. On Sunday, I promise you, um,
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I promise you we'd be, we'd come back to the
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place called, uh, Chonea. And this is where it belongs.
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If you remember, Paul warned the church of, um, Colasia
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against the worshiping of angels. And centuries later, the Council
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of Laodicea, a church council held in that same region
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around the mid-300s, formerly forbade Christians from abandoning the name
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of Jesus Christ to go and invoke angels. Just a
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few miles from the ruins of Colasia at the town
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of Jonea, there grew up one of the most famous
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shrines to Michael in the ancient world. The Orthodox Church
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still tells that story. A spring at that spot was
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said to heal the sick and a man named Archippius
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spent his life caring for a chapel built over it.
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Pagans in the region, the story goes, tried to destroy
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the chapel by diverting two rivers into a single torrent
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aimed straight at it. An archipias prayed and Michael appeared,
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struck the rock with his staff, and opened a chasm
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that swallowed the flood. That's where the town name is
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said to come from. Chonay means something like funnels or openings.
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The Orthodox calendar remembers that miracle every September. I'm not
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going to tell you whether it happened. I'll tell you
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what strikes me about where it happened. The single most
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famous Michael Shrine in the early Christian East grew up particularly,
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practically on top of the one church in in the
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New Testament that had warned in writing against worshiping angels.
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Whatever God did or didn't do at Jona, the people
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of that valley never seem to have lost their fascination
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with the angel. That's not a criticism of them. It's
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a mirror for us. The Western church went the other way.
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And the story of why is one of the most
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important stories in this whole episode. In the 740s, a
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Frankish preacher named Aldebert was drawing crowds in what is
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now France, and he claimed an angel had brought him
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relics from the ends of the earth. He handed out
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his own fingernail clippings and hair as holy objects, and
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he taught his followers a prayer that invoked eight angels
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by name. Uriel, Ragiel, Tubiel, and Adonis, Tubuas, Sabucus, and Simeon,
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and Michael. Wow. In 745, a synod in Rome under
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Pope Zachary examined Albert's prayer. The council concluded that With
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the exception of Michael, there were not the names of
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angels at all. They were the names of demons. And
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they condemned Aldebert, Uriel, the angel of light in Enoch,
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the angel who answers Ezra, was struck from Western use
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in the same sentence as names nobody had ever heard of.
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And the Catholic Church still holds that line. In 2001,
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the Vatican Directory of Popular Piety and the Liturgy said
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that the practice of assigning names to the holy angels
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should be discouraged. Except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael,
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and Michael, whose names are contained in Holy Scripture. You
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don't have to be Catholic to see the wisdom in that, okay?
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When.
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When you start collecting names of spiritual beings beyond what
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scripture gives you, you have no way, no way of
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knowing whether the names you're calling is a servant of
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God or something that would very much like to be
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addressed as one. Okay. Islam, which also has a strong
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angeology named Jibril and Mikael in the Quran in the
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second chapter, verse 19. In 1797 and 98, in Islamic tradition,
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Jibreel is the angel who came to Muhammad in a
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cave on Mount Hira and commanded him to recite the
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beginnings of the Quran. That's an important claim, and I
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want to handle that carefully because it's a living faith
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held by nearly 2 billion people, and I'm not here
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to mock anyone. Okay, but Paul gave us a test
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for exactly this situation, and he applied it to himself first.
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Galatians 1, verse 8. But though we are an angel
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from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
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which is We have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
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An angel's name is not its credential. An angel's bringing
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a message that contradicts the gospel fails Paul's test, no
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matter what name is given. That applies to the being
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that came to Muhammad, and it applies equally to the
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angel Moroni, who Joseph Smith said led him to golden
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plates in New York in the 1820s. And it applies
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to anything that shows up in your bedroom tonight calling
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itself Gabriel. Okay? Yeah, I'm going to catch some heat
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for that, but it is what it is. Let me
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take one minute for something practical. Everything you hear on
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this channel is kept going by people who decided it
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was worth supporting. And one of the easiest ways to
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do that is the Broadcasting Seeds store. It's been rebuilt
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with tees and hoodies and some other products. And a
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lot of designs carry the scripture and the themes we
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teach right here. I'll tell you why I like wearing them.
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A shirt with the verse on it. starts conversations that
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I'd never get to start on my own with people
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who would never click on a video about archangels. Every
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order goes straight back to making these episodes. You'll find
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it at broadcastingseeds.com and the link is in the description.
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Section three, calling them by name. Now, now we cross
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a line and I want to tell you plainly that
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we're crossing it. Everything in this section is about what
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people outside the church have done with these names. It's
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not scripture. It's not tradition. It's not tradition. And some
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of it is dangerous. Straight up. I'm covering it because
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you will run into it. And I'd rather you meet
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it here with your eyes wide open. So here we go. Oh, man,
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my voice is failing me. John Dee was one of
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the most brilliant men of the 16th century. I will
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give him that. He was a mathematician, a navigator, an astronomer,
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an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He owned one of
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the largest private libraries in England, and beginning in the
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early 1580s, he began trying to speak with angels. Dee
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couldn't see them himself, and he worked with a scryer,
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a man who would gaze into a crystal or a
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polished stone and report what he saw and heard. His
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most famous scryer was a man named Edward Kelly. At
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one of these early sessions together in March of 1582,
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the being that came through gave it its name as Uriel.
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Over the next several years, Dee recorded hundreds of pages
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of conversations with beings who called themselves by angelic names,
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including Michael and a spirit who appeared as a small
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girl and called herself Maddie Me. Maddie Me. They dictated
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an entire language, okay, which Dee recorded and which occultists
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still call Enochian. Dee was a devout man by his
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own lights, okay? He prayed before the sessions. He believed
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he was receiving wisdom from God's angels. In 1587, at
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a castle in Bohemia, the spirits gave Dee and Kelly
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an instruction. According to Dee's own records, they were told
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to share everything in common, including their wives. Dee protested.
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He was told, in effect, that the command came from
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God and that refusing it would be disobedience. And in May...
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Of that year, he and Kelly signed a covenant to obey.
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The relationship between the two men fell apart soon after,
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and Kelly eventually died a prisoner in Bohemia, and Dee
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returned to England to find that his great library had
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been plundered while he was away, and he died in
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poverty some years later. I'm not telling you that story
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to be sensational. I'm telling you because it's the clearest
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case study I know of what happens when someone calls
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on beings by angelic names without a test. Deuteronomy 13
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says that if a prophet or a dreamer gives you
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a sign or a wonder and the sign comes to
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pass and then he says, let us go after other gods,
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you shall not hearken. The test isn't whether the being
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is impressive or whether its messages are intricate or whether
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it uses holy names. The test is whether it leads
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you toward obedience to God or away from it. A
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being that calls himself Uriel and commands a man to
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break the seventh commandment has told you exactly what it is,
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not an angel, okay? Dee wasn't the first to imagine
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that An archangel could hand a man power over spirits.
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There's an ancient text called the Testament of Solomon, written
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sometime in the early Christian centuries, that tells how King Solomon,
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while building the temple, was troubled by a demon. He prayed,
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and the archangel Michael brought him a ring engraved with
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a seal, And with that ring, Solomon commanded demon after
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demon to appear, give its name, confess what it did,
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and go to work hauling stones for the temple. It's
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a strange document and almost certainly legend. But notice the
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logic of it, because it echoes all the way down
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to the magic books of the Renaissance. Get the right name,
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get the right seal, and the spirits have to obey.
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That's the logic of control. It is the opposite of
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the logic of prayer. Dee's work didn't die with him.
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In the late 1800s, the Hermetic Order of the Golden
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Dawn in England absorbed Enochian material into its system. One
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of its foundational rituals, which practitioners still use today, is
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called the Lesser Banishing Ritual. of the pentagram. And at
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its center, the practitioner calls out four names to the
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four directions before me, Raphael, behind me, Gabriel, on my
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right hand, Michael, and on my left hand, Uriel. Four archangels,
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the same four from Enoch and the war scroll, now
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summoned to the four corners of a magician's circle. And
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in our own times, the same names moved into the mainstream.
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If you search social media for archangel prayers or for
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angel names and meanings or for how to invoke your
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guardian angel, you'll find millions of views on practices like
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asking Archangel Michael to cut the cords that bind you
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to old relationships or calling on Raphael for healing or
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Uriel for wisdom. Gabriel for creative inspiration. Some of that
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comes straight out of the work of Dorian Virtue, specifically
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her Archangel Oracle cards and the healing with the Angel series,
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who we talked about on Sunday and who had sold
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millions of copies of those materials before she came to Christ.
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And then guess what she did? She renounced them. I
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spent years in security and anti-terrorism work. One of the
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first things you learn about social engineering is that the
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attacker almost never, almost never introduces himself as the threat.
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He calls the front desk and says he's from IT.
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He wears the right lanyard. He uses the boss's name.
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The name is the key to the door and the beginnings.
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In that unseen realm have had a long time. The
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beings in that unseen realm have had a long time
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to learn which names open which doors. Okay? And I
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find it funny that we don't actually know Satan's name.
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Just talking about names. But that's because names have power.
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And if we knew his, what would that do? Just saying.
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Section four, the witnesses, right? So let's turn to people
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who say they've actually encountered archangels and let's grade them
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the way intelligence reports get graded. In military and intelligence work,
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there's an old system for evaluating a report. You grade
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the source on a scale for reliability and you grade
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the information itself on a separate scale of credibility. A
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completely reliable source can still pass along something that isn't true,
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and an unknown source can sometimes hand you gold. The
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two questions are separate. Who is telling me this, and
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can it be confirmed? Start with the Joan of Arc.
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In 1431, she stood trial before an ecclesiastical court.
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Rowan.
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The transcripts of that trial survive. In them, under hostile questioning,
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she testified that when she was about 13 years old
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in her father's garden in the village of Domremy, she
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heard a voice and that the first to come to
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her was St. Michael, followed later by St. Catherine and St. Margaret.
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She said she saw them. She said the voices told
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her to go to the aid of the King of France.
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She was a peasant girl with no military training, and
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in 1429, she helped lift the siege of Orleans. one
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of the turning points of the Hundred Years' War. How
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do we grade that? The source for what she said
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is about as good a medieval history, as good a
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source as medieval history gets. It's a court record taken
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down by people who wanted to condemn her, of all things.
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They burned her at the stake in 1431. and a
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later court overturned the verdict in 1456. So we can
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be confident she sincerely claimed these experiences under oath at
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the cost of her life. What we can't confirm is
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what she actually encountered. As a Protestant, I'd want to
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ask hard questions about voices identifying themselves as dead saints.
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as a student of history, I can't explain away what
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a teenage girl did at Orleans. Let's just say it
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the right way. I'll, I'll leave that one in the
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column of legitimate mystery. Now next Fatima in 1916 in
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the village of Portugal, three shepherd children, uh, Lucia dos
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Santos and her cousins, Francisco and, uh, Jacinta Marto said
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that an angel appeared to them three times. He called
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himself the Angel of Peace, and on a later appearance,
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the Angel of Portugal. He taught them to pray, and
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the prayer he taught them was directed to God, not
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to himself. My God, I believe, I adore, I hope,
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and I love you. The next year came. the famous
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Marian apparitions. And on October 13th, 1917, a crowd estimated
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to tens of thousands reported seeing the sun move in
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the sky. That anniversary is today. Um, How do we
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grade it? The source is Lucia herself, but the Angel
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accounts come from memoirs she wrote in the 1930s and 40s,
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roughly 20 years after the events. Her cousins had both
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died as children in the influenza pandemic, so there's no
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second witness to the Angel. The crowd at October event
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is well documented, including... By a secular newspaper reporter, the
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angel is a single-source report written down long after the fact.
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I'd grade the angel account as unconfirmed, and I'd note
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one thing in its favor by our Sunday standard. The
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being in Lucia's account directed worship to God, not to itself. No,
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the angel of Mons. And this one is a warning, okay?
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In August 1914, the British Expeditionary Force fought its first
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major battle in World War I at Mons in Belgium
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and then retreated under heavy pressure. A month later, on
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September 29, 1914, a Welsh writer named Arthur Macken published
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a short story in the London Evening News called the
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bowman in it phantom english archers from the battle of
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ashen court appear in the sky and shoot down the
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advancing germans it was fiction so machin always said it
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was he always said so but within months parish magazine
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and pamphlets were printed it they were printing it as
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fact The bowmen became angels. Soldiers were supposedly saying they
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had seen shining figures between the lines. Books were published
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collecting the accounts, and when people went looking for an
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actual soldier who assigned his name to a first-hand account
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written before Mokshin's story appeared, no one could produce one.
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Mokshin spent the rest of his life telling people he'd
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made it up, and many of them refused to believe him.
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This is the guy that wrote it. How do we
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grade it? The source is a short story. The credibility
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is zero. And yet, it became one of the most
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famous angel sightings in modern history. That should make us
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all be more careful about what we forward on social media.
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And let me give you one more, because not every
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account is either impossible to check or a fraud. So,
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Billy Graham, in his book Angels, published in 1975, retold
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the story of Paul Patton, a Scottish missionary in what
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is now the island of Vanuatu in the 1800s. According
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to the account Graham passed on, hostile tribesmen surrounded the
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mission station one night intending to burn it and kill
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the Pattons. Who spent the night in prayer? In the morning,
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the attackers left. Years later, the story goes, a chief
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who had become a Christian asked Patton who the men
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were who had surrounded the station that night. Hundreds of
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men in shining garments with drawn swords. Now, how do
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we grade that? It's a good source passing on a
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secondhand story. Decades after the fact, it's unconfirmed. But I'll
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tell you what it reminds me of. 2 Kings 6.
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The servant of Elisha wakes up and sees an army
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surrounding the city. And Elisha prays, Lord, I pray thee,
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open his eyes that he may see. and the mountain
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is full of horses and chariots of fire. We spent
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a Sunday on that passage a few weeks ago, and
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Elisha didn't call on the chariots. He didn't name them.
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He prayed to the Lord, and the Lord opened the
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servant's eyes. That's the pattern Scripture gives us. So, section 5,
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what this changes. So let's pull this together and ask
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what it changes. First, the archangels are real and they
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are servants. Michael is a prince over Israel and a
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commander in the war in heaven. Gabriel stands in the
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presence of God and is sent. Neither of them is
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ever invoked by a faithful person in scripture. Not once
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does a prophet or an apostle pray to Michael Or
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call on Gabriel. They pray to God and God sends
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whom he sends. Okay? That's worth sitting with because there's
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a promise in the Psalms that a lot of people quote.
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Psalm 91, verse 11. For he shall give his angels
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charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
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It's a good promise and it's true. But last Tuesday
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in the revealed one, We watched who quotes it in
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the New Testament. Satan, standing with Jesus on the pinnacle
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of the temple, telling him to jump because the angels
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will catch him. The only figure in the Bible who
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uses that verse to get someone to summon the angels
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is the devil himself. And Jesus answers, again, we don't
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know the devil. We don't know his name.
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Right?
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And Jesus answers, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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The angels are gods to send, not ours to call, folks.
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That raises a question a lot of you have asked
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in the comments over the years. It's true. Do we
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each have a guardian angel? Scripture doesn't give us a
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detailed doctrine but it gives us two lines worth taking seriously.
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In Matthew 18, verse 10, Jesus says of little children,
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in heaven their angels do always behold the face of
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my Father which is in heaven. They're angels. And in
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Acts 12, when Peter is miraculously freed from prison and
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knocks at the gate of the house where the church
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is praying, the servant girl, Rhoda, runs back in to
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say Peter is outside and they tell her she's out
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of her mind. When she insists, they say, it is
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his angel. The early church apparently assumed a believer had
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an angel associated with him. That's as far as the
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text goes, guys, okay? It never tells us to know
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our guardian angel's name, to talk to it, or to
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ask it for anything. I've had people tell me we
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have two angels, right? It tells us that the angels
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assigned to the least of these behold the Father's face,
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which means the one they're looking at is not us.
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And Hebrews 13 adds a quiet line that I love.
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have
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entertained angels unawares. The Bible's picture is not of people
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who summon angels. It's of people who serve strangers and
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occasionally find out later who they were. Maybe. Second, the
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archangels are not the Son. There are Christian groups who
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identify Michael with Jesus. Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus is Michael,
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the archangel, a created being. Seventh-day Adventists also identify Michael
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with Christ, though they hold that Christ is fully divine.
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I want to be fair to both, but there's a
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simple contrast in the text that I can't get past.
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I just can't. Jude says that when Michael contended with
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the devil, he durst not bring against him a railing accusation,
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but said, The Lord rebuke thee. Michael didn't rebuke Satan
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in his own authority. He appealed to the Lord's. And
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in Matthew 4, when Satan finished tempting him, Jesus said,
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get thee hence, Satan. He didn't appeal to anyone else's authority.
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He used his own. So, Michael says, the Lord rebuke you.
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Jesus is the Lord who rebukes. And Hebrews 1 asks,
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Of all the angels, to which of them did God
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ever say, Thou art my son? The answer is freaking none.
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Michael included. Okay? So, enough. Enough. Third, names are not credentials.
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The Western church learned that the hard way. In 745,
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John Dee learned it the hard way in 1587. And
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a lot of people on social media are learning it
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the hard way right now. If something comes to you
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using an angel's name, the name tells you nothing. What
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it asks of you tells you everything. Does it point
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you to Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, or does it
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point to itself? Does it lead you towards obedience to
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God's word or around it? Deuteronomy 13, Galatians 1, 1
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John 4. The test hasn't changed in 3,000 years, folks.
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And now the question I opened with, the voice of
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the archangel. 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16. For the Lord
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himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
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voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,
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and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Some people
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read the voice of the archangel as another description of
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the Lord's own shout. That is possible. But I think
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Paul is pointing us back to something specific And the
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clue is in what happens next. The dead rise. The
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clearest description of the resurrection of the dead anywhere in
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the Old Testament is Daniel 12, verse 1 and 2.
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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince,
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which standeth for the children of thy people, and there
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shall be a time of trouble. such as never was
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since there was a nation, even to that same time
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and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every
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one that shall be found written in the book, and
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many of them that sleep in the dust of the
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earth shall wake, some to everlasting life and some to
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shame and everlasting contempt. Michael stands up. and the dead awake.
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Paul was a trained Pharisee. He knew Daniel 12, and
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when he describes the moment the dead in Christ rise,
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he puts the voice of the archangel in the scene,
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right where Daniel put Michael. The only being in scripture
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ever called the archangel by name is Michael. And the
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clearest resurrection scene in the Old Testament has Michael standing
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up at the start of it. But look at the
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order of Paul's sentence. The Lord himself descends. The archangel's
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voice is part of the sound of his coming, like
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the trumpet. The archangel doesn't raise the dead. The Lord does.
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Michael does. whose name asks who is like God, stands
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up and lifts his voice on the last day, and
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the answer to his name descends from heaven. That's the
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archangel's whole job. From Daniel to Thessalonians, he stands for
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God's people. He fights for them. And when the king comes,
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he announces him. He was never meant to be the
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one we call. He was always meant to be the
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one who points. Tomorrow, we go to the other side
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of this war, the ones who stopped pointing. Okay? Thank
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take it out. Go find it under broadcasting seats. Tomorrow,
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The Fallen. Not the story of the rebellion. We've told that.
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If you haven't watched that, go back and find it.
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Tomorrow is the field guide, who they are, how the
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traditions name them, and why the oldest Jewish explanation of
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where demons come from says they aren't fallen angels at all.
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I'll see you then.
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They came wearing names of heaven With promises carved into
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light But not every voice that speaks of glory has
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ever stood before the Father.
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Golden tongues and borrowed halos Telling me to kneel and.
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Pray They offered healing, they offered power.
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Secrets written in the stars But every light that asked for.
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Worship Left another holy sky Somewhere beyond the veil Where
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the ancient armies stand A warrior bears.
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A sacred question That no creature can withstand.
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No crown above your crown No throne.
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Beside your throne Let every voice Be silent now.
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All before the Holy.
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One Who is like God Who can stand Before the.
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King Let the heavens shake apart Let the Holy One The.
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Rest of angels sing No other name No other throne
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No created life Can claim your run When the final
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trumpet sounds And the dead rise from.
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The sod Let all creation answer None is like God
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None is like.
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God Heard him speak with borrowed grace. Every lie was
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wrapped in wonder. Every shadow wore a face.
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He said the ancient names.
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Could save me.
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Said the hidden words were keys.
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But the servants do not own the kingdom.
703
01:00:14.900 --> 01:00:17.519
And the king does not need me.
704
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:25.909
Michael stood before the darkness. Never claim the judgment seat.
705
01:00:26.070 --> 01:00:29.730
He said the Lord himself rebuilt you.
706
01:00:29.530 --> 01:00:33.300
And laid authority at his feet.
707
01:00:33.519 --> 01:00:38.949
You cannot steal his glory. You cannot wear his name.
708
01:00:43.019 --> 01:00:48.929
Cannot make a false array Who is like God Who
709
01:00:48.949 --> 01:00:50.789
can stand before.
710
01:00:50.570 --> 01:00:54.190
The King Let the heavens.
711
01:00:53.389 --> 01:00:55.190
Shake upon.
712
01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:05.710
None is like God.
713
01:01:33.780 --> 01:01:40.440
When I can call upon the key.
714
01:01:40.789 --> 01:01:44.510
I will not bow before the creature.
715
01:01:47.289 --> 01:01:54.699
When I have seen what mercy brings Let Gabriel speak.
716
01:01:54.719 --> 01:02:00.829
Let Michael stand. Let heaven move at your command. They
717
01:02:00.849 --> 01:02:04.070
are the servants. You are the son. They bear the message.
718
01:02:04.090 --> 01:02:04.570
You are the one.
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01:02:04.610 --> 01:02:05.630
Trust every spirit.
720
01:02:05.650 --> 01:02:41.659
Break every law. Not every angel. There's no like.
721
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:40.590
Glory, no count, there's a thick cloud Every false altar
722
01:02:40.610 --> 01:02:42.309
is coming down You are the lord, you are the
723
01:02:42.329 --> 01:02:43.190
king Let all the.
724
01:02:43.090 --> 01:02:45.889
Souls have it say Who is like God when the
725
01:02:46.010 --> 01:02:55.340
heavens open wide And the archangel lifts his voice Let
726
01:02:55.380 --> 01:02:59.849
the graves release.
727
01:02:59.570 --> 01:03:02.929
Their dead Let the dust of.
728
01:03:02.929 --> 01:03:11.559
Ages rise The king is coming down Jesus Christ.
729
01:03:27.460 --> 01:03:40.769
And the stars surrender light The angel lifts his voice to.
730
01:03:40.590 --> 01:03:51.349
Heaven But the sun commands the night Who is like God?
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01:03:54.739 --> 01:03:58.110
No one, no one