- Tue, Aug 09, 2011
- Doctrine and Theology
God’s Holiness is Stunning to Angels (audio)
In this audio clip, Randy Alcorn talks about God's holiness being so stunning that even powerful and sinless angels are amazed.
In this audio clip, Randy Alcorn talks about God's holiness being so stunning that even powerful and sinless angels are amazed.
Finney was intoxicated not by mere feelings of joy, but by joy itself, a billion burning quasars of pure joy. All joy he had known on earth was like drinking from the contaminated lower waters, far from the source of the stream. Now he was drinking from the Source itself, the fountain-head of Joy.
This world was so bright and overwhelming he felt it would have blinded and ripped his earthly body to shreds. The joy of heaven was like a volcanic explosion, spectacular and thrilling, but never subsiding. Not like a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse seen for a moment then gone ...
Picture a single breath escaping your mouth on a cold day and disappearing into the air. Life here is brief. It is like a dot, which begins and ends and is brief. But from that dot proceeds a line that will go on forever. Death is not a wall but a doorway.
Passages regarding Spiritual warfare in Scripture, arranged by Randy Alcorn.
As for righteous angels, I’ll never forget driving too fast as a teenager, looking down at something that distracted me, and then looking up to see all yellow in front of me.
Diane’s conversion took my breath away. Only Elyon’s Spirit can pierce the hard shell of their hearts. When she accepted His gift and asked His forgiveness, Elshar and I embraced.
The guardian angel question is a tough one. We know they exist, and we know that children have them, because we're told the children’s angels continuously behold the face of the Father. Now, I can't know for sure, but I think perhaps these children have angels before they actually come to Christ, so it could be an angel assigned to the elect even before conversion. It's impossible to know. I would not assume non-Christians have angels assigned to them, but I think it's possible.
Despite my best attempts to be careful with Scripture, my understanding is far from complete and is without doubt incorrect in some areas. But if the reader diligently investigates the Scripture passages referred to in this summary, he may discover to his surprise (and either to his delight or discomfort) that some of his own notions and assumptions about heaven are in fact not biblical. In the process, he will gain a far greater understanding of this vital subject.
No. Angels and human beings are entirely different creatures.