House of God
Today’s Topic: The Heirs and The War
Scripture: Hebrews 1:5-14; Ephesians 6:11-17
Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
Now when God was made the choice to have sons as heirs of the Kingdom of God, a revolt began in Heaven. What was this revolt and what was it about? First the rebellion was lead by the worshipping angel Lucifer and one-third of Heaven’s angels followed behind him. The problem they had was that instead of them, the angels being the heirs, God chose this untried creature to be the heirs and the rebellion was all about telling God He was wrong and they deserved to be the heirs. Well, we know what happened and Jesus said He saw Satan fall like lightning. Now there is a fundamental concept that we need to understand about the angels.
When God created the angels, all of them, He intended on them to be ministering spirits only. Huh? The word minister is simply servant. God did not create them with the competence to love. He only created them with the competence to serve. Now, the children of God are in His image and after His likeness and they have the competence to love just like their Father. Now Lucifer could not deal with the fact that they had to serve this untried creature and this escalated the war between God and Lucifer and the fallen angels. Now I know this may be a lot of talk so let’s look to the scriptures to see what God said about the His sons and the angels.
Hebrews 1:5,6:”For unto which of the angels said He at ANY TIME, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again I will be to Him a Father and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him.” Now when we look at this the first thing is that the angels are not the sons of God in the respect of being His children. The angels do not know God as a Father but the children of God know the Creator as Father. Now when Jesus comes into the world the angels worshipped Him. Now, this is unique because it does not specify fallen or unfallen angels. In a couple of encounters that Jesus had with demons, they fell down and worshipped Him because they knew who He was and in some cases pleaded with Jesus not to send them to the Abyss or the dark pit where fallen angels and spirits are enchained and tortured. The scripture says the angels worshipped Him. Let’s look at another scripture.
Hebrews 1:7,13,14: “And of the angels He saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. 13-But to which of the angels said He AT ANY TIME, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Now God only made that promise to His Son, Jesus, that He would place all of His enemies under His feet. But the meat of the matter is verse 14. All angels, including Satan, are ministering spirits sent to minister (serve) for them who SHALL BE HEIRS OF SALVATION. Who are the heirs of salvation? The sons of God, the Kingdom citizens.
Hence the angels are the Servants of the Lord. Now let’s clarify so there is no confusion. Throughout the Old Testament we see this terms referring to the angels and the words are “host” and “cloud”. Here are a few examples:
1. Captain of the Host of the Lord – Joshua 5:14,15
2. Clouds of Heaven – Daniel 7:13
3. Heavenly Host – Luke 2:13
4. Lord of Hosts – Isaiah 9:7
Now the reason I bring this out is because the word host refers to armies or military. So if the angels are ministering spirits and the heavenly hosts then they are the “Army of the Lord”. Please do not miss this, we are not the army of the Lord. Citizens are not military. In order to be military you have to cease to be a citizen or better word, civilian. When a country is attacked the citizens do not fight, they SEND THE MILITARY THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT to go fight for them. Now does Hebrews 1:14 look a little clearer. The angels are sent to serve us and throughout scripture you will see the role of angels in a servant role and not in a ruling role. Now for years the church has tried to be the Army of the Lord and it has failed miserably. How can we defend ourselves from invisible demonic and powerful angels but we cannot take care of our bills? This is why you send the “special forces” to handle the threat. These special forces are trained and are able to neutralize the threat to the satisfaction of the government (Kingdom of God) that rules over them.
HENCE WE DO NOT FIGHT FLESH AND BLOOD! Satan has made the war between us and the reality is the war is between God and Satan and we as the children are in the middle. But what I love about God is He arms us and protects us (Ephesians 6:11-17).
In the next message we will look at the power and wisdom of God’s choice of His sons as the heirs of the Kingdom.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
