Book : Angels - Graham, Billy

-Titulo Original : Angels

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Thomas Nelson

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ANGELS By Billy Graham Thomas NelsonCopyright © 2007 Billy Graham All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-8499-3871-9 Contents Publishers Preface...........................................ixPreface to the Second Edition.................................xiii1. Are Angels Gods Secret Agents?............................12. Angels Are for Real........................................173. Angels-Visible or Invisible?...............................254. Angels-How They Differ from Man............................335. Angelic Organization.......................................476. Lucifer and the Angelic Rebellion..........................577. Angels as Messengers of God................................718. Angels Protect and Deliver Us..............................839. Angels-Gods Agents in Judgment............................9310. Angels and the Gospel.....................................10311. Angel Ministries in the Life of Jesus.....................11712. Angels in Prophecy........................................12513. The Angels and Death......................................13714. Angel Spectators..........................................14715. Angels in Our Lives Today.................................151 Chapter One Are Angels Gods Secret Agents? My wife, who was born and raised in China, recalls that in her childhood days tigers lived in the mountains. One day a poor woman went up to the foothills to cut grass. To her back was tied a baby, and a little child walked beside her. In her hand she carried a sharp sickle to cut grass. Just as she reached the top of a hill, she heard a roar. Frightened almost speechless, she looked around to see a mother tigress springing at her, followed by two cubs. This illiterate Chinese mother had never attended school or entered a church. She had never seen a Bible. But a year or two earlier a missionary had told her about Jesus, who is able to help you when you are in trouble. As the claws of the tigress tore her arm and shoulder, the woman cried out in a frenzy, O Jesus, help me! The ferocious beast, instead of attacking again to get an easy meal, suddenly turned and ran away. The Bible says, He will give his angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways (Psalm 91:11 RSV). Had God sent an angel to help this poor ignorant Chinese woman? Are there supernatural beings today who are able to influence the affairs of men and nations? In A Slow and Certain Light, Elizabeth Elliot told about her fathers experiences with angelic helpers: My father, when he was a small boy, was climbing on an upper story of a house that was being built. He walked to the end of a board that was not nailed at the other end, and it slowly began to tip. He knew that he was doomed, but inexplicably the board began to tip the other way, as though a hand had pushed it down again. He always wondered if it was an angels hand. HELP FROM ANGELS A celebrated Philadelphia neurologist had gone to bed after an exceptionally tiring day. Suddenly he was awakened by someone knocking on his door. Opening it he found a little girl, poorly dressed and deeply upset. She told him her mother was very sick and asked him if he would please come with her. It was a bitterly cold, snowy night, but though he was bone tired, the doctor dressed and followed the girl. As Readers Digest reports the story, he found the mother desperately ill with pneumonia. After arranging for medical care, he complimented the sick woman on the intelligence and persistence of her little daughter. The woman looked at him strangely and then said, My daughter died a month ago. She added, Her shoes and coat are in the clothes closet there. Amazed and perplexed, the doctor went to the closet and opened the door. There hung the very coat worn by the little girl who had brought him to tend to her mother. It was warm and dry and could not possibly have been out in the wintry night. Could the doctor have