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00:19 Good evening New Life Covenant Church and all of our viewers around the world.
00:24 Thank you for being with us in our Middle East Bible study.
00:28 We so enjoy bringing those to you.
00:31 It also gives us a chance to dig into meaty stuff and deep stuff
00:37 that we generally would not cover, not usually cover on a Sunday morning.
00:43 A Sunday morning is generally geared for inspiration.
00:48 It's geared to reach people that don't know the Lord.
00:52 It's geared to build people up in their daily walk with the Lord and experience the Lord.
00:59 And so in sessions like this we get to go into meaty things and deep things
01:06 which I think are needful and necessary.
01:10 You know, theology is the study. Theos is the word God.
01:15 Ology is the discipline. So theology is the study of God and his being.
01:21 And we don't really get to work in theos or theology or ethos, a behavior, a way of thinking.
01:31 And so in these teachings we get to delve into some of that.
01:36 My doctorate is in religious studies and religious philosophy.
01:45 And so we are to do a lot of reading and studying and stuff in there.
01:50 But some things that are just rudimentary are mandatory in acquiring that doctorate.
01:57 And so reading then is basically reading to acquire and attain the degree to be conferred.
02:06 But in studying theology we have to go back into deep theologians.
02:12 We had a discussion with the Council of African Apostles on Africa Day
02:17 and our guest speaker was Bishop Dr. Mark Sharona
02:23 who has, I think, three or four earned PhDs.
02:29 The one he's just acquired is one in homiletics and in presentations.
02:39 And so he's a very, very deep brother.
02:43 And so in some of our discussions with that we get into dealing with theology,
02:49 the understanding of the being of God.
02:52 And so we want to go into some meaty things so that we can understand
02:57 some of the way God functions and the way in which he operates.
03:04 So let's pray. Father, we thank you for tonight.
03:07 We thank you for your blessing.
03:09 We thank you for your anointing.
03:11 Grant us great peace and give us great knowledge.
03:16 This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.
03:20 So we're dealing with spiritual warfare issues and demonic forces,
03:27 but we are now getting into the study of angels.
03:31 And so we discussed in our study last week the way angels are positioned
03:39 and the way they are ranked.
03:41 And so you'll see in the presentation we did the structure of the way angels are working.
03:50 And so we'll look at the hierarchy of the way they function.
03:56 So the most powerful angels on the top of the list are the seraphim.
04:03 So the seraphim are basically angels of light around the throne of God.
04:09 But in this presentation I want to deal basically with the role and the function of archangels.
04:19 And so the most powerful archangels that we know of in the Scripture
04:26 are Michael the archangel and Gabriel the archangel.
04:31 There are other archangels which are mentioned here that we'll find in a writing called the Book of Enoch.
04:40 And if you go back to the Book of Genesis, the Bible says,
04:44 "And Enoch walked with God and was not, because God took him."
04:50 And so our Bible that we use, the King James Version, has 66 books.
04:59 The Catholic Bible has other books added.
05:02 They have the Apocrypha.
05:05 They have different books that will deal with theological issues.
05:13 They have theologians like Pope Gregory, individuals like Thomas Aquinas, St. Aquinas, St. Francisco.
05:24 All of these were very deep theologians.
05:27 You have people like Pseudo-Dominio who developed thinking and thoughts.
05:34 And so when they studied and put together the hierarchy of the heavens
05:39 in terms of studying angels, the way God functions, the way he builds his world,
05:48 we would then go to Isaiah 6.1.
05:52 "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and He strained for the temple.
06:01 And the seraphim were around him, saying, 'Holy, holy is the Lord.'"
06:07 And so we dealt with basically angelic powers.
06:11 So the most powerful angels, Michael, Gabriel, and then in the Book of Enoch,
06:20 they have another archangel which I've studied for many years, Archangel Raphael.
06:27 Archangel Raphael--Michael, let me go back to--Michael is the minister of defense in God's world.
06:38 That's why he came against Lucifer.
06:41 Gabriel is the minister of information.
06:45 That's why he's the one that constantly was speaking.
06:49 He's the one that was the "munyai," as it were, to speak to Mary.
06:56 Archangel Raphael is the minister of healing.
07:01 He is the divine healer.
07:04 He's one of the most friendly angels in the heavens.
07:08 Michael is business, it's war.
07:11 Gabriel is information, it's facts.
07:14 Raphael is a healer.
07:17 Exodus chapter number 1526, "I am the Lord that healeth thee."
07:23 And so he is the minister of health in God's cabinet and releases significant healing.
07:32 And so when the Lord said to Moses, "I will send my angel ahead of you to lead you,"
07:42 he said, "My angel will not tolerate nonsense.
07:45 My angel will not take nonsense and rubbish from you guys.
07:51 He will destroy."
07:53 And so you'll see the function of these kinds of angels when David sinned against God.
08:01 He was given three years and a half years of famine as a choice.
08:06 He was given months to flee from his enemy or a 24-hour pestilence.
08:14 And the angel of the Lord was unleashed in Jerusalem and killed 70,000 men.
08:21 And the only thing that saved David was when he came to the threshing floor
08:29 and he brought an offering and the angel of the Lord stayed.
08:33 And so when you deal with Archangel Raphael, he's not a killer, he's not a destroyer.
08:38 He's an angel of healing.
08:42 There is Archangel Metatron.
08:48 He's one of the most inspiring and interesting of the archangels.
08:53 He is known to be an angel that brings divine entity.
09:02 He's also one of the most empowered and powerful angels of what the writers call sacred geometry.
09:14 He is the angel of energy, the archangel of energy.
09:22 This was the most fascinating thing in my study for this meeting.
09:27 There is Archangel Jophiel.
09:30 This is the only female archangel that is made reference to in the book of Enoch.
09:39 And she is the angel of beauty and positiven.
09:48 And so she is positive, she is beauty, and so she is the angel of aesthetics.
09:58 Aesthetics, flower arrangements, perfumes, colors.
10:05 And so when you see Noah's rainbow,
10:10 Jophiel was part of the aesthetics of that covenant of the rainbow with Noah.
10:20 And then there's Archangel Uriel.
10:25 This is the archangel who is guarding with the cherubs the Garden of Eden.
10:35 This angel is the one that slew 180,000 of the Assyrian army led by Sennacherib.
10:49 He is known as the archangel of inspiration and life paths.
10:57 Then there's Archangel Azriel.
11:02 There's not too much information concerning Azriel because this is the angel of death.
11:11 He's the angel that carried out the tenth plague in Egypt.
11:18 And so as the angel of death, he's also described as the keeper of God's secrets.
11:28 The keeper of God's secrets.
11:32 And then there is Archangel Chamuel.
11:36 This angel is the angel of peace, wisdom, stability.
11:45 He is covered by the scriptures and his work basically is love relationships.
11:53 He's known for peace and wisdom.
11:57 So whenever I pray for wisdom, which is every day,
12:01 I learn in this study that I'm actually interacting with Archangel Chamuel.
12:08 And then there is Archangel Jeremiel.
12:13 This is the archangel of interpretation and translation.
12:19 We don't know what language Adam spoke in the beginning.
12:25 He spoke a language.
12:27 That language was so capacitated that he was able to name every single animal,
12:34 every single life form.
12:36 And what Adam named them, he was.
12:40 And so this archangel Jeremiel is the official translator of the heavens.
12:48 He speaks life, light.
12:51 He communicates basically through visions, dreams.
12:57 And the archangel's ability has been corrupted through what is called clairvoyance,
13:06 palm reading, tarot cards, because for every good thing,
13:12 the devil always brings a bad thing.
13:16 And so these archangels that we mentioned, there's Archangel Muriel,
13:25 along with Archangel Barakiel, spelled B-A-R-A-C-H-I-E-L.
13:34 These archangels are archangels of loyalty.
13:40 And so a few weeks ago, we were participating in a wedding for Matthew Cole
13:50 and his lovely wife, Sylvia.
13:53 And it was in a very ancient church that was built in 1882 and so on.
14:01 The church is not being used.
14:04 And so in the stained glass windows, there were many, many features and stuff like that.
14:12 And so this is what spiked my interest in this,
14:16 because there they had the names of these archangels underneath the features in stained glass windows.
14:27 And so what is so amazing with this study,
14:32 the archangels that are responsible there and their names are constantly guiding us.
14:40 And so when we're dealing with spiritual warfare issues now,
14:45 you don't find Lucifer in any particular rank.
14:51 I always thought he was a cherub, but in deep study with the scriptures,
14:56 you can't find a particular rank.
14:59 And so he definitely is the praise and worship leader in the heavens.
15:06 He's of a lower rank.
15:08 The Bible says in the book of Revelation,
15:11 when we actually get to see the devil, Lucifer,
15:15 we are going to be totally amazed as to like,
15:19 "You mean this is the thing that's been bothering us all our years?"
15:23 Because he is so small.
15:25 And so what he does is he makes a lot of noise.
15:29 [loud knocking]
15:33 And so we then concentrate on the noise and think he's big.
15:37 When he is, if you watch the Wizard of Oz,
15:40 it's a small little guy with a big, big super megaphone making a lot of noise.
15:47 And so the Bible says,
15:50 "If you resist the devil, he will flee from you."
15:56 And so just the fact that you resist as a being
16:00 means you have so much more power than he does.
16:04 And so when we concentrate on the powers of the archangels,
16:10 and we'll get to cherubim probably in the next study,
16:14 we'll begin to see how these beings function.
16:18 I was telling Professor George Shikulu just before the first presentation
16:24 that I have a personal relationship with an archangel in the city of Orari.
16:35 I was just as a young boy, 20 years old,
16:42 I came to Orari for all kinds of reasons.
16:46 And I bought a sweater, a jersey at Edgar's,
16:50 and it was pay over six months.
16:54 And so on my way from visiting Pasachichi, we had started dating.
16:59 It was a very cold June morning,
17:02 and so where Samora Machel and Julius Nuri crossed there,
17:06 I had my first encounter with the archangel over Harare.
17:12 And so this voice said to me, "There was a man on the side there
17:17 that had no clothes on."
17:19 And this voice said to me, "Give the man your jersey."
17:24 I was like, "Give him your jersey!"
17:28 And so I turned around there by Monomatapa.
17:31 Monomatapa wasn't built back then.
17:33 It had just been built.
17:34 I turned around, came to the intersection,
17:37 I gave the individual my jersey.
17:40 I had to go what was called Union Avenue, now Kwame Nkrumah.
17:43 When I made the U-turn to come,
17:46 that Samora Machel was called Jameson Avenue.
17:49 There was nobody there.
17:50 There was nobody there.
17:51 I got out of the car, there was nobody there.
17:54 And the Lord said to me,
17:55 "You've just had an interaction with the archangel over the city of Harare."
18:00 And many, many times at that spot, I've had interactions with the angel.
18:07 And so I'm not surprised that that feature of Mbue N'Nhande was put there
18:12 because if you look at a structure of anything that's been raised as an altar,
18:19 it's put there because of what God has been doing.
18:24 And so everybody was freaking about that structure there.
18:28 You know, Mbue N'Nhande was a great liberation woman
18:33 who did so much for the now Zimbabwe.
18:36 But as elevated to an altar, we stand against that as an altar.
18:41 And I said to the guys that were calling me, I said,
18:43 "There's no reason even to bother because there is an archangel there."
18:48 One evening, we were coming home from evening church,
18:52 and there was a little restaurant right there
18:54 before Karigamomi Center was built.
18:57 We used to buy takeaway food there.
18:59 And so Dreen was small, Jason was a baby.
19:05 And so Kiji wanted curry and rice.
19:10 The boys wanted something else.
19:12 And so we're trying to order. There were so many people.
19:15 And so there was a big Indian guy there,
19:18 just maybe about 6'2" with a massive beard.
19:21 They were saying, "Mister, can you give me $5?
19:23 Mister, can you give me $5?"
19:25 Jason says, "I want something." Dreen wants something.
19:27 Kiji wants something. I was trying.
19:29 And so he says, "Mister, can you give me $5?"
19:31 And so I then leaned over.
19:33 I said, just to get him off my back, I gave him $5.
19:36 He then touched me.
19:38 He said, "Tudor, there are many of us here in this city
19:43 that are watching you. Just know that we are with you."
19:46 Jason, Tee, we want something.
19:48 When I turned around like that, there was nobody there.
19:51 There was nobody there.
19:53 I had an encounter with a significant archangel at that spot.
19:58 And so when we're dealing with hierarchical issues,
20:01 let's do a bit of review.
20:03 On the top of the list are the Seraphim.
20:08 Below that list are thrones, cherubim, powers,
20:17 virtues, archangels, ministering spirits, flames of fire.
20:25 And so for where we're going,
20:27 and where you're going as a ministry,
20:30 just know that you are part of a bigger picture of great rank,
20:35 and know that you have angels of light
20:40 that are leading you in every way you go.
20:44 I pray that God will bless you this week,
20:46 anoint you this week,
20:48 and be aware that there are guiding angels leading you
20:51 and direct you in every way.
20:53 I want you to be blessed.
20:55 I want you to understand that there are many, many eternal beings,
20:59 significant beings that have ruled over us
21:02 to keep us in all our ways.
21:04 They will bear us up in their hands
21:07 lest we dash our foot against a stone.
21:09 Father, we pray for your blessing.
21:11 We pray for every person here.
21:14 We pray that you will direct their paths.
21:16 We pray that all kinds of spirits
21:20 that will try to attack every one of us,
21:23 they will have no effect on us
21:25 because you are keeping us in all our ways.
21:28 Thank you for your blessing.
21:30 We thank you for this in Jesus' name.
21:32 Amen and amen.
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