I am surprised at a current story on CBN news about a Jewish woman who was saved after an angel preached the gospel and witnessed Jesus to her over a long period of time.
Some how if an angel is mentioned it is assumed it is from God. Any phenomenon that directs attention to the away from the savior is not from God. Period. The woman Alyse Merritt, has written a book about this. I don't buy it.
The angels desire to look into these things but are not called to preach. All that glitters is not from God.
Exerpt from testimony;
"A man who was literally about seven feet tall with piercing blue eyes one day came in. He had a white Bible that was huge. It was about the size of a family Bible and he started telling me the gospel from this Bible and that Jesus was actually Jewish," she shared. "For the first time in my life I was told that Jesus was a Jewish savior and that he was my Messiah."
She says she would see this man in random places as she was about town, and over some months, she chose to put her faith in Jesus due to his message.
She wanted to tell this man who had witnessed to her that she had accepted Christ, but when she tried to contact him or find him, he was nowhere to be found. It was as though he never existed.
Some time later, Merritt was at the home of a Christian friend and she saw a painting of the man on the wall of the friend’s home.
"Where did you get this picture? Who painted this?" Merritt asked her friend.
"She and her husband proceeded to tell me that that was an angel that her friend had witnessed when she was on her deathbed. A seven-foot angel appeared to her and said Jesus was going to heal her... She described him as being seven feet tall, with piercing blue eyes.”
Merritt believes this man was an angel sent by God to bring her to faith in Him.
It all sounds wonderful... But where is the scriptural basis? On the shelf for me.
Some how if an angel is mentioned it is assumed it is from God. Any phenomenon that directs attention to the away from the savior is not from God. Period. The woman Alyse Merritt, has written a book about this. I don't buy it.
The angels desire to look into these things but are not called to preach. All that glitters is not from God.
Exerpt from testimony;
"A man who was literally about seven feet tall with piercing blue eyes one day came in. He had a white Bible that was huge. It was about the size of a family Bible and he started telling me the gospel from this Bible and that Jesus was actually Jewish," she shared. "For the first time in my life I was told that Jesus was a Jewish savior and that he was my Messiah."
She says she would see this man in random places as she was about town, and over some months, she chose to put her faith in Jesus due to his message.
She wanted to tell this man who had witnessed to her that she had accepted Christ, but when she tried to contact him or find him, he was nowhere to be found. It was as though he never existed.
Some time later, Merritt was at the home of a Christian friend and she saw a painting of the man on the wall of the friend’s home.
"Where did you get this picture? Who painted this?" Merritt asked her friend.
"She and her husband proceeded to tell me that that was an angel that her friend had witnessed when she was on her deathbed. A seven-foot angel appeared to her and said Jesus was going to heal her... She described him as being seven feet tall, with piercing blue eyes.”
Merritt believes this man was an angel sent by God to bring her to faith in Him.
It all sounds wonderful... But where is the scriptural basis? On the shelf for me.