(OPINION) David Jeremiah – Throughout history, angels have been dispatched from heaven to intervene in earthly affairs. Evangelist Billy Graham reports that “when my maternal grandmother died, the room seemed to fill with a heavenly light. She sat up in bed and almost laughingly said, ‘I see Jesus. He has his arms outstretched toward me.
I see Ben [her husband who had died some years earlier], and I see the angels.’ She slumped over, absent from the body but present with the Lord.” A former editor of Leadership Magazine, a popular publication among church leaders, speaks of how his young daughter was comatose one night, very near death.
A hospital staff worker stopped by the room and witnessed an astonishing sight—angels were hovering over the girl’s bed. By the following morning, the daughter had amazingly recovered. The editor, not prone to sensationalism, truly believes angels visited his daughter that night. The staff worker, as the result of the incredible sight she saw, renewed her commitment to God.
Reverend John G. Paton was a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands. According to his testimony, his mission headquarters was surrounded by hostile natives one night. They apparently intended to burn the building to the ground and put John and his wife to death. The Patons turned to God. They threw themselves on His mercy and asked for deliverance.
They prayed throughout the night. When the first rays of sunlight came the next morning, the Patons were amazed to see the natives had left. About a year later the chief of that tribe became a Christian. When Paton asked the chief why the tribe had refrained from burning down the headquarters on that fateful night, the chief surprised him by inquiring,
“Who were all those men you had there with you?” Paton answered, “There were no men there—just my wife and I.” The chief then told Paton that he and his warriors had seen hundreds of men standing guard outside the headquarters that night, all dressed in shining garments with swords drawn. These guards completely encircled the headquarters and the tribe dared not attack. It was then that Paton realized God had dispatched His angels to guard him and his wife. READ MORE
