I want to give you very quickly, very quickly, it won't take very long, five things that you need to know about the angelic realm and about angels.

I'm going to explain how Satan stole that structure, the command structure, and copied it.

But I'm going to start with angels. I like to go for the real thing first.

First of all,

angels have individual personalities. Some of the high ups in the chain of commands, in the angelic realm, have names like Gabriel and Michael. Angels not only have individual personalities, but they have their own intellect,

they have their own feelings, and they have free will. And that is why one third of them

chose to follow Satan. They have different functions. They serve different functions, but primarily they are to

execute the will of God. They implement the plan of God in the lives of those who have submitted

their lives to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Secondly, angels live forever. The same Gabriel,

who appeared to Daniel, 400 years later, he appeared to Mary, the Virgin Mary. They are not bound

by human time or space. Why? Because angels in the angelic realm

do not get depleted by death. And Jesus tells us, when somebody came to him and asked him

that question about marriage in heaven, and so I said, in heaven there's no marriage. He said,

we'd be like angels.

So people took the idea was that when we die, we become angels. That's not what he's talking about at all. When Jesus said like angels, meaning that we're not going to have physical limitation,

we're not going to have limitation of time or space or death, that we too will live forever. The third thing you need to know about

angels is that they have bodies. They're not like ours, but it has a form, a physical form.

Daniel in 8.15, he said, And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance.

Don't miss that. That's an important word.

The appearance of a man.

The appearance.

Not a man, not like us, but appearance.

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