{"id":134,"date":"2023-10-08T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/?p=134"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:18:09","slug":"angels-demons-nephilim-visions-dreams-and-prophecy-the-way-god-talks-to-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Angels, Demons, Nephilim, Visions, Dreams and Prophecy: The way God Talks to Mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>What are Angels?<br \/>\nor: &#8220;Mama, who is the big guy swinging the sword over there?&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sword-of-an-angel.jpg?resize=204%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Angel with a sword\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sword-of-an-angel.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sword-of-an-angel.jpg?w=408&amp;ssl=1 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You are sitting at a desk, touching it. Knock on it and you can hear your fist rapping the solid wood.<\/strong>\u00a0 Your hand will not pass through it without breaking it or your hand.\u00a0 Yet a physicist will tell you it is made up of tiny particles with a great deal of space between them.\u00a0 It is NOT solid but made up of mostly empty space.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world that has been created by a being so powerful, that He has to do is speak to create an entire universe of billions of stars like our sun and even greater.\u00a0 So vast that a beam of light would take untold eons to travel across.\u00a0 A being SO powerful and mighty as that we would be literally smaller than the smallest of sub-atomic particles in your desk comparatively.\u00a0 Yet as far as we know, humankind is the sole purpose for that creation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I won&#8217;t limit God to my understanding,\u00a0<\/strong>there might well be billions of worlds such as ours.\u00a0 The bible doesn&#8217;t say either way.\u00a0 But conscious little beings like us, with eternal souls are <em><strong>the reason why the entire universe was made<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genisis 1:1 says &#8220;In the beginning, God&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> we can assume by that there was a whole other mode of existence BEFORE the beginning. Since God Himself is eternal and the &#8220;beginning&#8221; talked about in Genisis is the beginning of our universe and not the beginning of God.\u00a0 A more solid, eternal realm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angels are inhabitants of that more solid realm.\u00a0<\/strong> Created at the same time we were.\u00a0 When we were purposefully created, God knew that we would create an uncrossable gulf between Him and us.\u00a0 Uncrossable for us only, of course, but the very sight of the Holy God would destroy us utterly, so he created these beings we call &#8220;Angels&#8221; to cross it and communicate with us.<\/p>\n<p>Angels are extremely powerful beings of high intelligence.\u00a0 Capable of independent thought and action and with free will.\u00a0 Their true form, as spiritual beings, is indescribable for us as flesh and blood humans, and attempts to describe them by Prophets such as Ezekiel and John who saw them are vague at best.\u00a0 However, they can and do appear to humans in any form, including that of a human being.\u00a0 Most often the form they choose is that of a large strong young man, sometimes armed with a sword and armored like a warrior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angels are\u00a0<\/strong><b>servants and messengers of God.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>They are &#8220;Holy&#8221;, but only because of and contingent on their service to the Most High.\u00a0 They are &#8220;solid&#8221; beings, not disembodied spirits, in that they have a body, a mind and free will.\u00a0 Their bodies were created for the more solid spiritual realm, and do not pass into corruption like ours.\u00a0 They are eternal, cannot be killed, and do not die naturally.\u00a0 They do not breed, there was a set number of them created for the specific purpose they have been given, and since they never die, they don&#8217;t need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angels cannot interbreed with humans.<\/strong>\u00a0 There are no and have never been any &#8220;angel\/human hybrids&#8221;.\u00a0 <em><strong>Angels do not have sex.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 There are no male and female Angels.\u00a0 They are fundamentally different to human beings.\u00a0 They are made of a different &#8220;substance&#8221; altogether and the idea of an Angel breeding with a human being makes about as much sense as a <em><strong>ROCK breeding with a HORSE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Less, actually, since a rock has an actual &#8220;physical&#8221; substance in the world of mankind, and an Angel is more solid than a rock could ever be.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h6>The legend of the &#8220;Nephilim&#8221;<br \/>\nor: &#8220;Mama&#8217;s little angel!&#8221;<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mamas-little-angel.jpg?resize=274%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mama's little angel!\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mamas-little-angel.jpg?resize=274%2C300&amp;ssl=1 274w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mamas-little-angel.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Hybrid?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>When God created the heavens and the earth, he also created the Angels.<\/strong>\u00a0 When He created them, he gave them the free will choice to serve their purpose or not.\u00a0 Since their sole reason for existing is that of a\u00a0<strong>servant, messenger and protector<\/strong> of his human creations, He also gave them the same emotions as humans in order to empathize with them and understand their needs.\u00a0 Love, hate, anger, joy all the emotional baggage humans have to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Now I cannot begin to understand the emotions and motives of beings as intelligent and powerful as these.\u00a0 But I am sure that <strong>anger, pride, disappointment and despair<\/strong> at being glorified babysitters for God&#8217;s human <b>children <\/b>had a lot to do with one third of them following the Archangel Lucifer into rebellion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demons are the fallen Angels that follow Satan, and they HATE us.<\/strong>\u00a0 When I say HATE us, I mean ALL OF HUMANITY WITHOUT EXCEPTION.\u00a0 This is the undying, eternal hatred of the damned who cannot be forgiven.\u00a0 Their sole purpose is only to destroy us and to thwart God&#8217;s plan.\u00a0 The <em><strong>&#8220;Original Sin&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> was not Eve, then Adam, disobeying God&#8217;s order NOT TO EAT the fruit of knowledge.\u00a0 It was the open rebellion of the former Archangel Lucifer (now Satan), and his attempt to destroy Adam and Eve by tempting them.<\/p>\n<p><b>The human followers of God are the CHILDREN of God,<\/b> <strong>literally<\/strong>.\u00a0 God created mankind as an act of procreation.\u00a0 We are the reproduction of God, in His image and likeness.\u00a0 He loves us with the love of a father for his child.\u00a0 We are not &#8220;gods&#8221;, but right now we are just a little bit lower than the Angels (Psalm 8:5), and we are the potential heirs to the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cain, Abel and Seth were the eldest male children of Adam and Eve.\u00a0<\/strong>They were certainly not the only children by far.\u00a0 When Cain murdered Abel in a fit of jealousy and rage, he was disinherited and banished, and probably took a number of his family with him.\u00a0 In any case, he founded his own city in the land of &#8220;Nod&#8221; (Genisis 4:16), and likely still had interactions both violent and peaceful with the rest of his family.<\/p>\n<p>Over time the two groups intermingled and likely as not intermarried.\u00a0 The passage in Genisis 6:1-4 most likely references a deliberate program of selective breeding started by the heirs of Seth and Abel (Sons of God) to breed for height, intelligence and strength.\u00a0 A &#8220;warrior class&#8221; in other words.\u00a0 God did not appreciate this in the least; hence they are called &#8220;Nephilim&#8221; which means &#8220;fallen ones&#8221;.\u00a0 This, and the previous and subsequent unending violence (Genisis 6:5-7) caused God to regret creating them and resolve to destroy all life utterly from the face of the earth&#8230;except for a remnant (Genisis 6:8-13).<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, no Angel\/Human hybrids.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see any granite ponies clomping around either, sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><b>I want to make\u00a0a side note here:\u00a0 the lands of Nod, of the cities and regions of the time before the flood do not have anything to do with the lands and cities established by the sons of Noah after the flood.\u00a0 They were destroyed utterly by the flood, and their ruins, if any, could be anywhere in the world.\u00a0 Noah floated in the ark for more than a hundred and fifty days on waters that topped the highest mountains.\u00a0 It is unlikely that he was deposited anywhere near where he started when the flood receded.\u00a0 The idea that those lands are somewhere in Mesopotamia is simply naive and based on the assumption that the flood was NOT a worldwide flood that destroyed all living things on earth.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<h6>Demons are evil, nasty and disgusting little beggars.<br \/>\nor: &#8220;EWWW! Don&#8217;t put that in THERE!!&#8221;<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?resize=300%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My precious!\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?resize=1536%2C960&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/gollum.jpg?w=1812&amp;ssl=1 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My precious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>So,\u00a0in short, demons are no longer the mighty, glorious, intelligent and powerful beings they once were.<\/b>\u00a0 They rejected that power and glory, because they rejected the source: God Almighty.\u00a0 They are shadows, wraiths, goblins steeped in every bit of nasty, evil, degenerate things that could be imagined, and some we could not imagine.\u00a0 Horribly filthy beyond belief, they may retain the power to appear to people in a seemingly normal or even beautiful form.\u00a0 But they utterly despise anything beautiful, wholesome, good and true, and keeping to such a form would cause them agony.\u00a0 Good Christians encountering such, even if initially fooled, would eventually get a good whiff and recoil in horror and disgust.<br \/>\n<b>They tend to keep such manifestations only among the unsaved.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>They do, definitely have the ability to spiritually possess living people, dominate their minds, and use their bodies as vehicles for their lusts.\u00a0 They can be exorcised from these poor souls, but there comes a time when the possession has progressed to the point of complete destruction of the mind, where the possessed becomes a mere skinsuit worn by a devil.\u00a0 Even such a one as that can be exorcised and saved by grace, but only barely (Mark 5:3).<br \/>\n<b>The Angels&#8217; full-time job now is to hoist these filthy demons off of Christians and smack them down when they appear.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to go any farther into this subject, because in and of itself it is a danger.\u00a0 To talk about demons is to call attention to demons.\u00a0 <em><strong>They are whores for attention.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I think there are &#8220;Only Fans&#8221; pages for a couple if you really want to know&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;please don&#8217;t visit them&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;really&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;it&#8217;s a joke not a recommendation.<\/p>\n<h6>Seeing visions, dreaming and prophetic giftings<br \/>\nor: &#8220;Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s little trip to the woods&#8221;.<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/neuchad.jpg?resize=300%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eating Grass\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/neuchad.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is-with.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/neuchad.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You will eat grass like the oxen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Visions and dreams and angelic visitations have been around since &#8220;The Beginning&#8221;.<\/b>\u00a0 Joseph (Genisis 41) and Daniel (Daniel chap 2 and 4) interpreted the dreams of kings.\u00a0 Waking visions came to prophets like Ezekiel (chap 37), and Angels appeared to Lot (Genisis 19:15), Abraham (Genisis 18:2), and even Baalam (Numbers 22:21-35) (<strong>I bet he wished he had a granite donkey!<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visions are a waking &#8220;dream&#8221; and are often confused with hallucinations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>It doesn&#8217;t help that both often come after the same sort of physical or mental stresses.\u00a0 You may fast for a few days, on purpose with prayer, or because you can&#8217;t eat for whatever reason, and then you may experience such an event.\u00a0 Hallucinations often come after a traumatic event, or a psychotropic drug can be used to induce them.<br \/>\nThe only difference between the two is that a vision is an answer to seeking.<br \/>\nA hallucination is an act of, or response to confusion.<br \/>\nIf you are more confused after the event, it&#8217;s probably a hallucination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most everyone &#8220;dreams&#8221;.\u00a0<\/strong>A dream can be a window into the mind.\u00a0 You often see things in dreams how you want them to be, or how they should be, or what may become.\u00a0 A dream should never be discounted, no matter how odd it may be.\u00a0 If it is a happy dream, that is a wholesome and wonderful gift.\u00a0 If it is a disturbing dream, then it could be a warning.\u00a0 If it is an erotic (wet) dream, well it happens to the best of us.\u00a0 Not so much after puberty and the teen years, unfortunately (?).<br \/>\nAll dreams are messages.\u00a0 Either from your mind or your spirit.\u00a0 All the ones you remember should be prayed about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angelic visitations still happen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Since Jesus&#8217; resurrection, the role of the Angel as a messenger has decreased.\u00a0 If you have Jesus as your Saviour, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit you can communicate directly to God Almighty without a go between.<br \/>\nWe do, however, have a certain stubbornness that blocks the answers we don&#8217;t want.<br \/>\nBut that isn&#8217;t what would cause a visitation, normally.<br \/>\nAll I can say, is an Angel can appear to you as anything or anyone.\u00a0 Some man, or woman, or child, or homeless person, or dog or cat or donkey or&#8230;God help you &#8230;a big burly guy in armor swinging a big honking sword!<br \/>\nBut there is always a sense of peace, wholesomeness and goodness when you meet one of these guys.\u00a0 Even the sword guy.<br \/>\nThey are a manifestation of God&#8217;s infinite love for his children.<br \/>\nHe might be there just to visit, because he loves you.\u00a0 Love him back because he&#8217;s like your nanny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most important thing to remember:\u00a0<\/strong> No Dream, no Vision, no Angelic visitation is as important as learning to listen to the still, small, quiet voice in your heart and mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Angels? or: &#8220;Mama, who is the big guy swinging the sword over there?&#8221; 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Knock on it and you can hear your fist rapping the solid wood.\u00a0 Your hand will not pass through it without breaking it or your hand.\u00a0 Yet a physicist will tell you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/is-with.us\/?p=134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angels, Demons, Nephilim, Visions, Dreams and Prophecy: The way God Talks to Mankind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is-with.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}