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The
Creation of the Seven Angels and Their Purpose
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A Word From The Author
The title of this book, “The Creation Of The Seven
Angels and Their Purpose”, is not meant to imply that
these angels were only created at the time John saw
them in his vision while on the Island of Patmos, or
that they have not been used of God for other
assignments before this time, or will not be used for
other jobs after the Church Ages are completed. But
it is intended to “Magnify” their assignments during
this time period, called in Matthew, chapter 13, “The
Kingdom of Heaven”. This is the same period of time
that we refer to as “The Seven Church Ages”. This
book shows how God creates within these angels the
attributes and abilities to work with the Messengers
and the Church throughout the Seven Church Ages, thus
we use the term, “God’s creation of the seven angels.
I fully realize that God indicated in the Old
Testament, as these scriptures reveal what He would do
in the book of Revelation. Proverbs 9:1 speaks of 7
pillars of wisdom. Zechariah 3:9 speaks of 7 eyes on
one stone. Zechariah, chapter 4 speaks of a
candlestick with 7 pipes of gold. This book of
Revelation is to the beloved Bride of Christ.
I hope that you will enjoy reading, “The Creation
of the Seven Angels and Their Purpose”, and may you be
enlightened by the Holy Spirit.
May God Bless You,
Brother Ben Howard
THE CREATION OF THE 7 ANGELS
AND THEIR PURPOSE
Message transcribed and edited from audio tape #342
Preached April 29, 1990
By Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, GA
I would like to take a thought and entitle it, “The
Creation of the Seven Angels and Their Purpose.” We
will be getting this from the Book of Revelation, and
I would like to give you some forethought of where we
are going. We’re going to take the seven Spirits of
God, add a nature (an identity) to them, and show you
how they become individual beings, individual angels.
They are like new born babies that have not taken on a
nature of their own, but will through the seven church
ages, as we will see as we read the pages of this
book. This is a natural illustration to help us see
spiritual truth. These Spirits take on an identity to
such an extent that by the time we get over into
Revelation, chapter 15, we will see that they are
angels clothed in fine linen, not just Spirits before
the throne. We’ll see at the onset of our reading
that there are seven Spirits before the throne, and
they have no nature, no identity apart from deity.
They are just Spirits before the throne. God continues
His creation of these Spirits before the throne
throughout the church ages. We will show you the
purpose of it—to assist the Bride, and to be Her
helpers. These Spirits have to do with the unwritten
Word that has come through seven church age messengers
to the Church. There was a Word for each age, and a
sealing out of a people in each age.
Then we will see the book that’s sealed, that was
in heaven (in Revelation, chapter 5), as the Lamb
takes the book, and brings the book down to earth.
Also notice, in Revelation, chapter one, there are
three types of spiritual Voices. There’s the (1)
Voice of Him that was, and is, and is to come—which is
the Almighty, Eternal Spirit, God that no man has
seen, nor can see. Then, there’s the (2) Voice of
these seven Spirits before the throne that conveys the
greetings unto you, and then there’s the (3) Voice of
Him that loved us, and gave Himself for us. We want
to follow this thought throughout the book of
Revelation. When we get to Revelation 10, we find
once again three types of spiritual Voices; which are:
(1) The Voice of the Mighty Angel that comes down from
Heaven and roars as a lion (Rev. 10:1-3). (2) Seven
thunders utter their Voices (Rev 10:3-4); and then as
John was about to write, here came the third voice
into play—(3) a Voice speaks from Heaven and says,
“Seal up those things which the seven voices uttered,
and write them not.” (Rev 10:4) So you start in
Revelation, chapter one with those three types of
spiritual voices and you develop them, then when we
get into Revelation 10; we find individual beings as
we watch the development of the seven angels.
Let us pray—Heavenly Father, In Jesus’ name, Lord,
we thank you for another privilege to stand before you
in this end time. We know that we are the generation
that the end of the world has come upon. We are the
generation that has seen the fig tree put forth its
buds. We are the generation Lord, that you said, “All
things would be fulfilled before this generation
passes away.” Lord, I pray in Jesus’ name, that thy
Holy Spirit will anoint us and bless us, and give us
words to say that would benefit your people. Come and
make yourself known to us in that special way. Anoint
these lips of clay, Lord. Anoint our minds. Anoint
the hearers and readers, and may we be as Ephesians,
chapter one says, “…caused to sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus,” Lord, that we may hear the
things you have to say. In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
John starts out in the Book of Revelation, which
was written about thirty-some years after the Apostle
Paul, who had laid the foundation for the church and
had the message for the Gentiles went off the scene.
The Book of Revelation is not a doctrinal book, but a
prophetic one. We find in reading the Word of God
that there’s more to the scriptures than doctrine,
there is more to the scriptures than prophecy, because
the Word of God teaches that the Word of God is given
for instruction, for helps, and so forth. Now part of
the Word of God is instructional and can be
instructional for present times and present
conditions. Now instructions can change as conditions
warrant, but the doctrinal and prophetic part stays
the same. We find that in 1st Corinthians, chapter
seven, (verses 25-35), Paul gave instruction to the
Church concerning a certain condition, as to whether
one should marry or not, then six years later he came
back with another layer of instruction for the Church
as the condition had changed. (1st Timothy, chapter
5:14) So we see that the Book of Revelation is a
prophetic book.
Let’s begin in Revelation, chapter one, verses 1-3;
it says, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, (John
writing) which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His
servants things which must shortly come to pass; and
He sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant
John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the
testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he
saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep those things
which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
(2,000 years ago.)
All right, to understand God, Paul said, “We speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery.” And he says,
(paraphrasing) “No man knoweth the things of God
except by the Spirit of God, because they are
spiritually discerned.” Now, I want you to notice
here. John says, “The time is at hand.” Now as he
proceeded to write the Book of Revelation and the
things that happened to him, one of the amazing things
is that when John wrote these things he said, “I was
in the spirit on the Lord’s day.” Well, the Lord’s
day as pertaining to what John was saying was 2,000
years in the future. So therefore, when we look at
God, and get in the realm of God’s Spirit, in the
total realm of God, we find that with God there are no
yesterdays; with God there are no tomorrow’s; with God
it’s always now (present tense). So Moses did the
same as John. Moses lived roughly 2,000 years after
the Garden of Eden, but he was able to write it as
though he was right there in the Garden and saw what
took place. There’s a prophecy that John saw that
will take place some 3,000 years after John wrote it,
and that’s the Great White Throne Judgment. John
said, “I saw a great white throne, and thousands stood
before Him, and the judgment was given,” (relating to
what Daniel said). He spoke of the multitudes, the
dead would rise, and all of that. That would take
place in 3,000 years, but to John it was taking place
right then and there. Therefore, we must watch God’s
time clock to know what time it is and when these
things are to be. Do you see that with God (an
eternal being), that time doesn’t relate to Him? He
built a big clock so that we could tell time, and His
big clock has a lot of diamonds in it. His clock is
so big that some of those diamonds are several hundred
thousands, and even several million light years
apart. Light travels at 186 thousand miles per
second, and it would take hundreds of millions of
light years for light to travel from one diamond to
another. That’s in the sky—God’s perfect timepiece.
He built it for us humans to tell time by—the sun, the
moon, the seasons, etc. We can find all this recorded
in the Book of Genesis.
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