Our Witness.

 We are never alone. 

Every single thing we've ever done has had a witness. We don't want to believe this is true. We go to great lengths to delude ourselves that we are alone so the things we do in private are only known by us. We don't want to believe we are being watched. We've made so many things private that the idea of any other person watching our private acts is appalling. And you know what, if it were another person who was witnessing our every action it would be completely and utterly appalling. It's not another person, it's not some dead loved ones (though many insist on believing the lies about the dead living after death as spirit beings). The ones watching us are…believe it or not… angels. God has given us angels to minister to us. You don't have to believe it, but it's true. The angels will help all those who are going to inherit eternal life. 

Heb 1:13  But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 

Heb 1:14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? 

We ALL have the possibility of choosing eternal life, this is why the Son of God sacrificed Himself, to give us ALL this choice. The angel we are given to watch over us isn't there to control us, to manipulate us against our wills in any way. We are free to make all our own choices, for better or worse. Some of those choices we make are ones we'd be very ashamed of if we thought we'd be found out, bad choices come in many forms. Those who aren't ashamed of the evil they commit but boldly embrace it and brag about it, clearly are making the choice against salvation in that moment. Whether we are struggling to keep from evil, or secretly enjoying it, or even brazenly committing it- our angel witnesses it and it is recorded for all time. The only time our recorded evils are ever going to be erased is by the BLOOD of our Savior, when that final atonement for all is complete and the heavenly sanctuary is completely cleansed- in that moment everyone who is still living and has chosen Jesus as their Savior, living in all truth, keeping His commandments and the spirit of prophecy, will have their sins completely and utterly obliterated.  Until that moment all the sins that we've asked for forgiveness for are blood covered but not erased just as the earthly sacrificial ceremonies depicted, as an example of the heavenly. The sins that aren't forgiven are not covered in the blood of Christ. All this is witnessed by our angels.  When we die, we die with our sins covered or uncovered, and our angels know it all. We can't hide any sins, it's just not possible--ever!

People imagine the angels we are given are supposed to exert supernatural powers upon us to help us in all our trials and tribulations, and they lament the fact the help isn't there when they need it most. The angels will not interfere in ANY trial or tribulation we face that is necessary for our refining, no matter how horrific it may be. Our suffering isn't proof we've been abandoned by our angel, and therefore abandoned by God. If that were true then throughout the Bible all those who are God's who suffered horribly, what does that mean? We say they died in Christ, died as those who will be redeemed and raised from their graves when Jesus returns, because the Bible tells us this will happen- yet they suffered. 

There are times when we can say that our angels must have been looking out for us when we have close calls with death, and it's very possible that is true. But to think that our angels abandon us as we die instead of have a close call is ludicrous. 

Life is going to happen as it will. The choices we make for good or evil are on us and no other (besides Satan of course, as the tempter).  Our angels will intervene as directed by God to do so, and our angels will witness everything- even if they can't intervene. Our angels can be happy or sad, we can cause our angels to grieve or rejoice. This is all unseen by us- but it's truth, Biblical truth. 

May God help us to find the comfort we need in knowing that we have an angel there to go through our life with us- even unseen. 

God please, help us be Yours, making the choices You would have us make, living as You would have us live. Help us, forgive us our horrible self-serving sinning, know our hearts and if there is any wickedness in them please cleanse it from our hearts, please!

All in Jesus name we THANK YOU!  Amen!!!!!!!

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(Excerpt)

RECORDING ANGELS

So general is the belief that the angels record the actions of men that the use of the expression "recording angel" has become proverbial. We would not, however; draw any conclusion merely from general belief, nor would we be positive where the Scriptures do not speak plainly. But we think that we may gather sufficient evidence from the Scriptures to justify the belief which has become so general among Christians.

It is plainly taught in the Bible that books are written before the Lord, and that they are brought forth and used in the day of judgment. To the objection that the Lord does not need books in which to keep on record the actions of men, that everything is present to His mind, we have no answer to make. This is not a question of the knowledge of God, or how He could judge the world if He saw fit. We cannot know what He could do, or in what manner the judgment might be conducted, and it is only presumption to make suggestions on such a subject. We must accept what is revealed.

The facts which are brought up in the judgment are not for the use of God alone. The angels and men must see and know that His judgments are just. The Lord does not choose to rule arbitrarily, but to have all see the righteousness of His ways. Therefore the record of the lives of men must be laid open to the view of all. The motives of the heart, sins done in secret, unknown to all but God and His ever-watchful angels, will be revealed.

The saved will see that their friends who are lost are justly condemned. And thus all will unite in saying, "True and righteous are His judgments." Rev. 19:2. 

Moreover, the saints are to judge the world. "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? . . . Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" 1 Cor. 6:2, 3. See also Rev. 20:4.

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

The saints will not only judge the world-the wicked world-but the fallen angels. But they can only know the actions of the wicked world and the fallen angels by the things that are written. Of themselves they have not the knowledge of those actions necessary to judge faithfully and justly. Thus it is seen that the books of record are mainly for the use of men. 

That there are such books kept we shall now show. 

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name." Mal. 3:16. This is the manner in which all our actions and words are kept in remembrance; they are written in books. Against the workers of iniquity the Psalmist prayed: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous." Ps. 69:28. Moses, in an earnest prayer to God, spoke of the same book: "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written." Ex. 32:32. The Lord keeps a record of all His people. "And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her; and the Highest Himself shall establish her. The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, that this man was born there." Ps. 87:5, 6. Daniel, in describing the scene of glory at the

opening of the judgment, said, "The judgment was set, and the books were opened." Dan. 7:10.

What these books have to do with the judgment we may learn more fully In the book of the Revelation: "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." Rev. 20:11, 12. At the day of judgment the books in which are recorded the deeds of men will be opened, and they will be judged and rewarded according to the things which are found written therein. 

It has been shown from the Scriptures that angels are ever present with men; that they minister to the people of God, and deliver them from evil. They behold all the actions of men; they hear every idle word that is spoken. They take notice of everything that will come into judgment. 

The conclusion is natural, and seems almost unavoidable, that the angels make the record of these things; that the books of human action are written by them. What a solemn truth it is that we are never alone, but that holy angels are always with us; that they behold every act, hear every word, and note every thought, whether foolish, wicked, or vulgar! How carefully, then, should we guard our lives, both in word and deed! How careful we ought to be not to grieve away those holy messengers of God, by vile actions or filthy conversation! What fearful accounts they will bear to the judgment from this apostate and wicked world! Dear reader, what account does your attending angel bear to heaven each day? What will it be for this day? Will it be a record of earnest prayers to God for the pardon of sins, and for strength to do His will? Or will it be a record of lightness, of folly, of sin? 

Remember that each day you are making a page in your life record for the judgment. 

It will have to be met in that day, thought for thought, word for word, deed for deed, we are all making marks which can never be effaced, except by the wondrous cleansing blood of Jesus. But let no one reproach His Grace by adding sin to sin. 

See Rom. 6:12; Gal. 2:17. 

Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof

Gal 2:17  But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 

With fear and trembling we may say with the poet:- "And must I be to judgment brought, And answer in that day For every vain and idle thought, And every word I say? "How careful then ought I to live, With what religious fear, Who such a strict account must give For my behavior here."

Angels: Their Nature and Ministry-  (Excerpt - for continuing study) Revised by J.H. Waggoner.  1891 by Pacific Press Publishing Co.)