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Mysteryof
Angels
and Evil Spirits
We continue, with this fourth installment, the serial
publication of Herbert W. Armstrong's latest book
Mystery of the Ages.
C
OULD ANYTH I NG
be
more mysterious than
the q uestion of the
unseen spirit world? Angelic
beings have always been a
mystery to people on the
earth. Do ange ls actua ll y
exist? l s there, in fact, a
Satan the devil? l s Satan a
literal, immortal being? Did
God ereate a devil?
Sorne relígíons worshíp gods
they believe to be evíl spirits.
Sorne of the great cathedrals of
the Christian religion are ernbel–
lished on their exterior with gar–
goyles, ugly and grotesque carved
faces, which are supposed to
frighten evíl spirits away.
All the evils and troubles in the
world are caused by minds clashing
with minds.
But what is the real cause of
those clashing of minds? Is there
any connection between such con–
tentious attitudes and the unseen
spirit world? It is a mystery to
almost everybody, but the Bible
reveals a very real but invisible
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world-another dimension, as sorne
choose to call it-existing along
with our own, but absolutely
indiscernible to our five senses.
lt
is
the spirit world.
In the first chapter of Hebrews,
we read of angels serving as God's
secret messengers, sent forth to
minister to those God has called to
salvation and eterna! life.
l n Ephesians 6 it is stated that
our contentions and strivings are in
fact not with other human people,
but against "principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spir–
itual wickedness [evil spirits] in
high places."
How can this be? Why is the
world filled with such clashings and
contentions between human minds?
In Ephesians 2:2, humans have
been walking "according to the
course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air
[Satan], the spirit that now work–
eth in the children of disobedi–
ence." People simply do not realize
that there is an invisible spirit
power injecting into their minds
these hostile attitudes.
Even to professing Christians,
these scriptures have been a mys–
tery.
Why do not even professing
Christians understand this mys–
tery? This invisible spirit world
(Col. 1:15-16) is very real but
because it is invisible it has been a
mystery. But the fact that holy
angels and evil spirits are invisible
does not negate their existence. In
actual truth the invisible spiri t
world is more real than the material
and the visible. In fact, most people
do not know what electricity is but
are well aware of its reality. The
Bible explains: " But if our gospel
be hid, it is hid to them that are
lost: in whom the god of this world
[Satan] hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not ..." (11
Cor. 4:3-4). Satan is the god of this
world.
T he time of UNDERSTAND–
ING has come.
The Supreme Invisible Power
It
was made clear in chapter one
that God from eternity has been a
family, originally composed of two
members: God, and the Word who
almost 2,000 years ago became
Jesus Christ. God is invisible-the
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