Why is it saying that he had a face of an angel? Well first and foremost, I want you to take into consideration that it's the council
Who's saying he had the face of an angel, okay?
Now why are they saying this?
Well because of the fact that angels throughout the Bible were just a terrifying sight
Anytime a man a human being was confronted with a physical angelic being they were
Frightened they were horrified they were scared okay, and so when the Bible's saying here that these Pharisees
You know they see the power of God upon Stephen. They're not saying oh look at this weak little you know soy boy
Guy right over here. No what they're saying is is like they're scared of him
Because he looks as terrifying as an angel would look you see the angels in the Bible are completely different than what we see today
Right you know you think of the cherry you've been for example
That is a terrifying sight folks when you look at the description of cherry beans and Ezekiel and revelation chapter 5 you see that
They're there
It's a creature that has four faces
You know it has the face of a man the face of an ox the face of an eagle in the face of a lion
That is a terrible sight
It's like something. We've just never seen before it's a description. It's a it's a very horrific thing to look upon right and
You look at throughout the Bible anytime an angel would appear people would just fall over as dead
They'd just be scared frightened. They just fall on their faces as dead
They're just completely scared and let me say this this is exactly what's happening to these councilmen right here
They're not looking upon him and saying yeah, we got him. No they're looking at him saying we're scared of him, okay?
Go to Deuteronomy chapter number two if you would Deuteronomy chapter number two
You see when the Bible describes a person with boldness it often depicts them as what a lion
Just like the cherry you've been right the Bible says that the wicked flee when no man pursue it
But the righteous are as bold as a lion the Bible says of David's mighty men that they have faces
Like lines, but doesn't mean that they were like, but ugly or anything like that
You know they were just like just crazy bearded man
It means that they had such boldness that they struck fear in the hearts of their enemies. That's what that's referring to there, okay?
boldness
strikes fear in the heart of the gains here folks
makes haters of God afraid and
When a man is spear filled and he's preaching the Word of God it can literally melt the hearts of the wicked
You know when you're out there preaching the gospel to just regular unsaved people it doesn't cause them to fear you it causes them to
Fear hell and in turn they want to get saved you know they want to give heed to the message
But let me say this when you preach the Word of God and the judgment of God upon the haters of God it strikes fear
In their hearts you know and by the way
I don't care what any
Reprobate or enemy of God says in a comment section you're lucky you wouldn't say that to my face
You're lucky. I don't come down there and and kick your you-know-what and do all this. They're scared
They're fearful so they have to overcompensate
By threatening by sending lewd photos by emailing wicked things
They have to do these things in order to try to strike fear in our hearts, but here's the reality we struck in fear in theirs
Causing their hearts to melt now the problem today
With pastors is they want the face of an angel
But it's like the Catholic version
You know they want the fat little baby with wings and a harp
You know we gotta be wise as serpents and harmless as doves and they interpret that as being just these weakling
Just passive can't fight back. Don't call any names
Please everybody just be kind to everyone don't get into any battles even though the Bible says to earnestly contend for the faith
To fight the good fight of faith the Bible says, but this is the kind of angels that they are
You know you think of like these mega church type of pastors
They're like the the Catholic version of an angel. You know they would have the faces of angels because he's looking so baby skin
They're not instilling any kind of fear in the hearts of any man, okay?
We want the face of an angel where people are just falling over dead