The apostle Paul said:
There is only one gospel, and that is the Word that is from God, the Holy Scriptures.
Angels carry messages from God.
What if a message comes to you which is opposite from the Bible?
Many years ago, a woman told me that when she met her 2nd husband, she heard this, "He's going to be your husband."
She, a divorced woman, did marry this man.
I wondered about that for several years. How could this message have been from God when it went against that which we see in the Bible.
If a divorced woman remarries, according to Bible, she commits adultery.
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Recently the scripture in Galatian 1, spoken by the apostle Paul, was called to my mind and I recalled this story where my divorced friend had heard Hal was going to be her husband.
And I realized this could have been an evil angel speaking to her a "gospel" which was opposite to the Bible.
There are evil angels. (Psalm 78:49)
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, so the Holy Spirit will always be compatible with scripture when HE speaks a word to us by bringing a concept to our mind.
But an angel might bring a message to us also, and that message is usually from God, but if it conflicts with scripture we must not go that way. It could be an "evil angel" speaking.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
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Looking back on this story of my friend and what happened to her, there were signs for her not to marry the first husband. And then after divorce, she practiced deception and hypocrisy at the next church which she attended and this could have opened the door for the evil angel to bring her a message.
She was raised Baptist. She wanted to marry a Catholic man. She went to Catholic school to convert to being Catholic so she could marry this Catholic boy. Catholic doctrine has many teachings opposite to Bible. Her stepfather, a Baptist, refused to allow her to come back into his house if she married this man and became Catholic. They married. Then her husband left her. They divorced.
She left Catholic church and went to a non-denominational church.
Later when she wanted to remarry, she didn't tell anyone at that church that she was a divorced woman. (deception & hypocrisy)
(When Donna practiced deception by not allowing anyone at that church to know she was divorced, this might have opened the door for the deception to come by what appears to have been an "evil angel" telling her Hal was going to be her husband.)
Hal's wife died of cancer. He wanted to remarry. He began to consider the single women at the church he attended. He selected 2 women to date, looking for a wife. One of these women was Donna but he did not know she had been divorced.
Hal fell in love with Donna. Then she told him she had been married and divorced.
Jesus says ... whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
They married.
(This happened before I met them.)
Later I asked Hal if he had known Donna was divorced would he had dated her. He thought for a minute and then he said, "I don't think so."
Hal committed adultery when he married the divorced woman. (Mt. 5:32)
Donna as a divorced woman committed adultery when she married Hal. (I Cor. 7:39; Rom. 7:1-3)
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One of the things we will do in heaven is to judge angels, whether they are good or bad.
A good angel carries messages from God and does the work of God.
An evil angel speaks opposite from the Bible.
Psalm 78:49 He (God) cast upon them the fierceness of HIS anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
I Corinthians 1:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
II Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
And Paul warns the church:
Galatians 1
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
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Beware: A message could be carried to our minds which seems to be from God but actually is from an evil angel and is opposite from scripture.
Line up all messages with Bible. If that message is opposite from Bible, we should judge that is not a real message from God but is from a destructive source.
For there will be much deception in the end times.
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One time, a woman wanted to come talk to me about her mother's 2nd marriage.
God said to me: "Just focus on that which the scriptures say. You don't need to focus on the circumstances of the divorce/remarriage."
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What the Bible says concerning a divorced woman remarrying:
Matthew 5:32 Jesus says: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
- If a man divorces a faithful wife, and that faithful wife remarries after divorce, she will commit adultery, but her husband who divorced her will be the cause of her adultery.
- And the man who marries her that is divorced commits adultery.
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Mark 10
3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.
11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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At the time of sexual intercourse, you become one flesh with that other person.
I Corinthians 6
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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James 1
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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So if any speak opposite to scripture, let him be accursed, even if it is an angel from heaven or a pastor or a member of the congregation.
Cling to the scripture to free yourself from sin.
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