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There are many things that people fear these days: violence, war, disease, old age, unemployment, loneliness, persecution, famine. Man has assembled a battery of safeguards: the police, the armed forces, the medicine, laws on human rights, social security and scores of other insurance policies; but the problems still remain. We cannot rid ourselves of them. Moreover they are on the increase. No one will doubt but that the human race is in need of protection from the many fears that beset society. Mankind is in a bad way, a very bad way. It's not possible to exaggerate this fact.

Does the Most High have any Insurance Policies? Does he offer His people any form of protection? We are happy to announce that He does. The Almighty YaHuWaH has a fully comprehensive insurance policy that, in the upper bracket, involves angel protection! Angels are a fully equipped spiritual force capable of handling virtually any danger mankind is likely to face. Today we will briefly consider YaHuWaH 's use of angels as a form of protection.

Most - though not all - of YaHuWaH 's promises are conditional. That is, they apply if His conditions are met. Consider these two conditional promises concerning the Time of Trouble.

The mandatory conditions here are: that you trust in Him; and that you dwell in the secret place of the Most High. Then you will be sheltered and delivered. YaHuWaH 's secret place is the Most Holy place, also called the Holy of Holies; the inner apartment where His law is kept.

To dwell in the secret place of the Most High means to abide by YaHuWaH 's commandments. In other words, only the obedient will receive protection during the Time of Trouble spoken of in Psalm 91:

To set your love upon YaHuWaH is to obey Him. (John 15:10 and 1 John 2:3-4) To know the Almighty's Name is far more than just knowing that His name is YaHuWaH ; or that His Son's name is YAHUSHUA. To know the Almighty's name means to love and obey His will, His Torah; to want to be like Him - holy as He is holy. In short, to know YaHuWaH 's Name means to reflect His character. It means to be meek, merciful, kind, patient, honest, just and good. Millions know that the Almighty is called YaHuWaH : even the devils know that. But the devils don't really 'know YaHuWaH ' in the true sense of the term; because they do not obey His law even though they know what it says. But YaHuWaH the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will, as promised, set His love upon and deliver everyone who really knows His Name and keeps His commandments. That is what Psalm 91 is all about.

There are many examples in the Bible of angel protection. Here are a few examples where the conditions of faith and obedience were met and where the Most High dispatched a holy angel to deliver His servants.

There are, of course, times when a true believer does all that he is required to do and still the expected deliverance doesn't come. Examples are Job, Paul, John the Baptist and YAHUSHUA the Messiah himself. All these faithful, obedient persons suffered enormous agonies, privations or death. What went wrong? Why did YaHuWaH permit them to suffer. Did He fail to honor His many promises of protection and deliverance? What happened with His guaranteed insurance policies? If you study each story in detail you will see that when a faithful and obedient believer suffers without apparent deliverance, the Most High has a very good reason for acting as He does; an over-riding plan and purpose which, exceptionally, excludes immediate help. But the story doesn't end there.

In the final analysis, and in this there are no exceptions, the believing sufferer is guaranteed a far better reward than the value of the deliverance he was expecting at the time of his/her trouble. This fact is apparent in many Scriptures.

For further information on this matter, see Human Suffering: Why does YaHuWaH Allow it?

Today we await angel protection else Satan will wipe out the church. Like Lot of old we live in an extremely evil society, which is fast descending into the life-style of Sodom and Gomorrah. Angels are scheduled to one day lead us out of this system like ancient Israel was divinely escorted out of Egypt. The end-time saints will be delivered again as was Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

• Problems. Humanity faces many problems: violence, war, famine, disease, unemployment, loneliness, persecution and many, many others.
• Solutions. Man's solutions are praiseworthy, but not good enough. In the end they all break down. YaHuWaH 's solutions, on the other hand, are always trustworthy. They provide a far greater degree of protection than we can ever imagine. Two mandatory conditions, however, apply before protection can be expected:
  • We must fear (trust in and have faith in) the Almighty.
  • We must express our faith in obedience.
• To know the Almighty's Name means to know His character and to endeavor to be like Him.
• YaHuWaH sends His angels to deliver His obedient followers: Lot, Daniel, Peter, etc.
• In exceptional circumstances, however, when deliverance is not immediately given to an obedient believer, there is an unseen but very good reason for YaHuWaH 's actions. One day, we will know and understand the reason. When protection doesn't arrive, (as in the case of the martyrs) the Most High has promised to recompense the sufferer - far beyond his/her wildest expectations - in the Kingdom to come.