[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

I have never knowingly had a conversation with an angel, though I do not doubt that I have had such conversations unknowingly.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - Hebrews 13:2

But if any such angel or apparition appeared, the very first thing I would do is ask "Who is Christ?"

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. – I Cor 12:3

Edgar Cayce claimed to have been visited by such a being who told him that Jesus was not Lord. After that visit, Cayce turned against his Christian upbringing. If it had happened to me, I would have told the creature to leave at once.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7

Christians have no reason to fear any such creature.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. – John 10:3-5

To God be the glory!

[Quix]

INDEED.

WHO IS CHRIST? DID HE COME IN THE FLESH, OR NOT?

THAT’S THE BIBLICAL CRITERIA.

Any diminishment of His Deity;
Any qualification/diminishment of His coming in the flesh;
Any competition for His Glory and Singular role in Creation and the earth;

All ought to be more than red flags to send any such forces and personages scurrying, IN THE NAME AND BLOOD OF JESUS.

[Marysecretary]

Thank you, A-G. That was a really good post.

[betty boop]

But if any such angel or apparition appeared, the very first thing I would do is ask "Who is Christ?"

Exactly. Ask for the bona-fides. A refusal to answer the question, "Who is Christ?" must be taken as proof of ill intent.

Thank you ever so much, dearest sister in Christ, for your beautiful essay/post!