Song of Angels®

Worship Project Part I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   What if earth be but the shaddow of heav’n; and the things therein each to other like,

                                   more than on earth is thought?

                                     

                                                                                                                                    John Milton

                                                                                                                    Paradise Lost, Book II

 

 

Experiencing the Atmosphere of Heaven:

 

The whole jist of the Song of Angels worship series is to:

 

1. Make believers more aware of the real, tangible presence of God in their everyday lives.

 

2. Give them a musical worship aid to help bring the peace of His presence into their homes and lives.

 

3. Make them more aware of the ministry of angels and the cloud of witnesses urging them on in Christ. (Hebrews 1:7,14; 12:1)

 

4. Give them an biblical & artistic vision of Heaven so they know that in Jesus Christ they are eternal & invincible & should not ever fear death.

 

5. Urge them to be revolutionary missionaries to every corner of the globe in fulfillement of the Great Commission. ( Matt. 28:18-20)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heavenly visionary, earthly missionary 

 

Its very relelvent to study Heaven. It gives one eternal perspective and its where every missionar call has ever come - LOOKING UPWARDS!

 

         As Saul (Paul) neared Damascus on his journey,

         suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

          He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him,

         “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

        “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

        “I am Jesus,... Now get up and go into the city,

          and you will be told what you must do.”

 

                                                                       Acts 9:3-5

 

 

The problem today with most people who claim to know Christ, is not that they are too heavenly minded or spiritually ,but rather, they are so earthly minded that they have virtually lost the vision and heavenly call of the risen Christ and have become spiirtually impaired as far as the Kingdom of God is concerned.  Whwn a believer is over preuccupied with the things of this world they simply miss hearing Gos's still small voice of guidance and lose out on accomplshing much for the Lord. Their eternal reward is minimized.

 

Heaven's Great Commisison

 

Paul was a very “relevant” soul-winner and yet he had many visions of Paradise and Heaven. (II Cor. 12) The great awakener and revivalist, John Wesley said that his heart could not prepared for a revival unless he constantly kept one eye on Heaven and one eye on earth, lest the devil get the better of him.  Its was the great soul winner D.L. Moody who said that having an understanding of Heaven would directly bring results in missionary and soul winning efforts of the Churcch worldwide.

 

The prophet Isaiah was no regious flake - heavenly vision leads to an earthly CALL...

 

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:

 

  “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
  The whole earth is full of His glory!”

  And the posts of the door were shaken

  by the voice of him who cried out,

  and the house was filled with smoke.

  So I said:

 

 “Woe is me, for I am undone!
  Because I am a man of unclean lips,
  And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
  For my eyes have seen the King,
  The Lord of hosts.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me,

  having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.

  And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

 

 “Behold, this has touched your lips;
  Your iniquity is taken away,
  And your sin purged.”

 A lso I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

 

 “Whom shall I send,
  And who will go for Us?”

  Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

  And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

 

                          ISAIAH 6:2-9

 

 

The fact is, it is relevant to walk in supernatural power and heavenly authority in this time.  Being connected to Heaven directly bears upon the defeat of satan and evil in this hour.  Both the Apostle Paul and John Wesley understood that all true spiritual authority and power flow from the heavenly regions. 

 

Jesus said to us that our lives should be continually connevt through prayer to the Heavenly realms. In the Lord's Prayer He prayed for us that ...“Thy will be done on earth even as it is in Heaven.”  So in order to do God’s work on earth, Jesus expects each of us as believers to understand, comprehend and operate in the heavenly realm.  Many beleivers need to "phone home" via thier prayer language and seek the Lord for heavenly direction. They nees to be drawn beside His still waters and begin to listen to God's still, small voice speaking to them  ...

 

 

THe greatest missionary call of all was spoken by Jesus as He was being taken back into Heaven!

 

    But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;

    and you shall be my witnesses (martyrs) in Jerusalem,

    and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

    Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched,

    He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

    And while they looked steadfastly toward Heaven as He went up,

    behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said,

   “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into Heaven?

   This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into Heaven,

    will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into hHaven.”

   

                                                            Acts 1:8-10

 

 

Without a heavenly vision dreams, calls anointings are lost - people will suffer ... the world today needs Christians who have seen and heard fron HEAVEN!

                                                 

 

                                                Without a vision, the people perish ...

 

                                                                                  Peroverbs 29:18

 

GO & TELL

 

Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.”

And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains

and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind;

and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 

 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire;

and after the fire a still small voice.

 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle

and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave.

Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

 And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts;

because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant,

torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword.

I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” 

Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus ...

 

                                                                                          1Kings 19: 11-15

 

 

Heaven is above

 

You see, HEAVEN is ABOVE - it is where all true earthly callings for His glory orginiate. Prayerless, vision-less Christians are actually irrelevant to truly being used in God's Kingdom on earth - even in practcal ways - to help the sick, the poor the needy becuase they lack a vision of Heaven and a heavenly unction to empower them to reach others.

 

Besides, until believers on earth become connected and unified with the King of Heaven and with the laws of Paradise, there will never be the great Reformation which so many pray for.  The fact is, there can only be a national revival when the moral laws of church, government, science, medicine, education, business and theology become unified with the eternal and holy moral laws of Paradise. 

 

Treasures from Heaven  

 

Why do we want to pray and worship and be spiritually in tune with Heaven in this hour? Because the Lord wants to download into our lives empowering gifts and anointings that will not only bless us but make us a blessing to the nations. (Gen. 12:1-3)

 

God gives us treasures from Heaven according to James the disciple ...

 

                                          Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,

                                         who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,  y want

                                         that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

 

                                                                                                                                        James 1:17-18

 

The Father loves to give his children gifts - but we must be willing to pray and worship Him so that we can be in His Presence to recieve from Him.

 

Why, even  a fallen devil  knows to go to Heaven throne to vainly attempt to get what he wants.  [Job 1:6-7; Job 2:1-7; Ps. 100:6; Zech. 3:1-2]

 

A journey extraordinaire

 

Not withstanding some of the recent hoaxes and false reports by certain individuals as a marketing ploy to sell books -  the scriptures are very clear that the Glory realm exists. Sure, from time to time there are dubious testimonires of supoosed visitations to Heaven (what the mainstream media has recently dubbed "Heavenly Tourism." 

 

But there have also been many geniune NDE's (near death experiences) where beleivers have been proven clinically dead and then brought back to life by modern medicine. What they described as Paradise remarkably resembles what the Bible says about Heaven.

 

Of course critics of the supernatural should not scoff too much.  In Bible accounts,  from the time of Jacob (Gen 28), to Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1ff), Ezekiel (Ezekiel1), Zechariah, to the Gospels and the Apostle Paul  (i.e. his vivid " Third Heaven" experience ( 2Cor.12:1ff)- to Johns book of  Revelation - all these biblical passages recount personal visitations of sincere believers to Heaven while still living on earth.

 

Enoch, Elijah (and possibly Moses) were all actually translated into Heaven - the former not ever tasting death. The Prophet Elijah was actually picked up by a heavenly chariot of fire and taken there!

 

Naysayers and scoffers should not be so smug just because they can point to a few hypocrites or talebearers here and there. 

Nor is there any basis to attribute such accounts to UFO's or a superior alien race. The Word palinly warns us not to be too cynical about such heavenly things.

 

 

For the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, has plainly said that he is determined to crush the whole land. So scoff no more, or your punishment will be even greater ... But these people scoff at things they do not understand ...Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings ...

 

                                                                                                                                              Isaiah 28:22/Jude 1:10/2 Peter 2:10

The basic questions of life

 

There are basic philsophical questions that everyone asks themselves from time to time ...

 

                       Where did I come from?

                       Why am I here?

                       Where am I going?

 

If people were honest, most will admit that they wonder what will happen to them when they die. They think about it daily and more than they remember. They would admit that they think about Heaven and the after life and ask important, questions like “Where is Heaven?  How do I get there?  Does Heaven truly exist?

 

Heaven is a PLACE

 

Some quantum/astro physicists have said that heaven is in another dimension and one day possibly accesible through a black hole or worm hole portal located near the nubulae in the constellation Orion. (Job 9:9)

 

Others say its going to be this refurbished earth at the time of the "restitution of all things". 

 

But could Heaven (as John Milton supposed)  be a large and beautiful, habitable planet much like our own?   Some genuine missioanries  have testified they have seen it as a blue green palnet  80x larger than earth ? 

 

Or is it simply a beautiful and idyllic place of sublime, celestial reality located in another alternative universe or dimension?

 

Or is the heavenly realm  located at some distant location in our very own universe? 

 

No matter. The Bible does not specifically answer these sort questions.  But it does give us some clues regarding the fact that it is certainly a realm of reality and bliss “above” and beyond anything imaginable.

 

               But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,

               the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

 

                                                                                                           1Corinthians 2:9

 

One thing for certain, we know that when a believer dies, angels will come and carry them to Paradise.

 

                                  Finally the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham in the PLACE of the righteous ...

                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                   Luke 16:22 (TLB)

 

Maybe this is why Bible says we are blest when we contemplate the accounts of Heaven - Revelation having the most detail of its appearance ...

 

                                  Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this book, ….                                                                            

 

                                                                                   Revelation 1:3 

 

God’s place

 

  “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

  At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in Heaven with someone sitting on it.

  And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby.

  A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones,

  and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

  From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder.

  In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spiritsa of God.

  Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

I  n the center, around the throne, were four living creatures

 

                                                                                  Revelation 4:2-7

Heaven is God's residence. It's where He lives.

 

    Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,

    In the city of our God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

     Is Mount Zion in the far north,

    The city of the great King.

    God, in her palaces,

    Has made Himself known as a stronghold.…

 

                                               Psalm 48:2-3