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What is Going on Behind the Scenes, Part 4 (TMF:2549)

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Peace to Live By: What is Going on Behind the Scenes, Part 4 (TMF:2549) - Daniel Litton
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       Note verse 10: “When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him” (Acts 12:10, ESV). Consider and take note of the invisible power of the angel. To appear, to save (to get around the guards), to lead out (passed all the guards), and to have the gate open by its own accord. These are beings God has established to help us, as the writer of Hebrews will later tell us. They work against the evil powers—the satanically aligned powers—and what they want. For Peter himself concludes, in verse 11, “When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting” (ESV). So, God rescues Peter “from the hand of Herod,” from, interestingly enough, the established governmental leader.