The Bible, and no other protocolary, remains the only Magna Carta of every minister of God. Why should we jettison the inherent Spirit of God and jet off to seek human aid, when the matter is strictly God’s Kingdom business?
The phrase, ‘the angel of his presence,’ (Hebrew, פניומלאך פ male’âk pânâyv, ‘angel of his face,’ or ‘countenance’), means an angel that stands in his presence, and that enjoys his favor, as a man does who stands before a prince, or who is admitted constantly to his presence (compare Pro 22:29).’ Joshua Selma makes it crystal clarity that as Jesus, his ultimate encounter, He gave him the gift of ‘angel of His presence' and a huge angel showed up – making Two entities, Jesus and that huge angel. This clearly places a personality distinction between the Lord Jesus and the angelic gift, right? Isaiah 63:9 “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.”
The LORD God’s Presence is, from the definition of pânı̂ym, the physical Person of Himself. This LORD God that spoke with Moses and gave His acquiescence to let Moses see His face is the manifestation of the Second Member of the Godhead, Jesus Christ.
There is no difference between the ‘Angel of His presence’ and the ‘pillar of fire and cloud’. An angel that must be obeyed and who has pardoning power cannot be a created being. Let us look at one of the encounters Moses experienced going through the wilderness in Exodus 33:13-14.
If John saw the Holy Spirit, what stops Joshua Selma from perceiving, with his naked eyes, the Holy Spirit? What he claimed to have heard, “The union of the spoken word and the movement of the Spirit is what births the miraculous;” can easily serve as manipulative tool of unsuspecting minds of itchy ears. Inspirational speakers have warmed their sweet talks into the Church and this kind of statement from Selma is what trips nominal Christians.
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