"so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rules and authorities in the heavenly places." Ephesians 3:10
Did you ever ponder the thought that angels stand on tip-toe over the walls of heaven waiting to hear what God has to say through Christians? Gods speak through His people, like a conduit, not only to people but to the entire realm of angels both good and wicked. It is a new perspective for me to think that in all our masterful preaching, charitable evangelism, and earnest appeals to mankind, we announce God to ALL creatures-both to earthly places and to spiritual realms! First Peter 1:12 does state that angels do long to look into the things of God and it would be no stretch of the mind to believe then that "rulers and authorities in heavenly places" listen to sermons for fresh news about God.
Did you ever ponder the thought that angels stand on tip-toe over the walls of heaven waiting to hear what God has to say through Christians? Gods speak through His people, like a conduit, not only to people but to the entire realm of angels both good and wicked. It is a new perspective for me to think that in all our masterful preaching, charitable evangelism, and earnest appeals to mankind, we announce God to ALL creatures-both to earthly places and to spiritual realms! First Peter 1:12 does state that angels do long to look into the things of God and it would be no stretch of the mind to believe then that "rulers and authorities in heavenly places" listen to sermons for fresh news about God.
Ephesians 1:10 has the answer. It says, "according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to UNITE all things in him, things in HEAVEN and things on EARTH."
God's manifold wisdom is being made known in the physical and spiritual realms by all true believers everywhere. Christ's plan is to unite the universe under His sovereign power and authority, as it was meant to be! Adam and Israel failed to spread God's love and goodness everywhere, but God knew it would be so. Since the Fall things are dislodged, separated, out of joint, disconnected, flawed, ruined, fallen, estranged, alienated, and divided. Christ is bringing, through the Church, a united cosmos under His banner of love. Church is not some obscure event on Sunday. We the church, of all those who proclaim the excellencies of Jesus Christ, are in a serious enterprise to announce the manifold wisdom of God and a kingdom to come, a united universal frontier, to all peoples, angels, and demons everywhere.
