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The Truth About Angels
as the judge or ruler over the temple and all its services; he should
walk among attending angels, even in this life, and should at last join
the glorified throng around the throne of God.—
Testimonies for the
Church 5:467-469
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This word of assurance is given to all who have faith in God.
Receive this wonderful promise. It is not a human being who is
speaking. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways,
and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house,
and shalt also keep my courts and I will give thee places to walk among
these that stand by.”
“Among these that stand by.” The hosts of the enemy, who are
trying to bring God’s people into disrepute, and the hosts of heaven,
ten thousand times ten thousand angels, who watch over and guard the
tempted people of God, uplifting them and strengthening them—these
are they who stand by. And God says to His believing ones, You
shall walk among them. You shall not be overcome by the powers of
darkness. You shall stand before me in the sight of the holy angels, who
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are sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation.—
The
Review and Herald, April 30, 1901
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The Vision of the Seven Lamps and the Two Olive Trees
Immediately after Zechariah’s vision of Joshua and the angel, given
to the high priest as a personal testimony for his own encouragement
and the encouragement of all the people of God, the prophet received a
personal testimony regarding the work of Zerubbabel. “The angel that
talked with me,” Zechariah declares, “came again, and waked me, as a
man that is waked out of his sleep, and said unto me, What seest thou?
And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a
bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes
to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: and two olive trees
by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left
side thereof.”—
The Review and Herald, January 16, 1908
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“Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive-
trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side
thereof? And I answered again, and said unto him, what be these two
olive-branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden