The Lord’s ministering angels are helping us find our way back to our heavenly home, while Satan’s are doing everything they can to deceive us. Did you know you have ministering angels watching over you?

There are nearly ten times more angels above us than there are people on Earth. Satan has half as many to do his dirty work. Hell is their dwelling place. Separate from hell is paradise. Within paradise is the Kingdom of Heaven, which is perfectly organized to carry forth God’s work on earth.

Treasure Up His Word

As we treasure His Word, we will not be deceived, and His angels will help us with learning God’s truths. (JS-M 37) As we think of these two places, paradise, and hell, they are both nearby in the Lord’s dimensionality.   Alma teaches us, there is a space between death and the resurrection (Alma 40:11-14). For the righteous, it is paradise; for the wicked, it is “outer darkness,” [hell] in contrast to the light of Christ. (John 8:12)

Freedom of choice is fundamental to Heavenly Father’s perfect plan of happiness, and our choices determine where we go when we die. The Lord will force no one to heaven; to do so would make it, not heaven. Matt. 7:7-8 is a law of heaven: ask, seek, and knock and then you will receive, find, and have opened. Angels speak the words of Christ; we ask, and they minister (2 Nephi 32:3). Mormon shares the “job description” of the Lord’s angels:

For behold, they are subject unto him, [Christ] to minister according to the word of his command, showing themselves unto them of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness. And the office of their ministry is to call men unto repentance, and to fulfill and to do the work of the covenants of the Father, which he hath made unto the children of men, to prepare the way among the children of men, by declaring the word of Christ unto the chosen vessels of the Lord, that they may bear testimony of him. And by so doing, the Lord God prepareth the way that the residue of men may have faith in Christ, that the Holy Ghost may have a place in their hearts, according to the power thereof; and after this manner bringeth to pass the Father, the covenants which he hath made unto the children of men…

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen. (Moroni 7:30-32, 48)

Inspired Scientists

God, as the Grand Creator, created us to be creators. Most don’t know they have ministering angels to help them to be creators. There is no doubt that many of the early scientists, who were devout Christians, had ministering angels and were grand creators, as the scientific method came into flower. Sir Isaac Newton is an amazing example as I share in my new book: Time and Eternity, The End-Times and Beyond Revealed.

I believe the Lord’s angels assisted Max Planck (1858-1947), a faithful Lutheran, as a significant pioneer in seeing the quantum-mechanical aspect of nature. His insights, along with Einstein’s insights, gave us the equation E = hν, which is the fundamental equation for atomic clocks without which we would not have GPS, telecom, and almost uncountable technological benefits.

Planck’s constant, h, is named after him. Looking at this fundamental equation for atomic clocks E = hν, E is the energy of a quantum transition, and ν is the frequency of the photon emitted or absorbed during the transition. The ground-state transition in the cesium-133 atom that defines the length of the second is ν = 9,192,631,770 Hz. When that many cycles go by, you have one official “second!” That is the definition for timekeeping throughout the world.

Before 1967, time was determined astronomically, but way back before that, Planck had quantified quantum transitions. These great scientists are not dead; they are very much alive in the spirit world and are now ministering angels who help us move the Lord’s work along here on Earth. I have felt their presence on many occasions.

When Planck decided to go into physics, his father discouraged him, as everything was thought to be deterministic and nothing new to be found. This was the state of physics in the early 1900s. Planck’s spirituality took him beyond this false deterministic mindset, and the angels were with him, and his enormous contributions to physics are evident. He won the Nobel Prize and the Max Planck Institute and many other things were named after him, because of his inspired insights. As a faithful believer, he said that “all matter is grounded in a conscious and intelligent Mind that holds the fate of the world and every human being in its mighty hand:”

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force that brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and Intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists, He is at the end of all considerations. To the former, He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized worldview.

That God existed before there were human beings on earth, that He holds the entire world, believers and non-believers, in His omnipotent hand for eternity, and that He will remain enthroned on a level inaccessible to human comprehension long after the Earth and everything that is on has gone to ruins; those who profess this faith and who, inspired by it, in veneration and complete confidence, feel secure from the dangers of life under the protection of the Almighty, only those may number themselves among the truly religious. [Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography, and other papers, trans. Frank Gaynor (New York Philosophy Library: 1949; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971): 184; quoted by Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, p 217.]”

Come Back To Faith and Rejoice

It is hard to imagine a scientist saying such words today. It is time for us to come back to that faith and rejoice in the Lord’s ministering angels both as scientists and everyone else.

The need for humility and repentance is our way to be instructed on high by His angels and to learn the beautiful truths of God’s ways, which are marvelous and inspiring. This is the path to happiness, true love, joy, and peace.

I find a grand irony in God’s perfect plan of happiness that it includes our imperfections. The opposition in all things allows us to grow: “For it must needs to be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad” (2 Nephi 2:11). In this perfect plan, there was a war in heaven and Satan in opposition to God was cast out of heaven to the earth with the angels to the devil. (Rev. 12:9) This is the localized “outer darkness” where Satan and his angels go about deceiving all who will listen to their tantalizing enticements.

Christ has given us His Spirit to know “good” from “evil,” and by choosing good we find our path to our Savior, who will bring us back to the Father so that we may be perfect like He is perfect—an amazing plan of happiness.

Thank you, Lord, for the challenges of life. Let me learn what I can from them and grow closer to You. You have overcome the world; let me continually look to you in every thought and doubt not and fear not, but be filled with thy love. (D&C 6:36; Moroni 7:48)

David W Allan

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