THE ANGEL CALLED BEAUTY
July 19, 2006: Wednesday
At the gazebo:
The angels were standing around the ridge with heads lifted, singing a lovely chorus. They did not sing in parts, but in unison. Truly it was awe inspiring.
A very beautiful angel walked up the path. Her garment showed trees, then flowers, then mountains, then planets, then birds, etc. There was only a glimpse of each as she walked. Bands of color (these looked like ribbons or perhaps some sort of vegetation) were woven into her hair. Her hair had a slight tint of green. Strangely, it was lovely instead of being off-putting. She held an olive twig in her right hand.
“Today,” the Holy Spirit spoke, “BEAUTY” comes to this mount. The Great King brings beauty out of the ashes of all
that has been and will be destroyed because it was and is not of Him.”
“BEAUTY reflects His glory and lifts the shackled soul. Beauty alone [meaning by itself] can be a distraction. But BEAUTY where He has chosen to rest HIS glory is restorative.
When we returned to the cabin, I looked up ashes in both the New American Standard’s Concordance and the old Strong’s. I found in the King James Version of the Bible this:
Isaiah 61:3 – “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes…”
The Hebrew “pe’er” means embellishment; a fancy headdress; beautiful diadem; tiara; turban; bonnet; ornament. It means that all who mourn will be given a beautiful nuptial tiara instead of the ashes thrown on the head while mourning (Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible and Concordance).
I asked Albert to write something about the olive twig in her right hand. The right hand signifies “faith”. The dove returned to the ark with vegetation from an olive tree when the waters of God’s judgment had begun to recede and new life had begun on earth (Gen. 8:10).
