Angelic Warfare! — Keith Malcomson

Spiritual Warfare and the Angel of the Lord

We're turning now to Psalm 34, and we're going to continue with our series on spiritual warfare that we've been doing over the past several weeks. We last looked in part eight at fasting and spiritual warfare.

That was our last message. Then we took a week's break there. I taught 33 messages, translated into the German. Just had a brilliant school, with God's blessing, and we'll catch up, have some testimonies tonight concerning that.

But it's just been a very precious, very important week. So we just had that week's break. We will come back and do more of the school in July. We'll do about three weeks, just teaching day in, day out for about 20 days.

But here this morning, I want to come back to our series, a very important series on spiritual warfare for this hour. And my message this morning, I believe, is going to be an encouraging one. Some messages are meant to convict, others to correct, maybe to rebuke.

But there are messages to encourage and exhort us in an evil hour. And I do pray this will encourage you this morning. So part eight of this series, angelic warfare, turning to Psalm 34, and our message, angelic warfare.

It says there in Psalm 34, reading from verse three, O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all of my fears. They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all of his troubles. And please note, this is my text this morning, verse seven. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Here this morning, let's pray together as I come to this message, angelic warfare. Father, we do thank you that we can gather, break bread, rejoice in the precious blood. Remember the work of Calvary.

Turn our eyes upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you. There's hours, times, seasons, where you come to encourage, to bless, to pour out revelation. And Father, I pray that you'd open up our eyes at this table.

Lord God, as we open up the word of God, would you strengthen every single individual, every family, every group of believers that listen this message this morning. My God, would you lift our hearts heavenward.

Would you open our eyes that we might see an unseen world that we so easily get distracted from. Lord God, let our eyes be single upon the Lord Jesus Christ. But more than that, let us, O God, approach by faith Mount Zion.

Lord God, the city of the most high God. Lord God, let us come, Lord God, to the blood of sprinkling and to an innumerable company of angels. Would you bless us this morning as we open up your word in Jesus' name.

Amen. My text here this morning from Psalm 34 and verse 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and he delivereth them. My message, the title I've given this, is Angelic Warfare.

And this is our text that the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him. I want you to notice before we come to our three major points that I'm going to deal with here this morning, and we're going to go into all of scripture or take a broad aspect view of this.

But I want to start with this one single view, the angel of the Lord. I want you to see in this verse, it's talking about one angel encampeth around God's people. It's singular, not plural. All the Lord needs to do is send one angel to encamp around an entire church or body of people.

One angel is more than a match for the enemy, for the adversary of the soul. And so this verse in Psalm 34, verse 7, it says the angel of the Lord. I'm talking about an angel that belongs to the Lord and angels that belong to the Lord.

They are governed by the Lord, created by the Lord, ruled by the Lord, commanded by the Lord, sent by the Lord, positioned by the Lord. They give utter devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know that the angels right now, we don't see them, we don't feel them, we may not sense them.

But I assure you in this gathering, as we are gathered in different homes and different lands, different places, I assure you that the angels gather with us. That's why the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 11, concerning a woman covering her head, it's because of the angels.

That's something that most Christians utterly ignore. They're not aware that the angels gather with the church, looking in on the proceedings, looking at these sinners that should have went to hell, but yet they're saved, given a second chance, washed from their sins, made ready from heaven.

A fallen angel will never have that opportunity. Here in this scripture, it says the angel of the Lord. I want you to be very aware this morning, I'm not talking about fallen angels. I'm not talking about Lucifer.

I'm not talking about demons. I'm not talking about our warfare. This is a series on warfare, but I'm not talking primarily about our warfare against powers of darkness. I actually want you to think and consider and for us to pull back the veil on the angels of the Lord.

Those angels that actually belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, it says in John chapter one and verse three, all things were made by him. That is Christ Jesus. All things, the entire universe. And it says, and without him was not anything made that was made.

Then over in Colossians chapter one, verse 16, it says for by him, that is Jesus, were all things created. Since anything that's been created was created by Christ. It says that are in heaven and that are in earth.

Visible and invisible. All these things. Do you know there's things created that are invisible? You cannot see them. You cannot touch them. They are not physical. They are invisible. And yet they are created.

There are things that don't even comprehend in our mind. We cannot see them. You cannot touch them. They are invisible. Yet they were created by God. It says, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by him and for him.

All the angels were created. They were actually created in Genesis chapter one. Many people argue, debate, question, when were the angels created? They were created in Genesis one. Because in Genesis chapter one, all things were created in Genesis one.

There's nothing created that wasn't created in Genesis chapter one. And you know what? Somewhere in that chapter, although we're not specifically told it, the angels were created by the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word of God. The eternal son of God. He created the angelic forces. It says all things were created by him and for him. And he is before all things and by him all things do consist. Here in Psalm 34, they are called the angel of the Lord.

This singular angel that's mentioned in this verse is called the angel of the Lord. Do you know this angel he mentions was created by the Lord Jesus, by God himself. All angels are created beings. And they do not match God's power.

They are mere servants of the most high God. These angels are also called elect angels or chosen angels. They are chosen ones by the Lord. The Lord knows them. The Lord rules them. The Lord uses them to accomplish his will.

And it says about the angel of the Lord, notice what it says here. That the angel of the Lord, singular, encampeth round about them that fear him. Look at that beautiful word, encampeth. And this is where we really get into spiritual warfare.

You'll say, why am I preaching on spiritual warfare from this verse? It's because of this word, encampeth. Notice the angel of the Lord encampeth round about the saints of God, you and I. The word encampeth is a military term.

It is a war term. It's not talking about a physical battle. Or a physical army. Or a visible army. It says the angel of the Lord encampeth. That term encampeth means to pitch a tent. Or to set up a military camp.

Or a military tent. In other words, this is talking about a very specific angel. In a very specific situation. This angel isn't dwelling in heaven. This angel is at war. This angel is encamping in the field of battle.

It's talking about an angel in the battle. Or in the warfare. Do you know, our God actually is called the Lord of hosts. Or it's another name for Jesus Christ. In Psalm 89 verse 6. It talks about the Lord of hosts.

That word hosts specifically means armies. You see, the church, the real Christian, the real believer in the Lord. We are on a battlefield. We are in a war. And it's a very real warfare. And our God, our Lord Jesus Christ, is called the Lord of hosts.

He is the Lord of the armies of heaven. Who are these armies? They are angels. They are angelic beings. And do you know what? They march and rank and file. They are very organized. They are put in order and detachments, regiments.

You know, in the British army, we have regiments, battalions, depending on the battle. You can have a small troop of men. Or you can have a large regiment. And then it goes further when you go out into war.

Well, I want to tell you, when the Lord really goes to war, he is the Lord of hosts. He is the Lord of the armies of angels. Do you realize that we, the church, are actually caught up in a warfare where it's not just us fighting the devil?

You're not just fighting demons. I want you to be aware of this this morning. It's not that we are in a spiritual warfare, and you're there having to face the devil, and having to face the powers of darkness, and having to wage a warfare against powers of iniquity.

Do you realize that when there's a real warfare in the church of God, or with some lone Christian who's praying, do you realize that the Lord is involved? And not only the Lord, he sets his armies. Do you know God puts his armies in the field?

He detaches them from heaven above. And he actually places them in the battlefield where it's hot, where the enemy is raging, where the enemy is attacking. Are you under attack today? I want to tell you, God does not leave you in the battlefield alone.

You are not alone this morning. It's utterly impossible. If you love Jesus, if you're praying, if you believe in him, it doesn't matter if you're discouraged or if you feel like giving up. Do you realize, God, that the angel of the Lord encampeth?

He encampeth. Do you know what that means? He comes. If you're in a battle, he comes and pitches his tent where your home is, or your workplace, or your church, or your ministry. He literally encamps his tent.

He says, I'm here for the battle. I'm here to accomplish something. I'm here with a task. It says a very strange thing in Genesis 32 and verse 1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angel of God met him.

The angels actually met him. And do you know what? It was an hour. He was going to face a great trial. He was going back to see his brother. He thought his brother might kill him. He didn't know what was going to happen tomorrow.

But do you know what? The angels of God met him. Before you meet your trial, God will send his angels. And it says, and when Jacob saw them, he actually saw them, he said, this is God's host. Literally, this is the army.

This is God's army. And he called the name of the place Mahanim, which means a double camp or two armies. Do you realize on that day with Jacob, it was a family battle, family problems. He didn't know what was going to happen tomorrow.

But do you know what? Actually, God opened his eyes to see these two entire armies that were with him. They met him. They come out to meet him. Can you imagine having two entire armies of angels coming out to meet you?

You may say, God wouldn't do that for me. I'm not spiritual enough. Jacob, apart from God's grace, was a twister, a conniver. I tell you, he was a shrewd operator. And yet here he is in the day when he's facing trouble.

He's worried. He's concerned about the future. God actually sends out two armies of angels and opened his eyes that he could see. Do you know what? As soon as we're born again, a new convert, we're placed in the battlefield.

Day one, we're in the battlefield. We wouldn't stand a chance if God left us to our own self. We're so weak. We have no power, no ability. The Bible says in Hebrews 2 and 7 that man is made a little lower than the angels.

Angels have remarkable power, speed, ability, knowledge, wisdom. All of this, we don't sense. The battle rages round per week, clay vessels like you and I. This is where the battle rages. All the hosts of heaven with their great power, remarkable power.

They actually are sent in to fight on our behalf, to march with us in the battle. You may feel nothing. You may see nothing. You may not be able hardly to believe this. Yet the Bible teaches that. It's not a once in a millennium that God sends an angel to help some saint.

That's not likely at all. Notice further as we go in this verse. I'm already getting worried I won't get through my message here. This is such remarkable stuff. But the angel of the Lord encampeth. Notice this next term.

Roundabout. Roundabout. Isn't that a beautiful thing? It's one angel, but he is encamping a military camp. Against spiritual darkness. And all manners of harm. Intervening in your path. Sent by God to you.

He encampeth roundabout. And that word roundabout means to form a circle around you. To cover every single side. That there's no approach unto you without going through that angel. He is one angel, but he is encamped so in around you.

That no power of hell can come near you. No trial, no trouble without going through him. Whatever he is set there to do, he is not going to fail. You may fail, but that angel isn't going to fail. He is going to get you out of the circle.

He is set there with a divine task. It was the old preacher Spurgeon. Who was talking about these angels. He said that God has set a watch. The watch is kept. This watch over you day and night. Day and night.

Nighttime while you're sleeping or you're exhausted and tired. The watch is kept by warriors of sleepless eyes. The angels don't sleep. They don't get tired. They don't give up. They don't leave their tasks.

They don't go AWOL. If they're sent there with a task, they'll stay there. So who is it that the Lord sends this singular angel to encamp, to circle and around? Because you know what? If you can find out, you can find out if you're such a person.

And if this has ever happened to you, or if it is happening today, or if it will happen in the future, it says this angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him. Them that fear him. If you fear the Lord, then the angel of the Lord encampeth around you.

This is something for you. Do you fear God this morning? You see, you can't act like a rebel and fear God. You can't live like a sinner and yet fear God. If you fear God, you depart from iniquity. You depart from sin.

You tremble. You know, we brought the fear of the Lord down to some vague respect. We call God the Father, Papa, Daddy. We treat him like a chum and a friend. We have lost what it means to tremble in the presence of God.

It used to be the church trembled at the presence of God. Now in churches, they act like idiots with no respect or reverence. We need to recapture the fear of the Lord. Maybe this is why there's so little angelic visitation in the church of this day.

Certainly in the Western world. You know what? We've lost the fear of God. And the angels don't encamp round about. I guess the angels don't like encamping around about those that don't fear God. Maybe if an angel was sent, he would say, Why should I be protecting this scoundrel?

He doesn't love God. He doesn't fear God. He doesn't obey God. Why should I be sent here to rescue them and guard them night and day? Do you know what the fear of God means? It means to live with a sense of reverential awe.

To actually be there with an awareness that this God could cast you into hell. Body and soul. If you rejected him, that's what the fear of God is. I'm so aware of who he is. Yes, I love him and I know he loves me.

Oh, I know that. But the fear of God, the real fear of God, doesn't make you draw back. It makes you come close. Do you know the fear of the Lord in me does that? It makes me intimate with him. It drives me closer.

If you say, Oh, I fear God, and you hold back, you're scared to go near him. That's not the fear of God. That's a natural, human, carnal fear. But the true fear of God makes you draw very close to the Lord and stay very close to him.

And notice as well, it says, The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The angel of the Lord not only encampeth around you, but he delivers. Do you know what that means?

He draws you out of your troubles. He delivers you from danger. He draws you away from a place of danger. He snatches you unto himself, away from danger, evil, or the enemy. Since the angel of the Lord is very real.

All this is, is one verse. But look how powerful it is that the angel of the Lord encamps and circles around a man or a woman, a Christian, who truly fears God. You say, I want to take you to some scriptures.

But I also want you to be aware that things like this have always happened in church history. There was an English martyr in London in the 1500s who was awaiting to be martyred the next day. That night, he was so scared, so fearful, but he loved the Lord.

That night, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream of the night. He knew God had sent an angel to speak to him, to reassure him, to face martyrdom. Don't think it's a new charismatic thing to experience dreams about angels or to actually see angels.

No, it's not. For 30 years now, the charismatic movement has almost destroyed this teaching and we're scared to touch on it or to believe it. Because in the Toronto revival, you go into meetings and you get these men and women on platforms pointing, saying that the angels are swinging off the lampshades.

Oh, what foolishness. It destroys the church. Away with such foolishness. I've got no time for it. But I do believe in angels. I believe they can come in dreams. I believe they can come and speak to men and women.

It was just after the year 1600, a young Samuel Rutherford who became one of the greatest preachers of Scotland, a Scottish Covenanter, a Presbyterian. He actually, just after 1600, he was a small boy about five years old, near the town of Jedburgh, where I used to preach every week for a period of time.

And he fell in a bit of water. And he said, he said this many years later, that a man all dressed in white came along and pulled him out and saved him from drowning. A little boy, he would have been lost, his parents wouldn't have even known.

But a man all dressed in white, he believed it was an angel of the Lord. Do you know the Lord knew the plan he had for Samuel Rutherford, so he saved him at the age of five. Many years ago, heading towards 200 years ago in the New Hebrides, which is down in the South Pacific, just north of Australia.

There is a whole chain of islands about 450 miles long. And they were filled with Aboriginal peoples, and many of them were actually cannibals. They used to, if anyone landed there, they would eat them, roast them for dinner that night.

Literally, this is what happened. But in those islands, Christians began to evangelize. In the year 1839, on one of those islands called the New Hebrides, there was a couple, a married couple, burdened for the souls of men, for the cannibals on that island.

1839, they landed on the beach to evangelize, to pray, to reach out to these lost souls. And they were killed and eaten for lunch. Three years later, the London Missionary Society sent two more missionaries called John G. Patton.

He was a Scotsman, and him and his wife went out there. They knew what had happened before, but they went, they prayed and said, Lord, we need to reach these souls. That was in the year 1842. Listen, by 1887, just over 40 years later, there were 12 ,000 converts amongst that people.

Remarkable revival. I mean, thousands, and all through those islands, other missionaries went there and evangelized. But it began with bloodshed, people laying down their lives. But listen, that isn't all.

I'm coming to something here. John G. Patton tells a remarkable story of once, on the 23rd of June, 1873. As they're in the midst of evangelizing these pagan peoples, that this night, the tribesmen got stirred up and decided to kill them and to eat this Christian couple.

That night, the natives began to gather around the small camp. Mr. Patton knew, we're on dangerous ground here. He told his wife, his wife was very scared. The people began to dance around the camp and scream and yell and began to bring fire.

His wife was very scared. He just kept telling her, just keep praying, keep praying. All through the night, they prayed, oh God, protect us. Oh God, deliver us. Oh Lord, would you save us from the enemy?

And as they saw the fire coming, he said, they intend to burn us out. He said, wife, keep praying. He had his children there as well. What a terrifying night they went through. What a terrifying night.

But as it seemed like all hope was lost, all of a sudden, it began to get very quiet and all these tribesmen suddenly left. Do you know, it was a year later, after one of the chiefs got converted, he actually asked him, he said, why did you leave us that night?

What was it? We thought it was all over. You're going to kill us that night. He said, it was a very fearful night. Why did you leave us? And the chief said, well, it's obvious all those soldiers that you had around you, hundreds of men dressed in white with swords drawn.

We were terrified. We were scared. We had to leave you and we knew we couldn't touch you. Do you realize the angels of the Lord were sent to those missionary? Don't tell me this is only a thing for the Bible.

It's a thing that's happened all through the generations. There was another single lady called Mary Munson from Norway. She went out, she was a Lutheran missionary, and she was sent out to China. A remarkable lady in 1901, just before she went out, there'd been an uprising where all the missionaries were killed in China and tens of thousands of Christians were killed.

Well, that was the very time she volunteered. I'm going as a missionary to China. Give us Christians like this again. She served from 1901 through to 1932. She was a remarkable woman of prayer. When the Chinese used to come in, the Chinese leaders and Western missionaries used to come in, she'd go to the white Western missionaries and she'd say, are you born again?

They'd get angry with her. Imagine Colin asking me, a missionary, am I born again? And that's what she would do. She was a woman of prayer. She loved God with all of her heart. She was no fool. A remarkable lady.

And in fact, God used her up into the 1920s and 30s to bring revival in China. It was an amazing national revival broke out and God really used this little Lutheran lady. Well, do you know what? She tells a remarkable story.

In fact, she tells many. I don't have time to tell you them all here, but she tells one particular story. One night when she was in her missionary camp and the Chinese bandits began to gather and to shoot off their weapons.

They were in a drunken, terrible state. They were coming to massacre her. And there were women and children and some men gathered to that camp. They were scared for their lives and they took refuge in the mission's camp.

And as they did that night, she was suffering terrible malaria. She'd been in bed. She was very sick. But as these people began to gather at the camp, she felt very responsible for them. And these men, these violent men began to gather around.

They're going to set the place on fire and kill them all and come in and take them. And there that night when she was with the people, she began to minister unto them and to say, pray, pray for God's protection.

Pray that God say, begin to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, you know what happened? All of a sudden, just again, as these drunken men are laughing and mocking and threatening, all of a sudden they died down and they all left.

Do you know, the next morning, all the surrounding people, villages, people come out of their homes and they come shocked, saying, who were those four men? Well, she said, which four men? Said, you had four large, tall men dressed in white.

This missionary lady never seen them, never felt them, didn't know they were there. God didn't show her a vision, but those other Chinese actually saw them. And that's why these bandits left. I can tell you about Fania, who was a young Russian soldier.

He joined the Russian army. He was born again, loved Jesus, a young Baptist man. And he went there. He eventually died in 1972, the year of my birth at 20 years old. Well, he joined the Russian army, the Soviet Union.

You're not allowed to be a Christian in there. They tortured him. They persecuted him. He went through terrible suffering. I don't have time to tell you about it, but he had angelic visitations. If you ever get the chance, read the testimony of Fania, the young Russian soldier.

He had real experiences of the angels of the Lord coming to him to help him and to comfort him. Praise God. It is so real that the angel of the Lord encampeth around them that fear him. I could keep telling you contemporary testimonies, real testimonies.

I'm not talking about foolish people, strange revivals, or false prophets. I'm talking about real people who suffered for Christ, who have had these experiences, and they wouldn't lie. They loved Jesus, loved the Word of God.

Angelic Protection in Spiritual Warfare

I've got three points here. I feel like I could preach all day long on this, but I want to try and confine myself. We'll come back and do a series at another time. This is my first point. Protected by angels.

I want you to see this morning that we're in spiritual warfare. I believe the three points I'm going to give to you apply to spiritual warfare. All of you are involved in spiritual warfare. Even if you're not saved this morning, you're involved in spiritual warfare.

The devil wants you. The devil wants to send you to hell. God sends forth his angels, even to minister on behalf of those like Samuel Rutherford, even before they get saved. God sends angels going, they're going to get saved one day.

I'm going to put an angel there to protect them. The devil wants to damn them and send them to hell. I'll send my angel to protect them. That's why some of you aren't in hell today. You should have been in hell, but God sent an angel that you never knew about.

You won't know it until eternity. Do you know the Bible says we Christians are going to judge angels on that day? I wonder if we're going to see all that they've done. How they intervened in each one of our lives.

I wonder if we're going to be responsible for handing out rewards. We are told that we're going to judge them. It's not a thing of condemnation. They can't be condemned. They're not sinners. They can't do wrong.

So how are we judging? We must be handing out rewards. God brings us in on that, that we're even going to judge the angels. But listen, protected by angels. My first point, protection by angels. In spiritual warfare, both physical and spiritual, unseen attacks, warfare against our spiritual life, we do receive protection by angels.

In 2 Kings 6, verse 15, it says, and this is talking about Elisha, the man of God. They were being pursued by their enemies and took refuge in a city. Elisha is there with his young servant. And it says there, and the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth.

He looked over the wall of the city and he said, he's seen a host encamped against the city, both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, unto Elisha, alas, my master, how shall we do?

And Elisha answered him, fear not. It's okay for a man of God. You know, you mature Christians can turn around to younger ones, or sometimes it's the other way around. And you can say, there's maybe a Christian gets all scared.

And you say, fear not. And you go, it's okay for him to say that. Well, the servant must've thought the same. It's fine for Elisha to say that. Look at the armies, the horses, we're trapped. They are going to kill us.

Look at all of these chariots, these horses, these soldiers, look at their spears and their swords. We're finito. We're trapped in here. They tracked us down. I'm going to get killed because of my master.

He's a prophet. They want to kill him. I know I'm going to die. My young life is finito. It's over. Can you see the fear in his heart? But the old prophet says, fear not. And listen to this carefully.

For they that be with us are more than they that be with them. Young man, all you're seeing is the enemy. All you can see is the devil. All you can see is your problems. All you can see is what is against us.

And it all joins up until it's unbearable. In fact, you can't see a way out. You cannot see God in this situation. You're not applying God's word to the situation. All you can see is it's over. I'm finished.

I'm finished. Do you realize there's a protection by angels in this warfare? When you come to a point where you cannot see, you cannot believe, you cannot hear, you do not know, all you can see is the natural warfare.

All you feel is the natural battle. Do you know what the prophet of God would say? And this preacher is saying to you this morning, fear not. This is the word of the Lord to you. Fear not. For they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

You say, but you don't understand. Oh, yes, I do. Oh, yes, I do. One angel encamping around you is enough. But listen, he goes on. And Elijah prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see.

Some of you are in a dark place because you cannot see. You need to pray. I'm going to pray for you before we're over. I'm going to pray that God opens your eyes. I was praying for this message that God would open your eyes.

That even as we preach, from I just began this morning, that your eyes are going to begin to open to see things you couldn't see before. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man. And he saw. What did he see?

I mean, he could see physically. He can see the enemy. He can see the battle. He can see what's against him. He can see the problems. He can see the impossibility. But God had to do something. God opened the young man's eyes.

What did he see then? How did God answer in prayer? What difference does prayer make? If you don't think prayer makes a difference, you know very little. Prayer makes a difference. When he prayed, the eyes of the young man was opened.

And listen, and behold. When the word behold is used in the Bible, it means stop what you're doing. Look, this is major. Behold, the mountain was full of horses and of chariots round about Elisha. Do you see that the armies, the angels were in around Elisha?

Not the young man. As he looked at this prophet, suddenly he sees the great hosts of armies, of angelic angels are there in about Elisha. In fact, it says more than that. The mountain was full. The mountain where they were was literally full.

There was no room for any space. You thought there was nothing there. Oh, there's lots there. You see, some of you this morning, you go, I'm alone in my trial. You don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, I'm facing, you don't know what I'm facing. I'm all alone in the battle. No Christian understands. You don't know what you're talking about this morning. You're blind. Your eyes are closed to see reality.

What I'm telling you is reality. Your troubles aren't reality. The enemy isn't the reality. All the things that are against you, your own fears aren't the reality. This is reality. The mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire.