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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ” (Jude
1:1). Jude’s stated purpose was to encourage his
readers to “earnestly contend for the faith” against
ungodly teachers who had entered the Church
and were promoting immoral behaviour and false
teachings that denied the Lord Jesus Christ (Jude
1:3). Certainly, this is easy to see in our society in
these days whereby sin and immorality are made
legal and in those parishes that preach and
condone spiritualities and relationships contrary
to what the Church teaches and holds dear.
Although it is one of the shortest books in
the New Testament, the Epistle of Jude contains
information that is not found anywhere else in the
Bible. Jude wrote about “angels which kept not their
first estate” (verse 6; see also Abraham 3:26), of a
confrontation between Michael and Lucifer over
the body of Moses (verse 9), and of a prophecy of
Enoch about the Saviour’s Second Coming (verses
14–15; see also Moses 7:65–66).
For this reason, I pray that this book will
go a long way to encourage our bishops to discern
the real nature of the battle and take the need for
diocesan exorcists' seriously, and not only appoint
them but make sure they are trained properly by
those that have experience and knowledge with
the spirit realm.
As much as this is a book of discernment,
to this day, I do not know the Sword of Gilead’s
name and do not need to know even if he has one,
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