Written by: Peretz Green

MESSAGE OF THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

Part 2: You are blessed with the Divine Presence

in memory of my beloved mother Ann Green

from September 4, 1990, Elul 14, 5750

November 22, 1994 (Houston)

You are blessed in the Divine Presence, as it states: "You are children unto the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy, 14: 1). Even unto Gid'on the Divine Presence revealed itself: "And the Lord said unto Gid'on: By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites unto thy hand; and let all the other people go every man unto his place" (Judges, 7: 7). "And it came to pass, during the same night, that the Lord said unto him: Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand. And if thou fear to go down, then go thou down with Purah thy servant to the camp. And thou shalt hear what they will say; and after that shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou wilt go down unto the camp" (Ibid: 7: 9-11). Look at how many things and how many words the Divine Presence made known to Gid'on who was after all a very common person. And see how the Divine Presence encouraged him, notwithstanding his great fear: "And he went down with Purah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the camp. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like the locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is by the seaside for multitude. And when Gid'on was come, behold, a man was telling a dream unto his fellow, and said: Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and, lo, a baked cake of barley bread was rolling round through the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and struck against it so that it fell, and it turned it bottom upward, and the tent thus tumbled down. And his fellow answered and said: This is nothing else save the sword of Gid'on the son of Joash, a man of Israel; into whose hand God hath delivered Midian, and the whole camp. And it was, when Gid'on heard the narration of the dream, and its interpretation, that he prostrated himself, and returned unto the camp of Israel, and said: Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the camp of Midian" (Ibid: 11-15).

You are blessed in the Divine Presence that inspired Hannah in her prayer: "My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is exalted through the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. There is none holy as the Lord; for there is none beside Thee; neither is there any rock like our God. Talk no more so exceedingly proud; let not arrogance come out of your mouth; for a God of knowledge is the Lord, and by Him are actions weighed. The mighty men of the bow are broken, and those that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full hire themselves out for bread; and they that were hungary cease: while the barren hath born seven, she that hath many children languished. The Lord killeth and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: He bringeth low and also lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, from the dunghill He lifteth up the needy, to set them among the nobles, and He asiigneth them the throne of glory; for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, on which He hath set the world. He ever guardeth the feet of His pious ones, and the wicked shall be made silent in darkness; for not by strength can man prevail. The Lord - His adversaries will be crushed; out of heaven will He thunder upon them: the Lord will judge the ends of the earth; and He will give strength unto His king, and lift up the horn of His anointed" (Samuel 1, 2: 2-10). You are blessed in the Divine Presence which spoke to Samuel: "And 'Eli said unto Samuel: Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He call thee, that thou shalt say: Speak, Lord; for Thy servant heareth. And Samuel went and lay down in his place. And the Lord came, and placed himself, and as at previous times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak; for Thy servant heareth. And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth shall tingle" (Ibid: 3: 9-11). "And the Lord continued to appear in Shiloh; for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord" (Ibid: 21).

You are blessed in the Divine Presence that spoke to the Prophet Natan: "And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lordcame unto Nathan, saying; Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle; In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel; And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth; Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house; And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom; He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever; I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee; And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever" (Samuel 2, 7: 4-16).