Angelic Rescue from an Evil Ruler
"Verily, verily, I say unto you: When you were young, you dressed yourself and walked wherever you wanted to go, but when you shall be old, you shall stretch out your hands, and another shall lift you up and carry you where you would not go." John 21:18 In John 21, Jesus had ordered Peter, "Feed my sheep" three times. Imagine what Peter must have thought. However, Jesus had more to say to Peter: "Verily, verily, I say unto you: When you were young, you dressed yourself and walked wherever you wanted to go, but when you shall be old, you shall stretch out your hands, and another shall lift you up and carry you where you would not go." Now, a few years later, Peter is in prison surrounded by many guards bound in chains. King Herod was not going to let this follower of Jesus escape. (Acts 12) Acts 12 begins with King Herod Agrippa annoyed with the new church growing in Israel, and he knew that peace came through the religious leaders in Jerusalem. The leade...