Yesterday, Sunday July 26, 2009, I took a flight from Texas to California. As I sat down on the plane, in what seemed like an uneventful day, I heard the very quiet voice of God say, “There is an angel on the airplane.” It is easy to ignore God’s voice, normally quiet and still. He often insults our intelligence and our worldview. He wants us to have His way of thinking and it is far different from anything normal in the world. I listened this time.

I asked the Lord, “Am I going to see him? Or, do you want me to ask? Why is the angel on this airplane.” I got nothing more at that moment. So, I prayed that I would have the alertness and discernment to see this angel. I think that would be really cool.

As I took a comfort break in the back of the airplane, I saw that I was unable to enter the toilet, it was occupied. I looked at a man seated in the stewards pull down chair. I asked if he was in line. He very shyly pointed both hands to the toilet and said, “No, no,” and gestured that I was next in line.

Then I looked at the stewardess, wondering if that area was restricted. It was a small area that was the workspace & seating area for the staff-the galley. I said, “ Am I allowed here.”

“No, you should wait in the aisle a few rows back,” she pointed. What made that strange was the presence of this other young man sitting in her rumble seat in the galley. It was hard to make out his age. He was maybe 40 but had a rough complexion like a teenager-but still seemed attractive.

He was wearing loud orange shorts and a t-shirt and had red hair with a blond tint to it. I figured he was an airline employee deadheading on the flight, but the stewardess did not seem to notice him or talk to him at all. This is very unusual. My experience is that employees will visit, especially when someone not on the assigned crew is present. They will chat about people and places in their work or make friends. No, this stewardess did not notice this man.

I thought he was not dressed appropriately for an employee even if deadheading. Then I started thinking-employees on flights not working on the flight are required to have an assigned seat.

I visited the toilet again at the end of the long flight. This “man” was still there. I realized now that this man was the angel God told me was on the plane. No one else seemed to notice him and he had no assigned seat but rather was seated in the stewardess’s landing seat.

Why am I sharing this? God wanted me to share it with you. I have seen angels before. I do not often share this and have never publicly reported an angel. Times have changed. We need the angels. Why is this one appearing now? He knows who is going to visit blogs and when. He is God. This is a personal message for you, too.

I was on a family trip. This is a personal angel. I am sure we all have them assigned to us. I saw this one dressed very differently walking one cold winter night. It was similar to this appearance. It “looked” perfectly normal but seemed very wrong. This was my experience both times, and he was “shy,” if not certainly reticent. So, why did this happen:

• I am on a family trip as I write this and as I saw the angel. We are celebrating an important passage with many family members on this very day. The last verse in the Old Testament is very clear about God’s desire to bond the older and younger generations-he says:
• “He will convince parents to look after their children and children to look up to their parents. If they refuse, I’ll come and put the land under a curse.” Mal. 4:6 (The Message)
• This angel seems to always be an indicator for me of the progress in the healing of my heart, which took massive work over the years. This is why I ever noticed angels in the first place. He was sitting by the “bathroom;” the place of elimination. This is about healing of the heart-the process of eliminating toxins of the heart and soul.
• I worked at two universities having orange as their prominent school colors at an earlier season of my life. This angel seems to be saying that God is restoring what was lost and reconnecting me to an extraordinarily fruitful time of ministry and “spiritual family” in my life. Perhaps he is going to restore my work with younger people and “make me younger.” This was a promise to Job.
• I saw him on the airplane-a fast moving vehicle carrying a lot of people. This is an important theme in my life right now and God is confirming this- “fasten your seatbelt, Bob, and remember I am serving you and looking after you just like the stewardess does-but with spiritual power.”
• God wanted me to encourage all of you to look for angels and stop “worrying” about why you have or have not not seen them before and enjoy God’s being in control. He has blessings for us and wants us to have faith, to lose our fear of intimacy with Him and with each other.

God is saying to us to expect people who cannot be picked out in a crowd to be the leaders (servants) of this coming awakening. That is what this man’s appearance was-not glorious, not with wings and robes, not with blinding light-just some casual street clothes and ordinary. He also wants all of us to be reminded that He desires to meet our needs and wants but must speak to us to have a relationship. We must listen. Angels are one way God gives us messages, along with dreams and visions: this is why I have started this blog.

This blog is “everyman” hearing from God in many ways. That is why my identity is not to be an issue in this blog. He does not want stereotypes of any kind to hinder his purposes now.

Remember, the name came from a dream. I came to a place after a long journey and asked God what this place was (in the dream,) on top of a mountain. He answered, “This is Bahamabob’s where you can get everything.”

I am including the passage from the oldest book in the Bible, Job. It describes ways God speaks to people and some reasons. This particular angel was assigned, I believe, to see to the day God would say to me (and to you about your heart, too) from Job’s book: “Before you know it you are the picture of health.” This passage is a brief of my own life story:

“When men & women are deep in sleep, “In a dream, for instance, in a vision of the night;

Fast asleep in their beds—God opens their earsand impresses them with warnings

To turn them back from something bad they’re planning, from some reckless choice,

And keep them from an early grave, from the river of no return.

“Or, God might get their attention through pain, by throwing them on a bed of suffering,

So they can’t stand the sight of food, have no appetite for their favorite treats.

They lose weight, wasting away to nothing, reduced to a bag of bones.

They hang on the cliff-edge of death, knowing the next breath may be their last.

“But even then an angel could come, a champion—there are thousands of them!—

to take up your cause, A messenger who would mercifully intervene,

canceling the death sentence with the words: ’I've come up with the ransom!’

Before you know it, you’re healed, the very picture of health!”  (Job 33:15-25 The Message)

(If you want to report an angel you saw, please do so in the comments, or email me at <bahamabob@mac.com> and tell me!