GOD'S STRONG ARM MIRACLE

THE THREE HEBREWS IN THE FIERY FURNANCE BEING PROTECTED BY A GUARDIAN ANGEL, PICTURE 1266 AD

A true happening in the life of Frank Henrich recorded by him in November 1978

    It was a November afternoon in 1978. After an unsuccessful and stressful sales call in Maxwell, California, I was driving to see the ATCO Company in Napa. It is not a short distance, and the highway, a narrow two lane forty year old highway, was going up and down every little knoll. I was tired, and I was pressed for time. Could I get there in time before they closed? The bright, low afternoon sun shown in my eyes as I turn westerly and its reflection on the yellowish brown hills made my eyes sore, even with sunglasses.

    The road had started its descent into the Napa valley. Ahead, the road curved to the left, and I could see it dipping down into valley filled with of oak trees. I had a feeling of impending danger for over a half-hour, but, I had dismissed it as baseless. The road went down into the little valley of dense trees.

    My car entered the grove and while trying to adjust to the darkness of the grove; before my eyes was a car, stopped dead, with the left turn signal blinking awaiting a coming car to clear the two lane highway. I knew I couldn't stop,

    There was not time, and there wasn't a shoulder to swerve out of the way (the road shoulder was only two feet wide, and then there was only a rough ditch of uneven ground about the width of a car, followed by a raised area of wood fencing). Then, suddenly my car moved to the right over that shoulder and ditch area. There were no bumps; it was as though the car was traveling on the smoothest highway. The next thing I knew was I was looking out my driver's side window as I whizzed by the rider’s side of the stopped green car. I saw her sitting, in her car. My hands were clutching my steering wheel, and my foot had jammed hard on the brake pedal, pushing it to the floorboard. Then, a tree passed by my right side window. The green car was behind me, now, and my car slowed.

    Looking back, my car had passed the car with my driver's side wheels on the shoulder of the road and the other wheels on the undeveloped land near the fence. I could see the tree now through my back window. Slowly and carefully, and without effort, my car moved back on the road. All this time I had no control of it. I was being driven.

    I looked back to reassure myself that this really had happened. The car was still there waiting to make a left hand turn. I realized I hadn't done it myself. I had not swerved the car to the right. There wasn't time for me to think it out and act upon it, my mind had determined in the flash of a second, when I saw the car, that collision was inevitable.

    As soon as it was safe, I stopped the car along the road. I said, “Lord, I didn't do it, You must have.“ Then came a wonderful knowing, for the following words came to my mind, "From a hospital bed for six months, you will not be able to do the work I have for you to do.”

Since I had just completed my training to be a leader of the Festival House Church, an outreach of my local church, I knew the work spoken of would be there. There had been some family concern that this outreach effort would be too much for me to handle along with my company work. I had gone through the training not sure if I could handle the load. My doubts had been answered in certainly a unique way. My response was wherever it is, my God, Old Friend, thank You and please use me.

What do protective angels do? In the scripture, Exodus 23:20, Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way to bring you to the place which I have provided.” Then when Daniel was in the lions' den, Daniel 6:22, “My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouth.” perhaps the work would be there. But wherever it is, my God, Old Friend, thank You and please use me. ~tr interest in protecting angels was touched. You know we are not to worship angels, Colossians 2118, "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with growth that is from God." So we are not to worship angels for such worship (calling to in prayer) is sin. What do protective angels do? Exodus 2)120, "Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have provided." Then when Daniel was in the lions' den (Daniel 6,22), "God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths.'·