FOREWORD

Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting. Satan’s gremlins invading. Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we’ve known: there is more to this world than meets the eye.

We know less than we desire about these beings. Their appearance? Their number? Their strategies and plans? We can only imagine.

In this book I did just that. Stirred by a message from David Lambert, I tried to imagine the spiritual conflict around the coming of Christ. Surely there was much. If Satan could preempt Christ in the cradle, there’d be no Christ on the cross. Don’t you think he tried?

I do too. The conflict was, no doubt, far grander and dramatic than anything we can fictionalize. But we can be sure of this: we know who won. Because we know He came.

I pray this fresh printing of An Angel’s Story stirs you to remember God’s great power and love.

Thanks to Allen Arnold and the Thomas Nelson Team for keeping the book in circulation.

Happy reading!

Max Lucado