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When covering the Psalms, Lee would only use what text was convenient to his formula, whatever he was pushing at the time. So he was not unfolding the text of the Psalms, but skimming it for what he could use for his ministry. In Psalm 34, for example, Lee panned it because it was natural, fallen, etc. David was just writing from his concepts and was totally off the mark. Suddenly, verse 20 appears: "He protects His bones; not one would be broken" came up. A revelation!! says Lee. A revelation of Christ!! Then on the next verse Lee says it is natural, fallen, etc. Really strange, almost schizophrenic ministry. Where did the NT treat the OT such? I found a similar pattern when I began to look at angels in the NT. Lee wasn't interested, so he would dance around the text, skimming, and anywhere it suggested angels, or some conflation of angels and the Holy Spirit he would just skip it, or use some nebulous phrase. Verses like John 1:51, and Jacob's dream in Genesis 28 only had two words: "much traffic". Much traffic of what? It was like he was bending backwards to avoid actually looking at what had been written.

My aim here is to find the textual relationship, if any, between the holy angels of God and the Holy Spirit. Too easily we may ignore the angels and instead only regard this mysterious entity, our trinitarian "third of the Godhead" , i.e. the Holy Spirit, and where the text has them conflated or superimposed, or not clearly delineated, we simply ignore it. Because it isn't convenient to our formulas. Just like most of the Psalms wasn't convenient to Lee's "God's New Testament Economy" formula. The angels are not convenient. Like I said, we trot them out every Christmas eve, to speak to Mary, and declare God's glory before the amazed shepherds.

Now, we all mine the text to support our readings, interpretations, and theories. But let's be up front about it, and not pretend that we are opening the Bible in some complete way. We are ignorant, and the wisest of us, it would seem, would keep their ignorance out front and not presume some special insight that renders the whole text of the Bible within our neat formula.