This is a book that is so far from anything I have read before, so profoundly revelatory, that it brings about a complete change of perspective. This makes it sound like a book everyone should read … I am not so sure.
Blake talks in detail and openly about the spiritual gift he has been blessed with. His story goes that for as long as he can remember he has seen angels and demons, as clearly as he would see people stood right in front of him. He describes how he has matured in this gifting, whilst understandably having to overcome the fear and confusion of what he saw.
Some will find it just plain weird and unconnected with anything they have learned before of the Christian faith. Others, like me, will find it challenging to the core and will open their eyes to a new way of understanding spiritual things.
I am not sure that the sort of gifting that Blake has is one I would like. It comes with a heavy weight of responsibility to handle it well, without it driving you to the brink of insanity. Ultimately though, the core message is that whatever is going on in spiritual realms, seen or unseen, and whatever is seen or prophesied, the only important element is that it works towards forming and maintaining a stronger relationship with the Father. That is all. We do not worship the signs and wonders, we worship the Father whose presence brings them into being.
Especially interesting for me was the chapter on angels and the different roles that he sees them carry out. After I had written about angels in my novel, Beneath the Tamarisk Tree, I was told by someone that angels were only ever messengers, as described frequently in the Bible, and that other roles were unbiblical. It did not really encourage me much. But Blake’s experiences and observations are quite different and not out of line with what I had imagined.
And whatever you do imagine about the spiritual realms, know that our God is infinitely creative and imaginative, and whatever we may be able to imagine will probably get nowhere near to what He is able and willing to create.
I encourage you to read this book with an open mind and be prepared to be challenged to your core.
