Many things may come to mind when you think of the word, angel. You probably think of winged beings who sit on clouds all day singing and playing lyres. If you had thought that, you are wrong, very wrong. Angels are warriors of God, abiding by His Laws and His Laws only. They are protectors of earth and its inhabitants and sometimes, the destroyers. An angel’s importance may not be widely known, but their job for us will never be forgotten.
Angels are pure spirits that were created by God. The English word, angel, comes from a Greek translation, angelos, meaning messenger. However, there are two exceptions. The Hebrew word, malak, is another word for angel or messenger. The Old Testament had a belief in angels, because they had no doubt if the heavenly being could do supernatural things. Angels are messengers of God, trying to give the ultimate benefit to humans.
At times, angels have human bodies, but originally, angels had no material body. Being spiritual beings mean they have no physical body, but are complete in their spiritual bodies. Since they take up no definite space, there are illogically present, and they are not omnipresent. Angels have always known their existence in God and their unique personalities. They possess knowledge and wisdom and excel in strength. Angels are rational beings that express joy when a sinner on earth repents, which leads to desire to look into things that pertain to the Kingdom of Christ.
In the beginning before Creation, nothing existed, except for God. He made everything in the first six days and rested on the seventh, never making anything after the sixth day. That means within those six days, God had to have made angels, and the rebellion of some of the angels had to have happened....
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Good angels are an important part in our daily lives, because they protect us from the evil angels that tempt us to sin. Many people forget their importance, because they are still just creations of God. They are God’s warriors and protectors of repenters who turn away from sin. Angels help our world from becoming completely sinful by fighting against those evil forces. People may not always realize an angel’s importance, but an angel will always do their job for us, even when nobody realizes it.
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The Loss of Innocence- The title of the novel Fallen Angels immediately emphasizes the theme of youth and innocence. As Lieutenant Carroll explains in Chapter 4, all soldiers are “angel warriors,” because the soldiers are still young boys and still as innocent as angels. In calling the novel Fallen Angels, Myers implies that the soldiers’ youth and innocence are more important than any of their other aspects, such as their religion, ethnicity, class, or race. The novel is first and foremost a tale of the lost innocence of a squad of soldiers in the Vietnam War. Richie is only seventeen when he enters Vietnam, and Peewee and the other members of the squad are also teenagers—Peewee is unable even to grow a mustache. His three life goals, immaturely, are to drink wine from a corked bottle, to smoke a cigar, and to make love to a foreign woman. Richie and Lobel are both virgins, and they fantasize endlessly about their first sexual experiences. Though the soldiers enter the war as naïve youths, the war quickly changes them and forces them to develop into young men. Surrounded by death, they are forced to contemplate the fragility of their own lives and stripped of the carelessness and brazenness of youth. The unspeakable horrors around the boys force them to contemplate a world that does not conform to their childish and simplistic notions. Where they want to see only a separation between right and wrong, they instead find moral ambiguity. Where they want to see order and meaning, they find only chaos and senselessness. Where they want to find heroism, they find only the selfish instinct of self-preservation. These realizations destroy the boys’ innocence, prematurely thrusting them into manhood.
Christianity has the same concept where there are entities who are usually known as angels. These angels are considered god's army and constantly are perceived as protectors of individuals or families. Together, the three Gods used the lesser spirits to be their messengers and servants. Next, they created the world to be a kingdom for the gods.
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" an angel symbolizes the unfamiliar. The angel is not just a celestial body, but a foreign body-someone who stands out as being different from the rest of society. Consequently, the angel draws attention to civilized society's reaction, ergo the community's reaction within the story when it confronts him. Using the angel as a symbol, Marquez shows how ignorance reveals the vulnerability of human nature often leading to uncivilized behaviour.
religion. The story began with the discovery of an old man who had the wings of an angel and
The angel makes many mistakes with his miracles. However, the family that houses him, though they treat him as inferior, does have a turn of fate because of his existence. The angel brings them wealth when they charge admission to view him. For this family of three, life takes a better turn after giving the old man a chicken coop in which to sleep.
"Such ethical possibility is, however, founded on and coextensive with the subject's movement toward what Foucault calls 'care of the self,' the often very fragile concern to provide the self with pleasure and nourishment in an environment that is perceived not particularly to offer them." -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The Bible contains many stories of people having an encounter with angels. An encounter alludes to an unexpected meeting. The word “angel” is a transliteration from the Hebrew word “mal’ak” in the Old Testament (Strong’s H4397) and the Greek word “angelos” in the New Testament (Strong’s G32). Both words mean “messenger” and describes one who executes the plan and will of the person whom they serve.
An angel would have valuable knowledge and lessons to share if anyone was willing to listen. No one ever tries befriending him, and instead become too caught up in a mob mentality of harassing the angel. Many were also hesitant to visit the angel because of his grungy appearance, not realizing it is not a reflection of his personality. These ideas occur in today’s world as well. People tend to chose the easy path over doing what is right.
Most people have heard of evil spirits and things that “go bump in the night.” Numerous legends of the fallen angels say they occurred as the ones who originally created evil spirits that plague the earth. Pointedly, one of the first texts written concerning fallen angels tells of this happening.
Believing in the Angels of God is the second article of faith in Islam. These angels are purely spiritual and glorious beings created by God. These angels are sinless. They require no food, drink or sleep. They have neither physical desires or material needs (“Islamic Path”). The angels spend their time in the amenity of God. Each angel is given a specific obligation. Each human being is assigned two angels who serve as guardians and recorders of the individual’s deeds, both good and bad (“Islamic Path”). Even though we cannot see the angels with ou...
...s world within the text of “A Very Old man with Enormous Wings.” What it means for people to care, explore, learn, promote, survive, and be curious about the fantastical world around them. These themes focusing on human nature become a whole lot more significant when you hold them up next to the angel. The humans did not care quite enough for the angel which can be clearly seen when noticing how they took advantage of him by exploiting him for the opportunity that arouse due to their desire for wealth. The family used him to satisfy their curiosity while also treating him like a common house pet. All of these factors are a testament to the many short comings of the human race even when they are graced with something that only a short period of time ago they could not have even imagined and that would have continued to have exists apart from their interference.
This is a story about human nature, and the detriments of it. We never truly find out if the Old Man is an angel, but the clarification isn’t really necessary for the story. What’s important here is how the villagers treat him as a freak and an outsider when he won’t “be” an angel.
It is thus that the angels will embark on their first manifestation on Earth in history. which will lead to all those cited by Milton, and the Fall of Man. Works Cited and Consulted The Bible. The Bible. The Bible Daiches, David.
The doctrine of angels is called “Angelology” which is one of the ten major categories of theology and angels are a part of those ten studies. Scholars have many views about angels