Angels?

 

Things that make me wonder!

Have you ever wondered why so many images of angels are so gentle looking and non threatening? I’m thinking our images of angels are a little too feminine and nice. The Bible speaks of angels appearing, angels speaking to someone in a dream, angels fighting in the Spiritual Realm, us being unaware of angels in our midst, angels ministering to Jesus during the temptation, angels with the Israelites in the Exodus. An angel is a messenger of God. Sometimes angels are seen, sometimes they are not seen. Sometimes they have swords in their hands. They are supernatural messengers. The angel Gabriel and the angel Michael are the only two angels named in the Bible. Gabriel stands in God’s presence. Gabriel brought the announcement of John the Baptist being conceived and he brought the good news of the conception of Jesus. He is someone to be believed. If I’m ever in real trouble I’d love to have Michael in front of me. An angel with a sword in his hand and not flowers…

Luke 2:8-13 ~ “And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

I’d really like to find a strong, masculine, mighty looking angel to go with my Nativity set. I wonder how long it will take me to find one?

Photobucket is holding all my photos I stored with them from 2007-2015 hostage unless I pay them a lot of money. I’m slowly cleaning up many posts from this time period and deleting their ugly grey and black boxes with a ransom request. Such a time consuming bother.

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10 thoughts on “Angels?”

  3. of course, that could be just situational too. I mean…what would you do if an angel walked up to you and started talking? Even if they were holding flowers and looked oh so cute…just the IDEA of “holy crap, that’s an ANGEL and it’s talking to ME” would be frightening…..but I still think they’re scarier looking.

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  4. I wonder when it all started, this image of feminine meek looking angels. Great reminder of what the bible says about them! Have fun searching for your nativity angel.

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  5. I’m with you on the angels….we had a pastor who hated the little cherub kind. He wanted to see the BIG BURLY kind that made you feel safe. It was like the whole church went out to buy him the cherubs as a joke….and no we didn’t find the big burly kind. I know the power is in the Truth but the image of the strong angel certainly invokes a sense of safety and might.

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  6. You are so right about the image of angels being really out of kilter with what the bible says about them. I want a strong mighty warrior angel fighting in the spiritual realm. I wonder if you’ll be able to find a true representation?

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  7. Have you ever seen an angel or “thought” you’d seen an angel? Don’t forget to entertain strangers…

    I like the One Who was standing before Balaam’s donkey…whoa Nellie!

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  8. I was thinking the same thing as mightymom. Everyone who ever saw an angel had to be reassured. As for getting a mighty angel, you might have to carve one yourself.

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