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The three major western religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam accept angels as an intervening force between a Supreme Being and the human race. Angels also are major figures in Buddhism and Hinduism. In the 14th century, students of the cabala (or Kabala), a mystical Jewish doctrine, decided that there were 301,655,722 angels. Another Bible scholar of the Middle Ages, St. Albert the Great. figured there were 399,920,004 celestial beings. Jewish tradition puts the number at 49 million. But followers of Martin Luther puts the angel population at 10 trillion. In the Bible, Daniel had a dreamlike vision of angels in which he saw "a thousand thousand that kept ministering to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand that kept standing right before him." (Daniel 7:10) The earliest appearance of these "shining ones" is found in Genesis when and angel armed with a flaming sword drove Adam and Eve out of Eden and was then instucted to guard the gates so they could not return. When God sent an angel to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, he told them: "Pay attention to him and listen to what he says, since my Name is in him." (Exodus 23:21) An early mention of angesl as personal "guardians" is in Psalms 91:11: "For he will command his angel concerning you to guard you in all your ways." Angles appeared to many other biblical prophets. Two of te most profound encounters involved the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel. Ezekiel has a vision in which he saw the throne of God surrounded by cherubim with four faces. The sound made by their wings could be heard from one end of heaven to the other. Daniel was the first to call two prominent angels by name- -Michael and Gabriel. Daniel was saved in the lions' den by an angel who held the mouths of the lions closed. The rich angel tradition is also found in ancient Jewish writings other than Scriptures. According to Talmud, the Jewish body of religious laws, every Jew has 11,000 guardian angels. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that at birth each person is assigned a guardian angel who remains always at his or her side. In Islamic religion, everyone is said to have two angels- - one to record good deeds, the other to keep track of bad deeds. Djibril (or Jibril) is the Arabic name for Gabriel. On the Moslem Night of Power and Glory, Djibril (often refered to as tje angel of truth) appeared to Muhammad and dictated the contents of the Koran to him. And in Muhammad's assension into Heaven, he was met by two angels. One was half fire and half snow; the other had 4,900 tongues to better praise Allah. In more recent times, the angel Moroni appeared in New York in 1923 to guide Jospeh Smith to the buried to the golden plates that, when translated into the Book Of Mormon, became the foundation of the Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints. Gabriel appeared to Zacharias to tell him that he and his elderly wife, Elizabeth would have a son, John the Baptist, who would be the forerunnion of the Messiah. Gabriel also came to Mary to announce the birth of Jesus. An angel proclaimed the good news of Jesus' birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem and a host of angels appeared singing joyful praises. A guardian angel came to Joseph in the night and warned him to flee into Egypt with Mary and baby Jesus to escape the wrath of King Herod. It was an angel who supposedly rolled aside the great stone that sealed Jesus' tomb and was waiting inside the empty chamber to inform his followers of Jesus' Resurrection. Angel Fact: The halo became the symbol of heavenly beings in the 4th century. It signifies divine radiance and the nearness to God- - the Kindom of Light. The halo often worn by angels, signifies a supernatural force and superior intellect and advances spiritual development. Many cultures use the halo, including the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Indians Romans and Christians. |
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