Angels

[slipstream]

What do Angels look like. Are they like all the pictures, so that's what we have implanted in our brains, do they have wings / or do they come as a vision?What do you think please.

 

[Christina]

WE are made in the image of God and the Angels they look like us Angels came to visit Lot they were thought to be men except that Lot reconized them as Angels All Angels are male there are no female Angels there are differnt types of Angels butmost in scripture are portrayed as looking like us.

 

[winsome]

Angels are pure spirit. They have no form and no sex. They can appear to us as though they have form in the book of Tobit. At the end Tobit says:"I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the Lord........As for me, when I was with you, I was not acting on my own will, but by the will of God. ......Although you were watching me, I really did not eat or drink anything—but what you saw was a vision."

 

[DrBubbaLove]

gotta go with winsome here. Amen.Purely spirits but powerfull beings, including some powers over material things and being able to take a physical form being just one manisfestation of power.

 

[Goli]

the idea that anges have wings was actualy developed during the babyloniasn captivity , because in Persia the main religion is Zorastrianism. The God of Zorastrianism had wings and thats where the imagery came from. Other then that Angels look just like men from the description in the bible , only tall !! Cheribims and seriphims however are of a completly diffferent class. If you want to class them as angels ...

 

[Wakka]

My favorite part about the angels is when Jacob say the angels descending from heaven by a ladder(stairs?) from the throne of the Lord to earth.

 

[horsecamp]

the first refrence to angels is here in gen 3:24 Jesus created them early in the 6 day' of creation creation COL1:16 job 38:4-7the number of angels remain constant luke20:35,36their number is very large daniel 7:10 hebrews 12:22ANGELS ARE SPIRITS hebrews 1:14they have God given power to assume visable form Gen19:1-5HEBREWS 13:2THEY ALSO CAN APPEAR MOST ANGELIC THIS WAY ------MATHEW 28:3LUKE 2:9-14ANGELS soleman made for temple had 2 wings 1 kings 6:24arc of covenant angels also had two wings exodus 25:20the serphans isaiah saw had 6 wings isaiah6:2John witnees was the same REV 4:8TO MUCH INFO THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ANGELS TO PUT DOWN HERE IT WOULD TAKE TO LONG.

 

[DrBubbaLove]

think is has been often suggested that the idea of wings in "other" than human rational beings, (especially describing beings most never see in this life) is often a way of presenting swiftness and the more wings, the faster. Note that not all angels are described alike so most say it is a given they vary in powers and abilities. Eyes are often understood as wisdom, being able to "see", knowing, so 6 eyes would be wiser in that sense than 2.

 

[Wakka]

There are different ranks of angels.The arch angels being the highest. God stationed them both at the entrance of the garden of eden in genesis. They both had swords, this is the first mention of a weapon in the Bible.