A TYPICAL ANGEL
As much as every inquisitive Christian desires to see an Angel in his Angelic form, no one can stand the sight of this dreadful being.
As revealed in my older posts, any human who sees an Angel in his angelic form will lose his or her senses.
Even the Giants who lived in the Bible days would lose their senses of reasoning if they see an Angel in his typical form.
At the Valley of Elah, Goliath brought fear on children of Israel due to his stature, words and experience in battle. Without considering his words and experience, his stature alone is enough to make anyone lose a fight with him.
He was SIX CUBITS and A SPAN (1 Samuel 17:4). In this present time, that would be 9 feet 9 inches, that is even taller than the tallest man, ever, in the world whose height is 8 feet 11.1 inches. What an unbelievable height the Giants of those days had!
That spectacular height of giant was not an uncommon thing among the Anakims, Nephilims and Rephaims.
Even though the height was nothing to them, the children of Isreal couldn’t compare themselves to these Giants.
The Spies who reported what they saw in the land of Canaan were the first to reveal the way men compared themselves with those Giants of old.
They said…
WE WERE LIKE GRASSHOPPERS IN OUR OWN SIGHT, and so we were in their sight.”
Numbers 13:33
Realistically, if these bad reporters could see themselves like grasshoppers before the Giants.
Most definitely and comparatively, these fearful Giants would be like ants before a typical Angel of God.
This is very easy to calculate as John revealed the exact height of a Angel in the book of Revelation when he wrote about the Holy city which would come down from Heaven.
The city wall was too high to be seen in its entirety. So the Angel in the vision had to take him to a great and high mountain so that he could see the Holy City in its entirety as he measured it with a golden rod.
As measured by the Angel, the length of it was 12,000 stadia while the height of its wall was 144 cubits.
The moment John stated the measurement of the wall he compared it with the height a typical Angel…
Then he measured its wall: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR CUBITS, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
Revelation 21:17
According to him, an Angel is about 144 cubits tall — equivalent of 216 FEET — that is 24 times the height of Goliath.
No man alive can see such height without experiencing an insurmountable fear that is enough to make anyone lose his or her senses.
The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
Revelation 21:23
There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, FOR THE LORD GOD GIVES THEM LIGHT. And they shall reign forever and ever.
Revelation 22:5
On earth, there are four sources of light:
1. Light
2. Sun
3. Moon
4. Star
Conversely, in Heaven, there is only one source of light: God.
Surprisingly, the size of Heaven can never be compared with the earth. The population of Angels alone, over there, shows the abode of the Almighty is far bigger than anything one could imagine.
As big as it is, it uses just one source of light. If the earth gets illuminated by four different lights at different time, it shows the light in Heaven is brighter than those four sources of light on earth.
The intensity of the heavenly light is so powerful that little of it must not extend to the earth. If it does, it would cause more harm than good. Many would go blind if they dare raise their head to see the glimpse of it.
Apostle Paul witnessed little of its intensity on his way to Damascus. After the incident, he lost his ability to see due to the intensity of that light.
As the light shone, it was the voice of Jesus Christ that came forth from there. If you’ve not forgotten the two Bible verses at the beginning of this sub-topic revealed God is the light of Heaven.
The light is so powerful that it rubs on everything around him. No one can stand where God is without feeling the impact of the intensity of the light. Even after leaving the presence of God, little amount of this light remains on some parts of the body of the person who stands before him.
Moses experienced this when he came down from the mountain.
No one could look at his face as it radiated the heavenly light so much that a veil was used to cover his face while he talked with them.
For Angels of God, this is why no one can look directly at them in their angelic form as they've been completely drenched in the glory of that light from God. Every part of their body radiates this Heavenly light.
In addition, it is near impossible for them to communicate with human beings in their angelic form, as the sound of their voices can cause more fear than anything else:
The said sound, from one Angel's mouth, is capable of moving a physical objects that is firmly fixed to a position with cement.
And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah 6:4
In the vision Isaiah saw, the voice of one Angel shook the doorpost.
As if all of the aforementioned things are not enough to cripple anyone with fear, the flapping of their wings can deafen the ears of man.
All of the instances given in the Bible about the sound that comes out as they flap their wings in flight show these Spiritual Beings can’t be fully described with mere words. Their beings are too dynamic to be underestimated with words of men.
The sound that comes of out their flapping wings are known to be as dreadful as the sound of many waters (Ezekiel 1:24).
At a point, Ezekiel described the unbelievable sound to be like the voice of the Almighty God. Can you imagine?
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY GOD WHEN HE SPEAKS.
Ezekiel 10:5
Lastly, some Angels have 4 wings (Ezekiel 1:28) while others were reported to have 6 wings (Revelation 4:8).
From the accounts given in the Bible, some of them are
1. Living creatures (who are just four in number, possessing four different faces and happened to be the closest to God Revelation 4:8)
2. Archangels (only Angel Michael and Gabriel are revealed) although Bible scholars believed we have more than that based on extra-biblical account.
3. Cherubims (special angels who all have gigantic wheels connected to their body which make them act as an Heavenly motor car of God with eyes all over their body Psalm 18:19; Ezekiel 1:15,18,19)
4. Seraphims and
5. Low rank Angels
Bible Question
What does an Angel look like?
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