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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

(slaves and masters). It seems to me that if we wore
the whole Armour God we would shine like
angels blinding the Devil and his hoards.
This armour is none other than God
himself and so it must shine brighter than a billion
suns incomprehensible in its beauty. To put on
Christ, the True Light of the world as St Paul says
makes us also the light of the world as well,
destined to show forth his glory dispelling
darkness and vanquishing the dark angels from
our lives and the lives of others.
We can see how the role of angels is there
on all occasions as we journey to our destinations
throughout this life and into heaven’s glory and
our ultimate salvation. Certainly, when we help
and encourage each other as well, this journey is
not a lonely road, and as the old saying goes, “A
burden shared is a burden halved.” - And it is true
that we are surrounded at all times by a great
cloud of witnesses.
Revelations 5: 11, holds a clue to the
countless numbers of angels where it says, “Then I
looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering
thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten
thousand. They encircled the throne and the living
creatures and the elders.” - Again Revelations 9:16,
"Their cavalry troops whose count I heard were two
hundred million in number."
Regarding numbers St Thomas Aquinas
says that the creatures most like God, the angels,
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