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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

ignore or resist such as the voice that spoke to me
of the Sword of Gilead.
The Bible gives many descriptions of
angelic beauty and they are overwhelming, to say
the least. Ezekiel 1:7 says that their legs were
straight; their feet were like those of a calf and
gleamed like burnished bronze. We already have
an idea of the beauty of polished bronze, but here
Ezekiel mentions the feet like that of a calf.
I wonder if seeing such a creature with feet
like a young cow would make us wonder if these
are really God’s angels. As we begin to look at
them as described in Holy Scripture and in
particular the Book of Revelations where we find
that God has some amazing and creative ideas
regarding what holy angels look like, and indeed,
what they do even to the human race.
Not one of them looks like obese chubby
babies with little wings that are supposedly a
cherub and far from the Biblical description of a
fiery spinning sword. I have never seen the Sword
of Gilead and have often wondered what would
happen if I did when I consider the many biblical
descriptions of angels such as the ones I have
already mentioned.
Again, in Ezekiel 1:24 he describes the
angel this way, saying that when the creatures
moved, he heard the sound of their wings, like the
roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the
Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they
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