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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

12:22, says, “But you have come unto mount Zion and
unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels.” - Psalm
78:49, “He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath,
indignation, and distress, a company of destroying
angels.” Luke 2:13 says, “Suddenly, a great company
of the heavenly host appeared with the angel.”
They are a “company”, not a “race” and as
you can see, there are no angels with bodies of
flesh, and of course, any human body they have
appeared in as with Raphael is merely apparent
and not real. To be a race indicates marriage and
breeding, but there is nowhere that God in the
Bible calls them anything other than a company of
angels.
In my search for understanding of the
“Sword of Gilead” and discerning his authenticity,
the gift of the discerning of Spirits was essential.
In addition, knowledge of both God’s character
and that of angels as described in Holy Scripture.
In his Summa Theologica, St Thomas
Aquinas conveyed this approach saying that in
our thinking about the angels, we must draw
much more on our knowledge of God than on our
knowledge of men. Angels are finite pure spirits
modelled on the infinite Pure Spirit. We do not
locate God by surrounding him; He is not
contained within the perceptible confines of a
body, a town, a country, but rather He is where
He works and so is everywhere, for nothing can
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