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The concept of fallen angels is also in the Second Book of Enoch. It tells about Enoch's ascent through the layers of heaven. During his journey, he encounters fallen angels imprisoned in the 2nd heaven. At first, he decides to pray for them, but refuses to do so, since he himself as merely human, would not be worthy to pray for angels. In the 5th heaven however, he meets other rebellious angels, here called Grigori, remaining in grief, not joining the heavenly hosts in song. Enoch tries to cheer them up by telling about his prayers for their fellow angels and thereupon they join the heavenly liturgy. [19] a b c "Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei, Hamza M. Zafer The Qur'an Seminar Commentary / Le Qur'an Seminar: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 978-3-11-044545-9 Q 72 There were several accounts from families of 9/11 victim’s stating that their loved ones woke up with sudden illnesses and ignored them. One account mentions a man who woke up with an extreme case of vertigo. Being a rather healthy male he ignored his symptoms and decided to go to work anyway despite his wife’s plea to stay home and rest. Similar stories have been documented by individuals who missed worked that day after waking up not feeling well, so chose to stay home from work and survived while their co-workers did not. Joad Raymond Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination OUP Oxford 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-956050-9 p. 72 But the Hebrew word translated “scapegoat” in this passage is azazel—and there’s good reason to believe it’s meant to be a name (just like “Yahweh” is a proper noun translated “LORD”). Dr. Mike Heiser has some more thoughts on this passage here, and even more thoughts on this in his book, The Unseen Realm.*

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The idea of fallen angels is derived from the Book of Enoch, a Jewish pseudepigraphic apocalyptic religious text, or the assumption that the " sons of God" ( בני האלוהים‎) mentioned in Genesis 6:1–4 are angels. In the period immediately preceding the composition of the New Testament, some sects of Judaism identified these same "sons of God" as fallen angels. During the late Second Temple period the biblical giants were sometimes considered the monstrous offspring of fallen angels and human women. In such accounts, God sends the Great Deluge to purge the world of these creatures; their bodies are destroyed, yet their peculiar souls survive, thereafter roaming the earth as demons. Rabbinic Judaism and Christian authorities after the third century rejected the Enochian writings and the notion of an illicit union between angels and women producing giants. Christian theology indicates the sins of fallen angels occur before the beginning of human history. Accordingly, fallen angels became identified with those led by Lucifer in rebellion against God, also equated with demons. Orlov, Andrei A. (2011). Dark mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in early Jewish demonology. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-3951-8. Let’s consider that negative entities, evil ghosts, are earthbound spirits of humans that are suffering. These spiritThe authors of the Bible seem to believe that there is more at work in human authority structures than mere humans. 8. Living creatures The best thing to do whenever you have such an emotionally charged dream or premonition is to pay attention to it. This is another common early warning sign from God and the angels. Go within and ask the questions, ask for clarity to the feeling and then act from there. Let’s take a tour of some of the specific types of angels the Bible mentions. I’m not going to spend time on “angels” or “demons” as general categories—this list focuses specifically on categories of divine beings (excluding the trinity and idols) the Bible mentions. 1. Goat Demons Miguel: whose name means "Who is like God?" and was named prince by defeating Satan himself. Among other tasks is responsible for the training of guardian angels. If you want to know more about this archangel, we invite you to read the post: The Archangel Michael : all about this powerful creature. When you encounter a warning sign, don’t worry. Stop what you are doing or take heed of the warning.

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Like the seraphim, the living creatures have six wings each and never cease to proclaim God’s holiness.

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Nuriel: which means "Fire of the Lord" and responsible for the hailstorms. Sometimes it manifests in the form of an eagle and is considered protective of pregnant women.

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Howard Schwartz Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 978-0-19-532713-7 p. 108 Benjamin Myers Milton's Theology of Freedom Walter de Gruyter 2012 ISBN 978-3-11-091937-0 pp. 54, 59 This connection comes from a nearby passage in Leviticus 16, where the Day of Atonement ritual is being laid out for the people to follow. The Lord tells Moses that one goat should be slaughtered, and another is to be sent away into the wilderness. The actual verse reads like this in most of our Bibles:Also, Gabriel mentions that Michael was one of the chief princes, one of the archangels, so there are several archangels. Now if no one had the courage to stand with Gabriel to fight the prince of Persia except Michael, it would be more logical to think that Gabriel is also an archangel. Because if no other archangel fights the prince of Persia, how could Gabriel be just a “regular angel” and have the courage to fight.

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Like the cherubim, the living creatures resemble a man, an ox, an eagle, and a lion. They are four in number, and full of eyes. The living creatures also play a part in administering judgments from God on the earth (Rev 15:7). According to The Brendan Voyage, during the Medieval Age, Brendan meets a group of angels referred to as "wandering spirits". On holy days, they were embodied as white birds, symbols usually used for purity and the holy spirit. In later versions, such as the 15th Century Dutch and German variant, the fallen angels are much more depicted as akin to grotesque demons. Although they would not have supported Lucifer in his evil schemes, they would have been passive and not fighting for good, thus turned into animal-like creatures cast out of heaven. To continue discovering names, how about looking at the other side of the coin? Meet our collection of Names of Demons . Of course, the only place in the Protestant canon that anyone is referred to as an archangel is in Jude 9, when Jude refers to Michael. It’s possible that Jude (who references 1 Enoch later in his very brief epistle) would have considered Gabriel an archangel, since it’s possible that Jude pulled Michael’s title from a less-than-canonical source.a b Sergiĭ Bulgakov The Orthodox Church St Vladimir's Seminary Press 1988 ISBN 978-0-88141-051-8 p. 128 Annette Yoshiko Reed Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature Cambridge University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-521-85378-1 p. 90 Jacques Waardenburg Islam: Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives Walter de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 978-3-11-020094-2 p. 38 There’s a lot of weird stuff we hear about angels that doesn’t show up anywhere in the Bible. For example, the Bible doesn’t say we become angels when we die—that’s from It’s a Wonderful Life.