Avenging Angels

I’ve been searching Google for info on Avenging Angels, because that is the term Etiole uses to describe himself most often. However, Google has spent the day sending me to sites about a group of Mormon hitmen called the Danites who were known as “The Avenging Angels” by non-Mormons, due to their habit of slaughtering all non-Mormons

(this fact is not found online, but rather is found in the LDS Church history, as it was published by the Church itself in the 1920′s. Unfortunately, these books are very rare, practically unheard of and most of the copies were destroyed by Church leaders in the 1970′s – only members old enough to have been in the church when the Ward libraries still carried copies of these books, would know this info as the Church has done a very good job of rewriting it’s history in 1983 after it made a fool of itself with the Salamander letters – note that the original 1920′s editions of the Church History had many references to the White Salamander as well, when they rewrote the Avenging Angel history, they also deleted all reference’s to Smiths White Salamander [a type of nature spirit faery, not a type of amphibian animal.] I am old enough to have been in the Church while it’s leaders were still teaching Avenging Angel and White Salamander stories in Sunday School lessons. They stopped teaching Avenging Angel/Danite stories after the temple murders in 1979, and they stopped teaching the Salamander vision stories, after the White Salamander Letters in 1983. The murders and the hoax letters inspired the Church leadership to make many massive changes to it’s teachings, laws, and methods of doing things, and these changes are the changes you so often hear me mentioning as being the differance between the Old Church and the New Church.)

(P.S. I read all of the Church History books, published by the LDS Church, and own very rare copies of many of them. Several were rescued from the Cape Elizabeth Ward in Maine during the mid 1980′s when Salt Lake leaders were at their height of activily destroying these old first editions of books the church had printed. That’s how I know all the info about Danites, “Wheat”, and know what Smith’s Navoo Saloon looked like before the modern day Photoshopped versions of the pictures that now apear in the editions of the Church History publish AFTER 1983.)

Anyways, I already knew all that stuff, and that was NOT what I was looking for! I was looking for Avenging Anngels – you know, angelic hosts, spirit beings, those types of things, not Mormon stuff!

I changed my Google search keywords, since all “Avenging Angel” would bring back was references to LDS Danites and I’m looking for the term “Avenging Angel” in reference to Spirit Beings, not in reference to religious organizations. I typed “Avenging Angel Spirit Beings” and it asked me if I meant to search for: “Angels of Destruction” , than sent me to referances of the feminine-male angels who destroied Sodom & Gomorrah.

Well, I just went down the list through several dozen sites abot Angels of Destruction and basicially they all say the same thing which boiles down to this:

The Avenging Angels aka The Angels of Destruction are described as being the feminine male angels, described as being male but looking like females, who were lusted after by human men living in Sodom and Gomorrah, and thus these feminine male angels who are able to control the forces of nature, destroyed the city by causing it to rain brimstone and fire from heaven, in order to punish the male humans for lusting after these male angels (thus resulting in the Christian view against homosexuality).

Etiole: http://www.squidoo.com/amphibious-aliens , refers to himself as an Avenging Angel. He has a track record of striking wicked people down by causing their houses/business/churches to burst into flames, be hit by freak tornadoes (in Maine), or being hit by lightening. Though a male he is mistaken by those who’ve seen him, for being a woman. Yep, I’d say that matches.

One of the things I found says this:

DESTRUCTION, ANGELS OF- A fearsome type of angel appearing regularly in Jewish writings, the angels of destruction custoparily serve two functions. The first is to descend to the earth and inflict terrible suffering upon those among the living who are wicked and in need of punishment. The second is to inflict even worse punishment upon damned souls in hell; in latter roles they act as purifiers. The leader of these angels is described in one Jewish account as Qemu’el (or Kemuel), but other sources name Samkiel. Over the years there has been question among scholars as to whether the angels of destruction are exceedingly holy or whether they are evil or even whether they are permitted to inflict destruction at the express will of God. Whether they are good or evil, these angels have accomplished some truly epic feats of vengeance or annihilation. In the forms of avenging angels, they appear regularly in the Old Testament: two angels destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, an angel massacred 70,000 people (2 Kings 24:16) to punish the pride of King David, and in 2 Kings (19:35) is told the account of one angel who wiped out an Assyrian army of some 185,000.

and another thing said this:

There are different types of good angels starting with the highest order, which includes:

• Christ as the Angel of God or Angel of the Lord (Hebrews 1: 5-2:16).
• Cherubim are known for their power and beauty (Genesis 3:24; Ezekiel 1:5-28; 28:12, 13, 17; 8:1-4; 10:1-22).
• Seraphim perform priestly duties (Isaiah 6:1-7).
• Living creatures are mentioned in Revelation, worshipping God (Revelation 4:6-5:14; 6:1-8; 7:11; 14:3, 9-11; 15:7; 19:4).
• Arch-angels or chief angels rule kingdoms and planets (Colossians 1:15-18; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 9).
• Michael is one of the chief princes, the prince of Israel (Daniel 10:13, 21; 11:1; 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 9; Revelation 12:7-9).
• Gabriel stands before God and delivers important messages (Daniel 8:16-19; 9:20-23; 10:8-11:1; Luke 1:19, 26).
• Common angels are heavenly spirit beings (Matthew 1:20-29; 2:13-19; 28:2-5; 1 Kings 1:11-38; 2:9-21; Acts 5:19; 8:26; 10:3; 12:7-23).
• Guardian angels are given charge over us lest we stub our toes (Psalm 91:12).
• Ministering angels are like the one who cooked a hot meal for Elijah when he was running away from an angry Jezebel (1Kings 19:5-7).
• Avenging angels are the ones that carry out God’s judgment upon mankind for their wicked deeds (Genesis 19:1-29).
• Death angels are bring a type of judgment upon a people who persecute innocent groups (Exodus 12: 23; Revelation 6:8).
• Angels can travel at inconceivable speeds (Ezekiel 1; Revelation 8:13; 9:1). Faithful angels of the Lord had been tested and tried at the time that Lucifer rebelled, which caused tumult in heaven and he fell from God’s grace (1 Timothy 5:21; Job 4:1-8). The angels test man by unknowingly appearing at times to see how individuals treat strangers (Hebrews 13:2). They are being taught wisdom by the Bride of Christ [the Church] (Ephesians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 4:9).

The Bible lists the jobs of angels as follows:

To reveal the sins of the wicked
To cast judgement upon sinners
To carry messages from God to mankind

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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