According to the Bible, when God needed to punish or kill someone…he sent an angel. I’ve often wondered what these creatures might be like and as I considered the concept I asked myself…do I really want to know? Just imagine a creature that spends it’s entire existence praising it’s God…doing it’s Master’s bidding WITH pride, passion and without question. A creature bred to spill blood in the most horrible and unimaginable ways as it heralds the word of God.
Ask yourself; would you ever really want to see an angel? I wouldn’t. Not Ever!
I have also wondered what it would be like if God got sick of it all of our crap and decided to start over. The thought of a legion of angels descending from Heaven to do just that, to purge our world of human life was enough to give me the chills. Interestingly, a few days ago I saw a movie titled: LEGION. The movie is about just that, God looses his faith in humanity and orders his angels to exterminate the human race. This is tasked to one of Gods highest ranking angels in his army, Michael who is played by Paul Bettany. However, (and it is unclear if God factors this variable into his plans or not, I assume he has) amid the plans for human extinction, a child is about to be born to a mother who doesn’t want it. This child will be the ONE who leads what remains of humanity out of the darkness that is to come. Michael has a profound conflict with his orders and decides to disobey God.
Michael descends from heaven to see that the child is born and protected and as a General in Gods Army, he knows the details of how the impending attack from Heaven will be executed. A legion of angels will descend from heaven, possessing the week minded and killing those who who are strong willed and cannot be possessed.
Michael knows where the mother carrying the unborn savior is and gathers enough weapons to take on a sizable invasion force. He commandeers transportation and heads out to the desert of Las Vegas to a run down gas and go dinner in the middle of no where, owned by a curmudgeon played by Dennis Quad. Michael arrives at the dinner after it’s staff and customers have had their first confrontation with one of Heaven’s possessed humans. Michael tells these few about the attack that is to come and arms them to the teeth in the hopes of buying enough time so the child can be born safely.
But God is not pleased when the Michael and the humans look as if they might succeed, so God sends the highest of all angels in his army, Gabriel played by Kevin Durand to deal with Michael’s betrayal. The confrontation between the Archangels is nothing short of brutal and frightening.
As far as entertainment goes, the movie is a good one and I highly recommend it, but from a philosophical perspective, it really makes you think. If there is a God and the bible is humankind’s representation of his will and plan, then we as a civilization have to be in the orbit of Gods wrath. If nothing else, the polution and/or imbalance of Life Force Energy must be nearing its spill point. 2012 prophecy and/or paranoia aside, many feel and have felt for some time that a change is coming. Something is lurking in the horizon and it feels as if its ready to come forth…and soon.
I havent seen this movie. I do find movies like this interesting from a strictly entertainment perspective! The Prophecy with Christopher Walken (theres 3 of those movies..older but i liked em)
In any case, there is a huge difference between the old testament & the new one. Once Jesus was sacrificed & arose, it made everything new, the former ways have passed a way. It was in that that God made a new covenant w/man. in whosoever believe in Jesus has everlasting life. (dont mean to sound preachy)
So angels arent sent to destroy man. Michael is basically the commander of the armies of Heaven & is supposed to lead an army against satan & his minions,those who bear the mark of satan. Not to come here & kill man.
Anyway, I like how you ended this post. Not lending to the 2012 crap, there is a feeling felt by so many in regards to something is coming. I think we are all tied to the universe, we are all energy thus those who are intune with that inner power, inner force, soul, whatever you call it, are probably the ones who feel it most because they have tuned their energy that way. Society, consumerism I think is all a distraction, the evil ones last attempt to pull people away from finding truth. Wow, this is whole huge topic here!! I’ll spare you.
On a side note: 2012 Maya prophecy, there has only been 1 mention of 2012 in Maya glyphs & it says in 2012 “..& it(he) will descend”
Comment by Stormy — January 15, 2011 @ 1:57 pm