ANGELS ARE NOT EXTINCT

            We were discussing about Angel encounters in our earlier posts. I would like to hi-light one more such incident. A few months back my wife and I were bringing our daughter and her two little ones to our home town. It is about thirty hours train journey from her place. When we reached railway station, younger child, who was three, was running a slight fever. Unexpectedly the train was late due to fog. Train which was to come by six in the evening was  late and was only expected by four early next morning. So we took a room in a nearby hotel. At about 11 night, the child's fever had gone up, and we urgently needed the prescribed medicine. But there were no medical shops open around as it was almost midnight.  So, we left the kids in hotel under the care of my wife.  We wanted to try our luck at a pharmacy attached to a hospital which is about two kilometers away.   My daughter and myself somehow got a bus going to that direction, may be  the last one, but unfortunately the medicine was not available with them. The pharmacist suggested that we might get this medicine in another new pharmacy which was further one kilometer down the road. As it was nearing midnight, and the roads were deserted, walking down that road  with my daughter was a risk. When we were discussing and thinking what to do, there came two stout men in a car to buy some medicines. One  is the driver, and other seems to be his friend. They overheard our conversation and voluntarily offered to give us a lift to that new pharmacy. We could find no other choice to get this medicine, but to go along with these two strangers. They dropped us by the new pharmacy, but the medicine was not available there either. This pharmacist referred us to another pharmacy which is further half kilometer away in a different direction. When we came out dejected, this car with two men were waiting at the gate. Seeing our plight they again offered  to drop us at the referred pharmacy.

Luckily we got the medicine from there. Now the problem is how to get back to our hotel in the middle of this night.  When we came out of the pharmacy with the medicine, we were happy to see  again that car with two men at the gate. When they dropped us at our hotel, the time was past midnight. We did not know how to thank them. We thought of offering them money, but they refused, and suddenly sped away telling us to remember them in our prayers, not to be seen again. Suddenly our eyes opened, we knew they were Angels. They were there to guide and protect us.

I do not really know whether the status of Angels are much above human beings or below. It is written that human beings are created in the image of God. Same is not written about Angels. Salvation,  and to be one with the God,  is promised  only to humans. But as far as I know , nowhere the salvation is promised to Angels. They are only servants of God, not sons of God. The God incarnated as human and lived amongst us for our salvation. It is not known any incarnation of God as Angels to give them salvation. So, the angels may have to take birth as humans to get their salvation. Is that the reason we are seeing many Angels amongst us in human forms? Really I do not know! 

I close this chapter with a fine certificate from the scriptures " God will give orders to his Angels about you;  they will hold you up with their hands,  so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones"   

John P.K

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Statutory warning :  Beware of Demons in Angels costumes
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