Do Angels Really Kill People?

 Do Angels Really Kill People?

In The Last Angel To Fall, the angel that Jubal Stone's team is pursuing is found not to be the docile being that they are expecting.

This last rebel angel expelled from Heaven is supposed to be obedient and willing to cooperate with the State Department. When Jubal and Thad Coleman arrive at the meteor impact site, what they find is terrifying:

Vehicles were overturned and smashed. It

looked like a tornado had swept through. Waves

of a luminous force extended out from the crater

half the distance to the bodies of apparently dead

soldiers. Did this energy wave kill them? What

could be causing that?

At the crash site, Coleman and I were quickly

passed through the security cordon after a brief

check of our ID's. We left Tree and his operators

at the helicopter. I was shocked by what I saw.

Dead soldiers everywhere. Bodies were still being

removed and overturned vehicles were

everywhere. It looked like a giant had lost his

temper in a toy store. The crater itself seemed to

be pumping out large quantities of smoke and

mist, and something within glowed with heat and

energy, but what had looked like electric lava from

the sky had dissolved into mist. We could feel

waves of heat emanating from the crater even

from a distance.

The Angel Who Killed The Assyrians

One of God's angels slaughtered a large portion of the Assyrian army. God's angels can be direct and murderous. If angels are real, it stands to reason that the angels of God would kill opposition to His will as part of the ongoing war between God and Satan.

“And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.” (2 Kings 19:35).

In The Last Angel To Fall, the rogue angel not only slaughters a Michigan National Guard unit that has secured the area of the crater he is buried in, he seeks out and kills a retired University of Michigan professor and former United Nations peace negotiator.

Jubal is especially affected by the ghastly murder of the old man:

At first I couldn't process what I was seeing. There

was something astonishingly wrong here. We were

standing just inside the living room, a room that

had been turned into an abattoir. There was red-tinged

black blood smeared everywhere. More

blood than I had ever seen. There were strange

things, too, things that looked disturbingly familiar.

Things I had seen only at autopsies or in medical

textbooks.

Human organs, ripped from someone's body, and

strewn across the room at intervals as if they were

tossed at random.

The room looked like some kind of abstract

painting, something Pablo Picasso might do if he

were to use the entire room as his canvas. It was

a macabre horror out of Rod Serling's “Night

Gallery,” uncensored and obscene, but it wasn't a

painting at all. It was the remains of a human

being squashed, shattered and smeared across the

walls, ceiling, furniture, fixtures and floor. I

quickly put my sleeve to my mouth to stop myself

from vomiting. I took a quick short breath and

stopped breathing through my nose to shut out the

smell.

There are other examples of angel's killing, even with God's approval. The so-called Angel of Death will not be denied. The Testament of Abraham tells of Abraham's physical life being claimed by the Angel of Death. This angel told Abraham that he was taking him to “peace and exultation and endless life.” Though this is not the act of a violent being, it is a killing in that the angel took Abraham's life before he was ready to die. (Abraham 20:14)

So, the short answer to the question of whether or not angels really kill is “yes.” Angels kill when directly commanded by God or when in pursuit of doing God's work. Fallen Angels would kill in doing the bidding of Satan, but they would and could also kill for their own reasons.

The moral of the story is that you interfere with an angel on a mission at your own risk. And if you do interfere, don't expect to be shown mercy.

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About

Brian G. Walsh is the author of The Last Angel To Fall, volume one of the Jubal Stone Series of urban fantasy novels.

Walsh is also the author of No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology, a collection of short stories readers have compared to the writing of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Rod Serling and others. https://www.amazon.com/No-Place-Mercy-Eclectic-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00MT4CEZY/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8