How Many Angels can Stand on Golgotha?
While Jesus was being crucified, the onlooking crowd apparently got a little rowdy and contributed to the killing with their own verbal barbs and insults. Pastor Raul says the mocking and insulting, the blasphemy was so horrific that God the Father was standing by with twelve legions of angels in preperation to wipe them all out. There must have been what, a couple hundred people there?
This is a God that knows how to mobilize. A roman legion apparently was in the neighborhood of three to six thousand. So we're talking up to seventy-two thousand armed and very dangerous angels ready to come down and massacre the onlookers. Keep in mind, the Egyptian empire a few thousand years ago enslaved er, six hundred thousand Hebrews--meaning it had to be pretty big. And God sent a single troop, the destroying angel, to take out the first born of every house in egypt. Granted, many of those are going to be unarmed children and would pose little difficulty. And granted, he went in at night. But there had to have been at least a few thousand fairly capable adults who woke up and pulled a spear or something and gave the angel a chance to practice his moves.
There is just no point whatsoever in appropriating such a force to the Golgotha incident. All they'd do is materialize on the mountain and everyone would suffocate from overcrowding. And if not, there surely wouldn't be enough room to draw a weapon or wind up to deliver a blow. It's an attack that's not only logistically stupid, but without any style. Much better would be to send in the single special ops guy and let him take the whole crowd on. That's far more terrifying and shows a sense of artistry. I knew a southern guy once who boasted one southern man from the Civil war era could take out three yankees. Indeed, that's how these brag sessions should go, I, or a very few of my guys can take out a lot of your guys, not the other way around.
Then again, here's the God who's only idea for keeping billions of people form burning in brimstone for eternity is to have his son kidnapped and murdered. So who knows what he's thinking.
This is a God that knows how to mobilize. A roman legion apparently was in the neighborhood of three to six thousand. So we're talking up to seventy-two thousand armed and very dangerous angels ready to come down and massacre the onlookers. Keep in mind, the Egyptian empire a few thousand years ago enslaved er, six hundred thousand Hebrews--meaning it had to be pretty big. And God sent a single troop, the destroying angel, to take out the first born of every house in egypt. Granted, many of those are going to be unarmed children and would pose little difficulty. And granted, he went in at night. But there had to have been at least a few thousand fairly capable adults who woke up and pulled a spear or something and gave the angel a chance to practice his moves.
There is just no point whatsoever in appropriating such a force to the Golgotha incident. All they'd do is materialize on the mountain and everyone would suffocate from overcrowding. And if not, there surely wouldn't be enough room to draw a weapon or wind up to deliver a blow. It's an attack that's not only logistically stupid, but without any style. Much better would be to send in the single special ops guy and let him take the whole crowd on. That's far more terrifying and shows a sense of artistry. I knew a southern guy once who boasted one southern man from the Civil war era could take out three yankees. Indeed, that's how these brag sessions should go, I, or a very few of my guys can take out a lot of your guys, not the other way around.
Then again, here's the God who's only idea for keeping billions of people form burning in brimstone for eternity is to have his son kidnapped and murdered. So who knows what he's thinking.
posted by Ashmunella Harrisi at 5:32 PM
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