Angels......Not What You Think?

So recently I have become a fan of this show called Supernatural. It has been going on for atleast 3 seasons now and I have just been getting into the show this year with the start of the 4th season. Through general reading, and not to mention there own wiki site that I managed to find; I have been checking out various past episodes and have been catching up on a lot of the story.

The show chronicles the lives of two demon hunters by the name of Sam and Dean Winchester. Sam and Dean have been fighting demons, monsters, and just about every kind of folk lore evil you can think of. Its interesting, because through they have been fighting demons and other dark forces the past few seasons, they have never really mentioned God the past three years.

The 4th season however; begins with an Angel being added to the mix and to basically sum it up, the 4th season starts out with Dean being saved from Hell by the Angel Castiel because God commanded it, and has work for Dean to do.

Now, although this is just a show on TV, I can't help but be just caught up in the awesomeness of this story. I mean, through out this season the Angels have been helping Dean and Sam and you get to finally see Angels actually doing what they do in real life, fighting the dark forces of the Devil. The story line this season involves them trying to stop Lucifer from walking free from his prison and destroying the world.

To my knowledge this is the first time that a TV show has ever shown this kind of view of Angels. I mean, Castiel and Uriel (one of the other Angels) are absolutly crazy; everywhere they go they leave trails of dead demons and they are absoutly relentless when it comes to fighting darkness. In one episode in perticular, Castiel leaves a trail of demons that have had there eyes burned out just by looking at the power of God he radiates!! Another episode has them essentially telling them that if Sam and Dean don't help them get this fallen rouge angel out of a town, they are going to destroy the entire town! Yet in another episode, Castiel explains to Dean that when they saved Dean from Hell, they "laid seige" to Hell just to save him. (tell me that doesn't have Jesus salvation overtones to it!)

I of course in light of this had to research the bible and I have to say that some of the historical references it makes to Angels seem to follow this same idea. In 2 Kings Ch 19, an Angel of the Lord wipes out some 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, then just for good measure, leaves the corpes out in the open for the other enemies of Jerusalem to see!!! Another story has an Angel in 2 Chronicles Ch 32 wiping out all the fighting men and officers in the Assyrian camp!! Yet again an Angel of the Lord in Daniel Ch 6 steps in to save Daniel by making the ravaging lions close their mouths!

Angels I think get a bad reputation for being all pretty and happy looking; I really don't think that they get the respect that they deserve. I mean, these beings are not only messangers of the Lord, but are warriors with no mercy towards the Devil and his minions. After all, it was Michael the Archangel and his warrior Angels who caste out Lucifer and his followers from Heaven during the rebellion in heaven in Revelation.

ANGELS ARE AWESOME!!!!!

Nehemiah................The Walls we Face....

So I have recenlty begun reading Nehemiah with a buddy of mine. Its a really interesting book. Its a book of the bible that I have never read before. I had heard some things about it, and have heard some sermons preached from it, but have never actually read it.

Here is a little bit of Nehemiah's back story and history:
(From the NIV Key Word Study Bible)


The books of Ezra and Nehemiah were combined into one volume in early Hebrew manuscripts. Around the start of the fourth century A.D. Jerome seperated them into 1 and 2 Ezra in Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible. Not long afterward, the second book was named Nehemiah after its principal character. The name Nehemiah means "the Lord comforts" Nehemiah was concerned that the Lord's name was not being esteemed as it should have been because His city Jerusalem, was in ruins. The people who had returned from captivity in babylon had no way to defend themselves (Ne 1:3). As a result, Nehemiah desired to take on the formidable task of reestablishing civil authority in Jerusalem. he let nothing distract him from his goal of making Jerusalem a strategic center of refuge for the remnant of the Isrealites who lived in the region (Ne 6:3)

Nehemiah was appointed Govenor of Judea by the Persian emperor Artaxerxes and soon afterward came to Jerusalem (around 445 B.C.). he was given a military escort and government funding from Artaxerxes to aid him in repairing the city. With God's help, Nehemiah planned and supervised the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem. Letters written on papyri (ancient paper) have been discovered in Egypts (on the island of Elephantini in the NIle River) which confirm that Sanballet, the man stated as leading the opposition against Nehemiah, lived during Nehemiah's time. These papyri also describe an overall political situation which conincides with the account given in Nehemiah.

So there you have it......the introduction!

Untitled.......

"Who I Am Hates Who I've Been"

I watched the proverbial sunriseComing up over the Pacific and

You might think I'm losing my mind,

But I will shy away from the specifics...'cause I don't want you to know where I am

'cause then you'll see my heartIn the saddest state it's ever been.

This is no place to try and live my life.

[Pre-Chorus]

Stop right there.

That's exactly where I lost it.

See that line.

Well I never should have crossed it.

Stop right there.

Well I never should have said

That it's the very moment thatI wish that I could take back.

[Chorus]

I'm sorry for the person I became.

I'm sorry that it took so long for me to change.

I'm ready to be sure I never become that way again

'cause who I am hates who I've been.

Who I am hates who I've been.

I talk to absolutely no one.

Couldn't keep to myself enough.

And the things bottled inside have finally begun

To create so much pressure that I'll soon blow up.

I heard the reverberating footsteps

Synching up to the beating of my heart,

And I was positive that unless I got myself together,

I would watch me fall apart.

And I can't let that happen again'cause then you'll see my heart

In the saddest state it's ever been.

This is no place to try and live my life.

[Pre-Chorus x2]

[Chorus]

Who I am hates who I've been

And who I am will take the second chance you gave me.

Who I am hates who I've been'cause who I've been only ever made me...

So sorry for the person I became.

So sorry that it took so long for me to change.

I'm ready to be sure I never become that way again

'cause who I am hates who I've been.

Who I am hates who I've been.

Me today...........