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I of course in light of this had to research the bible and I have to say that some of the historical references it makes to Angels seem to follow this same idea.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!!!!!