Chapter 5
What About Angels?
By Ernie Knoll
The Guide angel looks down at where we stand. He tells me that to our heavenly Father, a day is the same as a thousand years. He points to the left and I see a calendar. He asks me what date it was yesterday. I look back at the calendar and tell him that yesterday was January 4, 2020. The Guide angel tells me to look back at the calendar and asks me what the date is today. I look at him with so many questions going through my mind as to why the calendar is showing the year 2020, and why it is so important. He smiles at me and says, “Because what was yesterday was a long time ago, and yet tomorrow will be a long time from now. Yesterday was just a mere moment ago, and tomorrow will be sooner than you can blink your eyes.”
I now stand in a place I am unable to describe. It is not a beach or a path among trees. It is not a field of flowers or a gentle sloping hill overlooking a grand valley.
As I look around, I can only say I am at a place. Before me I observe so many angels. I am instructed to take special notice as to how I see them. I immediately begin sorting the types I have seen before. I notice those who excel in strength, those who excel in wisdom, and those who excel in speed. There are the Seraphim with shiny bodies and six wings. There are the Cherubim who stand very noble and exude a great presence. I see those like the Herald, the Announcing angel, and the Guide angel. They stand with a glow of great patience, and yet distinguish themselves from all others of great nobility. There are also the soldier angels, the guardian angels, and the destroying angels.
Next I hear the Guide angel ask me to detail more of the ones I call soldier, guardian, and destroying angels. I look closely at each group and say that each of them wears an armor with intricate design that seems to be a part of their living body. From their back is what looks like great feathered wings that unfold, unfold, and then unfold again. Their helmet and footwear are special as to how it adds extra protection, and seems to be a part of their skin and is molded to their actual head and foot. Their protective gloves move freely. In their right hand they each hold a tremendous shield with a design on the front. The shield resembles an ever-powerful energy that exudes great protection. In their left hands, they hold a sword that instantly forms into a spear and has an ever-pure energy of self-power.
The Guide angel begins to speak, and I look over at him. As he stands there, he looks noble and majestic, and he is very tall and muscular in build. I now notice great wings that he unfolds from his back. In his left hand, he holds a large glass tablet with a feathered quill. In his right hand, he holds a broad sword that emits heat and what seems like pure energy. As he stands there with a look of extreme patience, he tells me that we will begin a long journey, because this is the time for all to prepare. Our Creator is ready for us to begin our journey. But it is also time for all to no longer perceive what we think we understand as to what is true. He asks if two can walk together and not clearly comprehend what each sees and ascertains.
I now look at the Guide angel and he appears to slowly melt in transition from how I just described him to how I now see him. He becomes not as tall. He wears a safari hat, a safari shirt, shorts, and sandals. I no longer see great wings extending from his back.
He smiles a great look of extreme patience. He says that this is how a Guide angel would appear if we were going to a continent where a guide would be needed in search of large animals like an elephant, a giraffe, and maybe a hippopotamus or rhinoceros.
The Guide angel stands quiet while his look slowly changes again. As he speaks, he changes completely in a way that I would not recognize him. He then speaks and says for me to not fear. He tells me that all angels are seen as to how you who walk on this earth expect them to look. You who were hand-created by our Creator are the only creations with God’s own breath breathed into their lungs and that truly have an identical look of our Creator. We were spoken into existence in a single command and according to our own kind.
As I look at the Guide angel, I see him not as a human with facial and body features but as a beautiful, tall, majestic being with divine perfection. Only our Creator could have spoken him into existence. The Guide’s skin appears to emit a constant glow of inward energy. And it seems to be ever energized even more as he speaks of the Creator. He glows bright when he thinks about or mentions the name Jesus. All of us here represent but a sampling of the myriad creations that are referred to as angels. However, we all hold true to a certain design with our created groupings. A simpler way to explain is in an illustration that will allow all to understand easier.
A flower’s design is different from a tree, and a fruit is different from a vegetable. An elephant is different from a hippopotamus. An eagle is different from a hummingbird. A horse is different from a cow. A dog is different from a cat. A kangaroo is different from an octopus. All exist as to how they were created and designed.
And yet it needs to be understood that we who serve as angels stand a little in existence above those of man fallen into sin. We exist at a higher level across the universe as compared to all beings spoken into existence. But for man created in our Creator’s image after sin is no more and the effect order is returned to the universe, then all mankind who are truly our Father’s own sons and daughters will stand and serve above us angels. Understand that you are each a prince or a princess in the heavenly kingdom. You each have the same characteristic, and the same outward appearance as does the Father and Jesus.
When in the Garden of Eden, Jesus knelt in the reflective soil of the river and formed his own appearance in the dirt. Then before all who observed, He breathed air into the dirt along the river. It was in a moment you could blink an eye that a human became. It became a living breathing creation, not spoken into existence. You were given life and now breath with the air from the lungs of Jesus. You were created as a man or as a woman. What more you were given the divine gift of the Deity to create in your own way. Together a man and a woman can pro-create another in your likeness. What more the woman would possess the ability to feed the one she would give life to. I know you have been asked many times if you know who you are. You each are a prince or a princess created to walk the halls of the heavenly kingdom as the highest royal subjects. No other being spoken into existence can be a royal subject.
This is why you have seen when those who are delivered from sin that angels will find it a great opportunity to serve the descendants of God. This is why you were shown the great privilege of an angel placing your royal robe over your shoulders. And it is an extreme pleasure to have the honor of placing your princely crown on your head.
The Guide angel now stands quietly and looks down after a brief moment. His beautiful face looks up and shines with perfection as he says, “Many still do not know who they are.”
Next I look over to the right and see Perceivous descend. She walks over and stands by my side. The Guide angel speaks and tells me that I was told to call her Perceivous, because she looks the way I could perceive her. He now points out to the multitude of angels assembled there. He tells me that this is just a small sampling of the many who the Creator spoke into existence.
He then tells me that we all are perceived in a way to facilitate explanations as to how we appear. We have been written and illustrated many times as wearing battle gear in armor, carrying swords and shields. Many have described us as to how those who wrote pulled from what they observed on a daily basis. We have been described as wearing armor, shields, and swords like the original Roman soldiers wore in their time.
Perceivous who was standing by my side moves and stands in front of me. She smiles with a look of such love. She tells me something that makes me ponder everything I have ever known. She says: “You see what you expect to see, and not necessarily what is really there.”
The Guide angel speaks now and says, “You were asked to describe in detail more of the ones you call soldier, guardian, and destroying angels. You said that each of these wear an armor with intricate design that seems to be a part of their living body. From their back is what looks like great feathered wings that unfold, unfold, and then unfold again. Their helmet and footwear are special as to how it adds extra protection. Their helmet and footwear seem to be a part of their skin and is molded to their actual head and feet. Their gloves move freely, yet they are of great protection. In their right hand they each hold a tremendous shield with a design on the front. The shield resembles an ever-powerful energy that exudes self-power of great protection. In their left hand they hold a sword that instantly conforms into a spear, and it has an ever-pure energy of self-power.”
The Guide angel turns toward the soldier angels, the guardian angels, and the destroying angels. He instructs them to change their appearance. Suddenly I see them in a different way. I now see them as modern-day military soldiers. They have helmets on their heads. On their feet are large, thick combat boots. They wear an olive-green soldier uniform. In their hands are large guns. They each look like a soldier prepared for war.
The Guide angel instructs an angel from his own kind, and the angel moves and stands next to the Guide angel. I look at him as he stands there with his combat helmet, thick combat boots, and in his green military uniform. He is holding a large automatic machine gun. He looks over at the angel and tells him to change as he was instructed to earlier. As if fading from the way he appears, he transforms his appearance. He now looks like a young little girl with pigtails, holding a little doll in one hand close to her chest, and with a single flower in the other hand, she is smelling it.
Next the Guide angel now looks to an angel that is like the Herald. He stands next to the Guide angel, and he is instructed to change his appearance just as he was instructed earlier. This time the angel transforms into an old man holding a walker, and he shakes a little as if he was in his aged condition. I quickly remember the Herald when he walked and talked with the appearance of an old man.
The Guide angel looks at me and asks if it would be correct to describe this order of angels as I now observe and perceive. I tell him I understand that we as humans in our own minds perceive them as to how we understand things on this earth. Writers have written of the appearance of angels like Roman soldiers as in early days. Because angels also have the ability to fly like a bird, we have applied wings to them. We have perceived angels to the standards of humans on this earth and given them certain explainable attributes.
Now the Guide angel moves closely to me and stands by my side. He places his arm around my shoulder. In a very gentle voice, he tells me he has been sent to guide me into understanding, because it is time all understand. The Master’s watch shows it is time. The Guide angel says to remember that a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. He then tells me again to not be afraid, because I am a messenger and my purpose is to receive a message. Then as a messenger I am to share the message. I will be instructed as to when it is time to share.
The Guide angel now speaks to the soldier angels, the guardian angels, and the destroying angels. He instructs them to change their appearance as to their true form. Instantly I see them in the way they were truly created. I understand as I see them, that they each are of a form spoken into existence but is different from the other two. The soldier angel is in appearance to the order of other soldier angels. The same applies to the guardian angels and the destroying angels.
The Guide angel tells me to the best I can to describe in detail how I see the angels. I look up to him and I know I am safe. Yet in my mind I know I will have a hard time explaining what I see. It is easier to place a description to explain their appearance in human terms. I tell him that all three are majestic in appearance. They do not have a human form as does the form of mankind. All three have the order of each as to how our Creator spoke them into existence. The similarities of all three are different and yet are the same. The guardian angel stands with his hands at his side ready to serve. Yet his hands are not that of my own created form. His head is perfect in design and form, and is handsome and beautiful at the same time. His torso is of strength and with arms to quickly comfort and protect. I seem to understand that he would have the ability to move a large falling tree from falling on top of me.
The guardian angel is to always protect one who was created in the image of our Creator, unless instructed otherwise. He has legs and feet that are not to the design of man, yet he is able to instantly move from place to place without his legs and feet moving. He was created with no form of outer covering. He does not have flesh like humans and constantly glows brightly with energy deep inside of him.
In the quiet of my mind, I have a thought, and yet it is more of a test to see a result. Before me stand three forms of angels which represent three orders of angels. As before I stand observing many, many, many angels. I see those who excel in strength, those who excel in wisdom, and those who excel in speed. There are the Seraphim with their shiny bodies and six wings. The Cherubim stand very noble and exude a great presence. I see those like the Herald and the Announcing angel. As I look over all those assembled, in a clear loud voice I say “Jesus Christ!” Instantly all assembled there become very, very bright. And with reverence and in one voice, they all repeat the name of Jesus.
The Guide angel looks down at me and says, “Only one formed in the reflective form of our Creator and has the same breath would think of a test like that. But now explain of the result you still observe of the three who stand in our true form.” As I look at the guardian, destroying, and soldier angels, they all three seem to glow even brighter deep inside.
The Guide angel steps forward and stands in front of all the assembled angels and says that our true form is as we all truly are. We have been described in a way to allow man to perceive us. We are not of the order of man, made in the image of our Creator. It needs to be understood that for now, we stand and serve a little higher with required respect to man in your fallen state.
The Guide angel says that there is one attribute which will be mentioned now but will be discussed in great detail later in other messages. Besides being written of holding shields and wielding great spears and swords, and the wearing of metal armors, we have all been described as to having wings like a bird. And in still trying to get all to understand who each is, I pose a question for all to ponder.
It has been mentioned that one day with Our Creator is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Ponder this for now to gain better understanding. When the story of Daniel after his vision is revisited and Daniel in his mind needed to go and speak with his Father, the Father dispatched one who stood next to His throne to go to Daniel, and was instantly there to assist him up to stand face to face with the angel. Why is it perceived that angels have wings and travel at the distance that was required? How would a bird’s wings facilitate moving the distance required?
The Guide angel pauses, looks at me, and smiles. It is a look of showing a student extreme patience. I seem to know that in that look that I am at the same time to learn what patience is, and see patience used in instructing something extremely difficult to me.
The Guide angel smiles at me and says, “There is so much I need to try to have you understand. Please take my hand so we can go elsewhere to learn.” Extending his hand, I look around again in the place where I have been. I have observed many, many, many angels. I look around a moment and observe all the angels. I see those who excel in strength, those who excel in wisdom, and those who excel in speed. There are the Seraphim with their shiny body and six wings. There is also the Cherubim who stand very noble and exude a great presence. I see those like the Herald, the Announcing angel, and the Guide angel. They stand with a glow of great patience and yet distinguish themselves from all others of great nobility. There are the soldier angels, the guardian angels, and the destroying angels. My mind tries to absorb all I have been shown to understand why we see them the way we do. I know it is to better understand how we will for all eternity see them as they really are.