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The Quran mentions God's heavenly army (Jundallah (Arabic: جندالله) in Quran 9:40, [3] [4] comparable to the heavenly host in Judeo-Christian tradition. [5] The term junud refers explicitly to hosts of spirits. The opposite is junud Iblis (the invisible hosts of Satan). [6]
The Assumption of the Virgin by Francesco Botticini (1475–75) at the National Gallery London, shows three hierarchies and nine orders of angels, each with different characteristics.
Worship of heavenly bodies is in Islamic tradition strongly associated with Sabians who allegedly stated that God created the planets as the rulers of this world and thus deserve worship. [67] While the planetary worship was linked to devils ( shayāṭīn ), [ 68 ] abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi reported that the planets are considered angelic spirits ...
Different parts of the Bible deal with angels to different degrees. On numerous locations the Bible introduces the idea of a Heavenly host or "host of heaven", and the related divine epithet "Lord of Hosts". While sometimes depicted in military fashion, the assembly also serves to praise God, in descriptions reminiscent of a kingly court.
In Matthew 18:10 Jesus warns not to despise children because "their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." Luke 20:34–36 affirms that, like the angels, "those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die."
The term archangel itself is not found in the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament, and in the Greek New Testament the term archangel only occurs in 1 Thessalonians 4 (1 Thessalonians 4:16) and the Epistle of Jude (), where it is used of Michael, who in Daniel 10 (Daniel 10:12) is called 'one of the chief princes,' and 'the great prince'.
Council of gods before the Deluge. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book I, 162–208. Fol. 4v, image 7. The Council of Gods (Sketch for the Medici Cycle) No.14, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Alte Pinakothek This seal depicts a favorite scene of the Old Babylonian period in which a worshiper stands among a number of gods.
The point where heavenly and earthly realms join is depicted as an earthly "garden of God", associated with the temple and royal palace. [68] Ezekiel 28:12–19 places the garden in Eden on the mountain of the gods; [ 69 ] in Genesis 2–3 Eden's location is more vague, simply far away "in the east", [ 70 ] but there is a strong suggestion in ...