Posted on 01/05/2008 9:02:33 PM PST by Salvation
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I always thought that the angel’s name was Harold. you know ....
Michael, Gabriel, Raphael are the only angel names that we are aware of from the Bible..................but I know you are joking.
I am :)
You know, Hark the Harold angel sings...
(i know its herald)
Actually Lucifer is also mentioned in Ezekiel.
Well then, obviously that angel's name is "Hark", then!
You know..."Hark", the herald angel.
2 Esdras 4:1 And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,
But hold on. Isaiah 60 mentions only two of the gifts mentioned by Matthew: gold, fit for a king, and frankincense, for the worship of God. So what about the myrhh where does that come from and what does it mean?
Myrhh, an aromatic resin, was used in preparing the dead for burial. Gold reveals that the babe in the manger is actually a king; frankincense tells us that is he God incarnate; myrhh tells us that he has come to die.
And there you go...That's one of the reasons Matthew 2 has absolutely nothing to do with Isaiah 60...
First off, the Magi were magicians, not Kings...
Secondly, there is no myrh in Isaiah 60 because in that discourse, it is not speaking of the birth, suffering and death of Jesus...It is the beginning of his reign on the earth as Lord of Lords and King of Kings...He died ONCE for all...
And Psalm 72...You can't pick a single verse out of the chapter and make it apply to the 1st coming of Jesus...Every single verse in the chapter discusses the millenial reign of Jesus Christ on Earth...
So what is the motive for this biblical distortion??? I have no doubt that the motive is for your church to convince you Catholics that Jesus will not show up again to reign on the earth...
When Islam was founded, the burial places of the Three Wise Men were destroyed...
But there should be some sort of historical record of their burial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saveh
There are several aspects of Saveh in Iran that is interesting to Christians... It appears that according to Marco Polo that the The Three Wise Men were incorruptibles -- though they may have been preserved artifically.
Additionally, there was a lake near Saveh. It is legend that at the birth of Mohammed that the lake dried up...
Since this is a desert area, this would bode ill for the area...
Since the time of the rising of Islam is around 666 AD, it is in my opinion both the time of the rising of Islam (666 AD) and the drying up of the lake was a warning about Islam.
As mentioned before, the followers of Mohammed destroyed the tombs of the Three Wise Men...
Also the city of Colonge, Germany, it is said that the remands of the Magi were taken to and re-buried.
I believe I said according to Biblical accounts.
I wasn’t aware of these facts.
You are sos right. I didn’t do a search. My bad.
The Church's celebration of Epiphany ("manifestation), the "twelfth night of Christmas," apparently originated in Egypt sometime during the third century, thus the Church's celebration of this feast predates even the celebration of Christmas itself.
Epiphany is traditionally celebrated in honor of Christ's birth, of the adoration of the Magi, and of the baptism of Christ's (also celebrated on the first Sunday following Epiphany), three manifestations of the Lord's divinity.
Because the Magi came form the Orient, many of the traditional foods served on this day are spicy. Spice cake is often baked for dessert, and entrees may include curry powder or other pungent spices.
Several lovely family customs are associated with Epiphany. It is on Epiphany that the Christmas crèche is finally completed, as the figures of the three wise men at last arrive at the crib. In many families, the wise men are moved a bit closer to the crib every day from Christmas Day until Epiphany. Also, recalling the gifts to the Infant Jesus, many families exchange small gifts.
A time-honored custom (especially in France) is the baking of a cake with a bean or trinket hidden inside. The person whose cake contains the bean is made king of the feast. Processions of robed and crowned "wise men" to the manger are fun for little ones, and provide them with an opportunity to think of a good deed that they can offer as a gift to Jesus.
The blessing of the home is also a popular Epiphany custom. using specially blessed chalk (your parish priest will bless the chalk, if you ask, or use the prayer of blessing), many households mark their entrance door with the year and with the inscription CMB, the initial Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, the names of the three wise man in legend. The inscription also stands for Christus Mansionem Benedicat, which means "Christ, bless this home." The popular form the inscription takes is 20+C+M+B+08. It remains above the doorway until Pentecost.
Uriel is sometimes called an archangel because the Apocryphal book 2 Esdras refers to him as the archangel of salvation. But 2 Esdras was dropped from the Catholic canon, and since 745 AD the Catholic Church has not officially recognized him as an archangel. But, the Coptic Church still includes the books of Esdras in their Bible and Uriels feast day is celebrated by the Coptic Church on July 28.
for 700 years Uriel was an arch angel and then he was voted out of existance by consensus kinda like global warming. You got rid of purgatory. Perhaps if you eliminate hell, we can raise enough money for the Church to pay the legal fees.
They have names all right. Different names in different communities.
So are you a member of the Coptic Church or some other denomination?
I really had not ever heard of this archangel or a Biblical reference.
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