Outfitted with the data Jesus has given us, we can comprehend the move that really makes place at the season of our passing from this Old Testament representation. Second Kings, steps back a bit of the drapery sufficiently far for us to get a look at what is going on behind the scene at death. The famous prophet of God, Elijah, is going to go home i.e. pass on. In his demise, God is going to permit Elisha, his follower, and us, to watch a little look, of how the heavenly attendants of God deal with us at the season of our passing. As they were coming and talking, see, there showed up a chariot of flame and steeds of flame which isolated both of them. What's more, Elijah went up by a hurricane to paradise. Elisha saw it and shouted out, "My dad, my dad, the chariots of Israel, and its horsemen!" And he saw Elijah no more. At that point he grabbed hold of his own garments and tore them in two pieces (2Ki 2:11-12).
Here we witness the genuine Scriptural Angel of Death just to find he is not one being, but rather a whole squadron of heavenly attendants. The truth of the matter is, I don't know of at whatever time where the Scripture ever indicates that any Child of God is ever under the watchful eye of one and only blessed messenger. To stick to that old superstition is to put down your remaining in the Kingdom of God and to deride God's adoration for you. I am paralyzed at seeing a whole squadron of death heavenly attendants going to our side at our destruction. This subtle element springs like a panther into my spirit in surprise. The essential inquiry I ask, is the reason? What is the explanation behind placing us into the defensive consideration of every one of these blessed messengers? The vast majority of us would be excited to know one holy messenger escorts us into the nearness of God. We may discover the answer in Scripture on the off chance that we look precisely. As indicated by Holy Scripture, when we close our eyes in death in this natural home, we are naturally introduced to another grand world. We can compare our demise to the introduction of an infant who leaves the universe of his/her mom's womb and now enters this other world where there are such a large number of accumulated around to commend this current kid's entry. Each offspring of God entering this new domain comes into the defensive consideration of the second and first division of heavenly attendants. (I'm sad yet I can't involved in this little article.)
Matthew Henry, the academic observer of the previous century recommends these blessed messengers are a blend of both the Seraphim and Cherubim class. He says, The heavenly attendants are brought in sacred text cherubim and seraphim, and their appearance here, however it might be underneath their respect, answers to both their names; for (1) Seraphim connotes blazing, and God is said to make a fire of flame, (Ps. civ. 4.) (2) Cherubim (the same number of think) connotes chariots, and they are known as the chariots of flame. Matthew Henry is not wrong in his examination. The term seraphim does for sure mean smoldering ones while the title cherubim are constantly connected with the magnificence of God.
From what we can gather from sacred writing, the seraphim and the cherubim are the most capable blessed messengers the Bible discusses in the heavenlies and these may make up this organization. It is under the control of these effective grand holy messengers that our natural watchman heavenly attendants pass us. As a large group of heavenly attendants strolled with us for the duration of our lives, so to a large group of various watchman blessed messengers convey us to another home loaded with holy messengers, God, and the individuals who have gone ahead before us.
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