“Of some cutesy little infant

Winged in gown excelsior,”

Nor the spirit of the human dead

Nor Divinity to be worshipped

Nor a traveling companion

To be channeled forth exquisite,

But created by the “Lord of Host”

To serve our Mighty God

Innumerable in number

And by rank in catalogue,

Around His throne a vision:

Going forth at God’s command

A great company of holy angels

Attending the heirs of salvation,

First the Seraphim

With three pair of wings

Attending to the Lord,

With two: covered face

Two covered feet

+ with two he flew abroad,

Crying: Holy, Holy, Holy

High above Gods Heavenly Throne

Proclaiming God’s threefold Glory

Throughout the earth below,

Next we see the Cherubim

Which guard God’s Throne and house

Who are far above description

But we’ll attempt it anyhow,

Behold each has four faces

And four wings for each are found

And they travel fast as lightning

Where ever they are bound,

Full of eyes all round about them

Turning not which way they went

Straight ahead in all directions

Dreadful in magnificence,

God placed these at the entrance

When Adam and Eve had sinned

To prevent their re-admittance

After the Garden of Eden’s banishing,

Now we come to wingless angles

That on man have had effect

Whether guiding us along our path

In spirit or human form bedecked,

Whether protecting us from harm

Or announcing God’s intensions

Or fulfilling Divine Judgment

Over paganistic nations,

Some empowered as Chief Princes

Though in limited personnel

Just four names have we been given

Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael,

So let’s list some visitations

Of encounters from the past

Then ones we ourselves can count on

Finishing with those in Scripture still forecast;

Angels led old Lot, his wife and daughter’s’

from the Cities of the Plain

So the Lord could rain down fire

Destroying all the Sodomites domain,

Then we find King Sennacherib

Of Assyria insults Jehovah God

Who sends “one” angel of the Lord

And 185,000 are dead dogs,

And in the days of Moses

To show Balaam of his sin

An angel blocked his donkey’s passing

And enabled this donkey to chastise him,

How bout angelic birth announcements

And declaring Gods own will

For the lives of certain offspring

As in Sampson’s Nazorite vow fulfilled,

And what of Zacharia’s visitation

And pronouncement of a son

Naming “John” the Baptist

To prepare people for God’s own Son,

Then of course the virgin Mary

Blessed by God among women

Visited by Gabriel from heaven

Announcing the baby Jesus birth, Amen

Called the Son of God the Highest

Who’s reign shall be forever more

Who shall save man from his sin

After breaking down death’s door,

Then one sent Philip to the Eunuch

And Cornelius to Simon Peter

Another reassured the Apostle Paul

On his voyage to see Caesar,

Now we find so reassuring

As our little ones are born

God assigns a Guardian Angel

For their protection to adorn,

Then when we make a personal decision

To live for Christ all our life long

As Saint’s we’re protected by these angels

Because to God we now belong,

Another of their duties

Is to gather up our prayer’s

And present them on God’s alter

Because we’ve access as God’s heir,

And when our journeys ended

And we’ve taken our last breath

Holy angels carry our soul’s to heaven

So we’re not alone at death,

Now let’s look unto the future

At the tribulation’s of end times

God sends the “angels of destruction”

To defeat the enemies of God,

With their trumpets + bowls of Wrath

Descending upon rebellious man

All life would be extinguished

If not for the Lord’s Return,

So a lesson to be learned here

Is to ourselves and God be true

Don’t turn your back on God

And have destruction brought on you.