Angels and the Nephilim
Angels are big business. For a fee, someone will tell you your angel's name. Card decks promise messages from them, therapists channel them, preachers teach you to command them — and somewhere underneath it all, the Nephilim have become an industry of their own, complete with giant skeletons that always vanish before anyone can check. But what does the Bible actually say an angel is? Angels and Their Worship, now in preparation, puts the whole subject on the audit table in seventeen chapters and three parts, and it starts with a surprise: in the text, "angel" is a job description, not a species name. Part I asks what the Bible actually says. The honest inventory of heaven's ranks is set against the famous nine choirs — and the reader can watch where the nine came from, and when. The named ones get their own examination: Gabriel the announcing angel, Michael the warring prince, and the "only three" rule the tradition built around them. Then a chapter on what angels are not: humans do not become angels when they die; cherubs are [...]
