St Michael Research Paper

In the Old Testament story of Job, Satan is one of God’s angels. In order to become the Satan of evil, he must fall from God’s grace and vacate his position in His court. Greek mythology told the story of an epic battle in heaven between Zeus, god of heaven, and Typhon, the most fearsome of the giants, with “100 dragon heads, coiling serpents for legs and hundreds of hands” (Littleton, 149). Zeus succeeded in casting Typhon out of heaven forever, and the beast is said, variably, to either be destroyed in Mt. Etna, or banished to Tartarus, the deepest level of the underworld. In Revelations 12: 7-9, Michael and the angels fight Satan, described as “the great dragon… that old serpent”, and cast him out of heaven and into hell. Early versions of 2 Peter, telling the same story, even use the word Tartarus, which is later replaced with hell in King James and other popular

an Assyrian king, Sennacherib, fought several princes and captured the city of Jerusalem. There are two different versions of the text: The Biblical and Sennacherib version. This event was recorded by Sennacherib himself. Which means he meant to write it as if he was the hero in his own story. In the story “ I besieged Beth-Dagon, Joppa, Banai-Barqa, Azuru, cities belonging to Shidqia who did not bow to my feet quickly enough”, fell to Sennacherib. King Hezekiah “did not submit to my yoke” led a rebellion in Judah. In response Sennacherib “laid siege to 46 of his strong cities.” According to the bible, the siege failed because that angel of YAHWEH went forth and stuck down the men in the Assyrian men.

"St. Michael the Archangel" For my saint, I picked Saint Michael the Archangel. I picked St. Michael because Michael is my middle name. Saint Michael is a name meaning "He who is like God" in Hebrew. He is said to be placed over all the angels. He is the Patron Saint of soldiers, security guards, and sick people. Saint Michael is one of the seven archangels, him being one of the three mention in the Bible. He is the leader of the army of God during the Lucifer upraising. It is said by Pope Gregory the Great "Whenever some act of wondrous power must be performed, Michael is sent, so that his action and his name may make it clear that no one can do what God does by his superior power." Saint Michael is one of the principal angels. In Latin,

Son of Zeus and Hera. Referred to as the God of War he represented the bad aspects of battle.he was bested by Heracles in battle and was almost killed when stuffed into a jar by two giants

Pagels describes the development of Satan throughout her book and how Christians used Satan to demonetize others. Pagels begins with the destruction of the Jewish Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. The Jewish war poisoned the relationship between Jews, “as the revolt spread to towns and cities, the Jewish population divided” (3). Those who were not following Jesus were then labeled as being Satanic and evil for having different views. Pagels describes Satan in earlier times when he was not looked at as a monstrous being but was one of God’s angels, the angel that had a job of “blocking or obstructing human activity” (39). In many eyes this angel would have been viewed as the evil

make peace throughout the land and even though there was a whole bloodbath, he was able to rid

The people of Israel began to worship idols; and as a punishment God allowed them once more to pass under the power of their enemies. The seventh oppression, which now fell upon Israel, was by far the hardest, the longest and the most widely spread of any, for it was over all the tribes. It came from the Philistines, a strong and warlike people who lived on the west of Israel upon the plain beside the Great Sea. They were blasphemy towards Yahweh Dagon, which was made in the form of a fish 's head on a man 's body. These people, the Philistines, sent their armies up from the plain beside the sea to the mountains of Israel and overran all the land. They took away from the Israelites all their swords and spears, so that they could not fight; and they robbed their land of all the crops, so that the people suffered for want of food. And as before, the Israelites in their trouble, cried out to the Lord, and the Lord heard their prayer. In the tribe-land of Dan, which was next to the country of the Philistines, there was living a man named Manoah.

Lucifer is the infamous angel who rebelled against God in hopes of becoming a God himself. He constructed an army of angels in opposition of God. Despite this, Lucifer was incapable of defeating God and was struck down from the Garden of Eden to hell. In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer in the last circle of hell before they ascend to Purgatory. It is here in the circle of Judecca that Lucifer had been condemned for eternity as a result of his treachery against God. In my essay, I will argue that Lucifer’s location and physical attributes ironically reflect qualities of God in such a way that Lucifer becomes mocked. Dante Alighieri utilizes Lucifer’s characterization to illuminate the force of God’s divine power in The Divine Comedy.

Mount of Olives (Har HaZeitim in Hebrew) is mentioned in the Bible multiple times as the place where the legendary events took place. The very first of those events was the rebellion of Absalom against his father king David described in 2 Samuel 15:30. After hearing about his son 's treachery, the distressed king "went up the ascent of Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up and his head was covered and he walked barefoot". To his concerned followers he said that God would deliver him.

In Revelations 12, it talks of how “3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads… 7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world

The Hebrews travelled along the road to Bashan. The king, Og, advanced and started a battle. God reassured Moses not to fear, that He would deliver them to him. He told him to battle the same as they did to Sihon. They took the city and all its inhabitants, there were no survivors.

In Muslim lore, he is the angel of nature who provides both food and knowledge to man. Archangel Michael is identified with the angel who wrestled with Jacob, destroyed the armies of Sennacherib and saved the three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace in Jewish mystical tradition. Archangel Michael also appears in the Bible as the angel who appeared to Joshua as he prepared to lead the Israelites in battle at Jericho. John the apostle speaks of Archangel Michael in the Book of Revelation, where he recounts that it was Michael who cast the devil and his angels out of heaven into the earth.The Book of Revelation (12:7-9) describes a war in heaven in which Michael, being stronger, defeats Satan. After the conflict, Satan is thrown to earth along with the fallen angels, where he still tries to lead the whole world astray. In the Epistle of Jude 1:9, Michael is referred to as an archangel when he again confronts Satan. A reference to an archangel also appears in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:16. This archangel who heralds the second coming of Christ is not named, but is often associated with

Even after being defeated, Satan is not deterred from his desire to fight against God, and Heaven. Satan would go on to let out a speech to the Fallen Angels. He really is his Legion of Fallen Angels, and persuades them that this fight is not over in this scene, Satan is almost represented as if he is an underdog. The speech is moving, and even includes slightly manipulated quotes from other epic works. Again, this is something that seems fitting for someone the reader would be rooting for.

St. Anthony of Padua is one of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints. Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost and stolen articles, was a powerful Franciscan preacher and teacher. He’s typically portrayed holding the child Jesus—or a lily—or a book—or all three—in his arms. Many people give alms to St. Anthony Bread in thanksgiving to God for blessings received through the prayers of St. Anthony.

When we think about the word angels the first thing that comes to many of our minds are heavenly beings, flying around in all white, with giant wings, and singing. However, the word angel is a general category which includes the obedient angels and the fallen angels, or demons and Satan, who are unclean and immoral in nature and activities. All angels, a population of spiritual beings and a part of a divine hierarchy who are far above the population of man, were created to serve God and to succor and defend mankind. Angel derives from the Greek word angelos, meaning messenger. Although we do not find much information in the bible about them, we do know that our God created them and everything that was created, and why He created them from the