Random Terrifying Stories About Violent Archangels That Will Haunt Your Dreams (12 items)

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  (#3) An Archangel Was Sent To Torment Moses About Foreskin

  Some say it was a true desire to slay Moses while others claim it was just a scare tactic. There is a peculiar tale of an angel of the lord (believed to be Uriel) getting sent to torment and essentially scare the foreskin off of Moses.

  Apparently, Moses and his wife Zipporah had yet to circumcise their son, and this was a great offense to God, as circumcision is dictated in the Book of Genesis. Moses was allegedly milliseconds away from being slain when his wife took a sharp rock, circumcised their son, and cast the foreskin at her husband's feet. Moses was spared.
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  (#8) The Destroying Angel Slaughtered An Entire Army

  The Hebrew Bible tells of several instances where the Lord sent his Angel of Death to wipe out the enemies of the Israelites.

  While the slaying of all the firstborn sons in Egypt during what’s now known as Passover is the most famous slaughter, an even larger one took place. The angel saved Jerusalem from an invasion by Sennacherib's army back in 701 BC, but not without a brutal bloodbath. A total of 185,000 men were completely wiped out in one night.
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  (#4) Gabriel Will Take Away Your Voice If You Don't Want To Listen To Him

  The recurring theme throughout many religious texts is that angels are messengers of God, as well as terrifying forces in their own right. The archangel Gabriel had the task of announcing the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah. When Zechariah’s initial reaction was one of protest, Gabriel’s anger escalated rather quickly:

  I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. But now, because you did not believe my words... you will become mute, unable to speak, until the day these things occur. 

  Yep, this was his way of delivering good news.
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  (#10) The Archangel Jophiel Evicted Adam And Eve

  While he's not brought up very often, the archangel Jophiel once played a large role in biblical history. Jophiel is said to be the flaming-sword-wielding badass that guarded the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

  Armed with his flaming sword of great supernatural power, he booted Adam and Eve from the only home they’d ever known after God’s rules had been broken.
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  (#6) Samael Tried To Kill A Baby While Still In The Womb

  The conflict between twin brothers Jacob and Esau began in the womb. There was a discrepancy over who would be born first and who would inherit the Earth.

  The archangel Samael - often referred to as an angel of death - decided to step in and actually intended to slay baby Jacob while still in his mother’s womb. Once again, Michael stepped in and saved the day. Michael had every intention of burning Samael, but God decided they should settle their differences in court. Each of them served different but necessary functions.
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  (#5) Uriel Flooded The Earth To Rid It Of The Children Of Human-Angel Unions

  While he wasn’t the only one against the idea of the fallen angels taking human wives to breed with, the archangel Uriel was one of the four who spoke up and requested divine intervention in the matter. Basically, Uriel and his self-righteous posse were not at all happy that humans and angels were mating and producing a race of hybrid "giants." He wasn’t taking it easy on anyone either; even the humans were considered guilty of defiling mankind with these unions, and ignorance was not an acceptable excuse. The existence of these cross-breed abominations and the desire to rid the world of them led to a great flood to cleanse the Earth: 

  Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons "as gods," (here shall they stand) till "the day of" the great judgment in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.

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