I have been told that all angels in the bible are always men. I have searched the scriptures myself and found that in fact female angels are mentioned, but only once, but many so called 'learned' men of the bible state that in this one occurrance that they are evil. I happen to disagree with them and here is a study on this topic.
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Article: ARE THERE FEMALE ANGELS?
There are people who do not believe there are female angels. I believe there are, as I heard the Lord tell me that in the following scripture, these are women angels and not demons.
However, as proper Biblical scholars, it is important to verify truth with 2-3 witnesses. Usually scripture uses scripture as the witness, but this is not always the case. There are many instances where something is only mentioned in scripture once and it is still truth.
So, when you make your own interpretation of the following scripture, please be aware that this is the only place in the Bible that mentions women angels that I know of. This article is a Word study backing my understanding that these are female angels.
Zech 5:5-11 NKJV
Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, "Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth." 6 So I asked, "What is it?" And he said, "It is a basket that is going forth." He also said, "This is their resemblance throughout the earth: 7 Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket"; 8 then he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. 10 So I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they carrying the basket?" 11 And he said to me, "To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base."
1. Wickedness (the curse) is thrust down and sealed with a lead cover by the angel. It was taken prisoner.
(interesting the use of 'lead' to be a protector of sorts ~my musings here~)
Zech 5:8-9
"This is Wickedness!" And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women , coming with the wind in their wings ; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
The angel that was speaking, thrust the demon down into the basket and threw the lead cover over it. The women with wings carried the woman & basket off as a prisoner, else the angel would not have thrust her down and put a lead cover on her. The women were not demons doing God's work, they were angels sent to carry the curse. If they were demons the woman in the basket would not have had to be held captive and carried.
2. Two women came to carry it off.
3. The women had wings that looked like stork wings.
“...there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork...”
a. Storks were considered unclean.
b. These wings were not stork wings.
c. They simply looked like stork wings.
d. BTW: The word stork means maternal kindness.
Jer 8:7 NKJV
"Even the stork {2624} in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.
Job 39:13
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork's? {2624}
Every time the word stork (2624) is mentioned in the scripture, its name means to be kind.
chaciydah
OT:2624 chaciydah (khas-ee-daw'); feminine of OT:2623; the kind (maternal) bird, i.e. a stork:
KJV - feather, stork.
chaciydah
OT:2623 chaciyd (khaw-seed'); from OT:2616; properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint):
KJV - godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, [ungodly.
chacad
OT:2616 chacad (khaw-sad'); a primitive root; properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only [compare OT:2603] in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphem. [compare l OT:88], but rarely) to reprove:
KJV - shewself merciful, put to shame.
4. It specifically says that the wings belonged to the women.
a. Wind in their wings
b. They had wings
“...there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings...”
5. Women is translated women.
OT:802
OT:802 'ishshah (ish-shaw'); feminine of OT:376 or OT:582; irregular plural, nashiym (naw-sheem'); a woman (used in the same wide sense as OT:582):
KJV - [adulter] ess, each, every, female, many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
OT:582
OT:582 'enowsh (en-oshe'); from OT:605; properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified OT:120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively):
KJV - another, [blood-] thirsty, certain, chap [-man]; divers, fellow, in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some (X of them), stranger, those, their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare OT:376.
6. Men angels are translated as men.
MAN
'iysh
OT:376 'iysh (eesh); contracted for OT:582 [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):
KJV - also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, [foot-, husband-] man, [good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man [-kind], none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso (-ever), worthy. Compare OT:802.
Gen 19:1-2
...Now the two angels {#376} came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
Gen 19:12-13
...Then the men {#376} said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city — take them out of this place! 13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
Ezek 9:3-4 KJV
And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man {#376} clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Ezek 47:3
And when the man {#376}that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
7. Humans don’t have wings
These were women who owned their wings. Women don’t have wings, angels and spirits have wings.
8. We know that angels appear as people
Heb 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Acts 12:13-15
And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, because of her gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. 15 But they said to her, "You are beside yourself!" Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, "It is his angel ."
9. If these women were demonic, there would be no reason for the wicked women in the basket to be thrust in and carried as a prisoner.
10. God often uses angels to carry out destruction, curses, etc.
· The two angels that were sent to Lot, were sent to destroy cities.
· The angel of the Lord had his sword drawn when Balaam ignored the donkey.
· In the book of Revelations, there are many angels that do the plagues and judgments.
· The angel stretched his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it when David was being chastised.
· The death angel went about Egypt to kill the first born.
11. The women were to build a house.
a. One of the words used in the translations is prison.
Gen 39:20 KJV
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison {#1004}, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. {#1004}
HOUSE
OT:1004
OT:1004 bayith (bah'-yith); probably from OT:1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.):
KJV - court, daughter, door, dungeon, family, forth of, great as would contain, hangings, home [born], [winter] house (-hold), inside (-ward), palace, place, prison, steward, tablet, temple, web, within (-out).
SCRIPTURES AND TRUTH THAT ARE ONLY MENTIONED ONCE
Not all truth is verified in scripture 2-3 times, but it is still truth and still scripture.
· The watcher angels are only mentioned once (twice) in Daniel 4. Dan 4:13 & 23. "I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven. He cried aloud and said thus.
· The lady drew the virtue/ power out of Jesus. It is the only time it is recorded. We can safely say that people can draw virtue out of us because it happened to Jesus.
· The story of the rich man in Hades and asking Abraham for mercy is only recorded once, but it is a main foundation for Christian understandings.
· Jude quotes Enoch, and this is not in the OT scripture. It actually comes from the book called Enoch.
Jude 14-15 NKJV
Now Enoch , the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."
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