Archangel Raphael: The Angel of Healing (Angels & Demons Explained)

in the faith it is known that angels exist in some form or another they appear in the Bible and the other holy texts in the various amount of ways they often seem to bring messages from God to provide insight or have been interpreted to actually involve themselves in the affairs of men others see them as income poriyal beings spirits or supernatural entities that serve to bring God's wisdom to the realm of men these angels are thought in some faiths to exist within their own angelic hierarchical system there sees angels having different ranks some of which determine their power and their closeness to God the highest rank of Angel are thought to be the Archangels and like the angels have a similar task of delivering God's message their duties however are usually more profound such as Archangel Gabriel delivering the news to Mary that she was pregnant with Jesus or Archangel Michael with defeating Lucifer in the heavenly Battle of Revelations one Archangel though who seems to be up for much contention is the Archangel Raphael an archangel who though absent from the Bible has developed a strong resonance with believers the number of Archangels differs depending on what you believe in the Bible only ever speaks of two Michael and Gabriel and yet many Christians note Raphael as being one of the three most famous Archangels others would add archangel uriel to this list making it fall and some counts up to seven archangels all of whom are thought to exist to bring peace guidance and strength upon those who seek it Raphael specifically is an interesting case given that he is not mentioned in the Bible unlike his comrades Michael and Gabriel despite having gained an equal level of prestige so where did Raphael come from well as you may know the Bible had several key stories removed from its pages throughout history the Bible has been recognized and this means that several of the books detailing some epic events were axed due to political and cultural reasons the story of Paul and Falco for example were seen as encouraging too much independence in women and the Book of Enoch was seen as not being inspired by the Holy Spirit and so was disregarded such is the same for the book of Tobit an apocryphal book the details their life of a righteous israelite known as Tobit and his son Tobias Tobit was a god-fearing man he lived his life with good intentions sought to feed the poor and spared kindness where he could most importantly he loved his God and would do anything that a law commanded but one fateful day Tobit lost his eyesight and became blind though not through battle disease or some frightful encounter but because of birds shat in his eyes yes you heard me correctly tobik was just there minding his own business thinking about how great his god was and then BAM a bird flew over and took a dump right there in his eyes I guess you can kind of see why they took this one out anyway Toby tells his son Tobias to go on an errand to the city of media and to reclaim some money he had lent to a man named Gabby's Tobias though was a bit weary of this task but his father gave him a note to give to Gabby loose so as to verify who he is and tells his son to seek up a righteous man to guide him on his way it is here that Tobias stumbles on what is described as a beautiful man who he asks to join on his adventure and to serve as the guide which his father had insisted upon the beautiful man identifies himself as Azariah the narrator of the story tells us that this was actually Archangel Raphael in disguise Azariah or Rafael agrees to help to buy us on his journey promising to keep him safe and to ensure his quest of reclaiming his father's money is completed at the same time we also learn of the character sera from Meade who we see is suffering from a curse and haunted by a demon named Asmodeus the curse appears to kill every suitor sera marries and sees that each man dies on their wedding night before the consummation of the marriage we understand that this has happened a total of seven times sera is actually insulted by a maid who taunts of her unfortunate curse and this sees Sara retreat to her room to pray for three days straight meanwhile on the road Tobias and Azariah settle down to camp where Tobias is attacked by a monstrous fish that comes up from the river to devour him Azariah saves Tobias snatches the fish out of the water before telling Tobias to gut it the innards of the fish are removed and Azariah tells Tobias that one may use these parts of the fish for healing the sick and wounded Tobias doesn't appear to fully grasp the notion of this but he collects the fishs guts and packs them away Tobias and Azariah arrive ARAG you alone a kinsman of one of the tribes of Israel and an ally according to Azariah Rikuo is also the father of the curse Sarah Azariah rather forwardly and randomly tells Tobias that he should marry Sarah and Tobias despite being aware of her husband killing curse agrees he does show some reluctance but Azariah is keen to play matchmaker and tells Tobias to pray with Sarah for three days before consummating their marriage he tells them out on the first day he should lay the liver of the fish on the fire and that this will keep the demon away and that by the third night he will receive a blessing that will see him impregnate Sarah on the fourth day he will give her child though not for lust but for the love of children Tobiah sees nothing a missed by any of this and does exactly as Azariah tells him he receives the blessing of sarah's father who recognizes tobias to be the son of a good man in Tobit and receives sarah's hand in marriage Tobias and Sarah retreat to their chambers but instead of consummating the marriage immediately Tobias remembered as awry as words and whip tell the fish liver and began to burn it over a set of coals at the same time Azariah now noted as Raphael and unbeknownst to anyone sought up the demon Asmodeus and defeated him he then took him to the desert of Upper Egypt and bound him there preventing him from having any further influence on Sarah ever again Tobias and Sarah spent three days praying as told by Azariah on the fourth day they are thought to have finally slept together rakia will who is distressed that the bias is now dead because of the curse begins to dig his grave he tells his wife to send the maidservant to see if he is dead and means to bury him before the end of the day however the maidservant finds Tobias to be alive and well returning to regular the maidservant informed him of the good news - which wrecker will be Joyce's perhaps the only man in the world to be abundantly thrilled that his daughter's virginity has been taken a feast is prepared and both Tobias and Sarah are celebrated tobias appears to get pretty comfortable he receives half of what Raghu will owns and seems to live a life of luxury in fact he gets so comfortable he folds off his original quest to get his father's money and asks Azariah to give them that to Gabe Ulis for him Azariah agrees meets with Gabe Ulis and gets the money he even invites Gabe Ulis to the celebrations basically Tobias literally does nothing in this story you might say he gets power level by Azariah lives off the reputation of his father being a good man and maintains a single shred of heroics for having bone sarah and not died courtesy of Archangel Raphael defeating the demon Asmodeus the bias doesn't even send word to his parents that he is okay and they are seen to be fretting about him Rikuo even offers to sent a message to them on his behalf but Tobias simply tells him not at school bro I'll get off my ass and do it myself once infuriatingly regul is seen to give him half of his servants cattle camel skin and money for the journey I think he also presents him with a gift-wrapped box containing his testicles but the book doesn't actually say this it's merely my interpretation but come at me if you think I'm wrong as they return home Azariah tossed Tobias to kiss his father and immediately to place the goal of the fish he'd killed upon his father's forehead immediately Tobi recovers his eyesight and they all glorify God and proceed to engage in several days of feasts and celebrations in the final chapters tobias calls his son over and tells him look you really did jack on this journey we just probably give something to Azariah tobias agrees that Azariah is the real MVP and he offers a half of everything that he'd been given to the angel in disguise Azariah then reveals himself to Tobias and tobik as Rafael and he tells them there he'd been sent by the law to help them in 12 13 through 15 he states because thou has been acceptable to God it was necessary the temptation should prove thee and now the LORD hath sent me to heal the and to deliver Sarah my son's wife from the devil for I am the angel Raphael one of the seven who stand before the Lord to buy us in his son fall to their knees in fear and reverence but Raphael tells them peace be to you fear not when I was with you I was there by the will of God bless him and sing praises to him it is time therefore that I return to him that sent me but bless he got and published all of his wonderful works raphaël then disappears from their site and Tobin and Tobias proceeded to bless God and spread the word of his wonderful works as Raphael told them to akka - Raphael also appears in everyone's favorite book of Enoch the story is a fascinating tale of how the watchers a group of angels that ultimately betrayed God and descend upon the mortal women to impregnate them the women gave birth to a race of vicious giants known as the Nephilim the GAR about destroying the earth and soon God is made aware of this betrayal by the Archangels who hear the cries of the mortals we understand that amongst the Watchers is as asel an angel who teaches the mortals how to fight and how to use weapons against each other while the watchers begin to share many secrets of God after having fornicated with the women it is Azazel who is help of the most contempt possibly because the divulging of warfare to the mortals was seen as the most detrimental in the 10th chapter of the Book of Enoch God takes action he sends his Archangels to sort out the earth and gives them all a specific set of tasks interestingly Raphael is given a set of complex orders as God tells him bind Azazel hand and foot cost him into the darkness and opening the desert which is indeed ale cost him in their foe upon him hurled and pointed stones covering him with darkness there shall he remained forever cover his face that he may not see the light and in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire restore the earth which the Angels have corrupted and announced life to it that I may revive it what's really interesting here is the parallel between Rafael here and the Rafael in Tobin notice how in both stories it is Rafael who's responsible for the binding of an evil entity in the desert while interpret he binds the demon Asmodeus Enoch sees him bind Azazel a watcher though one who's somewhat tribute to being a demon as well in this Archangel Raphael can be seen as the one who destroys demons or vanquishes evil though on the other hand Raphael is also seen as an angel who heals people in need we see him heal tobits blindness and in a way we see him heal Sarah's pain as he breaks her curse Raphael and Enoch however it seemed to heal the earth as God tells him to restore the earth after they had been corrupted by the Watchers and their spawn he is told to announce life here almost like he's been told to rebuild or restore it to the perfect state need once was before the intervention of the Watchers so while Raphael is seen to be a destroyer of demons he essentially has a softer side reserved to brain healing upon birth people and the land itself the Archangel Raphael has become a most popular and celebrated figure amongst Christians in fact many are shocked to learn that their favored Archangel isn't even mentioned in the Bible varley's heralded mainly as the Archangel of healing he doesn't have much of a presence beyond Tobit and Enoch however an interesting idea is that Raphael is in the Bible but we just don't know it's him similarly to how Toby and Tobias don't know the true identity of Azariah by this Raphael could be lurking in any one of the characters in the Bible but we understand he is something of a shape-shifter and can take the form of anyone adapting a whole new persona with practice deficiency therefore Raphael could literally beat anyone and we would be none the wiser much as Tobias was there is one area in the Bible which some believers attribute to Archangel Raphael that is in John five where John makes reference to the Pool of Bethesda where several disabled people lay in wait of the movement of the water a scientist igner Phi that an angel was descending upon the area and he who went into the water at this time would be miraculously healed or his condition the passage reads now there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep market a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda having five porches in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind halt with it waiting for the moving of water for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whose ever then first after the troubling of water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had because of the nature of Rafael having healed Tobit and Sarah and because of his restoration of the earth in Enoch the angel in this verse of John is often associated with Raphael having brought healing upon whoever enters the waters first it is through these events and ideas that we begin to see how Raphael earned his reputation as an archangel of healing and his efforts usually pertain to the alleviation or mending of one's ailments the idea of Raphael being an angel of healing extension to other religious works where we see him appear alongside Michael and Gabriel in the Babylonian Talmud he's identified on the left side of Gabriel and appears before Abraham at the oak grove of memory here they are each given a mission similarly to how they are given missions in Enoch Raphael is ordered to heal Abraham after his recent circumcision again conforming to the idea of him easing pain as well as to save a lot from the destruction of Saddam again another act that fits into his rescue in nature Rafael is mentioned in a few apocryphal Jewish books by name and usually appears in connection with the other Archangels meanwhile in Islam Raphael is known as is fulfill in Arabic and his thoughts in traditionally take the role of an angel who halted trumpet at his lips and stands atop a holy rock in Jerusalem it's thought that he holds the trumpet at his lips constantly so that he is able to immediately blow it once Allah has given him the green light so as to signify the Day of Resurrection all Israel Phil is not mentioned in the Quran believers often attribute the angel mentioned in 39 68 as him where it stays and the trumpet shall be blown so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon except him whom Allah will then it shall be blown again and they shall stand up waiting some Islamic beliefs see Israel possess four wings that he's tall enough to reach the heights of heaven whilst being on the base of earth he is thought to be a master of music and he's her to be singing praises to God in several different languages his songs are thought to be contagious too and that they cause the other angels to join in with the singing too this refer is also seen as one of the highest angels in the he serves as a mediator between God and the other Archangels now he is something of a conduit through God's commands some Sufi beliefs Sufi being a sort of Islamic mysticism tells us that is fulfill is the being that man should aspire to be most like to be like this Archangel is to have a strong heart and by being like is fulfill one can be seen as a perfect human being due to Raphael's actions in the book of Tobit he has since become known as the patron or travelers the blind physicians medicine and general healing he is also the angelic hitch neti serves as a matchmaker and sometimes is even dubbed as an angel of love bringing people together in holy matrimony he's thought to be the enemy of demons and actively seeks to banish them when called upon most notably though his prime patronage is reserved for travellers and pilgrims way he's often depicted walking beside them with a staff often he is seen holding a fish which some might say is a throwback to the fish in Tobit and alludes to the idea that he's always ready to heal someone using his unorthodox methods of disemboweling a fish and using its organs today many people of the faith believe they see Archangel Raphael and are able to call to him for guidance and protection there are some common signs which people may report when they experienced the presence of Raphael the notable one being the witnessing of emerald green often this comes to them in the form of bright green lights or the vivid image of a green flashing before the mind's eye others see flashes of green or might see the green of trees grass and shrubbery which they attributed the presence of Raphael the general feeling of relaxation or calmness is said to overcome they who experience it minor elements such as block noses sore throats or stomach aches are said to be alleviated in these moments others speak of actually seen Archangel Raphael a very tall angel who wears a green mantle and is adorned in gold he said to radiates healing energy and to simply be beside him is to cure oneself of their ailments warm sensations and vibrations in wounded areas are also considered to be a sign that Raphael's healing hands are placed on the individual then he is trying to make them feel better dreams also play a factor in seeing Archangel Raphael where believers have reported being healed by the angel and are thought to see him in his absolute true form it is here that one may hear the voice of Raphael whispering soothing words and offering suggestions about how to better take care of one's health it is thought not to be a dream one would easily forget and they said to account for a sudden health change that one may implement into their life or the breaking of a habit but let me know what you thought about Archangel Raphael and how you think he compares to his peers Michael and Gabriel who is your favorite angel' and have you had any experiences with them in the way it's described here let me know your thoughts in the comments below and as always don't forget to like this video and subscribe until the next time guys

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Published: Wed Dec 18 2019