ep37 Angel of Death

Angel Gabriel is never mentioned in the Bible as the Angel of Death. A President of the United States didn't learn to write until the age of 19. A famous popular song written in New York crossed the Atlantic twice before becoming popular in America.

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Here's a question for those who claim to know the Bible. Where in the good book is the angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing the last trumpet? Give up? Well, the answer is that nowhere in the Bible is the angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing the last trumpet.

Yes, it's true. St. John the Divine in the Apocalypse tells of angel-sounding trumpets, but he mentions no names. And in St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 52, we read, We shall all be changed at the last trumpet, but the trumpet chokes down and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

But by neither St. John nor St. Paul is the angel Gabriel mentioned as blowing a last trump. As a matter of fact, specific reference to Gabriel are very few in the scriptures. Then how did the connection arise between Gabriel and the last trumpet?

Listen to this legend of Northern England. There is a pack of phantom hounds. Gabriel hounds they are. And they roam the skies. They foretell death by their unworthy howling in the dead of the night.

Here are the souls of unbaptized children that must roam the skies and spank them ship until the judgment day. On a still night you may hear them howling in the skies when somebody is about to die.