Killer Angel

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

2 King 19:35 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Do you know what kind of angel is that?
His job is to murder people?
What weapon did he use to kill?

 

[Tolworth John]

His job is to murder people?

Emotive language that does not help understanding.

You are aware that every person is given life by God and just as God gives life to all so he also ends every persons life, when he determins.

To murder is to unlawfully kill somebody.
God has the right as the Creator God to begin and to end life.
It is therefore impossible for him to commit murder.

Re your post about the angel of death, what happened durring the pass over? Why is it called that?

 

[Maria Billingsley]

2 King 19:35 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Do you know what kind of angel is that?
His job is to murder people?
What weapon did he use to kill?

There is no killer angel. It is the Lord.
Here are some of His other judgments:

Genesis
And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way. 17 And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.” 20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

Exodus
23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

 

[Confused-by-christianity]

2 King 19:35 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

This is going to be controversial but i wonder how many people also think this. Here goes ...

Do you know what kind of angel is that?

I usually just don't believe these stories. I consider them an example of what the author's faith was like. May the scholars wanted to convey a message or some disaster happened and people were supersticious and attributed it to God or Angels.

His job is to murder people?

Probably not.

What weapon did he use to kill?

My speculation is that something happened - like people were sick and finally died, the Israelites interpreted this as God delivering them from their enemies. A story of trust, rescue and salvation. As the story was passed down and rewritten - it was embellished.

 

[TedT]

His job is to murder people?

Murder is an illegal killing of another, unsanctioned by law. This killing was by the righteous judgement of the most Holy Judge.

You cannot understand true religion as long as you define things only from the materialistic or secular pov...sigh.

 

[Blade]

In truth no one dies its like going form one place to the other. No angel did anything. By that I mean they only do what the Father says no more no less. As one said was by righteous judgement from the GREAT I am. Yet no one is dead.. they are somewhere..with Him or.. waiting.

 

[elytron]

After the fall of man - in Genesis 3, the Lord God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden. He then placed cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

In that instance He assigned some Cherubim type angels to guard a certain tree. The weapon "a flaming sword which turned every way"

My opinion there are various types and rank of angels. Some can use weapons and do battle, though only at His command.

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

The passover angel also is responsible to kill people for judgement?

 

[DragonFox91]

Yep, we know there is an Angel of Death. Just like during Passover. It makes sense there's an Angel of Death b/c just as God gives us the gift of life, he takes it away too someday for everyone with no exceptions.

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Does every Christian have an individual protecting angel who guard you?