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Giovanni Pico & Della Barba Devotee
Is it really the limit of entry to the New Jerusalem? Or could it be that it is a number to the saved fallen malahkiem? I wonder because the Bible states angles will be judged, what's the point if setting up a jury if the plaintiff can't be anything other than guilty? (2 corinthians 6:8) Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, matters of this life?
Some people point to Zechariah 5:9 as an example of female angels. That verse says, “Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.” The problem is that the “women” in this prophetic vision are not called angels. They are called nashiym (“women”), as is the woman in the basket representing wickedness in verses 7 and 8. By contrast, the angel that Zechariah was speaking to is called a malak, a completely different word meaning “angel” or “messenger.” The fact that the women have wings in Zechariah’s vision might suggest angels to our minds, but we must be careful about going beyond what the text actually says. A vision does not necessarily depict actual beings or objects—consider the huge flying scroll Zechariah sees earlier in the same chapter (Zechariah 5:1–2).
If this verse were taken literally and the women were nephilem half breed of human and angles then could it mean that number is for how many of them were saved because they did not defile themselves by intermingling with human women as says the verse, "it is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb." If not....that is a very little number for a grand multitude of people as countless as the grains of sand.
Some people point to Zechariah 5:9 as an example of female angels. That verse says, “Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.” The problem is that the “women” in this prophetic vision are not called angels. They are called nashiym (“women”), as is the woman in the basket representing wickedness in verses 7 and 8. By contrast, the angel that Zechariah was speaking to is called a malak, a completely different word meaning “angel” or “messenger.” The fact that the women have wings in Zechariah’s vision might suggest angels to our minds, but we must be careful about going beyond what the text actually says. A vision does not necessarily depict actual beings or objects—consider the huge flying scroll Zechariah sees earlier in the same chapter (Zechariah 5:1–2).
If this verse were taken literally and the women were nephilem half breed of human and angles then could it mean that number is for how many of them were saved because they did not defile themselves by intermingling with human women as says the verse, "it is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb." If not....that is a very little number for a grand multitude of people as countless as the grains of sand.
