The Bible speaks of a certain angel who wielded a flaming sword, or a firebrand to keep adam and even from returning to the garden of eden. Was that angel there until the flood or what?
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Daevid
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His name was Loki, and he was living in New Jersey until he became human and was killed by Bartleby soon after, according to "Dogma" by Kevin Smith.
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I feel that that angel represents satan and the flaming sword he weilds represents sin. The garden of eden represents the perfect world God created. That angel or sin will be there until the world ends because until then sin will exist.
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The flaming sword welding angel is not Satan for it implies that he was there to prevent man from obscuring the way to the garden not block the way. The Garden is Sanctuary and Satan has no authority with in its framework. That is true of the Church which not even the gates of hell can prevail against it.
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It was probably Michael... Doesn't he have a flaming sword?
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My understadning is that he was there to prevent ANYONE from returning... and I think he's still there.
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Certain Hebrew Funerary and Memorial Prayers still allude to the deceased's expected enjoyment of the Garden of Eden. (Yizkor, Kayl Moleh). As others have stated, the Angel with the Ever-Turning Sword was not removed in any of the texts I'm familiar with. It's possible that the early Creation Story, especially the parts about happenings in the Garden and its Repercussions, is an Allegory; It seems that only Christians take the texts literally, and ignore the equally important Oral Tradition of Judaism.
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The common thought among most theologians I have read, is that the Garden was more than likely destroyed in the flood. At that point there would no longer be need to keep watch over Eden. Men cannot get to what has been destroyed. The Angels that would have guarded the garden would be cherubim, they are most noted in Scriptures as being guardians around the throne of God and are highest in the Angelic hierarchy. Though Satan was originally "the covering cherub" of God's throne, he would not have been the one chosen for this duty as these Cherubim are faithful to God, and Satan by this point had already fallen.
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"By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." Ezekiel 28:16. Ezekiel 28 gives a good description of Satan.
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A lava fountain from a shield volcano would be a perfect description of a flaming sword. A lava flow burying the garden much like lava from Kilauea buried Kalapana would certainly permenantly bar the way back to the garden while allowing Adam and Eve time to flee.
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In Exodus 19, was someone blowing a ram's horn, or was the Bible using descriptive language about what was happening at Mt Sinai. Similarly, is the flaming sword descriptive language of a real event, one that An Angel is involved with? I believe the Bible literally even in Genesis 3:24, but ask, what did the ancient people mean when they wrote that? What seems literal to my modern eyes might be wrong, so I also study ancient cultures. I want to know what Moses meant, what Abraham understood.
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