His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

The righteous will live in heaven for a thousand years ( the millennium ) where they will sit with God in judgment over the unredeemed and the fallen angels.

Only the fallen angels will be left alive.

Satan and his angels will convince the unrighteous to surround the city, but hell fire and brimstone will fall from heaven and consume them, thus cleansing Earth of all sin.

" And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

" ( Revelation 16: 14 ) Satan's angels will also appear as godly clergymen, and Satan will appear as an angel of light.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

When Allah commanded all of the angels to bow down before Adam ( the first Human ), Iblis, full of hubris and jealousy, refused to obey God's command ( he could do so because he had free will ), seeing Adam as being inferior in creation due to his being created from clay as compared to him ( created of fire ).

" And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

) is caused by fallen angels, whereas moral evil ( evil caused by the will of human beings ) is as a result of man having become estranged from God and choosing to deviate from his chosen path.

But the evil of sin, though permitted by God, is in no sense due to him ; its cause is the abuse of free will by angels and men.

Roman Catholic doctrine states that angels are non-corporeal, spiritual beings with intelligence and will.

However, by the turn of the 20th century, Latter Day Saint theologians believed that such a separate ordination by angels had occurred prior to the organization of the Church of Christ on April 6, 1830.

* In White Wolf Publishing's Vampire: The Masquerade RPG, an altered version of Cain's story, sees Cain ( e ) visited by three angels on separate occasions while wandering the earth, each of whom ask that he repent for his sins, and each of whom curses him ( and all his Progeny ) when he refuses.

Beelzebub was a separate entity in Judaism, later appearing as a fallen angel, and Satan is the leader of fallen angels: while Lucifer was originally an unnamed angel, the one who talked Satan into joining him in the rebellion.

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory ; 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats ; 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

This is because the angels at the end of the world will remove the stumbling blocks from the world and will separate the good from the evil.

: We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord and from the society of all Christians ; we exclude him from our Holy Mother, the Church in Heaven, and on earth ; we declare him excommunicate and anathema ; we judge him damned, with the Devil and his angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire until he shall recover himself from the toils of the devil and return to amendment and to penitence.

They are among the highest ranks of the Divine clan, sometimes as the highest of all ( the Seraphim appear as a separate class of angels ).

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Traditionalist Rabbis often rejected any belief in rebel or fallen angels, having a view that evil is abstract.

However, in the 11th century, the Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, drawing on ancient legends of the fallen angel or angels, brought back to the mainstream of rabbinic thought the personification of evil and the corresponding myth.

However, as soon as the light is expelled from their bodies and falls to the earth ( some in the form of abortions – the source of fallen angels in the Manichaean myth ), the evil beings continue to swallow up as much of it as they can to keep the light inside of them.

Traditionalists and philosophers in medieval Judaism, adhered to rational theology, rejecting any belief in rebel or fallen angels, and viewing evil as abstract.

" All other evil spirits described in various faith traditions such as fallen angels, demons and jinns are also metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God.

: They followed what the evil ones gave out ( falsely ) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men magic, and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut.

* In John Connolly's 2009 novel The Lovers, the two evil angels Anmael and Semjaza each have a letter tattooed or burned on one arm ( Un for Anmael and Fam for Semjaza, although Connolly misidentifies Un as " Und ").

Confused by the association of the angels with the bird, the narrator becomes angry, calling the raven a " thing of evil " and a " prophet ".

Satan, sometimes called Lucifer, is also considered an archangel, but one who has fallen from God's grace and is considered evil, leading fallen angels against God in the War in Heaven in the traditions in which such a concept exists.

These angels are associated with the good inclination yetzir ha-tov and the evil inclination yetzir ha-ra.

Some scholars suggest that the origins of early Jewish demonology can be traced to two distinctive and often competing mythologies of evil — Adamic and Enochic, one of which was tied to the mishap of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the other to the fall of angels in the antediluvian period.

The chorus of " Funeral of Hearts " says, " Love's the funeral of hearts and a plea for mercy when angels cry blood on flowers of evil in bloom.

In reality, the Eldest ( the fallen spirits, demons, the third of the angels that fell from heaven ) have suffered and will suffer the most in total for the evil done and from the millions of years they have been without contact to God, their Father, convinced under the influence of Darkness, that God would not forgive but even do away with them.

Finally, the Testament describes that when the Messiah comes, the angels will punish the spirits of deceit and Belial and that the Messiah will bind Belial and give to his children the power to trample the evil spirits.

The backdrop for the game is the modern world, but one where angels and demons incarnate themselves in human bodies in order to fight for good or evil.

The angel Raphael, along with many other prominent angels, appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he is assigned by God to re-warn Adam concerning the sin of eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

They rejected any belief in rebel or fallen angels, since evil was considered abstract.

In Catholicism, the Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of " the fall of the angels " not in spatial terms but as a radical and irrevocable rejection of God and his reign by some angels who, though created as good beings, freely chose evil, their sin being unforgivable because of the irrevocable character of their choice, not because of any defect in the infinite divine mercy.