"There's just one more thing that you need to understand about the Angelic hosts. Hmm... God is like... a signal. Now you and the rest of your kind can pick up the signal, a bit like someone trying to tune in the "X" while driving through parts of Texas, or trying to pick up a television show with a pair of decrepit rabbit ears. You're blessed in that. You don't know how blessed. Some of you have better reception than others of course. The trouble with Angels is that, unlike you, they have a radar dish for picking up that signal. See, a world in which you don't know the will of the LORD is a world full of possibility. A world of free will. But, when you hear that clarion call of the Lord's will and know it for what it is, well, that's not a world where you are ever going to be free, is it?
Now, the trouble with that is this: The word of the Lord is one to angels, whether it's "comfort a sick person" or "lead a lost child home to it's mother" or..."destroy an entire city".
Ever seen an entire people wiped out? I have. Knew the Angel responsible in fact, and his face was a beatific smile as if his purpose in life was consummated...
As if he were complete.
It's been noted in other places that when God wishes to destroy something, He
doesn't send us. He sends HIS children. He baptizes them in the blood of humanity...and they... They love him for it.
And us? The opposition, as it were?
We get no signal at all.
Most of us try to forget what it felt like. Some of us even do.
And I? Well, it is poetic I suppose to miss the Presence, and wish for a redemption that will never come.
Doesn't make it hurt any less."
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