Angels Before and After Noah’s Flood
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and their light will shine around about us, and sway back the influence
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of the evil angels that are around us, and will make a fortification
around us as a wall of fire.—
The Review and Herald, April 19, 1870
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Noah
Those who lived in the days of Noah and Abraham were more like
the angels in form, in comeliness and strength. But every generation
has been growing weaker.—
Spiritual Gifts 1:69
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More than one hundred years before the flood the Lord sent an
angel to faithful Noah to make known to him that He would no longer
have mercy upon the corrupt race. But He would not have them
ignorant of His design. He would instruct Noah, and make him a
faithful preacher to warn the world of its coming destruction, that the
inhabitants of the earth might be left without excuse....
Angels were sent to collect from the forest and field the beasts
which God had created.—
The Spirit of Prophecy 1:69, 72
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Angels went before these animals and they followed two and two,
male and female, and clean beasts by sevens.—
Spiritual Gifts 3:67
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Everything was now ready for the closing of the ark, which could
not have been done by Noah from within. An angel is seen by the
scoffing multitude descending from heaven, clothed with brightness
like the lightning. He closes that massive outer door, and then takes
his course upward to heaven again.—
The Spirit of Prophecy 1:72
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The Flood Comes
Notwithstanding the solemn exhibition they [the antediluvians] had
witnessed of God’s power—of the unnatural occurrence of the beasts’
leaving the forests and fields, and going into the ark, and the angel
of God clothed with brightness, and terrible in majesty, descending
from heaven and closing the door; yet they hardened their hearts, and
continued to revel and sport over the signal manifestations of divine
power. But upon the eighth day the heavens gathered blackness....
The rain descended from the clouds above them. This was something
they had never witnessed.... The storm increased in violence until
water seemed to come from heaven like mighty cataracts.... Jets of
water would burst up from the earth with indescribable force, throwing