Angels in our Lives: RAPHAEL

RAPHAEL - Healing

Raphael - The healing angel. 'God has healed'.

The healing of God, the curer of human infirmities (Tobit 3:16, 12:15). An archangel responsible for healing. Raphael is identified as one of the three angels that appeared to Abraham. Michael, as the greatest, walked in the middle, with Gabriel to his right and Raphael to his left. All three angels were commanded to carry out a specific mission. Gabriel's mission was to destroy Sodom; Michael's mission was to inform Sarah that she would give birth to Isaac in a year's time; Raphael's mission was to heal Abraham (from his recent circumcision) and save Lot.

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Mission

Then the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, "Take it and eat; it will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth."

And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.

And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings."

-- Revelation 10: 8 - 11

Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.

But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

When my angel goes before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Per'izzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, and I blot them out.

Exodus 23: 20 - 23

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RAPHAEL - Healing