Every picture I saw growing up showed angels with wings.
Church paintings.
Children’s Bibles.
Movies.
Books.
Almost every angel had wings.
But then I started reading the Bible for myself.
And something bothered me.
The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary.
Where were the wings?
The angels visited Abraham.
Where were the wings?
The angels entered Sodom and spoke with Lot.
Where were the wings?
The angel appeared at Jesus’ tomb.
Again…
No wings.
In fact, many biblical angels looked so human that people did not even realize they were angels.
So where did all the wings come from?
Am I missing something?
Or have artists painted angels so many times that we now believe the paintings more than the text?
Then things become even stranger.
The creatures Isaiah saw in heaven had wings.
The creatures Ezekiel saw had wings.
But were those creatures actually angels?
Or were they something entirely different?
If they were different, then why do we keep calling everything in heaven an angel?
And here is the question that really bothers me.
If angels truly have wings…
Why do the angels who actually appeared to people in the Bible never seem to need them?
What do you think?
Have we confused heavenly creatures with angels?
Or have we simply accepted an image that the Bible never clearly gives us?
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