MY SEVEN ANGELS: NEVER GIVE UP

Jude quotes the book of Enoch as prophecy and calls Michael and archangel. Because of this, Jude considered Gabriel an archangel too, all pointing to Gabriel being one. But the truth is the Protestant Bible never once calls Gabriel an archangel.

The only named angel specifically called an archangel in the Bible is Michael, referenced in Jude 9. Gabriel appears to at least three people in the Bible, first to the prophet Daniel, referenced in Daniel 8: The first time we see Gabriel, he appears to Daniel after the prophet had a vision. While popular art and culture depict Gabriel with wings, he may not have had them.

Much is left up to our imagination. His name has tremendous significance and power.

When Gabriel startles Zechariah in the temple, he tells the priest to name his son John Luke 1: Gabriel is quite significant as he names the two greatest humans to ever live. Every time Gabriel shows up in the Bible, he makes some mention of Jesus. I made some very brief notes in a notebook, and then I just put it away. It was something that I could do at some point when I get to that place in a new project where I'm not sure how long it's going to take and it would be nice to sort of fill the gap so the fans wouldn't be so long without hearing any music from me".

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Springsteen told Mark Hagen in an interview for Mojo magazine published in January , "So it began just with that idea and we listened to about songs, maybe more, I made quick notes in a notebook and put it away. A year went by, more maybe, and I came off the Tom Joad tour and I began to write acoustically again and I wrote about half a record.

Then I got stuck and said, 'Well, I'm going to put this aside for a while. So I thought, instead of waiting for another year to put something out I'll put some of this music together. So once again I went back to the archives.

Thrill Hill Recording served as the main operational center for all Tracks project activities. Springsteen told Billboard that the songs were culled from between and tunes. According to Toby Scott, the number was down to about songs by late June It was then narrowed down yet again in July to about songs that were prepped for the Tracks release.

Although the project was originally projected to be a 6-disc set, there was a commercial decision made later in the summer to reduce the size of the release to a 4-disc track set. The package was delivered to Sony in mid-September in order to facilitate the mid-November release schedule. Unreleased songs from the Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ sessions were not included on the box set due to ongoing and still-unresolved court proceedings involving most of these unreleased recordings.

The opening four tracks of the box set — which were culled from Springsteen's 03 May Columbia Records audition — were not part of the court proceedings. The Tracks box set was released on Columbia Records on 10 Nov , issued on both compact disc and audio cassette formats. It's a 4-disc or 4-cassette set consisting of a total of 66 tracks almost 4.

Some tracks were treated with a recent touch-up here or there to give the older recordings a fresh polish. A live version was also officially released. Jewish literature, such as the Book of Enoch , also mentions Metatron as an archangel, called the "highest of the angels", though the acceptance of this angel is not canonical in all branches of the faith. Some branches of the faiths mentioned have identified a group of seven Archangels , but the named angels vary, depending on the source.

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Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael are always mentioned; the other archangels vary, but most commonly include Uriel , who is mentioned in 2 Esdras. An increasing number of experts in anthropology, theology and philosophy, believe that Zoroastrianism contains the earliest distillation of prehistoric belief in angels.

The Amesha Spentas of Zoroastrianism are likened to archangels. They individually inhabit immortal bodies that operate in the physical world to protect, guide, and inspire humanity and the spirit world. The Avesta explains the origin and nature of archangels or Amesha Spentas. To maintain equilibrium, Ahura Mazda engaged in the first act of creation, distinguishing his Holy Spirit Spenta Mainyu, the Archangel of righteousness. Ahura Mazda also distinguished from himself six more Amesha Spentas, who, along with Spenta Mainyu, aided in the creation of the physical universe.

Then he oversaw the development of sixteen lands, each imbued with a unique cultural catalyst calculated to encourage the formation of distinct human populations.

The Amesha Spentas were charged with protecting these holy lands and through their emanation, also believed to align each respective population in service to God. The Amesha Spentas amesha meaning eternal and spenta meaning brilliance and beneficence as attributes of God are:.

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References to angels are uncommon in Jewish literature except in later works such as the Book of Daniel , though they are mentioned briefly in the stories of Jacob who according to one interpretation wrestled with an angel and Lot who was warned by angels of the impending destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Daniel is the first biblical figure to refer to individual angels by name. There are no explicit references to archangels in the canonical texts of the Hebrew Bible Old Testament. In post-Biblical Judaism , certain angels came to take on a particular significance and developed unique personalities and roles.

Though these archangels were believed to have ranked amongst the heavenly host , no systematic hierarchy ever developed. Metatron is considered one of the highest of the angels in Merkavah and Kabbalist mysticism and often serves as a scribe. He is briefly mentioned in the Talmud, [9] and figures prominently in Merkavah mystical texts.

Michael, who serves as a warrior and advocate for Israel, [10] is looked upon particularly fondly. Gabriel is mentioned in the Book of Daniel [11] and briefly in the Talmud, [12] as well as many Merkavah mystical texts. The earliest references to archangels are in the literature of the intertestamental periods e. In the Kabbalah there are ten archangels, each assigned to one sephira: Chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch mentions seven holy angels who watch, that often are considered the seven archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and Joel.

Medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides made a Jewish angelic hierarchy.