Angels and the Gulf Oil Spill

The current oil spill disaster involved the precarious use of technology without the better use of available redundancy if and when something major goes wrong.

The spreading spill is showing how environmental damage can be all encompassing to the water, seaways, possibly the land and air with strong uncontrollable and uncontained elements.

There is a sense of despair and hopelessness that the spill is still ongoing and clean up efforts will not be effective enough with containing and removing the damaging effects of the spreading oil spill now and into the far future

There is however, an understanding that there is another layer of reality, above and beyond what is seen in the natural and material world,  yet having the power and ability to fully manifest in it and move powerfully within it.

While the oil spill is a man made disaster, with the use of new technology gone amok, and  with the use of advanced techniques being applied without proper precautions, and an outlook involving a real practical sense of overconfidence that can underlie so many of these modern disasters,  there are many previously uninvolved bystanders to this process that are now dealing with the fuller forces of the damage to long standing personal interests including outright livelihoods and ways of living that involved the seas and seaside businesses.

There is a particular set of verses in the Book of Revelation that is revealing of how this damage can be quickly reversed and contained outside of conventional means

From the New King James version of the Bible in Chapter 7 of the book of Revelation string with verse 1 going through verse 3 it says::

1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3 saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."

While throughout history there have been many interpretations given to the book of Revelation and it is difficult to interpret in many of its parts, these verses can be looked at with  quick accuracy  as to the power given to 4 angels to affect the seas in any possible way and in any possible direction as represented by the 4 winds which cover North, South, East and West meaning any possible way that things could go.

In verse 1 these four angels are giving power over the seas. This is towards possible destruction in the realms of judgment in this section of the Book of Revelation.

But the power of angels would go in all possible directions, the four angels; a handful of angels really, would have enough power to control everything about the seas.

While prudence dictates every possible available and known effective action towards fixing the oil spill should be applied with immediacy to the maximum, it is necessary now to call upon the powerful angels of the Lord to avert, contain and totally reverse the effects of this still unfolding disaster.

It would not take many angels to do the job, maybe 7 would be the perfect number now.

This is not wistful thinking, but goes into the understanding that there is another layer of reality wherein the power of particular angels is greater than all the aspects of the oil spill and it is proper and necessary that they are called for through the efforts of prayer to clean up the oil spill as they can do this totally.

This is the way of hope for those who are despairing of things ever turning back to the way things were days prior to the insidious approach and onslaught of the oil spill,

These special verses from the Book of Revelation support the evidence of the great power of angels to do this, through the reach of the prayers of the saints of the Lord.