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These numinous spirits or angels in Biblical sources and non biblical sources are what some would call shapeshifters. By that I mean they appear in a form that is acceptable to the cultural archetypes that they are doing service for.
Two examples are the cases of The Wise Men who came to the young child Jesus.
And Samuel who was manifested for King Saul.
The angels took a form that would be culturally and personally received by the intended beneficiaries of their work. [I cover this in detail in my book on Guardian Angels.]
First it is to be noted that angels and archangels do not deal strictly with those in the Judeo-Christian tradition. E.g., Balaam was not of the Jewish tradition, and the wise men were vedic astrologers from India.
Second, there was divine revelation outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. The divine message was given through angels to the wise men who came from India to visit Jesus. Moses during the wilderness wandering to the promised land sought counsel of Jethro, his father-in-law, who was a priest of the Midianites.
Abraham gave an offering to Melchizedek. Jesus is said to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek. That is He was not a priest of Judaism; he was not of the Aaronic line. But he, while being a man in the Jewish tradition, was a priest outside the Jewish tradition.
In Jesus day He exemplified there was truth outside the Jewish tradition, the Melchizedek tradition. That Jewish tradition was true, but there was other truth too. Jesus in part came to point to the combining of Jewish and extra Jewish truth. That was what Christianity was supposed to be.
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The wise men came to visit the child Jesus.
They brought gifts.
They had seen the star announcing Jesus birth. And came with the gifts. King Herod asked specifically when they had seen the star so he killed the babies under two years.
[Jesus is referred to as a child not a baby.]
What happens is, they bring gold, frankincense and myrrh to Jesus. Money just drops in on Joseph and his family. Then the angel warns Joseph to flee to Egypt. And surprise he has the financial wherewithal to lead his family to safety.
Two years before the wise men saw the star. It brought the message of the birth of Jesus. It was an angel in star form appearance, a guardian angel for Jesus. It was acting on third parties to do something that would help/guard/protect someone else, Jesus.
Did the wise men intend to fund the escape to Egypt? No, but they did. It was all initiated by the guardian angel.
Remember the angels, when manifesting themselves, manifest in a cultural apropos form. The wise men were astrologers. So, the appearance of a star
blends well with how a guardian angel would manifest.
Notice too that the money came to Joseph at the right time. It came when Herod was about to strike. When it was needed, It was there.
We often has our time frame in which we think things should happen. But God has his time frame. It is not for us to fret. Things happen at the right time, so that we can do at the right time.
I heard of a couple who need money for a special emergency. They went and prayed and that day they had a check that was owed them came in the mail. They claimed the instant answer to prayer.
The preacher asked them when the check was mailed. When they were praying, the check was already in the mail. The third party was enabled and did pay off their debt with the check mailed days before. This would blend well with how a guardian angel might work this out.
The money came in at the right time. If it had come before, they might have spent it, and they might not have had the money for the emergency. In all this the guardian angel would have been protecting them and guarding the answer [money] for the right time.
Jesus said God knows what we need before we ask. Maybe our prayers should be in faith thanking God that there are guardian angels working things out. Did not Paul say that all things are to be received with thanksgiving?
There is a saying a butterfly flaps its wings in Japan, and there in a year is a hurricane in Brazil. This is the butterfly effect.