Seeing Angels

 I have a testimony about how I started seeing angels.  

It was 2010.  I was in the US Army.  I was stationed at FOB Salerno, Afghanistan.  I was depressed and hurting.  The depression had started a year before.  I thought deploying would make things better, advancing my career, deploying made the depression worse.  Why was I depressed?  Different testimony.  

I was hurting.  There is often a lot of sitting around, or hurry up and wait in the Army.  Sitting around I was sad with my thoughts.  I would start imagining a pretty blond angel.  She would hug my arm.  She brought me comfort.  I couldn’t make out facial features.  She seemed to have rules.  I couldn’t reciprocate.  I didn’t mind.  I was happy to have her.  

Fast forward, it was late fall to early winter 2013, and I had been called by God.  I had been utilizing my angel.  Suddenly, it occurred to me, “What type of imaginary figure had rules?”  She had been a guardian angel, and I had been able to turn on and off something in my mind, sort of like putting on and taking off sun glasses.  

Not long after, I became aware of a spiritual battle going on around me.  There were demons and angels fighting.  It looked sort of like the music video “Bullets” by Creed.

In 2013 into 2014, I had been living in Murfreesboro, TN off Main Street, in walking distance from Middle Tennessee State University.  Walking to the University, I started finding a lot of dead animals in eerie ways.  Squirrels and birds and things like that.  Not enough dead animals to cause a panic.  Enough, day by day, that I perceived something was off.  This, and other experiences, prompted me to go to the library, and research angels and demons. I had God.  We skimmed through some books, and I found somethings.  I discovered a lot of dead animals is a sign that Satan was near.  Also, the things I had been seeing and experiencing aligned with other people’s experiences from the past.  

This is my testimony about how I started seeing angels.  

Addendum - 

Question: Don’t angels look like the angels in Ezekiel 1?  

Frame of Reference.  At the time, I didn’t have frame of reference for the angels in Ezekiel 1.  Getting into angels and demons leads us toward Extra Biblical territory.  Someone needs to be centered on God, and flush with scripture first.  There may be a Tradition of Revelation in 2000 sum years of Christian history.  Given someone is experiencing something, did it line up with a Tradition of Revelation? 

There are different types of angels and levels of seeing.  

Question: What was your job at FOB Salerno?

I was a 13F Forward Observer doing targeting.  I was like a 911 operator and air traffic controller.  Given someone needed artillery, we would have 6-7 min to find the location on a map, make sure there were no civilian structures, clear the air space, and have the big guns firing.  We also did counter battery.  If someone shot rockets at us, or mortars, we would get radar on where it came from and fire back.  We also used drones to find people digging holes in the road at 0300, and blow them up.