Aramaic Word Study – Angel of Light – Meleka Danorhora  Mem Lamed Kap Aleph   Daleth Nun Resh Hei Resh Aleph  

II Corinthians 11:13-15: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (14) And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. (15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Many years ago, when I was about twelve years old, I watch an episode of Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone entitle “The Eye of the Beholder.”  I had nightmares for the next couple weeks after watching this episode. When the episode came up for a rerun, I told my younger brother who was six years old that this episode showed a very scary face and it would really scare him. He waved me off and said; “I like to see scary faces, I am not afraid of a scary face.”  

So, we watched the episode when it came around as a rerun. Now the premise of the story is about a woman who had her face bandaged in a hospital and was on her eleventh reconstructive surgery to have her face restored to a normal appearance.  The whole episode showed only her wrapped in bandages and the backs of the doctor and nurse.  When the bandages were removed the woman played by Donna Douglas (Elle May Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies) was at her most beautiful appearance. Then the camera panned to the doctor and nurse which showed their faces as grotesque as the makeup artist could make them.  

Well, when the unveiling was about to take place, I quietly snuck out to the kitchen as I did not want to witness the revelation.  I heard my six year old brother in the living room say: “Oh, she’s not ugly.”  Then I heard him scream as he ran into the kitchen.  I asked: “I thought you were not afraid of scary faces.”  He replied; “Not that scary.”  

Many years later I was working with Dr. Sumrall’s deliverance ministry where I heard the story of a woman who had been a fortune teller most of her adult life. She was into all the occult practices but insisted she was not involved in witchcraft or satanism. She felt she was a very spiritual person and a Christian.  As she laid dying in the hospital surrounded by her family she began to smile, knowing she was going to die she said; “I see a light, it is Jesus coming to take me to heaven.”  Then she let out a blood curdling scream and died with the look of absolute terror on her face. I doubt what she saw was Jesus.

It was probably the enemy himself or one of his minions transformed into an angel of light. Angel of Light in Greek is angelon photos which means messenger of light or illumination.  The Aramaic is a little more specific.  It is meleka danorhora which is messenger of The Light. Light is the word norhora.  Having the definite article Daleth indicates that the enemy is disguising himself as a messenger of God. Yet, there is a very interesting play on the Aramaic and Hebrew words here. The word norhora if made into a compound word in the Hebrew would be nor hora or passion/fire of the evil. In other words, we could say the messenger from the passion/fire of evil.

The enemy seems to have recently gone all out to reveal himself as a meleka danorhora.  We find every day in the news media people calling good evil and evil good.  Many of these people actually declare themselves to be more righteous that God Himself and that they are the true ministers of righteousness.  They will say: “Why the Bible is full of hate and should be banned.” Many will also say that the Bible is full racism, homophoicism, tribalism, every nasty ism except nationalism and we know how that is playing out among evangelical believers in God.  These people will say they are the truly righteous, they are the ones who are not racist, not homophobic, nor tribalistic etc. They are inclusive and love everyone, they just love, love and love and hate anyone who hates. They are appearing as meleka danorhora on steroids.

But if they continue to deny the goodness of God, one day they will discover in their last breath who this meleka danorhora really is. 

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