This Christmas, the hottest tree topper isn't a traditional angel. Forget the fluffy wings and angelic smiles - biblically accurate angels, complete with multiple eyes and terrifying features, are taking over Christmas trees.
Christmas Day has arrived, and many readers will have had their decorations up for several weeks (or months if you're a major retail outlet). But do you have this year's must-have festive tree topper – a biblically accurate angel? Yep, I hate to break it to you, but the bible does not feature angels that look like winged choirboys. Biblical angels are a lot less... angelic. In fact, they're terrifying.
But that's not stopped them from becoming the viral design trend of Christmas 2024 – they certainly beat the[idea to use biblically accurate angels as tree toppers appears to have come from Reverend Kira Austin-Young, an episcopal priest in the Diocese of Tennessee, and her husband, “I think in, particularly, the times of the world that we’re in, where things seem kind of scary and weird, having a scary and weird angel sort of speaks to people,” Austin-Young told the. For funsies wanted to share the biblically accurate Angel “tree topper” (since the tumbleweed is dangling, it’s upside down) which I made from a bunch of craft items in the stash of craft stuff at home a couple years back. It’s definitely skikda scraggly but I enjoy it! https://t.co/ghK7tZAseq pic.twitter.com/KKDIjTho3XMy mom didn’t like the angel tree topper I made for Christmas. She said I could make one pic.twitter.com/1nyuNPkhMESince Renaissance times, churches have tended to depict angels as blonde white kids with fluffy wings, but no such characters exist in the bible. The few descriptions of angels that exist in Revelations and some other books in the Old Testament describe something very different, with one description mentioning six wings each with multiple eyes. If you're looking for something to do over Christmas, creating your own tree topper could be a lot of fun. You could do it with
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