Don Imus could probably appreciate this: the Hebrew word ho is interpreted “woe” in 36 Old Testament scriptures.

“But ho does not necessarily mean ‘woe,’ ” writes author Noah Hutchings in his 2003 book Revelation for Today. “It could mean anything from ‘have a nice day’ to ‘go jump in the lake.’ ”

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On the subject of demon exorcisms, Jordan once reasoned: “If you had the ability to call the power of Almighty God against a demon, you know what’d happen? The demon would flee. It wouldn’t take him five hours of conversation with you. You see, these guys who talk about throwing demons out after a big exorcism, they’re pulling your leg. It’s got nothing to do with anything.”

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Ever hear about someone in the hospital with a bunch of broken bones, etc., from a bad accident giving credit to an angel for saving their life?

Jordan says about these kinds of ill-informed imaginations, “David knew something about angels and he said when they act, the job gets done. It’s none of this half-way, ‘I wonder if it was; I wonder if it wasn’t.’

“In I Kings 19, Elijah’s sitting on the creek bank out there after the problem with Baal and all and the angels bring him the food. Folks, they just spread the table out there and fed the guy. It wasn’t a half-way doing it.

“Let me give you an illustration of when an angel gets worked up to do something. Isaiah 37:36 says, ‘Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.’

“This is in Hezekiah’s day and deals with the deliverance God gave Israel. That angel bumped off 185,000 soldiers in one night and was home in bed before the sun came up. It says, ‘And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.’ You ever seen another kind of corpse? I mean, that’s emphasis, brother! That’s ‘dying you shall die.’

“If it took only one angel to wipe out that many people in one night, and he did it by himself, and he did it quickly and it didn’t take all night, imagine how many angels there are out there and what they could do!

“Is it any wonder in Matthew 25: 31 it says, ‘When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him.’ Revelation 19 talks about Christ coming back and being followed by the armies of heaven.

“The angelic armies of heaven come back with Him to set this universe right at His Second Advent. And one angel could take care of that many guys in one evening. You think, ‘Wow, these guys have might and strength and power and ability!’ ”

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One of the Bible verses that tells you angels are young in appearance is Mark 16:4. Jesus Christ is resurrected from the dead and when the women come to His empty tomb it says ‘they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.’

Jordan says, “This guy’s at least 4,000 years old and yet he’s a ‘young man.’ It’s talking appearance and notice it doesn’t say the ‘young woman.’ Pictures of angels depict them as long-haired women in flowing robes with wings on, but that’s not what an angel looks like. And if you ever see one of them things, run!

“In Revelation 9, the demons are in their degenerated form . . . they’re the ones with the long hair and the woman’s face. Angels don’t have wings either, folks. Cherubim have wings. Seraphim have wings. But angels don’t.

“You say how do they fly? Well, folks, wings aren’t going to make you fly out there where there’s no atmosphere. All the pictures you see of little angels with wings—what they really are are pictures of the devil. Satan is a cherub and cherub have wings.”