The Angel of Christmas

By C. G. Thompson

The stories you are about to read are fiction with some fictional characters. However, not all of the characters are fictional. You will find real history and actual places woven into these tales. The main characters in all of these stories are angels. Angels are mentioned at least 273 times in the Scriptures. The number of angels is incalculable. They are created spirit beings which are invisible unless they wish to be seen, and normally, that is in human form. They, like us, have free will. There are several different types of angels with different assignments to carry out. They all report to God, their Father.

Today, it seems many Christian people only desire to believe in a God of love and not a God of vengeance and punishment. Yes, God is love, but He is other things as well. People seem to mistake God’s long-suffering for a change from His Old Testament persona to one that makes Him seem like a hippy of the 1960s. The Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I can’t visualize Him sitting on His throne making peace signs. He wasn’t a flower child in the Old Testament, so neither is He today.

This book shows both a God of love and a God of justice. In this collection of stories as well as in the Bible, angels are sent to carry out His justice upon evildoers. In both this book and the Bible, angels are also sent to show His love for His children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685268725

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The Angel of Christmas

C.G. Thompson

ISBN 978-1-68526-871-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68526-872-5 (Digital)

Copyright © 2022 C.G. Thompson

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Table of Contents

The Meeting

June 6, 1944

The Bomb

The Rich Man and the Poor Man

Christmas 1961

A Special Assignment

The Missing

A Little Respect Please

Christmas Miracle of Cordes Junction

The New Name

First Assignment as the Spirit of Vengeance

The Family Sung

Don’t Upset the Green-Eyed Girl

Back in Time

Old Friends

Yesterday in Salem, 1692

The Uncivil War

An Angel on a Vacation

The Santa Letter

The Fire

Trapped but Not Alone

The Terrible Pain

A Little Death

Torticollis (Wryneck)

He Can Read It?

Another Call

The Canadian Rescue

A Visitation from Angels

These stories are dedicated on

February 14, 2021, Valentine’s Day,

to my own red-haired girl, Donna,

who left this world in 2006

The Meeting

The little redhead hurried down the golden street toward her meeting with her brother Gabriel. Sometimes they would run into each other on the street and talk for a while. But this was a meeting called by her brother Gabriel the Archangel and highly unusual. Soon he would be the messenger sent to an Israelite girl named Mary to announce the birth of a special child. Gabriel was the Father’s angel of revelation, and his name would one day be one of only two mentioned in the Scriptures. As the little girl walked along the street, she wondered what Gabriel wanted to talk to her about. Was their Father upset with her? She was a little apprehensive, recalling what happened to Lucifer, the anointed cherub of God. She had often wondered why Lucifer tried to usurp the authority of the Creator.

She remembered how he had said, I will be like the Most High.

It was that self-generated pride that caused him and those who followed him to be branded as traitors. Her brother Michael, an archangel, the leader of the Father’s army, drove them out of the Father’s presence. The little redhead Noel couldn’t recall any possible reason the Creator could have for being upset with her. So then, why was she being summoned to meet with Gabriel?

The little red-haired angel was the youngest of all the angels only because she was the last one created. Angels, after all, are spirit beings who most often appear as young men when on earth. But Noel’s human form which she appeared in was that of a twelve-year-old girl. She often wondered if that was the reason she was never chosen for a mission to earth. Her little girl form caused her to feel inadequate and unable to accomplish anything of consequence for the Father. She always worried about the possibility of making mistakes that might let Him down. She was exactly like most twelve-year-old human girls whose main desire is to please their fathers and make them proud.

As she entered into the presence of her brother Gabriel, she noticed that he wasn’t frowning. That fact put her worry about being in trouble to rest—at least for the moment. She stood silent before the archangel, waiting for him to speak first. This was what all of the angels of lower rank did out of respect for his rank. He began to speak in a few short minutes, although to her, it seemed more like an hour before he finally spoke.

Our Father sent me to give you instructions about a special mission that He has decided to have you carry out for Him on earth, announced Gabriel.

Her feelings of being inadequate came to the forefront of her mind once again.

Why not an older, wiser angel who has more experience? she asked.

When I asked Him that same question, He answered by saying, ‘The name I gave her was for this very assignment.’

Okay, brother, but I really can’t see what a child of twelve could possibly do for Him on earth, said the inadequate-feeling little angel.

You may not see or even understand at this time what an inexperienced, childlike angel can do on earth, but He does. Remember, little sister, He is all knowing and can see into the future. On the other hand, we angels and humans cannot see beyond the now without His help, said Gabriel.

I’m sorry to have questioned His orders, said a worried Noel.

Little sister, He forgave you even before you asked it of Him. Now here is what you do. First, go to earth near a place called Bethlehem, said Gabriel.

The two angels talked for what we on earth would call an hour. However, in the city of God, time doesn’t exist as we know it. When they had finished, she walked back down the street and thought about everything her brother had told her.

I’m so inexperienced, she voiced out loud to herself. Then after a few minutes, she answered herself, But the Father is never wrong, and He chose me for this special assignment. Therefore, I have the ability to do it.

Gabriel left for earth as soon as they had completed their meeting. He appeared in the holy temple at Jerusalem to announce to the priest Zacharias the coining birth of his son, John. Zacharias was very old, and his wife was beyond the childbearing age, but God blessed them with a baby who would one day be called John the Baptist.

Then after six months on earth had passed, the archangel once again was sent to earth with an announcement. This time, he was sent to a city called Nazareth in Galilee, to a young Hebrew girl named Mary. The announcement he was to give her was about the birth of her Son, who would be the Savior. After some discourse, Gabriel told Mary to call the child Jesus. Then when Mary’s time to give birth was not far away, a decree came from Caesar Augustus that the whole world under Roman control should be taxed. In order to be taxed, the people needed to go to the city of their origin. So Joseph took Mary, his pregnant wife, and left Nazareth of Galilee to go to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem. This was done because Joseph was of the lineage of King David.

Now the night of the child’s birth, Mary and Joseph, her husband, finding no room anywhere in Bethlehem, stayed in a stable behind an inn. Meanwhile, in the fields surrounding the city, shepherds were keeping watch over their flocks at night. The little redheaded angel was still amazed that the Father chose her to be the messenger that appeared over the fields and proclaim to the shepherds not to be afraid.

So in the deepest voice that she could muster up, she said, Do not fear because I bring you good news of great joy for all people. This day in the city of David, the Savior who is Christ the Lord is born, and you will find Him in a stable lying in a manger.

Then suddenly, there appeared with the young angel a large number of God’s heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and good will to mankind.

After the angel choir left, and the shepherds headed toward the city, Gabriel appeared before Noel.

This, little sister, is the starting point of your missions to earth. And by the way, Noel, your name, literally means Birthday of Christ, said Gabriel.

Noel stayed upon the earth as she was instructed and witnessed many cruel things done by mankind to each other. The infanticide of all the boy babies two years and under as ordered by King Herod the Great in his quest to kill the child Jesus was just the beginning. She also saw the murder of the forty Jews studying in the temple, which Herod the Great ordered killed because they opposed him. There were many other things that she saw also such as the crucifixion of Jesus the Messiah by the Romans and the cruel deaths of many Christians in the Roman arena for their evil sport. She also saw the Crusades of the early Roman church from 1095 until the eighteenth century.

Then all of Europe turned its attention toward the New World and its possible riches. Noel, the pretty twelve-year-old red-haired angel had to see all the depravity and help only those she was instructed to help. Then by the time the Crusades ended, Noel was in tears for what was only the second time—the first being when she had to watch the crucifixion of Jesus, with the instructions not to save Him. She was told He had to suffer and die for mankind as the sacrificial lamb. She also saw all the torture and death inflicted on the native peoples of the New World by the Spanish, English, French and, later, the Americans. She had to stand by and see every evil that humankind did to each other as individuals or as nations. It wasn’t easy to hold back and keep from interfering.

Yet when she was allowed to go to the aid of someone, she did it with all her heart.

In 1914, on July 28, war was declared, and it involved several nations. The people later called it World War I. Many young men died during this war. It lasted four seemingly long years until November 11, 1918. But even more died by the disease pandemic of the Spanish flu. It was estimated that two hundred million became ill, and over twenty-one million died between the years 1917 and 1919. She couldn’t help but wonder if these humans would ever learn to get along, stop the killing and the hating of their fellow humans.

Her answer came with the rise of Anton Drexler in the year 1920 and his National Socialist German Workers Party. Then in 1921, a new world threat became leader of the party. His name was Adolph Hitler, and his rule was one of death and destruction. When he took the reins, he carried the Socialist Party into a complete anti-capitalism, anti-big business party. Then by the 1930s, his newfound Nazi Party turned into a Socialist, Totalitarian, Fascist party. They shifted their focus from big business to anti-Semitic, anti-Marxist, Socialist, Communist themes. So began the extermination of the Jews and anyone who aided them or opposed the Third Reich. Thus began the Holocaust that killed six million Jews, many Christians, and other non-Germans from countries the Nazi’s invaded.

June 6, 1944

It was a sad day in 1944 when a twelve-year-old red-haired girl dressed in green and barefoot walked onto a sand-covered beach of Normandy, France. In the meantime, a young Native American soldier from the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation in South Dakota ran onto the beach from the LCVP (Landing, Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), also sometimes known as the Higgins boat. The Sioux soldier was a medic from the Oglala bands reservation that was established in 1889. Many of the young men never made it out of the water and onto the beach. Bloody bodies were strewn up and down the beach, and British tanks and trucks were being unloaded from the special ships of the United States. Though shells were exploding all around the young Lakota medic, he pushed forward out of the sea and onto the beach. As he came out of the water, he came face-to-face with a fearless young redheaded and barefoot twelve-year-old girl. The warrior stopped and stared in disbelief at the sight of the child on the beach. The girl smiled at the young man with the Red Cross painted on his helmet.

John Little Hawk was an army medic, but back home in South Dakota, he was a medical student interning at the local hospital. Little Hawk was almost in a state of shock because he had never witnessed anything like this invasion in his whole life. Also, he wasn’t sure he could handle all of the wounded or the death of so many of the men he called friends. A month before on his reservation, a single mother and a young pregnant wife were praying for the young Lakota warrior.

Father of all creation, please keep my son safe and bring him home to us, prayed Helen Red Eagle.

His pregnant young wife, Jane Thunder Cloud, prayed, Lord, keep my husband and the father of my unborn child safe. Please don’t allow our child to grow up without a father.

Meanwhile on the street of gold, two angels heard their prayers, but even more important, so did the Father.

A second later, Gabriel was called to the throne of God.

I want you to give these instructions to Noel, said the Lord.

I will deliver your instructions to her, Father, said the archangel.

Gabriel appeared before his sister and gave her the message from their Father.

Our Father wishes you to appear on the beach of Normandy on June 6 to carry out His will concerning a medic named John Little Hawk, instructed Gabriel.

Noel answered, As always, brother, I will do what our Father requests of me. What is it I need to do?

This is what He wishes you to do. Keep the man safe from all harm until he gets home from this terrible war. Whatever it takes, you have permission to do, answered Gabriel.

Tell our Father His will is done, she answered.

So at just the right time on June 6, 1944, a twelve-year-old little girl with long curly hair, green eyes, and wearing a lime-green dress walked barefoot out onto the beach of Normandy while shells were exploding all around her. That’s when the young Sioux medic came out of the ocean, pulling another man while carrying the soldier’s rifle with him.

This is when he came face-to-face with a little girl and stared in disbelief at what he was seeing. Was this child really there, or was she a figment of his imagination? Could he himself be one of the dead men lying across the beach or in the water? Was he actually dead or perhaps dying, and was this child an angel of death coming for him? Suddenly, a shell was heading right at him, but it suddenly curved away abnormally and dropped several feet away, not exploding. But he never took his eyes off the red-haired girl, whose eyes seemed to see deep into his very soul.

Finally coming back to reality, he laid the wounded man down on the sandy beach and placed the rifle next to him and began to bind the man’s wounds. The child stood next to John as he continued to tend to the soldier’s wounds. John, because of his compassion and medical training as a doctor, automatically tended to his patient in spite of his thoughts that he himself could be dead or dying. This proved to him that he was alive and unhurt in spite of his feelings and fears. When he finished doing all he could, he looked up at the girl and saw that she was smiling.

He asked, Who are you?

I’m Noel, she answered.

But, Noel, why aren’t you afraid? asked John

Why should I have fear? she asked.

Because you’re a little girl and explosions are going on all around us and men are screaming in pain and dying, he answered.

My Father sent me here, she said.

Noel, are you an angel? asked John.

Yes, I am, she answered.

Am I going to die here today on this beach, and are you here to take me with you? asked John, a little apprehensive.

Her answer was, My job is to make sure you do not die here today or anytime in this war. Your mother and wife have been petitioning my Father in prayer, and he has heard their prayers. So you see, I have been charged with your safety.

But there are so many men who are dying, so why me? he asked.

Because the Lord heard the prayers and sent me in answer to only save you. Others are being saved by some of my brothers without the men’s knowledge, but the Father gave me freedom to handle this my way, so I let you know, she said, smiling.

John smiled back at her while shells were going off all around.

Meanwhile, back on the reservation in South Dakota, in a little mission church, Gabriel appeared to Helen and Jane, saying, Fear not for the Creator heard your prayers and dispatched a special angel to answer them.

The two women remained speechless long enough for him to vanish before their eyes.

When they finally found their voices, Jane spoke first. Was that an angel? she asked.

I do believe he was, said Helen.

Then our John will come home safe! said Jane.

Yes, said Helen with tears in her eyes.

Gabriel appeared on the battlefield next to Noel who was protecting John while he tended to the wounded men. John was so busy saving lives that he didn’t notice Gabriel talking to Noel.

Little sister, remember you are the Christmas Angel, and you must show that spirit even during this terrible war with all of its carnage, said the archangel.

"I will do as the Father desires, though I wish I could do more," said Noel.

Gabriel smiled, then left only as an angel could. After he left, it so happened that an American colonel, along with several other soldiers, saw the little red-haired girl standing by the young medic as he worked to save lives. Most of these young men saw her and thought of their little sisters or nieces back home. Even the British soldiers that saw her thought of their families back at home. However, the colonel, who was thirty-eight, with an eleven-year-old daughter back in the States, couldn’t stop wondering where this child came from. Why was she following the