When reading Scripture, we often get glimpses of what our world is like beyond that which we can see. When Jacob finally leaves the eastern lands of Laban, of Mesopotamia where he has been living for many years, and enters into the land of his fathers, Chanaan, he is greeted by glorious angels. He called the place where he saw the majestic beings "the camps of God" (Genesis 32:2). It is apparently understood that every region here on earth, every province, every land and its people, is given an angel who acts as its guardian; as each of us as individuals has a guardian angel, so each country on earth has its own guardian angel. It is specifically revealed that the angel Michael is given special charge over the land of Chanaan and its people: "...at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people" (Daniel 12:1). Even in the New Testament, St. Paul is greeted by one of these heavenly sentinels standing guard over a country of the earth: "And a vision was shown to Paul in the night: A man of Macedonia standing, and beseeching him, and saying: Pass over into Macedonia, and help us" (Acts 16:9). How awesome to think of these great angelic warriors protecting our homelands from on high!
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