I would ask to shake his hand....since Satan can appear as an angel of light and deceive people. did joseph ask to shake his hand? Might he not have been deceived by satan to cheat on his wife?????
I would channel Joseph Smith and say, "Good one, Orrin, now get over to Mary Lightner's house as soon as Adam leaves and scare the bejeezus out of her, so that I can get in her pants."
I've never heard of or seen an angel killing anyone with a sword. Really, try to imagine the aftermath.
Dead guy in his bed with his head lopped off. Who killed this guy? Did anyone see anything? Hmmmm, this must be why there are so many unsolved murders. We have angels running around killing people with swords.
1) Wake up. Open my eyes. See nothing. Roll over and go back to sleep.
2) Get to a doctor as fast as I could, for some really good meds or therapy. Because, jeezum crow! I must be losing my mind. Something that doesn't exist and isn't real, just spoke to me!
3) Talk it over with someone else I trust, and say what I think I saw and heard. When they look at me like I have 3 heads, or suggest there may be some error or that something must be wrong with me, agree with them and try #2.
4) Tell it to get lost and to go away, then try #3.
5) Refuse to do what they told me to and tell them no. Then tell them: God is watching you! Begone with you! Because, if I believe in angels, I probably also believe in Satan. If I believe in both of them I probably also believe in a God. What they ask of me seems more like Satan than like Angel, and I have an obligation to refuse and to go tell my God. I'd go tell God, who would be listening and he would have seen everything. He would tell me I was good, the angel was bad, and to forget it all now, as He's got the whole world in his hands. The end.
Only insane people think they are so lucky and so special, to have God and an angel with a flaming sword, come tell them to boink all the 14 year old girls. Come on! This is how cults start, people. Stop it.
Dare him to use it... or cut out the threats all together. This is no way for an angel to act... and certainly no way for a man to act! or hallucinate. Free pass to cheat on your wife and get all the nookie you can "LEGALLY", illegally? Uh, OK!
I had always heard angels had appeared to this dude, but it was more than hilarious to read this, and think, REALLY? Maybe the angel Moron I originally appeared threatening him to make up the BoM in the first place.
Maybe he never saw angels in the first place and had a serious case of insomnia, delusion & dummy.
The Mormon Church is trying to fool people like Joseph got 'fooled'. Who is fooling them? Besides themselves!?
Can't help but flashback to the toga party scene in "Animal House" where Pinto has the devil and angel on his shoulders, and the passed out underage high school girl in front of him.
Someone should photoshop that scene and put a flaming sword in the angels hand...