User blog comment:FTWinchester/Power Scale Musings/@comment-3481504-20130224034857/@comment-3481504-20130225002222

We've been over this. The reason(s) Gabriel is stronger than Raphael are as follows:

1) Gabriel achieved his will by simple gestures, like winking, snapping his fingers--simply willing it occur. This being possible the greatest and most impressive feat of all. Raphael never did that. The closest thing to a gesture is when he prepared to smite Balthazar by touching him, i.e. Killing Touch.

2) Gabriel could bend reality to 'his' will. Articulate time loops, conjure things from the void of nothingness.

3) The plausibility of Gabriel causing anomalies when he touched down thousands of thousands of years ago, is very, very high. I can even give you a few possibilities:


 * He could've caused ferocious lightning storms.
 * He could've scorched, and inflamed, a large vicinity of where he landed. Similarly when Lucifer rises, and the skies bleed.
 * He could've caused fierce winds.