Do Angels Carry Our Prayers to God?

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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No angel, no saint, and not even Mary herself can improve the access to God we already have through Christ and his finished work.

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0:00.0	Do angels carry our prayers to God?
0:07.9	Do angels play a mediating role between us and heaven?
0:11.9	That's today's question.
0:13.6	And what makes this question especially interesting is a theme that we've already looked
0:17.4	at three times on the podcast in the past.
0:20.7	And that's the fact that the angels do hold the prayers of the saints.
0:24.3	They hold them.
0:25.3	That's the glorious point of Revelation 8 verses 3 to 5.
0:29.0	The prayers of the saints, our prayers accumulate in golden, bulls full of incense, bulls that
0:36.0	are held up by the angels according to Revelation 5.8.
0:39.6	It's an incredibly encouraging image it's meant to be because God wants us to know that
0:44.1	every one of our prayers are answered prayers and are yet unanswered prayers.
0:49.9	All of them are heard by Him, are precious to Him, and always exist before Him.
0:57.7	The trio of glorious truths that we saw on APJ episodes 37, 630, and 1226.
1:04.3	Just an amazing image for us to grasp.
1:08.1	But this question today is different.
1:09.8	Do angels carry our prayers to God?
1:13.0	That's the question on Barb's mind, a listener to the podcast.
1:16.5	Pastor John, hello, do angels carry our prayers to God?
1:21.3	I've heard this ever since I was a little girl, but passages like 1 Timothy 2.5 seem to
1:25.8	be just otherwise.
1:27.6	Pastor John, what would you say to Barb?
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