Well, what are the angels up to today?

It's a great question and comes to us from an anonymous listener of the podcast.

Pastor John, hello, and thank you for this podcast.

Can you tell me what is the role of angels right now?

What are they doing?

And as Christians, what active role do they play in our lives today?

Pastor John, how would you address this?

I think it's helpful to pose the question like this.

Why do angels exist?

That will include what do they do?

How do they relate to us?

And we can answer those questions at least in part by looking at what they do in the Bible,

which is the safest place to start, I think.

But it also inclines us to ask, what has got up to by creating agents for his activity

when he himself could do the very thing that they do just fine by himself?

All the things that the Bible says angels do, God could snap his finger, so to speak,

and it would be done.

God doesn't need angels in order to accomplish things, so that's why I ask, why do they

exist in the first place and why so many of them, as we will see?

So let's start at the safest place to start, namely with the Bible, instead of our

own speculations.

And here's some of the things that the Bible says angels are doing, and the term angel

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