Well, it's the end of another week here on Things Unseen, and with many of us probably

preparing for Christmas, we've been thinking about that great feature of Christmas carols

and Christmas carols, the presence of angels.

And from one point of view, as I've said, we don't know all that much about them, and

yet it's amazing just how much the Bible does tell us about who they are and what they

do.

And there's certainly a lot more about them than we could possibly cover in this week

of podcasts.

But as we close out this week, I want to draw attention to one feature of the ministry

of angels that we rarely think about.

Angels seem to serve as ministers of praise and the worship of the heavenly sanctuary.

Well, hopefully all very clear in our minds that angels are not to be worshipped.

You remember that the worship of angels was an element in what's sometimes called the

Colossian Heresy that Paul warns about in Colossians 2.

And you'll remember too that in the last chapter of the Bible, John was so over-ordered

by the presence of an angel that he fell down to worship at his feet, and the angel said

and don't do that, I'm a fellow servant with you.

No, angels are not to be worshipped, but they are worshippers.

They worshipped at creation.

They remember God's words to Job and Job chapter 38 when he says that the angels, the heavenly

sons of God, shouted for joy when God laid the foundation of the earth.

And they certainly worshipped at the incarnation too, didn't they?

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