THE COMPLETE STORY OF ANGELS – From God's Throne to Earth

Jacob sleeps alone in the middle of the desert and dreams of a stairway joining earth and heaven. Notice something strange: the angels he sees are not coming down. They are going up — which means that before he ever closed his eyes, those beings were already there, on earth. Hold on to that image, because it is the first clue in the whole story you are about to hear.

In this episode we tell the complete story of angels in the Bible: what the Hebrew word malak and the Greek word angelos really mean; the six-winged seraphim and the four-faced cherubim with wheels covered in eyes, seen by Isaiah and Ezekiel; the only two angels named clearly in the Protestant canon, Michael and Gabriel, and the third name, Raphael, which only appears in the apocryphal book of Tobit; the mysterious Angel of the Lord who speaks in the first person as God himself, seen by Hagar, Moses, Gideon, and the parents of Samson; the invisible war between heavenly princes that delayed the answer to one of Daniel's prayers for twenty-one days; and the fact that closes the episode: according to the apostle Peter, the angels themselves long to understand your salvation and cannot fully do so.

This episode draws on Genesis 28, Job 38, Daniel 7 and 10, Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1 and 10, Revelation 5 and 12, Jude 1:9, Luke 1, the apocryphal book of Tobit (outside the Protestant canon), 2 Kings 6, Acts 12, Hebrews 1 and 13, and 1 Peter 1:12.