The chances are that some of you are thinking “Yay! I love angels!” while others are cringing. The reason for both these reactions, I think, is because our usual picture of the world of angels is a sort of sentimental mash, and some like that sort of thing and others don’t. Very little of it comes from the Bible, though. Most of what we think regarding angels could be better described as fanciful elaboration or just straight-up folklore. So before I look at the Christmas angels – like the one who talked to Mary – let me try to separate what the Bible actually says about angels and what has grown up around them since.
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