How Does the Angel Gabriel Demonstrate the Real Duties of Angels? CQ Podcast Highlight

All right. Dramatic effect. Oh good. So it's going to be the way we want, what everyone was hoping for. Here we go. So was it time Rick to talk about it? Like, like this angel sitting here on my shoulder? Is that what we're getting into here?

No, what we're getting into is looking at how it works in the New Testament and, but see, Jonathan, that's where we end up going because we are so used to mixing fact with fiction and fantasy. That, and, and look, look on your phone, you can't tell if some things are real or not, and we get stuck in that. But we don't want to get stuck in that blurred world when we're looking at the mighty angels of God. We need to look at them with the reverence that God sends them out for their, their missions and, and their protection of us. So along the same lines as the Old Testament, God's spiritual beings were sent as angels to foretell miraculous world changing events in the New Testament. So Jonathan, let's define angels and then let's get started with that.

Well, in the New Testament, angel means to bring tidings a messenger by implication. A pastor, let's go first to the unlikely birth of John the Baptist. Luke one 18 and 19, Zacharias said to the angel, how will I know this for certain for I'm an old man and my wife is advanced in years, the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of God, and I've been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

That's a very powerful interaction. Zacharias is wondering, and Gabriel basically says, okay, you better be quiet. I'm Gabriel. I stand in God's presence. And I'll tell you, Jonathan, that sends chills up anybody's spine if you, if you, if