* The number of angels is beyond imagining. In the Old Testament, Daniel sees “a thousand thousands,” even “ten thousand times ten thousand” present and serving God in the heavenly court (Dan 7:10). In the corresponding vision of God’s court in the New Testament, many angels surround God’s throne along with the living creatures and the elders. “They numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands” (Rev 5:11). Jesus declares to those who come to arrest him that
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