“Angels Came Down out of Heaven and Ministered Unto Them”
There never has been a gospel dispensation without the ministering of angels. A people who cannot claim the ministering of angels cannot claim an everlasting gospel.... Without the ministering of angels and other forms of revelation, our theology would be like a body without a spirit. (Robert L. Millet and Joseph Fielding McConkie, The Life Beyond, p. 71.) Joseph Smith explained that “there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it” (D&C 130:5). Thus President Joseph F. Smith observed: “When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants. The ancient prophets who died were those who came to visit their fellow creatures upon the earth. They came to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; it was such beings—holy beings if you please—who waited upon the Savior and administered to him on the Mount....”
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