The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 016 (January 6, 2025)

Christians often ask the saints in heaven for their intercession—to be their heavenly prayer partners.

Normally, they’re thinking of the human saints who are up there, but occasionally they’ll ask their guardian angels or one of the other angels like St. Michael or St. Gabriel for prayers.

Either way, they often think of the idea of heavenly intercessors as something new, something that came in with the Christian age.

But, as Jimmy Akin shows you today, that’s not true!

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:28 – Intro
01:01 – What Angels Do
01:28 – Second Temple Literature
07:45 – The Old Testament
10:54 – The New Testament
14:58 – Closing/Outro
15:52 - End