A Christmas tree topper made by Rev. Kira Austin-Young and her husband Michael Schupbach depicting a biblically accurate angel. AP The Bible has sparse descriptions of what angels are actually ...

“I think in, particularly, the times of the world that we’re in, where things seem kind of scary and weird, having a scary and weird angel sort of speaks to people,” Austin-Young said.

But your book makes clear that for those people of the Bible this was no mere fantastic place of imagination. The existence of angels and demons for the ancients was deadly serious.

Conversely, angels in the Bible can also be bringers of life. They save life by leading people to food or water and protecting them from wild beasts or enemies.

For decades, scientists have searched the cosmos looking for life on other planets. But one astronomer and physicist believes angels have existed throughout eternity as God's messengers.

But my beloved “real” angel is St. Michael – a high-ranking "archangel" – among the few mentioned by name in the Bible and best-known for his “Prayer of Protection” discussed in Vol. 20.

This description of an angel might seem totally off to “Midnight Mass” viewers at first, but Flanagan said the Bible is there to back up the show’s depiction.

"Man and angels are two different, created beings. Neither is eternal; each was created in time, in the six days of creation thousands of years ago." ...

"Man and angels are two different, created beings. Neither is eternal; each was created in time, in the six days of creation thousands of years ago." ...