Do you think people become like angels when they die?

I mean before Jesus comes back again, and the dead are in rest. What sort of jobs do they have? Do they see us? Do they guard us? Look after us? I believe in the Bible, but the Bible never says what exactly happens before Jesus makes the new heaven and new earth. I do not think we are floating around playing little harps, that would be boring.

What do you think happens? What do you imagine happening?

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Graylight · 51-55, F

"Come back like angels"?

How, exactly, do you see angels, which are not humans, nor may humans ever be angels according to tradition?

Ezekiel 1:5-9 - And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.

Angels in the Bible aren't anything like the Hallmark angels we've come to cherish. Angels are harbingers of great catastrophe and violence.

AliceinWonderland · F

@Graylight some are messengers like Gabriel. i wasn't saying they are angels, i was just using my imagination and wondering what happens when we die.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@AliceinWonderland I get it. And no one but Renaissance painters said Gabriel was anything like a human figure.

There's a part of me that hopes (maybe not in angelic form) that there will be those watching over the lonely, the struggling, the scared. I personally believe in a process of reincarnation, though the Universe is so extensive we can’t possibly know its answers right now. Maybe it's a little bit of everything and then more.

We’re like the fly buzzing at the locked window who thinks it can perceive all of the outside world from its tiny corner of glass. Anything is possible, but I hold this to be firm: It is beneficial to the Universe, it’s beneficial to us, it promotes the Infinite Creativity and it propels us toward our individual evolutions.