Why did Jesus send letters to angels?

People sometimes dismiss the letters to the Seven Churches because they were addressed to angels. “To the angel of the church in Ephesus; to the angel of the church in Smyrna,” etc. It sounds weird, a bit mystical. Don’t angels live in heaven? Why would Jesus send mail to angels? He didn’t. At least not to those sorts of angels. Here’s what really happened: The Apostle John had a vision. Jesus told John to record the vision in a book and then send that book along with some letters to “the...