How did God get the angels at the beginning of time?

Interesting question made all the more interesting by the fact that the Bible does not specifically talk about how and when the angels came onto the scene. It does say, however, that, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). Let's crack that shell and take out a tasty nut of truth.

First, when we see a phrase like "heaven and earth" or "good and evil" we need to understand that the writer is using a figure of speech called a merism, which is a reference to a single thing by naming several, if not all, of its parts. So when Genesis says that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the writer is saying that God created everything, including the angels.

It's been suggested that the reason why God didn't give us the specifics on how and when the angels were created is because He knew we would develop an unhealthy obsession with them. The word "angel" means messenger, and in the Bible they deliver and reveal God's will to people. An angel told Mary about Jesus, and another angel revealed the vision of Revelation to John. When John tried to worship the angel in Revelation 22:8-9, the angel refuses worship and commands John to worship God only.

All that to say while we don't have a passage that says specifically when and how the angels were created (i.e., "and on the third day..."), we do know that God did create them sometime in the beginning of things.