Jacob dreamed, and a ladder stood from earth to heaven (Genesis 28:12). The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan fills the rungs with specific traffic.
The two angels on the ladder were not anonymous. They were the same pair who had gone to Sodom in Abraham's day (Genesis 19:1). The Targum says they had been expelled from the upper world for revealing the secrets of the Lord — they had told Lot that Sodom would burn before God's Word had officially commanded the strike. They had been walking the earth in exile since the days of Abraham, century after century, until Jacob left his father's house. Then they attached themselves to him and escorted him with kindness to Bethel.
That night, their exile ended. They ascended to the highest heavens and called out to the angelic host: Come, see Jacob the pious, whose likeness is inlaid in the throne of glory, and whom you have so greatly desired to behold.
Think about that image. The face of Jacob is already carved into the throne of God. The angels have been waiting generations to see the living man whose portrait they pass every day in their service. They rush down the ladder not to help him but to look at him. The ladder is a viewing platform.
This is a radical claim: the throne of glory itself carries a human face. Not a prince, not a king, not a warrior — the face of a man fleeing his brother's wrath, sleeping on stones.
The takeaway: what heaven finds most beautiful is not what earth celebrates. The angels came to see a refugee with a rock under his head.