WHO ARE THE ANGELS WHO SINNED AND WHAT THEY DID? (Part 1)
There are many doubts about this subject. Many people use the apocryphal book of Enoch to try to get this answer. Nonetheless, if we really crave for knowing the Truth, we need to cling only to the Holy Scripture (as it adverts 1Cor 2:13; Rev 22:18,19).
So, how can we figure out the excerpts below?
• 2Peter 2:4 -> “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;”.
• Jude 1:6 -> “And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—“.
Well, Jude said that these angels committed two sins:
• they did not stay within their own position of authority (principality). They desired to be more outstanding.
• they left their proper dwelling. They desired to use their influence where they weren’t allowed to go.
To illustrate this, imagine someone being elected to be mayor of a city, but, after some years, he covets to be governor in other state.
You can argue: “what does it make them different from Ha-Satan and his demons? They didn’t do the same thing?”.
No! Ha-Satan kept his principality and dwelling place. What he did was to corrupt his principality.
In virtue of his beauty and wisdom, he became violent, that is to say, he corrupted his wisdom so that he could engross the attention of all angels to himself (to receive the glory and praise that are due only to the Creator – Isaiah 42:8).
• Eze 28:15-18 -> “You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you. By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.”.
Nonetheless, he kept his principality, that is to say, he stayed subjected to the Creator. The proof of this can be seen, for instance, in Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:3-7. Note that Ha-Satan asked permission to the Creator before invest against Job and only was until the limit established by Him. We can see the same thing in the life of Peter:
• Luk 22:31,32 -> “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”.
Not to mention that all the demons obey Jesus’ voice, tremble before Him and even worship Him:
• Mar 5:2-6 -> “And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.”.
Mar 5:11,13 -> “Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.”.
• Jas 2:19 -> “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!”.
While Ha-Satan and his demons are under the control of the Creator, the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 not.
They desired to have the same power and influence than the Creator (to be the supreme chief of the all angels):
• Isa 14:12-15 -> ““How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.”.
Many people think that this excerpt refers to Ha-Satan. Nonetheless, Ha-Satan wasn’t thrown down to Sheol. Only the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6.
If these angels were free, they would wreak havoc on all around the world without asking any permission to the Creator.
You can ask: how do I know this?
Tomorrow we will carry on.
Have a nice day.
There are many doubts about this subject. Many people use the apocryphal book of Enoch to try to get this answer. Nonetheless, if we really crave for knowing the Truth, we need to cling only to the Holy Scripture (as it adverts 1Cor 2:13; Rev 22:18,19).
So, how can we figure out the excerpts below?
• 2Peter 2:4 -> “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;”.
• Jude 1:6 -> “And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—“.
Well, Jude said that these angels committed two sins:
• they did not stay within their own position of authority (principality). They desired to be more outstanding.
• they left their proper dwelling. They desired to use their influence where they weren’t allowed to go.
To illustrate this, imagine someone being elected to be mayor of a city, but, after some years, he covets to be governor in other state.
You can argue: “what does it make them different from Ha-Satan and his demons? They didn’t do the same thing?”.
No! Ha-Satan kept his principality and dwelling place. What he did was to corrupt his principality.
In virtue of his beauty and wisdom, he became violent, that is to say, he corrupted his wisdom so that he could engross the attention of all angels to himself (to receive the glory and praise that are due only to the Creator – Isaiah 42:8).
• Eze 28:15-18 -> “You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you. By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.”.
Nonetheless, he kept his principality, that is to say, he stayed subjected to the Creator. The proof of this can be seen, for instance, in Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:3-7. Note that Ha-Satan asked permission to the Creator before invest against Job and only was until the limit established by Him. We can see the same thing in the life of Peter:
• Luk 22:31,32 -> “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”.
Not to mention that all the demons obey Jesus’ voice, tremble before Him and even worship Him:
• Mar 5:2-6 -> “And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.”.
Mar 5:11,13 -> “Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.”.
• Jas 2:19 -> “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!”.
While Ha-Satan and his demons are under the control of the Creator, the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 not.
They desired to have the same power and influence than the Creator (to be the supreme chief of the all angels):
• Isa 14:12-15 -> ““How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.”.
Many people think that this excerpt refers to Ha-Satan. Nonetheless, Ha-Satan wasn’t thrown down to Sheol. Only the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6.
If these angels were free, they would wreak havoc on all around the world without asking any permission to the Creator.
You can ask: how do I know this?
Tomorrow we will carry on.
Have a nice day.