0095 - WHO ARE THE ANGELS WHO SINNED AND WHAT THEY DID?

WHO ARE THE ANGELS WHO SINNED AND WHAT THEY DID?

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?

 

Because they did this one time. Observe what it is written below:

 

 

·       Isa 45:18 -> “For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other.”. 

 

Here it is said that the Creator didn’t create the Earth empty. Nonetheless, what it is said in Genesis?

 

·       Gen 1:1,2 -> “In the beginning, God *created* the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”.

 

If the Creator didn’t create the Earth empty, therefore something happened so that the Earth could became like this.

 

Obs.: Genesis 1:1 is said that the Creator “created” (past), instead of saying “started to create” (as if Genesis 1:1 was only the start point of the creation).

 

No! All the heavens and the Earth were outright created in Genesis 1:1 and something played havoc with it. The proof is that, from Genesis 1:3 on, at no moment you see the Creator making the water or the Earth (the Earth already existed. It was covered by the waters).

 

So, what happened?

 

When the Creator created heavens and Earth, the Earth was a paradise, especially made for Ha-Satan and his angels.

 

·       Eze 28:13-14 -> “You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.”.

 

Everything was doing fine until the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 look at the Earth and decided to abandon his proper dwelling (the heaven) and principality. In other words, these angels were created to stay in heaven carrying out their functions as princes of angels in heaven, but for some reason they decided to descend to the Earth to control the angels who were under the principality of Ha-Satan (who was a cherub then).

 

Of course, these angels didn’t do this in a jiffy. Probably they began trying to entice Ha-Satan. See what it is said:

 

·       Eze 28:16 -> “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.”.

The heart of Ha-Satan was filled with violence. Certainly, they lured Ha-Satan showing how beautiful and wise he was and, then, he longed for reaching the primacy on his angels (in the place of the Creator), becoming the devil.

 

The angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 hoped that, after the corruption of Ha-Satan, they could control all the angels that were under Ha-Satan’s dominion. However, part of his angels followed him in his rebellion and the remainder stayed faithful to the Creator. Seeing this, the angels of 2Peter 2:4 and Jude 6, without asking any permission to the Creator, simply destroyed all the Earth, changing it into something unshaped and empty, a thorough chaos.

 

In answer of this, the Creator:

 

·       banned these angels to the deeper hell (which many people call “Tartarus”);

·       deprived Ha-Satan and his angels of His intimacy;

·       recreated the Earth (reported from Genesis 1:3 to Genesis 2:3).

 

Now you can understand why the Creator has kept all these angels in the deeper hell until the day of the Judgment of the White Throne. If they were loosed, they would play havoc with all the Earth in a jiffy.

MESSAGE

One of the great problems of people, including many of those who profess to believe in Jesus, is:

 

·       Jude 8 -> “Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.”.

 

As we saw, even Ha-Satan and his demons ask permission to Jesus before doing something. So much so that Ha-Satan, as our adversary, stays accusing us before the Creator in order to find occasion against us so that he can inflict every kind of evil against us in order to induce us to blaspheme against the Creator (Job 2:5; Rev 12:10).

 

And what about us?

 

How many times we do the things without asking any permission to the Creator (such as these angels of 2Peter 2:4; Jude 6). Paul dealt with it at Corinth:

 

·       1Co 6:1 -> “Does anyone among you who has a matter against another dare to go to a court of law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?”.

·       1Co 6:7 -> “Now therefore, there is altogether an utter fault among you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?”.

 

Note that the believers in Corinth, instead of seeking Jesus’ direction when trying to sort out their problems, they went to the judges who don’t have any reverence to Jesus’ word. The simple fact that they do harm against someone (of course, without observing Jesus’ teachings and get His approbation) was a tragedy. But, try to make prevail their injustice using the powers of the darkness of this world, is the end.

 

And we, many times, do worst: we try to force the Lamb (Jesus) to bring evil against those who hurt us in order to satisfy what we call “justice”.

 

So, have a good day being grateful and relish with:

 

·       Who you are;

·       What you have;

·       The position that you occupy in Christ’s body. Don’t try to be more than was the Creator bestowed to you, nor try to compare your success and development with the others’. Understand that everyone is under one authority and have people under their authority;

·       Your dwelling place. If it is to occur some change, let that this change comes from the Creator (1Cor 7:20,24).