Satan, Fallen Angels, Demons

Satan- The devil is a very powerful spirit who, though wicked and sinister, should not be taken lightly nor blasphemed. II Peter 2:10-12, Jude 8-10. Now if Michael, an arch angel of God, speaks carefully, we who are less in power than he, must not speak daringly. The word is "blasheme". Preachers who shake their fist at Satan, challange him, dare him, and mock him, are shown to be false teachers who teach their people great error. Slanderous accusations about celestail beings are foolishness. Resist and flee Satan, don't stay around to mock him. His power is real.

Satan tries his best to cloud light and truth with darkness and lies.                II Thessalonians 2:10-12.

Satan was God's glorious creation, full of wisdom and beauty. God trusted him enough to place him as the guardian cherub in the garden with Adam and Eve. It was in that garden he caused his own fall from heaven and the fall of all those angels foolish enough to follow as he lured God's new children from Him. Satan rules the world and the air, for now.

Fallen Angels- Wicked angels can and will do harmful, evil things to people. They particularly like afflicting the people of God. Why? Christians have the opportunity to go where evil angels can never return. When Christians die, they will go to be with God in heaven. "The angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandon their home" (Jude 6) can never live there again. Satan and his malicious horde hate God and want to bring Him as much pain as they can. A Third of the angels were cast out of heaven, with Satan, to the earth. Revelation 12:4 and 9.

Angels were referred to as "Sons of God" in Genesis 6:1-4. As men began to multiply on the earth, the potentiality increased for a male child to be born to woman who could destroy Satan. As a result, Satan feared every new male child that was born. The Devil, therefore, had to prevert mankind into terrible wickedness. We are told that "The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took them wives of all that they chose," (Genesis 6:2). It appears that this produced a monstrous race called giants (Nephilim). The Scriptures state, "There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6:4). It is not agreed upon scholars just who these sons of God were, but some scholars believe that the sons of God were godly Sethites who married the beautiful daughters of Cain. My opinion differs from this view.

Antiquity held these "sons of God" to be angels. Here are some reasons that the "sons of God" were "angels".

1. Because the particular expression, "sons of God" (Bene-ha-Elohim) refers to angels in every other Old Testament Scripture: Psalms 29:1, Psalms 89:7, Job 1:6, Job 2:1, Job 38:7, Daniel 3:25.

2. The Septuagint Version, which is the Old Testament translated into Greek, reads it "angels". So does the Codex Alexandria.

3. The Jews also thought that the sons of God were angels.

4. The Book of Enoch 6:2 advocates this view; Likewise, the Testament of the Twelve Patriachs.

Demons- Demons in the Bible are the souls or spirits of the wicked dead. The souls of the wicked dead not only roam the earth but can inhabit and control the bodies of the living.

Pagan writings used the word demon to refer to spirits of dead peolpe. Hesiod quoted Plutarch as saying, "The spirits of mortals become demons when separated from their earthly bodies. Hesiod also wrote, "The demons of the Greeks were the ghosts and [genius] of departed men. Alexander Campbell wrote, "Thus a separated spirit became a genius, a demigod, a mediator, a divinity of the ancient superstition according to its acquirements in this state of probation."

What "dead" did these "wicked spirits" or "demons" come from?

The "giants" or "Nephilium" that were mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4. The Nephilium were a very evil race of giants that was produced from the sinful relationship between earthly women and the fallen angels that are bound in chains, in the abyss, awaiting judgement. Demons are a product of this evil race.