| (Copyright) by Nathaniel Burson (Big Sandy, Texas) |
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| We are blinded. You are blinded. We look at the Bible and read what it says, and we think we see – but we don’t. An unimaginable trove of truth is hidden in plain sight on every page of your Bible, and you just can’t see it – no one can. Case in point; you probably believe that devils and angels are completely different, and that there is no gray area between them – those angels are perfect and sinless, and all devils are completely opposed to God’s way, beyond all hope of redemption. The thing is, that’s not what the Bible says – and you know that, you’ve read the verses that say otherwise, but you never really read them. Are devils a different type of creature from angels? Or are they simply angels who do bad things? Psalms 78:41, 49 Yea, they turned back and tempted God… He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. This tells us right away that angels and demons are simply a label, a description of the team they play for, and not a description of the species. How else does Satan appear just like any other holy angel? (2 Corinthians 11:14). Satan was perfect, a holy angel, until the day that he sinned (Ezekiel 28:15). But he was, and still is, an angel! The same kind of being as Michael or Gabriel. The difference existed only in his heart and was only discernible by his actions! So, are all demons equally committed to the rebellion? Jesus said that a cast-out devil sometimes “goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself” (Luke 11:26, BBE). Now if they are more evil, that would make him less evil, right? That’s why Jesus said some devils are harder to cast out than others (Matthew 17:21). Because some are more stubbornly committed to disobedience than others! On the other hand, if angels are all equally righteous, then why does Gabriel say that only Michael stands by his side against the evil angels ruling Greece and Persia? Daniel 10:20-21 (BBE) …But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come… And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel. So, this is not the black and white, incorruptibly good vs. absolute evil battle we’re led to believe it is. The universally believed idea that devils are incorrigibly evil, and angels are unassailably holy is simply not what the Bible says. It is obviously – and I mean, obviously – not true. The reality is, angels and demons form opposite ends of a political spectrum, and just as loyalists and rebels are both humans, so angels and demons are both the same type of creature! Like human political parties, the ones on the far right always vote right, ones on the far left always vote left; and in the middle is a vast pool of swing votes. And just as human factions vary in their degrees of commitment and fanaticism, so angels vary widely in their loyalty to, or hatred of, God’s laws. This makes sense, because it’s how everything we’ve ever seen works; why would the angelic realm be different? Because even the most righteous angels with the best intentions make mistakes from time to time which are called sins. Now before you object vehemently and say “Angels are sinless! They’re holy!!” I want you to think about it a second! Haven’t ALL sinned, and come short of the glory of God? (Romans 3:23). Are angels the exception? —————————————————————————- Reprinted with permission from: The Simple Answers https://www.thesimpleanswers.com —————————————————————————- |
| Iron Sharpening Iron In regard to: Salvation of Angels Article by Nathaniel Burson Comments by Darwin Lee (Bismarck, North Dakota) |
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| Salvation of Angels article smacks of being sorry for the Devil and his angels. Satan doesn’t feel sorry for having deceived you or anyone else and trying to get you or any other humans to “diss” God. Wake up! (Emphasis throughout) Isaiah 14:12-14 (KJV) How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Lucifer and his angels sinned. They were once righteous angels as the other angels, (Michael and Gabriel and their host). All the angels were made righteous but not without free moral agency to choose at any time not to love their Creator as Lucifer and 1/3rd of the angels under his charge, did make a choice to hate God and His righteousness. CAUTION, once a person has tasted the goodness of God and choses to defy that, what they have been partaking of, there is no longer any hope of bringing them back. Hebrews 6:4-6 (KJV) For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Angels tasted the goodness, “heavenly gift” and Lucifer and his angels under him rejected the “heavenly gift”. It is impossible for them to repent. And Jesus said, “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. John 14:30 (KJV) Ezekiel 28:12-17 (KJV) Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Did you catch that, God says to Lucifer, “I will destroy you”? Lucifer (Satan) was in “Eden the garden of God”. Eze. 28:12-17, clearly referencing Lucifer once perfect from the day he was created. It is clear that Lucifer was perfect in his ways “till iniquity was found in him”. It’s quite clear that he chose to do evil and be God’s ADVERSARY! 1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Revelation 20:1-3 (KJV) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJV) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. After seven thousand years Satan is still trying to deceive, and you still think he can be “reprogramed”. No hint there, that there is going to be any “repentance”! Mark 1:23-25 (KJV) And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. Luke 4:33-34 (KJV) And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. No hint of repentance but a certain destruction for the demons, (“the Devil-Lucifers followers”). As Jesus said, “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me”. John 14:30 (KJV) So to, the angels now demons that sinned against God! Jude 13 (KJV) Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Angels are referenced as to stars. Job 38:7 (KJV) When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Revelation 1:20 (KJV) The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Revelation 12:4 (KJV) And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. The author of the “Salvation of Angels” says this, “Now before you object vehemently and say ‘Angels are sinless! They are holy!!’ I want you to think about it a second! Haven’t ALL sinned, and come short of the glory of God? (Romans 3:23). Are angels the exception?” Romans 3; verses one and nine in context of this whole chapter is referring to man-humans, not even a query of angels being the subject. Romans 3:1 (KJV) What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Romans 3:9 (KJV) What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin. The Bible is clear, and no, not ALL angels sinned! Two thirds of the angels have remained righteous to this day, so yes, they are the exception! False doctrines abound and this is a truly big one! There is not any evidence that Lucifer and his angels’ can or will repent, but all evidence as brought forth in this response to “pandering” to evil angels is clearly not Biblical! Michael and Gabriel and those under them remain faithful without sin. That is why they are called “righteous” angels! Furthermore, had they at any time sinned, they would no longer be in God’s presence in His throne dwelling with God in an unrighteous state. The blood of Jesus was shed for man, not angels! Repentance is available to and for man for he (all men) was never made righteous in the day he was created unlike the angels! As a baby just born from your mothers’ womb or even yet in her womb, were you made righteous at that time? |
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