SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
04/01/2004
My Worship Time Focus: The Fallen
Angles
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 2:4
Message of the
verse: “4 For if God did not spare
angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness,
reserved for judgment.” “4 For God did not spare angels when they had
sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness,
keeping them in readiness for judgment (WEY).”
I chose the WEY version of the Bible because of the word
that it uses in place of “hell” that is used in most other translations. The following quote comes from the
Greek/English dictionary found on my Online Bible. “1) the name of the subterranean region,
doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked
dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to Gehenna
of the Jews 2) to thrust down to Tartarus, to hold captive in Tartarus.” After reading a book by Erwin Lutzer entitled
“One Minute after you Die” I learned that hell will not be occupied until after
the “Great White Throne Judgments” which don’t happen until the end of the book
of Revelation. After everyone who is not
saved is judged they will receive new bodies, bodies that will never burn up
but bodies that they will receive just punishment in as they will end up in
hell for eternity.
Ok back to our lesson and I am actually writing this
lesson on the 28th of August in the year 2017 as once again I cannot
find my Spiritual Diaries for 2nd Peter on my computer. It is a good time for me to go over the
verses that I cannot find.
I remember reading in a book that I taught in a Bible
Study entitled “The Battle for the Beginning,” written by John MacArthur. In that book he writes that it is his belief
that angels were created right around the time that God created the earth and
the heavens, not much before God created man.
If this is true then it did not take Lucifer too long to fall and thus
take one third of the angels that God created with him. We can read about his fall in Isaiah 14:12-15
and also Ezekiel 28:11-19. Lucifer was
the brightest creation God created, but pride caused him to fall as he wanted
to be like God which is the temptation that he used against Eve to cause her to
fall too. Now when we speak of the
fallen angels we know that not all of them are kept in darkness as Satan heads
up those who are not yet in this prison.
When we look at what Jesus said to the demons that He was casting out in
the book of Mark “23 Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an
unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 saying, "What business do we have
with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You
are-the Holy One of God!" 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be
quiet, and come out of him!"(Mark 1:23-25).” These demons were afraid that Jesus would
put them where the worst demons were located, but Jesus did not put them
there.
In conclusion there are many things that we do not know
about angels, especially the ones who God put in what most versions call hell,
but we must trust the Lord to show us if it is His desire to do so. I for one am happy that these most evil
demons are where they are.
8/28/2017 9:43 AM
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