Emmanuel students

1. Angels – In a Nutshell
• Angel – Occurs 203 times in
Scriptures
• Living creatures (Ezek 1:5ff)
• Cherubim (Gen 3:24)
• Seraphim (Isa 6:2,6)
• Sons of God (Gen 6?,Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7)
• Sons of the mighty (Ps. 29:1; 89:6)
• Spirits (1 Kings 22:19; Heb 1:14)
• Holy ones (Deut 33:2-3; Ps 89:5-7)
• Watchers (Dan 4:13, 17, 23)
• Principalities and Powers (Romans 8:38-
39; Eph 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col 2:10)
• Thrones (Col 1:16)
• Named Angels
• Gabriel (Dan 8:16; 9:21; Luke 1:19, 26)
• Michael the Archangel (Dan 10:13, 21;
12:1; Jude 9; Rev 12:7)
• Archangel implies hierarchy of
organization
“Many theologians have deduced
… that when angels fell they fell
as individuals, not in a federal
head, as human being fell in
Adam. So it is thought that
angels do not exist as common
species, but that every individual
angel is a species of his own.”

2. Angels – In a Nutshell
• Roles
• Worship God day and night (Job 38:7; Isa 6; Pss 103:20; 148:2; Rev 5:11)

3. Angels – In a Nutshell
• Roles
• Guard God’s sanctuary from intrusion
• Eden (Gen 3:24)
• Tabernacle/Temple (Ex 25-26, 1 Kings 6-8)
• Symbolic of Heaven
• Brings God’s Word to Humans
• Abraham (Gen 18)
• Lot (Gen 19)
• Jacob (Gen 28)
• Etc.
• Act in God’s Story
• 2 Kings 6:14-18
• Concerning the Arameans
• When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and
chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked. 16 “Don’t be afraid,”
the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”17 And Elisha prayed,
“Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw
the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha
prayed to the LORD, “Strike this army with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
• Ephesians 6:12
• Warfare is not “against flesh and blood, but against .. Spiritual forces in the heavenly places”

4. Angels – In a Nutshell
• Other roles
• Rejoice over conversion of sinners (Luke 15:10)
• Watch over Believers (Ps 32:7; 91:11)
• Protect little ones (Matt 18:10)
• Join church services (1 Cor 11:10)
• Gather the elect (Matt 24:31)
• Cast the ungodly into the lake of fire (Mat
13:41, 49)
• Number of Angels
• A lot
• Hosts (Luke 2:13)
• Camp (Gen 32:1-2)
• Legions (Matt 26:53)
• Thousands (Deut 33:2; Ps 68:17; Dan 7:10; Jude
14; Rev 5:11)

6. St. Augustine
Good can exist without evil, but
evil cannot exist without good.
BECAUSE
Evil is the absence
(privation)/distortion of the
good.

7. Debate Options
• Are ghosts real?
• Did fallen angels sleep with human women in Genesis ?
• Genesis 6
• When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters
were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were
beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My
Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days
will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those
days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of
humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of
renown. 5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had
become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human
heart was only evil all the time.

8. Genesis 6 – Teacher’s Perspective
Storyline
• God gave angelic creatures several boundaries
• Example: Refrain from sleeping with humans.
• Some angels have the capacity to temporarily take on a human form
• Gen 19:5
• Hebrews 13:2 - Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown
hospitality to angels without knowing it.
• Certain fallen angels crossed forbidden boundaries.
• “Sons of God” (Genesis 6:4) were fallen angels that slept with women and produced
(human) children.
• The flood wiped out these individuals and their offspring.
• Nephilim – Large humans (also see Numbers 13: 30-33)
• This subgroup of fallen angels (not all fallen angels) have been kept in utter darkness since
the time of the flood.
• Thus, this kind of activity has not occurred since.

9. Top 3 Reasons
1. Ancient Jews/Early Church Believed in the Fallen Angel Interpretation
• Book of Enoch – “And the angels, children of heaven, saw and lusted after them,
and said – come let us choose wives from the children of men” (6)
• Jewish Traditions
• Josephus
• Septuagint – Gen 6 – “Angels of God”
• Translation that Jesus and apostles used
• Justian Martyr, Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Lactantius, and the great majority of
the early church fathers
2. Language is Best Determined by Usages within the Same Time Frame
• Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7, Psalm 29:1
• All other Old Testament references (“Sons of God”) are Angels

10. Top 3 Reasons
3. Scripture is best interpreted by Scripture (Progressive Revelation)
• 2 Peter 2:1-11 and Jude 4-8 (same issue – false teachers)
• 2 Peter 2:
• 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains
of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought
the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven
others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and
made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a
righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous
man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds
he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to
hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
• Jude 4-8
• and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who
did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling. 7 In the same way, Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced
perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal
fire.

11. Genesis 6 – Teacher’s Perspective
Storyline
• God gave angelic creatures several boundaries
• Example: Refrain from sleeping with humans.
• Some angels have the capacity to temporarily take on a human form
• Gen 19:5
• Hebrews 13:2 - Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown
hospitality to angels without knowing it.
• Certain fallen angels crossed forbidden boundaries.
• “Sons of God” (Genesis 6:4) were fallen angels that slept with women and produced
(human) children.
• The flood wiped out these individuals and their offspring.
• Nephilim – Large humans (also see Numbers 13: 30-33)
• This subgroup of fallen angels (not all fallen angels) have been kept in utter darkness since
the time of the flood.
• Thus, this kind of activity has not occurred since.

12. Demons

13. Fall of Satan
• Context: Kings of Babylon and Tyre
• Prophecy ?
Isaiah 14:3-21 Ezekiel 28:2-19
How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[b]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you are brought down to the realm of the
dead,
to the depths of the pit.
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “‘You were the seal of
perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in
Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned
you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis
lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings[c] were made
of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. 4 You were
anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on
the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. 15 You
were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till
wickedness was found in you. 16 Through your widespread trade you
were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace
from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from
among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart became proud on account of
your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your
splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you
before kings.

14. Demons (Fallen Angels) – In a Nutshell
Lead Demon – The Tempter
• Devil – Means “slanderer” or “accuser” (Rev 12:10)
• Satan – The Adversary (52 times) – “A liar and father of lies” (John 8:44)
• Serpent – Genesis 3
• Counterfeit – 2 Corinthians 11:13-14
• Context: Paul distinguishing himself from false apostles
• “13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then,
if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions
deserve.”
• Other Names: Ruler of demons (Matthew 9:34), Beelzebub (Matthew 12:24), Evil
One (Matthew 13:19), Enemy (Matthew 13:39), Murderer (John 8:44), Ruler of this
World (John 14:30), God of this Age ( 2 Corinthians 4:4), Ruler of the Authority of the
Air ( Ephesians 2:2), Roaring Lion (1 Peter 5:8), Apollyon and Abaddon (Revelation
9:11), Dragon (Revelation 12:9)

15. Demons (Fallen Angels) – In a Nutshell
Role of Satan and Demons:
To Mock the Lordship of God and Rob Image Bearers of Life
• Works of Demons
• Physical Disease – Matthew 9: 32-22, Job 2: 1-10
• Mental Disease – Mark 5:4-5, Luke 9:37-42
• Encouragement of Rebellion – Gen 3, Matthew 4
• False Doctrine – 1 Tim 4:1 – “teachings of demons” ; Rev 2:2 – “false apostles”
• Possession of Unbelievers – Matthew 8:29
• Condemnation & Lies - Rev 12:10

16. Demons (Fallen Angels) – In a Nutshell
Christians Response
• Armor of God
• Put on the whole armor of God, that you
may be able to stand against the schemes of
the devil.” (Eph. 6:11)
• To Certain Elders
• 1 Peter 5:8 - 8 Be alert and of sober mind.
Your enemy the devil prowls around like a
roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith,
because you know that the family of
believers throughout the world is
undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
• Concerning the Humble Act of Submitting to God
• James 4:7 - 7 Submit yourselves, then, to
God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.

17. Revelation 12 – Dragon
• 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now
have come the salvation and the power and the
kingdom of our God, and the authority of his
Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down. 11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony; they did not love their lives so much as
to shrink from death. 12 Therefore rejoice, you
heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the
earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down
to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that
his time is short.”