EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/03/2025/8:35
PM
My
Worship Time Focus: “The Case of the Fallen Angels”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
2 Peter 2:4
Message of the verses: “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;”
We begin this evening with what will be a fairly long section that may
take at least a couple of days to get through.
I have to say that this is one of my favorite parts of 2 Peter to look
at.
Now
the short phrase for if introduces a conditional sentence that extends all
the way through verse eight. If, however,
does not imply uncertainty here and probably should be rendered “since.” Now since God did not spare the angels
of heaven when they sinned against Him, and it should be noted that
God did not provide any means of salvation for them, as humans who pervert His
truth should not expect to escape His vengeance either. Now angels, like mankind (mankind (Matt.
23:45-51; 25:48; 16:1-8; 19:12-27; 1 Cor. 4:2), were responsible to honor God
and obey His truth, and those who rebelled were sentenced to eternal
punishment.
Now
let me take a moment to talk about the fact that angels who had fallen could
never be restored again, while humans who have fallen can receive forgiveness
from the Lord. Now not all humans will
receive the forgiveness, but the ones who have received forgiveness have it
because of what Christ did for them on the cross, as He died to take their place. You see the second person of the godhead
became a man in the person of Jesus Christ, and that made Him both man and God
in one body. This is why humans can
receive forgiveness, however there is no substitute for angels who have
fallen. If I am correct there were about
one third of the angels who followed Satan when he rebelled against God, and so
that one third of the angels will all spend eternity in hell along with their
leader, Satan. I hope this short
paragraph gives enough information to understand this topic.
John
MacArthur writes “The spiritual dynamics of how and why angels sinned remains,
in many ways, a theological mystery. The
highest ranking of all the angels, Lucifer, wanted to exalt himself to a
position of equality with God. As depicted
in the dramatic language of Revelation 12:3-9, one-third of the angels joined
Lucifer’s heavenly revolt, arrogantly opposed God, and were expelled from
heaven (cf. Isa. 14:12-21; Ezek. 28:12-19; Luke 10:18).” The two passages, Isaiah, and Luke give great
information about the fall of Satan and the angels.
“But
Peter is probably not referring here to the angels who originally fell, since t
hey were not immediately incarcerated in hell nor confined permanently to
pits of darkness to await their final judgment. In fact, they are the demons who are now
loose in the world, securing Satan’s unholy purposes. The apostle Paul identified them when he
wrote, ‘For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places’ (Eph. 6:12; cf.
2:1-2;1 Peter 5:8). When the Lord
returns, the demons (along with Satan) will be bound during Christ’s millennial
reign (Isa. 24:21-23; Rev. 10:1-3) and eventually cast into the lake of fire
(Rev. 20:10).”
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