Scripture: Topics: Bible Questions with Mike
All right, here we are again, Mike Pearl and Jared behind the camera. We're here to answer your Bible questions. I've not seen these or heard these questions yet, but we're going to take a shot at it. Jared, what's the first question?
“Hi, my name is Nicholas Lee. I'm having a hard time finding in the Bible, from what I'm almost sure I read it in there where the, that the angels basically aligned themselves or allied themselves with Lucifer before his fall. Like I said, if I can get this question answered, I'd greatly appreciate it.”
All right, he wants to know how some of the angels aligned themselves with Lucifer. In Revelation 12:1 he says, "There appeared a great water in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun," so forth, so on, let's skip that down to verse three, "There appeared another wonder in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and 10 horns with seven crowns upon his head." And by the way, he tells us later that this is Satan, the devil. He's very clear about that. Verse nine, he said, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, was cast out of heaven, and his angels were cast out with him." So when he says the dragon, he's speaking of Satan, he's made that clear, but back to Revelation 12:4, "And, his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them under the earth, and the dragon stood before them,” the stars are angels. It says in Revelation chapter three, that he holds in his hand the seven stars, and these are the angels of the seven churches. And so throughout scripture, stars are represented as the angels. So yes, here we have a clear statement that one third of the angels were fallen with Satan, and that they're his angels, Satan's angels. When you come in the New Testament, you have a whole lot of different passages of devils being cast out, and they're called devils. They are fallen angels that fell with Satan when he fell.