First, the king has a throne Isaiah In the final analysis, then, the writer may have referenced Satan in the beginning, and Isaiah may allude to Satan.
However, the majority of the passage refers to an evil king who was haughty and was brought down in his pride. His corpse, his body, would be trampled underfoot — which is what happens when someone is killed in dishonor. The old Greek gods and goddesses, Achilles as an example, trampled under Hektor when victorious. Trampling underfoot was a sign of honor for the one who trampled, dishonor for the victim being trampled.
The chief of the fallen angels is one person, the Babylonian King another. And yet, the Babylonian King may act under the same haughtiness that brought Satan low, but they are two different people.
This can best be explained by the following: I am often called Teressa, Jr. What happens to the fallen angels after they leave Heaven? How do we reconcile these two passages? Well, we know that Hell is created for the Devil and his angels:. In the end, Satan and the fallen angels were the target ones for whom Hell was created. Hell was created as a final punishment for the leaders of The Great Rebellion in Heaven, but the Lord allows others to go there as well in the nations He judges because of choice, free will, the God-given responsibility of man to choose his eternal destination, whether Heaven or Hell.
And it is Hell, where Satan and the fallen angels, the one-third who rebelled with him, will go at the end of all things. The fallen angels fall from Heaven onto the earth or some end up being imprisoned in Hell until the end, it is believed. By Genesis 6, though, the created order is now being undermined. Instead of humans and humans having sexual relations, the fallen angels have now decided to go in and be sexually active with human women:.
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Genesis That is, the sons of God are angels and the daughters of men are human women. They weigh a ton, have big arms and broad bodies, and are so heavy that they could likely kill a creature if they set on a person.
These fallen angels went in to human women and bore them children that we call giants. Their unusual height, size, and body weight are all signs that they were not conceived by human beings strictly. However, when you think of giants like Goliath, these children, produced by fallen angels and human women, are extremely tall.
Goliath was 9 feet, 9 inches tall. Genesis 6 tells us that giants were on the earth in those days. Some of the giants mentioned in Scripture are the people of Anakim Numbers , the people of Emim Deuteronomy , the people of Zamzummim Deuteronomy , King Og of Bashan Deuteronomy , those defeated by Moses out of the land of Canaan Joshua , Ishbi-Benob of the Philistines 2 Samuel , and sons born to a giant in the territory of Gath: Sippai, Lahmi the brother of Goliath, and a man with 24 fingers and toes 1 Chronicles Fallen angels settled on earth, took human wives, and conceived children by human women, but they also plagued humanity by possessing human beings.
Fallen angels are known to many as demons, and the case can be made that Satan too, is a demon. Demons are often thought to have arrived to earth in the New Testament, but it appears that even Israel had some encounter with demons in the Old Testament. The Lord told priests that they were to offer up sacrifices to the Lord, not to the demons Israel had been giving their offerings to:.
This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations. He appointed priests for the demons. No wonder he eliminated the priests that were already in place! Jesus healed the demon-possessed to show that the kingdom of God brings healing. Demon possession is not a good thing for, if it was, why would Jesus remove demon possession from human bodies? What the Fall did in bringing curses and sickness, Jesus came to undo.
And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:. His authority over unclean spirits is the fulfillment of Isaiah Isaiah , quoted by Matthew, was part of the Messianic Prophecy in Isaiah Have You come here to torment us before the time?
And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region. You come here to torment us before the time? There were some pigs nearby, and Jesus allows these two demons to inhabit the animals.
Demons not only speak to Jesus, know His power, their future torment, and tremble before Him; they also inhabit bodies, whether animal or human. In Matthew 9, demons are within a man who is mute, who speaks once they are cast out of him:. Jesus heals a man whose demon possession had him mute and unable to speak. This tells us that demon possession was often characterized by some ailment, disease, or impairment within human beings — a classic symptom of demon possession being some physical or obvious physical weakness or inability.
After the demon leaves him, he talks for the first time in a long time if he ever talked before, that is. If Jesus casts out demons by demons, would He not be undermining the demonic kingdom? How then will his kingdom stand? Therefore they shall be your judges. And then he will plunder his house.
Matthew , we just stated, shows the Pharisees claiming Jesus exorcises demons by the ruler of the demons. In Matthew 9, the demon-possessed man was mute, but here in Matthew 12, the demon-possessed man was both mute and blind.
By casting out the demon, the victim was given his speech and his sight, a twofold blessing and deliverance. Men are not the only ones demon-possessed; women are too.
Matthew 15 presents to us a case of a Gentile woman, a Canaanite, pleads with Jesus to heal her demon-possessed daughter:. My daughter is severely demon-possessed. Let it be to you as you desire. Yet, because of her faith, Jesus healed her daughter without saying a word or laying hands on her.
How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me. What is an epileptic? An epileptic is someone who has seizures due to random brain activity. Jesus rebukes the demon to come out of the son, and the symptoms go away: the child no longer throws himself into fire and water and acts crazy.
Among those chapters was a fascinating explanation of fallen angels. One of the most widely told tales of fallen angels says it was Lucifer who rebelled against God and brought a bunch of angels down with him, but the story told in the Book of Enoch is very, very different.
According to the Gnostic Society Library , the Book of Enoch tells the tale of angels who are destroyed by lust. The story also shows up in Genesis, but in less detail.
Before the Great Flood , angels and humans met and mingled pretty commonly, and the inevitable happened: children. Those children were the sons and daughters of angels, and they were a race of foot-tall giants. The angels started teaching their giant offspring evil ways, and God not only imprisoned them, but subjected them to judgment and sent the flood to hit the reset button on his creations.
It's also worth noting that Les Enluminures says Noah is the great-grandson of Enoch. Enoch, the story says, tried to speak on behalf of the angels and their giant children — but sadly, a lot of the texts are missing.
We do know that Enoch was the one God selected to act as an intermediary to the fallen angels, instructing him to tell them what their punishment would be for their transgressions.
They were to be condemned to the ends of the earth, and punishment was definitely going to be a big part of their version of eternity.
According to Les Enluminures , Enoch was considered a prophet to early Jewish writers. When Christianity started to adopt his teachings, he largely fell out of favor with Judaism. Christian writers took the Book of Enoch with them when they converted the rather isolated areas of Ethiopia in the fourth and fifth centuries, preserving the text there, where it stayed before being brought to Europe in Meanwhile, Christian scholars and writers were doing some serious interpreting of the version of the Bible approved by the church, and the thing is, it's never said that Satan is a fallen angel.
How he became one is a bit of tricky logic, says Live Science. The reasoning went like this: God created everything in the universe, and therefore, God created Satan.
But the only things God creates are good things, so therefore, Satan must have been good at one point. He needed to have the free will to turn bad, so he became a fallen angel.
To get technical about it, the first Biblical character given the moniker "lucifer" wasn't a fallen angel at all — it was Jesus. He was called "Lucifer" in an old translation of the Bible , and the name was only later applied to the world's least favorite fallen angel when, in Luke , Jesus said, "I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky" via Franciscan Media. According to the Book of Enoch , each one of the first of the fallen angels was responsible for teaching mankind something that led them to sin.
Take Asbeel. He's the one who gave the evilest of counsel to the "holy sons of God," and introduced them to the wonders — and basest evils — that came with hooking up with women. Kasdeja was the one who brought mankind knowledge about spirits and demons, and who showed them "the smitings of the embryo in the womb" and "the smitings which befall through the noontide heat.
The creation of a race of giants half-angels, half-human was said to have been the work of one angel in particular: the leader of the fallen, Shernihaza via the Gnostic Society Library. Other sources cite variations of the name, like Samjaza, but he was the one that led to the ultimate imprisonment of the fallen and the end of the world with the Flood. The Book of Giants tells the story of some of his children — like Ohya and Hahya — but sadly, much of the manuscript has been lost.
Perhaps the strangest of all was Penemue, the fallen angel credited with giving mankind something that led to all kinds of evil: the written language. With writing came the knowledge of destruction, and writing was supposedly responsible for widespread death and descent into darkness. There's one fallen angel in particular that warrants talking about on his own, and that's Gadreel. According to the Book of Enoch , Gadreel was responsible for a lot of trouble on his own and even though most might not recognize his name, they're familiar with his work.
He's the one who's credited with enticing Eve with the forbidden fruit and leading otherwise unsuspecting, holy humans down the path of sin in the first place. He's also the one who gave mankind "all the weapons of death," along with shields and armor, and he first showed people how to kill each other. That's completely different than the picture many have about just what went down in the Garden of Eden, an act of temptation that's usually credited to Satan in the guise of a snake.
But according to the Biblical Archaeology Society , that absolutely wasn't on anyone's mind when it was first written, mostly because at the time there was no concept of the devil as we think of him today. Personification of the snake started with Enoch and Gadreel, but it took a few centuries before the fallen angel morphed into one much more well-known.
Quick, describe a fallen angel. There are probably some scowly faces, bat-like wings, maybe even some horns or cloven hooves. But National Geographic says it wasn't always like that. In early Christian art, fallen angels looked pretty much the same as their holier counterparts.
One of the earliest representations of the idea that there were angels and fallen angels opposing each other in an otherworldly battle is featured in a mosaic above in the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy. Jesus is in the middle, and on one side are an angel in red with some sheep. The sheep are the faithful, and red was originally used to depict the holy kingdom. It didn't become associated with brimstone and hellfire until later. On the other side is a figure thought to be Lucifer or Satan, but he doesn't look very Satanic.
He stands next to goats instead of sheep, and he's wearing blue, which was the color of the damned. The mosaic also suggests fallen angels kept their iconic halos, which were a symbol of power, not holiness. According to the British Library , this image of fallen angels started to morph into something much more grotesque in the Middle Ages , and they were designed to be an evil interpretation of a traditionally angelic form.
Still, fallen angels retained the ability to disguise their true form, and that's extremely creepy. If fallen angels started out looking like, well, angels, why do we think of them as horrible, twisted, demonic creatures? But it's more complicated than that. Milton — who was writing in the 17th century — tapped into what was essentially a pop culture depiction of a fallen angel who wasn't described in the Bible at all.
Throughout the Middle Ages , a strange thing started to happen. Creatures from ancient Babylonian texts — called Lilitu — started to take on a new life as these winged seductresses became associated with Adam's first wife, Lilith.
At the same time, parallels were drawn between Satan and the ancient Canaanite deity Beelzebub, and the ancient Roman half-goat, half-man god of nature, Pan. Then, in the 14th century, Dante described Satan as lording over the deepest depths of hell, and gave him his bat wings. Milton hopped on board a bit later — when Satan had been transformed from a passive adversary into an active evil — and wrote the descriptions of the fallen angels that we now think of today, existing in "Adamantine Chains and penal Fire.
The existence of fallen angels has presented theologians with some serious problems; namely, how could they even exist? Since God created everything, that also meant God had created something evil or with the capacity to be evil, and that just wasn't going to fly with most Christian scholars. The implications of that were terrifying, so there had to be another explanation.
Until the 12th century, "pride" was the typical answer as to why fallen angels fell. But that meant God would have had to create something with a crippling, all-powerful amount of pride, and that didn't fly.
So scholars came up with the idea that angels had been created with a natural love that allowed them to love God, themselves, and each other. Part of that love was involuntary, and another part was voluntary. That voluntary love was further divided into the idea of friendship and the idea that some love exists because it makes someone happy.
It was further argued that angels' love of God was the involuntary kind, and all was fine. Until, that is, one angel realized that he loved God because God made him powerful, and that made it voluntary. Once that angel — Lucifer — realized how nice it was to love and be loved for selfish pleasure instead of simply for love's sake, well, that's when all the problems started. The idea that Lucifer kicked off the fall of the angels because he started experiencing love for a selfish reason is all well and good, and it kind of makes sense.
It's another side to the pride coin, but a twisted, dark, selfish love That may have made it possible for that Lucifer to fall, but what about the other angels that went with him?
That presented another theological problem because other angels just weren't on the same level as Lucifer, God's most beautiful creation. Scholars thought it was a little unbelievable that lesser angels could possibly love in the same way, so what's up with that? Once angels make their choice, it is permanent. Lucifer, also known as Satan or the devil, is nothing more than a fallen angel. It is an open question as to why Lucifer and some other angels rebelled against God.
However, it is generally believed it happened when God the Father revealed to the angels the salvation he would win for us human beings by sending his son, Jesus, to assume our human nature, to suffer and die for us, and to rise again to give us hope. Because of their pride and jealousy over what God would do to save us lowly human creatures, some angels rebelled.
Because angels are spirits with free will and because of their highly developed intellect, their choice to obey or rebel against God was a permanent one.
Thus, demonic angels cannot repent because of their freely and knowingly chosen rebellion. They now roam the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Happily, God is stronger than any of the fallen angels and his divine plan and the Good News of Jesus Christ will triumph. Girotti serves as vicar for canonical services and associate moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Green Bay.
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