In lesson 16 you should have learned:

1.           The difference between the light and the sun, the light being Jesus.

2.           You should have seen the comparison between light-Day (Jesus) and darkness - Night (Satan).

3.           When God destroyed the original creation, he flooded it.

4.           That water covered the earth and stretched all the way to the throne of God.

5.           That God placed a firmament (heaven) and divided the waters of earth from the waters before the throne of God.

6.           That this newly created heaven is the home of Satan.

7.           That on the day God created this heaven, day two, he could find nothing good about it.

8.           That day two is the only day of creation that He did not say, It is good.”

Satan

What have we learned about him so far? In lesson # 16 we closed with a list of some things we knew about him.  Let’s review.

1.     He is the prince of the power of the air. “Whereas in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” Ephesians 2: 2.

2.     He is a roaring lion. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

       1  Peter 5: 8.

3.     He is the god of this world. “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

       2 Corinthians 4: 4

4.     He and his entourage are called principalities and powers and they are in heavenly places. “To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be made known the manifold wisdom of God.” Ephesians 3: 10.

“And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2: 15

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  Ephesians 6: 12. 

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” Colossians 1: 16

But when God created him, he was called Lucifer. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” Isaiah 14: 12 This is the only verse in the Bible in which the name is found.

Angels

God created all the angels.  And all the angels were called sons of God. When God was chastising Job in chapter 38 of the Book of Job, we are made aware that when He created the heaven and earth the angels were already created and the sons of God (angels) shouted for joy when creation was finished. (Job 38: 7)

I know that the Bible sometimes refers to these angels (sons of God) as gods. In Psalms 97: 7-9 we find that God is exalted far above all the gods. “Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship Him, all ye gods. Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O Lord. For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.”

We also know that God said these angels were gods and his children.  He also said some of them would die and fall as Satan did. “I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.” Psalms 82: 6-7

I know that God’s people knew about these angel gods, for when Paul & Barnabus healed a man the people called them gods. “And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabus, Jupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.” Acts 14: 11-12

I know something else about some of the fallen angels.  I know they came to earth, cohabited with the women of earth and produced children by them.  These children grew to be giants, up to 14 or 15 feet tall.

I want you to read Genesis 6: 1-6:  “1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

You will notice in verse 3 these words “man, that he also is flesh.” You must ask the question, who else in the passage was “flesh” too? You will find that answer in verse 2 – “the sons of god.” Now we can understand more fully the words of Psalms 82: 7: “But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes”