Angelic Part 1 (Fallen from Grace)
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Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Not what I expected at all. This book was not what I expected. In more than one way, even. I bought this thinking it was an urban fantasy type story with angels and demons running around on Earth. One of the Amazon reviews mentioned "fallen angels" so I thought it would be a new and hopefully original take on that theme.
But it's completely not that at all. It's a much more original concept.
The author has developed a completely new fantasy world that doesn't relate to Christian mythology at all, except for the coincidence of names and perhaps in the general theme of good and evil. The world-building is top notch. 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. The word for epileptic in Matthew Jesus rebukes the demon to come out of the son, and the symptoms go away: The demon within the child drove him to nearly kill himself. Any time a person throws themselves into the fire to burn to death or water to drown to death , something is very terribly wrong.
The disciples could not rebuke the demon, and Jesus says that the issue comes down to prayer and fasting with faith, of course. One such example is Mark Jesus healed the demon-possessed as well as the sick the whole city came to be healed, Mark 1: Even in Mark Demon possession is a spiritual wickedness that does terrify humans, even to this day. Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him.
I implore You by God that You do not torment me. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine there were about two thousand ; and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea. And they went out to see what it was that had happened. And they were afraid. First, we read that he dwelt among the tombs, which matches accounts of other demon-possessed individuals. This tells us that this man had a demon who was driving him to kill himself , and that cutting oneself is a sign of something deeply wrong. Those today who think about suicide or contemplate killing themselves may not have a demon as did this man, but their desire for self-harm indicates something of a mental challenge.
Suicidal thoughts are not symptomatic of wellness and wholeness. In verse 6, the man with the demons runs and worships Jesus, begging Jesus not to torment him. The demons themselves know that they will be tormented in the end and will end up in Hell fire. Jesus then asks the demon his name: Well, now, we can apply this idea of legion to the legion of demons within this man at the tombs. This alone shows us that God is sovereign, more powerful than even the fallen angels. They know far more than humans know; as spiritual beings, they see the physical realm and the spiritual realm in a way that humans cannot.
They cannot exist on their own, but can only do what God allows.
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God is superior to them because they need His permission to do anything, and they know they need His permission because they ask for it in all situations. Without God, not even Satan can do anything! That testifies to just how ultimately powerless Satan and his fallen angels truly are. After the thousands of demons or unclean spirits enter into the swine, the swine fall off a cliff and drown in the sea.
He had been naked and wore no clothes Luke 8: We see that he is now of himself, healed from his demonic possession, and as cognizant of his surroundings as anyone. We also know that the attempt failed miserably and that Satan and his rebellious angels are kicked out, expelled from heaven. Some fallen angels, now in Hell, while others are on the earth, go their separate ways. We see the fallen angels intermarry into humanity according to Genesis 6 and bear children, giants, by human women.
We also discover that these giants were more apparent in biblical days than we believed, as the Israelites feared taking possession of the Promised Land because the Anakim, one family of giants, lived there — and the Israelites appeared as grasshoppers before them Numbers Goliath, of course, as is the case with others such as Og, King of Bashan, all stem from the intermarriage and sexual relations of angelic beings with human women. Satan, like his fallen angels, is demonic and can enter into humans and animals.
They surface in that they indwell people, particularly in the New Testament. The Devil and his followers rebelled against God, which explains why they transferred themselves from the Kingdom of God to the Kingdom of Darkness. Though Satan tries to emulate all that God does, his kingdom will fall and he will come to an end along with his evil demons.
They will all have their share in the lake of fire and brimstone, where, as even the demons acknowledged, they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever Revelation About Us All Our Articles. In Hell, according to Scripture: We find this tidbit of detail out in the Book of Job: As the apostle Paul speaks of him: The sons of God is a biblical reference that confirms the angels in other places, too: Tell Me, if you have understanding.
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Fallen from Grace: What the Bible Says About Fallen Angels
How Many Angels Followed Satan? The Lucifer Reference in Isaiah 14 Within the Christian church, there is a great discussion regarding Satan and references to him in the Bible. How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! The brood of evildoers shall never be named. Similar to The first Book of Enoch, they taught sorcery on earth, causing corruption.
The Book of Jubilees refers to the Watchers, who are among the angels created on the first day. Afterwards, he becomes their leader:. Unlike in The first Book of Enoch, although the existence of supernatural evil is affirmed, evil is not introduced first by the fall of angels. Further, the fallen angels and demons seem to have no power independent from God but only act within his framework.
Although the concept of fallen angels developed from early Judaism during the Second Temple period , rabbis from the second century onwards turned against the Enochian writings, probably in order to prevent fellow Jew from worship and veneration of angels, but also to belittle the angels as a class and emphasize the omnipresence of God. Yohai cursed everyone who explained the Sons of God as angels. He states, Sons of God were actually sons of judges or sons of nobles. Evil was no longer attributed to heavenly forces, now it was dealt as an "evil inclination" yetzer hara within humans.
In some midrashim the "evil inclination" is attributed to Samael , who is in charge of several accuser angels. The reacceptance of fallen angels in midrashic discourse was probably influenced by circulation of fallen angels in Islamic lore. The idea of fallen angels is taken into account in the aggadic-midrashic work Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer.
Azrael is a moral hybrid, she can see both evil and good through her mismatched eyes. I can't wait to read the next in the series. I would recommend this book to mature young adults and older. I liked the book not because Robert was hot with his mercury-colored eyes or not because he seems so understanding not at all. The cause of evil was shifted from superior powers to humans themselves, and to the very beginning of history; the expulsion of Satan and his angels on the one hand and the original sin of humans on the other hand.
The first fall of angels is attributed to Samael. Accordingly, Samael refused to worship Adam and objected God favoring him over the angels. Thereupon he descends to Adams abode and tempt him into sin. While the first fall of angels, probably rooted in the motif of the fall of Iblis in the Quran and the fall of Satan in the Cave of Treasures , the second fall of angels echos the Enochian narratives.
Again the "sons of God" mentioned in Gen 6: During their fall, their "strength and stature became like the sons of man" and again they gave existence to the giants by intercourse with human woman. Although not fallen , evil angels, such as Samael, who also appeared in reference to the Enochian fallen angels, reappear in Kabbalah. Origen and other Christian writers linked the fallen morning star of Isaiah The Book of Revelation tells of "that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world", being thrown down to the Earth together with his angels.
In verses 7—9, Satan is defeated in the War in Heaven against Michael and his angels: Christian tradition has applied to Satan not only the image of the morning star in Isaiah Rabbinic literature saw these two passages as in some ways parallel, even if it perhaps did not associate them with Satan, and the episode of the fall of Satan appears not only in writings of the early Church Fathers and in apocryphal and pseudepigraphic works, but also in rabbinic sources. During the period immediately before the rise of Christianity , the intercourse between the Watchers and human women was often seen as the first fall of the angels.
Christianity stuck to the Enochian writings at least until the third century. According to the Church Fathers who accepted this doctrine, these angels were guilty of having transgressed the limits of their nature and of desiring to leave their heavenly abode to experience sensual experiences. The wicked angels who will share in Satan's fate are the angels who sinned with the women before the Flood, who, far from being locked away to do further mischief, are no other than the troublesome Principalities and Powers of the Deutero-Pauline apistles and-believe it or not- are also the Gods of the Pagans.
Accordingly, pagan deities were regarded as fallen angels or their demonic offspring in disguise. Justin also held them responsible for Christian persecution during the first centuries.
Fall from Grace
The Fall of Lucifer probably finds its earliest identification with a fallen angel in Origen , [70] [71] based on an interpretation of Isaiah This description was interpreted typologically as an angel in addition to its literal application to a human king: By the third century, Christians began to reject the Enochian literature.
The sons of God became identified merely with righteous men, more precisely with descendants of Seth who had been seduced by women descended from Cain.
The cause of evil was shifted from superior powers to humans themselves, and to the very beginning of history; the expulsion of Satan and his angels on the one hand and the original sin of humans on the other hand. Others denied any physical relation to material elements, depicting the fallen angels as purely spiritual entities. Augustine, in his Civitas Dei , divided the world into two Civitates: Two societies distinct from each other and opposed to each other like light and darkness.
On the other hand, the heavenly city is inhabited by righteuous men and the angels led by God.
Fallen to Grace
Accordingly, the inhabitants of the earthly city can only operate within their God-given framework. The obedient angels are endowed with grace , giving them a deeper understanding of God's nature and the order of the cosmos. Illuminated by God-given grace, they became incapable to feel any desire to sin. The other angels, however, were not blessed with grace, thus they remained capable to sin. After these angels decided to sin, they fell from heaven and became demons. Like Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity shares the basic belief in fallen angels as spiritual beings who rebelled against God.
Unlike Catholicism, there is no established doctrine about the exact nature of fallen angels, but Eastern Orthodox Christianity unanimously agrees that the power of fallen angels is always inferior to God. Therefore, belief in fallen angels can always be assimilated with local lore, as long it does not break basic principles.
As in Catholicism, fallen angels tempt and incite people into sin, but mental illness is also linked to fallen angels. Together with demons, they continue to cause sin and corruption on earth.
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