“A Little Lower Than The Angels”

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

All right.  Lucifer and his lot rebelled against God (this rebellion clearly showing free will) and were shown no mercy, no forgiveness, and every one of them was thrown into Hell.  Billions of humans rebel against God daily; thousands of us claim to be God, and yet He forgives us as easy as breathing. Why?

Sincerely,
Feeling Privileged

Dear Feeling Privileged,

You are referring to 2 Pet 2:4 where it states, “For if God spared not angels when they sinned”.  That verse really is all we know about the great epic angelic battle fought in the heavens.  We have a few glimpses of the battle between Satan and Michael the archangel (Jude 1:9) – but nothing to ever clarify the details of how God is handling the angels or what, if any, opportunities they had to repent.  Truth be told, we know so little about how angels work and what their relationship is with God that we cannot make any judgments about how God has dealt with the rebellious angelic host.  It would be akin to deciding who was right in an argument when you didn’t even know what it was they were arguing about!  Proverbs says that making hasty judgments in disputes we don’t understand isn’t a good idea (Pr 26:17).  In this situation, we must simply say, “The secret things belong to God” (Deu 29:29).

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