3549 — Satan and Immortality
By Editor
If Satan is mortal, why is he not subject to the first death? Will the angels be given immortality? C. G. P. Satan will be subject to the first death, only his first death will be his last death. Spiritual beings have more vitality, more adaptability to circumstances and surroundings, than do children of men. That perhaps is the great reason. His vitality still keeps him alive—his superior organization. It was God's mercy that suffered men to die. It would have been a great calamity if man could have continued to live on and on a sinner. God permits Satan, however, that the whole universe may be tested to its fullest extent. Immortality is God's stamp of a tested, righteous character. The angels seem to have been tested at the first advent of our Lord, down to the very time of His death, when that song went forth as recorded in Revelation 12, "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them." But whether they were made immortal then, or will be made immortal when Christ comes the second time, we do not know. All those made immortal then will be those who are Christ's indeed, and have His own tested character placed upon them. Their incorruptibility of character demands their immortality of physical being.