3823 — Take Heed How Ye Read
By Editor
A subscriber writes us: "In the special religious liberty number of the 'Signs,' No. 1, I note the following question in the 'Question Corner': 'How many angels fell with Satan?' The answer is given, 'We do not know.'" And then our critic says, "If you will look in the 'Spirit of Prophecy,' volume 1, page 22, you will find a more satisfactory answer." Evidently our critic did not read the question through in the "Question Corner," or did not note the question answered. The question asked was, "How many angels fell with Satan?"— not what proportion, as the answer especially notes; for the answer in the "Question Corner" gives a definite proportion. The expression in the "Spirit of Prophecy" does not give anything definite. It simply tells us "nearly one half," and one third is nearly one half. There is only the difference of a sixth. But the expression in Revelation 12 would quite clearly intimate that one third of the angels fell. But how many this one third was we have no means of knowing. We know that of the two thirds that were left it is said they were "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands," called in Hebrews 12 "an innumerable company."