3952 - How Many Angels? by C. M.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

3952 — How Many Angels?

By C. M.

How many angels fell?

We do not know; it is nowhere revealed. If we knew just the original number of angels there were, we might have a better idea as to just how many fell; but in the two instances in which the numbers are mentioned, the definite number is not given. We read in Dan. 7:10 that they numbered ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; and this same number is given in Revelation 5. This is called, in Hebrews, the 12th chapter, "an innumerable company." From Rev. 12:4, we would gather that one third of these fell; that when the dragon representing the devil fell from heaven, he drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. Sometimes this is stated as nearly one half, but the prophecy seems to have reference to the angels. Of course, not knowing how many the "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands" are, or how many that "innumerable company" numbers, we can not tell how many fell. It certainly was a vast number, and the legions of the demons in this world demonstrate it.