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THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 19.

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"THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS."

1. Whence came the devil to the earth?
"There was war in heaven; Michael and His angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Rev. 12 : 7-9.
"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name. And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Luke 10 : 17, 18.
2. Why were Satan and his angels cast out of heaven?
They were cast out because they sinned. See 2 Peter 2 : 4; Eze. 28 : 11-15; Isa. 14 : 12-15.
3. What other titles are given to Satan?
He is called "Beelzebub, the prince of the devils" (Matt. 12 : 24); "the prince of this world" (John 12 : 31; 14 : 30); "the god of this world" (2 Cor. 4 : 4); "the prince of the power of the air" (Eph. 2 : 2).
4. What are Satan's chief characteristics?
"He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8 : 44.
5. By means of his lying and cunning devices, what has Satan been enabled to do?
He has deceived "the whole world" (Rev. 12 : 9). He sought to overcome the Saviour of men (Matt. 4 : 1-10); he influenced Judas to betray Christ (Luke 22 : 3-6); he desired to destroy Peter also (verses 31, 32); and he has ever been "the spirit that . . . worketh in the children of disobedience" (Eph. 2 : 2).
In the work of deception, "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers [angels] also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." 2 Cor. 11 : 14, 15.
6. For what was Christ manifested to the world?
That He might destroy the devil (Heb. 2 : 14), and also the works of the devil (1 John 3 : 8).
7. Are the devils aware that they are to be destroyed?
The devils which possessed two men in the country of the Gergesenes asked Jesus, "Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time?" Matt. 8 : 29.
"Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Rev. 12 : 12.
8. How will the devil and his angels be destroyed?
"Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Matt. 25 : 41; also Jude 6, 7; Rev. 20 : 7-10, and Eze. 28 : 17-19.
9. How may we be guarded against the deceptions of the devil and his angels?
"To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8 : 20.