III. DOCTRINE OF ANGELS (Angelology: Elect and Evil)
A. We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels. We believe that one, Lucifer, the highest in rank, sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan. We believe that a great company of the angels followed him in his moral fall, all of whom became demons. Some are active as his agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes, while others who fell are reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
B. We believe that Satan is the originator of sin in the spiritual universe and the physical world, and that, under the decree of God, he, through subtlety, led our first parents, Adam and Eve, into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjecting them and their posterity to his own power.
C. We believe that Satan is the enemy of God and the people of God, opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped; and that he who in the beginning said, “I will be like the most High,” in his warfare appears as an angel of light, even counterfeiting the works of God by fostering false religious movements and false systems of doctrine.
D. Although Satan is the enemy of God, he is nevertheless under the divine control of God, and his evil is being used by God in the execution of His eternal purpose.
E. We believe that Satan was judged at the cross, though not then executed, and he, a usurper, now rules as the “god of this world.” He is called “god” not because of his intrinsic nature or as if there is any other God besides the One, for that would be polytheism. But he is called god by reason of the sway and influence he has over fallen humanity. Similarly Jesus called mammon “lord” and apostle Paul called the belly “god.”
F. The believer is to resist Satan by using the armour of God spoken of in Ephesians 6 and the epistles of James and Peter. The believer should not rebuke or revile Satan, as is the habit of false prophets.
G. At the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years, and after the thousand years he will be loosed for a little season and then cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where he shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
H. We believe, that a great company of angels kept their holy estate and are before the throne of God, from where they are sent forth as ministering spirits to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.
Isa. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:11-19; 1 Tim. 3:6; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; Gen. 3:1-19; Rom. 5:12-14; 2 Cor. 4:3-4; 11:13-15; Eph. 6:1012; 2 Thess. 2:4; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 1 Cor. 5:5; 1 Tim. 1:20; Job 1; Acts 2:23; Matt. 6:24; Phil. 3:19; Col. 2:15; Rev. 20:13,10; Lk. 5:10; Eph. 1:21; Heb. 1:14; Rev. 7:12; Jude 1:8-10; Jam. 4:7-8; 1 Pet. 5:8-9.
The following books and materials reflect in fuller detail our position on the doctrine of Angelology (elect and evil):
Angels: Elect and Evil – C. Fred Dickason
Angels, God’s Invisible Agents – Renald Showers
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