“Did one third of the angels fall with Lucifer?”

While there is no verse that says a “third of the angels fell from heaven,” some verses, when put together, lead us to that conclusion. Sometime after their creation, and most certainly after the sixth day when everything was declared "very good" Genesis 1:31 Satan rebelled and was cast out of heaven. Isaiah 14:1212 "How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning!You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.When Lucifer sinned, Jesus said,Luke 10:1818 "Yes," he told them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!In the book of the Revelation Satan is seen as "a star that had fallen from the sky to the earthRevelation 9:1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. (Or the abyss, or the underworld)We are also told that one third of the angles who chose to rebel with him were hurled to the earth. Revelation 12:3-9John saw this great wonder in heaven, "├ö├ç┬¬an enormous red dragon├ö├ç┬¬His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth├ö├ç┬¬the great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him" Since Satan is referred to as a star which fell or was cast down to earth, and Revelation 12:4 says a third of the stars were cast out with him, then the conclusion is that the stars in Revelation 12 refer to fallen angels, fully one third of the heavenly host. If the one-third number is in fact accurate, what assurance that is! Two thirds of the angels are still on God’s side, and for followers of Christ, they are on our side as well.

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