THE
PARABLE OF FALLEN ANGELS
05-23-21
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(Psa
104:4) [God] Who maketh his angels spirits; his
ministers a
flaming fire: [Heb 1:7]
1.
(Psa
104:4) [God] Who maketh [forms] his
angels
[His expressed Thoughts, His Messages, His Words] spirits
[Good
(innocent): parts (members) of His Holy Spirit (a consuming fire). Evil
(fallen):
e.g., Legion for one spirit is “many” Mark 5:9]; his ministers [us]
a flaming fire:
2.
(Heb
12:29) For our God is a consuming fire. [therefore His
angels-spirits
are consuming fire]
(Eccl
12:7) Then shall the dust [Gen 2:7] return to
the earth
as it was: and the [lost] spirit [fallen
angel that was wounded (i.e., without Holiness and the power
thereof)]
shall return [Heb: come home again, (be) restored] unto
God [unto Holiness] who gave [Heb:
made]
[formed] it [the angel-spirit].
THAT
WHICH IS LOST FROM THE WHOLE IS FOUND,
AND
RETURNS TO THE WHOLE
FIRST
EXAMPLE
(Luke
15:1-7) Then drew near unto him
all the publicans [Gk: tax collectors] [politicians]
and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees [Heb:
separatists] and scribes [Gk: writers] [lawyers]
murmured,
saying, This man receiveth [Gk: has intercourse with]
[has associations,
relationships with] sinners, and eateth with them. And
he [Jesus
Christ] spake this parable [Gk: a fictitious
narrative of common life conveying a moral] unto them, saying,
What man
of you, having an hundred sheep [in his sheepfold],
if
he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the
wilderness [in the protecting sheepfold], and go
after
that which is lost [by calling for the sheep by name (by
preaching
the Word of God)], until he find it? And when he hath found
it,
he [gently] layeth it on his shoulders [and
the
sheep can do nothing of/on his own but has become totally
dependent upon
being carried by the shepherd], rejoicing. And when he
cometh
home [to His heavenly sheepfold], he calleth together
his friends
and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I
have found
my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy
shall be in
heaven [the heavenly sheepfold] over one sinner
[fallen angel] that repenteth [Gk: to think
differently,
reconsiders], more than over ninety and nine just persons
[Gk:
innocent, holy: righteous] [angels], which need no repentance.
SECOND
EXAMPLE
(Luke
15:8-10) Either what woman having ten pieces of silver
[metallic
(not burnable) individual symbols of saved men/women (angels) of great
value
to the Lord], if she lose one piece, doth not light
a candle,
and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find
it? And
when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours
together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the
piece
[angel-sheep-person] which I had lost. Likewise,
I say
unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of
God over
one sinner that repenteth [Gk: to think differently,
reconsiders].
THIRD
EXAMPLE
(Luke
15:11-13) And he [Jesus Christ] said, A
certain man had
two [spiritual (many membered)] sons
[in
heaven, representing the two groups of innocent angels (Law -
OT), and sinning
angels (Grace - NT)] [Who was the first sinner? Answer:
Lucifer-Satan]:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father,
give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me [i.e., my
inheritance, a
questionable (legal) request] [1]. And he divided
[Gk:
separated] unto them [both] his living
[Gk: life] [i.e., eternal life] [but Father God did not divide
His
Holiness which cannot be separated from Him]. And not
many days
after the younger son gathered all together, and took his
journey into a
far country [and he became separated from his
Father, i.e.,
no holiness], and there wasted [Gk: dissipated,
separated,
fig. squandered] his substance [Gk: possessions:
goods]
with riotous [Gk: dissolute: unsavedness]
living
[Gk: life (time)].
1.
Commentary:
the Hebrew laws of inheritance were that a double-portion of the total
estate
would go to the eldest, and a single portion to each other survivor. In
this presented
case of “two sons” (two inheritors), a two third’s part
(a
double-portion) of the estate to the eldest [the innocent
angel
group] and the third part (a single-portion) to
the
younger [the sinning angel group].
a.
(Rev
12:4a) And his [the dragon’s] tail
drew the
third part of the stars [symbol of angels] of
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: [a
coincidence??]
(Luke
15:14-16) And when he had spent all [Gk: wasted],
there
arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in
want [Gk:
suffer need]. And he went and joined [Gk: to
glue: cleaved]
himself to a citizen of that country; and he [the
citizen]
sent him into his fields to feed swine [Gk: hogs] [pigs].
And
he would fain [Gk: longed for: coveted, desired, lusted to]
have
filled his belly with the husks [empty seed pods] [1]
that
the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
1.
(Luke
8:11) Now the parable is
this: The seed is the word of God.
(Luke
15:17-24) And when he came to himself [became
clearheaded,
regained his senses, was “in his right mind” Luke 8:35], he
said, How
many hired servants [Gk: wage-earners] [servants for
pay] of
my father's have bread enough [(in this life)]
and to
spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to
my
father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven,
and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy
son:
make me as one of thy hired servants [i.e., as the least in the
kingdom
of God/heaven]. And he arose, and came to his father.
But
when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him,
and had
compassion [Gk: to feel sympathy, have pity], and
ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him [1]. And
the son said
unto him, [A confession:] Father, I have
sinned against
heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be
called thy
son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the
best robe,
and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on
his feet:
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us
eat, and
be merry: For this my son was dead [to Me], and
is
alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they
began to be
merry.
1.
(James
4:8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your
hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded [i.e.,
that
is how you draw nigh to God].
(Luke
15:25-30) Now his elder son [Law, representing the
two-thirds
of innocent angels who remained in Heaven] was [working]
in the field [“The field is the world” Matt 13:38]:
and as
he came and drew nigh to the house [of God], he heard
musick
and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what
these things
meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother [Grace] is
come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he
hath
received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go
in:
therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said
to his
father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither
transgressed
[sinned] I at any time thy commandment: and yet
thou never
gavest me a kid [1], that I might make merry with my
friends:
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living
with
harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
1.
(Luke
17:10) So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those
things
which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants:
we
have done that which was our duty [Gk: obligation: bound] to
do [Law, not subjectively desiring to do or not do,
but being
objectively bound to do].
(Luke
15:31,32) And he [Father God] said unto him, Son
[God’s
original innocent angels], thou art ever with me, and
all that
I have is thine. It was meet [fitting] that we
should make
merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is
alive again
[is resurrected]; and was lost, and is found.
THE
EXCEPTION
(John
17:12) While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those
that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but
the
son of perdition [i.e., Lucifer-Satan, in whose “tail” (Rev
12:4) resides
not thousands of unclean spirits/fallen angels like in Legion (a
6,000
count Roman legion), but perhaps billions of universal fallen
angels];
that the scripture might be fulfilled [John 13:18].
Amen