Spiritual Warfare #2 - The Fall of Satan & His Angels

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   okay want to welcome everyone this morning to Fire and Grace School of ministry we are in semester number two and we're in week number two and this is our spiritual warfare block and this is spiritual warfare class number two and we're going to be calling today the Fallen Angels going to be looking at that aspect of course first class last week was knowing your enemy and we just kind of uh gave an overview of what how important it is for us to know our enemy and how he operates today we're going to go back to the origins of Satan and the fallen angels and what was going on before Adam and Eve and then when Adam and Eve entered the scene for those of you who are with us in the first semester we did in apologetics class go through and talk about the Gap Theory and I call it the Gap fact now because it's absolutely I think biblical and uh historical and even has archaeological evidence but uh anyway we're going to go through some of that because we're going to have to go back to uh the fall of of Satan and the Fallen angels and of course that had to happen before the Garden of Eden so um and let me just say those of you who were with us and I think we only have one or two now that joined um this second semester and weren't here for the first but um those of you will remember that we did Cover the Gap uh teaching and i' and I've shared it before but uh I didn't really test you on it so just know that this semester that you will be tested on uh the Gap fact as I will call it all right so because we don't like theories around here um do we have enough scriptural evidence evidence to back it up I think we do so anyway let's get started this morning of course again we're call the spiritual warfare Class 2 uh the Fallen Angels probably going to are going to hear some a little bit of some things you haven't heard before because we're going to talk about the different types of angels let's look at this here of course this is uh from the Blue Letter Bible this is the definition now the Bible talks about different kinds of angels you have Bible talks about cherubs it talks about seraphim or seraps talks about uh Watchers talks about archangels um and then you know even in the descriptions of what John saw in heaven with the living creatures well let's uh let's let's let's do this first because I actually forgot to put this passage up but let's go to Job chapter 38 we're going to talk about the Angels but anyway some of them are referred to as the sons of God some of

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   them are referred to as stars um the seraps I mean you want to talk about getting getting odd the seraps are fiery serpents think about that wait a minute now what yeah so there's all kind of listen there's all kind of strange creatures these living creatures some of with foreheads an ox an eagle uh you know what was it an ox an eagle something else and a man it's just crazy right just some crazy stuff and you're like Lord you're going to have to explain all this one day but just know this we get it in our head that either Angels pretty much look like us all of them kind of look like humans and some of them may have wings and some may not and some do look like that right cuz he Hebrews chapter 13 says that you know thatth be careful to entertain strangers cuz some have entertained angels unaware right so that means they can look just like us and fool us um but obviously some of them can't and what we're going to find out is you know as we go through this a lot of things in mythology are not really myths there are things that Satan robbed that were real and especially if they belong to God he robbed them because he wanted to be like God so he robbed them and created his own you know Twisted them into his own stories as we're going to see with with Satan you know Satan's uh lies within Greek mythology but he that that within that mythology he he did Rob some things that were descriptive of the the god of the Bible and and Angelic beings and these things called cherubs and SS and um anyway it just gets interesting so let's go to the book of of job first let's let's just look there since as we talked about last week The Book of Job is one of the the oldest uh one of the first of books written in the Old Testament and uh we're going to go to job chapter 38 we see the Angels were there before creation of the heavens and the Earth and then is the Lord speaking to job and said then the Lord answered job out of the Whirlwind and said who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge G up now thy loins like a man for I will demand of thee and answer thou me where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth declare if thou Hast understanding who laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who ha stretched the line upon it whereupon are the foundations thereof fast Len and who laid the Cornerstone thereof he says when so when God says when he was doing this laying the foundation of the Earth the Cornerstone stretching the line upon it creating the heavens and the Earth he said when the

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   morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for Joy now this is at the creation of the heavens in the Earth this is before Adam and Eve this is before man okay this is before mankind was created by God and he talks about these morning stars and these sons of God now why would he give you two different descriptions if all Angels were the same why would one group be called the morning stars and one be called the sons of God right so he's showing you there's different kinds of angels now I'm going to tell you what I believe for my study and research I believe the sons of God are the ones that are more humanlike in appearance okay and obviously as we're going to discover uh in as we progress in this spiritual warfare class that they're the ones also that were able to procreate have sexual relations with human women and create the Nephilim or the Giants or the ra rfim the emanem the Zam zumans the so on down the line right so we'll talk about all that too again and again we're going to be overlapping some stuff because what's the best method of teaching repetition right and from some of your test scores you guys need it all right so let's do this so the morning Stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy and we're going to talk about what the Stars the definition of that in a minute now let's go to Isaiah 6 and we'll start at verse one now here we're going to have we we've already heard of morning Stars we've heard of the sons of God they're are of course mentioned in Genesis 6 about seeing the daughters of men creating a race of giants here Isaiah has a vision of something going on in heaven he sees the Lord and He also sees these angels around the Throne of God who cry holy holy holy so let's look at this in the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple and above it stood the sarapes so there's you another class of angels sarapes seraps um without the IMs is the singular sarapes plural he says above it stood the sarapes each one had six wings with Twain he covered his face with two he covered his face with Twain or two he covered his feet and with Twain he did fly so this seraphim which literally means fiery

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   serpent had six wings all right now how many times have you seen in any kind of Christian art an angel depicted with six wings not very much not at all as some I mean there's a little bit but not that's not your prominent picture that you get but here it is in your Bible but let's keep reading it says and one cried to another and said holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoke uh now the voice of him that cried who is that I think a lot of we interpret that as the the Lord the Lord's not the one crying holy holy holy here right the seraphim so the seraphim cried holy his voice caused things to shake so I'm just I'm pointing that out to show you these creatures have tremendous power now of course not more power than God Almighty their creator and our creator but they do have power so you have the seraphim there all right now we are going to have this verse up in the PowerPoint but we're going to go ahead and read it real quick so let's go to Ezekiel 28 we'll be coming back to these in a minute but just lay the foundation Ezekiel chapter 28 but he's talking about this king of Tyrus and actually uh I believe he's really talking to Satan Satan was obviously ruling through uh in this area possibly through a man in this area but this these words are to someone that's not a man all right so let's look at this Ezekiel 28 the word of the Lord came unto me uh again unto me saying son of man say unto the prince of Tyrus thus saith the Lord God because thine heart is lifted up and thou Hast said I am a god God I sit in the seat of a God in the midst of the Seas yet thou art a man and not a god though thou set thine heart as the heart of God now let me just say this sometimes it's interesting you see the Lord you're going to see this he refers to Satan as a man but again he's not a man it's just kind of a general term because he will appear that way many times all right just like I talked about the Angels who appear to look like us many times all right he says behold Thou Art wiser than Daniel now think about that you're wiser than Daniel there is no secret that can hide from thee but thy wisdom and thy understanding thou has gotten thee riches and gold and silver to thy Treasures but thy uh but thy great

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