The Bible Doctrine Hour
presents
Pastor Robert McLaughlin
The Angelic Conflict 2012 - Part 8
1JO 1:9 If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and righteous, with the result that He forgives us our sins and purifies us from all unrighteousness.
Point 3. The Angelic Conflict began before the creation of the human race.
The revelation concerning the Angelic Conflict begins with the dateless period between the creation of the heavens and the earth in their perfect form.
They first appeared in GEN 1:1 and then went on for an unknown period of time until there were some devastating judgments which ended that period, when earth became waste and empty, GEN 1:2.
JOB 38:4-5, "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements, since you know? Or who stretched the line on it?"
JOB 38:6-7, "On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars [angels] sang together, And all the sons of God [the angels] shouted for joy?"
GEN 1:1 the universe, the heavens and the earth, were originally created as the domain of the angels.
REV 12:4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars [angles] of heaven,
formless and void which is tohuw waabohuw because it's coming up in another passage that's important to our subject.
Isaiah tells us about a time like this in ISA 24:1 Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.
After this GEN 1:2b tells us "and the Spirit of God began to move over the surface of the waters."
Man's occupancy on the earth came long after the creation of the earth.
Man's occupancy on planet earth didn't last too long before Adam and the woman fell and then Satan became the ruler of the world again!
We could say a lot about the devil such as the fact that he is the highest of all angels, and ruler of all fallen angels MAT 8:28; MAT 9:34; MAT 12:26; LUK 11:18‑19.
He is an organizational genius with a great organization of demons, EPH 6:10‑12.
The king of Tyre was one the few individuals in human history who was possessed by Satan just like the serpent in the garden and Judas Iscariot who betrayed our Lord.
Their bodies are not visible to the human race for the obvious reason of the danger of worshipping angels, as COL 2:18 warns us against.
He has the greatest mind that any creature has ever had....only one mind is more intelligent than his which is made available to creatures and that is "the mind of Christ", 1CO 2:16, PHI 2:5.
REV 12:9 "And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him."
REV 13:14, he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform
REV 18:23, he deceives the world by using a very popular church in Rome.
REV 19:20, he deceives those who had received the mark of the beast.
REV 20:3 and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
First, there is the thought of arrogance.
Then there is the decision of arrogance.
Then there is the action of arrogance.
