God presides over heaven’s court;
he pronounces judgment on the heavenly beings:
“How long will you hand down unjust decisions
by favoring the wicked? Interlude
“Give justice to the poor and the orphan;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
Rescue the poor and helpless;
deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
But these oppressors know nothing;
they are so ignorant!
They wander about in darkness,
while the whole world is shaken to the core.
I say, ‘You are gods;
you are all children of the Most High.
But you will die like mere mortals
and fall like every other ruler.’”
PSALM 82:1-7 NLT
Fallen angels are former shepherds who now feed on the very flock they were assigned to care for.
…angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.
HEBREWS 1:14 NLT
“What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people—the shepherds of my sheep—for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for,” says the Lord.
JEREMIAH 23:1 NLT
Originally given to the earth as servants of Mankind, they have become tyrants, intended to be a blessing, now they bring nothing but death.
The nature of fallen angels is not spoken of much in the scriptures. However, we can draw conclusions based on the similarities between them and the spirit-dead of Mankind, a parallel established in Jude, the second-to-last book of the bible.
…the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion…
…
these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.
Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.
These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
JUDE 1:6-7 & 10-13 NIV
Separated from the life of God, the fallen are like degraded animals, their senses dulled and their functionality reduced to instinct. What they do is irrational; they are savagely pursuing their own destruction. No longer looking like the angels they once were, they go by a new name – the demon.
They slander that which they do not understand: Jesus Christ, his Church, the Holy Spirit and the gift of grace. They are voracious. They wound, poison, and infect with disease. They tangle their prey with cords of guilt and shame to keep them compliant. They feast on the vulnerable.
But they are not only fixated on killing that which has God’s favor. Led by the devil, the fallen favor the wicked, trading with any man who is willing, offering rewards for sin. For acts of rebellion they offer bursts of wealth and success, such is theirs to offer, bounty that comes to a bitter end.
Trading offers a form of legitimacy. Via transactions, humans both explicitly and implicitly grant the fallen permission to dwell in the SUPOX, feed on their nephesh, and control earth.
The fallen are twice dead. Fruitless - having shrunk back from paying the price to be everything God created them to be. Severed - forever separated from the life of God.
They have seen the very face of God and yet turned: there is no grace for these.
… if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire …
… I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”
But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
HEBREWS 10:26-27 & 38-39 NLT
They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.
ISAIAH 8:21-22 NLT
The fallen are wandering stars, homeless, and with no future. There is no salvation. There is no redemption. Theirs is a horrible end.
Excerpt From: Geoffrey Young. “Guardian Universe: The Gospel in Unexpected Terms.” https://www.cmdrpublishing.com/product-page/guardian-universe-book.
Chapter 58 GUARDIAN ANGELS
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