| Subject: Re: The War in Heaven |
Author:
Penny
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Date Posted: Sun, Nov 02 2003, 11:36:41
In reply to:
Penny
's message, "Angels" on Sat, Nov 01 2003, 19:54:23
Thus began the War in Heaven, the story of which was greatly embellished by Jewish and Christian theologians in the early centuries after Christ. Satan, the Devil, was conceived as having originally been a great angel in Heaven. He was given the pre-Fall name of Archangel Lucifer, based on a misinterpretation of a passage in Isaiah. One version of Lucifer's story tells that he was God's favorite angel, the most radiant in heaven (Lucifer means "lightbearer"), who refused God's command to bow down and honor Adam, the first man, as the image of God. Another version says that Lucifer was so proud that he seized an opportunity to sit upon God's throne. The incorruptible Archangle Michael took up arms against him at once, whereupon he withdrew and gathered the support of a third of the angels of Heaven.
The titanic battle that followed led to the rebellious angels being thrown into the abyss as devils and demons.
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