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carrying through to the Flood.
After that, Sodom and Gomorrah.
This book of books, containing
the revealed knowledge of the Cre–
ator God, tells us that God created
angels as composed of spirit. But
can you imagine angels becoming
sinning
ange ls? Angels were
created with power of thought, of
decision and of choice, else they
have no individuality of character.
Since
sin
is the transgression of
God's law, these angels rebeJied
against God's law, the basis of
God's government.
But how and when did the angels
sin?
Notice carefully what is revealed
in
ll
Peter 2:4-5: "For if God
spared not the angels that sinned,
but cast them down to heJI, and
delivered them into chains of dark–
ness, to be reserved unto judgment;
and spared not the old world, but
.saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the
ungodly." The phrase "cast ...
down to hell" in the above verse is
an English expression translated
from the Greek
tartaroo,
from
tar–
taros,
found in no other passage in
all the Bible.
Tartaros
means a
place or condition of restraint.
These verses show that universal
sin brings universal destruction to
the physical earth. The antedilu–
vian sin, culminating with the
Flood, was worldwide, universal
sin. Notice: " ... the earth
was
filled
with violence ... for
al/ flesh
had corrupted his way upon the
earth .. . for the
earth is fil/ed
with
violence ..."(Gen. 6:11-13). "But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord.... Noah was a just man and
perfect in h is generations, and
Noah walked with God" (verses 8-
9). All flesh had sinned-over the
whole earth. Bu t
only Noah
"walked with God." So, the Flood
destroyed
the whole earth- aJI
but
Noah and his family.
The homosexual and other sins
of Sodom and Gomorrah spread
over the territory of those two cit–
ies. And physical destruction carne
to their entire area. The sin of the
angels was worldwide; th·e destruc–
tion of the physical was worldwide.
(And there is reason to believe, as
will be explained in chapter seven,
universe-wide.)
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The verses quoted above place
the sinning of the angels
prior
to
the ántedil uvian sins that started
with Adam,
prior
to the creation of
man. And
that
shou ld be a surprise
revealing of one phase of the mys–
tery! Angels inhabited this earth
before
the creation of man.
1
t is revealed in Isaiah 14 and
Ezekiel 28 that God placed the
archangel Lucifer, a cherub, on a
throne on the earth. He was placed
there as a ruler over the entire
earth. God intended him to rule the
earth by administering the govern–
ment of God over the earth. And
the government of God was admin–
istered on earth until the rebell ion
of the sinning angels.
How long these angels inhabited
the earth before the creation of
man is not revealed.
lt
might have
been millions-or even biJiions-of
years. More on that later. But these
angels sinned. S in is the transgres–
sion of God's law
(1
John 3:4). And
God's law is the basis of God's gov–
ernment. So we know these angels,
apparently a third of all the angels
(Rev. 12:4), sinned-rebelled
against the government of God.
And sin carries penalties. The pen–
alty for the sin of the angels is not
death,
as it is for man. Angels are
immortal spirit beings and cannot
die. These spi r it beings had
been
given dominion
over the
PHYSICAL
EARTH
as a possession and an
abode.
The universal, worldwide sin of
the angels resulted in the physical
destruction of the face of the
earth.
God Rules His Creation
God is Creator. God is also Ruler
over his c reation . He preserves
what he creates by his government.
What God creates, he has created
fo r a purpose-to be used,
improved, developed, preserved and
maintained . And this use is regu–
lated by God's government. When
the angels rebelled against God's
governrnent, the development and
improvement of the earth-"put–
ting the icing on the cake"–
ceased. The preservation and devel- .
opment of the physical earth and all
its orig i nal beauty and glory
ceased-and physical destruction
to the surface of the earth
resulted!
By t h is angelic sin, Lucifer
became Satan the devil and his
angels became demons.
God is Creator, Preserver and
Ruler.
Satan is destroyer!
So, now we read in J ude 6-7:
"And the angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own
habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and
the cities about them in like man–
ner, giving themselves over to for–
nication, and going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eterna!
fire."
Now back to Genesis 1:1-2.
Verse 1, as stated above, implies a
perfect creation. God is the author
of life, of beauty, of perfection.
Satan has brought only darkness,
ugliness, imperfection, violence.
Verse 1 shows the creation of a
perfect, if unfinished earth, glo–
rious and beautiful. Verse 2 reveals
the result of the sin of the
angels.
"And the earth was [became]
without forro, and void ." The
words "without forrn, and void" are
translated from the Hebrew
tohu
and
bohu.
A better translation is
"waste and empty" or "chaotic, in
confusion and in a state of decay."
The word
was
is elsewhere in Gen–
esis also translated
became,
as in
Genesis 19:26. In other words, the
earth, originally created perfect
and beautifu l, had now become
chaotic, waste and empty, like our
moon, except earth's surface was
covered with water.
David was inspired to reveal how
God renewed the face of the earth:
· "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they
are created: and thou renewest the
face of the earth" (Ps. 104:30) .
A Surprising Truth
Now another surprise for most
readers. Here is another bit of the
missing dimension in knowledge,
actuaJiy revealed in the Bible, but
unrecognized by religion, by
science and by higher education.
From verse 2 of Genesis 1 on,
the remainder of this first chapter
of the Bible is
not
describing the
originaL creation of the earth. But it
is
describing a renewing of the face
The
PLAIN TRUTH