The Truth About the Angels - Our Invisible Enemies

We learned in Chapter 3 that an angel rebelled against God and wanted to rule over others.  The Bible calls him Satan the Devil.  (Revelation 12:9)  Satan also wanted others to rebel against God. He was able to trick Eve, and since then he tricked most of humans.  However, some such as Abel, Enoch and Noah remained faithful to Jehovah. - HEBREWS 11:4, 5,7.

In Noah's time, some angels rebelled and left their home in heaven to live as humans on earth.  Why? The Bible tells us that  they wanted to have wives.  (Read Genesis  6:2)  But it was wrong for angels to do that.  (Jude 6)  Like those wicked angels, most humans at that time became corrupt and violent.  Jehovah then decided to destroy wicked humans by flooding the whole earth.  But he saved his faithful servants.  (Genesis 7:17, 23)  To survive, the wicked angels returned to heaven. The Bible calls those wicked angels demons.  They chose to join Satan's rebellion, and the Devil became their ruler. - MATTHEW 9:34. 

Because they were rebels, Jehovah did not accept the demons back into his family.  ( 2 Peter 2:4)  Demons cannot change into humans  anymore, (note: but they can transfer into the human body as they are spirits) but they are still "misleading the entire inhabited earth."  (Revelations 12:9; 1 John 5:19)  Let us learn how they are able to trick, or mislead, so many . -Read 2 CORINTHIANS 22:11.

Next time: The Truth About the Angels - HOW DEMONS TRICK PEOPLE

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