Was the Devil One Time An Angel in Heaven?

The theory of the Devil being a fallen angelic being never entered into the teaching, nor troubled the people of God in the Old Testament, nor the New Testament first century Church. It was clear to them that it was nothing more than the Semitic myth that the morning star fell from heaven. Myth means an invented story of an imaginary person, or thing coming down from the past which many people have believed. And it is this that the fate of the King of Babylon is compared in Isaiah 14:12.

There is no Scriptural teaching that the Devil was one time an angelic being in heaven, or that he is a fallen angel. That is wholly a myth or legend passed down through the ages of heathen people, and is heathenish teaching. Semite, meaning the descendants of Shem, a member of the white division of the human race. In ancient times including the Babylonians, Assyrians, Armenians, Phoenicians, and various other people of Southwestern Asia.

The theory that sometime, somewhere, God created certain angelic beings and put them on probation is wholly unscriptural, and false. The only created, creature of God, put on probation was man. Probation means nothing more than during a time of living on earth man is to live by the rules of God. But during this time there will be periods when he will have temptations, trials, testing his conduct and character. Mankind is the only created creature of God placed in this realm.

God’s created, angelic beings are the Spirit of God, which was part of God himself, with no power of choice. They could do nothing more than the will and bidings of their creator. It is absurd to think that God would rebel against Himself, and put part of Himself out of heaven, to corrupt and destroy his only creation of an intelligent being (man) that he desired to enjoy daily communion and companionship with.

The people of the New Testament whom Peter, and Jude wrote referring to the Angels that sinned, understood clearly that the writer was dealing with the Patriarchs before the flood, who kept not their position as holy men of God, designed to be leaders of God’s people during the antediluvian age, but fell from this high plane, to the lowest state of sin, rebellion, and corruption. They did not need a long treatise on who the writer had reference, but it was clear to them, as well as the statements about Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot, and Egypt.

It is tragic to see how since the time of the 16th Century Reformation, and especially during recent times this false theory has interwoven itself so strongly in the dogma of denominationalism and supposedly evangelical religion. The basic reason for this is to destroy the eternal phase of God’s glorious plan of eternal salvation. If an angelic being created of God, the Spirit of God, part of God, with no power of choice can rebel, there is no assurance that man a created being with the power of choice will not at some time rebel in heaven, get put out, and lose his eternal state and home in glory. The plan of God is eternal. When once in heaven, one will forever be with the Lord. To expose the false and give the true Scriptural truth is very disturbing to the Devil and his messengers.

Therefore, with love let me say, get your Bible and prayerfully peruse this book with one thing in mind, that what I believe and teach must be Biblically sound.

Yours for the Truth,

Lawrence J. Chesnut, B.Th, D.D., Ph.D