Q19: What is God's providence towards the angels?
A19: God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation,[1] limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory;[2] and established the rest in holiness and happiness;[3] employing them all,[4] at his pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice.[5]
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- (Jud 1:6) And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
- (2Pe 2:4) For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
- (Heb 2:16) For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.
- (Joh 8:44) "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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- (Job 1:12) Then the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him." So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.
- (Mat 8:31) The demons began to entreat Him, saying, "If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine."
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- (1Ti 5:21) I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.
- (Mar 8:38) "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
- (Heb 12:22) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
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- (Psa 104:4) He makes the winds His messengers, Flaming fire His ministers.
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- (2Ki 19:35) Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.
- (Heb 1:14) Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
