Every Angel in the Bible

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“Satan’s first remark encouraged them to focus on the prohibition, to cast the Lord as harsh and repressive.” (Page 8)

“God populated the spiritual realm with angels (Psalm 148:1–6). The Bible clearly indicates that God populated the spiritual realm with beings we call angels. Psalm 148:1–6 calls on ‘all His angels’ and ‘all His hosts’ to praise the Lord, along with sun, moon, and stars, for ‘He commanded and they were created.’ Job calls the angels ‘sons of God’—a Hebrew idiom which indicates direct creation by God—and says that they ‘shouted for joy’ at the creation of the earth (Job 38:7). So while we do not know exactly when the spiritual realm was populated, the Bible clearly suggests it was before the creation of our material universe. Thus Satan, a member of that spiritual realm, existed before the birth of our race, and his appearance in the Garden of Eden, though unexpected, can be explained.” (Page 6)

“To truly be persons like God, persons rather than mere puppets, Adam and Eve had to be given the opportunity to make a responsible moral choice, for God is a moral Person who exercises choice.” (Page 5)

“Eve chose to rely on her senses rather than on God’s word” (Page 9)

“The blessings and the cursings represent commitments God made to Israel: Keep the Law, and be blessed; or violate the Law, and be punished. Again we see that the Law never had anything to do with establishing a relationship with God. Any human being’s relationship with God is, and always has been, established by faith, and faith alone.” (Page 88)