The devil was a fallen angel was a doctrine invented in the 1800s
Bill Britton, prophet to the Missouri Ozarks did the legwork and found this out
http://www.billbrittonministries.com/site/789802/page/770697
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The rationale is similar thinking to the current sloppy grace teachers,
There is plain scripture declaring that grace is not a license to sin
Yet that did not stop the unholy blanket sin absolution movement from perpetrating that fallacy
I call their most popular book “Destined to Fail”
Grace is not needed when you aren’t in sin, it provides forgiveness if you are
But as we grow up in the natural, there comes a time when we turn and sin no more
Someone re mis-interpreted the King James Version’s mistranslation of Isaiah 14‘s “light-bringer”
From Hebrew into Latin’s “Lucifer”
On one hand, the King’s translators could have been more accurate on that passage,
But that involves delving into the thinking process of that King-led committee
They got close, but what a mess they caused here:
Clearly God is talking about a man in verse 16
Nebuchadnezzer
Clearly in verse 25 “I will break the Assyrian”
Does Satan look broken to you?
Mistranslation aside, what was the reasoning for thinking that Satan was a fallen angel?
It allows you to argue your way out of God’s clear call for living a separated life of holiness.
Same thinking used by the sloppy grace teachers, Swimming through their own muddy waters
If I can “prove” (through misinterpretation) that Jesus Himself is somehow personally the source of all evil…as some preach
Some Satanists actually use the scriptures to “prove” their claim that Jesus was the “original sinner”
And Satan had no choice, he was trapped, unable to decide, aw the poor guy
On one hand, they say Satan chose to fall, one the other, Satan was “born that way”, as Lady GaGa sings
So which is it?
They being confused themselves teach others the glory of falling into ditches
We can link these three themes together easily:
Joseph Prince, the Satanists and the fallen angel theme believers all fall into the same mental error:
Shifting responsibility for your sin to another
Prince erroneously teaches unlimited pass for sin
Satanists teach God tempted both the devil and man by putting them in an impossible situation they couldnt win
Luciferians teach there is no way God could create an evil being, but then Satan fell
Which the Satanists pick up on and use
Clearly Satan was created as a destroyer
Does that make God evil?
Certain denominations even pick up on this confusion and preach compounded confusion,
Pastors not knowing how to handle the topic avoid it altogether
The thinking goes: “If God created the devil to come against me, I have no way to beat God at his own game”
They use this as an excuse for allowing unrighteousness like porn, tattoos, sex to slip by, counting on Gods grace to cover them after the fact in an un-winnable fight
Yet the Lord gave us a clear directive in Genesis 4:7
Lets read Christ’s directive to Cain BEFORE he murdered his brother:
Genesis 4:7 If thou do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. And unto you shall be his desire, and you shall rule over him.
SHOULD we rule over sin?
Of Course!
Scripture clearly teaches we are in the drivers seat of our own lives
We have dominion over everything in the earth
Clearly sin is the earth
Clearly choice is in the earth
Clearly God is in the earth
Clearly we should rule over sin
Do we?
Did we?
Historically?
Not at all
Christ had to die because we didn’t rule over sin
Christ was our pattern, our overcoming lifestyle example to follow
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
They also get stuck when returning to the scripture, that God created Satan evil, by arguing
1) God is the creator of evil, since He created the devil that way
2) He is the original sinner, since the evil had to come from somewhere
God created cliffs
If you walk off one…..
God created the Law
If you disobey “Don’t take your neighbors wife…”
Was the Law sin because it told us about things NOT to do?
These mental giants miss the point of all of this:
“We were created in Gods image” does not just talk about spirits having arms and legs, which Jesus does have, “Sitting at the right hand of the Father”
But being created in His image means we have Freedom of choice
Knowledge of evil puts you on the God class
The “how do I handle Sin?” Level
Overcoming evil with love behavior is the task at hand
That only comes by being close to the Lord
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Satan was never in the God class
We are
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Satan is in the animal kingdom
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Angels fell from his convincing
Satan never fell
He was already fallen
He was designed to be under my feet from the beginning
Before Christ put him there again in Romans 16
Satan does not have choice
We do
When Prince transfers our life choices to a creature that has none, he in effect becomes the purveyor of a lie more evil than Satan could dream up
Because we NEVER lose our ability to choose
EVER
Satan’s operational programming is hard-wired
Like DNA, it never changes.
He has had thousands of years to repent
Did he?
Hardly
He is a tool to bring, push, nudge, shove, kick and punch us towards Christ
That mountain cannot become a fish
Instead, us truly on the god class are tasked with the following
1) interpreting scripture correctly, comparing line upon line
2) cleaning up our own lives through Ephesians 6 battles
3) teaching only the word
4) pushing forward the kingdom of God
5) overcoming by our testimony and the blood of the lamb
Yes, Joseph Prince has much in common with cults and Catholics
But in Revelation, Jesus says that God will personally take care of those who lead others astray
That’s nice to know.
But don’ get misunderstand me when i say “god class”
I’m a little-g god
God is the big G God
God will always be God
But He obviously didn’t keep these things all to himself
Matt 13:11 “He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.”
We are a word from the Word
And who is the Word?
Psalms 24:3-4 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
So who was the original sinner?
1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
And finally here are the supporting scriptures:
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
1 John 3:8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Isaiah 14:9-27
Ezekiel 28:12-19