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Christians, can you explain, how did Satan got angels to rebel against God?

Update:

Short version please--one word can sum it up or a simple explanation/ Thanks.

Update 2:

Wushuboy: yeah I know what you mean, did that in school--that is my first introduction about Satan and it was a scary version of Milton's Paradise Lost--some of it was factual and some was Milton's imagination---especially since Milton of himself was blind

Update 3:

Gabriel: this did not happen in 1914: this teaching is incorrect--this happens before humans were created.

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  • Moi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    Scripture doesnt elaborate but he likely promised them positions of power and authority upon the earth - like he did with Jesus. Lies and deception have always been Satans weapons.

    So they got them for a short while and then they literally had hell to pay for that privilege.

    Luk 4:5 And the devil, taking Jesus up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

    Luk 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

    Luk 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

    Luk 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Satan got angels to rebel against God through trickery and wickedness. The same tactics Atheists use to convert Christians to Atheism.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    There is not so much about that in the Bible. The popular story about Satan getting the angels to rebel is told in a work of fiction called "Paradise Lost" By John Milton. It is all in epic poetry style. It describes the fall of the angels before the fall of man in the garden. Much like you would imagine it would happen on earth. Satan, being the most powerful angel in Heaven, rallies those who feel the same as himself. He creates the infernal council and a great civil war is fought among the angels for control of Heaven. Ultimately Satan loses and he and his angels are banished to Hell.

    Seeking revenge, they decide to venture across the void, sneak into the newly created earth and poison it.

  • 6 years ago

    Well, they saw God face to face, now what happens when God calls all his angels in assembly?

    They stood there like he does not care.

    Same spirit that people have who who sits down and don't care in their churches.

    What happened to them in 1914?

    They were thrown out of heaven

    Something to think about

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  • 6 years ago

    Angels were created before humans & animals.

    They are highly intelligent & consider themselves to be better than humans.

    Lucifer was an archangel, who refused to serve these new hybrid creatures, considering them animals. About 1/3 of the angels agreed.

    They were driven out of Heaven by Michael the archangel.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You think God did not know exactly what was happening....and that He didn't plan it the way it happened

    How Cute

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    In the Book of Revelation is about the second war in which the Devil and his demons will once again rise up against God, rise against Heaven in which St. Michael and his angels will once again battle and once again the Devil and his demons will fall upon the earth.

    The first war is not in Scripture rather it's formulated from the Book of Revelation which was the result of the fall of the Devil and his demons being cast out of Heaven and falling upon the earth. First you can tell this by reading the verses from the Book of Revelation is about the second war being the Lamb (Jesus) had not yet been incarnated as man during the first war in Heaven therefore He wouldn't had been flesh and blood. And second the woman represents the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church in which the Devil peruses Her and Her other offspring on earth which would be the holy ones that still remain here on earth before the end of this world. This is in relation to St. John the Evangelist being given by Jesus His Mother in which He stated to His Mother, "Woman behold your son", and to St. John the Evangelist He stated, "Son behold your mother". This is in relation to Jesus giving us His Mother in which she is our Mother and in turn we are Her children. The Church Militant here on earth is made up of mankind and Jesus received His humanity from His Mother. This is also the reason why Jesus refers to His disciples as being His brothers and sisters. The Protestant heretics do not value the Human Nature which came from His Mother as the traditional Christians such as the Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, etc.... do in regards to understanding we are the Church Militant and in turn the Church Militant is His Mother this is why we are brothers and sisters of Jesus. The Church Militant here on earth had not began to be established until Pentecost after the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus.

    As for how the first war (rebellion) against God taken place it was believed that the Devil was the first sinner in which he deceived other angels to rebel against God. This doesn't come from Scripture but rather Tradition.

    Revelation 12:7-13

    Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

    “Now have salvation and power come,

    and the kingdom of our God

    and the authority of his Anointed.

    For the accuser of our brothers is cast out,

    who accuses them before our God day and night.

    They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb

    and by the word of their testimony;

    love for life did not deter them from death.

    Therefore, rejoice, you heavens,

    and you who dwell in them.

    But woe to you, earth and sea,

    for the Devil has come down to you in great fury,

    for he knows he has but a short time.”

    When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Encouraged them to have sex with humans to add their dna into the species for political reasons

  • 6 years ago

    Provided the opportunity.

  • 6 years ago

    Don't know why don't you ask him.

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