Why
Are the Demons Allowed to Live?
Demons
are angels who once lived in
Heaven until the Father cast
Lucifer and one-third of the
angels out for committing the
unpardonable sin. Even
though the Father has an eternal
law which demands a sinner must
be executed on the day that he
sins (Genesis 2:17), the
Father temporarily stayed this
law to benefit the
universe. He permitted the
fallen angels, as well as Adam
and Eve and their offspring, to
live for two reasons.
First, He wants the universe to
observe the curse of sin.
It takes time to observe the
nature and far reaching
consequences of sin.
Second, He wants the knowledge of
good and evil to mature so that
throughout eternity, His
expanding universe will better
understand His character, ways,
and government. Understanding how
an infinite God of love deals
with finite beings having free
will is difficult to comprehend.
The
Father has given the curse of sin
plenty of time to develop because
He will not permit sin’s curse to
appear a third time. Sin
first began in Heaven when
certain angels became convinced
that God was unfair. Next,
sin appeared on Earth when
Lucifer, an intelligent predator,
presented himself to Eve in the
form of a lovely serpent and
deceived her. Before Eve sinned,
serpents were among the most
beautiful creatures in Eden. Then
Adam, knowing the penalty for
eating fruit from the forbidden
tree, loved Eve so much that he
ate the fruit anyway planning to
die with her. So, the
Father has set up a process so
the effect of sin’s curse
cannot occur again.
The
Father wants everyone –
existing worlds and new worlds to
come – to understand an
amazing truth: He is not
righteous because He has the
authority and power to define
righteousness or even because He
claims to be righteous. He
is righteous because He always obeys
His two laws of love. (Matthew 22:33-39) When
sin’s drama is finished, the
Father wants the universe to know
what Lucifer and a third of the
angels could not know when they
rebelled. If Lucifer and
his followers had been patient
and maintained their faith and
love for God, trusting in
God’s infinite wisdom and
unfailing love, they would not
have sinned. Unfortunately,
Lucifer became impatient and
would not wait upon God’s
perfect timing. Lucifer
wanted what he wanted and he
wanted it now – instant
gratification is hard to
resist! When the Father
denied Lucifer’s desire, he
became angry, hated God, and lost
faith in Him.
The
Father foreknew Lucifer’s
actions, Eve’s deception,
and Adam’s fall. So,
the Father wisely stayed
immediate execution for sin until
the drama with sin ends.
After the 1,000 years of the
millennium are over, God will
burn up the wicked angels and
wicked people, and Jesus will
create a new Heaven and new
Earth. After this period of
sin has ended, God will implement
immediate death for sin and no
one will blame God for executing
willful and defiant
sinners. The only way to
stop the curse of sin from
spreading is to annihilate the
sinner.
A
Big “Oh, No!”
After the
Father expelled Lucifer and the
defiant angels, Jesus created
Earth and other worlds filled
with inhabitants. The
angels who maintained faith in
the Father and worshiped Jesus
had their faith in Jesus, as the
Creator, affirmed when they saw
Him create the worlds with their
own eyes! Faith in God,
when seen in reverse, always
makes sense! From the
beginning, the Father had
required the angels to have
faith. For example, He told
them to worship Jesus as the
Creator even though they had not
seen Him create anything.
Similarly, the Father required
Adam and Eve to have faith when
Jesus told them not to eat of the
tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. Unlike Lucifer and
his followers who committed the
unpardonable sin, Adam and Eve
did not sin defiantly so the
Father implemented a plan of
salvation to save them and their
offspring. Not
surprisingly, the plan of
salvation is based on
faith! All who enjoy the
benefits of eternal life may only
do so if they will
continue to live by
faith in God. Faith in God
and love for God is the only way
that finite beings can happily
live with an infinite Godhead
whose actions today may take ten
thousand years to properly
understand.
The Bible
hints that other planets were
created to be inhabited, but it
does not indicate when they were
created or inhabited. See Job 2:1,2; Isaiah 40:26; 45:18; 1 Corinthians 4:9; Hebrews 11:3 NIV and Hebrews 1:2 KJV.
God established the eternal
gospel before the angels existed
and this gospel requires all
created beings to worship Jesus
as the Creator. (Revelation 14:6,7) The
Father required the angels to
have faith in the eternal gospel,
so I believe Jesus created many
inhabited worlds after the
faith of the angels had been
tested. The Father tested
the angels to see who would choose to
live by faith because faith in
God is always required. The
fact that sin and rebellion has
existed in Heaven and on Earth
proves that all of God’s
children have free will and do
not have to love, trust, and obey
God. Therefore, I
understand that after God tested
the angels’ faith and
separated them, like the sheep
and goats, then Jesus proceeded
to create inhabited worlds,
including Earth.
When Adam
and Eve sinned, I believe Jesus
suspended His creative work to
focus on saving sinners.
After the 1,000 years of the
millennium (Revelation 20) and
when Jesus purifies the Earth by
fire, He will resume His work of
creating new worlds filled with
inhabitants. His first
creative work will be a new
Heaven and Earth. In case
sin occurred on Earth, the Father
designed a test of faith for
humans similar to the earlier
test the angels
experienced. During the
last days of Earth, everyone will
have a “test of faith.”
(Revelation 3:10)
The Father wants to identify who
will worship Jesus as the Creator
even though no human has seen
Jesus create anything.
After the people of Earth are
separated (the sheep from the
goats), all who chose to put
their faith in Christ will be
saved and they will see Him
create a new Heaven and Earth!
Furious
Fallen Angels
When the
fallen angels saw Jesus create
many inhabited planets, they were
outraged. The evidence
forced them to recognize the
stupidity and foolishness of
their rebellion against
God. They were just like
the antediluvians in Noah’s
day who only recognized their
stupidity and foolishness when
the rain began to fall. The
fallen angels were not sorry for
doing wrong and they remained
defiant. Of course, the
demons want to escape the death
penalty that awaits them, but
they cannot bring about any
heartfelt sorrow for their
sin. No being can
produce a desire to repent or
feel sorrow or remorse for his
sins once the Holy Spirit
abandons him. When a
person grieves away the Holy
Spirit, he enters a godless state
that will exist until he
dies. Repentance and sorrow
for doing wrong is impossible in
this state. I have seen
this condition in hardened
criminals and Esau had the same
experience: “When
he [Esau] wanted
to inherit this blessing [the
blessing that rightfully belonged
to him as the first born, which
he had sold for a meal],
he was rejected. He could
bring about no change of mind,
though he sought the blessing
with tears.” (Hebrews 12:17,
insertion mine)
God has
set a date to destroy the demons
with fire and they know it.
Meanwhile, they have no
happiness, peace of mind, or joy
as they once did because the Holy
Spirit, which produces the fruits
of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22,23), is not
within them. For over six
thousand years, the fallen angels
have been filled with bitterness
and hatred for Jesus and the
Father! The demons do not
love one another and are
miserable. They now know that
each of them will suffer
intensely in hell for predatory
behavior. (Matthew 8:29; Luke 12:5)
God will punish each demon for
his contribution to the
delinquency of each sinner. This
is similar to adults being
punished for leading minors into
corruption or crime.
Given
their expulsion from God’s
glorious and brilliant presence,
their dismal surroundings when
compared to the beauty of Heaven
they once enjoyed, their endless
jealousy and hostility that
occurs each day, their internal
agitation (there is no peace or
rest for wicked beings
– Isaiah 57:20), and
their hate for the Father and
Jesus, their lives are extremely
miserable and very narrowly
focused. They can only do
one thing that brings any hint of
satisfaction. They are
determined to take as many people
into hell as possible, but they
have to follow rules which the
Father has imposed on them.
Watch for
next month’s Wake
Up Report! to learn how
demons take control of human
beings!
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