Angels Part 3 - 1.5.2025

Joshua Boyd

I’m going to start today by stating our main point today:  Satan is an angel.  He’s not an equal to God, he’s not uncreated.  He is an angel.  The world and even religious tradition have made it seem like an eternal battle of two mighty generals controlling the battlefield in an epic struggle for the ages.  It isn’t like that at all. 

Throughout the Old Testament, the Spirit of the Lord uses prophets to bring words to real kings of this world while using the same words to speak to the powers of the spiritual world.  In that sense, we can use the image of a king or general in battle conquering cities and lands.  In fact, much of what we know about our enemy and his origins comes from these prophetic passages.  

Satan is real, he has a name and thus has a purpose.  God created him with one purpose and Satan chose to follow his own purpose.  For us to know our enemy, we’ll start with his origin story.  To do that we need to look at one type of angel mentioned throughout the Bible. This isn’t an angel that appeared to people as a messenger, it has a different purpose.