1 Peter Series Lesson #114 December 14, 2017 Dean Bible Ministries www.deanbibleministries.org Dr. Robert L. Dean, Jr.
Christ’s Example of Unjust Suffering Preaching to the Spirits? Satanic Attacks in History 1 Peter 3:19
What the Bible Teaches About the Angelic Rebellion
The Origin of Satan and the Demons Isa. 14:12, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! Isa. 14:13, “For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; Isa. 14:14, “ ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Isa. 14:15, “Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
The Origin of Satan and the Demons Isa. 14:12, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! Isa. 14:13, “For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; Isa. 14:14, “ ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Isa. 14:15, “Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
When Did Satan Fall? 1. Angels created during the creation week of Gen. 1; the Fall of Satan is after Gen. 2:4. 2. Angels are created and Satan falls before Gen. 1:1. 3. God created the angels, then the original universe, then Satan fell between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2 and God re-created the earth for human habitation.
When Did Satan Fall? Exodus 20:11, “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.”
When Did Satan Fall? Job 38:4, “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Job 38:5, “Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? Job 38:6, “To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, Job 38:7, “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
STAGES OF CREATION Fall of Gen. 1:1–3 Lucifer EDEN GARDEN OF GOD ORIGINAL TOHU EARTH VeBOHU Gen. 1:1 Gen. 1:2
STAGES OF Fall of CREATION Lucifer Gen. 1:1–3 ORIGINAL TOHU EARLY EARTH VeBOHU EARTH Gen. 1:1 Gen. 1:2 Gen. 1:3
The Existence of Demons
Matt. 25:41, “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:’ ”
Rev. 12:4a, “His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth.”
1 Timothy 5:21, “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.” Mark 8:38, “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Satan’s Assaults on the Human Race D IRECT A SSAULTS Gen. Matt. Gen. 3 4 6 Demon Possession The locust-demons (Rev. 9:1–11); 200 mill. demons army (Rev. 9:12–25); Ejection of Satan (Rev. 12:1–12) Demons bound in Tartarus I NDIRECT A SSAULTS
Jude 6, “And angels who did not keep their own domain [ arche ], but abandoned their proper abode [ oiktirmon ], He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, Jude 7, “just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh [ heteros sarkos ], are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.”
Gen. 6:1, “Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, Gen. 6:2, “that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.”
Gen. 6:4, “There were giants [ Nephilim ] on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
Num. 13:33, “There we saw the giants [ Nephilim ] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
2 Peter 2:4, “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 2 Peter 2:5, “and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”
1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 1 Peter 3:19, “in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 1 Peter 3:20, “who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.”
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