Part 4 - The ‘Heavenly Powers’ Corrupted
| This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called Four Degrees of God’s Reconciliation of the Heaven and The Earth. |
The Heavenly Powers (Angelic Host) were originally created “by Christ” and “for Christ” to exert His rule in “the heavenly places” and “on earth.”
Col. 1:16 By Him (Jesus) Were All Things Created, that are in Heaven (Gk. Ouranos, space, the 2nd heaven), and that are in Earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and For Him:
Amos 9:6 It is he that buildeth (set up) his stories (His Angels set in levels of ‘rank and authority’) in the heaven (Heb. shamayim, the air), and hath founded (established) his troop (His faithful band) in the Earth, calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out on the face of the earth.”
Thus, God originally set His Angelic Host in the lower heavens and on earth to carry out His will.
But, how did the heavens become not clean, corrupted and defiled?
Job 15:15 (KJV) Behold, he (the Lord) putteth no trust in his saints (fallen angels); yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Lucifer usurped and populated the ‘offices of rank and authority’ in heaven with his fallen corrupted angels. After he had rebelled against God been cast down out of the 3rd heaven to the lower heaven from which he exerts his reign over the earth today as “the god of this world (Gk. aion, this age).” (2Cor. 4:4)
“How art thou fallen from heaven (the highest, 3rd), O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground (Gk. eres, the earth), which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell” (Isaiah 14:12-15a, KJV)
“(Lucifer) By the multitude (abundance) of thy merchandise (by-product) they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub…” (Eze. 28:16)
Lucifer fell… becoming “the god of this world,” taking 1/3 of the angelic host with him (cf. Rev. 2:3-4).
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate (Heb. arche, principality), but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
2 Corinthians 4:4 (lost men) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man (the Satanic) sin (nature) entered INTO the world (from outside the world), and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Ephesians 2:2 in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the (demonic) prince of the power of the air (earth’s realm), the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: