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No Pre-Flood Angelic Rebellion in OT

THE EPISTLE OF JUDE ·

Ready-To-Post Teaching

A story most of us absorbed without noticing: before Genesis 3, Satan rebelled and took a third of the angels with him. It is in paintings, hymns and study-Bible footnotes.

Heiser's response is a search of the text. There is nothing in "the entirety of Scripture" that tells us the original rebel sinned before Genesis 3, or that "a third of the angels also fell either before humanity's fall or at the time of that fall."

There is exactly one passage that puts a third of the stars and the dragon in the same scene - Revelation 12 - and what it describes is not the prologue to Eden. It is a dragon waiting to devour a child about to be born.

Scripture links:

- Revelation 12:4 - "his tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth."

- Revelation 12:9 - "the great dragon was thrown down... and his angels were thrown down with him."

The familiar backstory is not in the Bible. What is there is a rebellion Jude actually names, and it happens in Genesis 6.

What the Scripture Says

  • Revelation 12:4ESV

    His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

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