<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-309-619 I Peter 4, or 2:4, if you notice, "for if God spared not the angels," how is that "angel" spelt? Little "a." See? Now, over here, "the spirits that were in prison that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah," same angels. It was men: messengers, preachers: "spared not the angels." Did you know that a--the word "angel" comes from the word "a messenger"? How many knows that "angel" is "messenger"? Absolutely, angel is a messenger, "and He spared not the angels." See?
And over here in the Hebrews, you remember we went through it a few weeks ago: "the angels"?
And over in He--in the Revelation, "To the angel of the church of Sardis write these things... To the angel of the church of Ephesus write these things... To the angel of the church..." Remember that? And we run the "angel" word back, and from the dictionary, and find out that means "a messenger." It could be "a messenger on earth, a supernatural messenger," the word "angel."

L-310-622 So in this state, if we'd take the Lexicon and run it back, you'll find out it starts from "messengers, the first messengers." See? "If the--if he spared not... For if God spared not the angels that sinned (See?), and the supernatural beings (See?), after the waiting..." Now, watch, he said.
...if... spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be preserved unto judgment;
Then look over in I Peter here again, 3:19; watch how this reads now.
For by which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison;
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah,... (See, it was the messengers of that day: messengers.)... while the ark was being prepared, wherein... that is, eight souls were saved by water.

L-310-624 Now, if you'll notice when those beings were in heaven... Now, over in Revelations 11--or the 7th chapter, I believe--or no, no, it's the 12th chapter, He gives a picture of the woman standing, the moon at her head and the sun--or, the sun at her head and the moon under her feet. And the red dragon stood to devour the child as soon as it was born; and he took his tail and pulled a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. Did you notice that? Now, that doesn't mean that Satan has a--a long tail that he hooked around people, but the tale that he told, and pulled a third part of those stars. Those stars were Abraham's seed.
Abraham said, "Oh..."
God told Abraham, "Look up to the heavens and number the stars if you can."
He said, "I can't do it."
He said, "Neither will you be able to number your seed," the stars.

L-311-629 Who is the Bright and Morning Star? Jesus of Nazareth, the brightest that ever lived in human flesh. He is the Bright and Morning Star. And He is the Seed of Abraham, coming through Isaac. And we, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise.
So the stars of the heaven represented the spirits of men here. And when the red dragon (Rome, under its persecution) hugged in two thirds of the--or a third of the stars, and cast them down, that was at the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus when they rejected Him and He was--and cast Him out and had nothing to do with Him; there was that third part of the angelic stars, the angelic beings.


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