What's bad about Paradise Lost?
Acts 26:28,
"Then they can turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, and receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are made holy by faith in me."
So you believe that Satan gets his power from evil spirits, but they're not angels? So God created Earth with evil spirits roaming it?
It makes sense that 1/3 of the angels fell and they're working against God to make more people follow Satan (knowingly or unknowingly).
It makes sense there there are lots of spirits that work for the enemy. Why does it make sense that they are angels?
No Yah didn't create the world with evil spirits influencing the world. Those spirits didn't exist at that time.
Only a few angels fell into error. They were imprisoned for that error but that error was having children which was against Yah's commands. Those children lived and died. Those are the spirits that make up the demonic realm. They are the ones that were born in direct disobedience against the laws of Yah.
They are the tares sown in the field as the 'seed of Satan'. It is the 'seed of the serpent' that is in conflict with Yeshua.
The ancient paganism was the worship of those beings and heavily into dealing with the spirits of the dead and witchcraft. That paganism was the worship of those fallen angels and their offspring as well as ancestor worship. Many of the Canaanites were descent from those beings. They had a corrupted bloodline and the reason Yah ordered their total extermination and forbad intermarrying with them.
Augustine opposed the idea that the 'Ben Elohyim' of Gen 6 were angels. He passed off the doctrine they were sons of Seth and turned that passage into the cross of the lines of Cain and Seth. He also suppressed the Book of Enoch that contradicted that position. They also tried to reject Jude from the canon because of the references in it. The Israelites of those days did NOT subscribe to those doctrines. They KNEW who the enemy was. Why do you think the Pharisees equated Baalzebub, the name of a Philistine god with the enemy? Both Peter and Jude make references to the understanding as presented in the book of Enoch.
The RCC idolized and sainted Augustine and pushed his doctrines. Those doctrines were standardized and even carried on after the reformation into the protestant denominations. Paradise Lost rooted those doctrines into the common perception so people interpret scripture with that preconceived bias instead of studying the topic themselves.
Now the witchcraft I was in conflict against was conducted via one of the old testament goddesses of witchcraft. Her high priestess knew exactly what her 'goddess' was. She was a daughter of one of the four angels bound at the Euphrates. Those angel were bound at Babel. It was there that the worship of the false gods was started.
As a result of that conflict and the things I learned during it, I have spent many years researching to confirm or deny those things. My conflict against that high priestess occurred from 1985-88 so I have had many years to research the topic to add on top of my 1st hand experience. I even had to go back to bible college to learn Hebrew to better understand scripture.
There are hundreds of biblical references to support my understanding while the commonly pushed doctrine twists a few passages out of context and ignores all the other passages due to a lack of understanding.
For example, HaSatan does not work alone. He is just the head of an unholy trinity. The Canaanites worshiped those 3 individuals as Baal, Molech and Ashtoreth. I was in conflict with the high priestess of the 2nd ranked principality of hell. She was the harlot of Babel, the 'queen of heaven/sky' at the tower of Babel, the daughter of an angel, the mother of Nimrod.
It was the 4 angels bound at the Euphrates that caused the post-flood Nephilim corruption. The pre-flood Watchers that took wives and the 4 angels post flood that fell into error do NOT make up 1/3 of the angels of Yah. So only 200 fell pre-flood and 4 post flood.
Lucifer isn't a fallen angel. He is the son of one. He was the ancient pagan sun god at Babel. Lucifer isn't even his name. Lucifer is a latin translation of a title of the sun god. It means 'shinging one' and is equivalent to Pheobus in the Greek. He is also 'ben Shachar', 'son of the Morning'. Shachar was the name of a Canaanite deity and is reference in Job 38 as the one assigned by Yah to 'shake the wicked from the skirts of the earth'. He was the one that led the 'sons of god' in song at the laying of the foundations of the earth.
Isa 14 is about casting down the 'shameful king' of Babel, his death, his descent into hell while all the previous rulers of hell say 'Is this the man .. ' People cherry pick out 3 verses, take them out of context and build doctrines on it.
Eze 28 contains 3 prophecies. People pick the 2nd one and equate it to Satan. The 3 prophecies are to the 3 primary deities of the Phoenicians, Baal, Molech and Ashtoreth. Molech's title in Tire/Tyrus was Melqart, ie 'king of the city'.
The prophets were constantly battling against that ancient paganism and its corruption being spread into the land. That was the problem through out the entire old testament. Even Revelation gives the name of the 'king of the abyss' as Apollyon ('the destroyer') in the Greek. Lucifer is just the spirit of the dead Greek god Pheobus Apollo who was called many other names by other people groups. The language got split at Babel so each people group used a different name for the same individuals.
Satan isn't even a name. It is a title of the prosecutor in the divine counsel. It just means 'the accusing one'. Ever wonder why Yah hasn't punished Satan yet? His time of judgement hasn't arrived yet. He was created by birth so is classified a 'man' by birth and will stand judgement at the appointed time of the judgement of all mankind.
You have to understand the ancient paganism presented in the bible to understand the enemy realm. That paganism was riddled in witchcraft which is about the control of spirits by worshiping the high level spirits.
