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Question received:
Greetings from South Africa. Just a quick question. It has always bugged me that one third of the angels chose to support and leave with Satan. Fortunately 2/3 did not. What was so bad or missing under God's rulership that made them choose Satan instead of God? These are highly intelligent powerful beings made in God's image and they are perfect. What was going through their minds when they made that choice that is ultimately going to lead to their death? Kind Regards
My Reply:
Excellent question. Please be patient with each puzzle piece, because when they are all assembled, the picture will become clear.
First,
we need to base our concept of the "third" and "two-thirds", upon scripture.
Zech.13:8-9 reads;
"And it shall come to pass in all the land,” Says the Lord, “That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: 9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
So we see that the "third" are those who are refined and become God's PEOPLE (not demon spirits).
The "third" are seen favorably, and the "two-thirds" fail to be refined, and so are cut off from God's saving grace.
It's really important that the false teaching of the Watchtower (that these are demons) is cleansed from us. In this way, we too can be refined through a cleansing of what we believe (just as the "one-third" are refined -Zech.13:9).
Only when we have the correct interpretation of these "thirds" can we be enabled to understand all of Revelation's referrals to the "third", and those fallen stars you refer to at Rev.12:4 NIV.
After describing an evil army that is empowered to torment (Greek:"treat unrighteously") the unsealed (Rev.9:7,3-4);
we then see the army that murders a third of them.
Rev.9 refers to those "thirds" once again.
Rev.9:18-21 reads;
"18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed (1/3) —by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. 19 For their (evil) power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
20 But the rest of mankind (2/3), who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. 21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts."
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From Zech.13:8-9 and Rev.9:18,20 (among other verses), we see that a "third" refers to repentant humans who are forgiven, cleansed/refined, saved, and then killed by the evil army.
(Mark 8:35; 13:13; Rev.12:11; 6:11; John 16:2; Rom.6:4-5; Rev.11:3,7; etc.)
So, to get back to your original question about the assumed "angels" who, according to the false, un-biblical WT doctrine... one third are bad, and two-thirds are good/faithful...
...In reality, the opposite is true!
I believe that the scripture you are referring to, is Rev.12:4 NIV. That's where is speaks of 1/3 of the stars, falling from heaven.
Rev.12:4 NIV is the verse that the Watchtower uses to teach their false doctrine about the "fallen angels" and the identification of them as the demons in the time of Noah.
Let's look at that verse, and the one before it...
Rev.12:
"3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. (That's Satan - Rev.12:9)
4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born."
The context of verse 4 is relevant. A meeting could be spent on all that these three verses contain, and how they are all connected.
But for simplicity's sake...
We see that Satan's "tail"...
(a lesser manifestation of his authority and power -Deut.28:13,44), ...forcefully removes "stars" from their heavenly position.
Forcefully yes,
because it reads that he "flung them to the earth".
Also in verse 4 we read that this is connected to Satan wanting to devour the seed of the woman upon his birth.
The fall from a heavenly position (Eph.2:6; Luke 10:20)
actually IS associated with the spiritual death of newly spirit-born anointed (1Cor.10:12; 2Pet.3:17 NIV; Rev.3:1; 2:10; 3:11).
At this point Julia, I can now hand you over to what this post link to follow can give you, to finish your answer.
In the post, you'll learn **who the fallen stars really are, (Phil.2:15; Dan.12:3) as well as the exposing of more false WT doctrine that we need to be cleansed of, which stands in the way of our gaining an accurate faith.
Please be sure to read the scriptures as you come to them. That's where you'll find your answer. ❤
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