MINISTUDY: The Role of Righteous Angels Today - Richard H Sedliacik - May 1982

Richard H Sedliacik

In Genesis 1:1 we are told that "God created the heaven and the earth." But physical matter - this earth, the stars, the galaxies - was not the first thing God created. 1. What did God create before bringing the material universe into existence? Job 38:4·7. What are these "stars"? Rev. 1:20. In Job 38:7 "morning stars" and "sons of God" refer to angels. Notice that Revelation 12:4-9 also speaks of the angels who followed Satan's rebellion as the "stars of heaven." And in Isaiah 14:12 we learn that Lucifer, before he sinned, was called "son of the morning" or " day star," as some Bible margins render it. Angels are individually created beings. They cannot marry and reproduce (Matt. 22:30), but are called "sons of God" because God created each angel as a separate, immortal spirit being, and in that sense is the angels' Father (Heb. 12:9). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library