Table of contents
  1. The Bible
  2. The Biblical Dispensations
  3. The Triune God
  4. His Virgin Birth
  5. His Person
  6. His Blood
  7. His Blood Atonement
  8. His Soul And Spirit’s Dissension, Bodily Resurrection, Bodily Ascension, High Priesthood, And Bodily Return
  9. God The Holy Spirit
  10. The Creation Of The Universe
  11. The Creation And Fall Of Man
  12. The Christian’s Two Natures
  13. The Christian’s Service
  14. Satan And Fallen And Unfallen Angels
  15. The Fall Of Man
  16. The Righteous And The Wicked
  17. Salvation Only Through Christ
  18. Repentance
  19. The New Birth
  20. Justification
  21. Sanctification
  22. Eternal Security Of Believers
  23. Assurance Of Believers
  24. The Church
  25. The Church’s Great Commission
  26. The Church’s Two Ordinances: Baptism And The Lord’s Supper
  27. Biblical Separation
  28. Civil Government
  29. Israel
  30. The Rapture--The Blessed Hope
  31. The Tribulation
  32. The Second Coming Of Christ
  33. The Eternal State

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What We Believe

SATAN AND FALLEN AND UNFALLEN ANGELS

A. Satan's Creation And Fall. We believe that God created an innumerable company of spiritual beings, known as angels; that one, "Lucifer, son of the morning"--the highest in rank--sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan (Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:11-19; 1 Timothy 3:6); that a great company of the angels followed Satan in his moral fall; that all of the fallen angels became demons and are active as his agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes; and that others who fell are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" (2 Peter 2:4; June 1:6).

B. Satan's Influences. We believe that Satan is the originator of sin (Genesis 3:1-19; 5:12-14); that, under the permission of God, he, through subtlety, led our first parents into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjecting them and their posterity to his own power (2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Ephesians 6:10-12); that he is the enemy of God and the people of God, opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped (2 Thessalonians 2:4); that he who in the beginning said, "I will be like the most High," in his warfare appears as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:13-15); that he counterfeits the works of God by fostering religious movements and systems of doctrine (1 Timothy 4:1-3); and that these systems in every case are characterized by a denial of the efficacy of the Blood of Christ and of salvation by grace alone.

C. Satan’s Judgement. We believe that Satan was judged at the cross, though not then executed (Colossians 2:15); that he, as usurper, now rules as the "god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:3-4); that at the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years (Revelation Grace Baptist Church’s ARTICLES OF FAITH 8 20:1-3, 10); that after the thousand years, he will be loosed for a little season (Revelation 20:7); and that he will then be "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone," where he "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever" (Revelation 20:10).

D. Unfallen Angels. We believe that a great company of angels kept their holy estate and are before the throne of God (Luke 15:10; Ephesians 1:21; Revelation 7:11-12); and that they are sent forth from God as ministering spirits to minister to them who shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14).

E. Man Lower Than The Angels. We believe that man was made lower than the angels (Hebrews 2:6-7); that, in His incarnation, Christ took for a little time this lower place that He might lift the believer to His own sphere above the angels (Hebrews 2:6-10.)