thermore, we have positive Scripture testimony (I)
that not only some, but all, of these spirits are “evil
spirits,’ “lying spirits,” ” seducing spirits. ” The
Scriptures forbid that humanity should seek to these
for information, and clearly inform us that these de-
mons or “devils” are “those angels which kept not
their first estate,”–some of the angels to whom was
committed the supervision of mankind in the period
before the flood, for the purpose of permitting them to
endeavor to Zgt mankind out of sin; that by their fail-
ure all might learn that there is but one effeAual rem-
edy for sin; vis., that provided in Christ. These angels,
instead of uplifting humanity, were themselves enticed
into sin, and misused the power granted them, of ma-
terializing in human form, to start another race. (Gen.
6: 1-6 ) Their illicit progeny, was blotted out with
the flood, and themselves were thereafter restrained
from the liberty of assuming physical bodies, as well as
isolated from the holy angels who had kept their an-
gelic estate inviolate.
The Apostle Peter (2 Pet. 2: 4) mentions these,
saying, “God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell [ Tarfarus] sad delivered them
into chins of darkness, to be resemed unto judgment. ‘ ‘
Jude (6) also mentions this class, saying, “The angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation Cproper condition] he hath reserved in ever-
lasting chains – under darkness unto the judgment of
the great day.”
Notice three points with reference to
these evil angels.
(I) They are imprisoned in Tartarus, restrained,
but not destroyed. Tarfarus is nowhere else rendered
“hell,” but in this one passage. It does not signify