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I have tested the claim that angels and demons are separate entities. I have looked up every reference
to the Greek words for angels, devils, demons, and unclean spirits and I have not found a single
instance that would demonstrate that fallen angels and demons are the same thing. Furthermore, the
Bible speaks much of the appearance of angels, both in the heavens and on earth, but it never speaks
of demons as being visible. Demons are always described as spirits whose presence can be discerned
only through their activity.

These facts lend credibility to the suggestion that demons are members of a pre-Adamic race that were
disembodied as punishment for their rebellion against God. Nevertheless, there is very little evidence
to substantiate this matter, and I do not deem it prudent to speak confidently about such things.

There is other evidence and additional arguments presented in favor of the view that Satan was
originally given dominion of the first earth, and that it was here that he appeared in his glorious array
as a holy angel before his fall.

“Thus says Yahweh God, ‘You had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You
were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and
the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald;
And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, was in you. On the day that you were
created they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you there.’”

Satan’s first appearance to Adam and Eve in the garden is as the serpent. He had already fallen into
sin and taken on a heart of rebellion at that time. It is therefore the conclusion of some that the
description above given by the prophet Ezekiel pertains to the original earth and the original garden,
both of which were made “formless and void and covered in darkness” when Yahweh judged the first
rebels. The earth lay in this calamitous state for an unspecified period of time until God began to re-
create that which had been destroyed.

Some do not understand why God would permit Satan to be loosed after he had already proven
himself to be a rebel. Yet, the Bible tells us that God will do so again in the future. He will cast Satan
down and imprison him for a season, but then the devil will be loosed again whereupon he will
immediately set about leading the nations in rebellion against Yahweh.

Revelation 20:7-8
And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come
out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them
together for the war.