Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tdaniels@athena.mit.edu (Troy E Daniels) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: info on the archangels sought Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 06:11:27 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , milano@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Milano) writes: |> I have recently become interested in the story about the war between |> the archangels and those led by Lucifer. I have been unable to find |> any reference to this common story in the bible. Can anyone shed a little |> light on this for me? What is the real story, what caused this war, |> where is it referenced, is it a Judaic story or Christian, who are the |> seven archangels(names), who where the angels led by Lucifer... The only scriptural reference that I could find is LUK 10:18 And [Jesus] said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven, referring to when Satan was cast out after losing the war. There may be some OT references (Isiah comes to mind as a good place to check), but I don't have a good reference program/bible here to check that out. What I've been told, based on other references/extrascriptural sources/hearsay/ I-really-don't-know-what-source, is that Lucifer (which means Angel of Light, roughly) was an angel, second only to God in power. However, he decided that he wanted to be first, so he got a bunch of other angels together, and they somehow attacked God and the angels faithful to him. There was a big war between Lucifer and his followers, and Michael and the other angels on God's side. In the end, Lucifer and his followers were defeated, cast out of Heaven onto Earth, where God allows them to rule for the time being. Lucifer was henceforth called Satan. If anybody asks me for a reference on this, the answer is that Joe Christian-in-some-respected-position told me so about ten years ago. |> |> thanks in advance - joel Your welcome, Troy Daniels tdaniels@athena.mit.edu