Fallen Angels

I haven't had a chance to really research this fully, but it has occurred to me that there does not seem to be any support for the idea that the land is populated by "fallen angels." That seems to be an extra-biblical superstition.

That is not say that the Jews of the NT are not said to worry about them.

In my book I cover "unclean spirits," or, I as translate the phrase, "filthy breaths" and show that these are mosquitoes - more specifically, the Sand Fly (about 1/3 the size of a mosquito) that invisible confer the most horrific diseases of the Middle East (and elsewhere) such as "Mountain Leprosy" aka "Popalemoia" aka "the Baghdad Boil."

This came to mind this morning when I realized the reference to the Agents ("angels") that "left their first home" (in the sky) and mated with human women before the flood WERE SENT TO PRISON IN TARTAROO (the Roman version of hADES, or "the underworld"), kept in the underground silo until judgment. So they are not wandering around free on the land.

Ge 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Ge 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

1Pe 3:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

So they could not be Legion:

Mr 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Mr 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Lu 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

So, modern demonology is just a fanciful imitation of non-biblical myths.

Establish the law?

The clause "establish the law" appears here in the KJV:

Ro 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

I would like to point out that the Greek does NOT supply a definite article ("the") in front of "law." So it should read "we establish **A** law." Now what law would a good antinomian like Paul be referring to? Of course, "the law of faith" - which he explicitly refers to here, just a few verses before...:

Ro 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

So he does NOT "make void" the law, but rather "establishes" another law. Two laws exist simultaneously. How does that work? Well, we have an illustration...

The Medes and the Persians (Iranians) did not allow royal laws to be rescinded. If you made a law, it was for good. So is the divine law. If you wanted to OVERRIDE an inconvenient law, you had to pass a NEW law that SUPERCEDED the older law. Here is the example:

Da 6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Da 6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Es 8:8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
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10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

So the law (or, "principle") of faith does NOT in ANY WAY alter or destroy the law of Moses, BUT, it does OVERRIDE it.

Get it?

Rather than destroy a law, Paul says that faith is a new law that is established, that SUPERCEDES the law of Moses.