We believe that angels are living beings (Psalm 148:2,5; Col 1:16), created before the creation of the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1; Job 38:6-7; Ezek 28:14-16). Angels were created directly and individually (Job 1:6). They do not procreate (Matt 22:30). Angels are personal (Matt 28:5; 1 Pet 1:12; Heb 1:6) spirit beings (Heb 1:4 Luke 8:2) who are greater in power than man (2 Pet 2:11) but with limitations (Matt 24:36; Dan 9:21-23). They can assume a human form (Gen 18:2).
Angels are classified as Archangel (Dan 10:13; 1 Thess 4:16), Cherubim (Gen 3:24), Seraphim (Isa 6:2) and living creatures (Rev 4:6-9). There are both good (Matt 25:31) and evil angels (2 Pet 2:4; Jude 6). Good angels praise and worship God (Psalm 148:1-2; 29:1), rejoice in God’s work (Job 38:6-7) serve God (Psalm 103:20), and the saints (Heb 1:14; Gal 3:19; Acts 12:5-7; Acts 10:1-8), ministered to Christ (Lk 22:43; Matt 4:11) and announced His birth and resurrection (Lk 1:26-28; Matt 21:6). They watch over (Dan 4:17) and control (Dan 10:21) the affairs of the nations. They inflict judgment (2 Chron 32:21; Acts 12:23), bind Satan (Rev 20:1-2) and gather the elect at the end of the age (Matt 13:39-40). Evil angels oppose both saints (Eph 6:12; 1 Tim 4:1-3) and good angels (Dan 10:13). They serve Satan (Rev 12:7), have power to perform miracles (Rev 16:13-14), may indwell (Mark 5:8-13) and control (Mark 9:17; 25) the bodies of the unsaved.
Satan is a created angel (Ezek 28:13) endowed with great wisdom and beauty (Ezek 28:12,13) and of rank comparable to that of Michael the archangel (Ezek 28:14; Jude 9). He fell as a result of pride (1 Tim 3:6) and craves to be worshipped as God (Matt 4:9). He opposes the purposes and plans of God in his attempts to usurp the place of deity (Matt 4:1-9; John 13:27). Thus he opposes the saints (1 Chron 21:1; Eph 6:10), slanders and accuses them (Rev 20:2; 12:10) and seeks their destruction ( 1 Pet 5:8; Gen 3:1-6; 1 Cor 7:9). He rules over the evil angels (Matt 12:24; Eph 2:2) and through deception (Rev 12:9) controls the unsaved (John 12:31; 2 Cor 4:4; 1 John 5:19). Satan was defeated through Christ’s death (Heb 1:14; Gen 3:15). He will be cast out of heaven to the earth during the Tribulation (Rev 12:9) and be bound during the Millennium (Rev 20:2). He will be released at the end of the Millennium to lead the nations to rebel against Christ (Rev 20:7). He will finally be consigned to the lake of fire with his angels (Matt 25:41).