What the Bible says about Angel's First Estate
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Jude 1:6 "Who did not keep their proper domain" can also be translated, "who did not keep their positions of authority." It shows that God assigned them a stipulated responsibility, a set place, but they left it. The set place was on the earth. They mounted an attack against God in heaven. Defeated, they were cast down to earth, and the place that they were originally given as their domain instead becomes a prison, a place of restraint (Revelation 12:3-4,9; II Peter 2:4). John W. Ritenbaugh Satan (Part 1) Related Topics: Angel's First Estate | Angels' Habitation | Angels, Responsibility of | Demons | Earth as Habitation of Angels | Earth as Habitation of Demons | Earth as Satan's Prison | Lucifer's Rebellion | Presumptuousness | Rebellion of Satan and Angels

Jude 1:6 This is one of a series of three examples that Jude uses to show the surety of God's judgment falling upon sinners (those who are committing sin as a way of life). The angels left their first estate or their place of habitation. Habitation refers either to a place of living or of responsibility. In this case, it refers to both. We have to recognize that their habitation was the earth. This is where they lived and the place they were responsible for. John W. Ritenbaugh What I Believe About Conspiracy Theories Related Topics: Angel's First Estate | Angels' Habitation | Angels, Responsibility of | Earth as Habitation of Angels | God's Judgment | God's Judgment,Surety of

Jude 1:6 Jude puts this in an interesting way. They were not "the bad angels," or even "the angels who sinned." He calls them "the angels who were not content with where God had placed them." We know from Revelation 12:4 that one-third of the angels were under Helel's hand, and he convinced them to leave their proper domain—the place where they had dominion, the place of their responsibility and authority—so that they could get more for themselves. In doing this, they sinned. Their discontent caused them to attempt to take by force what had not been given, but which they thought they deserved. This is the same thing that happened in Korah's rebellion (Numbers 16:1-35). Richard T. Ritenbaugh Countering Presumptuousness Related Topics: Angel's First Estate | Angels' Habitation | Angels, Responsibility of | Contentment | Discontent | Discontentment | Helel | Korah | Korah's Rebellion | Presumptuousness | Rebellion | Rebellion, Consequences of

 

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