62 - Good Angels

GOOD ANGELS

§ 62. All angels were created perfectly good and holy,¹ but a part only of their number remained in their original estate.²

1. All angels were created perfectly good and holy,

Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that He made, and behold, it was very good.

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him.

2. but a part only of their number remained in their original estate.

I Timothy 5:21 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels.

Jude 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.

II Peter 2:4 God spared not the angels that sinned.