Fallen angel is a concept developed in Jewish and Christian thought from interpretation of the Book of Enoch.[1] The actual term fallen angel is not found in either the Hebrew Bible[2] or the New Testament. Christians adopted the concept of fallen angels[1] mainly based on their interpretations of the Book of Revelation Chapter 12.[2] Fallen angels are identified with the Watchers,[3] as well as the angels who are cast down to the earth from the War in Heaven, and ha-satan.[2]
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The mention of the "sons of God" in Genesis 6:2 ("The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose") has sometimes been interpreted, both in Judaism and in Christianity, as a reference to fallen angels.
The pre-Christian apocryphal Book of Enoch recounts that a group of 200 rebellious angels, or Watchers, left heaven and came down to Earth to marry human women and have children with them.[4]
In the New Testament, Revelation 12:3-4 refers to the dragon’s tail that drew a third part of the stars of heaven. In verses 7-9, The Dragon and his angels battle against Michael the Archangel in a War in Heaven. Losing the battle, they are “cast out” of heaven to the earth. Thus, amongst Christians, fallen angels have been associated with the term “cast out”.[2][5]
An explicit reference is found in Luke 10:18 to a "fall" of Satan, whom the New Testament never explicitly identifies as an "angel".[6] According to Ben Witherington, the passage can be translated either as "fall from heaven, like lightning" or "fall, like lightning from heaven".[7]
From the 5th century, Christian literature develops about Lucifer (Latin, literally meaning light-bearer, for the Morning Star)[8] as a name attributed to the Devil. This usage stems from a particular interpretation of Isaiah 14:3-20, by Origen and others,[9] Some see the passage as using this name to describe the king of Babylon, who, after exalting himself as if he were a deity, was cast down by God. Similar terminology is used in Ezekiel to describe the king of Tyre. The Greek word used in the Septuagint of Isaiah 14;12 is Ἑωσφόρος (Heosphoros, "dawn-bearer"),[10][11][12] not φωσφόρος, the etymological synonym of Latin lucifer,[13][14] used in 2 Peter 1:19 of the morning star, which is mentioned also elsewhere in the Bible with no reference to Satan.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of "the fall of the angels" not in spatial terms but as a radical and irrevocable rejection of God and his reign by some angels who, though created as good beings, freely chose evil, their sin being unforgivable because of the irrevocable character of their choice, not because of any defect in the infinite divine mercy.[15]
19th-century Universalists such as Thomas Allin (1891)[16] claimed that Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa taught that even the Devil and fallen angels will eventually be saved.[17]
The Unitarian Joseph Priestley suggested that the passages refer to Korah.[18] William Graham (1772) suggested that it referred to the spies in Canaan.[19] These passages are generally held today to be commentary, either positive or neutral or negative, on Jewish traditions concerning Enoch circulating in the Early Church.[20]
The Quran mentions angels (malak ملاك) around ninety times, usually in the plural and referring to obedient angels.
The Quran states that Satan was a Jinn (as in Islam, angels can not disobey Allah) and also he is mentioned with the angels in verses (2:34,[21] 7:11, 15:29, 17:61, 18:50, 20:116, 38:71) prior to his fall. Satan (also called Iblis from Greek diabolos, "the devil") rebelled and was banished on earth, and he vowed to create mischief on earth after being given respite by Allah till the Day of Judgment, according to verses (80-85:38).[22] In Islamic Terminology, Jinns, like humans, have the capacity to choose whether to obey Allah or disobey Him, which means they have free will.
Harut and Marut (Arabic: هاروت وماروت) are two angels sent to test the people of Babylon. That there are fallen angels is not in the Quran and the Quran explicitly states angels have no free will, but are like appendages of Allah.[23][24] But, it is said Allah gave free will to those two angels for 2 months to show them why human being is a superior creature, and then they were taken back to the heavens. In the meantime, they taught some spiritual things and magic to human being.(Quran 2:30)
In literature, John Milton's Paradise Lost (7.131-134, etc.), refers to Satan as being "brighter once amidst the host of Angels, than the sun amidst the stars."[25]
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Set the World on Fire is the second studio album by American rock band Black Veil Brides, released through Lava Records/Universal Republic Records on June 14, 2011. It is the first Black Veil Brides album with Christian "CC" Coma playing the drums. He replaced Sandra Alvarenga after her departure to join the band Modern Day Escape. The title track, "Set the World on Fire," was intended for use in Scream 4, but it was not included in the film. Instead, an extended preview was released for fans. "Fallen Angels" was the first single released in support of the album, accompanied by a music video directed by Nathan Cox. On May 3, a preview for another song titled "Youth and Whisky", was released online. It was then announced that the single had been pushed back on iTunes to May 10, and would be provided free of charge to those who pre-ordered the album simultaneously. The full track listing of the album was released on iTunes, with an exclusive bonus track, titled "Smoke and Mirrors". On May 10, official pre-order packages became available on the official BVB Army website. On May 23, it was announced that the song "Set the World on Fire" would be featured in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and would be the official theme song for WWE Hell in a Cell (2011). During a live stream from Black Veil Brides Stickam channel on May 30, they announced that the music video for their next single, "The Legacy" would premiere on YouTube on June 6, 2011. The next music video to be released from the album was "Rebel Love Song". Two months after being announced, the music video was released via YouTube on October 19, 2011.
A fallen angel is an angel that has been exiled or banished from Heaven.
Fallen Angel(s) or The Fallen Angel(s) may also refer to:
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Mark L. Richardson (born March 19, 1952 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri) was a politician who served as Minority Leader in the Missouri House of Representatives. He has also served as an assistant prosecuting attorney and a circuit judge.
His son Todd Richardson has also served as a Republican in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Mark Ashton Richardson (born 26 July 1972 in Slough) is a British former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
He competed for Great Britain in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and Roger Black. This team set a UK record, 2:56.60, in the process.
At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Richardson ran the anchor leg for Great Britain in the 4x400m relay, winning the silver medal. His unofficial split time was 43.5. On 7 January 2010 it was announced that Great Britain's 1997 World Championship 4x400m relay team are to be awarded the gold medal; they were beaten by a U.S. team that included Antonio Pettigrew, who admitted in 2008 to using performance-enhancing drugs.
Richardson received a two-year ban from the IAAF after he failed a drugs test which was taken on 25 October 1999. He was suspended in March 2000 and subsequently missed the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He tested positive for banned substance nandrolone, but claimed that he was unaware of taking the substance. Unlike fellow competitors Linford Christie, Gary Cadogan and Doug Walker, Richardson accepted the ban and chose not to pursue his case to arbitration. The IAAF did re-instate Richardson in June 2001, under their "exceptional circumstances" rule.UK Athletics also cleared Richardson (as they did with Christie, Cadogan and Walker) as they believed there was enough reasonable doubt over the intention to take a banned substance. The IAAF overrule such decisions because they hold athletes completely responsible for drug samples under a "strict liability rule"
(Dennis DeYoung)
"Hell, nobody's perfect
One hundred percent
No saint, no Pope, no King no Queen
No President
But our hunger for heroes
Has made us blind
We seek salvation
From the cup of human kind
But every time we hear the voice
Of some new Abraham
We wake too late to realize
It was just another scam
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel
You always take us with you when you fall
I said nobody's perfect
From head to toe
Not Einstein or Elvis or Lenin or Marx
Or Marilyn Monroe
Cause it's mostly illusion
In flesh and bone
An image, a look, a song or a book
That we all claim for our own
But even in the best of us
There lies beneath the skin
The tragic flaw in nature's law
That's bound to do us in
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel
You always take us with you when you fall
Pretty faces up on the silver screen
Flawless bodies on covers of magazines
They all look perfect to us
So rich and cool and bored
But hold the presses boys
They've checked into Betty Ford
Turns out nobody's perfect
From "A" to "Z"
It's best to follow your heart
Then to follow me
Cause I'm only a singer
Playin' a song
And I've just been making it up
As I went along
See I met a man who told me once
"Sincerity's the key
And once you learn to fake it
Son you're gonna be home free"
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel