Evil angels await the last judgement; Angels: Day 349

Last updated on: July 7, 2017 at 3:30 am by Pete Socks

Evil angels await the last judgement; Angels: Day 349 2017-06-24T20:24:45-05:00 Pete Socks

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The devil and his angels, says St. Augustine, have been cast out of Heaven, but they inhabit the lower celestial regions. The important thing about this passage is not St. Augustine’s speculative cosmography, but the theological point that the demons are still awaiting their eternal judgment.

But because evil angels also were not formed evil by God, but were made evil by sinning, Peter in his epistle says: “For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment” (2 Pet. 2:4).

Here Peter shows that the penalty of the last judgment is still due to them, concerning which the Lord says: “Depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41).

They have already received one hell as punishment—that is, an inferior smoky air as a prison, which although it is also called heaven, is not that heaven in which there are stars, but this lower heaven from whose smoke the clouds are pulled together, and where the birds fly. For a cloudy heaven is spoken of, and fly- ing things are called heavenly—as when the Apostle Paul calls those evil angels, against whom as enemies by living piously we contend, “spiritual hosts of wicked- ness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12).

–St. Augustine, On the Nature of Good, Against the Manicheans, 33

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

The demons became evil by sinning. What effect are my sins having on my good nature?

CLOSING PRAYER

Guardian Angel, help me resist the temptation to sin, and keep the ill effects of sin constantly in my mind.

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