What does fallen angel mean in the Bible?

Answer 1

revelation

Answer:

The words "fallen angel" aren't in The Bible.

But, Jesus does tell us:

"...I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Luke 10:18)

Answer 2

Angels are created spiritual beings. Fallen angels are angels that followed Lucifer when he rebelled against God.

ANOTHER ANSWER:

The words "fallen angel," as written, is not in the Bible.

Although Jesus does tell us: "...'I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.' " (Luke 10:18)

Further scriptures reveal that the angels that followed Satan in his "coup attempt" to depose God from His throne in the "3rd heaven" [see II Cor.12:2] in the beginning, also suffered the same catastrophic "fall":

"...his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven [angels; Rev.1:20], and did cast them to the earth..." (Rev.12:4).

And: "...neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great Dragon was cast out... [of heaven], that old Serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." (verses 8-9)

Just as "lightning" doesn't really "fall"... but is a built-up powerful electrical release and disruption in the atmosphere of the earth that can cause great destruction -- so, too, is the "fall" of Satan and his "demons" [disobedient angels] revealed to have been a "forced exit" from heaven decreed by God from heaven to the earth [and which is more than likely, what caused the earth to "become without form and void" - see Gen.1:2].

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He [God] hath reserved in everlasting chains [real case-hardened steel chains have no effect on spirit] under darkness unto the Judgment of the[Last] Great Day [the Last Day of God's plan of Salvation for mankind]." (Jude 1:6)

And: "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [tartaroo: a spiritual condition of restraint or imprisonment], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto Judgment." (II Peter 2:4)

So, if "fallen angel" has any biblical meaning... these scriptures paint a pretty good picture of what it means.

Satan and his rebellious angels [demons] were defeated in the beginning from deposing God from His throne in heaven by God and the "two-thirds" of His angels that remained "Faithful" to Him. They were subsequently restrained from exercising the full range of power that angelic beings are capable of bringing to bear... and Satan and his demons are and have been restricted to and restrained on the earth, pending the completion of God's plan, which culminates with the "Last Great Day" or Judgment Day.

In other words... God has "restricted sin to the earth" until the "universal crime" of Satan and his "fallen angels" comes to trial. Which is slated to occur when the present "dispensation of time" [or the time allotment God gave to man, God's future Immortal Children and Divine Family, to learn about and experience life -- including the evil lessons that Satan and his demons have been teaching man from the beginning].

"God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to His Good Pleasure. And this is His plan: AT THE RIGHT TIME He will bring everything together under the Authority of Christ - everything in heaven and one earth. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received and inheritance from God, for He chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as He decided long ago. God's purpose was that we who were the first to Trust in Christ should praise our Glorious God." (Eph.1:9-12 NLT New Living Translation)

Lucifer and his angels [Satan and his demons] once held, in the beginning, Righteous Rule on the earth as a cohesive, harmonious branch of God's universal Government... until Lucifer corrupted himself, became vain, sinned... and coerced his angels to follow him in his rebellious perversion of God's Government.

"You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you. Your great wealth filled you with violence, and you sinned. So I banished you from the Holy Mountain of God. I expelled you, O Mighty Guardian, from your place among the stones of fire... You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings." (Ezek.28:15-17 NLT)

" 'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ...What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for Joy?'" (Job 38:4-7 NLT)

The "fallen angels" thrive on the earth to this day. Jesus "cast them out of possessed people" right and left when He walked the earth as a man. And when He did it... the demons didn't die... but have lived on in their "darkened existence," succeeding generations of men, and "things," as they did when they were first restrained and cast down onto the earth.

They are here to stay... and shall control and influence man and the earth... until Jesus Christ returns as the NEW KING of the "restored" branch of God's Government on the earth, that the "fallen angels" corrupted, perverted and destroyed in the beginning. They are the reason WHY the earth is the sin-sick, hate-filled, lust-filled, envious, jealous, warring, bickering, polluted and dying world upon which we live.

And when Christ returns and rules the earth... the "fallen angels" will be removed for a thousand years, and not be allowed to influence or control the earth... or man:

"...the future world we are talking about will not be controlled by angels." (Heb.2:5 NLT)

If man weren't spiritually blinded and deceived by the "fallen angels"... he might be able to see the Truth of God's revealed Word, Believe what the Bible says, and begin to Understand the world on which we live.

So, if the words "fallen angel" were in the Bible, in just that literal arrangement; this is some of what it would mean.