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There are no evil angels, in the sense of angels who commit
wrong, but from time to time God requires His angels to bring
about something which from a human point of view is an evil
result, which might be what is meant by the term. In 2 Samuel
24:14-17 King David has to stand by and watch while the angel
of God brings a plague on Israel, killing seventy thousand
of his people.
In
the example below, God inspired an evil action on the part
of Saul. It contributed to God's overall good purpose with
David: "The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully
upon Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was
playing the harp, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his
hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, 'I'll pin David
to the wall.'" (1 Samuel 18:10-12; see also Psalm 78:49).
On another occasion God asks a 'spirit' to deceive the wicked
king Ahab, by making his false prophets give him wrong advice,
so that Ahab goes to his death in battle (in 1 Kings 22:19-25;
2 Chronicles 18:22-34).
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Abraham
Acts of the Apostles
Adam
Adoption
Affliction
Age, Aion
Almighty God
Altar
Amen
Angel
1. Human angels
2. "The angels who sinned"
3. Immortal angels
4. "Fallen angels"
5. "Evil angels"
Anger
Anointing
Antichrist
Apocrypha
Apostasy
Apostle
Archangel
Ark
1. Ark constructed by Noah
2. Ark of the Covenant
Armageddon
Ascension
Assyria
Astrology
Atonement
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