Nope. Not at all. The angels precede creation of which Satan was one of. Job 38:4-7.
When Were Angels Created?
If God created everything in the six days of the creation week, He must have created angels during that week as well. Either that, or God did not create the angels, and they simply have always existed with God. Most would reject this idea, as I do. Most traditions, drawing from the biblical reiterations of God’s uniqueness, define angels as
created beings. But if so, when did God actually create them? Do they appear in the creation week account of Genesis?
To be clear, the word “angel” does not appear in Genesis 1. Moses, very apparently—given his zoom-in on human creation in Genesis 2, intended the creation story to frame the central
human concerns of his human readers. And he did not choose to make the creation of angels explicit in his account. But Moses did leave hints which other biblical authors elaborated more explicitly in later texts.
The Stars to Rule
The greatest of these hints appears in Genesis 1:16–18:
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
The Hebrew words translated “to govern” in this text come from the root word (
mashal, משׁל). In no other place in all of Scripture do these words apply to inanimate objects. Objects do not “govern.” Beings do. And if the sun and moon “govern” the day and night, and the stars “govern” times and the separation of light and dark, perhaps these greater and smaller governors are not simply inanimate celestial objects.
YHWH, God of Hosts
Certainly, ancient people did not consider the sun, the moon, or the stars as inanimate objects. They generally viewed them as heavenly beings and sometimes as gods. Moses explicitly warns against worshipping the sun, moon, and stars—the “host of heaven”:
And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which YHWH your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. (Deut. 4:19)
This would make almost no sense unless—at least to the ancients—the sun, moon, and stars had some legitimate
personal quality.
Throughout the Old Testament, the “host of heaven” refers either to created heavenly bodies or to the angelic inhabitants of God’s heavenly kingdom or perhaps both (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; 1 Kings 22:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3, 5; 23:4–5; Is. 34:4; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; 33:22; Zeph. 1:5; Dan. 8:10; Neh. 9:6; 2 Chr. 18:18; 33:3, 5). The Scriptures often refer to God as the Lord of these Hosts. Again, this would have almost no practical meaning and would inspire no holy awe if the “host” in question included only inanimate objects—burning gas balls and orbiting rocks.
The Scriptures do not make a great distinction between the host of heaven as a created reality (sun, moon, and stars) and the host of heaven as the army of God’s angels. The stars are angels. The angels are stars. Some would say that the stars are “symbols” of the angels. I think it more fit to say that the angels spiritually govern the stars and light and darkness in the way that our spirits govern, but are not limited in influence to, our bodies. I’m not saying the stars are the bodies of angels. But that God assigned angels to govern material realities, specifically—at least in the beginning—celestial bodies. In the same way that we can be and often are identified with our earthly bodies, angels can be and often are identified with the heavenly bodies of their domain.michaelminkoff
So, at the very least, we can say for now that God created the angels when He created “the host of heaven”—the sun, moon, and stars. When did that occur? On the fourth day of creation. We can say also that the personified language Moses uses concerning the creation of stars in Genesis 1 is not merely poetic personification. The sun and moon and stars really did have dominion to do and declare God’s will in heaven, to separate light and darkness, and to govern the day and the night. Though it may seem trivial to designate the fourth day as the day God made angels, and to connect the celestial spheres with the angelic host, it opens up a lot of other inquiries.
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