The Simple Answers… To Life’s Most Important Questions.
Bible Study Course Lesson 10 – 3
The first two lessons of this series showed that all the angels and demons were deceived, on at least some level, and also that their level of stubbornness varied widely – while all obeyed God, some did so more enthusiastically than others.
You also saw that the war in heaven was a way of sorting out the more stubborn from the more repentant angels – a process that has happened more than once, and may yet happen again. But if you’re paying attention, those answers raised new questions…
Can a demon repent?
And if so, can God forgive it?
And if He can forgive it, is there some promise of salvation waiting for it?
And if salvation, then is it possible for them to be heirs, like us, of the family of God?
Everyone in the world would confidently answer “no” to all these questions. But why? Why can’t any of these things be true?
Everyone believes that God either can’t or won’t save devils, and that He doesn’t have to save angels. Yet angels have sinned, and devils have sinned; it’s only a matter of degree. But is degree really that important? 1 Timothy 1:13, Ephesians 3:8.
What is important for salvation is not how much you’ve sinned, but how deceived you were when you did it. The most violent murderer in history, who killed believing he was doing God’s work, can be forgiven; Paul is proof of that.
Yet the nicest old lady in history, who stole a penny knowing perfectly that it was a sin and refusing to repent will eventually go to the lake of fire. Because God doesn’t care what you do, rather He cares how well you obey what you know.
Think about this; God is love. God is merciful. God is not willing that any should perish, but wants ALL to come to repentance… so why wouldn’t God save devils? Some might say “well, God would, but a devil would never repent – they’re set in their evil ways”. But like I always say… how do you know??
I was raised like you were, to believe that angels were sinless and devils couldn’t repent. That they were what they were, good or evil. But we know that the demons were once righteous angels (Ezekiel 28:15). Which means they already changed their character once… why couldn’t it change back??
Besides… if an evil spirit is hopelessly, incorrigibly wicked… why did Jesus bother to preach to them?? (1 Peter 3:18-20)
HOPELESS SLAVES
Even as a child, I always had a problem with the idea that salvation is for humans alone. Because if that’s true, it means God created angels to be a slave race, bound to an eternal servitude without hope of freedom or self-determination.
The world’s doctrines cast angels as a race of glorified menial laborers with no hope of advancement, a race that lives their entire eternal existence under the threat of death for the slightest sin. So let me put it to you this way – God is love. So how could God create angels, knowing they could, and therefore at least some would, sin… and leave them no path for repentance?
The world believes that the good angels, for their reward, get to keep being servants forever… while any angels that spill God’s antimatter coffee one time burn in hellfire for eternity. Can you imagine living under that kind of pressure?
Why would God, who can do all things, create umpteen million sentient beings and promise them no future besides eternal bondage if they’re lucky enough to avoid hellfire? Everyone in the world believes that He did just that; but the Bible is clear, very, very, clear that He did no such thing.
The angels are indeed servants of God (Revelation 19:10). But so are we. For that matter, so is Jesus! (Zechariah 3:8). But the servants of God, including the angels, are not slaves but bondservants… and as we have a hope of someday making more of ourselves, so also do all of God’s servants.
THE SALVATION OF ANGELS
All this reasoning sounds fine, as far as it goes – but extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. This is a radical departure from what literally every Christian on Earth believes, so that means I owe you more than appeals to reason, you deserve compelling evidence.
So where, you may be asking, is my evidence? Surely, such a major doctrine would be CLEARLY taught in the Bible, right? Yes, you’re absolutely right… it would be… and it is:
Ephesians 1:9-10 (Weymouth) when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God’s merciful purpose for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it — the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.
Think about what that actually says! Read the words, not the tape you’ve heard when this verse has been read to you in the past. What does it REALLY say??
It says His plan is to restore the WHOLE creation, specifically including the creation in heaven. How can that NOT include angels? Were the angels not created by Jesus? John 1:3. Do they not need restoration?
Aren’t all guilty of sin, man and angels alike? Romans 3:22-23. Sin, which literally means to miss the mark or to fall short – in this case, to fall short of the glory of God! Haven’t the angels also fallen short of the glory of God? Because otherwise… they’d be worthy to open the book! (Revelation 5:2-4).
And God’s merciful purpose which He has made known to us is to restore that WHOLE CREATION to be a part of ONE BODY, the body of CHRIST! Specifically including those things in HEAVEN which have sinned!
Colossians 1:16, 20 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: …And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile ALL THINGS unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or THINGS IN HEAVEN.
This is extraordinarily clear proof. So clear, in fact, that it’s hard to imagine how anyone has ever not understood this! I mean, how much clearer could He have said it? How SPECIFIC did He need to be? He plainly, repetitively, and explicitly told us that ALL THINGS are to be reconciled BY THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS… things on Earth, AND THINGS IN HEAVEN!
Now since we know for a fact that no men are in heaven (John 3:13), this cannot have any other meaning than the salvation of angels. But just in case you were unclear on what “all things” really meant, Paul went on to specifically describe those things that are included!
He said the blood of Jesus would reconcile to God both visible humans AND invisible angels! (John 3:8). Both men who sit on thrones and the angelic princes who stand behind them! (Daniel 11:1). Everything He created, including men AND angels, can be reconciled by the blood of His cross!
How much clearer could God be? Christ died so that ALL could have an opportunity to be reconciled to Him! Because, of course He would have! If He excluded half of His creation, how could He claim to be a merciful God who desires that ALL should come to repentance!! (2 Peter 3:9).
Why wouldn’t He want the angels, AND THE DEMONS, to come to repentance as well, if they will only repent and do righteousness? Is God looking forward to killing anyone for their sins? Ezekiel 18:32. How can that not include angels? Colossians 1:21-22.
ENEMIES IN YOUR MIND
Note that this last verse continues the context of “those in Earth and heaven”; it is written to these “enemies in their minds by wicked works”. And who has the “enemy of God in their mind”, if not those beings whose unruly fractions have led them away from God? (Romans 8:5-7).
Which means those in heaven have the same problem as we do on Earth – a selfish heart and a stubborn spirit! And as with us, Jesus allows them to join “the body of His flesh through death”, where they learn how to rule their fractions!
Which is why Jesus must help them reconcile their arrogant spirits and proud hearts through a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2)… by helping them to “die daily” and “mortify themselves”… which is how they become “holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight”!
Which means the “holy angels” Jesus spoke of in Mark 8:38 aren’t holy because they have never sinned… rather they, like us, became holy because they joined the body of His flesh through some form of symbolic death just as we must!
Remember the definition of holy: “set apart”. Set apart from what? Revelation 18:2-4. From the unclean spirits – the opposite of holy spirits, and from the wicked spirits – the “burdened spirits” who have not (yet) taken Jesus’ yoke upon them!
The holy angels are set apart, by calling out, so that they may be holy exactly as we are (Isaiah 62:11-12). That they without us should not be made perfect – and vice versa.
BAPTISM OF FIRE
Read 1 Peter 3:18-20 again. Notice Jesus preached to the spirits before the time of the Flood. And then notice the very next thing that Peter mentions? Baptism! Because that is how we all take part of HIS righteousness: by becoming part of HIS body. Titus 3:5-7. Which, since He is holy… makes us holy! 1 Peter 1:16.
Now think about it… if God can do this for us… why can’t He do it for them? Isn’t Jesus’ sacrifice ample to pay for the sins of all of His creation, not just the humans? Hebrews 3:3-4. And if so, why wouldn’t He want to do it for them??
This makes sense, because it’s what the God we serve SHOULD have done! Of COURSE He would have taught the gospel to ANYONE who would listen, man or angel alike, and the Bible clearly says He already did! (Colossians 1:23).
And if EVERY CREATURE under heaven has heard the gospel… how can that not include them? They’re obviously interested! (1 Peter 1:12). And are not the fallen angels, by definition… creatures UNDER HEAVEN? 2 Peter 2:4.
So no, the salvation of angels is not a secret. It’s not a fringe doctrine that relies on a few dubious verses. It’s all over the Bible. The claim is shocking, I admit; but the proof is extraordinary. So why does no one know this today? Because you can’t teach someone who already has all the answers!
Christians are so sure they know what angels and demons are, they can’t hear when God says very plainly that all creatures in heaven and Earth have sinned, all creatures in heaven and Earth have heard the gospel, and all creatures in heaven and Earth have access to salvation by the blood of Christ!
The one verse for this lesson is Colossians 1:12-23; so read it one more time, just to see – now that you can see – how clearly Paul tried to tell us! For in verse 15, it tells us clearly that Jesus was the firstborn of every creature, not the firstborn of MAN alone!
…which is why every creature can find salvation in the same family!
WHAT ARE ANGELS?
When we think of angels and demons as a species apart from ourselves and more importantly, apart from God, we miss the point. As you know, God’s name is El and Jesus’ name was Yahweh Elohim in the OT.
As you should also remember, all of God’s house, specifically including those in heaven, bear the name of Elohim (Ephesians 3:14-15). But what you may not know is that when the Bible refers to “god” or “gods” in the OT, it almost always uses the same word Elohim.
Why does that matter? Because God inspired the same Hebrew word to be used for Himself (Genesis 1:1) as for the false gods His soul hates! Read Genesis 31:30, Exodus 18:11, Exodus 12:12, Exodus 23:33, etc. Every one of these translates “Elohim” as “gods” because even false gods are still ELOHIM!
How is that possible? Throughout the OT, almost every time the term “gods” is used to refer to idols or pagan, false gods, the name of God, Elohim, is named upon them! They are called evil Elohim, other Elohim, even false Elohim… but they ARE Elohim! (Psalms 82:1, 6).
Why? Because all of the angels are of the species of Elohim! Remember that Elohim is just a type of being; just as cows or woodchucks are a type of creature, which reproduce after their kind and have offspring that look like them, so the Elohim just a type of creature… albeit the highest form of life.
All of the angels were created by the spirit of God, and even though they may have sinned, all are still Elohim – just as a murderer is still a human, so also the angels, even the evil ones, are still Elohim!
SONS IN THE SPIRIT
The Elohim is the highest species in the universe; but since it was the heads of that house which created all life in their image (Genesis 1:26), we can learn how the Elohim works by studying the lesser forms of life that were patterned after it!
We were meant to infer things about the species of the Creator through His creation (Romans 1:19-20). Specifically through man, but also through the other animals such as bulls and goats that represented Him in some way.
So how do these creatures reproduce? The sperm (living water) flows from the belly of the Father into the mother (John 7:38). Water is a symbol of spirit, as you know; thus it is the spirit of every father which creates a son in his own image.
It therefore stands to reason that any being who has inside of them any form or symbol of the spirit of another being, in some sense becomes their son (Romans 8:14). For this is the definition of a son – being made of the spirit of your father.
Whether that spirit takes the form of sperm, or of breath (Genesis 2:7, Luke 3:38), or water which makes you the son of God by joining the body of His Son (baptism)… you become a son through some form of living spirit.
Thus, if my words (made of breath, thus another form of spirit) find a place inside of your heart, in that sense you become my offspring in the spirit (Titus 1:4). And if those words I gave you came, in turn, from God, then that makes you by extension His child as well (James 1:17-18).
When Jesus created all things (Colossians 1:16), specifically including angels, and He did so by the word of God (1 Corinthians 8:6), for the Father’s pleasure (Revelation 4:11). Which means that all beings ever created have the Father’s spirit in them – for that is the only way ANY of us have life (Acts 17:24-25, John 5:26, 1 Timothy 6:16).
God gave life to ALL things that are alive – humans, angels – by giving them a small piece of His breath, of His water, of His spiritual DNA. Specifically including angels! (Psalms 33:6). And since everything has some small amount, some “earnest” of His spirit (2 Corinthians 5:5)… everyone in heaven and Earth is, in some sense, a son of God… and therefore… an Elohim!
LAYERS OF SONSHIP
I stress this because devils aren’t red with horns and a pitchfork, and angels aren’t glowing and white and holy. The word “angel” is simply a borrowed Greek word that means “messenger”. It’s not a special type of creature, any more than a FedEx driver is different from other humans.
The beings we call angels of God are different from us, but only because they are made of spirit. They are better than us… but not that much better! (Psalms 8:3-5). That’s because God, angels, and we, are ALL Elohim. All the same kind of creature!
And yet it is obvious that these types of sons are not all the same; Adam had the breath of God in him, thus he was a son of God. Yet it would be wrong to say that he was a son in the same way as Jesus, who was “filled with the spirit of God” (Luke 4:1), “without measure” (John 3:34).
Likewise, human beings are called sons of God (Acts 17:28). Even the unbaptized ones could be considered potential sons of God – as an unfertilized human egg is still a human egg, not the egg of some other species.
But we who are baptized into the body of Christ are now living Elohim. Alive, but not corporeal Elohim, for we are still in the womb of the ekklesia – which means we are unborn Elohim embryos – who may or may not survive our gestation and become true Elohim Beings (1 Corinthians 15:50-54, Hebrews 10:5).
That incorruptible body (better translated “imperishable”) is something the angels already possess (Luke 20:35-36). Which is not to say they cannot be killed by God, but rather that they do not die of natural causes – like the Sequoia tree, which never dies but can still be cut down.
Which is why we are “lower” than the angels, who are likewise called sons of God (Job 38:7). And yet they, themselves, though once above Jesus, are now far below Him – He, who is the highest type of a son of God, the firstborn, thus the eldest son of God! (Hebrews 1:2-4).
So God, Jesus, Angels, Demons, baptized and unbaptized humans are all Elohim. The only difference…
Pay attention, this is huge…
The only difference between us, Angels, and God Himself… is that we are at different stages in the life cycle of the species of Elohim!
All humans are the unfertilized eggs of God;
The ekklesia are the eggs which were called from the ovaries and fertilized, who then become the embryonic form of God; fetal Elohim.
But the Angels were created before us. Thus, they are older than us, yet still of the same species. They have the spirit body we still wait to receive… which can only mean… they are the juvenile form of God!
That’s why they appear just like us (John 20:12), specifically young versions of us (Mark 16:5). Because they, like we, are made in the image of God – who, appropriately, appear as older men! (Daniel 7:9, Revelation 1:14).
All of the Elohim appear like the same kind of being because we all ARE the same kind of being – just at different ages!
FOUR CREATURES
In Revelation 4:6-9, we see four “beasts”. The original Greek word actually means “creatures”, but everyone knows them as beasts, and that’s good enough for now. John describes each of them as having a different face – Lion, Calf, Man, and Eagle. He also saw six wings on each.
Compare that to Ezekiel 1, where the exact same faces are seen on angels, and Isaiah 6:2, where the seraphim each have six wings, and you’ll see that these “beasts” are identical to the angels because they are angels!
Now obviously these scenes are symbolic; in every non-vision, non-metaphorical sense angels look simply like humans (Genesis 18:1-2, 16-22, 19:1, etc.). So the vision John sees is specifically meant to tell us something deeper than their physical appearance, something about the character or functioning or makeup of these creatures.
Daniel saw them simply as men (Daniel 8:15-16, etc.); glowing men, perhaps, at least in a vision (Daniel 10:5-7), but not “full of eyes round about”, or “with six wings full of eyes”. But in Revelation God was revealing something new through John, who saw these same kinds of beings as four creatures “full of eyes round about and inside”.
We need not go too far to find the explanation of these “eyes”: Revelation 5:6. The seven eyes on the lamb picture “the seven spirits of God”, which means the eyes on the beasts must also picture spirits – angels.
The eyes being “on the Lamb” pictures the fact that they work for and serve the body of the Lamb – just as your own eyes bring light to your own body (Matthew 6:22-23). Which means if the beasts are “full of eyes” – not only seven but perhaps dozens or thousands – then these beasts are full of angels which serve the body of that beast.
Now the body of the beast is clearly composed of “every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9). Thus, the body of these beasts are made up of fleshly humans – but these beasts are also full of angelic eyes! The beast angels contain both!
So then these creatures picture four of the highest ranking angels, those who founded the four beast kingdoms of Daniel (Daniel 7:2-3)… and by extension, they also picture all the angels and people in their dominion!
We’ll be revisiting these beasts in great detail later, but for now what’s important is what these four angels and all the angels and men under them say to God: Revelation 5:8-10. For these angels say “thou wast slain, and hast redeemed US to God by thy blood”!
But more than just redemption, salvation; more than the mere absence of death. These beasts go on to thank God for saving them and giving them an inheritance in His house! “…And hast made US unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth”.
These creatures were redeemed by Jesus’ blood. And these beings, angel and human alike, have been made kings and priests who will, some day, reign on the Earth! In the house of Jesus, the name above all other names!
UNTO WHICH OF THE ANGELS…
If you’re paying attention, you’ll have remembered a passage that seems to contradict these ideas, Hebrews 1-2; specifically verses 1:5-8, 13-14, 2:5. Read them carefully – note that they do not say that God will not save angels from their sins. In fact, salvation isn’t mentioned at all! The only subject is rulership in the kingdom.
Paul says that God did not put “the world to come” in subjection to any of the angels. Which is true – the angels will not rule the world to come. But neither will any human! Before you object there, think about what I said. No human will rule the world to come! (1 Corinthians 15:50).
Nor will any of the angels sit on God’s right hand (Hebrews 1:13)… for that spot is taken! (1 Peter 3:22). Neither God nor Jesus can give it to anyone else (Mark 10:37-40). But it doesn’t say the angels couldn’t sit on God’s left hand, nor on the right hand of the right hand of the right hand of Jesus!
Nor did God, the Father, ever say to an angel “you are my son, this day have I begotten thee” (Hebrews 1:5), as He said of Jesus in Matthew 3:17, Mathew 17:5, etc. But neither did God, the Father, say that to any other man… ever!
Because when you think about it… God is really only saving ONE person. I’m serious – the only Being who has ever, or will ever, be saved… is Jesus. All of these beings you think of as “people” – me, you, everyone else in the ekklesia – are, by this new definition, part of Jesus’ body! We are only sons by being part of Him, the only TRUE Son! (Hebrews 3:4-6).
So you see, Paul’s point wasn’t to say that angels can’t be saved; nor even to say that saved angels can never rule in the kingdom of God. Rather, he was saying that Jesus had beat out all other angels for the only spot there was at the top of God’s kingdom and that all future power in the universe would be subject unto Him!
His name surpassed the name of every angel by inheritance, not by true sonship (for remember, Jesus was a bastard). And if we are to be kings and priests in that kingdom, we, too, will have to abandon our own name to take His upon us (Revelation 3:12). Meaning that all future children of God will be part of Christ’s house, and not their own!
And any angel who, like us, is joined unto the body of Christ must lose his own name to become “Christ’s” (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). And if THEY are Christ’s… then they are heirs with Him of the promises! (Galatians 3:26-29).
For there will be no angels in the kingdom of God, no humans who are sons of God, only Jesus’ house! And the world to come will be ruled by that house, and not angels or humans – but rather, newborn Elohim whose old man has passed away!
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN
And we know from the scriptures that we’ve already read that the angels must enter Jesus’ body, and that requires the death of the old man – and the angels need that no less than we. They, like we, must not “love their lives unto death”, for those who “seek to save their life shall lose it”.
Now you may say “but angels can’t die!” (Luke 20:36). But just because something can’t die doesn’t mean it can’t be killed. I mean think about it… angels are a flaming fire (Hebrews 1:7). But God is symbolized by water.
Think about it. What could a being made of fire fear more than water? For only water can kill fire.
Jesus told Nicodemus “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). He connected these two types of “births” to flesh and spirit (verse 6), saying that which is “born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
He goes on to describe what spirit is like in verse 8. He does so in the present tense, for at that moment there were many beings born of flesh; and many other beings who had only been born of spirit! The angels, of course.
Jesus did not say that one was necessarily superior to the other. What He said was that salvation requires BOTH births… one of water (flesh) and one of air (spirit). We, knowing only the birth of flesh, lack the spirit and must, therefore, be baptized in the holy spirit.
Jesus was talking to a human at the time, telling humans what we lacked; but if both are necessary, if being in the kingdom of God requires a birth of water and a birth of spirit… then the angels lack the baptism of water just as much as we lack a baptism of spirit! A baptism which, due to their fiery nature, will kill them as surely as it kills us – if not more! (Romans 6:4, Hebrews 1:7).
This is not so out of context as it might sound, for Jesus clearly seemed to have more to say about being born again vis a vis “heavenly things” (John 3:12). But if Nicodemus was struggling to keep up with his own lacks, why bother telling him what angels lacked… when anyone who paid attention could easily figure it out?
We who are flesh require a baptism of air/spirit, for we are already flesh.
But they require a baptism of water/flesh, for they are already spirit.
I BAPTIZE WITH WATER…
Again, there are many layers at work here; obviously, we need baptized with water and with the spirit. In the simplest layer, our egg is bathed with our father’s living water to make us alive; much later, we are bathed with air at birth, and later still, at adulthood, bathed with fire when we leave our father’s house and face the world on our own.
In the layer of humans, we are baptized with water into the ekklesia to begin our gestation; some sevens of years later, we are baptized with the spirit to make us a child of God, an elder in our own right. Still later, we die and are resurrected as a being of fire, just like our elder brethren and our Father (Hebrews 12:29).
In the layer of angels, they were created as spirit beings; they skipped over the egg-and-gestation stage, and jumped straight to childhood. They were created baptized in the spirit, created as a being of fire; knowing two of the baptisms already… but without knowing the baptism of water, they had no chance to develop on their own!
They were as they were created, as Adam was; but an embryo grows his own body. His own spirit helps his mother shape him and create him into a being they can both be proud of. Without this, the angels will never be complete, for they had no say in their own development – only in what they did after their birth.
And thus, angels lack the safe space of the ekklesia, the safe womb of a mother’s belly to grow and evolve in, every bit as much as we do. And like us, to enter that womb our former self must die. And yet, like us, their literal death isn’t necessary for salvation.
But their symbolic death, the death of their old way of life, is. I don’t pretend to know how that happens – do angels pretend to be humans to get baptized? Does Jesus baptize them in some heavenly water?
Or, since baptism mostly is about immersion in a new house, do the repentant angels join the house of some other, more righteous angel? Did Jesus train some “apostle” angels personally, then have other angels join their houses for salvation? It fits a nice pattern, at least. But I really don’t know at this point. By the end of this series, I probably will. But not now.
All I do know is that without being born of the spirit and of the flesh, they cannot enter the kingdom of God. They must lose their life to save it, and must choose to have their name blotted out so they can receive a new name in Jesus’ house (Psalms 83:16-18).
Now to an angel, a name is not what it means to us (Psalms 49:11-20). I mean, I would change my name to get out of a parking ticket. But then I never had millions of people sucking up to me through that name, offering sacrifices and flattering me to no end (Deuteronomy 32:17).
For an angel to give up his name must be a far bigger deal than it is for us, if for no other reason than that they’ve had thousands of years to get used to the name and make it into something! So it would require a great sacrifice for an angel who has been worshipped as a God by humans to blot out his own name so that he can be a new creature in Christ!
Which is why, of course, it must happen.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
We distinguish between “men” and “angels” in the Bible, but the Bible doesn’t do this (Joshua 5:13-15, Genesis 17:1-2, Genesis 32:24-30, etc.). The only distinction God makes, as a matter of type, is the substance of which we are made – flesh or spirit (John 3:6, Ephesians 6:12), perishable or imperishable (1 Corinthians 15:38-50).
We don’t see a place for the angels to be saved in the Bible because angels aren’t saved. Because in the sense most people mean it, there is no such thing as angels! Angels are just sons of God who happen to be messengers, servants of God.
God doesn’t save messengers, God saves His children, His sons, be they made of flesh or spirit alike! And since angels are explicitly called sons of God, as are we… that obviously makes them our brethren! (Revelation 12:10).
And if they serve God, as do we, then they are our fellow servants (Revelation 19:10, 22:9). And if they do the will of God, that again proves they are Jesus’ brethren, and thus brethren of ours! (Matthew 12:48-50).
And if any of God’s sons ask Him for bread… will He deny them? (Luke 11:11-13). And there isn’t one reward for angels and another for humans – for all who are in Christ are a new creature! (2 Corinthians 5:17). A new creature made in the image of the Father, regardless of his “past life” (Colossians 3:10-11).
Knowing that there is no such thing as angels, but only men, only sons of God, whether made of flesh or made of spirit. Read Romans 10:5-13. Paul tells us that the man – human or otherwise – who keeps the law will live because of it.
As for the word of faith, humans need not go up to heaven to find it – for it’s near to us. And by the same token those in heaven need not descend into the deep – to the Earth – to receive it! Because WHOEVER believes on Jesus shall be saved!
And as long as their hearts “believe unto righteousness”, and they confess their mistakes with their mouth, symbol of their spirit… ANYONE who calls on Him will be saved! (Psalms 51:17).
Whether Jew or Greek, male or female, yes, or human or angel, the same Lord is rich unto all that call upon Him!