Fallen Angels: Azazel, Leviathan, Yekun, Abaddon, their history and more!

Lucifer, better known as Satan, was an angel who lived beside God, but over time he began to express unacceptable behavior in the kingdom of heaven, such as envy and greed towards God.

In heaven, such thoughts are not tolerated and allowed, so Lucifer was banished from the kingdom of God and was considered as the first fallen angel. Since then Lucifer is known for bringing sin to Earth and being the king of hell, but he was not the only angel to be cast out of heaven.

In addition to Lucifer, nine more angels were expelled for trying to influence men’s way of life. From angels came to be represented as demons. Below you will learn about the history of each of them.

Most people know the stories in the Bible and all those who believe in God believe and have read their stories. One of the most famous is that angels began to feel jealous of humans, since God began to pay too much attention to them, so they decided to rebel. What happened in this rebellion of angels? See below.

According to the Bible, angels appeared on the second day of creation. Among them was a very intelligent and handsome one, who was the leader of the angels. This one was called Lucifer. Lucifer was very good, but, little by little, the desire to not follow God grew within him. Like Adam, he could make a decision to follow himself or follow what God commanded.

In one passage of Isaiah (14:12-14) he refers to himself as the ”highest”, which shows that he has made his decision. According to the Bible, Lucifer became very proud. His beauty, wisdom and power made him superb and all this led him to rebel against God. And in this rebellion he gained followers.

The Bible does not provide details or clear explanations about how this rebellion in the kingdom of heaven took place, but in some passages it is possible to understand a little of what happened.

Lucifer wanted for himself the authority that God has and wanted to be as acclaimed as the creator and assume his throne. He planned to take the place of God and have the authority to command the entire universe and receive the worship of all creatures.

God, seeing Lucifer’s intentions, cast him into darkness and took away all his privileges and powers. Lucifer did not admit defeat nor the fact that he was in darkness and thus his wisdom was totally corrupted.

Hatred and revenge turned Lucifer into Satan and then he became the enemy of the Creator. Lucifer needed allies in this war and, according to the Bible, he deceived a third of the angels to follow this path and participate in this dispute. These angels were considered rebellious and became demons and enemies of God. So they were all expelled from the kingdom of heaven.

Abaddon is considered by some to be the antichrist himself, while others even call him Satan, but his story is not very popular, as Lucifer was named after Satan. Learn more about the history of Abaddon in the following excerpt.

The story is widespread that long ago the world would be dominated by celestial beings, angels and demons, and these would bring balance to the world we live in today. Angels are famous and well known, the most popular are Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer, but it is Abaddon, the angel of the abyss, who is the most feared among these.

His name in Hebrew means destruction, ruin, but many called him the exterminating angel, he could still be recognized as the one who causes desolation. But after all, what made Abaddon so feared? The Book of Revelation explains.

In Revelation 9:11 Abaddon is described as the destroyer, the angel of the abyss and as responsible for a plague of locusts that resembled horses with human faces that had women’s hair, teeth of lions, wings and breastplates of iron and a tail with the sting of a scorpion that tormented for five months those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

The scriptures do not specify Abaddon’s identity very well, so various interpretations are made. Some religious have described him as the antichrist, others as Satan and some consider him as the devil.

A publication in the Methodist magazine “The Interpreter’s Bible States” stated that Abaddon was not an angel of Satan, but an angel of God carrying out the work of destruction by the Lord’s command. This context is cited in Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 to 3.

In the same chapter (20:1-3) where there is the year with the key to the abyss, it would actually be a representative being of God, therefore, someone from heaven and not from hell. This being would be able to bind Satan and cast him into the abyss, so some conclude that Abaddon could be another name for Jesus Christ after the resurrection.

The angel Azazel is known to have, through his malice, influenced humanity to corruption. He is also one of the leaders of the fallen angels. It is represented in other religions and even a Jewish book commands that all sin be attributed to it.

Azazel was an angel from heaven and had a beautiful appearance. When he joined Satan he was cast down to Earth for treason and became one of the fallen angels. It is believed that the evil he committed ended up corrupting his beauty, as in Jewish and Christian scriptures his appearance is demonic.

Some texts portray him as a demon, but in the Apocalypse of Abraham he is described as a carrion bird, a serpent and as a demon with the hands and feet of a man and 12 wings on his back, 6 on the right and 6 on the left.

In Judaism, Azazel is believed to have been an evil force. It was common to perform sacrifices to Azazel and to, at the same time, their god Yahweh.

In the Hebrew Bible sacrifices to Azazel are made with a goat in the desert and this must be pushed into a deep ravine. These rituals symbolized people sending their sins back to the source.

Among Christians, Azazel is not as well known. The Latin and English versions of the Bible translate his name to “scapegoat” or “waste land”. The Adventist religion believes that Azazel is Satan’s right hand man and that when the Final Judgment Day arrives he will suffer for all the evil he has caused.

Islam speaks of Azazel even when he was an angel, stating that he was among the wisest and noblest of angels. Some believe he fought creatures that inhabited Earth before humans, while others think he was one of these creatures and as a reward for fighting his people, he was allowed to enter heaven and be called an angel.

His high position made him arrogant, and after God created man, he refused to bow down to the new creation. For this he was thrown back to Earth and became a plague among men.

Leviathan is a giant sea creature mentioned in the Old Testament. His story is a famous metaphor in Christianity and Judaism, but it can be interpreted in different ways in each religion. He can be considered a deity or a demon. Learn more about Leviathan below.

Depictions of Leviathan change across cultures, but in all of them he is a sea creature of colossal size. Some portray him as a whale, but he is usually symbolized by a dragon, with a thinner, serpentine body.

Its biblical references appear in the creation of Babylon, where the god Marduk manages to kill Leviathan, the goddess of chaos and the goddess of creation and thus creates the earth and sky using the two halves of the corpse.

In Job, Leviathan is listed alongside various other animals such as hawks, goats, and eagles, which has led many scriptural researchers to believe that Leviathan was just any creature. Leviathan was usually related to the Nile crocodile, for being aquatic, scaly and having sharp teeth.

In the Golden Age of seafaring, many sailors claimed to see Leviathan and described it as a giant water monster resembling a whale and a sea serpent. In the Old Testament, he was represented as a metaphor to scare away marauders from the sea.

In Judaism, Leviathan appears in several books. First it is quoted in the Talmud and in one of these quotes it is stated that he will be killed and served at a feast for the righteous and his skin will cover the tent where all will be. Leviathan’s skin would still serve as clothing and accessories for those who were not worthy of the feast, in addition to being spread across the walls of Jerusalem.

In Zohar, Leviathan is considered a metaphor for enlightenment and in the Midrash, Leviathan almost ate the whale that swallowed Jonah.

In the dictionary of Jewish Legends and Traditions, it is said that Leviathan’s eyes light up the sea at night, that the water boils with the hot breath that comes out of his mouth, which is why he is always accompanied by a scalding steam. He also claims that its odor is so fetid that it can overcome the fragrances of the garden of Eden, and if that odor ever entered the garden, everyone there would die.

In the Christian Bible, Leviathan appears in about 5 passages. Christians’ interpretation of Leviathan generally considers it to be a monster or demon who is associated with Satan. Some believe that Leviathan is a symbol of humanity against God, and that it and other animals that appear in the Book of Revelation should be regarded as metaphors.

Leviathan was also considered by Catholics in the Middle Ages as a demon representing envy, the fifth sin of the seven deadly sins. Because of this he was treated as one of the seven princes of hell, where each one is a cardinal sin.

Some works on demons claim that Leviathan would be a fallen angel, as well as Lucifer and Azazel, but in others he appears as a member of the seraphim class.

Semyaza is an angel who was responsible for guarding all knowledge. The story says that along with the angel Azazel and others, he also went to Earth and lived with humans.

Semyaza is the phalanx leader of over 100 demonic entities. He received this title because he was responsible for convincing the other angels to descend to Earth to seduce women they found attractive. According to the scriptures it was he who taught all perversions to the…