Stephen Jones — Angelology

b1 — Creation’s Jubilee

Satan Created by God

“Satan, whatever or whoever this is, was CREATED BY GOD. No other point is relevant to our present discussion.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 (“The Tension in Creation”) Interpretation: Jones posits Satan’s createdness as an axiom; he leaves Satan’s precise nature open while treating the fact of creation as incontrovertible.
God “creates evil” — Jones quotes Isaiah 45:7: “The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity [ra, ‘evil’]; I am the LORD who does all these.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13
Satan is “like any other ‘beast’ that is created and therefore owned by God by the law of Creation.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: Jones applies Old Testament property law as a theological framework: the creator owns the creature.
Satan may have been “created to be God’s adversary from the beginning.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12 (“Why Church Councils Condemned Restoration Teaching”) Interpretation: Jones floats (without final verdict) that Satan’s adversarial function was divinely intended from the start.

“Satan was merely God’s agent of judgment or testing, not an independent god outside of God’s control.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13
“Satan needed God’s permission to tempt men.” Regarding Job 1:6-12: “God gave Satan permission, and that is when the disasters…began to happen to him.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: The Joban prologue functions as the paradigm case for Satan’s subordination to divine authority.
“In the story all these things were obviously brought about by Satan, and yet nothing happened without God’s express permission. God could have prevented this, but chose not to do so.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13
Satan “will not be confined until the Tabernacles Age.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: Jones ties Satan’s final confinement to the eschatological Tabernacles age.

“God ALLOWED one of his ‘beasts’ or creatures (the serpent) to feed in another man’s field. Furthermore, the ‘whole field’ was eaten, for all men have been consumed by sin.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 (applying Ex. 22:5)
“When God allowed Adam to fall, and when God allowed the tempter to tempt Adam, He left the railing off the roof.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: Jones applies the Torah law requiring a roof railing (Deut. 22:8) to God’s permission of the temptation.
“God created an opportunity for Adam (the ox) to fall into the pit (sin and death)” by placing the tree of knowledge within reach. — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: Jones argues this makes God legally liable under his own law: “the owner of the pit shall make restitution.”
“God deliberately made Himself liable…for the death of Adam’s sons and daughters.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 13 Interpretation: This liability provides the soteriological basis for universal restoration: God is obligated to restore what He permitted.

“Satan will be reconciled, but nowhere are we told that Satan will be justified. Neither will Satan be saved.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12
“The blood of Jesus is the propitiation (covering) for the sins of the whole world, but it is apparent that John was speaking of the habitable world of ‘all MEN,’ not of Satan or demonic beings.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12 Interpretation: Jones makes explicit that Christ’s atoning work does not apply to Satan.
Reconciliation means bringing “the creation itself into subjection to the laws of God” but does NOT require creatures to be “justified” or “saved.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12 Interpretation: Satan will be brought under God’s sovereignty without being justified.
“Satan literally means Adversary, which is practically synonymous with ‘Enemy.‘” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12

Angels “who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode” — reference to Jude 6. — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12
Some fallen angels “engaged in intermarriage with human women, producing giants” — reference to Genesis 6. — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12
Jones states: “If Satan is a fallen angel, as the majority have believed…then the weight of evidence shifts slightly in support of the view that Satan will at some time be restored.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12 Interpretation: Jones leaves the question open but leans toward an eschatological subjugation of Satan without justification.

Clement of Alexandria (Origen’s teacher) argued all “fallen angels” would eventually “bow their knee” through reconciliation. — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12
Theophilus condemned those teaching “restitution of the devils to their pristine state.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12
Emperor Justinian’s Anathema IX (553 AD) condemned the belief that “a restoration will take place of demons and of impious men.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12 Interpretation: The Fifth General Council directed its condemnation specifically at demonic restoration — humans were not explicitly condemned under this anathema.
God is “the Savior of ‘all MEN,’ again saying nothing about angels or spiritual beings.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 12

Ch. 2: In a pastoral dialogue on adversity: “Do not blame it on God; it’s the devil’s fault.” — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 2 (“The Sun of Righteousness or the Fire of God”) Interpretation: Jones quotes this as popular theology which he subsequently corrects via his doctrine of divine sovereignty.
Ch. 4: Jesus’ interpretation of the parable of the tares: “the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age” (Matt. 13:38-39). “The reapers are angels” (Matt. 13:39-40). — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 4 (“Does God Punish Endlessly?“)
Ch. 7: “render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb. 2:14). — Jones, Creation’s Jubilee, ch. 7 (“The Law of Jubilee”)