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17 people. And send them against one another (so that) they may be destroyed in the fight [Civil War among the giants!], for length of days have they not ....And to Michael, God said, 'Make known to Semyaz and the others who are with him, who fornicated with the women, that they will die together with them in their defilement. And when they and all their children will have battled with each other, and when they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them for seventy generations underneath the rocks of the ground until the day of judgment and of their consummation, until the eternal judgment is concluded. In those days they will lead them into the bottom of the fire -- and in torment -- in the prison (where) they will be locked up forever. And at that time when they will BURN AND DIE, those who collaborated with them will be bound together with them henceforth unto the end of (all) generations. And destroy all the souls of pleasure and the children of the Watchers, for they have done injustice to man. Destroy injustice from the face of the earth. And every iniquitous deed will end, and the plant of righteousness and truth will appear forever and he will plant joy" (Enoch 10:7-16). The original rebellion of wicked angels occurred long before there were men on the earth. God had appointed Lucifer, one of the arch-angels, and a mighty cherub, to rule the earth, and gave him a throne. But eventually he rebelled, and turned against God. We read in the prophecy of Isaiah, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations [of angels]! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high" (Isa. 14:12-14). In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen.1:1), and the angels. But sometime after that original creation, Lucifer, who was to be a "light bringer," as his name implies, became dissatisfied with God's restrictions, and His form of government. He plotted sedition and treason. This wicked cherub influenced and led one third of the angels to rebel against God (Rev.12:3-4). But God cast them down to earth. As a result of that rebellion, a great destruction was wrought in the earth, and stars -- the earth became tohu va vohu -- "waste and desolation" (Gen.1:2). It was not originally created that way, however (Isaiah 45:18). But it became chaotic, leading God to perform a new act of "creation" as recounted in Genesis 1. The prophet Ezekiel tells us more about this ancient rebellion -- the first true historic episode of the original "Star Wars." He wrote: "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus [a type of Satan or Lucifer], and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou has been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering . . . the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast CREATED. Thou art the ANOINTED CHERUB that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. The First Rebellion of the Rebellious Angels "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till