How Many Angels Betrayed God, Went to Hell & Became Demons

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today’s video, we’re going to discuss an interesting question: just how many angels, exactly, betrayed God, were cast out of heaven, and became demons. We’re going to begin by looking at an earlier iteration of the Devil, one that portrays him as an instrument of God used to test humanity, not as the ruler of hell and king of demon kind; this will take us into the Book of Job, which demonstrates how the Devil was used in that capacity and wasn’t always viewed as a fallen figure. Then, we’re going to look at the Book of Revelation, which describes the fall of the angels, and finally, we’re going to dive into the various theories that quantify the angel population and detail the proportion of them that fall from heaven and become demons; one hypothesis postulates there to be 133,306,668. Let’s get into it. Satan, also known as Beelzebub, the Devil, Iblis, Mephistopheles, Lucifer, and numerous other infamous names and titles, wasn’t always viewed t