Fallen Angels

The gods of Greek, Norse (etc.) mythology were real, and a result of the Nephilim. This is directly relevant to the story, as the setting is that time closest to the actual fall of the angels and their cohabitation with man.

Note that there were successive rebellions, not just one corporate insurrection. Satan was cast from the third to the second heaven, then drew a third of the 'sons of God' with him. Some of these later cohabited with man (leaving their first estate) and for their troubles were confined to Tartarus. After the flood, another contingent repeated this unholy error (the Nephilim).

In the scheme of heavenly hierarchies, we have thrones, dominions, principalities (rulershiops) and powers. It seems that the thrones and dominions were left untouched by rebellion.

• Why, one might ask, did God allow this rebellion. It is because - as Derek Prince has eloquently noted - untested relationships are to Him as unrefined gold: not worth purchasing. Both relationships between individual, mortal man and God, and between the angels and God, had to be subjected to some type of test. God uses Satan as an instrument of that testing.