battles in the universe (Rev. 6–20). According to Peter and Jude, angels sinned at a mysterious point in the past. According to Jesus, it was the Devil who sinned from the beginning (John 8:44). The angelic sin must then somehow be associated with Satan’s sin. The question that most disturbs commentators is the occasion of this angelic fall.6 John Calvin comments that while Peter briefly mentions here the fall of angels, he has not named the time and the manner and other circumstances of their fall.