Satan and his followers

Subject: satan and his 1/3

Message: Was it only male who were cast down to earth with satan. Did they have the Priesthood?

Kate

Kate,

Many times in the scriptures the term ’sons of God’ is used to designate both men and women.  I would presume that the 1/3 of the hosts of heaven that followed Lucifer, who became the devil, were both men and women.  I am not aware of any place where it states that they were of both sexes though, nor where it states they were only men.

Satan and his followers do not hold the Priesthood of God.  The Priesthood is given to men in mortality and Satan will never receive a body nor experience mortality.  The Lord spoke to Moses telling him:

1 And I, the ^aLord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That ^bSatan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the ^cbeginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will ^dredeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely ^eI will do it; wherefore ^fgive me thine honor.