There are at least three references to holy angels in the New Testament.
Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.
Luke 9:26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Revelation 14:10 ... they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
By implication fallen, non-elect angels are not holy. The holy angels, Gill notes, will be judges and will condemn unbelievers to everlasting burnings and pronounce the sentence on them. They will gather them out and seperate them from the righteous, cast them into the furnace of fire, will be spectators of their punishment and rejoice at it. The sight of their power and glory will increase the torment of the sufferers.
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