Was God personally involved in outcasting the Grigori? I seem to recall the it was the Council's deal.
Perhaps the Grigori never actually violated any of God's commands. I'd say it's entirely possible that fornication, low grade corruption and so forth aren't in violation of God's will for Angels, really (the ten commandments are pretty much not applicable in several places, and therefore IMHO can be ignored, and the stuff that many angels get up to in the modern day ). Certainly the fact that not many Grigori fell would indicate that this is the case. It's the Seraphim Council which interpreted the Word of God and decided that the Grigori deserved to be cast out. After all, if God hated them, wouldn't they be demons?
One could even take this a step farther. What exactly were the Grigori, as a Choir rather than individually, guilty of? Nothing most humans haven't done, I'd guess. My image of the Grigori is a group of amiable human-types, not Mercurian supernaturally likeable or Seraph pure, but good neighbours and the sort of people that make you feel safer knowing that they live in the area, and the sort of people neighbourhood kids want to be like when they grow up. This is what the Grigori were meant to be, not watchers and protectors of humanity (thats for Cherubim and Malakim), but examples. Of course, calling their Choir "the Examples" sounds silly, so "the Watchers" has become more popular. Or perhaps "the Watchers" is a name for the Grigori thought up by other angels who didn't understand why they (the Grigs, that is) were really down on Earth.
The Casting Out, then, wouldn't actually be a casting out of any sort. The Seraphim Council might think that the Grigori were being punished, but in reality they're just being installed where they're supposed to be. The whole expulsion thing could even be a feint in the war (instigated by the Council, Yves or even God) planting the Grigori where they are unlikely to be disturbed by demons and can get on with the business of guiding humanity without haveing to worry about the whole war business.
Perhaps, to take this another step, the whole war effort on Heaven's part is merely a diversionary tactic to keep Hell off the Grigoris' backs while they do their thing. A culimnation to the War could be Hell devoting all it's efforts to the assault on Heaven, smashing through the Pearly gates, only to turn about and find that Earth has been lost completely to them in the mean time, where the Grigori, now indistinguishable from normal humans (or possibly by Armageddon there won't be a human alive without Grigori blood, if we want to get back to Casca's theory) have quietly moved in and...
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