EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/20/2025 9:24 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1“The Fallen Angels”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 6
Message of the verses: “6 And the angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day.”
I want to begin this SD by looking at “2 Peter 2:4 For
if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and
committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment.” This verse is similar to Jude 6 with the
exception that Jude seems to add a new dimension to it by associating the fall
of the angels with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Jude 7, “even as…in
like manner”). Dr. Wiersbe reports that
“Some Bible students believe that Jude was teaching not only a revolt of the
angels against God, but also an invasion of earth by these fallen angels. They point to Genesis 6:1-4 and claim that ‘the
sons of God’ were fallen angels who assumed human bodies, cohabited with the
daughters of men and produced a race of giants on the earth. This was one of the reasons that God sent the
flood.”
Now
I want to say that in listening to sermons by John MacArthur I know that this
is the way that he believes happened, and as Dr. Wiersbe writes that this was
the reason that God sent the flood because He had to get rid of this “new” race
of people so that the Lord Jesus could come to earth as a baby, grow into a
man, die on the cross in order to save those who put their trust in Him for
salvation. Jesus Christ is the Son of
God and son of man, and so this race would not fall into the humans who were
created by God, but were a product of angels and humans. Now as far as what Peter wrote about the
angels when they sinned were committed to the pits of darkness, there is
something in the book of Revelation that speaks of God allowing angels who were
in pits so they could not get out, but were allowed out during a part of the
Tribulation period. Re 9:14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,
"Release the four angels who are bound at the great
river Euphrates." 15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and
year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind.”
Dr.
Wiersbe goes on to write “As attractive and popular as this view is, I must
confess that I have a difficult time accepting it. It is true that ‘the sons of God’ is a title
for angels (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7), but always for unfallen angels. Would the
Holy Spirit, writing through Moses, call rebellious
angels ‘the sons of God? I doubt it.” I realize that many Bible teachers do not go
along with what John MacArthur and others teach about this, but I really think
that there are points on each side of this issue, and even though I believe
that these angels could have had human bodies and then have relationships with
women before the flood could have happened.
I suppose that if this is not true that it would not shake my belief in
the Word of God.
Dr
Wiersbe goes on about this by writing “My second problem is that angels are
spirits and do not have bodies.” (That has always been a problem for me
too.) “In the Old Testament record, we
do read of angels who appeared in
human form, but this was not incarnation.
How could a spirit being have a physical relationship with a woman, even
if that being assumed a temporary body of some kind? Our Lord taught that the angels were sexless
(Matt. 22:30).
“Third,
it appears that God sent the Flood because of what man did, not what angels did. ‘My Spirit shall not always strive
with man….And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…..And
it repented [grieved] the Lord that He had made man on the earth’ (Gen 6:3, 5-6), italics mine). If this ‘fallen angel’ view is correct, God
should have repented that He created the
angels!”
Let
me just say that this issue is not going to get solved by me tonight, and
perhaps my view has been wrong, but that is one of those things that we may
find out in heaven.
6/20/2025 10:01 PM
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