EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/21/2025 9:00 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2“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.”
In
yesterday’s SD I was looking at a number of reasons that, according to Dr.
Warren Wiersbe, angels did not have a sexual relationship with women before the
flood that is found in the book of Genesis.
He stated three reasons and today I continue to look at his commentary
as he now states a fourth reason.
“Fourth,
the phrases ‘even as’ and in like manner’ in Genesis 6:7 need not be interpreted
to say that the angels did what the Sodomites did, namely, ‘going after strange flesh.’ Notice the grammatical connections in
the verse, and you will get the message:
‘Even as Sodom and Gomorrah…in like manner…are set forth for an example. The angels are an example of God’s judgment
and so are Sodom and Gomorrah.”
I
mentioned in my last SD on this subject that John MacArthur is one of the
people who believe that the angels could have been the ones that had
relationships with the women on the earth before the flood, and that was why God
sent the flood because Christ was dying for humans and not those who had come
from angels.
Dr.
Wiersbe goes on two write “I might add that Genesis 6:4 presents a strong
argument against the view that fallen
angels cohabited with women and produced a race of giants. ‘There were giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that’ (italics
mine). This would mean that a second invasion of fallen angels had to
take place! We have no record of this in
Scripture.
“Finally,
both Peter and Jude state clearly that these rebellious angels are chained in
darkness and reserved for judgment. They
would have to have invaded the earth prior
to being arrested and chained by God.
We wonder why God would have permitted them to ‘run loose’ long enough
to get the women into sin and hell to cause the great Flood. The whole explanation, though held by
teachers whom I respect, to me seems a bit fantastic. The simplest explanation of Genesis 6 is that
the godly line of Seth (‘the sons of God’) began to mingle with the ungodly
line of Cain and this broke down the walls of separation, resulting in
compromise and eventually degrading sin.
But regardless of which interpretation you accept, keep the main lesson
in mind: the angels rebelled and were punished
for their rebellion.”
We
here you have the two arguments that are given as to whether or not angels, a
certain kind of angel, could get women pregnant, and so I leave it to you to
figure this out by searching this out on your own. I guess the only problem with the angel
theory is that I have always thought that the angels were sexless.
6/21/2025 9:16 PM
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