Thoughts on Angels

For the past few years I have been studying the Bible. The more I get into it, the more I realize how it is integrating itself into my life more and more. It is truly a living book and it seems like it reveals certain things to me as it deems fit. Truly, it is a remarkable and unparalleled experience.

Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

I have, in the last couple years, been studying angels. When you really think about it, they are fascinating. God brought me to Genesis 6 one day and my views of them changed immensely from that point on.

Genesis 6:1-2
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

Now many people believe that this was the Ungodly line of Cain marrying with the Godly line of Seth. This is ridiculous. If this was so, then surely the line of Seth would have been spared because they would have been Godly. But no, only Noah and his family were spared along with 2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean one.

Genesis 6:8
"But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."

It clearly states that they were the only people on the ENTIRE planet that were perfect in their generations.

Genesis 6:9
"These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."

I firmly believe that these "sons of God" were fallen angels. Also, note that there are no daughters of God mentioned. Only daughters of men. Angels literally came down from the high places and took themselves women. I dont know exactly what they did to them but clearly they had offspring. I know angels dont have reproductive organs because they were created to be eternal beings. But what about fallen angels? They shed their first estate in favor of a sinful life.

Jude 1:6-7
"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

Jude is comparing what the angels did to what happened to Sodom and Gomorrha! The word "habitation" is called Oiketerion in Greek. It literally means habitation but in the SPIRITUAL sense. When we die, God will give us our oiketerion, or house. Its only used in two verses in the entire Bible. Jude 1:6 and...

2 Corinthians 5:2
"For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven."

House is the translation for oiketerion. So the angels had to shed there spiritual body, what we long for, in order to do what they did!

There are also many people who say that a son of God is a human. To that I say yes, you are correct to an extent. The only time any human is called a son of God is after the resurrection of Christ. Listen to all these verses talking about sons of God.

Genesis 6:2
"That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Job 1:6
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them."

Job 2:1
"Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD."

Job 38:7
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

John 1:12
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name"

Romans 8:19
"For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God."

Paul goes even further in Philippians. He explains what it takes to be the sons of God. That means that it is a conditional title to be bestowed upon whom God decides to. We are not born sons of God.

Philippians 2:15
"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world"

There you have it. The Nephilim were the offspring of fallen angels and women of the earth. Its shocking, I know, but it is the word of God. More on this subject later!