Judgment
on False Teachers
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. Jude 1:6
angels
which kept...
Greek: tereo,
same as preserved in Jude 1:1. The angels did not preserve their
first estate (Greek: their own principality). They did not remain in
their own realm and native state, but left them so as to enter the
human realm and marry the daughters of men. This was an attempt to do
away with pure Adamite stock and thus keep the seed of the woman from
coming into the world to defeat them (Gen. 6:1-4; 2Pet. 2:4). It is
stated here that the angels, like Sodom and Gomorrha, lived contrary
to nature and committed fornication (Jude 1:6-7).
This
history begins again with the time of Adam and ends with Noah as did
Gen. 5:1-32. Each of chapters Gen. 4:1-26, 5:1-32 and 6:1-22 begins
with Adam, but only the last two cover the whole Antediluvian Age.
It
seems that daughters were born before sons (cp. see, Gen. 4:1).
Seth
didn’t have a son until 235 years after creation, and his son
didn’t have a son until 325 years after creation (Gen. 5:3, 5:6,
5:9). Where did these sons come from? They couldn’t have been sons
of Seth, because these marriages took place when men began to
multiply—in the very beginning of the race before Seth had sons of
marriageable age. The term "sons of God" proves they were
the product of God, not Seth. They were the fallen angels of 1Pet.
3:19; 2Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6-7. See the Septuagint; Josephus,
Antiquities Book 1, 3:1; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII, p. 273; and
Giants and the Sons of God.
The
Hebrew is singular—daughters of the man, Adam; therefore, not the
daughters of Cain, Seth, or men in general.
That
the sons of God (fallen angels) saw the daughters of men that they
were:
fair...
Hebrew: towb.
Translated "fair" (Gen. 6:2; 24:16; 26:7; Jdg. 15:2; Est.
1:11; Isa. 5:9; Dan. 1:15); "beautiful" (2Sam. 11:2); and
"good" (Gen. 1:4, 1:10, 1:12, 1:18, 1:21, 1:25, 1:31).
The
5th prophecy in Genesis (Gen. 6:3). It was fulfilled in Adam, and
gave him 120 more years to live before being cut off. This was given
when he was 810 years old, making Gen. 6:1-2 refer to the 810 years
since Adam’s creation, and Gen. 6:4 refer to the days after this to
the flood.
My
spirit shall not always strive with man: spirit...
Hebrew: ruwach,
wind, breath, life. Here it’s the breath of life, or
lives—conscience, life (Gen. 45:27; Jos. 5:1; Jdg. 15:19; Job 27:3;
32:8).
strive...
Hebrew: duwn,
to rule, judge. Translated "strive" only here. Elsewhere,
"judge, judgment, contend, execute, and plead." Many
versions translate it "remain in," i.e., My breath of life
will not always remain in THE Adam.
man...
Hebrew: ’Adam,
with the definite article, the man Adam. The meaning is, "for
that he (Adam) is also flesh (as all other men are): yet his (Adam’s)
days shall be an hundred and twenty years" (Gen. 6:3). If man is
held to be in the plural, meaning all men in general and not Adam in
particular, then who else is referred to by the word also? The fact
is, the verse reveals that Adam had corrupted his way upon earth as
all other flesh had done, and that God, in His mercy, gave him 120
more years in which to repent and conform his life to the will of his
Creator. Whether Adam did this or not is not known.
There
were giants in the earth: giant...
Hebrew: nephiliym,
plural of nephil,
tyrant, giant. Trans. giant only here and in Num. 13:33. The Hebrew
gibbowr
is translated "giant" in Job 16:14; the seventeen other
occurrences of "giant" or "giants" is the Hebrew
rapha’.
Giants
and the Sons of God
Proofs
that Giants Were the Sons of Angels:
1.
The fact that giants have lived on earth is clearly stated in
Scripture. The Hebrew nephil
means "giant" or "tyrant" (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33).
The men of Israel were as grasshoppers compared to them (Num. 13:33).
The Hebrew gibbowr
is also translated "giant," meaning powerful, giant,
mighty, or strong man (Job 16:14). To say these original words refer
to their degree of wickedness instead of bodily size is a mistake.
The
Anakims were a great and tall people (Deut. 1:28; 2:10-11, 2:21; 9:2;
Jos. 11:21-22; 14:12-14). Anak himself was a giant (Num. 13:33). If
all Anakims were as big, we can be assured other giants were also.
The land of Ammon was "a land of giants," for "giants
dwelt therein in old time" (Deut. 2:19-20). The Emims were also
"great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims" (Deut.
2:10-11). The same was said of the Zamzummims who formerly inhabited
the land of Ammon (Deut. 2:19-21). Og, king of Bashan, is described
as a giant whose iron bedstead was thirteen and a half feet long, and
six feet wide. This is not a measurement of wickedness, but of a
material bed for a giant body measuring nearly thirteen feet tall
(Deut. 3:11; Jos. 12:4; 13:12). Bashan is called "the land of
the giants" (Deut. 3:13).
A
"valley of the giants" is mentioned in Jos. 15:8; 18:16.
This is the valley of Rephaim, the name of another branch of the
giant races mentioned in Scripture (Gen. 14:5; 15:20; 2Sam. 5:18,
5:22; 23:13; 1Ch. 11:15; 14:9; Isa. 17:5). The Rephaims were
well-known giants, but unfortunately, instead of retaining their
proper name in Scripture, the translators used dead (Job 26:5; Psm.
88:10; Pro. 2:18; 9:18; 21:16; Isa. 14:8; 26:19); and deceased (Isa.
26:14). It should have been a proper name in all these places, as it
is ten times otherwise.
Rephaim
is translated "giant" in Deut. 2:11, 2:20; 3:11, 3:13; Jos.
12:4; 13:12; 15:8; 18:16; 2Sam. 21:16, 21:18, 21:20, 21:22; 1Ch.
20:4, 20:6, 20:8. The phrase "remnant of the giants" in
Deut. 3:11; Jos. 12:4; 13:12 should be "remnant of the
Rephaims," because there were many nations of giants other than
the Rephaims who filled the whole country trying to contest God’s
claim on the promised land. They are listed as Kenites, Kenizzites,
Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites,
Girgashites, Jebusites, Hivites, Anakims, Emims, Horims, Avims,
Zamzummims, Caphtorims, and Nephilims (Gen. 6:4; 14:5-6; 15:19-21;
Exo. 3:8, 3:17; 23:23; Deut. 2:10-12, 2:20-23; 3:11-13; 7:1; 20:17;
Jos. 12:4-8; 13:3; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16). Og was of the remnant of
Rephaims, not the remnant of all other giant nations (Deut. 3:11;
Jos. 12:4; 13:12).
All
these giant nations came from a union of the sons of God (fallen
angels) and daughters of men after the flood. Beings of great
stature, some of them even had six fingers on each hand and six toes
on each foot and carried spears weighing from 10 to 25 pounds (2Sam.
21:16-22; 1Ch. 20:4-8). Goliath, whom David slew, wore a coat of
armor weighing 196 pounds and was nine feet and nine inches tall
(1Sam. 17:4-6). The pyramids of Egypt, the giant cities of Bashan and
other huge monuments of construction may remain a mystery until they
are accepted as the result of the labor and skill of giants.
The
revelation we have of giants in Scripture gives us a true picture of
what Greek mythology tries in vain to give. Mythology is but the
outgrowth of traditions, memories, and legends telling of the acts of
supernatural fathers and their giant offspring—the perversion and
corruption in transmission of actual facts concerning these mighty
beings. The fact that giants were partly of supernatural origin made
it easy for human beings to regard them as gods.
2.
The fact that the Rephaim have no resurrection (Isa. 26:14) proves
the reality of giants and that they were not ordinary men. All
ordinary men are to be resurrected (John 5:28-29); therefore, giants
must be a different class from pure Adamites. Isaiah makes it clear
that the dead (Hebrew: Repha’iym
are now in hell (Isa. 14:9). Solomon confirms this in Pro. 2:18;
9:18; 21:16 where the Hebrew word for dead is Rephaim. See, Isa.
26:14, 26:19.
3.
The fact that giants came only from a union of sons of God and
daughters of men proves that their fathers were not ordinary men of
Adamite stock. No such monstrosities have been produced from the
union of any ordinary man and woman, regardless of the righteousness
of the father or the wickedness of the mother. Many converted men who
are sons of God in the sense of adoption and righteousness through
Christ have been married to unconverted women, and no offspring the
size of Biblical giants has ever resulted from these unions. If, as
some teach, giants were born of such unions both before and after the
flood, then why do not such marriages produce that kind of offspring
today? Why did this happen in every case then and never today?
4.
God’s law of reproduction from the beginning has been everything
after its own kind. It was not possible then that giants could be
produced by men and women of ordinary size (Gen. 1:11-12, 1:21,
1:24-25; 8:19). It took a supernatural element, the purpose and power
of Satan and his angels, to make human offspring of such proportion.
After giants came into being, they then produced others of like size
instead of ordinary sized men (Num. 13:33; 2Sam. 21:16, 21:18, 21:20,
21:22; 1Ch. 20:4-8).
5.
Not only is it unscriptural but unhistorical to teach that giants
came from the union of ordinary men and women. The great question has
been: Where did giants get their start? Gen. 6:4 makes it clear—from
a union of the sons of God and daughters of men. If the sons of God
were ordinary men in the same sense that the daughters of men were
ordinary women, then we must conclude four things:
(1)
Ungodly women have the power to produce such monsters if married to
godly men.
(2)
Godly men have the power to produce giants when married to ungodly
women.
(3)
A mixture of godliness and wickedness produces giants.
(4)
Extreme wickedness on the part of either parent will produce giant
offspring.
All
four conclusions are wrong, however, as proven every day by the
ordinary offspring of wicked and godly parents. Thus, the theory that
giants came from the marriage of Seth’s sons with Cain’s
daughters is disproved.
6.
The sons of God could not have been the sons of Seth or other godly
men for the following seven reasons:
(1)
There were no men godly enough to be saved during the Antediluvian
Age except Abel (Gen. 4:4; Heb. 11:4), Enoch (Gen. 5:21-24; Heb.
11:5), and Noah (Gen. 6:8; 7:1; Heb. 11:7), as far as Scripture is
concerned. Shall we conclude that these three men were the sons of
God who married the daughters of Cain and produced races of giants in
the earth in those days before the flood (Gen. 6:4)? We have no
record of any marriage or offspring of Abel before he was murdered.
Regarding Enoch, are we to believe that Methuselah and his other
children were the giants? Are we to believe that Noah’s three
sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—were giants? If so, where is our
authority for this? Had this been true, there would have been nothing
on earth after the flood but giants, for by Noah’s children the
whole earth was replenished (Gen. 10:1-32). That would cause another
unsolved mystery—how giants became ordinary sized men again.
(2)
The time of the marriages of the sons of God disproves the theory
that they were the sons of Seth. Marriages of Seth’s sons could not
have taken place during the first 325 years. He had only one son of
marriageable age up to that time (Gen. 5:1-8) and he (Enos) was not
godly. To say there were no such marriages before Enos contradicts
Gen. 6:1-2 which shows that sons of God married daughters of men when
they began to be born. Shall we conclude that daughters were not born
in the first 325 years? If so, where did Cain, Seth and others get
their wives?
Furthermore,
such marriages between godly sons and ungodly daughters could not
have been during the last 600 years before the flood, because Noah
was the only son of God by righteousness during this time (Gen.
6:8-9; 7:1; 2Pet. 2:4-5). His sons were preserved in the ark because
of being pure Adamite stock, not because of personal righteousness.
The above facts then limit these marriages to the 731 years between
the first 325 years and the last 600 of the Antediluvian Age, whereas
sons of God actually married daughters of men throughout the entire
1,656 years of that age. Gen. 6:1-2 makes it clear that this happened
"when men began to multiply on the face of the earth."
(3)
Gen. 6:4 teaches that there were giants on the earth "in those
days" (before the flood), "and also after that" (after
those days which were before the flood), as a result of the sons of
God marrying the daughters of men. If the sons of God were the sons
of Seth, we can account for them "after that" (after the
flood), for the line of Seth was continued through Noah. But with the
daughters of Cain (supposed by some to be the daughters of men) the
story is different. Cain’s line perished in the flood, which means
there were no daughters of Cain after the flood for sons of God to
marry.
(4)
The Bible gives us no reason to believe that the statement "the
sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair" should
be limited to Cain’s daughters. Thousands of families from the many
branches of the race both before and after the flood had daughters
too. In the 1,656 years before the flood (which is the period in
which Seth and Cain lived), there must have been from 150 million to
500 million people. It is unbelievable that so many as half of these
were godly and half ungodly; and we know that they were not limited
to two lines—the line of Seth and the line of Cain. Regarding
Seth’s daughters we have reason to believe that they were as fair
as the daughters of Cain—beautiful enough to attract men as
husbands for themselves. The line of Seth alone survived the flood,
so we know this is true.
Gen.
6:1-2 therefore, cannot be said to refer only to the daughters of
Cain; and the term "daughters of men" cannot be limited to
the daughters of Cain.
(5)
The very expressions "sons of God" and "daughters of
men" indicate two different kinds—one the product of God, the
other the product of man. Seth was not God, so why call the sons of
God the sons of Seth?
(6)
It is a matter of record that Seth’s children were as ungodly as
Cain’s. The firstborn of Seth even started idolatry, as proven in
The Line of Seth.
(7)
With the exception of Noah and his family all flesh had corrupted his
way upon the earth before the flood (Gen. 6:12), which means the
entire race (besides Noah’s family) had become a mixture of fallen
angels and men, or giants. Only Noah and his family had kept their
lineage pure from Adam, which is really why they were saved in the
ark. They were the only ones capable of giving the race a new, clean
start after the flood. It is said of Noah that he was a just man and
perfect in his generations (Gen. 6:9). The Hebrew for "perfect"
is tamiym, which
means without blemish. It is the technical word for physical
perfection, not moral perfection. It is so used of the sacrificial
animals of the Old Testament which had to be of pure stock and
without blemish (Exo. 12:5; 29:1; Lev. 1:3; 3:1-6; 4:3, 4:23-32;
5:15-18; 6:6; 9:2-3; Eze. 43:22-25; 45:18-23), without spot (Num.
19:2; 28:3-11; 29:17, 29:26), and undefiled (Psm. 119:1). Used of
Noah, this word means that he and his sons were the only pure
Adamites left, and for such purity, they (regardless of their
position in personal holiness) were all preserved in the ark.
Proofs
that the Sons of God Were Angels:
Since
the sons of God in Gen. 6:1-22 cannot be the sons of Seth or the
offspring of godly men and ungodly women, they must be fallen angels.
This is clear from many scriptures:
1.
The expression "sons of God" is found only five times in
the Old Testament and every time it is used of angels (Gen. 6:1-4;
Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7). It is indisputable that the passages in Job
refer to angels. Dan. 3:25, 3:28 calls an angel "the son of
God." Is it not possible then, that the sons of God of Gen.
6:1-22 could be angels?
2.
Some translations (the Septuagint, Moffatt, and others) read, "angels
of God" in Gen. 6:1-4, which is the only idea that harmonizes
with this passage and many other.
3.
Josephus says, "many angels of God accompanied with women, and
begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on
account of the confidence they had in their own strength ... these
men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call
giants" (Antiquities, Book 1, 3:1). Again he says, "There
were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and
countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were
surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of
these men are still shown to this very day" (Antiquities, Book
5, 2:3).
4.
The Ante-Nicene Fathers also refer to angels as falling "into
impure love of virgins, and were subjugated by the flesh. Of these
lovers of virgins, therefore, were begotten those who are called
giants" (vol. 2, p. 142; vol. 8, p. 85, 273). Justyn Martyr
(A.D. 110-165) says, "But the angels transgressed ... were
captivated by love of women, and begat children" (vol. 2, p.
190). Methodius (A.D. 260-312) says, "the devil was insolent ...
as also those (angels) who were enamored of fleshly charms, and had
illicit intercourse with the daughters of men" (vol. 6, p. 370).
5.
Both testaments teach that some angels committed sexual sins and
lived contrary to nature. Gen. 6:1-4 gives the history of such
sinning. 2Pet. 2:4-5 says that angels sinned before the flood and
were cast down to hell to be reserved until judgment. It doesn’t
reveal the sin as fornication, but Jude 1:6-7 does, saying, "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 Gomorrah , and
the cities about them in like manner (as did the angels), giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are
set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
If Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities lived contrary to nature and
committed fornication, as the angels did, then it is clear that the
sin of angels was fornication. According to Gen. 6:1-22, this sexual
sin was committed with "daughters of men." See 2Pet. 2:4;
Jude 1:6-7.
6.
The one scripture used to teach that angels are sexless (Mat. 22:30)
doesn’t say they are. It states that "in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of
God in heaven." The purpose of this verse is to show that
resurrected men and women do not marry to keep their kind in
existence. In the resurrected state they live forever, but not as
sexless beings. The Bible teaches that every person will continue
bodily as he was born, throughout eternity. Paul said that everyone
will have his own body in the resurrection (1Cor. 15:35-38). Both
males and females will be resurrected as such, though their bodies
will be changed from mortality to immortality (1Cor. 15:35-54). There
is nothing in the resurrection to uncreate men and women. Christ
remained a man after His resurrection and so will all other males.
Throughout
Scripture angels are spoken of as men. No female angels are on
record. It is logical to say then that the female was created
specifically to keep the human race in existence; and that all angels
were created males, inasmuch as their kind exists without
reproduction. Angels were created innumerable to start with (Heb.
12:22), whereas humanity began with one pair, Adam and Eve, who were
commanded to reproduce and make multitudes. That angels have tangible
spirit bodies, appear as men, and perform acts surpassing those of
the human male is clear from many passages. See, Heb. 13:2.
When
Jude states that some angels "kept not their first estate, but
left their own habitation" (Jude 1:6), he makes it
understandable how a sexual sin could be accomplished by them. The
Greek word for "habitation" is oiketerion.
It is used only twice in Scripture: of the bodies of men being
changed to spiritual bodies (2Cor. 5:2), and the angels having a
bodily change, or at least a lowering of themselves in some way (Jude
1:6-7). Thus, the New Testament helps explain the history of the Old
Testament
7.
There are two classes of fallen angels—those loose with Satan who
will be cast down to earth during the future tribulation (Rev.
12:7-12), and those who are now bound in hell for committing
fornication (2Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6-7). Had the ones in hell not
committed the additional sin of fornication, they would still be
loose with the others to help Satan in the future. Their confinement
proves they committed a sin besides that of original rebellion with
Satan. That it was sexual sin is clear from 2Pet. 2:4 and Jude 1:6-7,
which identifies this class of fallen angels as the sons of God of
Gen. 6:1-4.
8.
In 1Pet. 3:19-20 we see that Christ "went and preached unto the
spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing." Who are these spirits in prison, if not the confined
angels who at one time lived contrary to their nature—in sin with
the daughters of men (Gen. 6:1-4)? We read "Who maketh his
angels spirits" (Psm. 104:4; Heb. 1:13-14). If angels are
spirits, we conclude that the imprisoned spirits Christ preached to
were angels and the sons of God referred to in Gen. 6:1-22,
especially since they "were disobedient ... in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing." The very purpose of Noah’s
flood was to destroy the giant offspring of these angels known as the
sons of God who "came in unto the daughters of men.
The
Purpose of Satan in Producing Giants:
It
was the purpose of Satan and his fallen angels to corrupt the human
race and thereby do away with pure Adamite stock through whom the
Seed of the woman should come. This would avert their own doom and
make it possible for Satan and his kingdom to keep control of the
earth indefinitely. It was said to Adam and Eve that the Seed of the
woman would defeat Satan and restore man’s dominion (Gen. 3:15).
The only way for Satan to avoid this predicted defeat was to corrupt
the pure Adamite line so that the coming of the Seed of the woman
into the world would be made impossible. This he tried to accomplish
by sending fallen angels to marry the daughters of men (Gen. 6:1-4),
thus producing the giant nations through them.
There
are two episodes with fallen angels taught in Gen. 6:4. There were
giants in the earth "in those days (before the flood), and also
after that (after the flood), when the sons of God (fallen angels)
came in unto the daughters of men (any daughters of men—Cain, Seth
and others), and they bare children to them (to the angels)."
Satan
almost succeeded in his plan during the first episode, for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth; of all the multitudes Noah and
his sons were the only pure Adamites left to be preserved by the ark
(Gen. 6:8-13; 1Pet. 3:19-20). The main object of the flood was to do
away with this Satanic corruption, destroy the giants, and preserve
the pure Adamite line, thus guaranteeing of the coming of the Seed of
the woman, as God planned.
Being
defeated before the flood didn’t stop Satan from making a further
attempt to prevent the coming of the Redeemer who would be his final
downfall. It was now to his advantage that God had promised never to
send another universal flood upon the earth. Satan therefore reasoned
that he should make a second attempt to do away with the Adamite
line. If he came within "eight souls" of doing it before
the flood, his opportunities were now even greater with the promise
that there would be no such flood. This is the reason the second
group of fallen angels married the daughters of men. Again the unions
produced giants whose races occupied the land of promise—where the
Seed should be born—in advance of Abraham. Limited by His promise
of no flood, God had to destroy the giants another way. This explains
why He commanded Israel to kill every one of them, even to the last
man, woman and child. It also explains why He destroyed all the men,
women and children besides Noah and his family, at the time of the
flood it answers the skeptics’ question regarding why children were
taken away with adults in the flood. God had to end this corruption
entirely to fulfill His eternal plan and give the world its promised
Redeemer. The Redeemer has come now, so Satan is reserving his forces
for a last stand at the second coming of Christ.
Thus,
it is clear from Scripture that there were giants in the earth both
before and after the flood and that they came from a union of fallen
angels and the daughters of men.
in
those days...
Again the days of Noah before the flood. There were giants "in
those days" and "also after that," i.e., after the
flood.
when
the sons...
This verse reveals three facts:
1.
Fallen angels married earthly women twice—before and after Noah’s
flood
2.
Both times these angels fathered children by the women.
3.
All those children were giants.
daughters
of men...
Again, not the daughters of Cain as supposed, for no daughters of
Cain could be on this side of the flood. They were all killed by the
flood (Gen. 6:18; 7:7; 8:18; 9:1; 1Pet. 3:20).
they
bare children... Again, women
had children by both fallen angels and men. It wasn’t necessary to
emphasize children by men, but having children by angels was
significant (Gen. 6:4; Jude 1:6-7). Because of this sin "it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth" (Gen.
6:1-6).
renown...
Hebrew: shem,
men of name, honor, and authority (Num. 16:2; Eze. 16:14-15; 34:29;
39:13; Dan. 9:15). The giants became the heroes of Greek mythology as
Biblical truth became corrupted by transmission.
their
own habitation...
Greek: oiketerion,
dwelling. Again, used only one other time and that of the resurrected
body which believers long for (2Cor. 5:2). Angels left their own
dwellings, invading the human sphere and plane of living, and usurped
the rights and prerogatives of human beings (Jude 1:7; Gen. 6:1-4;
2Pet. 2:4).
he
hath reserved... For
this special sin of fornication (Jude 1:7), the angels are now bound
in tartarus in chains until the great white throne judgment (2Pet.
2:4; Rev. 20:11-15).
Angels
Among
the angels were those who had remained in their first abode and had
been obedient to God. But others rebelled and left their first
positions of authority and are now in darkness, bound… for judgment
on the Great Day.
Jude’s
source of information for this statement is debated. Some feel that
this may refer to Gen. 6:1-4, and that “the sons of God” who
cohabited with “the daughters of men” on earth were the angels
who left “their positions of authority” in disobedience to God.
Others feel Jude was making use of the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
Since Jude did not identify his source, any decision is only
conjecture. The way Jude referred to the angels gives reason to
believe that this truth was well accepted by his readers and thus
needed no further explanation.
Demons,
as we call them, or devil spirits as the Bible calls them, are still
ministering spirits. They just minister evil instead of good. A
devil, or demon spirit, must get permission from God before he
attacks a Christian. We are bought and paid for by Jesus and we are
His. He says what can happen to us, not the devil.
Again,
they are waiting for the judgment of God, as is all intelligence. The
people in the world who are not Christians can be attacked at any
time by the devil spirits. The chains, in the verse above are not
literal chains, but a control on them. Notice this is not a literal
place they are held, but they are dwelling in darkness.
The
main thing we are to see in this is the fact that they fell after
they knew God.
