'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.
Likewise also these filthy dreamers
defile the flesh,
.. despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
.... Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil
...... he disputed about the body of Moses,
........ durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said,
.......... "The Lord rebuke thee".
............ But these speak evil of those things which they know not:
.............. but what they know naturally, as brute beasts,
................ in those things they corrupt themselves.'
(Jud 1:6-10)
Hello
@Butch5,
It is very probable that the book of Job was available to Moses, there is no proof that it was written later. It is believed that Job was the son of Issachar, of Genesis 46:13, and if so would have gone down to Egypt with his father. Possibly born the year after Joseph was born. When he died Moses would have been about fiftyfive, twentyfive years before the Exodus.
* The words, '
took them wives', suggests an intimacy of relation, and that their union was consummated. The angels '
kept not their first estate', and are compared to the men of Sodom, who gave themselves '
over to fornication', and '
went after strange flesh', the words, '
defile the flesh' is also used in this comparison.
* These fallen angels defiled the flesh of the women born to the sons of men, and they gave birth to offspring.
* Our Lord, when quickened into life, while in the grave, went in the spirit, and preached unto those 'spirits' (angels), in prison:-
'By which also He 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,
wherein few, that is, eight souls
were saved by water.'
(1 Peter 3:19-20)
* The waters of judgment saved Noah and his sons from the defilement which had come upon those among whom they were living, his pedigree was pure.
'These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect (
undefiled)
in his generations, and Noah walked with God.'
For if God spared not
the angels that sinned,
.. but cast them down to hell,
.... and delivered them into chains of darkness,
...... to be reserved unto judgment;
........ And spared not the old world,
.......... but saved Noah the eighth person,
............ a preacher of righteousness,
.............. bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes
.. condemned them with an overthrow,
.... making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
...... And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
........ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
.......... vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds )
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:'
(2 Pet. 2:4-9)
'There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God (
angels) 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.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth,
and it grieved Him at His heart.'
(Gen 6:4-6)
* Angels are called, '
sons of God', as Adam was called, a '
son of God', because created by Him.
(
sorry done in a rush, very late)
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris
