In the Old
Testament, those who were called the "sons of God" were:
Adam (Luke
3:38),
The
Angels (Job 1:6,
2:1, 38:7), and
Israel (Isaiah
43:6,7, Psalms 82:6, Matthew 9:2,22).
Adam lived 930
years (Genesis
5:5),
and we can see by the geneaologies in Genesis
5
that the time of 120 years before the flood (Genesis 6:3) was approximately
1,000 years after the death of Adam.
And though
Adam was verily created in the image of God, he sinned
and fell, and afterward begat sons "in his own likeness,
after his image" (Genesis 5:3) as a sinner (Romans 5:12); and as a result his
children were not called in the scripture "sons of God".
Seth was
given by God as a substitute for the seed of Abel, whom
Cain slew, but, nowhere are Seth or his seed called
"sons
of God"...
The
scripture gives us no reason to believe that Seth or his
seed possessed any special power to produce or engender
"giants" (Genesis 6:4).
Israel came
from Abraham, who did not yet exist during the time
indicated in Genesis Chapter 6.
Therefore
we can see clearly that "the sons of God" in Genesis 6 were NOT men.
So,
the only other possibility is that they were angels.
Peter and Jude spoke of them in the
New Testament (2 Peter 2:4,5, Jude 1:6,7), saying that they had
fornicated after the same manner as Sodom and Gomorrha;
and they are not running to and fro through the earth
today, as are the devil and his angels (Job 1:7, 2:2, Ephesians
6:12),
but are rather "...reserved under chains of
darkness unto the judgment of the great day..."
They are in
the abyss where the unclean spirits of today fear to go (Luke 8:31).
After his
crucifixion, our Lord Jesus Christ preached his victory
to them (1
Peter 3:19, Colossians 2:15).
They are
the "third
part of the stars of heaven" that were cast
down to the earth by the tail of the dragon (Revelation 12:4).
Of a truth,
it is clear that the sons of God in Genesis 6:4 are angels.
*******Questions*******
Can
angels have physical bodies?
The
scripture testifies that they can indeed.
In
Genesis 18 & 19, the
angels washed their feet (18:4), and
ate meat and bread (18:8).
They
did the same thing in Sodom (19:2,3). The
men of Sodom wanted to know them sexually
(19:5). They
reached out their hands, and pulled Lot
into the house with them, and shut the
door (19:10).
Jacob
wrestled with an angel of the LORD (Genesis
32:24-30). The
writer of Hebrews says that some have
entertained angels unawares (Hebrews
13:4)...
Can
angels, being spirits, beget children?
Some would
say no, citing Matthew 22:30. The disobedient angels
before the flood "took them wives of
all which they chose"(Genesis 6:2), but we can see in Matthew 22:30 that Jesus was not
speaking of ALL the angels, but rather, "the angels which are in
heaven".
Those that rebelled before the flood are not
in heaven, but are in the abyss.
(2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6, 1
Peter 3:19,20, Ephesians 4:9, Colossians 2:15)
Also, God
himself put his seed into the womb of a virgin (but not
by fornication!), and begat a Son by her.
Clearly the
Son of God, Jesus Christ, is both the Son of God (Luke 1:35, Romans 1:4), and also the Son of
Man (Romans
1:3, Luke 19:10), the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15).
The
scripture says, "There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body." (1 Corinthians 15:44).
If God,
being a Spirit (John 4:24), is able to put his
seed into the womb of a virgin, and if he is able to take
for himself a bride (Israel--Jeremiah 3:14,
Ezekiel 16:8), why do so many say that the "sons of God" (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7) cannot take to
themselves wives and bear children, because they are
spirits?
It is
clear from the scripture that they can
indeed, although it is forbidden. And of a truth they did
just that in the days before the flood, and the result
was mutants--giants.
This also
happened after
the flood
Numbers 13:32,33, 1
Samuel 17:4,
2 Samuel 21:15-22;
and
it will happen again in the last days
Ecclesiastes
1:9,
1
Corinthians 10:11,
Daniel 2:43...
Watch
and pray.
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