Giants and Fallen Angels … Part II

Genesis 19 … This chapter is the continuation of events in the preceding chapter.

The same two angels who had accompanied Jehovah to Abraham's tent are now sent to Sodom on the evening of the same day. "There came two angels to Sodom" … Lot seeing them (still in the physical form or likeness of natural men) invited them to stay the night in his house. They agreed; he gave them bread and … "they did eat."

The men of Sodom called unto Lot … "Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them." (Have sex with them.)

But Lot refuses to let the Sodomites take the two men, (angels) and when they try to take them by force, the angels … "smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness." (Proof that they were angels sent from God to lead Lot and his family out of the city before He destroyed Sodom.)

These two accounts, as well as a third one in Genesis 32 … where God met Jacob at night and wrestled with him till the breaking of day. God was in the form of a man; not a created man, but as the "the Angel of the Lord," a visible physical manifestation of the invisible God. These scriptures and others have convinced me that both God and angels can assume physical bodies and operate like men in the natural realm.

I also contend that "in the past" it was possible for "fallen angels" to also manifest themselves physically as man for evil purposes. It falls under what I call … "spiritual laws" … if God's angels have the right to operate physically in the natural realm; then the fallen angels would also have the right and that same ability to do so.

This leads to the next question … "What are demons and where did they come from?"

The Bible only gives us "hints" to the answer of this question … nothing we can make doctrine out of. You may ask … "Then why is it important?" It may not be important to you, but demons are real and we need to understand their role in spiritual matters. I believe it was John Wesley who said … "The spiritual world is dark unto us, but we lie open to it."

I have heard some people say that Satan created demons. No … I don't think so. John 1:3 (speaking of Jesus states) … "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made."

So, if demons are real and Scripture agrees that they are; and if Jesus made all things, are we saying that God created demons? The answer must be … yes. But He did not create them as the evil demonic creatures they are now.

"Demons" are "disembodied spirits." What is that? Disembodied spirits are "fallen angels" who have had their angelic bodies taken away from them by God because they left the spiritual realm they were created in and crossed over into the natural physical realm of man when they produced the un-natural race of giants.

I have tried to show in this discourse that the fallen angels had the ability to operate in this physical world, not as men, but just like normal human men. I refer you back to Genesis 6:2 … "they took themselves wives from whomever they chose."

I believe the following two verses speak to this sinful act of the fallen angels that produced the giants that was on the earth.

Jude 1:6 … "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."

2nd Peter 2:4 … "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 … "

The word hell in this verse is the Greek word … "Tartaros" … and is used only here. Its meaning in Greek is, "the deepest abyss of Hades." It is not the same place normally referred to as hell. The key to understanding what Jude and Peter spoke about are in the almost identical phrases they used … "chains under darkness" and "chains of darkness."

I have always tried to keep my personal opinion separate from the truth of the Word of God. My opinion is just that … it's my opinion. But I always base such opinion on what I believe I find in the Bible. The following is in theory one explanation of how and why demons came to be … but it's still just an opinion.

"When the fallen angels, (the sons of God) came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them (Gen. 6:4) they crossed the line with God. As both Jude and Peter stated, God "delivered them into chains of darkness" by taking away their angelic bodies, leaving them after that with the ability to operate only as a spirit being. The term now used for them is … a disembodied spirit.

The easiest way for me to explain why they are in darkness is simply because they no longer have a body, and no longer can reflect light. It's like they are in the darkness of outer space. The universe is dark except when solid objects, planets, moons, space shuttles, etc. reflect the light of the various suns. A spirit cannot reflect light because it is intangible; it lacks substance, being incapable of being touched or seen.

Being unable to operate and express themselves in this natural physical world as disembodied spirits, they need to gain control and take possession of some physical body made of flesh; preferably a human being, but even animals will do. Remember the man called Legion in Luke 8:33 … "Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine …"

Because these disembodied spirits are under Satan's control they are … demonic.

What reason would Satan have for his fallen angels to create a race of giants? To start with, I don't believe Satan knew they would be giants … he's not that smart.

The main reason for the fallen angels to leave their first estate, their own habitation (their spiritual realm) was to pollute the bloodline of the woman, (Eve) because of the declaration (really more of a promise) God made to Satan in Genesis 3:15 … "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

The seed of the woman … Jesus … was to come by the woman, and by her alone, without the man. Therefore the fulfillment of this promise is not dependent on both Adam and Eve and their seed; but to Eve alone in that Jesus would be born of a virgin.

This is what is implied to Satan in the promise of the seed of the woman (Jesus) bruising the head of the serpent.

Therefore Satan, after hearing God's promise of the seed of the women, tried to pollute the bloodline of the women so that there could not be a pure bloodline for Jesus to be born from. If this theory or supposition is correct … then Satan almost succeeded in his plan. Notice the following verses …

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

Why did Noah receive grace out of all the masses of people on the earth? What made him so special? The answer is in the next verse …

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

Notice the phrase … "perfect in his generations." He didn't find grace because he was sinless or better looking than anyone else. It wasn't because of wealth or even his work ethic. It wasn't anything he did to earn it. It was because the history of his family bloodline could be traced back to Adam … making him pure in his generations.

The word perfect in Hebrew is "tamiym" and means … entire, without blemish, and undefiled. In other words, Noah was pure in his bloodline.

Again I say, this is only a theory, but it makes sense … it seems plausible. It has been suggested that Noah and all of his family going back to Adam and Eve were perhaps the only ones left that had not been polluted like a mongrel race by the fallen angels and the Nephilim … the giants. Satan came that close to stopping the pure bloodline in which Jesus could be born.

Is this theory true? Maybe. I don't have a clue except for these two or three hints given in the Scriptures. Does it matter? Probably not … except it shows to what extent Satan tried to go, to stop the only one who could bring his kingdom down.

And that one was … Jesus.


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