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NASB | 2 Peter 2:4 ¶ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 2:4 ¶ For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment; |
Subject: Scriptural basis? |
Bible Note: Given the context of Mt. 24, Jesus was saying that just as the people of Noah's time were living as they pleased and experienced sudden and unexpected judgment, so will his return be. As for Peter, he states that the message had been delivered to those who perished in the flood prior to their destruction (who at Peter's writing were "spirits in prison" - not that Jesus himself went to them in prison). The "spirits in prison" could not have been fallen angels. There is no mention in scripture of angels being given the opportunity of redemption which was given to man. Further, if it was fallen angels who corrupted the earth then why was the flood judgment brought on men and the earth rather than those angels? This scripture also cannot refer to Jesus preaching to the men who died in the flood after their deaths - why would he single this group out and not the remainder of lost mankind? There was no division of hell set aside only for antediluvian man, so even if Jesus had gone there to preach to them, there would have been others there besides them. The sons of God in Genesis refers to the followers of God mingling in marriage with the ungodly line of Cain, to the point that only Noah and his family remained. God addresses this in the law when he tells Israel not to intermarry with those they find in the Promised Land, because they will draw their hearts away from Him and toward their false gods. I appreciate the comments; you've spurred me to look into a couple of things I hadn't before, and that IMO is the whole point of this forum. |