"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge? (Job 38:1-2).
The wisdom of God is a characteristic of the Word (Logos) of God. In Proverbs 8:22-31 Solomon personifies the wisdom of God, saying,
Proverbs 8
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
The Word of God (Son of God) was present when God created the heavens and the earth - which were created through Him - and he was rejoicing in it.
In Job 38, God asks Job,
Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
2 "Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? *
* There is one morning star - and Jesus refers to Himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16.
* The words "morning stars"
are in the singular in the text - "morning star".
* The word
"sons" is in the singular in the text
(but this is the case even when elsewhere the word is referring to sons, plural).
- but there is only one morning star.
Job 1:6-7
In
Job 1:6 Satan came among the sons of God who had come to present themselves before the LORD
- and in the very next verse when God asked Satan where he came from, Satan says "From going to and fro
- in the earth - and from walking up and down in it."
Then God asks Satan if he has considered God's servant Job - because there was none like him
- in the earth -
In the context Job was among the sons of God who had come to present themselves to God
- in the earth - the way God much later commanded Israel to do three times a year in the laws of Moses, and 'the accuser of the brethren' (Revelation 12:10) came among them.
Many take
the sons of God mentioned in Genesis 6:2 (quoted below) to be referring to the line of Seth and his descendants, and
the daughters of men to the line of Cain and his descendants.
Those who disagree will often cite:
- The book of Enoch (considered spurious by Orthodox standards in both Judaism and Christianity - for a number of valid reasons);
- 2 Peter 2:4-5;
- Jude 1:6;
- Genesis 6:1-4;
- Job 38:4-7; and
- Job 1:6 -
ignoring the context of Job 1:6.
Genesis 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that
he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God 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.
It's questionable whether or not angels - whom scripture tells us are spirit beings - had the human DNA and ability necessary to procreate with human women - whether fallen angels or not.
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge? (Job 38:1-2).
If we err, we should rather err on the side of caution, not - through drama in the human imagination produced by books such as the book of Enoch - inserting meaning into scripture that the texts do not
plainly contain.
It's only by drama in the human imagination produced by things that are not written in the Bible but in spurious extra-biblical books such as the book of Enoch that we can insert an allusion to "angels impregnating human women" into 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6.
"Angels also, those
who did not keep their own principality, but left their proper dwelling, under darkness God has kept in chains everlasting, unto the judgment of the great day." (Jude 1:6)
"For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into tartaroo (the deepest pit in hades) and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment." (2 Peter 2:4).
When comparing scripture with scripture there is not enough evidence that
the sons of God mentioned in Genesis 6:2 & 4; Job 1:6; and Job 38:4-7
were not humans, and there is
NO evidence that Peter and Jude were alluding to a time when "fallen angels impregnated human women" - because such an allusion
is simply not in the text of 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6.
It is only of the sons of God that it is written that God said,
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26).
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