Слава, ответьте мне на один вопрос. Докажите по Писанию, что ангелы имеют способность к воспроизводству (рождению детей).
It's a good question, Vadim! Here's only few words:
Genesis 6:1-2:
“Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters
were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful;
and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.”
Who are these “sons of God”?
Job 1:6: “There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and
Satan also came among them.”
Job 38:7: “Where were you . . . when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Jude 6: “And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home [heaven] – these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgement on the great Day”
Clearly these are not the angels who participated in Satan’s original rebellion, because Satan and
his angels are not yet confined, but are free and active in “the heavenly places.” The sin of the angels
Jude refers to was that they abandoned their appointed dwelling place in heaven and came down to
the plane of earth, where they cohabited with human women.
Jude continues: “In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave
themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer
the punishment of eternal fire.”
Jude compares the fallen angels of Noah’s day with the people of Sodom and Gomorrah because
both groups were guilty of the same sin of sexual immorality and perversion.
2 Peter 2:4-6:
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement; and did not spare the ancient
world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the
flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into
ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward
would live ungodly. . . .
In both cases their sin was unnatural sex. In verse 4, where the English translation says, “cast them
down to hell,” the Greek word used is actually tartarus, a word that occurs frequently in Greek literature.
Tartarus has been defined as “a place of confinement as far below Hades as Hades is below earth.”
It is amazing how long the Lord will tolerate some forms of sin in the world, but there are certain
boundaries which God jealously watches over. One such boundary is that which prohibits sexual
perversion, whether it is between angels and human beings or between human beings of the same
sex. When that boundary is crossed, God’s severest judgements will quickly follow. In one case,
judgement came in the form of the flood; in the other it instantaneously wiped out the population of
two entire cities.
The Bible clearly indicates that intercourse between angels and human women did not permanently
cease at the time of the flood. “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days – and also afterward –
when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes
of old, men of renown.”
The Hebrew word nephilim is directly derived from the Hebrew verb naphal, which means “to fall.”
Nephilim, therefore, are fallen ones – that is, fallen angels. There were nephilim on the earth “in those
days” (i.e. at the time of the flood) – and also afterwards (i.e. after the flood).
Those who were born in this later period out of this unnatural union were called heroes. Greek
mythology abounds with descriptions of such heroes. They were born when beings whom the Greeks
called gods had intercourse with human women. These gods were supernaturally powerful beings
who came down from a higher plane of existence. The Bible calls them nephilim. They were, in fact,
fallen angels.
To give but a few examples, Zeus (the “father” of the gods) was said to have taken the form of a swan
and united with a woman called Leda, who bore him three children. On another occasion, in the form
of a bull, Zeus had intercourse with Europa, who also bore him three sons. Another “god” – Poseidon,
the god of the ocean – united with a human woman and she bore him a son called Theseus, who
became one of the most famous of the Greek heroes.
Many other examples could be added. These myths are like a cracked mirror, giving a distorted
representation of events which are accurately summed up in Genesis 6:4.
As in the Days of Noah
In Luke 17:26 Jesus warns us: “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the
Son of Man.” In other words, conditions that marked the days of Noah will again characterise the
period just before the present age closes.
In Noah’s day “the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”7
Certainly both of these features are being manifestly reproduced before our eyes today: moral
corruption and continually escalating violence.
In Noah’s day, too, humanity was invaded by angels from a higher plane who made human women
the objects of their lust. Today, once again, the media are replete with reports of “visitors from outer
space.” Sometimes these are attested by vivid eyewitness accounts.
We can write these accounts off as fabrications, but this does not explain their increasing frequency.
Another explanation suggested by Scripture is that conditions from the days of Noah are being
reproduced. Fallen angels are again at work on planet earth.
Thank you!