Jude 1:6-7 “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (7) as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
These angels that came to the earth at that time were part of Satan’s kingdom, but they even rebelled against Satan’s authority in committing this act, for had Satan sanctioned their action, God would have held him to account when God judged these angels. Satan knows his limits and will not step out of bounds, for even though he knows the judgement that he is facing, he does not want to incur that judgement before the time. As revealed in the above passage of scripture, when these rebel angels committed their act God judged them, by casting them into the bottomless pit where they are currently being held awaiting their final judgement. Notice, that the Holy Spirit equates their act with the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, in that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah committed sexual immorality by going after strange flesh, i.e. bestiality. In the same manner, these angels had gone after strange flesh by having sexual relations with daughters of men. And so, their offspring were part celestial and part terrestrial beings. Because of this, when God judged the rebel angels, at the same time their offspring were also cast into the bottomless pit, for God will not allow any hybrid species of part angel and part man to roam free in His creation. As already mentioned, two of those offspring are the Anti-Christ and the false prophet. God will release these two from the bottomless pit in the end time to fulfil His purpose. This explains, why the scripture refers to the Anti-Christ in the following manner, as one who, “was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit”. It is also because these two are part celestial and part terrestrial beings, that they cannot die, for angels cannot die as they are immortal beings (Luke 20:36). And so, that is the reason that the book of Revelation reveals to us that the Anti-Christ and the false prophet, will be cast “alive” into the lake of fire when they are judged (Revelation 19:20). As I have already mentioned, because the Anti-Christ and false prophet are the joint offspring of both angels and men, they will have extraordinary powers that they will demonstrate on the earth.
Michael E.B. Maher
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