Question: 2 Peter 2: 4 says, God did not spare even the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, chained in gloomy caves and darkness until the judgement day. Jude 1:6., also a juxtaposed Scripture. Expecting you to give some exposition on these Scriptures.
Answer: Greetings in Jesus mighty name!
Here we go, "4 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 judgment; 5 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; 6 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." (2 Peter 2:4-6).
Also in the same context the other Scripture was given in Jude 1:6-7, "6 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."
In both of the above Scriptures, the context is the same but the juxtaposed content we see gives us additional information of what has really happened within these Biblical incidents which are repeated by Jesus and the apostles from the first century as a prime example of the judgment that will come upon the ungodly sinful world.
Angels are kept by God as covering, spiritual guardians or the keepers of the laws of God to execute judgments (Eze 28:14, 16; Dan 4:13, 17, 23; Deut 33:2; Gal 3:19; Rom 2:14-15, 12-13; 1 Tim 4:2), when God started to create this project earth, Satan having foreseen did not like to serve, guard and cover humans and help them worship God, it fell in to sin of pride and idolatry to lust for the worship of humans and angels alike (Eccl 3:11; Job 38:6-7; Ezek 28:3; Isa 14:12, 13-15; Matt 4:8-10). When Lucifer the Angelic Cherub was thrown down by God from the highest heaven of angels and God, it convinced one third of angels to come along with him to form a separate government on earth called the Kingdom of Darkness (Col 1:13; Acts 26:18; Rev 12:3-4).
So at the time of Noah and Lot, the two prime examples of how the world then was judged by God from heaven, one was by water and the other was by fire, it was done by God to show to all the generations succeeding it, until now, of how the present world under Satan will be judged by the world to come when the present earth and its world will be ruled through the rod of iron by Jesus Christ and the Church for a Millennium (2 Pet 3:10-12).
At the time of Noah, God's instruction to angels to guard and cover humans was broken in utter disobedience by Satan and his minions as they began to posses human to fill the world with people whose "every intent of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually" (Gen 6:5) and the Lord was sorry that He had taken the risk of allowing evil angels and humans to live by their own choice which made them think and do evil continually which grieved the heart of God as the world was filled with violence which made it look like godless hell (Gen 6:6, 11-12; Eph 4:30).
So we know now, not only the godless people who were spiritually dead in their sins died physically during Noah's flood to wait for the White Throne judgment which will happen at the end of this present earth existence (Rev 20:11-15), but the sons of God who were believers to have life in the spirit but lived a soulish life in disobedience towards God except Noah and his family were judged physically through the flood which made them die, to whom also Jesus went in to prison and preached the gospel and took them in to heaven after his resurrection (1 Pet 3:20; 4:5-6; Matt 27:50-53).
The angels who possessed humans during Noah's time before the flood to cause sinful thinking continually, were cast down to hell and God delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment which will happen before the White Throne judgment by the Church which will be operating from the New Heaven and New Earth (1 Cor 6:2-3). The same happened in Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in which God in a similar manner dealt with every one of the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode in the second heavens to posses humans to cause a thinking change that led them to perversion and gross immorality, instead of being just a obedient guardian, covering and guiding angels for humans. For the rebellion and disobedience of these dark angels towards God, He has reserved prison [i.e. or cave] holes and put them in everlasting chains, under darkness, for the judgment of the great day which will happen at the end of this present earth when it will be burnt by fire and it will all melt to become dissolved in to gaseous state of non existence, and this will happen just before the White Throne Judgment happens on outer space for all unbelieving humans.
For our end time generation which has sold itself out to gross, "sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh" of homosexuality and bestiality and the like of fornication and adultery (Prov 22:14; Rom 1:23-32), these judgment of flood and fire are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Apart from the angels who were imprisoned by God already, other dark angels from the kingdom of darkness continue to exist and operate in our present world under their leader Satan, they will all continue their work until the Second Coming of Jesus, after which God will put them all in prison for a thousand years time until it ends, and after that, a little while of time will pass in which they will be let out, to then be judged forever and be put in eternal fire of condemnation (Rev 12:3-4, 7-9, 12-13, 17; 20:1-5, 7-10). Hallelujah! God always wins at the end, because he not only knows the end from the beginning to declare it beforehand, and has designed it all according to His purpose, but also He is the beginning and the end, and in Him all things exist (Isa 46:10; Rev 22:13; 1:8; Col 1:16). Praise the Lord!
Much Blessings....
Much Blessings....
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