Who are the sons of God referring to? In the Old Testament scriptures, this phrase is only used when speaking of the angels: Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. (Job 1:6) Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. (Job 2:1) "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" (Job 38:7)
In the New Testament scriptures, the same phrase is used to describe those of us who accept Christ Jesus as our Savior and Lord, Christians: "Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. (Romans 8:14) For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19) For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:26)
However, one specific use of this phrase by Christ Jesus helps bring the meaning in this passage together: Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children. And the second took her as wife, and he died childless. Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.” (Luke 20:27-33)
Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.” (Luke 20:34-36)
Remember, the Lord God said about Satan, “How you are fallen from heaven,O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit." (Isaiah 14:12-15)
But Satan wasn't the only angel that fell from heaven. 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; 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. (Jude 1:6-7)
Satan knew his ending, Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth,... And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Revelation 20:7-10)
Satan also knew that God promised Him, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15) The promised coming of the Seed, Christ Jesus was to save the world and deliver mankind from the penalty of sin, eternal damnation with Satan and his angels in the lake of fire and brimstone, where they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
This promised Seed would come from a holy union, ordained by God; Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24) The Lord God said, "...she is your companion and your wife by covenant. But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring." (Malachi 2:14-15) In an attempt to thwart God's plan, Satan's angels took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4)
And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” (Genesis 6:3) God would give mankind 120 years before He would destroy them off the face of the earth. Why? Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7)
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:8) No matter how Satan attempts to mess up God's plans, God always has the final say! Satan's angels couldn't stop God's promised Seed from coming by conceiving children with the daughters of men, because the man Noah had sons, and from their descendants, the Seed would come. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 6:9-10) So what would God have Noah do for the next 120 years? We will continue in the next study...
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