Biblical History of Man: From Creation to the Flood part 6

I know that I have challenged you so far.  So let's look at other scriptures that tell us something about the situation.

Job 4:17-18 ¹⁷ ‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
¹⁸ ‘He puts no trust even in His servants;
And against His angels He charges error.
(this is Eliphaz telling Job of a vision that he had experienced)

2 Peter 2:4-5  ⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Jude 6-7  ⁶ And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, ⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

We might ask, "What are God's thoughts on the situation?"  I'd have to say that He doesn't think much of it.

First, He charges His angels with error.  Maybe not all of them, but some certainly were in error.
Second, He did not spare them when they sinned, but sent them to hell, there to sit and wait for the final judgment.  Again, not all of them, for Satan is alive and well and he has help from angels who are "on his side" here on earth.
Third, He keeps them bound eternally in darkness, waiting for the final judgment.

I would have you notice that these scriptures about God's actions tie the sin of the angels to two things: one, the time just before the flood, and two, the sin of immorality and going after strange flesh, like the situation in Sodom and Gomorrah.

In addition, Jude makes it clear that these angels left their own domain and abode are the ones we are talking about.

Now I have to wonder what exactly drove Satan to do this.  It seems bizarre...or extreme...or sick...or something.  Of course, none of that is beyond him, but really!

Genesis 3:14-15  ¹⁴ The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
¹⁵ And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Of course we recognize this as a prophetic passage concerning the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  He is the seed of the woman.  But have you ever considered what is meant by the seed of the serpent, Satan?  In this passage Satan was put on notice.  A human woman will give birth to a male child who would one day destroy the devil.  From this point on he's added the plan to corrupt or destroy the child who will be all man who could possibly fill this prophecy. 

If Satan can corrupt the seed of the woman, he could prevent the birth of this Messiah.  After all He has to be all human, not part angel.  And God promised that Satan would also have a "seed".  Thus Satan's plan to thwart God's plan of salvation for all humanity. 

They began to dominate the earth and it became corrupt...Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  Man (or man-angels) was thoroughly evil.  Humanity is on the verge of being wiped out with no hope of being saved from sin...and that would be the case if every person born became part fallen angel.