Magalie Bodkin Garcia wrote: 2 Peter 2:4 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" “If”: This is better translated “since” because there is no doubt about the history of judgment which Peter is about to recount. Verses 4-10 are one long sentence with the conclusion to the “since” clause beginning in verse 9. Lest anyone think that God is too loving and merciful to judge the wicked false teachers and their deceived people, Peter gives 3 powerful illustrations of past divine judgment on the wicked. These illustrations set the precedents for the future and final judgment on liars and deceivers. Though God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, (Ezek. 33:11) He must judge wickedness because His holiness requires it (2 Thess. 1:7-9). Angels that did not keep their own domain. Before the flood (verse 4; Gen 6:1-3) who left their normal state and lusted after women (verse 4; see Jude 6). Spared not the old world (verse 5; Genesis chapters 6 – 8). Before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (verse 6; Gen. 19). “Angels that sinned”: These angels according to Jude 6, “did not keep their own domain,” they entered men who promiscuously cohabited with women. Apparently this is a reference to the fallen angels of Gen. 6 (sons of God): “Cast them down to hell”: Peter borrowed a word from Greek mythology for hell, tartarus. The Greeks taught that tartarus was a place lower than Hades reserved for the most wicked of human beings, gods, and demons. The Jews eventually came to use this term to describe the place where fallen angels were sent.The demons feared going there and begged Jesus during His life on earth not to send them there (Matt. 8:29; Luke 8:31). Not all demons are bound. Many roam the heavens and earth (Rev. 12:7-9). Some are temporarily bound. These were, because of their sin in Genesis 6, permanently bound in darkness Matthew 8:29 "And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" It defined for them the lowest hell, the deepest pit, the most terrible place of torture and eternal suffering. Jesus, in spirit, entered that place when His body was in the grave and proclaimed triumph over the demons during the time between His death and resurrection. “Chains of darkness”: “Reserved unto judgment”: Fallen angels are destined to be released from their present hell to be judged and then consigned to the lake of fire, the final hell, a place “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41). The judgment had been pronounced upon them. It does not necessarily mean that it was carried out in its entirety at the time this is spoken. We as a Christian is seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, but our body is still housing our spirit here on the earth. OH GOD P̝̊̅LEA§E SAVE ♏Ε̲̣̣̣̥!.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:08:01 +0000
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