In Genesis chapter six, it mentions the sons of God, or the sons of Elohiym taking wives of the daughters of man, as many as they chose to take. It goes on to say that the offspring these unions produced were giants compared to the other people.
Now some say that these sons of God were the children of Seth’s linage mating with the women. If this was true then all of the children being born of the linage from Adam to Noah would have been giants also. So these sons of God must have been other than the offspring coming from Seth’s linage.
With reference to the book of Enoch, which was written before the time of Christ and was quoted by Jude, in Jude 1:14-16, something is said about these sons of God.
Now before you reject the book of Enoch because it’s not in the Bible, just recognize that the author of the book of Jude, who quoted from the book of Enoch, is the half brother of the Lord Jesus and gives legitimacy to the truthfulness of the book of Enoch by quoting from it.
Enoch said: “And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied, that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the Heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.””
Enoch called them angels, and the children of the Heaven. It is unknown for sure whether they were angels or children of God called elohiym. In either case, they must not have been normal men, as the offspring from their unions with those women produced giants, whom some call nephilum from the Hebrew word for giants, “nephiyl”. Jude also said: (Jude 1:6) that the angels, (supposedly speaking of these same men), which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation (left their heavenly home), God has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day, for what they did. The apostle Peter also spoke of this in second Peter 2:4.
Enoch called these men or angels who came down unto these earthly women “watchers”. Saying: “wherefore you have left the high, holy, and eternal heaven and laid with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of Earth, and have begotten giants as your sons.”
The apostle Paul must have recognized the danger of this occurring when he wrote to the Church of Corinth
These so called sons of God, or angels, whichever they were, were responsible for the corruption of the people and the wickedness spoken of in Genesis 6:5 which eventually led to God bringing the flood to destroy them.
Along these same lines, in the book of Genesis, it tells of Jacob dreaming about a ladder being setup on the Earth and reaching into Heaven, with the angels ascending and descending upon it. I’m sure that the ladder is symbolic, but does demonstrate that there is travel between Heaven and Earth by heavenly beings.
Now all of these children of Heaven, or the angels are not bad and have not left their first estate, but are servants of Jehovah God doing His will both in Heaven and on Earth. It appears that just some of them rebelled against God’s law, or order of things in their habitation.
Since Jesus stated that He was with the Father before the World began, He too could have been one of these Elohiym, one of the sons of God in Heaven. Jesus could very well have been one of many created sons of God and was selected by Jehovah to come to Earth to perform God’s will by being born of woman, being the only begotten son of God by a virgin and born free of the original sin passed on by Adam. Because then, since Jesus pleased the Father, unlike the Elohiym that came to do evil, He earned a place at God’s right hand on the throne.
Let’s not forget about Jesus making the statements about being with God the Father before the creation of the World.
John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
John 8:42 “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John 16:28 “I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
These scriptures make it very clear by Jesus’ own words that He was with the Father God before the World was created and He was going to return back to the Father who sent Him in the first place. So Jesus Himself could very well have been one of the Elohiym, one of Jehovah’s created heavenly beings, who because of His faithfulness and loyalty with the Father, was sent to Earth, being born of a woman, to fulfill Jehovah’s plan of redemption for mankind. The Bible tells us that Jesus was the only begotten Son of God, but it does not say that He was the only Son of God. To be the only begotten son means that He was begotten of God through a woman.
Something else to think about; before Jesus was born, an angel appeared to both Joseph and Mary and told them to call the child’s name Jesus. Don’t you think that Jesus could have been his name when he was in heaven with the Father before the creation?
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