Angels and Women (1924)

APPENDIX 25328:19) leaves no room for a hope or a fear of hisexistence under any conditions, anywhere, when thefinal punishment for his course is administered, namely,destruction. See THE HARP OF GOD, pages 36,37; and STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES, Vol.VII, pages 500-503.NOTE 4. (See page 17)We read in Genesis 6:1, 2: "And it came to pass,when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,and daughters were born unto them, that the sons ofGod saw the daughters of men that they were fair;and they took them wives of all which they chose."These deceitful beings, the cohorts of Satan, are"the angels which kept not their first estate, but lefttheir own habitation, . . . giving themselves overto fornication, and going after strange flesh." (Jude6, 7) As a punishment for their evil conduct theyhave been confined since the Flood within the atmosphereof our earth "under darkness unto the judgmentof the great day. (Jude 6) It is these chains underdarkness" that necessitate spiritistic seances being heldin darkened rooms.In Job 38:7 we read: "The morning stars [earlybright ones] sang together, and all the sons of Godshouted for joy." This passage refers to the situationwhich existed at the time of the creation of theworld, before man was brought upon the scene, andcould by no possibility have reference to human beings.We conclude, therefore, that in Genesis 6:1, 2 quotedabove the inspired writer calls attention to the fact that"sons of God" (angels who assumed human form asflesh-and-blood men) were joined in marriage withwomen.It is significant that the Scriptures never allude toangels as assuming the form of women. It is even more