dianegcook and
Edward
No problem and I apologize for my late response as I've been working on this all evening and also sorry for the length and I just saw Edwards reply.
I agree God's plan of salvation through Christ was before the foundation of the world, 1 Peter 1:18-20, as given to what is written in Genesis 6:3 God already knew man would fall so He designed the plan. I also agree with Jude 1:6 as these angels opposed God, but Angels have no gender (Matthew 22:30) and are innumerable (Hebrews 12:22). They are incarnate in human form at times (Genesis 18:2-8) for the purpose of ministry, but only incarnate by God and not of themselves.
We have to read Jude 1:5-7 to understand these angels in everlasting chains left their first estate, which was being in the presence of God's glory as their habitation was the Spiritual realm of God. These are separate from the third Satan cast down to the earth these are the ones that came upon those in Sodom and Gomorrah causing men to fornicate and go after strange flesh meaning man laid with man. God has bound them from that time until the day of judgement so they can not be part of the third of the angels Satan cast down to the earth as those who follow Satan are still loose on the earth.
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Their first estate was their allegiance to God in the heavenly realm, but left their own habitation being the heavenly realm of God as now they are reserved in everlasting chains so these are not the third that Satan cast down to earth as they are also referenced in 2 Peter 2:4
The rest is explained in post #19.
Adam and Eve had sons and daughters, but no one knows how many except for Cain, Abel and Seth as they are the only ones mentioned in scripture. Other then Cain we do not know how many of those children disobeyed God and were no longer called sons and daughters of God, but only known as sons and daughters of men as the generations grew.
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 of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh (Galatians 5:17): yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years, Genesis 6:1-3.
Genesis 5 we read the generations beginning with Adam who had sons and daughters, but Seth is the only one mentioned by name being the son of Adam. It mentions throughout the generations they all had sons and daughters, but only give one specific name of the immediately family like Adam had Seth, Seth had Enos, Enos had Cainan etc. etc. It mentions nothing about all the other sons and daughters or if they were Godly people or fell away from God.
Now let's go to Genesis 6. Men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born unto them. The sons of God, which I believe are those men that are still obedient to God throughout the generations,
that they saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose, Genesis 6:1, 2.
Genesis 6:3 the Lord says His spirit will not always strive with man because he is flesh, which means man will turn away from God thus also causing their children to fall away.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants (some translations use the word Nephilim) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Nephilim are not fallen angels, but just a name given for a giant who is usually 6' 9" like that of Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:4. Angels have no gender nor are they given in marriage (Matthew 22:30) and are innumerable (Hebrews 12:22). They are incarnate in human form at times (Genesis 18:2-8) for the purpose of ministry.
What makes one a giant is a hereditary pituitary disorder that causes acromegaly or gigantism. The parents can be of average height just like that of dwarfism. We see this in Goliath, 1 Samuel 17:4 and also Og in Deuteronomy 3:11 as they had to build a bed for Og that was 13.5' by 6"