"Is it possible that God has two pairs of fallen angels that have been chained in everlasting chains because of them creating the Nephilim in early Genesis and later in the land of Canaan?"
There are
multiple Bible passages that are problematic concerning fallen angels and their
fates. We know they fell and are chained in Tartarus, deep beneath the earth.
We don’t know an exact count of how many fallen angels are imprisoned beneath
the earth.
We have the
whole Book of 1 Enoch. And…
And the
angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper
dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for
judgment on the great Day. Jude 1:6
This is why
it says, "After he went up into the heights, he led captivity captive and
he gave gifts to mankind." Now this phrase, "he went up," what
can it mean if not that he first went down into the lower parts, that is, the
earth? The one who went down is himself the one who also went up, far above all
of heaven, in order to fill all things. Ephesians 4:8–10 (CJB)
For the
Messiah himself died for sins, once and for all, a righteous person on behalf
of unrighteous people, so that he might bring you to God. He was put to death
in the flesh but brought to life by the Spirit; and in this form he went and
made a proclamation to the imprisoned spirits, to those who were disobedient
long ago, in the days of Noach, when God waited patiently during the building
of the ark, in which a few people — to be specific, eight — were delivered by
means of water. This also prefigures what delivers us now, the water of
immersion, which is not the removal of dirt from the body, but one’s pledge to
keep a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Yeshua the
Messiah. 2 Peter 3:18–21 (CJB)
Their
punishment, decreed long ago, is not idle; their destruction is not asleep! For
God did not spare the angels who sinned; on the contrary, he put them in gloomy
dungeons lower than Sh’ol to be held for judgment. And he did not spare the
ancient world; on the contrary, he preserved Noach, a herald of righteousness,
with seven others, and brought the Flood upon a world of ungodly people. And he
condemned the cities of S’dom and ‘Amora, reducing them to ashes and ruin, as a
warning to those in the future who would live ungodly lives; but he rescued
Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled
people; for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he
lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day. So the Lord
knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the
Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them, 2 Peter 2:3b-9 (CJB)
According to
1 Enoch, these fallen angels will be released for a short time at the end of
the age. Here is that time:
The fifth
angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the
earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the
Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and
sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts
came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the
earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree,
but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They
were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the
agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.
During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long
to die, but death will elude them. The locusts looked like horses prepared for
battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces
resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were
like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the
sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots
rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their
tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over
them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is
Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). Revelation 9:1–11 (CJB)
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