Who are the Angels of Jude
In the Book of Jude (Jude 1:6-8) reference to angels who left their first estate raises some interesting questions and considerations. (Bible text references are taken from KJV Bible).
Who are the angels?
We know that the fallen angels who joined Lucifer’s rebellion are not yet bound . Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” refers to their powers that they use to deceive and divert believers. The angels of Jude are not free to carry out their evil deeds. Some think that these angels are those who took on human form and procreated with earthly women, whose offspring produced the Nephilim or giants of Noah’s time—Genesis 6:1-4 “ 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: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants 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.” This unholy abominable act of perversion was unnatural intercourse, thus the link to Sodom and Gomorrah's sin of perversion.
The place of this Judgement of Jude’s angels is called Tartarus, a special place of Judgement until the final day of Judgement. Peter also refers to this Judgement in 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; The Greek word for “hell”, he uses is the same word Jude uses “Tartarus”.
While this is a reasonable deduction, the following consideration of who these angels are is more plausible.
What happened to Eden’s angels?
Jude 1:6 “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,” speaks of leaving their “first estate”. What special primary estate did these angels guard over? Genesis 3:24 gives us some insight.
When Adam and Eve sinned, the Garden of Eden on the East side, where the Tree of Life was planted, was guarded by angels. The word “Cherubims” is in the plural “cherub” in the singular. So the angels were materialised and could be seen by earthlings. If they could be seen, they could also see the activities of the earthly women (terrestrial). Noah’s flood destroyed Eden, but also left these angels without their primary mission or estate or domain.
The flood was sent to purge the earth of this diabolical union of the celestial with the terrestrial. Such a hybrid was Lucifer’s aim to make it impossible for the Messiah to be born to redeem mankind. The flood and preservation of Noah made it possible for the lineage from which the Saviour would come.
The fallen angels (Satan’s minions) have not yet been judged. The Cherubim of Eden are most likely angels of Jude, being kept bound until final judgement—Revelation 20:10 “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Hell was made for the Devil and His angels.
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