Jude 6 | Fallen Angels Bound in Chains: Jude, Nephilim & God's Judgment

Memory Verse

And the angels who did not keep their beginning but deserted their own dwelling, He has kept in perpetual chains under gloom until the great day of judgment.

While writing about men who have secretly slipped into the Church and changed the grace of God into licentiousness, Jude recalls God’s earlier judgments on such men. Among these punishments, Jude mentions the angels who left their first estate, or place of beginning.

These demons sought to corrupt the seed of man so that God’s promise to Satan in the Garden of Eden could be thwarted. They took women and bore mutants to them (Genesis 6:2, 4). The Nephilim resulted from this corruption of the human nature with the physical bodies the demons took on, abandoning their first estate as spirit beings. Not only did these demons seek to pervert the seed of man, but they worked out this unrighteousness in all flesh (Genesis 6:12).

After the flood, the demons again attempted to adulterate the seed of man; however, God did not permit them to succeed in their plan (Genesis 6:4). Those who sought to genetically modify the seed of man by using the woman to produce mutants, so that God’s promise could not come about, were bound in perpetual chains of gloom until the day of judgment comes.

Although these were men of renown for their stature and strength, they were a perversion of the human nature. As such, none of them will be resurrected to face judgment; they will be cast away forever into the lake of fire like the worthless adulterations that they are (Isaiah 26:14).

For more information about the Nephilim and Rephaim, read the Giants of Old.