This is recorded in Genesis 6 and by this time, as I said, the angels that sinned were locked up BEFORE God created man.
While I do agree with you on Genesis 6, yet you are wrong concerning angels that sinned were locked up before God created man.
They were very active during Christ time on earth, and even said to him:
Matthew 8:29
“And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither
to torment us before the time?”
The answer is no. As I said to you a couple of weeks ago concerning 2nd Peter 2;
2nd Peter 2:4
"For if God spared not the angles that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto the judgement."
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned"~By whom are meant the devil and his angels; who are spirits created by God and as such were good; their first estate which they left was pure and holy, as well as high and honourable; they, were at first in the truth, though they abode not in it; they were once among the morning stars and sons of God, and were angels of light; their numbers are many, and therefore are here expressed in the plural number, "angels", though it cannot be said how large, a number that cannot be counted.
"God spared not"~ Notwithstanding the dignity and excellency of their nature, in strict justice, and awful severity, without any mercy, inflicted due punishment on them; wherefore it cannot be thought that false teachers, who, as they, abide not in the truth, but deny and oppose it, should escape the vengeance of God, for they will not.
"but cast them down to hell"~In what sense are we to understand the word hell as used by Peter? It cannot be understood as the lake of fire, for that is
after the judgment~for which they are reserved for...which is to come, as is evident by even the angles themselves:
Matthew 8:29
"And behold they cried out saying, What have we to do with thee Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?"
They know that there is
a day appointed for them to be judge and then cast into the lake of fire, or into the
deep, as used by Mark and Luke. That day has
NOT come as of yet.
Also, the world is full of evil spirits as is evident by many scriptures in the NT, and in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Hell
in this scripture is explain to us by Peter as he said these words:
"and delivered them into chains of darkness"~When they left their first estate, by sinning, God Almighty delivered them
into chains of darkness~which means their sins left them under the guilt of sin, which
is the power of darkness, and in black despair; shutting them up in unbelief, impenitence, and hardness of mind; being holden with the cords of their sins, and in the most
dreadful state of bondage and captivity to their lusts, in just judgment on them; and in the most miserable and uncomfortable condition, being driven from the realms of light, deprived of the face and presence of God, in the utmost horror and trembling, and fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation
to consume them; and in utter darkness, without the least glimmering of light, joy, peace, and comfort; and where there is nothing but weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; and being also under the restraints of the power and providence of God, and not able to stir or move, or do anything without divine permission; and being likewise, by the everlasting, unalterable, and inscrutable purposes and decrees of God, appointed to everlasting wrath and destruction; by which they are consigned and bound over to it, and held fast, that they cannot escape it! They are there~
"to be reserved unto judgment"~And judge they shall be! By Jesus Christ and his saints. This is the
prison of hell in which they are now suffering under, there waiting for that great day of the wrath of Almighty God. This hell, they will never escape from, they are forever under this chains of darkness and deception in which they are now living under. Their final abode will be destruction in the lake of fire and brimstone.
So, Jeremiah, you sir are wrong, they still roam free, in spite of what you believe and what
@Studyman who believes and teaches that there are no such things as spirits/fallen angles/the devil. He's under a more powerful darkness than you are.
My personal belief is this: I believe angles and man sinned the same minute, when God left each of them to their own power, without Him keeping them in the state in which they both were created in.
God alone is immutable, and cannot not be tempted to sin, angels and man can be since they are created being.
Some one needs to start a thread on angles, would be a good study.