ANGELS DO NOT HAVE FLESHLY BODIES
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i know it's hard to picture how they could be visible without having flesh. But that's how it looks to me, according to how the Bible describes them.
Genesis 19 says it was all the men of the city, and did not say the daughters actually went outside when offered up:
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
God hangs the earth upon nothing... surely angel wings can thus be suspended?
Angels have wings? Where’s that at?
The Sons of God Were Human Men, they married human wives and had human children, simple
John 1:12KJV
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name
Romans 8:14KJV
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
1 John 3:1KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
God Was Striving With Man (Flesh), Not Angels
Genesis 6:1-7KJV
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 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.
4 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.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
I've spent some time now "searching" about angles/fleshly bodies or not............ and it should please everyone that there is ZERO agreement among the various Articles I have found........
It appears that one can take a certain stance on this and will be just as right or just as wrong on anyone who takes an opposing stance........and there are Scriptures to support both sides.
I know Jesus was not an angel, but couldn't He both pass through walls and eat at the same time? Did the food pass through?
I was five years old, came home from school early and was locked out because my father was working and my mother had gone shopping.
I was scared and crying on the front porch. Several adults tried to talk to me but I told them to go away because I was not allowed to talk to strangers. Then one particular woman approached me. I had never seen her before but she was trustworthy.
She smiled and asked if I knew how to count and I said yes. She told me to start counting to 60 and PROMISED me my mother would be home before I was done. My mother pulled in the driveway at 57. I can’t explain it other than that “woman“ was an angel.
I was scared and crying on the front porch. Several adults tried to talk to me but I told them to go away because I was not allowed to talk to strangers. Then one particular woman approached me. I had never seen her before but she was trustworthy.
She smiled and asked if I knew how to count and I said yes. She told me to start counting to 60 and PROMISED me my mother would be home before I was done. My mother pulled in the driveway at 57. I can’t explain it other than that “woman“ was an angel.
Ezekiel 10:7-8KJV
7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.
The Angels representing God in Sodom appeared in masculine form (Men), they spoke, were tangible, and ate earthly food.
Nothing even hints that the angels had a human penis with sperm for procreation, adding to the scripture is a big understatement.
Exodus 25:20, Ezekiel 10:5, :8, :12, :16, :19, and :21, plus Isaiah 6:2
Cherubs not angels...
The men of Sodom did want to have sex with them...
And Genesis 6, the angels who left their first estate?
I agree with you. Keil and Delitzch give a good explnation on this subject here: https://bibleapps.com/kad/genesis/6.htm
Since angels are created spiritual beings who can take the form of a man according to Gods will that does not mean they have "genitalia" to procreate with actual human women.
IN GOD THE SON,
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