The sons of God in the Old Testament:
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:4 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.
Just who were these Sons of God? What saith the Scripture?
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Sons of God and Satan appear before God. Satan, Lucifer was an Angel. Sons of God are Angles. Job mentions them again, shouting for joy.
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Peter and Jude speak of “angels that sinned”, that “left their own habitation”.
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;
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.
Could these angels have been the sons of God spoken of in Genesis?
The sons of God in the New Testament:
John told the Jews were told that if the accepted the Lord Jesus as their Messah they would become:
John 1:12 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:
He restates this in his epistles to the Jews:
1 John 3:1-2 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. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Paul, tells believing Gentiles:
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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