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Originally Posted by NewManLiving
Genesis 19 gives a pretty clear picture that angels not only can appear as men but apparently can be men. They certainly have a digestive system since they partook of a meal prepared by Lot.
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They also enjoyed a meal prepared by Abraham. Obviously when these angels took human form, it was either directed or permitted by God.
Those angels, however, who rebelled against God along with Satan, apparently still possessed this ability to come to earth in human form. Jude 6-7 refers to "
angels who did not keep their own position, but abandoned their proper dwelling." According to Genesis 6.2-4 these angel-sons of God desired the women on earth, and took them as wives producing half-breed Nephilim "men of renown," often glamorized in Greek mythology.
These angels are now kept in "
eternal bonds awaiting judgment in that great day." It seems that once they left their abode in the heavenlies, they can not return. II Peter 2.4 repeats this judgment, adding more description, and I Peter 3.19-20 confirms that these disobedient spirit-angels were judged by God in the "days of Noah."