Q.  Who were the sons of Elohim mentioned in Job 1:6? They had to have been angelic, spirit beings. Notice that they come to present themselves before Yahweh. Notice also that Satan is among them as one of them.

A. The apocalyptic Book of Enoch possibly gave rise to the ideas that the sons of Elohim are sinning angels. In this book of Enoch 200 angels cohabited with mankind. The pseudonymous author undoubtedly got his notion from pagan mythology in which the pagan deities came down to earth to indulge their sexual appetites.theory must be rejected on the simple grounds that angelic beings are spirit and lack the physical genetics to procreate.  Yahshua said in Matthew 22:30, “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of Elohim in heaven.” No evidence exists that angels ever procreate.
            Some believe that Genesis 6:1-3 speaks of these sinning angels, the “sons of Elohim.”  These angels and women together supposedly produced giants.  The passage reads,
            “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.  And Yahweh 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.”
            Notice verse 3, where Yahweh says my spirit shall not always strive with MAN.  His troubles was with man, not with sinning angels.  Obviously the sons of Elohim here are men, His very “sons,” who offend Yahweh by mixing with the pagan women of the world.  The sense is that they are taking multiple wives as well (see Matt. 24:38).
            Now read verse 4:
            “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Elohim 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.”  Notice the words “after that.”  The “giants” were BEFORE the sons of Elohim came into the daughters of men!  “Giants” is the Hebrew nephilim, deriving from the verb “to fall.”  Aside from giant, it can also mean one who has fallen, a depraved one.
            In succeeding verses, 5-7, He reveals His distress with man and wants to destroy the human race.  If these were sinning angels when His wrath would have been aimed at angelic beings, not man.
            If the purpose of the flood was to destroy these nephilim, then why do we find them again, 800 years later, in the land of Canaan?  See Numbers 13:33, where we find “nephilim” again for “giants” and no record of a second supposed cohabitation incident.
            The term “sons of Elohim” is found four times in the Old Testament.  In addition to Genesis 6:2, we find it in Job 1:6, 2:1, and 38:7.  In Daniel 3:25, where Nebuchadnezzar sees four men in the fiery furnace, the one who looked like a son of Elohim (singular) is indeed an angelic being, verse 28, as it the one referred to in Job 38:7.
            But the beings of Job 1:6 and 2:1 cannot be angels.  In both verses we read that there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before Yahweh.  Are not angels ALWAYS in Yahweh’s presence?  Gabriel said he was, Luke 1:19, and Yahshua said angels “always behold the face of My Father,” Matthew 18:10.
            These sons of Elohim were righteous men who had come voluntarily before Yahweh in obedience to the commands in Exodus 23;17 and Deuteronomy 16:16—to appear at the Feasts.  Satan is there, too, to try to cause trouble and division.
            In the New Testament the term son of Elohim is used of those who submit and accept Yahweh as their Heavenly Father (Heb. 12:7-8).  See examples in John 1:12, Romans 8:14, Philippians 2:15, and 1John 3:1-2.

 
                   
         
     
                   
               
                         
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