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judgment of these fallen angels. Both the Apostle Peter and Jude comment on these issues in their letters. "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartarus] , and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly . . ." (2 Peter 2:4-5). Even Peter's vocabulary is provocative. Peter uses the term Tartarus, here translated "hell." This is the only place that this Greek term appears in the Bible. Tartarus is a Greek term for "dark abode of woe," "the pit of darkness in the unseen world." As used in Homer's Iliad, it is". . . as far beneath hades as the earth is below heaven. . . 47 Th the Greek mythology, some of the demigods, Chronos and the rebel Titans, were said to have rebelled against their father Uranus and after a prolonged contest were defeated by Zeus and condemned to Tartarus. Here and in his earlier epistle, Peter's comments even pinpoint the time of the fall of these angels as the days of Noah: "By which also [Christ] went and proclaimed248 unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water" (1 Peter 3:19-20). Jude's epistle”” also alludes to the strange episodes when these "alien" creatures intruded upon the human reproductive process: "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. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" (Jude 6-7). The allusions to "going after strange flesh," keeping "not their first estate," having "left their own habitation," and "giving themselves over to fornication" seems to fit the alien intrusions of Genesis 6. It is interesting that the word translated "habitation," oikntnptov, oiheterion, refers to the heavenly bodies from which they had disrobed. This term appears only twice in the New Testament, each time referring to the body as a dwelling place for the spirit." The "giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh" seems to have involved their leaving their earlier "first estate," that is, the body which they were initially Witla au "clothed with." We know relatively little about the nature, essence, powers, or capabilities of angels. We know that they seem to have no problem materializing into our space-time. They spoke 123 THE CAPABILITIES OF ANGELS