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13 "And the LORD saw the earth, and behold it was corrupted and all flesh had corrupted its order and all who were on the earth had done every sort of evil in his sight. .. And against his angels whom he had sent to the earth he was very angry. He commanded that they be uprooted from all their dominion. And he told us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold, they are bound in the midst of them, and they are isolated. And against their children a word went forth from before his presence so that he might smite them with the sword and remove them from under heaven. . . . And he sent his sword among them so that each one might kill his fellow and they began to kill one another until they all fell on the sword and they were wiped out from the earth. And their parents also watched. And subsequently they were bound in the depths of the earth forever, until the day of great judgment in order for judgment to be executed upon all of those who corrupted their ways and their deeds before the LORD. And he wiped out every one from their places and not one of them remained whom he did not judge according to all his wickedness" (Jubilees 5:1-11). The Scriptures themselves tell us more about this judgment of the angels. In the second epistle of Peter, we read, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Greek, 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" (II Pet.2:4-5). The apostle Jude adds: "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" (Jude 6). A related commentary on this is found in I Peter where we are told that Jesus Christ, who died for our sins, was raised to life again by the Holy Spirit; but also by the power of the Spirit during the days of Noah, He had preached to the fallen angels, who had been imprisoned. Peter declares, "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient [that is, in the generation or so before the Flood, when they married with women], WHEN once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water" (I Pet.3:18-20). In other words, Christ, as the Logos, had preached to these rebellious angelic spirit beings during the time they had been chained and imprisoned, while Noah was building the Ark. He was warning them of the results of their sins and transgressions. This was not something He did when He was dead and buried in the grave for three days and nights. This was a mission He had conducted back before the Flood, during the time of Noah! "From them were born the giants who walked about haughtily, and indulged themselves in all manner of theft and corruption and bloodshed" (Pirgei deR. "Preached to Spirits in Prison" Evidence in Other Ancient Jewish Sources Further evidence that angels mated with human women, is found in a variety of ancient accounts. An ancient Jewish commentary states: