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Those who suggest that Satan committed the same transgression as the angels in Genesis chapter 6
also have another hurdle to overcome. The Bible declares that Yahweh considered the transgression
of the angels who sinned in this manner to be of such an egregious nature that He did not wait until
the day of judgment to punish them. We are told that He has bound them in chains of darkness until
the judgment of the great day.

Jude 6-7
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and
the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual
immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of age-
lasting fire.

II Peter 2:4-10
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits
of darkness, reserved for judgment... and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to
destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live
ungodly thereafter... then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the
unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh
in its corrupt desires and despise authority.

The testimony of the Bible declares that the angels who sinned in this manner committed gross
immorality. They went after “strange flesh” even as the men of Sodom and Gomorrah committed
indecent acts. These were beings of corrupt desires who despised authority, and they have reaped the
consequences of their wicked deeds. How then would Satan have escaped the same judgment had he
done the same thing? Indeed, Satan’s action would have been the most egregious of all, for the
serpent seed doctrine suggests that he was the first angelic being to sexually cohabit with a woman,
and his action would have corrupted the entire human race, for Eve is the mother of all living.

The Bible tells us that God is no respecter of persons. He would not pass over Satan for such an
egregious offense while casting other angels into pits of darkness. No! Satan would be there right
along with them had he committed such an offense. Additionally, if the angels cohabiting with
women produced giants and men of renown, would not Cain be named among the Nephilim? Would
he not have been the greatest of all? Yet, there is no testimony of Cain being anything other than an
ordinary man.

The advocates of the serpent seed doctrine also have to arrive at some explanation to support their
contention that the descendants of Satan and Eve exist to this day. How did they survive the flood of
Noah’s day? Some who teach the serpent seed doctrine argue that the flood of Noah’s day was local,
not global. They suggest that in saying the whole world was destroyed in the flood that God meant
the world of man, but not the descendants of Satan. This belief is easily refuted.

Genesis 6:13, 17
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with
violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth... And behold, I, even