Fallen Angels

Q. I thank God for the ministry that he has blessed you with and the incredible insight to his word. My question is about the angels held in chains (the watchers). Did these angels fall with the original group of angels that followed Satan or did they fall at a later time? Thanks for your response.

A. Some believe that the so-called watchers are the angels who took on human form and married human women.  Their offspring were the Nephilim of Genesis 6.  This view stems partly from the non-Biblical Books of Enoch, but may also be hinted at in Jude 6.

I believe Satan’s fall occurred before man was created, probably between the first two verses of the Bible.  I base this on a literal reading of the Hebrew language in verse 2, which in effect says “But the Earth became an uninhabitable ruin.” Some study Bibles offer this as an alternative rendering in their footnotes.  If so then the two incidents are unrelated.