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Many believe the fate of the evil angels in Genesis 6 is found in an intriguing passage in Jude 1:6, "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day."

Still, other places in the Bible indicate that angels are unseen spirits who temporarily take on human form as a necessary means to carry out God’s assignments on earth. When their tasks are completed, the angels return to being unseen spirits.

3. Another view that has been held by many church fathers and theologians states that the phrase sons of God does not always refer to angels. It is also a term used to indicate powerful human rulers or the godly descendants of Seth (Genesis 5) who intermarried with the wicked descendants of Cain. This indicates that powerful human rulers had become hopelessly wicked, and that even the godly people had compromised themselves so much that they had to be punished.

Are some people earthly angels?
--Redanraider24

In the Bible, angels are spirit beings who constantly do the will of God. As spirits they are unseen by human eyes, but when God sends them on a mission to help people on earth, angels may temporarily assume a human form. When they have completed their task, they return to spirit form.

Apparently, heavenly angels may be with us in human form; otherwise, we would not be admonished in Hebrews 13:2--"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it." The idea behind this verse is that angels may appear (usually briefly) in our lives as strangers, like Abraham’s visitors in Genesis 18. However, this does not necessarily mean that the nice neighbor who has lived next door to you for twenty years is really a celestial being in disguise.