These days it is commonly alleged that Sodom was destroyed for homosexuality, but the Bible in the original languages, as well as other literature of the time, states that the reason was the sexual union of disobedient angels (referred to as ” The watchers”). with humans.
Judas states that certain angels rebelled against God’s ordinances by “prostituting themselves after” human women, and as a consequence God sent other angels with specific instructions to punish “The Watchers.” Judas states, “just like these,” Sodom and Gomorrah went after strange flesh (the union of angels with human women). Naphtali’s testament 3.3.4-5 also states that the women of Sodom had sexual relations with angels.
2 Enoch claims that the people of Sodom committed abominable acts, corruption of children, magic-making, incantations, and diabolical witchcraft. Church father Irenaeus declared: “And wickedness spread for a long time and spread through all races of men, until very little seed of justice was left in them. Because illegal unions were produced on earth, when the Angels joined the offspring of the daughters of men, who gave birth to sons, who were called giants because of their greatness. Angels, then, brought their wives as gifts teachings of evil, because they taught them the virtues of the roots and herbs, and dyeing and cosmetics and discoveries of precious materials, filters of love, hatreds, loves, passions, limitations of love, the bonds of witchcraft, all sorcery and idolatry, hateful to God; and when this came into the world, matters of evil spread to overflow, and those of justice were reduced to very little “.
The second c. the Tatian theologian 2 excuse me 5, stated: “God entrusted the care of people and everything under heaven to the angels that he appointed over them. But the angels disobeyed this appointment and were captivated by the love of women and begot children who are the so-called demons.; and not only that, they later subdued the human race by themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and the punishments they induced, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, incense and libations, since it was these things that they needed after being enslaved by lustful passions. And among humanity they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, immoderate deeds and all evil “.
Clement of Alexandria, Miscellaneous 5.1.10 stated: “To this we will also add, that the angels who had obtained the superior rank, having immersed themselves in the pleasures, told the women the secrets that had come to their knowledge.”
Judas mentions “going after a different flesh” and the punishment of the angels. Judas quotes 1 Enoch 1: 9 in verses 14-15. 1 Enoch 6-10 states that 200 angels (The Watchers) came to earth, coveted by human women causing “displacement” and producing progeny. 1 Enoch states that the Watchers taught humans, among other things, sorcery, incantations, and the binding of incantations. Tertullian, Women, 1.2 stated that angels fell in love with women and referred to their progeny as a “more evil brood of demons”.
Naphtali’s testament 3.3.4-5 states that the women of Sodom had sexual relations with angels. He says: “In the same way the Watchers also changed the order of their nature, whom the Lord also cursed in the flood, and for them they ravaged the earth, so that it would be uninhabited and without fruit.” Note that the term “changed the order of his nature”, which is similar to the Judas term, “went after a different flesh” and to Paul’s statement, “because women exchanged natural sex for what is different from the nature. And the same is true of men too, “in Romans 1:26. These days it is generally mistakenly assumed to refer to homosexuality, but in fact it refers to the union of angels with humans, which is precisely why Sodom was destroyed.
