They didn’t misunderstand the nature of the kingdom, nor were they wrong to look forward to it with great anticipation. Their mistake was in expecting it to dawn immediately upon Jesus’ arrival at Jerusalem.
“The impression given by the events in vv.1-4 is that they are an interlude, a sort of calm before the storm. For a brief moment we see a glimpse of humankind in the midst of their everyday affairs.”
With no perfect and unassailable view of the identities of the sons of God, daughters of men, and nephilim available to us, we must make do with the least-bad one.
Two of the most popular views of the sons of God from Genesis 6 are held with very little in the way of direct contextual evidence.
How we approach a controversial text like Genesis 6 is important and should be consistent with how we interpret the rest of God’s word.
