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 However, as the waters rose, the rebel angels were forced to shed their material bodies and return to the spirit realm, never again to assume fleshly form.  They left their wives and their offspring behind to die in the floodwaters, along with that society of humans. 

From the days of Enoch, almost seven centuries earlier, Jehovah has warned mankind that He would destroy the wicked, ungodly people. (Genesis 5:24; Jude 14, 15) Since that time, people had only gotten worse, ruining the earth and filling it with violence. Now destruction was upon them.  Did Noah and his family rejoice in those executions? 

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