Since the Babylonian apkallus were considered demonic, it is no mystery why Peter and Jude link the events of Genesis 6:1–4 to false teachers (2 Pet 2:1–4). While attacking their aberrant knowledge, Peter and Jude evoke the imagery of Genesis 6. False teachers are “licentious” men who indulge in “defiling lusts” (2 Pet 2:2, 10; Jude 8). Like the divine beings of Genesis 6 who “did not keep to their own domain” (Jude 6), defecting from the loyal elohim of Yahweh’s council, false teachers “despise authority” and “blaspheme majestic beings” whom angels dare not rebuke (2 Pet 2:9–11; Jude 8–10).
