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It seems that the more natural interpretation of 2 Peter 2 in its immediate context is that of how God knows how to reserve the wicked for judgement when it may seem by our limited understanding that he is not judging sin or that he is slow about it. He is reminding us of THREE separate instances in the past when God has revealed judgment. 1) The angels that sinned (satan and the angels that rebelled with him), casting them out of heaven and binding them in chains of darkness (spiritual darkness, principalities and powers in the kingdom of darkness that are limited as to what they can do to us or how they can interact with us) 2) The wicked in the days of Noah and the flood he brought was judgment, 3) how he rained fire on Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness, which was a judgment. For those who think that God does not judge sin, remember these instances where he has revealed his wrath and realize that he is reserving a final judgment that will wipe out all wickedness and consider this current time the long-suffering grace of God to allow you to repent and be on the side of righteousness as Noah was when the final judgments are poured out on the earth.You claim the nephilim were "giants of faith".
Read Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Who is God talking about in Gen 6:5? "giants of faith" or those who are of the wicked one?
God's judgment fell on those who God "saw" that their "wickedness" was "great in the earth", whose "thoughts ... only evil continually".
2 Peter 2:
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
The angels that sinned were cast into hell, delivered into chains of darkness, reserved unto judgment (still future).
The old world was not spared ... only Noah and his family was spared.
All else, including nephilim, was judged by flood (which God brought upon the world of the ungodly).
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;