The phrase "Bound Since the Flood" cannot be definitively confirmed as a direct scriptural statement regarding the timing of the binding of all fallen angels. While the Bible indicates that some angels are already bound and reserved for judgment, it does not explicitly state that this binding occurred precisely at the time of Noah's Flood for all such entities. The canonical anchors, Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4, indeed speak of angels who sinned being kept in chains of gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day.[1] [2] This suggests a pre-existing state of confinement for certain angelic beings.

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The inference that this "fits the Watcher timeline" is a theological interpretation, often linking these passages to the apocryphal Book of Enoch, which describes a group of angels, the Watchers, who descended to Earth before the Flood and corrupted humanity, leading to their subsequent imprisonment.[3] While the New Testament epistles of Jude and 2 Peter share thematic parallels with Enochian literature, they do not explicitly endorse all its narrative details, including the precise timing of the Watchers' binding in relation to the Flood.[1] [2] [4] Revelation 9:14-15 mentions a specific quartet of angels "bound at the great river Euphrates" who are to be released at a fixed hour, day, month, and year.[5] This passage describes a separate, distinct group from those mentioned in Jude and 2 Peter, and their binding is presented as a long-standing restraint awaiting a future, predetermined release, not necessarily tied to the Flood.

Regarding who bound them, the Scriptures consistently attribute this power to God. In Revelation 20:1-3, an angel (often understood to be an archangel or a powerful angelic being acting on God's behalf) is depicted binding Satan for a thousand years.[6] While Jude 1:9 mentions Michael the archangel contending with the devil, it does not describe him as the one who bound the angels in chains.[1] Therefore, the ultimate authority for binding these entities rests with God, often executed through His angelic agents. The precision of Scripture indicates that while some angels are indeed long-restrained for a fixed, future hour, the Bible does not explicitly date the Euphrates binding, or the binding of all fallen angels, to Noah’s day. The emphasis is on their current state of confinement and their future judgment or release at God's appointed time.

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