The
American
Wisdom Series
#2233
Yes,
there were giants in the earth in those days (Gen 6:4).
God's Word is true and it's history sure.
Hopefully by now you have checked out some of the physical
evidences of the existence of giants,
like Easter Island and Bashan.
If you haven't, make it a priority to do so, else how
can you speak boldly and authoritatively to the unlearned
or the scoffer who laughs at such "utter nonsense".
They are quicker to believe the Encyclopedia Britannica
than the Word of God!
In our last study we were discussing the sons of God,
the "fallen angels",
who left their first estate (Jude 6), i.e. their place
in heaven,
came to earth and married (seduced) the daughters of
Adam.
That intermarrying between angel
and flesh woman produced hybrids, giants, mighty men, men of renown (Gen
6:4).
Our Father would soon bring about the Great Deluge
to rid the earth of these giants and their perversion.
As for those sons of God who did this, "they are history",
"archive material", "clean out your locker", i.e.
finished, as in going to perish at judgment.
Both Jude and Peter document it.
Jude
1:6
And the angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the
great day.
2 Peter 2:4-5
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;
You
can now determine what Noah was preaching.
Let's continue in this fascinating Book of Genesis with
chapter 6, verse 5:
Genesis
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.
How is that people could become so lewd (wicked)
and morally depraved?
It was because they were under the
influence of supernatural beings, the sons of God, the fallen angels,
whose offspring we just read in
verse 4 were men of renown, i.e. superstars.
Look around in today's society and see how willing people
are to be influenced by almost anyone of "super",
renown status, like famous Hollywood actors and actresses,
and even country and rock stars.
It should not be difficult for anyone
to understand how spurious messiah, who is Satan,
and these same fallen angels will
once again be able to deceive the whole world
when they are cast out of heaven
unto the earth (Rev. 12:7-9), appearing as angels of light.
That is why Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 11:10 concerning the
veil, i.e. the Holy Spirit or Christ,
that women should be "covered" with.
It is because of these angels!
1 Cor.
11:10
For this cause
ought the woman to have power on her head because
of the angels.
Did we not begin this chapter
six by quoting the words of Jesus that "as it was in the days of Noah,
so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be?"
These angels are coming again.
Perhaps we should read it once more for emphasis:
Matthew
24:37
But as the days
of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
And just exactly what was going on before the flood?
[38]
For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the
ark,
Oh, the angels, the sons of God, were marrying (seducing)
women, the daughters of Adam!
Jesus Christ said it is going to happen again! It is also
documented in Revelation 12:9.
Rev.
12:9
And the great
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and
his angels were cast out with him.
They're coming soon!
And
guess what?
As
with the rest of God's Word, it doesn't matter whether
you believe it not.
It
will happen again, just as Christ said it will.
Are you "covered"?
Isn't
it amazing how Christianity has become so much like "Outcome Based Education".
It
seems that it doesn't matter whether or not you understand the Word of
God,
just
so long as you "feel good" about your relationship with Him.
And
you can get that feeling by attending church once a week,
dumping
a few bucks in the plate as it's passed before your face in the "sight
of men",
and
by participating in a few fund raising and charity events.
The preacher then tells you you're
doing "good", and so you feel that way.
You trust your preacher, don't you?
Then,
to provide you with the "feeling" of security,
you
are told that you don't have to understand the books of Daniel and Revelation,
because
you are not going to be here when those events transpire anyway.
Why?
They
say you are going to "fly up into the sky", "up, up and away",
raptured
out of here by Jesus Christ while the rest of us sinners suffer horrible
consequences below.
Sorry!
That's a bunch of "bull"
and it is not scriptural.
If
that's your Christianity, then Satan and his buddies will have you in the
sack with one little sweet whisper in your ear.
It
is called the "great apostasy".
Hello!
Time to wake up to reality and stop listening to stories
about apples and snakes and fly-away theories!
"Feeling good" isn't going to make it in this, the final
generation.
You better have on the gospel armor of God (Eph 6) and
be ready to take a stand,
or you'll be unclad, naked, whereby you can be laid down
and seduced!
The
choice is yours.
Gen. 6:6 And
it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart.
Our Father was very disappointed with what was happening.
It was a total disruption of His natural plan for flesh
man,
and He determined to put a stop to it.
He can do that you know!
[7]
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls
of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
This statement is obviously figurative, proven by
the fact that the LORD
does not intend to destroy at least Noah, his family
and all those aboard the ark.
Right?
It is the figure of speech Synecdoche whereby
the whole is put for a part.
We will discuss this in more detail later.
Genesis
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Why did Noah find grace in the eyes of the LORD?
Well,
for one thing he told those fallen angels, the nephylium to "go
pound sand"!
He
would have nothing to do with the fallen angels
and
he obviously taught his children and their wives to keep away from them
also.
How
do we know?
Because
the next verse conclusively documents it!
[9]
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in
his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The
Hebrew word for "generations" is towledah,
which means "family history".
So here is Noah's family history.
Verse
9 says that Noah was PERFECT in his family history, his generations, his
family tree, his pedigree.
You
MUST understand this word "perfect".
The Hebrew word is Tamin, and it means without
spot or blemish,
and is the technical word for bodily and physical perfection,
NOT MORAL.
It is used of animals of sacrificial purity, i.e. they
were to pick a "perfect" sacrificial lamb,
one without spot or blemish,
tamin.
Note:
Of course Noah was not "morally perfect", for there has only ever been
One. You will find out later that one of the first things Noah did after
that ark landed was to plant a vineyard, crush those grapes, rack some
wine, and get drunk on his hiney! (I am in no way taking away from this
Patriarchal man of God. I suppose this could have been the result of shoveling
tons of manure.)
Verse
six then, does not speak of Noah's moral perfection, but
that he and his family had preserved their pedigree and not corrupted
themselves by intermarrying with the fallen angels.
This
also documents that all eight, i.e. Noah and his wife
and
his sons and their wives, were purebred Adamites.
AWS Note:
When we talk about Adamites (see above) we are refering to Adam " 'eth-ha adham" with the article and the particle the individual man and his helpmeet Eve that we are told about in Genesis chapter two (specifically in verse Genesis 2:7).
We are not talking about " 'adham ", without the article and the particle which means mankind, male and female, in general (the races) as described in Genesis chapter one. (specifically in verse Genesis 1:27)
Remember that this whole
sordid affair was an attempt by Satan to destroy the "seed"
of the woman through
which Christ, the Messiah, would be born.
How successful was his campaign?
Well,
there were only eight people, who were purebred descendants of Adam and Eve, left
on the face of the earth who could fulfill God's plan, i.e. through whom
Christ could descend.
That's a pretty close call as man would view it!
Do
you now "see" what caused the flood of Noah?
Do
you understand that our Father brought about the Flood of Noah
in
order to destroy the giants and the wickedness, the corruption,
caused
by the sons of God who left their first habitation (Jude 6) and came to
earth, without being born of woman, to take the daughters of Adam to wife?
Good,
then you won't be too surprised when we speculate in our next study that
the Noah's Flood was not universal!
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to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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