GENESIS 6
GENESIS 6: “As it was in the days of Noah…”
Jesus Christ PROPHESIED this in END-TIMES…
WHAT does Jesus mean?
Let’s find out…
Jesus tells us in Matthew 24:37-39 which says, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
Jesus Christ also AFFIRMS/REFERS BACK TO what was written in Genesis 6:1-5, which says, “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. 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.”
In Noah’s day…as it is TODAY…Noah’s world has BECOME increasingly, abnormally violent, rebellious, greedy, evil, satanic, amoral, undisciplined, & unethical. The MAJORITY moral foundations of ALL peoples, which had been God, Family, Friends, & then self…gave way to Me Me Me Me!
Sexual, mental, and emotional PURITY/SANCTITY before marriage gave way to sexual one-on-one escapades, as well bath house orgies, where anything WAS allowed/permissible. Bestiality, meaning sex with animals, men with men, women with women, & WORSE children from the cradle were sold into and/or trained by parents to be sex toys/slaves/companions to either sex, which openly opened the door to pedophilia, which was also ACCEPTABLE and did NOT cause religious/secular society to even flinch. Quite the contrary, being CHOSEN to become a baby/young child boy/girl “sexual toy” was considered an HONOR & they were PRIZED & in a SPECIAL ELITIST class of their own.
Fidelity within marriage, marriage contracts, much less marriage covenants grounded within “religious” sects, much less “secular/civil” sects, gave way to what we call today “open marriages”, where spousal “swapping” parties, morning/afternoon/evening “trysts” with strangers/friends/co-workers were the given, “the norm”…“no big deal” & did NOT cause the slightest ripple of conviction/censor/outrage/shame from the religious sects NOR secular society. Divorces were highly prevalent, but NOT brought about nor sought for infidelity, much less other Biblical guidelines/principles, but for “burning the toast”, not providing a “new toy/jewel/entertainment”, becoming a bore, finding a richer, more handsome/beautiful, younger, “more hip” partner, or lack of interest/involvement in the same things/games.
Doctors, chemists, alchemists, vintners & brew-masters were wealthy and kept VERY busy supplying society’s SCREAMS/DEMANDS for BETTER/NEWER/CLASSY wines, liquors, and aphrodisiacs to enhance/sustain/enlarge sexual performance/appetites, as well uppers to keep them FEELING happy & good about themselves, downers to KEEP nightmares/night terrors at bay & allow them to sleep, and speed to keep them awake or wake them up after a weekend of partying.
SOUNDS LIKE OUR DAILY GARBAGE IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA, DOESN’T IT?
The Sabbath, and I USE the term loosely here, was pomp and circumstance on special “deity” day celebrations at best, a duty at worst, where the priests, or whatever so called “religious leader” was ready and willing to “cleanse them” for a price, so that they could be “absolved” and “free their minds” of any responsibility, latent guilt/shame/immorality/unethical behavior. It was no more than a ritual, done automatically, just as wiping your feet, before entering a house, is reflexive manners, but NOT a conscious act of CARING/INSURING that you do not track mud/dirt into the house. In this day and age, Almighty God, THE Creator/Supreme Being was written off/considered a joke, a myth, DEAD or all the above.
They did NOT like Almighty God’s rules and commandments, so they “created” their IMAGES/NEW AGE ICONS/IDOLS in the forms of Roman and Greek deities/idols, or Nature gods of Druidism, or spiritual enlightenment via Zen-like, Yoga-like, Feng Shui-like, Karma-like, Crystals/Bells toting/wearing society in the hope of bringing harmony with/through nature and self disciplines…instead of getting on their knees and seeking Almighty God.
The more Satanic “religious” sects in Noah’s day demanded the cutting of their hopeful initiates and BETTER their children’s cutting, blood-letting and/or drinking of their blood, to ALLOW their god EASIER access to their hearts, minds, and souls, as well those of the parents. Special times during each year, these Satanic sects would have mass orgies, as well, while praise and worshiping their “god/deity” of choice, Satan had/has MANY names since time began, Satan did/does NOT care WHICH ONE labeled him, nor which you believed in/followed/obeyed, as long as it was NOT Almighty God. Those satanic “religions memberships” WERE pleased and honored if their baby/child were chosen, picked, selected to be sexually used, and/or then killed on the altar, their blood caught in chalices, then their little bodies not yet dead, tossed into the ceremonial fires to burn as further proof of their love and devotion to Satan.
Lawlessness was a given and prevalent. And “authorities” were hard-pressed to stop it or control it or punish it…so they did little or NOTHING at all. The law of the land was, if you are NOT strong enough, smart enough, wise enough, not protected enough to keep & safeguard your own possessions, then you were DOOMED to lose them, by whatever means the thief, bandit, gang, neighbor, official, or the demented CHOSE to use/employ to TAKE what they wanted/needed/coveted of yours.
In Noah’s day, hedonism and narcissism was at its WORST and BEST. David Guzik, a wonderful Bible teacher did a Biblical genealogy “head-count” from Adam to Noah, and he estimates that there were SEVEN BILLION people on the earth when the flood came. SEVEN BILLION people brothers and sisters, and Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons three wives were the ONLY undefiled, (in bloodline, spirit, faith, trust and belief in Almighty God). 8 people out of 7 billion who were NOT dead-hearted, dead-spirited, demon-possessed, Satan and the world controlled, and given over to their basest and worst depraved selves. THINK ABOUT how ALONE and out-numbered they must have felt. But Noah walked with, talked with, followed and obeyed Almighty God in human flesh. Jesus was PHYSICALLY with Noah. Noah did NOT fear.
And this world TODAY IS FAST paralleling Noah’s time.
Every day you read some other INCONCEIVABLE bit of news. Such as man sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a person, is suing that family’s estate for the harshness of imprisonment. Man in prison for breaking/entering robbery/holding family hostage, is suing the victim family in prison for failing to HIDE him from police. A Christian on death row, simply because he says he loves Jesus Christ and refuses to denounce Jesus. Christian villages in Nigeria being burnt to the ground, all family members hacked to death and riddled with bullets, because they were Christians.
Courts & government agencies coming into homes and removing children from the home, because the parents refuse to ORDER their children NOT to pray over their meals, or read their Bibles during recess.
The world media mocking those in sports, business, education, government, entertainment who dare to seek to live moral, ethical, Jesus-loving/following lives, whereas, the world media PRAISES. ENVIES, and ACCEPTS with a hoot, howl, wink, nudge, those who abuse, steal, lie, cheat, murder, & abandon their children and families.
Satanists, atheists, agnostics, cults, terrorists, and the demented demanding and being given voices/rights and are SOUGHT & ALLOWED voices, podiums, uncensored access to any and all things, but if you speak of or say Jesus Christ (other than as a curse/expletive) you are verbally/physically hammered in the media. You are vilified in your towns for seeking to live as Jesus Christ taught.
In such a time, where legislators/voters THINK abortion is no big deal, that a precious life created in the hand of Almighty God, that begins long before the sperm meets the egg, but is NOT REALLY a person, just a blob, "a fetus". an “oops”, and can be flushed, removed, and discarded as easily as a dead goldfish down the toilet, down the drain, or in the nearest available trash can.
Such a time that society seeks to SUSTAIN, keep alive, ARE INTRIGUED BY EVIL, so they can STUDY, hope to understand, to treat, to know WHY Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Hilter, Pol Pot, Mao, Jim Jones…etc. etc. were born, why they behaved as they did, while society BURIES and DISMISSES the innocent victims and those grieving families left to deal with their horrific loses.
ALL braintrusts/doctors NEEDS to do to FIND the answers is to READ THE HOLY BIBLE.
The Bible HAS told us, shown us, warned us of …the WHYS of it.
Pure, unadulterated evil, brothers and sisters.
Pure, unapologetic, narcissistic, hedonistic sin, folks.
As it was in the days of Noah… The MAJORITY moral foundations of ALL peoples TODAY, which had been God, Family, Friends, & then self…have once again given way to Me Me Me Me!
The lost world, those dead in spirit/mind/body THINK ABOUT, CARE ONLY about SELF. And today, the world population numbers have just passed the SEVEN BILLION mark. There ARE estimated ONE BILLION Christians in this world today, MUCH better than in Noah’s day of 8 to 7 billion ratio, but WE who know and love Jesus Christ ARE STILL the minority.
But even as wicked and evil as it was in Noah’s day, it was the PREVALENCE and ACCEPTANCE and FASCINATION of the demonic and Satan and his demonic angels. It WAS ANOTHER attempt of Satan’s to DESTROY the gene pool of mankind, POLLUTE the bloodlines, and INFECT the blood lineage from which Jesus Christ WOULD be born that SETTLED the matter for Almighty God.
What do I mean by that?
Almighty God TELLS US EXACTLY in Genesis 6.
The wickedness of man in the days of Noah.
(v.1-2) Intermarriage between the sons of God and the daughters of men. “Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
Remember during these days of rapid population expansion (especially because of long life spans in the pre-flood world), there was a problem with ungodly intermarriage between the sons of God and the daughters of men.
WHO were “the sons of God saw the daughters of men?”
Many have believed the sons of God were those from the line of Seth, and the daughters of men were from the line of Cain, and this describes an intermarriage between the godly and the ungodly, something God specifically prohibits in (Deuteronomy 7:1-4; 2 Corinthians 6:14).
But this approach leaves MANY unanswered questions: WHY did this make God angry enough to wipe out almost all the earth’s population? WHY was there something “unnatural” about the offspring of these unions?
Satan & his fallen demons SCHEMES makes Almighty God furious enough.
It is more accurate to see the sons of God as either demons (angels in rebellion against God) or uniquely demon-possessed men, and the daughters of men as being human women.
WHY do I say this?
Because the phrase “sons of God” clearly refers to angelic creatures when it is used the three other times in the Old Testament (Job 1:6; 2:1, and 38:7). The translators of the Septuagint translated sons of God as “angels.” They clearly thought it referred to angelic BEINGS, NOT human PEOPLE descended from Seth.
Also, Jude 1:6 tells us of the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own habitation. Jude goes on (Jude 1:7) to tell us they sinned in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh. Here in Genesis 6, as in Sodom and Gomorrah, there was an unnatural sexual union.
Whether these “unions” were brought about by something like demon possession, or whether those demonic angels had power permanently to assume the form of men is not revealed. But we should understand the occult is filled with sexual associations with the demonic, and there are those TODAY who actively pursue such associations. The Anti-Christ WILL be Satan in a HUMAN body. Satan WILL use that HUMAN body to TRY to DESTROY Israel/Mankind NEXT.
But Jude 1:6 ALSO makes it clear what God DID with these wicked angels of Satan. They are reserved in everlasting chains under darkness from the judgment of the great day. By not keeping their proper place, they are now kept in chains. Their sinful pursuit of freedom has put them in bondage.
And BETTER YET, 1 Peter 3:19-20 tells us Jesus WENT to these disobedient spirits in their prison and proclaimed His victory on the cross over them.
There is a point of debate in some Biblical scholar circles offered to this understanding is found in Matthew 22:30, where Jesus said angels NEITHER marry nor ARE GIVEN in marriage; but Jesus NEVER SAID angels were sexless, and He was also speaking about faithful angels (angels of God in heaven) when He said this. He was NOT referring to Satan’s rebellious angels.
“And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” We can deduce why Satan sent his angels to intermarry (either directly or indirectly) with human women. Satan TRIED to pollute the genetic “pool” of mankind with a satanic corruption, to put a genetic “virus” to make the human race unfit for bringing forth the Seed of the woman - the Messiah - promised in Genesis 3:15.
Jesus Christ could NOT be born of a demon-possessed mother. So if Satan could succeed in infecting the entire race, Jesus Christ could not come.
And Satan ALMOST succeeded. The race was so polluted that God found it necessary to start again with Noah and his sons, and to imprison the demons that did this so they could NEVER do this again.
(v.3-4) God’s response to this great wickedness.
“And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
My Spirit shall not strive with man forever means God did NOT allow the human race to stay in this rebellious place forever. This means there IS a “point of no return” in our rejection of God through Jesus Christ. God will NOT woo us forever; there is a point where He will say NO MORE.
ALL the more reason for us to GET BUSY. ALL the more reason for us to say TODAY, RIGHT THIS MINUTE is the time we will respond to Jesus’ offer of salvation instead of WAITING for another day. We have NO PROMISE of tomorrow.
God tells us, he gave mankind an ADDITIONAL 120 YEARS, before the judgment of THE FLOOD. The flood happened 120 years to the DAY after this announcement.
“Giants on the earth in those days” This refers to the unnatural offspring of the union between the sons of God and the daughters of men, though there were people of unusual size on the earth both before and after the flood (and also afterward). These ones before the flood were unique because of the demonic element of their parentage. They were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
(v.5-8) The great wickedness of man in Noah’s day.
“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
Did you hear that? God said, “EVERY INTENT of the thoughts of MANKIND's heart was ONLY evil continually. This says a lot. It means there was NO aspect of mankind’s nature NOT corrupted by sin.
Here is a biblical comparison between NOAH’s DAY and PRESENT DAY.
Exploding population (Genesis 6:1)
Sexual perversion (Genesis 6:2)
Demonic activity (Genesis 6:2)
Constant evil in the heart of man (Genesis 6:5)
Widespread corruption and violence (Genesis 6:11)
EVEN WHILE God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution, He found one man with whom to begin again: Noah, who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah didn’t earn grace; he found it. No one earns grace, but we can all find it.
It was true in Noah’s day, and it is true today. Romans 5:20, sums it all up… “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”
(v.9-10) “This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
This description of Noah - unique to him - not only refers to the righteous life of Noah, but also to the fact he was yet UNCORRUPTED BY SATAN’S attempt to sow a “virus” among the genetic pool of mankind. We could translate “perfect in his generations” as, “Noah was pure in his genetic profile.”
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s three sons will figure into the account in a significant way. God will use them as a foundation for the rest of the human race. EVERY RACE in existence on this earth TODAY...can TRACE their bloodlines BACK to Shem, Ham, & Japheth.
2. (11-13) The corruption of the earth and the grace of God.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Some wonder if this is too harsh a judgment, or if is shows God to be cruel or a monster. However, since the fall in Genesis 3, every human being has a death sentence. The timing and method of that death is completely in the hands of God. YET in the midst of such corruption and judgment, there is ALSO GRACE. Instead of wiping out the entire race, God PRESERVED a remnant.
You shall make it…And Noah did make it. Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noah’s Ark.
In 275 b.c. Berosus, a Babylonian historian, wrote: “But of this ship that grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains . . . and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off.”
Around 75 a.d. Josephus said the locals collected relics from the ark and showed them off to his very day. He also said all the ancient historians he knew of wrote about the ark.
In 180 a.d. Theophilus of Antioch wrote: “the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen . . . in the mountains.”
An elderly Armenian man in America said that as a boy, he visited the ark with his father and three atheistic scientists in 1856. Their goal was to disprove the ark’s existence, but they found it and became so enraged they tried to destroy it, but could not because it was too big and had petrified. In 1918 one of the atheistic scientists (an Englishman) admitted on his deathbed the whole story was true.
In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce, climbed Ararat and reported finding a four-foot long piece of hand-tooled timber at an altitude of more than 13,000 feet (4,300 meters).
Six Turkish soldiers claimed to see the ark in 1916.
In the early part of this century, a Russian aviator named Vladimire Rokovitsky claimed the discovery of Noah’s ark. He was stationed in southern Russia near the Turkish border and Mount Ararat. As he tested a plane he and his co-pilot flew over Ararat and discovered on the edge of a glacier what he described as a boat the size of a battleship. He said it was partially submerged in a lake, and he could see there was an opening for a door nearly 20 feet (7 meters) square, but the door was missing. Rokovitsky told his commanding officer and an expedition was dispatched to find the ark and photograph it. The report was forwarded to the Czar, who was soon overthrown and the photos and the report perished.
In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters).
During World War II two pilots saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount Ararat.
There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded in controversy.
Cover it inside and outside with pitch: The pitch worked to waterproof the wood. God told Noah to cover it with pitch inside and outside, which makes it possible that the ark was preserved for a long time. WHAT are the odds, that God STILL has a purpose for the ark, to use it to REMIND THE WORLD…“as it was in the days of Noah” of a PAST judgment shortly before a FUTURE judgment.
Peter, in 2 Peter 3:1-7, relates the future judgment to the judgment of the flood saying, unbelievers willfully forget . . . the world that then existed perished being flooded with water. Perhaps, before Jesus returns, God will make it even more necessary for people to willfully forget these things.
An interesting side bar… BECAUSE of this mention of pitch (a petroleum product) in what most people think is the Middle East, John D. Rockefeller looked for (and found) oil in that region based on this verse. The Bible IS inerrant. The Bible IS factual. The Bible IS 100% truth.
“Everything that is on the earth shall die” We can only wonder what Noah felt when he heard this remarkable announcement from God. God called Noah to an essential role in the greatest judgment - and greatest salvation - the world had seen.
“But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark.” Despite the dramatic judgment coming, God will make a covenant with Noah, and he and his family will be saved. God will also use Noah to save a remnant of each animal so the earth could be populated with people and animals after the flood.
“Thus Noah DID according to ALL that God commanded him, so he did.” When given this staggering job to do, Noah did it. We don’t hear of him complaining or rebelling; he simply obeyed.
The words, “so he did” cover an awful lot of material and years; yet Noah did NOT shrink from what God told him to do.
The Bible presents Noah as a great hero of God. He was an outstanding example of righteousness (Ezekiel 14:14), a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), and Noah condemned the world by offering salvation in the ark that the whole world rejected (Hebrews 11:7).
Noah was a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), yet in his 120-year ministry it seems that NO ONE was saved…NO ONE CARED...NO ONE REPENTED.
HERE is a lesson and a promise and a hope for EACH of us who love Jesus Christ. We, who love Jesus and who STRIVE to shine and to show Jesus. WHO seek the lost. WHO stay on our face praying for people. Who STRIVE to show the love, the patience, the kindness, the forbearance, the forgiveness of Jesus.
And though we grow SADDENED, WEARY, DISHEARTENED, and DISCOURAGED…when we are laughed off, jeered at, rejected, vilified, and ignored. As it was in the days of Noah…so it is now more and more each minute, each hour, and each passing day…
Mankind is ONCE AGAIN tuning out, turning off, persecuting, and rejecting the ONE PERSON who can give them eternal life: Jesus Christ.
But The Bible tells us. The Holy Spirit still moves over the face of the earth. We, who love Jesus Christ, have HIS HEART, and want NONE to perish…are STILL reaching out into the lost world, WHILE there is STILL TIME.
Jesus tells us, “Labor while you may, for the day will come when you can no longer labor.” Jesus is telling us that HE SEES, HE KNOWS, HE APPRECIATES, & HE WILL REWARD those who faint not.. press in and press on until HE APPEARS IN THE CLOUDS, AND TAKES US HOME TO BE WITH HIM, SHUTS US AWAY, JUST AS HE DID NOAH, TO PROTECT US FROM THE COMING JUDGMENT & WRATH of Almighty God upon a Jesus-rejecting world/earth.
Jesus Christ WILL protect HIS Children.
Jesus Christ WILL deliver those who love HIM.
So, these “end times events, times, should be a SIGNAL to the saved, to reach out and seek to tell and bring the lost to Jesus. All the abnormal weather conditions, the growing evil of men, the attacks/persecution of Christians and of Israel…should TELL us to GET READY…Jesus IS coming soon.
Remember Jesus encourages us always, “Be of good cheer, I overcame the world, and so shall you.”
And remember Jesus Christ, “ Lo, I come quickly!”
Stay blessed...stay ready...Watch the eastern skies...by night and day..
Our REDEMPTION draws nigh...
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GENESIS 3..MAN'S TEMPTATION & FALL...PARADISE LOST
IN OUR YOUTH…WE LOOKED AROUND US AND BELIEVED NOTHING WOULD OR COULD CHANGE.
WE ALL WERE ONCE INNOCENT OF THIS WORLD.
WE WERE ALL ONCE NAÏVE.
WE ALL AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER POSSESSED THE IMMORTALITY MINDSET.
I WILL LIVE FOREVER.
NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN TO ME.
OR THE BELIEF THAT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND US OUT IN THE BIG WIDE WORLD…EVEN WHAT COULD SNEAK…OR THREATEN….OR MIGHT COME INTO OUR LITTLE PIECE OF THE WORLD COULD NOT TOUCH US BECAUSE WE WERE EXCLUDED FROM HARM, EVIL, UGLINESS….WE WERE UNTOUCHABLE…PURE…AND WOULD REMAIN THE SAME.
WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR CHANGE…EVIL…DISRUPTION…OR THE REALITIES AND POSSIBILITIES IN THIS WORLD…ANY MORE THAN ADAM AND EVE WERE.
BUT COME EVIL DID…AND DOES.
BUT COME REALITIES & CONSEQUENCES DID…AND DO COME.
AND THAT NAIVETE AND INNOCENCE WAS AND STILL TODAY IS INSTANTLY SHATTERED….BECAUSE LIKE ADAM WHO DID NOT PROTECT…AND EVE WHO WAS NAÏVE & BELIEVED HERSELF UNTOUCHABLE…PARADISE WAS LOST.
GENESIS 6GENESIS 6: “As it was in the days of Noah…”Jesus Christ PROPHESIED this in END-TIMES…WHAT does Jesus mean?Let’s find out…Jesus tells us in Matthew 24:37-39 which says, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."Jesus Christ also AFFIRMS/REFERS BACK TO what was written in Genesis 6:1-5, which says, “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. 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.”In Noah’s day…as it is TODAY…Noah’s world has BECOME increasingly, abnormally violent, rebellious, greedy, evil, satanic, amoral, undisciplined, & unethical. The MAJORITY moral foundations of ALL peoples, which had been God, Family, Friends, & then self…gave way to Me Me Me Me!Sexual, mental, and emotional PURITY/SANCTITY before marriage gave way to sexual one-on-one escapades, as well bath house orgies, where anything WAS allowed/permissible. Bestiality, meaning sex with animals, men with men, women with women, & WORSE children from the cradle were sold into and/or trained by parents to be sex toys/slaves/companions to either sex, which openly opened the door to pedophilia, which was also ACCEPTABLE and did NOT cause religious/secular society to even flinch. Quite the contrary, being CHOSEN to become a baby/young child boy/girl “sexual toy” was considered an HONOR & they were PRIZED & in a SPECIAL ELITIST class of their own.Fidelity within marriage, marriage contracts, much less marriage covenants grounded within “religious” sects, much less “secular/civil” sects, gave way to what we call today “open marriages”, where spousal “swapping” parties, morning/afternoon/evening “trysts” with strangers/friends/co-workers were the given, “the norm”…“no big deal” & did NOT cause the slightest ripple of conviction/censor/outrage/shame from the religious sects NOR secular society. Divorces were highly prevalent, but NOT brought about nor sought for infidelity, much less other Biblical guidelines/principles, but for “burning the toast”, not providing a “new toy/jewel/entertainment”, becoming a bore, finding a richer, more handsome/beautiful, younger, “more hip” partner, or lack of interest/involvement in the same things/games.Doctors, chemists, alchemists, vintners & brew-masters were wealthy and kept VERY busy supplying society’s SCREAMS/DEMANDS for BETTER/NEWER/CLASSY wines, liquors, and aphrodisiacs to enhance/sustain/enlarge sexual performance/appetites, as well uppers to keep them FEELING happy & good about themselves, downers to KEEP nightmares/night terrors at bay & allow them to sleep, and speed to keep them awake or wake them up after a weekend of partying.SOUNDS LIKE OUR DAILY GARBAGE IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA, DOESN’T IT?The Sabbath, and I USE the term loosely here, was pomp and circumstance on special “deity” day celebrations at best, a duty at worst, where the priests, or whatever so called “religious leader” was ready and willing to “cleanse them” for a price, so that they could be “absolved” and “free their minds” of any responsibility, latent guilt/shame/immorality/unethical behavior. It was no more than a ritual, done automatically, just as wiping your feet, before entering a house, is reflexive manners, but NOT a conscious act of CARING/INSURING that you do not track mud/dirt into the house. In this day and age, Almighty God, THE Creator/Supreme Being was written off/considered a joke, a myth, DEAD or all the above.They did NOT like Almighty God’s rules and commandments, so they “created” their IMAGES/NEW AGE ICONS/IDOLS in the forms of Roman and Greek deities/idols, or Nature gods of Druidism, or spiritual enlightenment via Zen-like, Yoga-like, Feng Shui-like, Karma-like, Crystals/Bells toting/wearing society in the hope of bringing harmony with/through nature and self disciplines…instead of getting on their knees and seeking Almighty God.The more Satanic “religious” sects in Noah’s day demanded the cutting of their hopeful initiates and BETTER their children’s cutting, blood-letting and/or drinking of their blood, to ALLOW their god EASIER access to their hearts, minds, and souls, as well those of the parents. Special times during each year, these Satanic sects would have mass orgies, as well, while praise and worshiping their “god/deity” of choice, Satan had/has MANY names since time began, Satan did/does NOT care WHICH ONE labeled him, nor which you believed in/followed/obeyed, as long as it was NOT Almighty God. Those satanic “religions memberships” WERE pleased and honored if their baby/child were chosen, picked, selected to be sexually used, and/or then killed on the altar, their blood caught in chalices, then their little bodies not yet dead, tossed into the ceremonial fires to burn as further proof of their love and devotion to Satan.Lawlessness was a given and prevalent. And “authorities” were hard-pressed to stop it or control it or punish it…so they did little or NOTHING at all. The law of the land was, if you are NOT strong enough, smart enough, wise enough, not protected enough to keep & safeguard your own possessions, then you were DOOMED to lose them, by whatever means the thief, bandit, gang, neighbor, official, or the demented CHOSE to use/employ to TAKE what they wanted/needed/coveted of yours.In Noah’s day, hedonism and narcissism was at its WORST and BEST. David Guzik, a wonderful Bible teacher did a Biblical genealogy “head-count” from Adam to Noah, and he estimates that there were SEVEN BILLION people on the earth when the flood came. SEVEN BILLION people brothers and sisters, and Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons three wives were the ONLY undefiled, (in bloodline, spirit, faith, trust and belief in Almighty God). 8 people out of 7 billion who were NOT dead-hearted, dead-spirited, demon-possessed, Satan and the world controlled, and given over to their basest and worst depraved selves. THINK ABOUT how ALONE and out-numbered they must have felt. But Noah walked with, talked with, followed and obeyed Almighty God in human flesh. Jesus was PHYSICALLY with Noah. Noah did NOT fear.And this world TODAY IS FAST paralleling Noah’s time.Every day you read some other INCONCEIVABLE bit of news. Such as man sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a person, is suing that family’s estate for the harshness of imprisonment. Man in prison for breaking/entering robbery/holding family hostage, is suing the victim family in prison for failing to HIDE him from police. A Christian on death row, simply because he says he loves Jesus Christ and refuses to denounce Jesus. Christian villages in Nigeria being burnt to the ground, all family members hacked to death and riddled with bullets, because they were Christians.Courts & government agencies coming into homes and removing children from the home, because the parents refuse to ORDER their children NOT to pray over their meals, or read their Bibles during recess.The world media mocking those in sports, business, education, government, entertainment who dare to seek to live moral, ethical, Jesus-loving/following lives, whereas, the world media PRAISES. ENVIES, and ACCEPTS with a hoot, howl, wink, nudge, those who abuse, steal, lie, cheat, murder, & abandon their children and families.Satanists, atheists, agnostics, cults, terrorists, and the demented demanding and being given voices/rights and are SOUGHT & ALLOWED voices, podiums, uncensored access to any and all things, but if you speak of or say Jesus Christ (other than as a curse/expletive) you are verbally/physically hammered in the media. You are vilified in your towns for seeking to live as Jesus Christ taught.In such a time, where legislators/voters THINK abortion is no big deal, that a precious life created in the hand of Almighty God, that begins long before the sperm meets the egg, but is NOT REALLY a person, just a blob, "a fetus". an “oops”, and can be flushed, removed, and discarded as easily as a dead goldfish down the toilet, down the drain, or in the nearest available trash can.Such a time that society seeks to SUSTAIN, keep alive, ARE INTRIGUED BY EVIL, so they can STUDY, hope to understand, to treat, to know WHY Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Hilter, Pol Pot, Mao, Jim Jones…etc. etc. were born, why they behaved as they did, while society BURIES and DISMISSES the innocent victims and those grieving families left to deal with their horrific loses.ALL braintrusts/doctors NEEDS to do to FIND the answers is to READ THE HOLY BIBLE.The Bible HAS told us, shown us, warned us of …the WHYS of it.Pure, unadulterated evil, brothers and sisters.Pure, unapologetic, narcissistic, hedonistic sin, folks.As it was in the days of Noah… The MAJORITY moral foundations of ALL peoples TODAY, which had been God, Family, Friends, & then self…have once again given way to Me Me Me Me!The lost world, those dead in spirit/mind/body THINK ABOUT, CARE ONLY about SELF. And today, the world population numbers have just passed the SEVEN BILLION mark. There ARE estimated ONE BILLION Christians in this world today, MUCH better than in Noah’s day of 8 to 7 billion ratio, but WE who know and love Jesus Christ ARE STILL the minority.But even as wicked and evil as it was in Noah’s day, it was the PREVALENCE and ACCEPTANCE and FASCINATION of the demonic and Satan and his demonic angels. It WAS ANOTHER attempt of Satan’s to DESTROY the gene pool of mankind, POLLUTE the bloodlines, and INFECT the blood lineage from which Jesus Christ WOULD be born that SETTLED the matter for Almighty God.What do I mean by that?Almighty God TELLS US EXACTLY in Genesis 6.The wickedness of man in the days of Noah.(v.1-2) Intermarriage between the sons of God and the daughters of men. “Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.Remember during these days of rapid population expansion (especially because of long life spans in the pre-flood world), there was a problem with ungodly intermarriage between the sons of God and the daughters of men.WHO were “the sons of God saw the daughters of men?”Many have believed the sons of God were those from the line of Seth, and the daughters of men were from the line of Cain, and this describes an intermarriage between the godly and the ungodly, something God specifically prohibits in (Deuteronomy 7:1-4; 2 Corinthians 6:14).But this approach leaves MANY unanswered questions: WHY did this make God angry enough to wipe out almost all the earth’s population? WHY was there something “unnatural” about the offspring of these unions?Satan & his fallen demons SCHEMES makes Almighty God furious enough.It is more accurate to see the sons of God as either demons (angels in rebellion against God) or uniquely demon-possessed men, and the daughters of men as being human women.WHY do I say this?Because the phrase “sons of God” clearly refers to angelic creatures when it is used the three other times in the Old Testament (Job 1:6; 2:1, and 38:7). The translators of the Septuagint translated sons of God as “angels.” They clearly thought it referred to angelic BEINGS, NOT human PEOPLE descended from Seth.Also, Jude 1:6 tells us of the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own habitation. Jude goes on (Jude 1:7) to tell us they sinned in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh. Here in Genesis 6, as in Sodom and Gomorrah, there was an unnatural sexual union.Whether these “unions” were brought about by something like demon possession, or whether those demonic angels had power permanently to assume the form of men is not revealed. But we should understand the occult is filled with sexual associations with the demonic, and there are those TODAY who actively pursue such associations. The Anti-Christ WILL be Satan in a HUMAN body. Satan WILL use that HUMAN body to TRY to DESTROY Israel/Mankind NEXT.But Jude 1:6 ALSO makes it clear what God DID with these wicked angels of Satan. They are reserved in everlasting chains under darkness from the judgment of the great day. By not keeping their proper place, they are now kept in chains. Their sinful pursuit of freedom has put them in bondage.And BETTER YET, 1 Peter 3:19-20 tells us Jesus WENT to these disobedient spirits in their prison and proclaimed His victory on the cross over them.There is a point of debate in some Biblical scholar circles offered to this understanding is found in Matthew 22:30, where Jesus said angels NEITHER marry nor ARE GIVEN in marriage; but Jesus NEVER SAID angels were sexless, and He was also speaking about faithful angels (angels of God in heaven) when He said this. He was NOT referring to Satan’s rebellious angels.“And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” We can deduce why Satan sent his angels to intermarry (either directly or indirectly) with human women. Satan TRIED to pollute the genetic “pool” of mankind with a satanic corruption, to put a genetic “virus” to make the human race unfit for bringing forth the Seed of the woman - the Messiah - promised in Genesis 3:15.Jesus Christ could NOT be born of a demon-possessed mother. So if Satan could succeed in infecting the entire race, Jesus Christ could not come.And Satan ALMOST succeeded. The race was so polluted that God found it necessary to start again with Noah and his sons, and to imprison the demons that did this so they could NEVER do this again.(v.3-4) God’s response to this great wickedness.“And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”My Spirit shall not strive with man forever means God did NOT allow the human race to stay in this rebellious place forever. This means there IS a “point of no return” in our rejection of God through Jesus Christ. God will NOT woo us forever; there is a point where He will say NO MORE.ALL the more reason for us to GET BUSY. ALL the more reason for us to say TODAY, RIGHT THIS MINUTE is the time we will respond to Jesus’ offer of salvation instead of WAITING for another day. We have NO PROMISE of tomorrow.God tells us, he gave mankind an ADDITIONAL 120 YEARS, before the judgment of THE FLOOD. The flood happened 120 years to the DAY after this announcement.“Giants on the earth in those days” This refers to the unnatural offspring of the union between the sons of God and the daughters of men, though there were people of unusual size on the earth both before and after the flood (and also afterward). These ones before the flood were unique because of the demonic element of their parentage. They were the mighty men of old, men of renown.(v.5-8) The great wickedness of man in Noah’s day.“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”Did you hear that? God said, “EVERY INTENT of the thoughts of MANKIND's heart was ONLY evil continually. This says a lot. It means there was NO aspect of mankind’s nature NOT corrupted by sin.Here is a biblical comparison between NOAH’s DAY and PRESENT DAY.Exploding population (Genesis 6:1)Sexual perversion (Genesis 6:2)Demonic activity (Genesis 6:2)Constant evil in the heart of man (Genesis 6:5)Widespread corruption and violence (Genesis 6:11)EVEN WHILE God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution, He found one man with whom to begin again: Noah, who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah didn’t earn grace; he found it. No one earns grace, but we can all find it.It was true in Noah’s day, and it is true today. Romans 5:20, sums it all up… “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”(v.9-10) “This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”This description of Noah - unique to him - not only refers to the righteous life of Noah, but also to the fact he was yet UNCORRUPTED BY SATAN’S attempt to sow a “virus” among the genetic pool of mankind. We could translate “perfect in his generations” as, “Noah was pure in his genetic profile.”Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s three sons will figure into the account in a significant way. God will use them as a foundation for the rest of the human race. EVERY RACE in existence on this earth TODAY...can TRACE their bloodlines BACK to Shem, Ham, & Japheth.2. (11-13) The corruption of the earth and the grace of God.The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.Some wonder if this is too harsh a judgment, or if is shows God to be cruel or a monster. However, since the fall in Genesis 3, every human being has a death sentence. The timing and method of that death is completely in the hands of God. YET in the midst of such corruption and judgment, there is ALSO GRACE. Instead of wiping out the entire race, God PRESERVED a remnant.You shall make it…And Noah did make it. Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noah’s Ark.In 275 b.c. Berosus, a Babylonian historian, wrote: “But of this ship that grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains . . . and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off.”Around 75 a.d. Josephus said the locals collected relics from the ark and showed them off to his very day. He also said all the ancient historians he knew of wrote about the ark.In 180 a.d. Theophilus of Antioch wrote: “the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen . . . in the mountains.”An elderly Armenian man in America said that as a boy, he visited the ark with his father and three atheistic scientists in 1856. Their goal was to disprove the ark’s existence, but they found it and became so enraged they tried to destroy it, but could not because it was too big and had petrified. In 1918 one of the atheistic scientists (an Englishman) admitted on his deathbed the whole story was true.In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce, climbed Ararat and reported finding a four-foot long piece of hand-tooled timber at an altitude of more than 13,000 feet (4,300 meters).Six Turkish soldiers claimed to see the ark in 1916.In the early part of this century, a Russian aviator named Vladimire Rokovitsky claimed the discovery of Noah’s ark. He was stationed in southern Russia near the Turkish border and Mount Ararat. As he tested a plane he and his co-pilot flew over Ararat and discovered on the edge of a glacier what he described as a boat the size of a battleship. He said it was partially submerged in a lake, and he could see there was an opening for a door nearly 20 feet (7 meters) square, but the door was missing. Rokovitsky told his commanding officer and an expedition was dispatched to find the ark and photograph it. The report was forwarded to the Czar, who was soon overthrown and the photos and the report perished.In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters).During World War II two pilots saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount Ararat.There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded in controversy.Cover it inside and outside with pitch: The pitch worked to waterproof the wood. God told Noah to cover it with pitch inside and outside, which makes it possible that the ark was preserved for a long time. WHAT are the odds, that God STILL has a purpose for the ark, to use it to REMIND THE WORLD…“as it was in the days of Noah” of a PAST judgment shortly before a FUTURE judgment.Peter, in 2 Peter 3:1-7, relates the future judgment to the judgment of the flood saying, unbelievers willfully forget . . . the world that then existed perished being flooded with water. Perhaps, before Jesus returns, God will make it even more necessary for people to willfully forget these things.An interesting side bar… BECAUSE of this mention of pitch (a petroleum product) in what most people think is the Middle East, John D. Rockefeller looked for (and found) oil in that region based on this verse. The Bible IS inerrant. The Bible IS factual. The Bible IS 100% truth.“Everything that is on the earth shall die” We can only wonder what Noah felt when he heard this remarkable announcement from God. God called Noah to an essential role in the greatest judgment - and greatest salvation - the world had seen.“But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark.” Despite the dramatic judgment coming, God will make a covenant with Noah, and he and his family will be saved. God will also use Noah to save a remnant of each animal so the earth could be populated with people and animals after the flood.“Thus Noah DID according to ALL that God commanded him, so he did.” When given this staggering job to do, Noah did it. We don’t hear of him complaining or rebelling; he simply obeyed.The words, “so he did” cover an awful lot of material and years; yet Noah did NOT shrink from what God told him to do.The Bible presents Noah as a great hero of God. He was an outstanding example of righteousness (Ezekiel 14:14), a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), and Noah condemned the world by offering salvation in the ark that the whole world rejected (Hebrews 11:7).Noah was a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), yet in his 120-year ministry it seems that NO ONE was saved…NO ONE CARED...NO ONE REPENTED.HERE is a lesson and a promise and a hope for EACH of us who love Jesus Christ. We, who love Jesus and who STRIVE to shine and to show Jesus. WHO seek the lost. WHO stay on our face praying for people. Who STRIVE to show the love, the patience, the kindness, the forbearance, the forgiveness of Jesus.And though we grow SADDENED, WEARY, DISHEARTENED, and DISCOURAGED…when we are laughed off, jeered at, rejected, vilified, and ignored. As it was in the days of Noah…so it is now more and more each minute, each hour, and each passing day…Mankind is ONCE AGAIN tuning out, turning off, persecuting, and rejecting the ONE PERSON who can give them eternal life: Jesus Christ.But The Bible tells us. The Holy Spirit still moves over the face of the earth. We, who love Jesus Christ, have HIS HEART, and want NONE to perish…are STILL reaching out into the lost world, WHILE there is STILL TIME.Jesus tells us, “Labor while you may, for the day will come when you can no longer labor.” Jesus is telling us that HE SEES, HE KNOWS, HE APPRECIATES, & HE WILL REWARD those who faint not.. press in and press on until HE APPEARS IN THE CLOUDS, AND TAKES US HOME TO BE WITH HIM, SHUTS US AWAY, JUST AS HE DID NOAH, TO PROTECT US FROM THE COMING JUDGMENT & WRATH of Almighty God upon a Jesus-rejecting world/earth.Jesus Christ WILL protect HIS Children.Jesus Christ WILL deliver those who love HIM.So, these “end times events, times, should be a SIGNAL to the saved, to reach out and seek to tell and bring the lost to Jesus. All the abnormal weather conditions, the growing evil of men, the attacks/persecution of Christians and of Israel…should TELL us to GET READY…Jesus IS coming soon.Remember Jesus encourages us always, “Be of good cheer, I overcame the world, and so shall you.”And remember Jesus Christ, “ Lo, I come quickly!”Stay blessed...stay ready...Watch the eastern skies...by night and day..Our REDEMPTION draws nigh...________________________________________________________GENESIS 3..MAN'S TEMPTATION & FALL...PARADISE LOSTIN OUR YOUTH…WE LOOKED AROUND US AND BELIEVED NOTHING WOULD OR COULD CHANGE.WE ALL WERE ONCE INNOCENT OF THIS WORLD.WE WERE ALL ONCE NAÏVE.WE ALL AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER POSSESSED THE IMMORTALITY MINDSET.I WILL LIVE FOREVER.NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN TO ME.OR THE BELIEF THAT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND US OUT IN THE BIG WIDE WORLD…EVEN WHAT COULD SNEAK…OR THREATEN….OR MIGHT COME INTO OUR LITTLE PIECE OF THE WORLD COULD NOT TOUCH US BECAUSE WE WERE EXCLUDED FROM HARM, EVIL, UGLINESS….WE WERE UNTOUCHABLE…PURE…AND WOULD REMAIN THE SAME.WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR CHANGE…EVIL…DISRUPTION…OR THE REALITIES AND POSSIBILITIES IN THIS WORLD…ANY MORE THAN ADAM AND EVE WERE.BUT COME EVIL DID…AND DOES.BUT COME REALITIES & CONSEQUENCES DID…AND DO COME.AND THAT NAIVETE AND INNOCENCE WAS AND STILL TODAY IS INSTANTLY SHATTERED….BECAUSE LIKE ADAM WHO DID NOT PROTECT…AND EVE WHO WAS NAÏVE & BELIEVED HERSELF UNTOUCHABLE…PARADISE WAS LOST.