Genesis 6 & 7

Well I took last week off. So this week we have to play catch up. We have to try and get through 2 chapters tonight. Yall ready for this? There will be some theology blow ups so just be ready ok.

Genesis 6:1–8 NIV

1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

So here we are and we are seeing yet again we have this broad picture being painted. Moses is very good about that. He expands out, then brings it back in for important people or lines of ancestry and then he pulls back out. The world is going to pot. Let me be very clear, this world we are living in now is very similar to the world of Noah. We have a description of what that world was like.

Read

2 Timothy 3:1–4 NIV

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

and tell me what you think. or

Luke 17:26–27 NIV

26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

That is a glimpse into today’s society if I have ever seen it. God saw all these things coming long before we did. He knew. But as He is, God is not without his mercy and grace.

Now let’s talk about it because I know where you all are really stuck in these few verses.

Remember what I told in the beginning the devil is not a creator he is an imitator. Right. So back in the garden he hears about a seed that the woman will have. Not a seed that the man will give but that will come from the woman. So what does the devil intend to do. Make his own up. Half spirit half man. The sons of God here mean the fallen angels. So the devil is using angels or the demons on his side to try and create this God/Man. We know that in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah that the angels that appeared there looked like men and were very attractive that the homosexual men wanted to have relations with them. In fact, everywhere we see angels mentioned they appear as males. So we do know that angels appear as men. We also know that the Holy Spirit caused Mary to become pregnant without any physical interaction. Not at all suggesting that the devil has the power of the Holy Spirit, just making a case that the spiritual and physical worlds can interact. To what degree that is, we have no idea. It is beyond our ability to understand all of that. It is apparent though that the angels are doing this. We know that they are very selective in who they pick. Up to this we have 1,000 years that have passed since Lamech who went outside of God’s will. If you follow the biblical timeline. Not saying you have to. Not saying it is salvation issue and not saying that you are wrong if you don’t. I am just reporting what is written. We talked about this in Genesis 1. And however long it is, honestly is irrelevant. So don’t get caught up in that. Just see that the nephilim or giants are people bred from the attempts of satan to grow his population to fight God or to overthrow and create his own God man.

Ok then the lord in verse 3 says I am not going to tolerate man forever. His days shall be 120 years. First theology blow up…maybe. What is God saying there?

Some folks say that it is God limiting the age abilities of men. Meaning they cannot live past 120 years. It is very clear that the degrading of our bodies or the aging process is way sped up from the people and numbers we are reading at the beginning of Genesis. Right. I mean there is no way any of our bodies are lasting 900 years. So it is possible that this could be the case. If you want what I believe, I believe this to be true. The problem is Noah and all his kids and grand-kids that live way past that mark. We do see in chapter 11 the downgrade of those years comes pretty quickly. I mean in about 15 verses we go from 500 years to 119. So we can see the words taking affect. But there is another side.

Possibly the Lord is stating that he is going to wait 120 years until destroying the earth by the flood. Now for me, it is harder to pinpoint this action simply because using the biblical timeline it is 100 years from the birth of Japheth shem and ham at 500 to Noah enters the ark at 600. That is the biblical timeline we have. So that does not equal 120 years but there are some circumstances that could be equated into that to suggest it does make the 120 years. I am not going to go through all of those but those are the two theories. Just want to make sure I do my due diligence here.

So why do you think that God is going to destroy beast also? Birds of the air? One would stand to reason just as the snake did that man or mankind is working with the beast and that they are all conspiring against God or doing evil in His sight. I mean why do fish and whales and dolphins get a pass. It could be that because God knows everything he knows how he iss going to destroy it and he knows they will survive. It could be that because sea creatures don’t live on land that man does not have much dealings with them and they are not as corrupt. Or it could be that God just doesn’t want to destroy them.

Last verse but Noah found grace. Did Noah earn grace. Did Noah deserve grace? So even here we are seeing that God is freely gifting his grace how he sees fit and to whom he desires to give it. That is stated later in the old testament and repeated in the new. God says I will show mercy to whom I wish to show mercy.

Exodus 33:19 ESV

19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Romans 9:15 NKJV

15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

Ok so the grand view is over and Moses is going to come on in for a closeup.

Genesis 6:9–12 NKJV

9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Remember the order of kids we talked about last week. They were not in order of their birth. Japheth is the oldest and Ham is the youngest. But they are not listed that way why?

Because they are listed as order of importance.

Shem is the line that leads to Christ. Ham is the line in which the enemy corrupts again and Japheth well he just is lol. It is very important thought because even here we see that god is not put in a box of picking the first born. This is a trait that will follow throughout history. God shows grace and mercy to whomever he wants.

We go even deeper into Noah’s story.

Genesis 6:13–22 ESV

13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. 21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

I think we should take a trip to the ark. I haven’t been and I wanna see how big it actually is. But according to this it is 450 ft long 75 ft wide and 45 ft high.

Now here is the question. How can God put every single animal in there. I mean there are 4500 types of dogs, 300 types of cats. Then how is he going to put all the dinosaurs in there? Oh yeah they were there. So what he did was to take the baby animals. He also didn’t take every single variation he took of its kind. He didn’t take all the dogs just took a type of dog. All the way through. Even still he had plenty of room. Some estimates say upwards of 1700 kinds of animals which could have gone upward of 7,000 actual animals. Plenty of different types to repopulate.

Then Noah did. The total obedience. Simple just obedience. Look at the grace of God. You say pastor chris he is about to destroy everyone what do you mean favor or grace. Yeah he waits 120 years to do it. I know me. I know what I have done and God had every single right to kill me. In fact, not self deprecating here but some of the issues I have caused in my life, some would say he should have. But his mercy. I mean if God got up tomorrow morning, not that the sleeps please dont write me about that it. It is an illustration. And he decided I have had it with Chris. He has caused issues for the last time. He goes to church claims to love me and to love people but he just causes problems all the time. I am done with him. Today is the day but he doesn’t. He says I’ll give him one more time. Thank you father for one more time. Thank you father for grace and mercy. But here is the real question. Could you be Noah. Could God be looking at your life and determine that you walk with him. Are you so concerned with how you treat God that you would not want to do anything to offend him. I mean imagine what God goes trough seeing his children act the way that they do.

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Genesis 7:1–5 NKJV

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; 3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” 5 And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

Now God is calling Noah righteous. Does he mean perfect? No it just means that on this earth I am choosing you. You are the one that I am calling to this. Because you are with me. Because you obey.

Now How many numbers of animals? Not 2 by 2. I know that is a theology blowup. 7 pair of clean. 1 pair of unclean. How does Noah know? There has been no law written. Because remember back in Chapter 6 God says I will cause them to come to you. Noah is going to know because of what God brings to him. Then look at verse 4. What number is there again?

I am just stating that number keeps popping up. What does the number 40 mean. The number of testing. So we see here the shadow of what Jesus would go through in his tempting period from the enemy.

Then in verse 5 Noah obeyed.

Genesis 7:6–12 NKJV

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. 7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The fountains of the great deep and the windows of heaven were opened and rain came. Ok we have to go back to Genesis 1 to understand some of this and I have to hurry.

So we have Genesis 1:6-9

Genesis 1:6–9 NKJV

6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

So you have to see this. There was water above the land and water below the land. But not in clouds as we see it. For the water was above the heavens. It was think of a water shield or insulation of sorts. So we had water about the firmament and water below it. Then God says all the water below go to one place and the land go to another. Sounds as though what we were taught in school that all the land was put together makes sense. Then we have all that water beneath the land becuase the land appeared right which meant it arose from the water. So that water had to go somewhere. It when below. Then in this flood all the water that was separated by God, comes back. It covers the earth again. Shifting land. Moving tectonic plates. Stranding sea creatures on mountain tops. Which we have fossil records of. They just dismiss its the biblical flood but if you go to the grand canyon. If you go to other mountain tops even Everest they have seen sea fossils up there. But nope. No flood. Can’t be.

Genesis 7:13–24 NKJV

13 On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark— 14 they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. 17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. 23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

So we are going to leave you here. Where it all seems to be desolate. Everyone and everything on earth is dead. BUT GOD has mercy.