Noah & The Sons of God

- Adam to Noah = 10

With the history of the Creation of the world, Adam & Eve, the killing Abel by his brother Cain, and the birth of Seth, behind us now.

Let us fast forward in time, to 9 generations after Adam.

Let’s examine scriptures together and discover what has become of the creation of God, and

The people that multiplied on the earth, the descendants of Adam & Eve through the line of Seth, the last of the first three sons.

In chapter 5 of Genesis, we are given a list of genealogies, recording for us the succession of births following Seth.

Adam

Seth

Enosh

Kenan

Mahahlalel

Jared

Enoch

Methuselah

Lamech

Noah

There are some critics who challenge the accuracy of the recordings, because in the Hebrew, and some cultures it is not uncommon to call a grandfather, “The Father” of someone, provided he came from his line.

Therefore some believe that there are gaps un-accounted for in the genealogies listed the Genesis five recording of the line of Adam down into history.

Genesis Five lists that there were 10 generations down to the birth of the famous Ark builder, Noah.

To borrow from a Biblical Scholar:

What I am about to demonstrate to you all here, proves to me, that there are no coincidences with God.

Ever!

We see this, not only in our lives, Cosmology, Mathematics, animal Kingdom, of any aspect of creation.

We see it especially in scripture.

“Every place, name, dotting of the I’s, every crossing of the T’s, is there in scripture by specific design.”

God is trying to tell us something. It’s up to us to discover the message.

In the scripture, we are told that certain names mean something.

Adam, = man.

Eve = Mother of all the living, etc.

Well, if we take all the names and their meanings in the first ten generations in scripture from Adam to Noah, we discover a message.

Adam = Man

Seth = Appointed

Enosh = Mortal

Kenan = Sorrow

Mahahlalel = The blessed God

Jared = Shall come down

Enoch = Teaching

Methuselah = His death shall bring

Lamech = The despairing

Noah = Rest / Comfort

so it reads this way.

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Man

Appointed

Mortal

Sorrow

The Blessed God = Jesus

Shall Come down

Teaching

His death Shall bring

The despairing

Rest / Comfort

(https://www.verserain.com/verseset/show/5440350e3f7ab01a89c4d41d)

- Jesus In Genesis

Right here, even on the first pages of Scripture we see Jesus

Amen.

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Matthew 11:28 (CSB)

28 “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

We are in the Month of February, the month of Valentine’s day.

Borrowing from the same Biblical Scholar, here is a quote.

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This month many of us may avail ourselves of the opportunity to celebrate our loved ones with a traditional remembrance. It is also an appropriate time to remind ourselves that you and I are the recipients of the ultimate "valentine." It was written in blood on a wooden cross which was erected in Judea almost 2,000 years ago. And yet it was interlaced throughout the prior history of mankind with a scarlet thread of promises.

(https://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/51/)

So, we have 10 generations from Adam to our next focus which is non other than the Ark builder Noah

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Genesis 5:28–32 (CSB)

28 Lamech was 182 years old when he fathered a son. 29 And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.” 30 Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 31 So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

32 Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Before we dive into Genesis chapter six, let me give a bit of a disclaimer.

- Interpreting Genesis Six

This chapter of Genesis, is very contested in it’s interpretation. There several weak arguments for alternative explanations,

If you are interested in them, I suggest to do a personal study on this chapter to explore them.

Today, we will survey the two prominent views.

I must warn you however, this chapter dips into vey strange and often uncomfortable territory, especially to our post flood worldview.

Remember, everything you and I know about this planet and our world, and how things operate, is based on a Post-Flood worldview.

The only people that knew both worlds, the pre-flood and post-flood were Noah and his family that were on the Ark that God had him build.

So, you’ll notice some strange and uncomfortable possibilities coming from this chapter as we move now into the life and times of Noah,

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Genesis 6 (CSB)

1 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

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Time after Noah and his family descended from the ark, the earth began to be populated by the Noah’s descendants.

Then verse 2 mentions The sons of God.

It is important here to understand this phrase in the Hebrew, because it is the catalyst for understanding one of the two prominent views that are generated from this strange chapter.

- The Sons of God

The phrase or words The sons of God, in Hebrew is “beney ha'elohim”

Which mean Angels or members of a heavenly host of beings.

Now, this term “beney ha'elohim” when ever it is mentioned in scripture, both in the old and new Testaments, means, angels, or like angels

The phrase is meant to convey that their father, is not human, but a direct creation of God.

In this New Testament verse in

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Galatians 3.26 (CSB)

26 for through faith you are all sons of God in Christ Jesus.

This term is also used but in the Greek term “Huios,”= Hee-os. meaning Sons,

Paul tells us that through Faith in Jesus, we become like Sons of God, direct creations of God.

Because of Regeneration that only He can provide,

We can’t provide that regeneration into a new being on our own, So we become, like direct creations of God.

So, the phrase is meant to convey that their father, is not human, but a direct creation of God.

Ending in Luke’s recording of the genealogy of Jesus all the way back to God, picking it up here in

Luke 3:38 (CSB)

38 son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, son of God.

Is another example of the term Son of God being a direct creation of God.

So, to re-cap, verse two says

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2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

The Sons, saw the daughters of Mankind, they were beautiful and took wives.

But then the narratives shifts dramatically from the union of the Sons of God, and daughters of mankind, to declaring the earth corrupt because of it.

The Hebrew word corrupt is bā·śāo, referring to the Flesh being corrupt.

3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”

Because of this corrupted flesh, God said He would remove His spirit from them, and gave them a 120 years left from that point on earth.

Verse 4

4 The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Here we are.

- Who are the Nephilim?

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days,

What in the World is Nephilim?

Well, remember last week when we talked about the Hebrew word describing Cain’s fallen face?

(Na-phal?) is the word used.

It is the root of the word, Nephilim, and means the “Fallen”

According to the scripture here, this corrupt union between the Sons of God and Daughters of mankind created as offspring, these Nephilim.

The word Nephilim is transliterated into English as Nephilim.

But in so of our english translations we get the Giants instead of Nephilim.

The reason they are translated as giants in some version, is because of the reliance on the Septuagint.

Remember the LXX, which means 70, referring to the 70 scholars that translated the Old Testament into Greek?

Older versions render the word as “Assailants or Violent Men”

But because of verses like Numbers 13.33

Numbers 13:33 (CSB)

33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

They were later translated into the Greek “Gigantes” which is where we get the word Giant from.

Now, depending on which of the two ways you prefer to interpret this chapter, you’ll will still come away with the fact that what ever these Nephilim were, they were giants.

In Scripture they are referenced many times although by many different names,

Anakim- Rephaim- (this is one name I get a kick out of because it means the Walking Dead), Emim- & Zamzummim

Anak being the ancestor of Goliath the giant that King David will slay.

Nephilim

(Peterson, Brian Neil. “Nephilim.” Edited by John D. Barry, David Bomar, Derek R. Brown, Rachel Klippenstein, Douglas Mangum, Carrie Sinclair Wolcott, Lazarus Wentz, Elliot Ritzema, and Wendy Widder. The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.)

Verse 5

- What Happened To The Dinosaurs?

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5 When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time, 6 the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved. 7 Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.” 8 Noah, however, found favor with the Lord.

Let’s be clear, when God sent the flood, it was the end of all that was in the pre-flood world.

The very landscape of the earth, meaning the

previous mountain ranges,

the rivers that were,

the Garden of Eden,

Human-kind,

the animal kingdom,

plants, & bugs, everything!

This explains the extinction of the Dinosaurs. What happened to the dinosaurs? Biblical Answer; They died in the flood.

Although there are still some left among us today.

You can’t seriously look at a Crocodile or an alligator and say they aren’t what science calls a dinosaur.

Remember, the Word Dinosaur is a relatively new word,

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Richard Owen coined the word Dinosaur (originally Dinosauria) in 1841 and it originates from two greek words deinos – terrible, powerful, wondrous and sauros – lizard. Before 1841 we think people just called them dragons!

(https://www.philipharris.co.uk/blogs/news/1841-richard-owen-coins-the-word-dinosaur#:~:text=Richard%20Owen%20coined%20the%20word,people%20just%20called%20them%20dragons!)

They were known as dragons all over the world, but God makes a reference to a couple of these strange species

in Job chapter 40, known as Behemoth, and Leviathan.

Verse 9

9 These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Hebrew used here, translated Blameless or perfect in some translations is

(tā·mîm) meaning = being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

(Faithlife, LLC. “תָּמִים.” Logos Bible Study, Computer software. Logos Bible Study Factbook. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, LLC, January 31, 2024. https://ref.ly/logos4/Factbook?ref=lemma.lbs.he.%D7%AA%D6%B8%D6%BC%D7%9E%D6%B4%D7%99%D7%9D.)

This verse and others are what support one of the two prominent views on Genesis six,

- The Angel View

Called the “Angel View” meaning = Those who accept this view interpret this chapter to suggest that

Angels = who were the Sons of God, in their wickedness, took on the form of humans and procreated with human females all whom they chose”

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2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

The result of this wickedness produced superhuman offspring known as the Nephilim.

Half human hybrids, who were of giant stature and very powerful, “men of renown.”

Some even suggest these creatures, or Demi-Gods, are what gave birth to the Greek Mythological characters who were said to be offsprings of the gods and humans like, Hercules, Atlas, and Achilles.

Thereby believing Noah was chosen because his bloodline had not been contaminated with the tampering of human DNA.

The other prominent and more comfortable to the imagination view is known as the “Sethite View.”

- The Sethite View

This view suggests that the corrupting of the blood-line & the producing of these Nephilim, were cause by an unholy mixing of the line of Cain with the line of Seth.

Many books have been written on both of these views, and I myself have even written a fictional story, purely for entertainment, based on the “Angel View” Titled “Opposing Babel” available on Amazon.

Some of you have already read it.

Regardless of which view you accept, God didn’t like what had become of his creation, so

He decides to destroy the earth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. 13 Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

The scripture tells us, God sent a worldwide Flood and destroyed every living thing that had the breath of life in it.

Nothing survived.

- A New Beginning

The old world had gone away. What ever it looked like, what ever it contained, how ever it was was no longer

God gave the earth a new beginning. A new Genesis.

Brothers and Sisters, no matter how wicked you may have been, no matter what kind of un-holy unions you may have had, and no matter what kind of offspring you may have had,

You have an opportunity right now to allow God to come into your hearts and destroy your old world,

To remove all the old dinosaurs that don’t fit into the new world He has waiting for you.

To remove all of the creepy crawling sins that have just taken over your life until now.

To wipe away the stain of all the unholy unions you may have been apart of,

And let him give you a new beginning.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB)

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

Let this be the view you accept today.

Don’t let it go another second

The bible tells us that those in Noah’s day had no idea the end of their world was coming.

Just as Jesus is on every page of the Bible, even from the beginning,

Let Jesus be now, this very moment, on the front pages of your renewed life in Him.

We are told that God placed the Rainbow in the sky as a promise to us, as a reminder of His promise to us.

Let your new life in Christ serve a beautiful reminder to you, to God, and to your children that you have been re-created in Christ Jesus.

Because, he didn’t have to come down from heaven and die that horrible death, but He did it for you and for me.

Let us let go of all of the wickedness of the world we used to live in,

And let Him create in us a new heart prepared to live in the new world He creates for us.