Earth Reset
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Some time goes by. Mankind has spread as generations pass and with it, sin has spread.
Wickedness grows so much, that God intervenes. This is the account of the flood and earth’s reboot.
The Spread of Wickedness
The Spread of Wickedness
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Men of God and Daughters of man
Debated
children of Seth and children of Cain
makes Seth’s line sons of God
makes Cain’s line daughters of men
Sons of God are angels (demons) and daughters of men are humans.
This view sees this demon possessed intercourse
Even more wickedness than before
Sons of God are called angels in other passeges.
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
NT verses which tie demonic activity to pre-flood wickedness.
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Angels are referenced in connection with pre-flood wickedness
Common objection
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
John MacArthur points out that this says they don’t marry, not that they are incapable of procreation.
MacArthur Study Bible NASB Commentary
To procreate physically, they had to possess human, male bodies.
I have seen both views
I lean to agreeing with MacAurthur.
Most likely, this is demon possession and ritualistic intercourse being discussed.
The main tipping point is “Sons of God”
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Sin had spread and wickedness was great.
Sin was the birthright of humanity
Jesus spoke of these days and compared them to the days before His second coming.
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
The world goes about its business with no thought of God
We are there again!
The Judgment of God Decreed
The Judgment of God Decreed
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
God judges the earth
God declares the elimination of mankind as a “reboot”
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
God gave them time to repent as Noah prepped the ark
because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
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.
God was about to judge sin and wickedness and shared it with Noah.
Favor in God’s Eyes
Favor in God’s Eyes
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
MacArthur Study Bible NASB Commentary
Lest one believe that Noah was spared because of his good works alone (cf. Heb 11:7), God makes it clear that Noah was a man who believed in God as Creator, Sovereign, and the only Savior from sin. He found grace for himself, because he humbled himself and sought it (cf. 4:26). See notes on Is 55:6, 7; he was obedient, as well (6:22; 7:5; Jas 4:6–10).
Noah found favor of God by faith, not works.
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
He also obeyed GOd
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
Noah obeyed
He began building the ark and preparing it.
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,
and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
Noah entered the Ark at the appropriate time and God sealed them in.
Judgment Poured Out
Judgment Poured Out
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Global flood took place
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
Plate tectonics began:
fountains of the deep caused continental rifts and rapid spreading of Pangaea.
The fossil records shows a major shift and loss of life.
This matches the Biblical account of animal death.
Same sequence of sedimentary rock around the planet.
Most ancient civilizations include variations of the Flood in their Lore and Mythology.
and most of those include as a judgment of the “gods”
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
God judges sin
We had better take that to heart
Confess our sins and turn from them