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*Intro*
We are continuing our journey through Genesis.
So far we have seen this theme of an epic battle emerge.
Before sin, man was given the job of subduing the world for God’s glory (Gen.
1:28).
However, because of our sin, we try to subdue the world and each other for our glory, wanting to be God (Gen.
3:5).
We have two sides: the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent (Gen.
3:15).
God promised that one person, a deliverer, will come one day to crush the serpent.
Satan, the serpent, does not know who this person is.
Commentator James Boice says, “Like Eve, he [Satan] too must have thought that Cain, the woman’s offspring, was the deliverer and must therefore have plotted to turn him into a murderer.
He succeeded!
He corrupted Cain by getting him to murder Abel, thereby eliminating one of Eve’s children and rendering the other unfit to be the Savior.”[1]
The legacy of the seed of the serpent, through Cain, was one filled with great achievement, but without God (Gen.
4:17-22).
By the seventh generation, we have morality-less violent, lustful men, like Lamech (Gen.
4:23-24).
However, God preserves the seed of the woman, though Satan tried to kill him, by giving Adam and Eve, Seth (Gen.
4:25-26).
We saw that the seed of the woman continues knowing God, though plagued by death (Gen.
5:1-20, 25-32).
By the seventh generation, we have Enoch, known for simply walking with God (Gen.
5:21-24).
Still, they are longing for that deliverer to come (Gen.
5:28-29).
Now in Genesis 6, we will see that Satan will try a new approach.
He will invade the human race with his army and destroy God’s original design of marriage.
If he can destroy marriage, there is no way, he thinks, the promised seed will be born.
However, Satan will not do anything unless man gives Satan room to do it.
We saw that with Cain.
The enemy was “crouching” at the door and Cain never closed it.
God had counseled him that sin starts off small and hidden only to emerge later in gigantic proportions.
And guess what we are going to see now in Genesis 6-9? Sin has reached its boiling point, leading God to judge all sin.
Take note:
*I.
**Satanic footholds can become strongholds (vv.
1-3a, 4)*
In Gen. 6:1, God allows humanity to procreate and fill the earth, despite sin, murder and the creation of an ungodly line of anti-God people.
Notice the blessing of God in verse 1.
He allows mankind to have children and families.
He allows them to flourish to develop society.
And so with the escalation of culture, you also have the escalation of wickedness.
Actually by Genesis 6, you only have Noah and his family walking with God.
Evil has multiplied faster than the population, so that it has spread through the entire people of earth.[2]
Look what happens in Gen. 6:2.
These are hotly debated verses and many views on this.
Who are the sons of God?
One view says that the “sons of God” could be those of the line of Seth, the godly seed of the woman who lusted after women, the “daughters of men,” from the line of Cain, the seed of the serpent and married them.
Augustine, Luther and Calvin all hold to this view.[3]
Or are they human rulers of some sort?
(another view)
The “sons of God” can refer to humans (Deut.
14:1).
However, typically in the Old Testament, the “sons of God” refer to angels (Job 1:6; 2:1: 38:7).
But can sexless spirit beings have sexual unions with flesh and blood humans?
Didn’t Jesus say angels do not marry?
(Matt.
22:30).
Proponents of this view would say that the “sons of God” are fallen angels invading the human race, possessing unbelieving men’s bodies to marry women.
Their offspring will be humans, but Satanic influence can limit the chances of the promised seed to be born.
There are difficulties with whatever side you take.
You don’t have to agree with me, but it seems to me that given the context and the theme of the epic battle so far in Genesis, I lean towards the angel view.
Let me give you some reasons:
· /Language: /The text contrasts the daughters of men to the sons of God.
The language implies a difference between creatures of God and creatures of men.
· /Earliest interpretation/.
One commentator states that,  “The ‘angel’ interpretation is at once the oldest view and that of most modern commentators.
It is assumed in the earliest Jewish exegesis (e.g., the books of 1 Enoch 6:2ff; Jubilees 5:1), LXX, Philo /De Gigant/ 2:358), Josephus (/Ant./
1.31) and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QapGen 2:1; CD 2:17–19).
The NT (2 Pet 2:4, Jude 6, 7) and the earliest Christian writers (e.g., Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen) also take this line.[4]
·/The New Testament/.
We looked at 1 Peter 3:18-20 a while back regarding this.
This passage is another difficult passage.
My understanding of this is that after Christ died on the cross and His body was buried in the tomb, His spirit went to proclaim, not preach to, certain “spirits in prison.”
Who are these spirits?
Peter says they were during the times of Noah.
Look over at 2 Peter 2:4-5.
Again, there are angels “in chains of gloomy darkness” and again Noah is mentioned.
Again in Jude 6.
All three NT passages teach us that there are certain angels~/demons in prison now because of something that happened in Noah’s day.
·/Gospels/.
Pastor Kent Hughes says the “Gospels record demons as craving for bodies (cf.
Mark 5:11–13; Luke 8:31–33; 11:24–26.”[5]
So for these reasons, I think what you have here in Genesis 6 is a demonic invasion.
Satan and his demons hatched a plan to move in for the kill.
This is in response to mankind who have become so wicked that they opened themselves up and invited demons in with their sin.
Satan’s agenda was to destroy the promised Seed by the corruption of marriage.
After the flood, God judged these demons (not all demons) and put them in a holding place and bound them.
This is some sort of a prison, until the Final Judgment in Rev. 20.
Nevertheless, Satan will try again all throughout history and fail to kill the Promised Seed (for example, Pharaoh killing infants during Moses time, Jezebel trying to kill prophets, Haman trying to kill the Jews and even through Herod trying to kill Jesus).
And Jesus, the moment He died, when all demons were rejoicing at what seemed like a sure victory, only to find Jesus showing up to the prison of these bound demons to proclaim His victory!
Let’s go back to Genesis 6.
We already saw Satan entering the realm of animals and showing up indwelling a snake in the Garden in Gen. 3. John Macarthur says, “What you have is society has reached such a corrupt point, civilization has gotten so corrupt that literally demons have taken up their residences to some degree… their [demons] strategy was to move in to the bodies of males and then to marry beautiful women and to produce children.
This would be a demon-dominated union, and a demon-dominated family.”[6]
Notice the escalation of sin.
Before with Cain, the demons were waiting at the door (Gen.
4:7).
Now they’re living in people’s bodies!
And I don’t even know if they realize that this was Satanic influence, because they have become so used to their sin.
Notice the word usage in Gen. 6:2.
The sons of God “saw” the daughters to be “attractive” (or good) and they “took.”
Does that sound familiar?
This parallels what happened in the Garden.
In Gen. 3:5, Eve “/saw/ that the fruit was good for food and /pleasing/ to the eye, and she /took/ and ate.
Hughes notes, “Here in the demonized replay of the fall, the object of lust is not fruit but the bodies of beautiful women that the sons of God “saw” and took for themselves.
The picture is one of unmitigated lust.”[7]
The word “took” does not suggest forced marriage or rape, since this is a word that means a regular marriage union.
One commentator observes that the “silence on the part of the ‘daughters’ may well reflect a willing complicity.”[8]
How does God respond to this?
In Gen. 6:3, we see that God says that there has to be consequences to man’s behavior.
The Spirit of God is mentioned.
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