Sermon Tone Analysis

! Genesis 6- 10  

           

 

 

 

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Genesis 6:1-4  Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 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.

3 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." 4 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.

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During Noah's day there was a population explosion.

Keep in mind, that people were living to be 900 years old!

We think it could have been that the "canopy", the water "firmament" around the earth shielded the earth from harmful radiation, and that's why lifespans were so great.

*6:1-4.*

Many have suggested that *the sons of God* were the godly line of Seth and *the daughters of men* were the Cainites.

But this does not do justice to the terminology or the context.

Others view the “sons of God” as angels (as in Job 1:6), who cohabited with women on earth.

This, however, conflicts with Matthew 22:30.

The incident is one of hubris, the proud overstepping of bounds.

Here it applies to “the sons of God,” a lusty, powerful lot striving for fame and fertility.

They were probably powerful rulers who were controlled (indwelt) by fallen angels.

It may be that fallen angels left their habitation and inhabited bodies of human despots and warriors, the mighty ones of the earth.

It is known from Ezekiel 28:11-19 and Daniel 10:13 that great kings of the earth have “princes” ruling behind them—their power is demonic.

It is no surprise that in Ugaritic literature (as well as other nations’ literature), kings are described as divine, half-divine, or demigods.

Pagans revered these great leaders.

Many mythological traditions describe them as being the offspring of the gods themselves.

In fact bnÕlm (“sons of the gods”) in Ugaritic is used of members of the pantheon as well as great kings of the earth.

In the Ugaritic legend of the Dawn, the chief god of the pantheon, El, seduced two human women.

This union of a god with human women produced Sðh\r (“Dawn”) and Sðlm (“Dusk”) who seem to have become goddesses representing Venus.

Thus for the pagans, gods had their origin in copulation between gods and humans.

Any superhuman individual in a myth or any mythological or actual giant would suggest a divine origin to the pagans.

Genesis 6:1-4, then, describes how corrupt the world got when this violation was rampant.

It is also a polemic /against/ the pagan belief that giants (*Nephilim*; cf.

Num.

13:32-33) and *men of renown* (Gen.

6:4) were of divine origin, and that immortality was achieved by immorality.

The Canaanite cult (and most cults in the ancient Near East) included fertility rites involving sympathetic magic, based on the assumption that people are supernaturally affected through an object which represents them.

Israel was warned to resist this because it was completely corrupt and erroneous.

The passage, then, refutes pagan beliefs by declaring the truth.

*The sons of God *were not divine; they were demon-controlled.

Their marrying as many women as they wished (possibly this is the origin of harems) was to satisfy their baser instincts.

They were just another low order of creatures, though powerful and demon-influenced.

*Children* of these marriages, despite pagan ideas, were not god-kings.

Though *heroes* and “men of renown,” they were flesh; and they died, in due course, like all members of the human race.

When God judges the world—as He was about to—no giant, no deity, no human has any power against Him.

God simply allots one’s days and brings his end.[1]

Jude 6 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (NKJV)

 

2 Peter 2:4

            4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast /them /down to hell and delivered /them /into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (NKJV)

 

 

there were Giants AFTER the flood, Numbers 13 - five brothers.

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Genesis 6:5-7 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.

6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 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."

8 But Noah found *grace in the eyes of the LORD.*

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Even though swift judgment would fall because God’s Spirit would not always shield (duÆn; “shield” is better than niv‘s “contend with,” Gen. 6:3) mankind, the judgment would be delayed 120 years (v.

3).

During this time Noah was “a preacher of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5).[2]

Noach, found grace in the eyes of the Lord, He was different, he stood out from the rest of his generation,  notice the next verse,

 

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Genesis 6:9-13 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.

13 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.

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He walked with God later the scriptures will tell us that he walked before God, God was on his mind, in his thoughts on his heart.

The word Corrupt in the Hebrew carries the idea of something becoming utter ruin , especially morality, it speaks of gross immorality.

Does this not sound like today’s earth there is a flood coming, but a flood of fire.

God always has His remnant, Praise GOD Noah was pre-flood in His theology.

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Genesis 6:14-22 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make *rooms* in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

15 "And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark /shall be /three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 "You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side.

You shall make it /with /lower, second, and third /decks.

/17 "And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which /is /the breath of life; everything that /is /on the earth shall die.

18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go 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 after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every /kind /will come to you to keep /them /alive.

21 "And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather /it /to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."

22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

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what was Noah doing these years as he built, he preached and reached.

 

2 Peter 2:5 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, /one of /eight /people, /a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; (NKJV)

 

120 years he built, some have seen this as God giving every opportunity to come to repent.

Just as today, he is building a boat, it never rained on the earth,

 

 

 

ROOMS literally nests ,

 

even today we are don’t exactly sure what gopher wood is .

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THE Nephilim

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ 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.

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This is one of those classic "problem" passages.

There are three main, decent, possible interpretations:

1) The godly line of Seth marrying ungodly women of the line of Cain.

The idea is that the godly men were called "sons of God".

This interpretation mainly comes about because people have a problem with the next possibility.

"Line of Seth?"

The early church viewed the /B'nai Elohim/ as angels up through the late fourth century: Justin, Athenagoras, Cyprian, Eusebius, et al. (also Josephus, Philo, Judeaus, and the Apochrypha regard this view).

Celsus and Julian the Apostate exploited the older common belief to attack Christianity.

Cyril of Alexandria, in his reply, repudiated the orthodox position.

Julius Africanus (a contemporary of Origen) introduced the theory that the "sons of God" simply referred to the genealogical line of Seth, which was committed to preserving the true worship of God.

Seemingly more appealing, the "Sethite theory" prevailed into the Medieval Church, and many still hold this view.

This view, however, has several serious problems.

There is no indication that the Sethites were distinguished for piety; they were not exempted from the charge of general wickedness which brought on the flood.

In fact, Seth's son Enosh was the one who introduced apostasy to that world.

This is masked by a mistranslation of Genesis 4:25, which should read:

"...then men began to *profane* the name of the Lord."

Furthermore, when the faithful marry the unfaithful, they do not give birth to unnatural offspring!

And the "daughters of men" were not differentiated with regard to the Flood.

All were lost.

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The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women-known as the "Nephilim."

So it was also understood by the early church fathers.