Genesis Segment 3
The First Made, Formed, and
Created People
God had completed His work. The universe
had been prepared for the planet earth. The planet earth was stocked with
minerals and natural reserves for mankind. God could now fellowship with His
first two people, Adam and Eve. However, evil lurked for mankind.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was [haw-yah
became] more subtil [shrewd] than any beast [living creature] of the field which
the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden?
The fallen angel Lucifer, possessing a
serpent, came questioning what God had said. This is how he attacks the believer
still. He questions the integrity and accuracy of God’s Word. He did it here by
twisting God’s Word around. He left out the figure of speech that God had used
for emphasis.
He was trying to instill doubt in Eve’s
mind. The Devil seduces people into doubting the integrity of God’s Word. He
comes disguised as the angel of light. You can’t stop Satanic influences or
temptations from approaching, but you do not have to keep them in your mind and
allow them to stay there. It is available to control what you think.
The problem was not that the tempter was
there trying to seduce Eve, but rather that Eve conversed and reasoned with him.
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Eve responded to the serpent after
considering the question. In her response she also left out the emphasis. She
omitted that which God included in His statement thereby changing the meaning of
what God had said, in essence she changed the Word of God.
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
ye touch it, lest ye die.
Now she adds to what God had said, with
“neither shall ye touch it,” and minimizes it with “lest ye die,” “perhaps,
maybe, we’ll die.” Eve changed the absolute truth of God’s Word into a maybe.
She questioned the integrity of what God had said.
The Fall of Mankind
When Satan wants to attack the believer
today, he always starts by trying to get them to question the integrity of God’s
Word. If the believer listens and considers his suggestion, they begin to doubt
the integrity of God’s Word.
Then they try to get others to consider
their doubt. Next they rearrange the Word of God to fit their thinking, what
they want it ought to say. In doing this, they lose the true Word of God.
The Devil’s primary target is the Word of
God. He is always causing factions on extraneous matters to steal time and
energy so the believer won’t care or take the time to study God’s Word for
themselves.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
shall not surely die:
Exactly as God had said with one “minor”
exception -- it was the direct opposite. God had said emphatically, by utilizing
the figure of speech that ye shall absolutely die. The serpent said, ye shall
not absolutely die. The serpent continues.
5 For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil.
In reality all the serpent was offering
was a look at evil. Up to this point all they had known was good. Everything in
the Garden of Eden was perfect, approved by God as good, good, very good.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise [hw did she see this?], she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God
walking [footsteps] in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden.
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said
unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself.
The first thing that man did when he
became afraid was hide himself from God. Fear was a result of the guilt and
condemnation of breaking God’s commandment. Adam had fear toward God. His
disobedience of God’s command broke fellowship with God and produced fear.
Before, when God wanted to fellowship with him in the garden there was no fear.
While Adam was in fellowship with God there was nothing to be afraid of.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast
naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Adam doesn’t take responsibility for his
actions; he blames the woman that God had given him.
13 And the LORD God said unto the
woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
This was the ultimate humiliation,
staying in a prostrated mode all his life. [Psalm 44:25]
15 And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The adversary would inflict temporary
suffering on the seed of the woman. However, the seed of the woman would bruise
or crush the head of the wicked one. Figurative it means that all Satan’s plans
and plots, policy and purposes, would one day be finally crushed and ended. He
would never more be able to hinder the purposes of the true God.
In the stars there is a man named
Ophiuchus holding his foot over the head of Scorpio, the scorpion, getting ready
to crush it while the scorpion has one of its claws in position to bruise or
pinch the heel of the man.
The first thing God did was promise a
redeemer, offer a plan of salvation for mankind. From this moment on, the
condition of the world, of the second earth, deteriorates. Adam and Eve lose the
spirit from God, and are forced to leave paradise, the Garden of Eden. The
second earth now is cursed. This is the time of the overthrow of the second
earth.
Man fell because he was disobedient to
the Word of God. Adam’s sin was high treason, willful disobedience against God’s
Word. Adam transgressed a direct commandment from God. Adam gave away life for
death. Adam’s fall brought death and all of its consequences, like sickness and
disease.
Adam basically sold mankind as slaves to
sin. He separated man from God. His actions brought the need for a saviour. Adam
and his sin brought mankind under the dominion of God’s archenemy the Devil, who
because of the consequences of Adam’s sin still has a temporary position as god
of this world.
Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy
Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into [in] the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil.
And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward
hungered.
3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be
the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is
written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
5 And the devil, taking him up into an
high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this
power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Adam had delivered the power and the
glory of the world to God’s archenemy. The Devil could not offer Jesus what was
not his. Jesus Christ would have called his bluff.
Adam had authority that had been
conferred on him by God. He transferred that dominion, which God had given him,
to the deceiver. Thus, God’s adversary, the Devil, received the dominion lease
over what was once Adam’s. This dominion lease does have a time limit on it
though.
Since the Devil now has authority and
dominion over the earth, he is the one who sends tornados, floods, earthquakes,
volcanoes, tsunamis, and pestilences to torment mankind. All evil and disease
are the opposite of what the true God would do. The story of Job is a tremendous
Biblical study concerning human suffering and perseverance in light of the
Devil’s actions and God’s blessings.
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow [labor] thou shalt bring
forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground
for thy sake [nature is affected]; in sorrow [labor] shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Up until now everything was good, good, very good; no thorns, no thistles, no cursed ground, no animals eating cursed ground. However, after the original sin of high treason, with the fall of man, the environment changes drastically.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
This is the first time physical death is
mentioned for Adam. God had promised earlier to Adam, that he would die that
very day if he ate of the forbidden fruit of the garden. When Adam disobeyed
God, something occurred to establish physical death within man. Whenever the
spiritual laws of God are broken physical calamity follows.
Adam did die. He did not die physically
when he sinned, when he disobeyed God, but rather he died spiritually. He lost
his connection with God, spirit. The one thing that had set him apart from the
animals was lost. With the lost of the Spirit of God, he lost his direct access
to God.
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
Eve in Hebrew is chavvam [2332] meaning
life or life spring.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
God wasn’t an animal activist. Probably
God showed them how to do a sacrifice. He could have taken a lamb of the first
year and explained how and why of a sacrifice. Then he gave the skins to Adam
and Eve for clothing.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man
is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed
at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
It was by God’s grace and mercy that He
got man out of the garden; if He hadn’t, man could have eaten of the tree of
life in the garden and remained in an unredeemable state. It’s also grace and
mercy that God didn’t immediately end mankind after the fall.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
God now has to deal with Adam and mankind
differently than He did when Adam was in the garden. God must communicate with
Adam in a completely different format because Adam had lost his connection with
Him, which was spirit. This ushers in a new timeframe, the beginning of a new
administration, the Patriarchal Administration.
Adam’s dominion lease had been
transferred to the Devil. The adversary had beguiled Eve, and Adam had followed
her lead. God needed a plan to redeem mankind. His first move was to promise a
saviour, a redeemer to rescue mankind from its fallen state.
God’s plan of redemption would need to be
on legal grounds because Satan had legal rights God must recognize since He was
a just God. If God could have disposed of the Devil, putting him out of
dominion, but did not do so, then God would be guilty of all the acts of the
Devil. That is exactly why some have confused death as coming from the true God.
God cannot dispose of the Devil until
man’s lease of dominion that Adam delivered to the adversary, has expired. Satan
got Adam’s lease on this world, and consequently, Satan’s dominion will last as
long as Adam’s would have lasted had he not sinned. Satan’s dominion has a time
limit.
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Meanwhile, Satan is seeking God’s place
in man’s heart. He wants man’s worship and for the most part is getting it.
Man is a legal criminal, and if he will
ever stand right with God, it must be done on legal ground. Man needed a
redeemer, a mediator, and an intercessor. Today, we know that this redeemer has
already freed mankind from the bondage that Adam put man into. With the divine
conception, death had no dominion over Jesus Christ until he became sin, took
sin upon himself.
As the second Adam, Jesus was as perfect
as the first. The promised seed of the woman, the redeemer, did not begin life
in paradise like the first Adam did. He was born in the stable behind the inn,
in the manger. He didn’t have spirit with which to communicate directly with his
Father until he was about thirty years old.
Adam’s sin was willful disobedience.
Jesus Christ, by his walk of believing, always willfully obeyed God. He paid the
price to redeem mankind from sickness and from death. He bought mankind back
from being slaves to the devil.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man’s
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be
made righteous.
Jesus Christ reconciled man to God. He
saved mankind from Adam’s condition. He purchased man’s deliverance from the
power of darkness. He was the saviour; he was the full payment. The full
manifestation of Jesus Christ’s accomplished work is still future, but it is
revealed in God’s Word and it is promised with absolute assurance.
Since the fall of Adam, humans have
steadily been sinking lower and lower - intellectually, morally and spiritually.
The only way up and out was Pentecost. The new birth offers the only solution to
life’s mysteries and gives a reason for man’s being. It makes life with its
burdens, sorrows, and grief, culminating in death, tolerable. It throws light on
the human problems for which we can get light from no other source.
So man fell. He was banished from
paradise and lost spirit, his connection with God. However, God offered to send
a redeemer to save mankind. The records in the Old Testament display God’s
patience as He waited for a woman who would say, “Be it unto me according to thy
word.”
Until that time God left signs, examples,
types, to help remind people that there was a coming saviour, a redeemer that
they could look forward to, to help them stand the onslaughts of the wicked one
in daily living.
*Give HO Jesus Christ the Redeemer. parts
1-3 and Genesis 4 HO.
Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife;
[“To know” Biblically is to have sexual intercourse to the point of conception.]
and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD
[or with the help of Jehovah].
Queen Elizabeth Bible: I have gotten the
man according to the Lord’s word or promise.
The Tanakh: I have gained a male child
with the help of the Lord.
She thought she had gotten thee man, the
redeemer. Turned out to be the first murderer. Cain means brought forth, or
acquired or acquisition. How was this child Cain, raised by Eve if she thought
he was the Messiah? No wonder he didn’t want to listen to anyone. He thought
that he was special.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time. The Hebrew
reads “at the end of days.” The time, as well as the place, and offering were
appointed by God. [audible?] God had told them the time, the place and what
offering to bring.
3 At
the end of days it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an
offering unto the LORD.
They were to bring an offering to
Jehovah, the covenant God, at a specific time, to a specific place. Cain brought
a bloodless sacrifice. [Like bringing Coors Lite to a German beer tasting
party.]
4 And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. Tanakh reads, “brought the
choicest of the firstlings of his flock.”
4b And the LORD had respect, paid heed,
unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he
had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art
thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be
accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Let’s consider some points concerning
Cain and his sacrifice, then we will come back to verse 7.
Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto
God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he
was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet
speaketh.
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, [or who belonged to the evil one, or the wicked one] and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
[CCG] Cain brought a bloodless sacrifice,
the fruit of the ground, nothing against first fruits of the ground, against
farmers, but by bringing a bloodless sacrifice, he didn’t acknowledge the need
for a person to shed blood on his behalf. The shedding of blood would take place
in the sacrifice, and it was to be a type for the coming Messiah who would shed
his blood for all of mankind.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement [a covering] for the soul.
This sacrifice was to be the type and the
reason for all such sacrifices. The purpose was to remind people that the
Messiah, the redeemer, was coming, and that he hadn’t come yet. When God gave
the Mosaic Law, He would give even more specifics for sacrifices.
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not
be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
If
[emphasis] thou doest well [Septuagint – if thou offer correctly] shalt thou not
be accepted?” And if [emphasis] thou doest not well, at the entrance [a
male] is lying, a sin offering [a lamb].”
[From EWB Companion Bible] There is a sin
offering at the door.
And unto thee is it’s desire And thou
shalt rule over it [the lamb. It will not flee from fear].
God is offering Cain a way out, a chance
to change his desire. So he must not have been born of the seed of the devil
yet.
God is telling him, “Go get the lamb at
the door and sacrifice it, instead of what you brought, which wasn’t the first
fruits anyway. Blood needs to be shed. Either God supplied the lamb [like the
substitute for Isaac] or Abel brought a second lamb.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother:
and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is
Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the
voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the
earth, or you shall be more cursed than the ground, which hath opened her mouth
to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall
not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; [it won’t give you its best]; a
fugitive and a vagabond [a restless wanderer], shalt thou be in the earth.
Cain’s sentence was perpetual banishment
from the presence of the Lord.
Most people believe that if you plant in
soil containing the proper amounts of nitrogen, potash, and other elements, and
allow the proper amounts of rain and sunshine, a beautiful crop will be
produced.
That is true to a degree, but there are other factors involved. When people put God first, He causes them to prosper. The productivity of the soil is directly related to the spiritual life of the people who live on the land.
Since Cain was born of that wicked one (I
John 3:12) and had killed his brother Abel. Part of the curse against him was
that the ground would not yield unto him its strength. Seeds would still produce
crops, but not bumper crops for Cain.
This principle is shown in Psalm 107:33
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for
the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
On the other hand, walking for God brings
His blessings, not only upon you, but also upon your land.
Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes,
and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto the
vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
One of the necessary aspects of keeping
God’s commandments is tithing. The principles found in Malachi still hold true
today. [NIV Malachi 3:9-12]
9 You are under a curse-the whole nation
of you-because you are robbing me.
10 Bring the whole tithe into the
storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord
Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out
so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
11 I will prevent pests from devouring
your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit, says the
Lord Almighty.
12 Then all nations will call you
blessed, for yours will be a delightful land, says the Lord Almighty.
Prayer and believing is at least as
important to the productivity of the land as any agricultural technique. Matthew
21:22 applies to our crops and food as well as every other category of our
lives.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever
ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
-The tithe helps immensely also.-
Genesis 4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My
punishment is greater than I can bear. [A number of texts read] Is my
iniquity too great to be forgiven?
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this
day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be
a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every
one that findeth me shall slay me.
[NIV] 14 “Today you are driving me from
the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer
on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Cain is more concerned about the land and
people than he is about the fact that he cannot communicate with God. The cursed
creation is of more importance than the Creator.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore [Hebrew-not so] whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, [gave Cain a token or a pledge] lest any finding him should kill him.
God gave him His pledge. Incredible mercy
and grace. Justice of God.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of
the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Nod means wandering.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, [or he, Cain, was building a city], and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
First city. Who built it? Cain. The land
wouldn’t yield much for him, he had to eat?
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad... begat
Lamech.
Lamech means powerful. He was the seventh
in line of Cain’s line.
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives:
[the first recorded bigamist going against what God had initiated in the garden
of Eden].
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the
father [chief, head, not necessarily the inventor] of such as dwell in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
Nomads. Adah was the head of Cain’s line
who lived in tents and raised livestock.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal:
he was the father [chief] of all such as handle the harp and organ, flute or
mouth organ, panpipe. [music]
Jubal means joyful sound. The first
recorded musicians were the Rolling Stones, Cain’s relatives, from the
unbeliever’s line.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain,
[flowing from Cain] an instructor [sharpener] of every artificer in brass
[bronze or copper] and iron [metal worker].
[NIV] 22 ...Tubalcain who forged all
kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
He was a metal worker, a sharpener of
tools for building and working the earth, for farming and for weapons of war,
and he needed metal to start and control fire.
22b and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. [pleasant or beautiful] Why is she thrown in?
23 And Lamech [first bigamist] said unto
his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my
speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Why is Cain’s unbelieving line mentioned?
With the believer’s line dates of children and ages are given. None of the
particulars are given with Cain’s line, not even of their deaths, except here.
Lamech seems to think he has done some
pretty evil things, 10 times that of Cain. Is this the record of the
unbeliever’s line setting up a counterfeit sacrifice?
1. Jabal has the animals for the sacrifice.
2. Jubal has the music.
3. Tubalcain has the metal tools to control the fire
4. Naamah [pleasant] provides?
prostitute? [Lamech was first recorded bigamist.]
Animals, music, fire, prostitute. Sounds
like a sacrifice to me. Ask Aaron!
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a
son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Adam was 130 years old when he got the
child whom the Christ line would go through. Seth means substituted.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was
born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of
the LORD.
Enos means frail, or the weak one. The
literal translation reads: “then began men to call their idols or gods Jehovah.”
They called their pagan gods by the true God’s name, Jehovah. In Enos’ day the
profanation of the name of Jehovah took root.
Seth and Enos were God-fearing men. Their
line represented the believers, the called of God, the righteous ones.
On the other hand, the specific kind of
unrighteousness which Cain committed was unacceptable and unforgivable. Thus the
unrighteousness of Cain represents all the unbelievers in the Bible during the
Old Testament times.
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam
lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five
years, and begat Enos:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was
not; for God took him.
Moffat translation, "Enoch lived close to God and then he disappeared, for God took him away."
Enoch walked with God. This is the
spiritual walk. Enoch in walking close to God talked to Him and God in turn gave
him revelation.
Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of
his saints,
Quite a prophecy given at such an early
time in man’s history. There might not have been ten thousands people on earth
yet, let alone that many saints.
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Enoch may have been the first prophet.
When God sends a prophet there is need for God’s people to be called back to
God; that is the ministry of a prophet.
The book of Jude is written for all
people in any time of apostasy. Apostasy means total desertion of one’s
professed principles, faith, or party. This is an indication that the earth was
already in a bad way.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was
translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had
translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he
pleased God.
Why was Enoch translated, moved from one
location to another by God?
Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men
[singular-the man adam; see EWB appendix 14] began to multiply [in
wickedness at the time of Enos in 4:26] on the face of the earth, and daughters
were born unto them [Adam and Eve],
This is a good example of Bible
translators not accurately following God’s law regarding everything “after its
kind.” Some teach that this means that wicked angels cohabited with human
beings.
2 That the sons of God [believers line] saw
[senses] the daughters of men [the man adam, unbelievers line] that they were
fair [good, better, beautiful]; and they took them wives of all which they
chose.
Angels are spirit beings. They cannot
cohabit with a human, or else genera would have interbred. Cohabitation of
angels with man is not possible.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh
is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Believers married unbelievers. Nine out
of 10 times the unbeliever is going to win. Believers need to marry believers.
When believers wandered from their own and married unbelievers, trouble ensued.
II Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit
shall not always strive [remain in] with man [the man adam], for that he
[emphatic] also is flesh [only flesh, not a god]: yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years.
God told Adam he had only 120 years left
to live. Was Adam the first to die of natural causes, not being murdered or
killed by a wild animal? All the unbeliever’s were living long lives, so why not
party? They had seen no natural death, no lasting consequences to a life of sin.
Did the serpent’s statement, “Thou shalt
not surely die” seem accurate?
Did Enoch deliver God’s message to Adam?
Did Adam try to hunt him down? Is that why he was translated, to get away from
Adam? Adam was 810, Enoch was 188. Enoch lived to be 325. God could have
translated Enoch to keep him alive.
6:4 There were [became] giants [tyrants,
bullies of wickedness] in the earth in those days; and also after that [after
the flood], when the sons of God [believers line] came in unto the daughters of
men [the man adam, unbelievers line], and they bare children to them, the
same, [their offspring], became mighty men [geber] of wickedness, which
were of old, men [enosh] of renown, for their evil, for their wickedness
[moral depravity].
These mighty men of wickedness wanted to
make a name for themselves. They wanted to be famous. This was a major attempt
at infiltrating and destroying the Christ line.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [EWB
switches to descendants of the adam] was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had
made man [descendants of the adam] on the earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man
[utter destroy, blot out the descendants of the adam, no eternal life] whom I
have created from the face of the earth; both man [plural – all man], and beast,
and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I
have made them.
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8 But Noah found grace, found favor,
[received unmerited divine favor] in the eyes of the LORD.
The justice of God demands, and it
requires, judgement; but, the love of God demands and requires grace.
First time grace is specifically
mentioned; excellent timing though. Why grace? The answer is, “because of God’s
foreknowledge.” God knew that Noah was going to believe and so Noah found grace,
unmerited divine favor, in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noah:
Noah was a just man [ish] and perfect in his generations, and
Noah walked with God.
Everyone around Noah was thinking evil
but Noah was still able to walk with God. That is why we can walk with God right
in the midst of hell, right in our communities, at work. In the midst of all
this evil Noah walked with God and if he can, we can too because we have
something better in Christ than he had in his day.
The word perfect in verse 9 is without
blemish. He was without blemish because he was of pure bloodline. He hadn’t
married himself off to a daughter of man, an unbeliever.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth. Purest bloodstream available.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all
flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark [a floating
building], of gopher [laminated] wood; rooms, [nests, cells, compartments] shalt
thou make in the ark, [in the floating building] and shalt pitch it within and
without with pitch [coat it, cover it with resin].
Laminated wood is when layers of wooden
boards are glued together one upon the other to provide extra strength.
15 And this is the fashion which thou
shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred
cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
No blueprints. No one had ever built one
before.
Moses wrote the book of Genesis. He would
have been familiar with the length of the royal Egyptian cubit which was 20.62
inches in length. The Hebrew cubit comes much later and varies in size.
Thus the ark was approximately 515 feet
long, 86 feet wide, and 52 feet high.
The great battleship Oregon is built to this scale only it is one sixth smaller.
Someone figured that inside of this ark,
there was over 3,000,000 cubic feet of space. It would carry as much cargo as a
freight train 13 and a half miles in length. You could put 494 double decker
buses in it. Plenty of room for animals and food.
In fact Ernest Mayr, one of the leading
American taxonomist calculated that there are about one million animal species.
Of these, 60% are sea animals. And 70% of the remainder are insects. That leaves
less than 20,000 species of land animals including mammals, reptiles, birds, and
amphibians.
Since the average size of all the land
animals is no bigger than a house cat, you could fit two of each species in just
41% of the Ark space. So the question really is not how could all those animals
squeeze in, but what did Noah do with all that extra space in the Ark?
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in
a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set
in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt
thou make it.
Three stories, or decks, with a door near
the front on the right side about 8 feet across.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of
waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth
shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my
covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife,
and thy sons' wives with thee.
First occurrence of covenant.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two
of every sort [kind, genus] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep
them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle
after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of
every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
After their kind. Cattle which symbolized
the larger animals and creeping things which are the smaller four footed animals
that appear to creep along the ground like reptiles.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come
thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in
this generation.
Thee, Noah, not necessarily anyone else.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee
by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by
two, the male and his female.
Clean beasts by sevens for sacrificing.
Two for preservation of species.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the
male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Birds help in the movement of seed on the
earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it
to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth, ground.
5 And Noah did according unto all that
the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old
[2298 BC] when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his
wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the
flood.
Noah’s wife’s name is never mentioned.
10 And it came to pass after seven days,
that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were
all the fountains of the great deep broken up [volcanoes and underwater
aquifers], and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty
days and forty nights.
First rain, before only mist. It took
some believing action on Noah’s part. First to walk with God in a land where
everyone around you is spiritually sick. Then to build an ark. Gather the
animals. Get the food. Tell his family that they are going to go with him, and
live through the rain
16 And they that went in, went in male
and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
The Lord shut them in. No unbelievers
were going to pry the door open or for that matter, Noah wasn’t going to get
soft and open it for them.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the
earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above
the earth.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon
the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole
heaven, were covered.
Some suggest that the flood was only
regional. If that was the case why didn’t God have the animals migrate to a dry
area rather than put them in a floating building?
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail; and the mountains were covered.
The water on the earth was almost 26 feet
above the top of the highest mountain.
23 And every living substance was destroyed
which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and
Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
There is much geological evidence of
this.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Video. Explain who Ron Wyatt is.