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The Olivet discourse given to His disciples is a private conversation Jesus shared with those closest to Him. His disciples wanted to know the “signs of His coming and the close of the age.” Jesus shared many things however for our little journey here…

“For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Mat 24:37

I know my detractors will simply conclude that it is the surprise of judgment Jesus is referring to and, in many ways, I agree. But it also refers to a time of “eating, drinking and marrying” and all this was happening in a very peculiar context.

So lets jump into the time of Noah to get a better understanding of what was going on. Tonight, I’m just going to post the scripture and highlight important questions that demand an answer. I’ll post these questions in blue right under the scripture relevant to it. May aim is to get you thinking.

Genesis 6:1-13

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.

1. Who are the son’s of God?

2. Who decides who gets married to who? What is the Hebrew meaning of “took?”

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.

3. Define the nature of the “Nephilim.”

4. Who is having sex with who?

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 was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

5. In answering question 3, keep in mind the nature of man’s depravity. If you come across the “lines of Seth theory” does the theory match the text?

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.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

6. What does “blameless in his generation” mean?

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.

7. How does “all flesh” become corrupted?

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.

8. Back to square one. Why did God destroy the earth with a flood?

Did you know that back in the 4th century, Genesis 6 was an embarrassment to the church as it implied bizarre realities. A soft and alternative, “lines of Seth theory” was cooked up to appease Christianity’s detractors.

In doing so, it appeased the masses back then but left a gaping hole in our understanding of pre-flood earth. It also diminishes our understanding of many Old Testament and Prophecy texts to our own peril.

I encourage you to tackle these questions. Get your head around the answers and get blown away by it’s implications. Only then will you start your journey of massive discovery of the war of the seeds.

Sure they were “eating, drinking and marrying” in the times of Noah, but when you get your head around the circumstances in which these activities were happening, you get a totally different, biblically revealed reality in which you will never see this passage again in the same light.

To quote one of my favourite movies;

Take the blue pill, the story ends and you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Trust me. It’s deep.

Tags: Genesis 6, Nephilim, Noah, Jesus, Sons Of God