WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.760 Good morning, Fellowship Church. 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:03.359 How are you doing this morning? 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:08.240 Let's go ahead and stand to our feet. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:14.400 If you're at home, let's go ahead and give reverence to the reading of God's word. 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.839 You know, I want to talk to you before we go into prayer. 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:36.240 And it is this in times where there's such a deep lack of strong leadership, moral leadership, we don't want to allow moments like this to go by in our in our secular culture and say, you know what, this is okay. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.200 And just kind of go on with life. 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:44.560 You what you need to see in this day is what true leadership is. 00:00:45.359 --> 00:01:05.439 And it is this is that, especially if you're an owner of a company, whether you're a political leader, uh someone who um uh claims that you are a community leader, when something fails under your administration, your oversight, it demands and commands an apology. 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:13.519 And when there's a lack of an apology, it lets us know, it signals to the rest of the world that morality has fallen. 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:25.439 When such extreme abuses of things that go um unhindered, even things that you you don't agree with, and yet you let it go. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:32.799 When you never apologize, you need to know here at Fellowship Churches that that is morally wrong. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:44.879 Because this is what leadership is, is that when something fails under your leadership, under your oversight, the buck stops with you. 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:47.599 Do I make myself clear? 00:01:51.200 --> 00:02:09.360 And so in this moment, we're not only gonna pray for one another, but I believe that the Lord is wanting the manifold wisdom of God to be made known through the church that your trust cannot be in political leaders or advocates. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:14.240 There's no such thing as a protest when it becomes a mob. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:35.360 There's no such thing as when you dis disrupt and and begin to um become antagonistic to law, law-abiding citizens and and and people who are the wearing the badges and and our military, and then we turn around and say, that's okay, that's not okay. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:42.800 And I'm I'm trying to say something to you. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:51.759 I'm drawing the line in the sand what what is right and what is not right, because the world is is living in gray right now and people are looking for strong leadership. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:03:05.360 Well, let me tell you, from the truth of God's word, we can't allow rhetoric like that, we cannot allow actions like that, we cannot allow um men and women who wear the uniform to be abused on the streets. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:06.960 We just can't allow that. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.039 Can I hear a good amen? 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.000 Period. 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:13.919 Period. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.120 And then turn around and say, well, this is more moral. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.280 No, the Bible says no. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.199 You could look in Romans, it describes all of that. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.439 We just can't allow things like that. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:27.520 You need to know what's right and wrong. 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.879 You need to know what the wisdom of God is in our time. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.919 So, with that being said, I'm here to honor the word. 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.520 You're here to hear from the word of God. 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.800 So let's bow our heads, close our eyes, men. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.039 May I ask you to remove your hat in honor of God's presence. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.520 Bow our heads and humanity. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:30.879 We just can't allow this. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:43.839 So Lord, I'm asking that the breath of God, the living God, will come upon your people to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.439 I love you, we love you. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:49.680 So give me the word. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.800 Give us the courage to live in these days, oh God. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.959 We don't depend on man, we depend on you. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.079 Because we want to do right by you. 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.759 In the strong name of Jesus we pray. 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:13.120 Amen. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:14.639 You may be seated. 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.360 It's a holy atmosphere. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:18.399 Hold the applause. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.319 It's a holy atmosphere right now. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.199 You need to hear, feel in our midst how God moves. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.480 Because he won't allow you to get away with poor behavior. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.000 He won't allow it. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:38.079 I honor God's word. 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.639 And I want you to honor God's word too. 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:45.439 You know what goes on in my mind, and then I'll get into the message, I promise. 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:53.279 What goes on in my mind is like, Lord, when you come back, I just want to make sure fellowship church is ready to meet you. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.839 That's what goes on in my mind. 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:14.319 And so I'm gonna deliver the word, and I want you to absorb the holiness, the purity, the the awesomeness of the Lord, the living God who rules the world, who created the universe, who created the stars, who created you. 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.920 And he has a very real timeline. 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:21.759 And he wants you to know him. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:26.800 And he's trying all that he can to reach you before the time is up. 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.000 And so um, let's begin. 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:35.199 For all of those of you online, let's go ahead and grab our Bibles, lift your Bibles if you have it with you. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:36.480 We're gonna dive into it. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:53.519 I'm gonna teach you how to go into the scriptures and um investigate, have it speak to you, let it, you know, kind of like mess with your head and and begins to conform you into the image of God. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:08:01.360 And so today, remember last week I I spoke about Enoch and it led into Methuselah, and now we're diving into the times of Noah. 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:07.920 Let me tell you a lot what's going to happen, what's happening right now in our time frame, it's a lot like Noah's days. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:20.000 And then I want you to see what I see when I read the scriptures, and you're gonna take a whole lot, and then afterwards you can enjoy the parties and and the game and all of that. 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:21.439 I promise, okay? 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:22.560 Have a good time. 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:28.399 Yes, I'm all about a good time, but I want you to honor the word of God in your life, all right? 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:37.600 Okay, we're gonna enter the pre-diluvian period or the antediluvian period, and we're gonna talk about the Nephilim, wickedness, and God's broken heart. 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.039 Because right now you're you're feeling the world around you. 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.919 It's like what something's weird, something's going on. 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:49.600 Well, I want to help explain this time period because it will explain a lot of what's happening today. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:56.399 And so we're gonna dive into Genesis chapter six, verses one through twelve, and I'll go right through it real fast, all right? 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:57.840 Okay, so let's begin. 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:11.120 It says, now when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them, then the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good, and they took for themselves wives, any they chose. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:20.960 Then Adonai said, My spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh, so their days will be 120 years old. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.960 So now we've seen expansive time frames around people's lives. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.960 They used to live 900, um, uh close to a thousand years. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:34.879 And so the Lord said, You know what, this is a lot going on in this world, I'm gonna shorten their lifespan. 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:35.679 Okay? 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:37.600 So we continue. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.679 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:51.679 Whenever the sons of God came to the daughters of men and gave birth to them, those were the mighty men of old, men of renown, and I'll explain that more. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:10:03.519 Then Adonai said that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all the time. 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:11.840 So Adonai regretted that he made humankind on the earth, and his heart was deeply pained. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:28.320 And so Adonai said, meaning the living God, I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground, from humankind to livestock, crawling things and flying creatures in the sky, because I regret that I made them. 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.720 But Noah found what? 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:39.279 These are the genealogies of Noah, and Noah was a righteous man. 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.159 He was blameless among his generation. 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:54.159 Noah continually walked with God, and Noah fathered three sons, Shem Ham and Japheth, and now the earth was ruined before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:03.039 God saw the earth, and behold, it was ruined because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.720 And so Nephilim wickedness and God's broken heart. 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:22.000 What's universally understood, and I want you to write this down or take a photo of what you're gonna see on the screens, is this it's universally understood that between creation and Noah's flood was a period of immense human lifespans. 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.960 Like I said, they lived up to close to 969 years, close to a thousand. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:38.240 And so there was also spiritual decline, the emergence of giants, meaning the Nephilim, and ending with the great flood that reshaped the world and resets civilizations. 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:44.960 So you see, even the world, it's scarring layers upon layers of earth and earth and matter. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:57.360 You see plankton on mountaintops, you see deep shallows or deep um uh deep land craters in the sea, in the oceans, where even humankind cannot even reach. 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:01.919 And so all of this is evidence of a great flood. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:03.600 And so let's continue. 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:05.360 I want to talk about foundations. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:13.440 And the reason why foundations of what you're going to read is this is not some story, this is not some fable, it's not a poem. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.799 It's actual accounts of human lives. 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.440 And it's actually documented. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.080 There have been archaeologists that have discovered giants in the land. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.639 Jerusalem Post has already posted it. 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:31.519 Um, uh, as far as I believe, um, oh, what's the yellow magazine? 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.279 Um National Geographics. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:36.240 Thank you. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.440 You knew exactly what I was talking about. 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:46.720 They just came back from uh, you know, the the sites, archaeological sites of the ark. 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:47.840 Yes. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.399 So all of this is documented and substantiates what you're reading. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.039 The flood was a real account. 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.120 And so these are the foundations. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:09.679 Ancient Jewish writings and commentaries prior to Christ, the book of Enoch, one Enoch, was found, and it's actually not inspired literature, it's not part of the canon of scripture. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:21.360 It is actual commentary that Jewish people, scribes, scholars, teachers would come along, sign it, and it helps explain the time of the pre-flood period. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:25.759 And it was written between the third and second century BC. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:36.399 The Watchers were part of this canon, or I should say, this commentary of old Jewish writings, along with the giants of that time. 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:44.399 And so now you know a little bit of foundations, now you know a little bit of archaeologics, archaeological findings. 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.440 We're gonna talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls. 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:57.919 This was profound, pivotal in the life of substantiating and authorizing what you're reading, the Word of God. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:02.159 And so I'm going through all of this for a specific reason, okay? 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:10.080 It means that you know, God is not a fairy tale, God is real, and history tells it. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:17.200 So there were scrolls preserved from the Roman invasions by the Essenes, not the Essences, but the Essenes. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.519 They were discovered over a period of 10 years. 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:20.879 I visited this region. 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:22.639 These were 11 caves. 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:36.320 There was a Bedouin young shepherd boy who were who was throwing rocks, and he threw a rock into one cave, heard a pop, and he went to investigate, and he found jars, large jars of the scrolls. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:52.159 And so from 1947 through 1956, 11 caves in Kirbet Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea, about 2,000 years old, preserved writings, scrolls from the third century all the way up to the first year of the year of our Lord. 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:58.080 Scrolls in jars written mostly in Hebrew, then a small number in Aramaic and in Greek. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:08.879 They were found also among them the Book One of Enoch and the Book of Giants, the Book of Jubilees, which were all apocalyptic commentary literature, just so you know. 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:17.039 So one of the um profound uh findings that they discovered was the epic of Gilgamesh. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:23.200 He was a Neohittite sculpture that they engraved about him in 2012. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:41.039 Archaeologists, archaeolog, archaeologists or archaeologists, I'm sorry, found a colossal 1.5 meter or five-foot tall head torso of a human figure in southwestern or southeastern Turkey, which, if whole, would have stood about 10 to 12 feet tall. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.639 So this was an image of a man, in other words. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:52.240 It is believed to represent a king, likely from the first millennium BC, and they found to be true that it was Gilgamesh. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:16:10.639 Along with these discoveries in the Dead Sea Scrolls was the epic of Gilgamesh, this little parchment about the storyline of this great giant who was wicked and evil and corrupted people and was very oppressive during that time. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.799 So it substantiates the part of the literature of the book of Enoch. 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:41.440 And at the British Museum, if we can go forward, at the British Museum in 1872, George Smith, an English Assyriologist, interpreted clay tablets, the cuneiform from Masul Iraq that's recited about the Ark, the Great Flood, and a dove that was released, searched for more clay tablets and found the epic of Gilgamesh, the giant king, during the days of Noah. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:56.559 And so there was also in recently in the Jerusalem Post, they discovered and also posted pictures and photographs of the findings of the reference of the biblical king of in the Old Testament, which was King Og. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.519 He was 18 feet tall. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.960 So these are actual real people. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:09.759 These are actual, you know, evidence of what your um Old Testament speaks about. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:20.559 And so the Ark, and I'll go into that because I love science, I love stats, I love data, and I love all of these findings because I love that the world finally says God is real. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:44.000 This is the Ark, and since 1959, new discoveries with GPR and ERT scanning, the testing from the probable ruins on the landscape of Mount Ararat Mountain Range, concerning this man-made structure with precise biblical dimensions, with decks and rooms that point to the evidence of the ark. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.839 And so the evidence of the ark, and there's more discoveries. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:18:02.000 You know, scholars are going out there, they're testing, they're they're using the scan sonar that goes deep into the ground and begins to highlight what's beneath them and the actual evidence of an ark and also a city that was named after Noah. 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:17.200 And so one of the profound things when it comes to the book of Enoch and substantiating is a necessity to help interpret what we're reading and seeing and how the church fathers would see the book of Enoch. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:32.640 We could see through the voice of the early church father and theologian and apologist, Tertullian, who was a Berber descent in northern Africa, who was one of the church fathers who came to faith in the Lord Jesus. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:50.000 He said, in fact, they call upon Satan, meaning as he was reading the book of Enoch and sections of it, that the demon chief, in their execrations, as though from some instinctive soul knowledge of him, Plato also admits the existence of angels. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:58.079 The dealers in magic no less come forward as witnesses to the existence of both kinds of spirits, meaning demon spirits. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:14.240 We are instructed, moreover, by our sacred books, how from certain angels who fell from their own free will, there sprang a more wicked demon brood, condemned of God, along with the authors of their race, and that chief we have reference to, meaning Satan. 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:26.880 It will for the present be enough, however, that some account is given of their work, their great business, and I want you to focus on this last summation that he said, the ruin of mankind. 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:48.799 So all of this is the foundation of what I'm trying to lay out, which is this the pre-flood period had giants, and they used apocryphal writings to help develop a mindset, kind of like this overall view of what that period could have been like. 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:58.319 And so just remember all the previous times that I've spoken to you, preached to you, that scripture always interprets Scripture. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:06.880 It helps lay out and actually amplify, expound other parts of the storyline of the great gospel. 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:16.960 So let's look into what the Apostle Peter said using the writings of one Enoch to explain to the early believers of the days of Noah. 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.640 Let's look to 2 Peter 2, verses 4 through 5. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:27.039 We're going forward in the New Testament to help explain what's happening in the old. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:34.799 For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into shoal, meaning hell and darkness. 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:39.759 He put them in chains of gloomy darkness to be held until the judgment. 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:42.240 He did not spare the ancient world. 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:52.160 He preserved only Noah, a proclaimer, a preacher of righteousness, along with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:59.839 And so this was the account of the disciple, the apostle Peter, as he described the times of Noah. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:11.519 And so we're going to dive into now in succession some of the things, the findings that we see in this period during the time before the flood came. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:17.759 So what were the breaches of spiritual boundaries that occurred that God had to judge? 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:21.359 Number one, it's the violation of humanity. 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:27.759 God cannot allow when violations upon humanity and they go uncorrected. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:36.640 Genesis chapter 6, verses 1 through 2, it says, Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them, to them. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:42.559 The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:59.759 In some translations, it actually says that the angels or the son of sons of God were Nephilim, were strange angelic creatures that stepped out of their spiritual realm, out of their place of authority, against. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.200 God and began to rape women. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:16.960 And so these angelic beings left their place in willful disobedience, lusted out after human beings, and did perverse things, taught perverse things before the God of heaven. 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:23.680 It produced a hybrid of people, people groups, animals, and given to violence. 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.680 That's where we get the word Hamas. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:33.440 This was a violation of spiritual order and breaches of spiritual boundaries. 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.240 Jude chapter 1, verses 6 through 7, it explains this even more. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.720 And angels who did not keep their what? 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:45.359 Their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:50.720 He has kept them in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:58.240 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as they as these indulged in what? 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:08.720 Gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.079 So they violated spiritual order. 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.799 They violated humankind. 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:20.240 They violated to the degree that they polluted human races. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.319 And so, as we continue, number two, I want you to write this down, which is very instinctive. 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.160 I want you to understand what this time period was like. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:36.319 Number two, God's presence can no longer remain in corrupt humanity. 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:56.640 It had gone to a level of extreme violence, gone to a level of extreme contamination, pollution, to the degree that it was so immoral, so violent that the Lord could no longer have his presence and walk with mankind forever. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.799 Genesis chapter 3, chapter 6, verse 3, it says this. 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:07.759 Then the Lord said, My spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:13.359 In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years. 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:18.240 So it was ten generations after Adam, the first peoples. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:28.880 Noah built this ark and preached for 100 years to humanity, giving them warning, giving them caution to turn away. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:30.720 And yet they did not. 00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:42.240 And all the while they just kept leveling up their grossness, their um their pollution, their corruption of their own conscience, of their own beings. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:49.200 And so God was long-suffering and patient, giving ample warning to the first humans of that kind, of that time. 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:56.240 God decreased their lifespan even more to decrease their level of grossness and sin. 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.400 Jude chapter 1, verses 14 through 15, it says this. 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:06.559 Enoch, who lived in the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about these people, the wicked. 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:15.440 He said, Listen, the Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on the people of the world. 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:24.720 He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against whom? 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:25.680 Against him. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:32.880 And so you have to understand that God, the God of the universe, is a holy God. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.279 He's a righteous God. 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:46.480 And in his hands is not only love and care and a father figure, but also with him carries holiness and justice and judgment. 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.359 You can be two at the same time. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.920 You can be God and also judge. 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.119 You can be holy and righteous and loving. 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:59.200 But he loves those who he disciplines as well. 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:01.599 Number three, I want you to write this down. 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:09.279 This was one of the things that they um crossed boundaries on, which is this hybridization. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:20.480 The sons of God, meaning the angelic figures, contaminated human beings by inner breeding with them. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.559 Genesis chapter 6, verses 4 through 6. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:37.359 It says, the Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward, whenever the sons of God came to the daughters of men and gave birth to them, those were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:39.119 So I want to pause here. 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:51.039 This statement right here, it's actual uh uh scientific fact, it's actually substantiated in archaeological finds of these great giants. 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:59.039 And they were not only ferocious warriors, but they were extremely violent, extremely perverse. 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:12.000 And so, as we continue from this, then Adonai saw that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all the time. 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:18.799 And so Adonai regretted that he made humankind on the earth and his heart was deeply pained. 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:29.680 From the garden, from the curse, the seed of the woman would flourish, but also the seed of the enemy now began to flourish and contaminate humankind. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.720 And so, Nephal, I want you to write this down. 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:38.720 Nepal, where we get the word Nephilim, Nephilim, Nefal means fallen one. 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.880 Those who fall or causes those to fall. 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:52.480 And so the best human descriptive and example is the pantheon of gods in the Greek and Greek and Roman culture. 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.559 You saw god-like figures and demigods. 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:01.759 It's their human way of explaining these angelic figures. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:07.279 They were great in our eyes, but they also intermingled with human beings. 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:15.440 And so the mythology, gods and demigods, it best describes how they function, how they perversely mated with humans and creation. 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:31.039 It caused the degeneration and contamination of human beings, given to great violence, wickedness was in all of creation, human beings, creation and animals, and it began to increase ten generations. 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:37.279 And the only one that was righteous before the eyes of God was one man, and that was Noah. 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.119 So out of all of humankind, all of them were perverse. 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.119 Yet one man, God chose to walk with him. 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:59.920 So giants, wicked warriors, violence in humans through humans and animals, and number four, we land on this that God Adonai deals with their sinfulness and wickedness. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.279 Genesis chapter 6, verses 6 through 7. 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:11.359 It says this, and so Adonai regretted that he made humankind on the earth, and his heart was deeply pained. 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:25.920 So Adonai said, I will wipe out humankind, whom I've created from the face of the ground, from humankind to livestock to crawling things and the flying creatures of the sky, because I regret that I made them. 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:29.680 And so there was this pain in his heart. 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:31.920 What he saw was not good. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:39.759 What he created, he was disappointed because how how fall they how great they have fallen. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:49.599 Great disappointment and grieving for their actions, how they were contaminated by angelic beings who disobeyed God's spiritual order. 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.599 Humanity had no conscience toward the creator of heaven. 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:09.519 They enjoyed their parties, their revelries, their orgies, they reveled in their sinfulness, unrestrained evil actions on the planet in the known world. 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:14.559 And number five, so I'm landing on this last point, and which is this. 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.079 Thank God for Noah. 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:32.000 Genesis chapter 6, verses 8 through 9, and 11 through 12. 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:39.759 I want you to see what God sees, what pleases him and what doesn't please him. 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:46.000 I want you to see what he deems righteous and holy and what he deems not holy. 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:51.519 It says, But Noah found favor in Adonai's eyes. 00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:54.480 These are the genealogies of Noah. 00:30:54.720 --> 00:31:00.240 Noah was a righteous man, he was blameless among his generation. 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:12.559 So out of all the generations, even that last generation before they entered the ark, he was the only one who was righteous among his generation. 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.759 Noah continually walked with God. 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:21.920 Now the earth was ruined before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.240 God saw the earth, and behold, it was ruined because what? 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:34.559 Not just the human flesh, all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:49.759 That means that all the fossils that you see is evidence of what God destroyed, from the animals to giants to the people who lost their way. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:32:11.759 And only one man, one man was able to find his way to God through the corruption, through the lavish lifestyles, the oppressiveness of that time, through the wrong thinking, all of that. 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:17.039 One man was able to find his way in a dark world. 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:26.720 And this is what I want to land on here with you because I want you to see that sin requires judgment. 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:33.680 But at the same time, that your God, the God that you worship, is extremely long-suffering. 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:39.200 Second Peter chapter 3, verses 8 through 11. 00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:44.880 It says this, but you must not forget this one thing, dear friends. 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:51.599 A day is like a thousand years to the to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:56.240 The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:01.759 No, he is being extremely patient for your sake. 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.559 He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to what? 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:07.920 Repent. 00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:15.519 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:28.720 Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in the fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment. 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:38.000 And since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live. 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:48.480 And so, friends, this is the picture of when humans like ourselves can walk away from God. 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:55.279 That we are capable of such deep, deep loss. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:13.760 That we can be obstinate, rebellious against the living God, that we could be unrepentant, and yet out of the kindness of God, he sent one man, and his name is Jesus. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:25.519 So it's not like he didn't provide a life saver for us out in the world, in the pools and the seas and the oceans of humankind. 00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:36.239 He sent a son, and if you catch on to him and give your life to him, the word of God says you will be saved. 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:52.400 He sent his son for us to choose by our own choice, free will, remember, to worship him, to repent to him daily, to turn around our lives from where we are going to come to our senses. 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.480 For me, I came to my senses at the age of 23. 00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:59.920 That was 30 years ago. 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:04.000 I never regretted that decision. 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:18.719 Because Jesus will always be the revelation of the Father's patience, of the Father's love, of the Father's long-suffering dwelling with humankind. 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:32.960 That we can go as far away and we could drift as far away as we want, and yet he is still there holding the doors open before the door shut on us forever. 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.800 I want you to understand the love of God. 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:50.559 That's how much he loves us, and he loved humankind, and he was disappointed in them that he allowed Noah to build an ark for over a hundred years. 00:35:51.679 --> 00:36:01.760 And while he was building a boat, he was declaring to a generation turn around, turn around, turn around. 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:11.440 And so my role in your life today is to tell you to turn around. 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:14.639 Because that day is coming soon. 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:15.760 I don't know when.