21 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 2 - Noah: The Ark of Security

http://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 3* PART 1 * BOOK 2 Noah: The Ark of Security Genesis 6:1 – 7:10 If you will, turn with me to Genesis chapter 6. Notice that we came to the man called Seth. If you want to go back for a moment of review, Genesis chapter 5 verse 5. Genesis 5:5 Then we come to verse 6 and we pick up the genealogy of this man Seth, the replacement for Abel, or the beginning of what we would call the "spiritual" line. Cain, the unbeliever, followed by Abel the spiritual man. Abel was then replaced by Seth. First the natural posterity of Cain. Remember, I pointed out that when Cain pushed God out of his life the very power of Satan enters in. If we push God out, Satan is going to come in. Satan is the master counterfeiter. With technology, I use the word, explodes! Adam and Eve were both perfect. They had tremendous intelligence. Always remember that. Adam was created perfect. I’ve had that question come up so many times over the years, especially from college age young people. Well, what about the cave man. Well, he is not man on his way in his ascendancy. We know that Adam and Eve started as perfect human beings. So in that process of degeneration, sure we have had cave people. It is very easy to comprehend that by the time we get to Genesis chapter 6, by the time of the flood, probably about 1,600 years after Adam’s creation, it is very easy to believe that there were probably four billion people on the earth. The civilization of Cain went out from the presence of God, precipitated a society and economy that was tremendous but was without God. Genesis 6:1 So men were beginning to multiply.) Then verse 2. So as this godly line of Seth comes down through the centuries of years building up to the flood. Genesis 6:2 "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took wives of all which they chose." That offspring became the giants of verse 4. Up until about 1900 the Christian community was pretty well separated from the world. Christian people had their testimony and the world knew it. Because in my line of thinking that is just another amalgamation of the church and the world. The world coming into the church. So, I think what we can see here then in verse 2, is that the Godly people in that line of Seth finally came to the place where they lost that separated character and they began to intermarry with the line of Cain. Size, energy. And, I think that all that we can see here is, that after hundreds of years, the line of Seth began to intermarry with the line of Cain. We would call them giants. I think that probably the average size of men at the time of Adam was about 5’7" or 5’8". Genesis 6:3 "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: (in other words, God hasn’t lost sight of the fact that man is still man. We are right on the threshold of another tremendous judgment of God, which the Bible calls the Tribulation. But, oh, look what God is doing to get people’s attention. So anyway, before judgment would fall, God is going to warn that generation of people for 120 years while Noah is building the Ark, of a coming judgment. Genesis 6:4 "There were giants in the earth (as a result of this intermarriage) in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." We have tremendous technology. Murder is on the increase. Everything is increasing in spite of our tremendous level of standard of living. Verse 5: Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every (what?) This society of people couldn’t think good thoughts. Now, how did that affect God? Well, verse 6. You mean God had to "repent". Genesis 6:6 God didn’t repent of the fact that He made man but, when God saw what man was doing, He had an act of sorrow. Adam lived within just a few hundred years of the demise of that human race. How do you suppose the man must have felt? Well lets go on down to verse 7. Genesis 6:7 Aren’t you amazed that God puts up with it? How could God help but say I’ve had enough. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible