Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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Our Heavenly Father, we thank
You so much for the opportunity
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of gathering together to
study the marvelous things
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that you have for
us in Your Holy Word.
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We ask that as we study
about the flood, the worldwide
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cataclysm which once destroyed
the world, and how it represents
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what will happen in the
end time, we ask for the
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guidance of Your Holy Spirit.
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Teach us the lessons
that we need to learn.
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And we thank You for hearing
our prayer, for we ask it in
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Jesus' name, Amen.
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We want to begin our study today
at Genesis 3:15, Genesis 3:15,
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which is the verse
that has kind of guided us
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in our study together.
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It says there in
Genesis 3:15, God is speaking
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to the serpent, to the devil.
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As we've studied, God was
telling Satan that He was going
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to send a Seed to this
world, born of a woman,
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to do battle with the devil.
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In the process of the battle,
the devil was going to be able
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to bruise the heel of
the Seed of the woman,
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but the Seed of the
woman was going to crush
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his head in the process.
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We've noticed that when the
serpent, when the devil heard
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these words, he made up
his mind that he was not going
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to allow that Seed to come.
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And so the first method that
the devil uses to try and keep
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the Seed from coming, is
to attempt to kill the Seed.
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And we find this method
of the devil illustrated
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in the story of Cain and Abel.
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In that story we have all
four elements of Genesis 3:15.
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We have enmity, we have
a woman, we have a serpent,
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and we have two seeds.
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And, of course, the
story as it develops,
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we find Cain killing Abel.
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And, of course, the devil is
is very happy because he feels
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that God's plan
has been frustrated.
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Now no Seed can
come from this lineage.
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But God knew better.
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And so we find in Genesis
4:25 that God gave Adam and Eve
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another seed. Well,
actually, lets read that verse,
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Genesis 4:25. It says:
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And then she explains why he
was called Seth. It says there:
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And so through Seth
the lineage continues.
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And soon the devil thinks in
his mind, If I attempt to kill
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all the seeds, and God brings
another seed in place of the one
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that I killed, I'm
never going to be successful.
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There has to be a better
method of doing away with the
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possibility of this
promise of God being fulfilled.
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And so the devil goes
to his second plan: Plan B.
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And, by the way, the
devil in the course of time,
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after Cain killed Abel, and in
the succeeding years he noticed
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that these preliminary
seeds were not really the
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Seed that was promised.
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He soon was able to determine
that what God was doing
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was preparing a lineage, or
a genealogy from which The Seed
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would eventually come.
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And so the devil says, If I
cannot kill all of the seeds,
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I'm going to use
a different plan.
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What I'm going to do is
try and corrupt the lineage,
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corrupt the genealogy.
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And if I can corrupt the
holy line, and I can lead them
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to sin, and to forsake
God, there'll be no holy line
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through which to bring
the Messiah into the world.
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And this is where we come
to the story that we would like
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to study in our lecture today.
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The story of the worldwide
cataclysm in the days of Noah.
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Actually, this story in Genesis
is a type or an illustration
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of events that will
take place at the very
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end of human history.
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Lets turn in our
Bibles to Matthew 24:37-39,
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Matthew 24:37-39. Jesus
understood this story of Genesis
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to be a typological story.
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That means a story which
has a prophetic dimension.
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It says there in Matthew
24:37, Jesus is speaking:
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See the comparison there?
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The days of Noah will be very
similar to the days when Jesus
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returns. Verse 38:
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So Jesus understood the
story of Genesis 6, 7, and 8
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as a type, or an illustration
of events which will happen
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in connection
with His second coming.
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And so we are to look
at the story in Genesis,
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and find the sequence of
events, and the lessons which
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illustrate what will
take place in the future.
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Go with me to Genesis 6:1-4,
Genesis 6:1-4. It says here:
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And the Lord said, My
Spirit shall not strive with man
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forever, for he is indeed flesh.
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Yet his days shall be 120 years.
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There were giants on
the earth in those days,
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and also afterward when
the sons of God came in to the
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daughters of men, and
they bore children to them.
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Those were the mighty men
who were of old; men of renown.
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Now there are several
things that we need to look at
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in this passage. The
first thing, and the foremost,
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is the identity of the sons
of God and the daughters of men.
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Who are the sons of God, and
who are the daughters of men?
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Well, many scholars today,
particularly liberal scholars
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who do not believe in
the inspiration of scripture,
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believe that the sons of God
were angels, and the daughters
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of men were human women,
and that the angels came,
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and had sexual
relations with the human women,
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and as a result you have
what is called the giants
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in Genesis chapter 6.
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I want to tell you that I do not
believe that these giants were
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actually the result of
the cross breeding of angels
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with human beings.
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And you say, How
do you know that?
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Well, first of all, as we
read in Genesis chapter 6,
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it tells us that there
were giants, not only after the
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sons of God entered into the
daughters of men, but it says
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that there were
giants before they went in.
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And so the giants were not
the product of cross breeding
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between the sons of God and
the daughters of men, because
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there were giants
before the sons of God entered
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into the daughters of men.
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Now who are these
sons of God, and who are
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the daughters of men?
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I must tell you that
the Protestant reformers,
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Martin Luther, John Calvin,
etc. all believed that the
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sons of God were those who
belonged to the holy line of
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Seth, whereas the daughters
of men represented the wicked
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women who were found
in the genealogy of Cain.
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In other words, the sons
of God were the righteous,
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and the daughters
of men were the wicked.
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You say, was there any
Biblical basis for this view?
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Absolutely! If you look
at Genesis 4 you have the
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genealogy of Cain.
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And there are three women
mentioned in the genealogy
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of Cain. In Genesis chapter 5
you have the genealogy of Seth.
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And then in Genesis
6:1-4 you have the sons of God
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and the daughters of men.
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So the immediate context
of Genesis 6:1-4 is Genesis 4,
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the genealogy of Cain, Genesis
5, the genealogy of Seth,
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and then you have the sons
of God and the daughters of men.
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Clearly, according to
the context, the sons of God
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are the descendents of
Seth, and the daughters of men
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are the descendents of Cain.
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That's the immediate context.
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The broader context
is the book of Genesis.
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And in the book of
Genesis, as we've seen,
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there is a controversy between
two seeds: between the seed of
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the serpent, and
the seed of the woman.
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The seed of the serpent, by the
way, are human beings who have
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the spirit of Satan.
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Then we have here the sons
of God and the daughters of men.
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We have Cain and Abel.
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See the two seeds?
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We have the builders of the
tower of Babel, and Abraham.
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We have Isaac and Ishmael.
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We have Jacob and Esau.
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We have Joseph and his brothers.
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The broader context of the
book of Genesis indicates that
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the two groups that are
at war are human groups.
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It's not an angelic
group and a human group.
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And then, of course, you
have the broadest context
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of scripture, and that is we
need to determine from the Bible
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itself what is meant by
the expression, sons of God?
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The sons of God, in other places
in scripture, represent those
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individuals who have been
converted in their hearts.
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For example, 1 John 3:1
says, Behold what manner of love
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the Father has given us
that we should be called
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the sons of God. The
sons of God are those who
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have been converted.
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They are the ones
from the holy line;
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from the genealogy of Seth.
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So we find that the immediate
context, the broader context,
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and the broadest context
of scripture, as well as the
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great theologians
throughout Christian history,
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have understood the sons
of God to be the righteous,
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and the daughters of
men to be the wicked.
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Now I'd like to just pause for
a moment and ask this question:
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How many people do you
think lived in this world
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the day before the flood?
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A thousand, five
thousand, fifty thousand,
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a hundred thousand, a million?
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I can assure you that on this
earth, the day before the flood,
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there were millions and
millions of inhabitants.
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The Bible says that the whole
earth was filled with violence.
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You say, Why is this important?
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I'm going to
explain the reason why.
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There were 1,656 years
which transpired between
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creation and the flood.
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1,656 years in a world where
there was hardly any disease;
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in a world where there was no
scarcity of natural resources;
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in a world where men lived to
be almost a thousand years old.
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How many children can
a 969 year old man have?
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I mean when he's 500
he's just middle aged,
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so you could imagine!
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God said, Be
fruitful and multiply.
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There's no doubt
that the earth was filled
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with millions of people.
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And yet I want you to
notice the terrifying thought
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that out of all those millions,
and millions of people,
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when the flood came
there were only eight
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that remained faithful to God.
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Let me ask you, what was the
devil's agenda in this story?
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We have to look at
what his agenda is.
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His agenda is
related to Genesis 3:15.
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It says the Seed
is going to come.
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He's going to crush my head.
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I cannot allow the Seed to come.
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So what does he do?
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He intermingles the righteous
with the wicked in the hopes
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that the wicked will
swallow up the righteous,
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and there will be no holy
line through which to bring
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the promised
Messiah into the world.
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In other words, the devil's
strategy was Seed centered.
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He said, If I cannot kill
all of the seeds, I will corrupt
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the holy line, and in
that way the Messiah will not
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be able to come to the world.
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And, folks, the devil's
plan almost met with success,
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because there were only
eight righteous people left.
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In fact the Bible says
that there was one man found
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righteous, and his
family tagged along.
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The Bible doesn't say that, but
the Bible says that only Noah
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was found righteous,
and perfect before the Lord.
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And so the devil's strategy was
to get believers to intermingle
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with unbelievers so that
they could lose their identity,
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and the holy
line would disappear.
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Now let's examine the
events that transpired
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before the flood.
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There's a lot more that we
could say about the sons of God,
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and the daughters of men.
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Later on in the follow up
series that we're going to have,
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we have a whole
topic which is titled,
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The Base Crime of Amalgamation,
where we're going to deal with
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the sons of God,
and the daughters of men
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more specifically.
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But let's examine the
events that led up to the flood.
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Notice Genesis 6:5, Genesis 6:5.
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Here we find a description of
the condition of the inhabitants
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of the pre-flood world.
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By the way, this is immediately
after it says that the sons of
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God intermingled
with the daughters of men.
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This is the result that
we're going to read now.
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It says there in verse 5:
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Isn't that quite a description
of the moral condition
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of the world? Once again,
it says, The Lord saw that the
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wickedness of man was great
on the earth, and that every
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intent of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
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Notice the superlatives
that we find in this verse.
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It was a very,
very wicked world.
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And as a result of this
wickedness, of the intentions of
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the heart, we find in Genesis
6: 11, 12 the result. It says:
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So God looked upon the earth
and indeed, it was corrupt,
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for all flesh had corrupted
their way on the earth.
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What a tremendous description
of the moral condition
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of the pre-flood world.
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So God says, I'm sorry
that I created this world.
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It pained God in His heart.
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And so God says, I'm going
to have to destroy the world.
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But before God sends
destruction, He always sends
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a message of warning.
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God never destroys a
civilization, or a city,
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or an individual without first
of all giving them an abundance
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of light to choose
the Lord's side first.
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And, of course, God sent
a messenger with a message
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for that pre-flood world.
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His name was Noah.
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Notice 2 Peter 2:5 about this
message that Noah presented.
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We kind of catch a
glimpse of what Noah was like.
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And now notice:
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Do you know that in Genesis it
doesn't say that Noah preached.
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It says that Noah built.
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But when we go to 2 Peter
it says that Noah preached.
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What did he preach?
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He preached righteousness.
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He called people to be
righteous, to obey the law
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of God, to be holy,
to change their ways.
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Notice also
Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:7
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gives us an additional
description of Noah. It says:
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Folks, Noah did not present
a politically correct message.
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It was not a smooth message.
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It was not a message
that everything is fine,
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and everything is okay.
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His message was a message
calling people to repentance,
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to change their ways, and,
by the way, it was a message
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of love, because God did
not want to destroy anyone.
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And so He's warning the world.
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He's saying, Please
have a change of heart,
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and a change of behavior,
so I don't have to destroy you.
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This message is strong, but
it's a message of God's love.
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Now the interesting thing is
that this evangelist didn't seem
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to have very much success.
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Imagine, we live in a
world today where people think
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that God is with the large
churches, with the majority,
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with where the great crowds are.
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Listen folks, in
scripture the majority has
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never been with God.
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It is the
minority that is with God.
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In fact, we notice that Noah's
preaching only moved the hearts
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of his own family.
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Imagine preaching for 120 years
and showing as a result only
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eight souls, and all of them
are from your own household.
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I'll bet you that if He had
been a pastor of a church today,
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He would have been fired because
he had no success in his work.
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But God does not go by numbers,
God just asks us to preach
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the message, to plant the
seed, and then people decide
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on the basis of what they hear.
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Now I want you to imagine
how difficult it was for Noah
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to preach this message.
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Do you know that before
the flood it had never rained?
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I'm just going to mention this.
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I'm not going to read the
verses, because we don't have
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the time, and by the way, in
the copy of the lecture you have
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much more information
than what I'm able to give here
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in the time period that we
have, because we're doing this,
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of course, for television.
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But I want you to notice
several details about the world
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before the flood, as it
concerns the way in which
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the world was watered.
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In Genesis 2:5, 6, we are
told that the world was actually
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watered by a mist that
came up from the earth.
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In other words, God incorporated
in the earth a sort of automatic
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sprinkler system, and
the sprinkler heads came up,
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and they watered the earth
at certain times during the day.
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In other words, the
water did not come from above.
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The water that watered
the earth came from below.
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Now where did God
get the water to do this?
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Well, in Genesis 1:2 we're
told that the world was covered
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with water before creation.
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So what God did the second day
of creation was take part of the
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water and place
it under the earth.
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That's the fountains of waters.
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And He took another portion of
the water and He put it above on
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the other side of what Genesis
calls the windows of heaven,
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which at this time,
by the way, were closed.
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But at the flood the
windows of heaven were opened.
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And so God did not invent water
for the flood, He simply took
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the water that was on the
planet, and He put part of
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the water above, and He
put part of the water below.
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So when the flood came God
did not have to create water.
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All He did was bring the
water that He had placed above
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through the windows of
heaven, and He brought the water
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that He had placed below
up again, which is called the
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fountains of the
great deep in Genesis 7:11.
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Can you imagine Noah
preaching to a civilization,
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building a boat on dry
land, and saying that water was
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going to fall from
heaven when it had never rained?
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I mean he must have
been considered a lunatic.
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I don't know how they didn't
put him in a mental institution,
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because it had never rained.
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Imagine Noah preaching, there's
going to be water coming from
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heaven and from deep under the
earth, and it's going to fill
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the earth with water, and that's
why I'm building this boat.
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It was absurd, scientifically,
and historically ridiculous,
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philosophically impossible.
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And so the people
before the flood said.
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But Noah trusted God's word.
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Now allow me to tell
you something about faith.
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There's a lot of talk about
faith in the Christian world
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today, and there's a
lot of definitions of faith.
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Listen, we don't have to
complicate what faith is.
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Faith is very simple.
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It means acting upon God's Word.
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God speaks, and we do
what God tells us to do.
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God said to Noah, Noah I
want you to build a boat.
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He didn't say, What for?
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He said, Okay,
I'll do it right now.
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He trusted God, even
though it had never rained.
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He said, I believe that
what God is saying is true,
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because I believe His Word.
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It's time to build a boat.
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And if you look at all of
the other heroes in Hebrews 11,
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you'll find that all of
them are acting, all of them are
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doing something
based on what God has said.
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God tells Moses, Get out of
Egypt with Israel. He gets out.
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God says to Abraham, Get out of
thy country, and go to Canaan.
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Abraham says, Lets
pack, and lets get going.
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God says to Sarah and to
Abraham, You're going to have a
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child in your old age.
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And so Abraham says, It's
time to have sexual relations,
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because we
believe what God says.
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Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
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Noah showed his faith not
only by his words, but he showed
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his faith by his what? by
his actions, and he invested
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everything he had in that ark.
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He invested his time.
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He invested his talents.
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He invested his money.
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He invested all of his strength.
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There were no distractions,
no side issues that he dedicated
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his time and energy to.
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He was unifocused.
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A flood was coming, and
I must use everything I am,
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and everything I have for
the honor and the glory of God.
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He was different
than that civilization.
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By the way, the message of
Noah was accompanied by the
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power of the Holy Spirit.
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Notice Genesis 6:3, Genesis 6:3.
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It says here,
and God is speaking:
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What was the Holy
Spirit doing as Noah was
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proclaiming his message?
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The Holy Spirit
accompanied his message.
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The Holy Spirit was striving
with the hearts of human beings.
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The Holy Spirit was
telling them, Change your ways.
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Change your behavior.
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Receive the Lord,
because God doesn't want
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you to be destroyed.
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And his message was
with the power of the Spirit.
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But then the moment came.
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The 120 years were almost up.
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Noah now stands in
the door of the ark,
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and suddenly something
very strange begins to happen.
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From all parts of the
earth animals start coming
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to the ark in pairs.
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And, by the way, it's
not the Hollywood version.
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In the Hollywood version
you have Noah and his sons,
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you know, lassoing the
animals, and jerking them,
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and pulling them
towards the ark. No!
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In Genesis 7:8, 9, if you'll go
with me there, Genesis 7:8, 9.
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We're told that Noah was
at the ark, and the animals
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came to him at the ark.
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Genesis 7:8, 9. It says here:
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They went in to Noah.
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And let me tell you something,
I believe that God gave us this
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description of the animals
because He wanted to show
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that those who lived
before the flood had descended
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to sub-animal level,
because the animals listened
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to the voice of
God, and they obeyed God.
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And human beings, though God
spoke to them through the power
00:29:23.41\00:29:26.26
of the Holy Spirit,
rejected the voice of God.
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In other words, the
brute beasts had more sense
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than the human beings.
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And then, of course, when all
of the animals were in the ark,
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Noah stands at the door
and makes one final plea.
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Please come in to the ark.
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It's going to rain.
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You're all
going to be destroyed.
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They thought it was a myth.
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They thought it was a fable.
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It was
scientifically impossible.
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And so in Genesis 7:16,
after Noah makes his final plea,
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we find a very significant
event that takes place.
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Genesis 7:16 says:
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Who closed the door of the ark?
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The door of the ark
was closed by the Lord.
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God closed the door of probation
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for the pre-flood race.
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Now, as soon as the door
closed, it started to rain.
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No! Good! Please protest.
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It didn't start to rain as
soon as the door was closed.
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How many days transpired after
the door closed? seven days.
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Have you ever wondered why God
would keep Noah and his family
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in the ark for seven days
after the door closed before
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it started to rain, and
the world was destroyed?
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Let me ask you this.
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Do you think that the faith of
Noah and his family was severely
00:31:19.50\00:31:23.70
tested in that ark? Absolutely!
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One day goes by, two days go
by, three days go by, four days.
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No rain, no rain!
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It must have occurred to
Noah and his family, Wow,
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what if we were wrong?
00:31:38.51\00:31:39.68
Maybe God has forsaken us.
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Their faith was severely tested.
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How do you suppose
the people outside acted
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as each day went by?
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Oh, listen to that!
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Listen to those
crazy people in there.
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You can hear the animals.
00:31:54.07\00:31:56.39
Noah's crazy! Look, one day has
gone by, two days, three days,
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four days, five
days, and there is no rain.
00:32:01.94\00:32:04.69
We're enjoying this out here.
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They're inside
with all those animals.
00:32:06.98\00:32:09.31
And each day they became
more, and more belligerent.
00:32:09.34\00:32:14.39
These seven days of trial
were the triumph for the wicked,
00:32:14.42\00:32:20.28
and they were the trial
of faith for the righteous.
00:32:20.31\00:32:24.58
But early on the last
day, on day number seven,
00:32:24.61\00:32:30.52
suddenly in the sky
began appearing something that
00:32:30.55\00:32:35.44
people had never
seen before: clouds!
00:32:35.47\00:32:41.10
And suddenly they hear noises
that they've never heard before:
00:32:41.13\00:32:45.28
thunder! And suddenly
they see flashes of light
00:32:45.31\00:32:50.30
running across the sky that
they have never seen before:
00:32:50.33\00:32:53.40
lightening! And suddenly they
begin feeling drops of water
00:32:53.43\00:33:00.67
falling upon their heads.
00:33:00.70\00:33:02.65
How do you suppose they felt?
00:33:02.68\00:33:05.66
Their hearts must have sunk
to the bottom of their feet.
00:33:05.69\00:33:10.34
Noah was right! And he's in
the ark, and we are outside!
00:33:10.37\00:33:17.54
And they began banging
on the door of the ark,
00:33:17.57\00:33:20.89
but God had shut the
door, and they could not get in.
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They were lost! Let me ask
you, when were the wicked lost?
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When the door closed,
or when it started to rain?
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When the door closed.
00:33:34.34\00:33:36.57
Did they know that they were
lost when the door closed? No!
00:33:36.60\00:33:41.34
They did not know until
when? until it started to rain.
00:33:41.37\00:33:45.43
I want you to remember
that, because all of this
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we're going to talk
about as being fulfilled
00:33:47.64\00:33:49.95
in the end time as well.
00:33:49.98\00:33:51.10
Now we don't have time to
discuss whether the flood was
00:33:51.13\00:33:55.63
some local flood in
Mesopotamia, or whether it was a
00:33:55.66\00:33:58.59
worldwide
cataclysm, a worldwide flood.
00:33:58.62\00:34:00.85
It's become very common these
days for scholars, so called
00:34:00.88\00:34:06.94
scholars, to say that the
flood that Genesis describes
00:34:06.97\00:34:10.70
was some local flood
over any rock somewhere.
00:34:10.73\00:34:14.28
Now in the resource material
that you're going to get
00:34:14.31\00:34:17.15
at the end of the presentation
today, you're going to have
00:34:17.18\00:34:19.18
the whole list of reasons why
this flood was not some local
00:34:19.21\00:34:22.90
flood. It was a
worldwide cataclysm.
00:34:22.93\00:34:26.99
It was a catastrophe.
00:34:27.02\00:34:29.31
In fact, do you know that in
the New Testament there are two
00:34:29.34\00:34:32.24
Greek words for flood.
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.23
One word is the normal flood.
00:34:34.26\00:34:37.37
It's the word potamos.
00:34:37.40\00:34:38.61
For example, when Jesus gives
the parable about the man who
00:34:38.64\00:34:42.10
built his house upon the
rock, and the floods came,
00:34:42.13\00:34:44.73
and he built his house upon
the sand, and the floods came.
00:34:44.76\00:34:47.49
The word flood there is potamos.
00:34:47.52\00:34:49.77
But there is a special
word that is used for the flood
00:34:49.80\00:34:52.78
in Noah's day. It's not used
for any other kind of flood,
00:34:52.81\00:34:56.97
in the New Testament.
00:34:57.00\00:34:58.03
It is the Greek
word, Kataklysmos.
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What word do we get in
English from Kataclysmos?
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The word kataklysm.
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And, by the way, in 2 Peter
3: 5, 6, the flood in Noah's day
00:35:08.66\00:35:16.65
is called catastrophe.
00:35:16.68\00:35:19.97
This is a worldwide kataklysm.
00:35:20.00\00:35:23.93
It was a catastrophe.
00:35:23.96\00:35:26.35
Now, we need to ask the
question, What happened with
00:35:26.38\00:35:33.52
Satan during the flood?
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Well, the textbook that
we're using for this seminar,
00:35:35.43\00:35:38.57
other than the Bible, is the
book, Patriarchs and Prophets,
00:35:38.60\00:35:41.53
which is a history of
least a large portion of the
00:35:41.56\00:35:45.91
of the Old Testament.
00:35:45.94\00:35:46.97
And I want you to notice on
page 99, what the author says.
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Satan himself, who was compelled
to remain in the midst of the
00:35:51.40\00:36:00.45
warring elements,
feared for his own existence.
00:36:00.48\00:36:05.13
In other words, he was obligated
to stay on planet earth
00:36:05.16\00:36:09.32
during this cataclysm.
00:36:09.35\00:36:11.67
And, by the way, were all of the
wicked wiped out by the flood?
00:36:11.70\00:36:17.91
Absolutely! And when Noah and
his family came out of the ark,
00:36:17.94\00:36:22.16
the whole world was
cleansed of the wicked.
00:36:22.19\00:36:26.15
By the way, the devil
was bound during this period,
00:36:26.18\00:36:29.31
because he had no
wicked people to use.
00:36:29.34\00:36:31.34
He was bound during the
flood, because he was in a world
00:36:31.37\00:36:35.33
that was in a chaotic state, and
all of his followers were what?
00:36:35.36\00:36:39.12
All of his followers were
dead, and he was obligated
00:36:39.15\00:36:42.74
to remain on planet earth
00:36:42.77\00:36:44.98
By the way, when the flood
came how many groups were there?
00:36:45.01\00:36:48.05
How many groups? two!
00:36:48.08\00:36:52.16
Go with me to Genesis
7:22, 23, Genesis 7:22, 23.
00:36:52.19\00:37:00.56
And we're going to come
back to this when we deal with
00:37:00.59\00:37:03.89
the New Testament.
00:37:03.92\00:37:04.95
It says in verse 22: All in
whose nostrils was the breath
00:37:04.98\00:37:10.08
of the spirit of life, all
that was on the dry land died.
00:37:10.11\00:37:16.85
So he destroyed...
00:37:16.88\00:37:19.61
Now notice this.
00:37:19.64\00:37:20.67
He destroyed all living things
which were on the face of the
00:37:20.70\00:37:24.70
ground, both men and
cattle, creeping thing,
00:37:24.73\00:37:30.39
and bird of the air.
00:37:30.42\00:37:31.85
They were
destroyed from the earth.
00:37:31.89\00:37:34.78
Only Noah and
those who were with him
00:37:34.81\00:37:38.94
in the ark remained alive.
00:37:38.97\00:37:42.45
Now most modern
versions say, Only Noah
00:37:42.48\00:37:46.66
and his family were left.
00:37:46.69\00:37:49.42
I want you to
remember that word.
00:37:49.45\00:37:51.14
Only Noah and
his family were left.
00:37:51.17\00:37:54.10
All of the rest were
what? destroyed it says.
00:37:54.13\00:37:58.96
So the wicked were destroyed.
00:37:58.99\00:38:01.01
Noah and his family
were what? were left.
00:38:01.04\00:38:06.05
You say, Why is
that so important?
00:38:06.08\00:38:07.95
Well, we'll see in a moment.
00:38:07.98\00:38:09.51
Now, have you
understood what happened
00:38:09.54\00:38:12.93
at the time of the flood?
00:38:12.96\00:38:14.43
Let me ask you, Are we to
expect the same type of sequence
00:38:14.46\00:38:19.08
of events at the end of time?
00:38:19.11\00:38:20.98
Did Jesus say that, As
it was in the days of Noah,
00:38:21.01\00:38:24.83
so also will be the
coming of the son of man?
00:38:24.86\00:38:27.42
Usually when people study the
flood, they say, Oh, yes, the
00:38:27.45\00:38:31.03
world is going to be
wicked at the end like it was
00:38:31.06\00:38:32.88
in the days of Noah.
00:38:32.91\00:38:33.94
And God is going to destroy the
world because of its wickedness
00:38:33.97\00:38:36.91
like He did in the days of Noah.
00:38:36.94\00:38:38.32
But let me tell you,
the parallel is much greater
00:38:38.35\00:38:41.03
than just the
wickedness being similar,
00:38:41.06\00:38:43.09
and the
destruction being similar.
00:38:43.12\00:38:45.12
There's a whole sequence of
parallel events that took place
00:38:45.15\00:38:49.95
then, which are
going to take place again.
00:38:49.98\00:38:52.67
Go with me to
Matthew 24:37 again.
00:38:52.70\00:38:57.56
We read this passage before.
00:38:57.59\00:38:59.25
Matthew 24:37. Here Jesus
is speaking about the flood
00:38:59.28\00:39:06.60
in the days of
Noah. He says this:
00:39:06.63\00:39:09.44
By the way, this means life
as usual, business as usual.
00:39:27.19\00:39:30.73
And now notice a
very important word.
00:39:30.76\00:39:33.95
The first until marks the
moment when Noah and his family
00:39:38.15\00:39:41.43
entered the ark.
But now notice verse 39.
00:39:41.46\00:39:46.96
There's the second until.
00:39:52.28\00:39:53.48
The word until is used twice:
until Noah and his family what?
00:39:57.42\00:40:03.51
entered the ark, and those
outside did not know until what?
00:40:03.54\00:40:11.18
the flood came and
took them all away.
00:40:11.21\00:40:14.36
How long was there
between the first until
00:40:14.39\00:40:16.75
and the second
until? seven days.
00:40:16.78\00:40:20.05
What did those outside
know until the flood came?
00:40:20.08\00:40:23.63
They did not know that they
were what? that they were lost.
00:40:23.66\00:40:28.03
Do you think it's just possible
that at the end of human history
00:40:28.06\00:40:32.36
the door of mercy is going
to close before the world is
00:40:32.39\00:40:37.66
actually destroyed, and
most human beings are not
00:40:37.69\00:40:41.95
going to realize it until
the destruction actually comes?
00:40:41.98\00:40:47.03
No doubt! Now if you
continue reading here;
00:40:47.06\00:40:50.33
notice Matthew 24, and
lets read verse 39 again,
00:40:50.36\00:40:57.35
and then we'll go
to verse 40, verse 39.
00:40:57.38\00:41:00.00
And did not know until
the flood came and what?
00:41:00.03\00:41:02.99
and took them all away.
00:41:03.02\00:41:05.26
Verse 40: Then two men will be
in the field, one will be taken
00:41:05.29\00:41:12.81
and the other left.
00:41:12.84\00:41:14.75
Who are the taken ones?
00:41:14.78\00:41:16.72
Who are the left ones?
00:41:19.91\00:41:20.94
Let me ask it that way.
00:41:20.97\00:41:22.15
You know, most Christians
say, The ones that are taken
00:41:22.18\00:41:26.88
are taken to heaven in the
rapture, and the ones that are
00:41:26.91\00:41:30.21
left are left behind.
00:41:30.24\00:41:31.96
But in the light of Genesis, we
find that the ones that are left
00:41:31.99\00:41:36.10
are the saved. Are you with me?
00:41:36.13\00:41:39.97
And the ones that are taken
are the ones who are destroyed.
00:41:40.00\00:41:43.69
It says the flood came
and took them all away.
00:41:43.72\00:41:46.74
The wicked are taken away.
00:41:46.77\00:41:48.77
The righteous are left.
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.14
They're left alive.
00:41:51.17\00:41:52.95
In other words, they
survive. Is this clear?
00:41:52.98\00:41:56.96
Now let's notice several
other interesting parallels.
00:41:56.99\00:42:01.95
Is the world, at the
end of time, going to be
00:42:01.98\00:42:06.70
supremely wicked?
00:42:06.73\00:42:07.94
You know, there's
passages I could read.
00:42:07.97\00:42:11.18
We don't have time to
read them, but they're all
00:42:11.21\00:42:12.79
in the resource material.
00:42:12.82\00:42:14.17
One passage which describes
the wickedness of the world
00:42:14.20\00:42:17.04
is 2 Timothy 3:1-5: a
long catalog of sins which will
00:42:17.07\00:42:23.57
exist in the last days.
00:42:23.61\00:42:25.78
The list begins by the
apostle Paul saying that:
00:42:25.81\00:42:29.40
Self love, the root of all sins.
00:42:32.45\00:42:36.40
And the list ends by saying
that people will have a form
00:42:36.43\00:42:43.27
of godliness, without
the power of godliness.
00:42:43.30\00:42:47.74
And in-between you have
all sorts of sins that are
00:42:47.77\00:42:51.30
being committed. And listen
up, those sins are not being
00:42:51.33\00:42:54.23
committed by worldlings,
they are committed by people
00:42:54.26\00:42:57.36
who profess to serve
God, because they have
00:42:57.39\00:43:00.10
the form of godliness.
00:43:00.13\00:43:02.72
What led Christians
into this condition?
00:43:02.75\00:43:05.59
Well, what
happened before the flood?
00:43:05.62\00:43:08.70
The Sons of God
intermingled with what?
00:43:08.73\00:43:13.05
with the daughters of men.
00:43:13.08\00:43:15.11
The righteous with the wicked.
00:43:15.14\00:43:17.23
And let me tell you what, when
the righteous and the wicked
00:43:17.26\00:43:20.32
blend together, the righteous
rarely convert the wicked.
00:43:20.35\00:43:25.26
The wicked generally drag
the righteous along with them.
00:43:25.29\00:43:30.84
And so the world is going
to be filled with wickedness,
00:43:30.87\00:43:35.55
because Christians have
joined and blended themselves
00:43:35.58\00:43:42.11
with the world. That's
why the apostle Paul said,
00:43:42.14\00:43:44.65
Be not unevenly
yoked with unbelievers.
00:43:44.68\00:43:49.34
It doesn't mean that
we're not supposed to preach the
00:43:49.37\00:43:50.76
gospels to unbelievers.
00:43:50.79\00:43:52.09
It means that we're not
supposed to share their sins.
00:43:52.12\00:43:54.35
We're not supposed
to share their habits.
00:43:54.38\00:43:56.59
We're not supposed to
practice their entertainment.
00:43:56.62\00:43:59.47
We're not supposed
to listen to the same
00:43:59.50\00:44:01.32
things they listen to.
00:44:01.35\00:44:02.38
We're not supposed to go to
the same places that they go to.
00:44:02.41\00:44:05.24
We cannot be comfortable
and happy watching violence
00:44:05.27\00:44:08.58
and illicit sexual
relations on television.
00:44:08.61\00:44:11.32
Which, by the way, it
can't be only worldlings
00:44:11.35\00:44:15.54
that are filling movie theaters,
and making Hollywood rich.
00:44:15.57\00:44:19.04
The theaters are filled
with Christians as well.
00:44:19.07\00:44:22.91
Because at the end of time
the world will be in a similar
00:44:22.94\00:44:26.13
condition of wickedness,
because the righteous will have
00:44:26.16\00:44:29.66
joined, to a great
degree, the wicked.
00:44:29.69\00:44:32.93
Is God going to present a
worldwide message of warning
00:44:32.96\00:44:37.96
before destruction comes?
00:44:37.99\00:44:39.55
That warning is found in
Revelation 14, Revelation 14:6.
00:44:39.58\00:44:45.25
Revelation 14:6. We don't
have time to study all of the
00:44:45.28\00:44:49.40
three angels' messages right
now, but we will study them
00:44:49.43\00:44:52.61
in a later
lecture in this series.
00:44:52.64\00:44:54.34
Revelation 14:6. It says:
00:44:54.37\00:44:58.14
Is this a global message?
00:45:10.69\00:45:12.02
It most certainly is.
00:45:12.05\00:45:13.42
What does it call the world to?
00:45:13.45\00:45:15.22
It says here in verse 7, Saying
with a loud voice, fear God.
00:45:15.25\00:45:20.62
That expression is coupled
in the Bible with obeying the
00:45:20.65\00:45:24.29
commandments of God.
00:45:24.32\00:45:25.35
Fear God, and give
glory to Him, for the hour
00:45:25.38\00:45:29.52
of His judgment has come.
00:45:29.55\00:45:31.88
And worship Him who made the
heavens, the earth, the seas,
00:45:31.91\00:45:36.37
and the fountains of waters.
00:45:36.40\00:45:37.91
In other words, the first angel
calls the world, every nation,
00:45:37.94\00:45:41.56
and kindred, tongue, and
people to fear God, to obey God,
00:45:41.59\00:45:45.72
to glorify God, to realize
that He is their Creator,
00:45:45.75\00:45:50.12
and that they are in
the hour of the judgment.
00:45:50.15\00:45:53.48
The same message that Noah gave.
00:45:53.51\00:45:56.21
At the end of Noah's message,
how many groups were there? two.
00:45:56.24\00:46:01.22
How many groups will there
be when the three angels' finish
00:46:01.25\00:46:04.83
proclaiming their message?
00:46:04.86\00:46:06.24
Revelation 14, Revelation 14:14
explains how many groups are
00:46:06.27\00:46:17.18
there at the conclusion of
the three angels' messages.
00:46:17.22\00:46:20.71
It says there in Revelation 14:
00:46:20.75\00:46:23.91
And He is going
to harvest the earth.
00:46:38.25\00:46:41.84
He's going to harvest the
harvest of the earth, which is
00:46:41.87\00:46:44.45
the righteous, and He's going
to harvest the grapes of the
00:46:44.48\00:46:47.33
earth, which are the wicked.
00:46:47.36\00:46:48.95
What does this
end time message do?
00:46:48.98\00:46:51.60
It separates the
world into two groups,
00:46:51.63\00:46:54.40
just like in the days of Noah.
00:46:54.43\00:46:56.00
Let me ask you, Will the end
time message be accompanied by
00:46:56.03\00:47:00.12
the power of the
Holy Spirit? No doubt!
00:47:00.15\00:47:02.89
You say, How do we know that?
00:47:02.92\00:47:04.19
Because what ripened
the grain in Biblical times
00:47:04.22\00:47:08.54
was the latter rain.
00:47:08.57\00:47:09.64
And the latter rain
represents the Holy Spirit.
00:47:09.67\00:47:13.79
The rain
represents the Holy Spirit.
00:47:13.82\00:47:15.83
You notice here in Revelation
14:14 that we're told that the
00:47:15.86\00:47:20.87
harvest of the earth is ripe.
00:47:20.90\00:47:23.10
The grapes of
the earth are ripe.
00:47:23.13\00:47:25.51
The question is,
what ripened them?
00:47:25.54\00:47:27.62
The three angels'
messages, accompanied by what?
00:47:27.65\00:47:31.54
accompanied by the rain, the
latter rain of the Holy Spirit.
00:47:31.57\00:47:36.03
Is the door of probation going
to close for the world before
00:47:36.06\00:47:40.98
Jesus comes? Notice Matthew 25.
00:47:41.01\00:47:44.98
This is the famous
parable of the ten virgins.
00:47:45.01\00:47:48.60
Matthew 25:10, one of the
better known parables of Jesus.
00:47:48.63\00:47:55.16
It says there:
00:47:55.19\00:47:57.58
Was there a shut
door in the days of Noah?
00:48:17.86\00:48:21.00
Who shut it? God.
00:48:21.03\00:48:23.42
Is there going to be a shut
door at the end of time? Yes.
00:48:23.45\00:48:27.61
And, by the way, the shut door
is not when destruction comes,
00:48:27.64\00:48:30.13
because after the door is
shut, the virgins come back,
00:48:30.16\00:48:33.81
and they knock on the door,
and they say, Let us come in.
00:48:33.84\00:48:36.62
They had time to go and try and
buy oil, and come back again.
00:48:36.65\00:48:41.11
The closing of the door of
probation for the world is going
00:48:41.14\00:48:45.25
to come before
destruction actually comes.
00:48:45.28\00:48:48.09
In fact, God is going to
make an awesome pronouncement.
00:48:48.12\00:48:51.39
It's found in Revelation
22:11, Revelation 22:11.
00:48:51.42\00:48:58.06
Notice what God is going to say
when probation's door closes.
00:48:58.09\00:49:02.79
And in the very next verse Jesus
says, Behold I come quickly,
00:49:21.16\00:49:25.48
and My reward is
with Me, to give everyone
00:49:25.51\00:49:28.46
according to his work.
00:49:28.49\00:49:29.78
Do you see that the
door of probation closes
00:49:29.81\00:49:33.36
before Jesus actually comes?
00:49:33.39\00:49:35.64
The filthy will remain filthy.
00:49:35.67\00:49:38.08
The unrighteous
will remain unrighteous.
00:49:38.11\00:49:42.31
The holy will remain holy.
00:49:42.34\00:49:44.59
The righteous
will remain righteous.
00:49:44.62\00:49:46.93
In other words, there
will be only two groups
00:49:46.96\00:49:49.15
when the door of
probation closes.
00:49:49.18\00:49:51.87
And when destruction comes,
God's people will be spared,
00:49:51.90\00:49:55.87
and the wicked
will be destroyed.
00:49:55.90\00:49:58.62
Is there going to be a period
of tribulation for God's people
00:49:58.65\00:50:02.48
after the door closes?
00:50:02.51\00:50:03.72
Notice Matthew 24:31,
32, Matthew 24:31, 32.
00:50:03.75\00:50:12.21
By the way, here Jesus is giving
the signs of His second coming.
00:50:12.24\00:50:15.76
And so we can connect
it with the story of Noah,
00:50:15.79\00:50:18.16
Because as it was in the days
of Noah, so also shall it be
00:50:18.19\00:50:22.35
at the coming of the son of man.
00:50:22.38\00:50:24.48
Notice Matthew 24:15:
00:50:24.51\00:50:29.06
Now notice this: For then
there will be great tribulation
00:51:04.56\00:51:09.13
such as has not been since
the beginning of the world,
00:51:09.16\00:51:13.24
until this time,
no nor ever shall be.
00:51:13.27\00:51:17.33
And unless those days were
shortened, no flesh would be
00:51:17.36\00:51:21.44
saved. But for the elect's sake,
those days will be shortened.
00:51:21.47\00:51:26.70
A terrible time of trouble,
of tribulation is going to
00:51:26.73\00:51:31.50
ensue in this world.
00:51:31.53\00:51:33.09
Are God's people going to be
safe and sound? Yes, they are.
00:51:33.12\00:51:37.65
Is their faith going to be
severely tested? Yes, it will.
00:51:37.68\00:51:42.45
What is going to happen with
the wicked during this period?
00:51:42.48\00:51:46.00
Are they going to become
more and more belligerent?
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.87
Are they going to
become more and more violent
00:51:48.90\00:51:51.54
against God's people?
00:51:51.57\00:51:52.73
The book of Revelation says that
they will even proclaim a death
00:51:52.76\00:51:56.05
decree against God's
people, which we'll talk about
00:51:56.08\00:51:58.82
a little bit later
on in this seminar.
00:51:58.85\00:52:00.71
So there's a time of
trouble ensuing after the close
00:52:00.74\00:52:04.90
of human probation.
00:52:04.93\00:52:06.14
And then, of course,
the catastrophe will come.
00:52:06.17\00:52:10.58
And do you know that
this world is going to return
00:52:10.61\00:52:14.15
to the condition that
it was in before creation,
00:52:14.18\00:52:17.27
and at the time of the flood?
00:52:17.30\00:52:19.29
Do you remember that in
Genesis 1 it says in verse 2,
00:52:19.32\00:52:22.75
that the earth was
without form and void?
00:52:22.78\00:52:25.32
Notice Jeremiah,
Jeremiah 4, Jeremiah 4:23.
00:52:25.35\00:52:32.65
It's describing the
second coming of Christ,
00:52:32.68\00:52:35.09
and what happens with
the earth when Jesus comes.
00:52:35.12\00:52:38.59
Jeremiah 4:23. Actually, I wish
we had time to read verse 19.
00:52:38.62\00:52:47.05
It speaks about God speaking
and the trumpet sounding,
00:52:47.08\00:52:49.63
like when Jesus comes.
00:52:49.66\00:52:50.79
But let's just go
to verse 23. It says:
00:52:50.82\00:52:53.90
Is this world going to return
to the condition it was in
00:53:09.90\00:53:14.60
at the time of the flood?
00:53:14.63\00:53:16.38
Is it going to return to
the condition it was in before
00:53:16.41\00:53:20.24
creation, when the whole world
was filled with water? Yes!
00:53:20.27\00:53:24.15
The same expression,
without form and void, is used.
00:53:24.18\00:53:28.62
Where is Satan going
to be during this period?
00:53:28.65\00:53:34.16
Where was he at the flood?
00:53:34.19\00:53:35.92
He was obligated to stay here.
00:53:35.95\00:53:40.01
How many living
followers did he have? None.
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What's going to happen to
the devil when Jesus comes?
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when the earth is left without
form and void, and in darkness?
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Revelation 20 says
that the devil will be what?
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The devil will be
chained, or bound to this earth,
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in a chaotic state.
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In a disorderly, and void state.
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How many of his
followers will be alive?
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None, because the rest
of the dead, according to
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Revelation 20:5, the rest of
the dead, which are the wicked,
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do not live again until
the thousand years are ended.
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Are you seeing the
parallels that we find
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in these two stories?
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It's not only the
wickedness which is parallel,
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it's not only the
destruction which is parallel,
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it is a whole sequence
and series of events which are
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parallel. And then, of course,
after the thousand years,
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just like after the flood,
Noah and his family came out of
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the ark unto a world
cleansed from sinners.
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And God's people will
come out of the thousand years
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upon a new earth totally
cleansed from sin and sinners.
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Now it's interesting as Jesus
spoke about the days of Noah,
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and about what's going to
happen at the end of time,
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He dedicated more space
to tell us how to be ready,
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than He did to give the signs.
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In fact, in Matthew 24,
the last part of the chapter,
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and all of Matthew 25,
Jesus gives a series of parables
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about how we are to prepare
for the soon close of probation,
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and the tribulation,
and the coming of Jesus.
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I'm only going to read the
references and tell you what
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they contain, as we
bring our lecture to a close.
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Once again, in the written copy
of the lecture, you can find
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all of these references.
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In Matthew 25:13
Jesus says, Watch.
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Do you know what that means?
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It means to be awake.
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It means to pay attention
to what's happening out there;
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to look at the signs that
show that we're near the end.
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Don't slumber,
don't sleep, stay awake!
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In Mark 13:33 Jesus
said, Pray, watch, pray.
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If we're used to praying
three times a day, we should now
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pray thirty times a day, because
the crisis that we're entering
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is phenomenal. In Matthew
25: 31-46, Jesus says that we're
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supposed to bless others.
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We're supposed to
give them our clothing.
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We're supposed
to give them food.
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We're supposed to visit
them in prison, and so on.
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We're supposed to be living
a practical Christian life.
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In Matthew 24:44
Jesus says, Be ready!
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So He says, Be awake,
pray, bless others, be ready.
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And, of course, He gives
a parable of the talents.
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Use your talents for the
honor and the glory of God.
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And finally, in Luke 19:13,
Jesus gives a very important
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counsel. He says,
occupy until I come.
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Keep busy about
the Lord's business.
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Folks, we are on the
brink of the close of probation.
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Let us prepare so
that we can live forever
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in the kingdom with Jesus.
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