Foundation Book of the Bible

Mike Mazzalongo

Genesis

21

Review

• End of Adam’s record – Gen. 5:1

• Noah’s Summary – Gen. 5:2

• Tracing the Seed of Promise

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

- Matt. 24:37-39

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

- Gen. 6:1-2

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

- Gen. 6:3

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

- Gen. 6:4

Interpretations of Gen. 6:1-4

1.Angels took women as wives

Corruption of Mankind

Interpretations of Gen. 6:1-4

2.Descendants of Cain & Seth intermarry

Corruption of Mankind

Interpretations of Gen. 6:1-4

3.Demonic forces possess the descendants of Cain and produce wicked offspring.

Corruption of Mankind

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

- Gen. 6:5-6

Preoccupation with physical appetites

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. (Lk. 7:26-27)

Condition of the Antediluvian World

Satanic Activity in the physical world.

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

- Gen. 6:2

Condition of the Antediluvian World

General disbelief

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. - Heb. 11:7

Condition of the Antediluvian World

Ungodly behavior

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with [p]many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”- Jude 14-15

Condition of the Antediluvian World

Widespread violence

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. - Gen. 6:11-13

Condition of the Antediluvian World

The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

- Gen. 6:7

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

- Gen. 6:8

Noah

• Obedient – Gen. 6:22, 7:5• One wife – Gen. 7:13• Preacher – 2 Pet. 2:5• Perseverant – Heb. 11:7• Master builder – Ark• Priest – Gen. 8:20• Farmer – Gen. 9:24• Righteous – Gen. 9:6

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. - Gen. 6:9-10

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

- Gen. 6:11-12

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

- Gen. 6:13

1. Perseverance not Perfection

Lessons

1. Perseverance not Perfection

2. We don’t have 120 years.

Lessons

1. Perseverance not Perfection

2. We don’t have 120 years.

3. God can punish us now.

Lessons