The Grace of God in a Sinful World
Book of Genesis Chapter 6
There are a lot of different thoughts about chapter 6 and the flood of the entire world but one thing we should clearly understand.
Our Heavenly Father has a plan of salvation and Satan will do everything he possibly do to cause God's plan to fail, which is impossible.
The things before the flood is our lesson today. We live in the world after the flood!
If we are not careful, we will make the events of Chapter 6 complicated when they are not.
We must understand once sin entered into the world, this world began to die.
This process of death began in earnest after the world-wide flood, and yes there was a world-wide flood.
The first part of society is the family, but when sin entered into the world of that day because of Adam, it passed down through his family and on to everyone who has been born since that day.
We begin to see the division.
A godly side who continued to worship and serve God, the line of Seth.
The ungodly side who neglected the worship and commands of God, the line of Cain.
In my mind this is what happened after Cain refused to repent and moved away.
We must understand the words of the Holy Spirit here!
2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
We know that our God never changes, so it would have been the same command in the time of Adam and of Seth.
We will soon see that even those born in the line of Seth will soon depart from the truth.
There are certain reasons God does not want His children to be wed or joined to unbelievers, and we can see many of these reasons in this chapter.
Certainly, mankind was multiplying upon the earth at a pace we cannot comprehend.
Just look at Adam who lived to be 930 years old.
Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: "and he begat sons and daughters":
Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
All these men who were mentioned in the line of Seth lived many years and had many children and it would have been similar in the line of Cain.
*****Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
We should not get confused about this phrase "the sons of God".
If it is talking about angels, we should be clear that the "fallen angels" are never called the sons of God!
If we consider that it was angels that came together with these daughters of men, then we would have to ignore the truth that the Lord Jesus teaches the Church.
Mat_22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mar_12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
To understand what Jesus says is that angels do not have the ability to come together with human women or any humans at all!
Since this is true or Jesus is a liar, then we know these "sons of God" are other men who once served God in reality or falsely, and throughout the Scriptures the "sons of God" refer to believers or so-called believers!
This being true then, these "sons of God" must be the descendants of Seth from Chapter 5.
When we understand this, we can understand this whole passage.
Throughout this passage we never see the word angel!
Even in the New Testament references, we still see that this passage refers to men.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Again the Bible is written for Christians.
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Now we see that these descendants of Seth looked out into the world and decided that the daughters of the world are more desirable than the daughters of the sons of God.
Yes, men were told to multiply upon the face of the earth, yet corruption caused the abuse of God's blessing and turned it into another curse!
Moses understood that intermarriage between the godly and the ungodly was forbidden many years before there was such a law.
Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Why would God teach us these things?
Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: "so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly".
Moses knew how serious this issue was with Jehovah and that He might destroy them suddenly.
Even Isaac and Rebekah understood this thing.
Gen 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Gen 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
There is never a time in the Scriptures where we find angels marrying human beings and God will never allow such a thing.
When godly men fall into this trap with ungodly women, the only sure thing is that sin will increase but it does not change the fact that we are on the winning side!
Pro 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
When the godly look at the world for satisfaction, it means they have forgotten what God has already done for them!
Then God our Creator says these words:
*****Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
In this verse we begin to understand the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
It is crucial that we follow the lead of the Holy Spirit!
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
This Scripture leaves little doubt that the Holy Spirit was striving to keep the children of God on the right path!
In chapter 5 we see a list of men in the line of Seth who lived for many years and we can attribute this long life to the Holy Spirit.
We already know that our death cannot come, as long as we have that God breathed spirit within us.
We can also believe that we cannot live long lives, even eternity, without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, who will never leave us once he moves in.
In this Scripture God is saying that these long lives would begin to get shorter and that length of life would get an average of 70 years as told by Moses, rather than near 900 years of the old patriarchs.
We know that God did allow Moses to live for 120 years but who died when his body was still healthy and strong.
All these things being true the truth is because Noah found "Grace" in the eyes of God, he was given 120 years to build the Ark of safety and the Holy Spirit would work for these 120 years on these unbelievers and then He would only work when called on by our Heavenly Father.
We can believe that God will not waste His time on those who have set their hearts on rebellion!
The Holy Spirit worked on these men by the preaching of Noah and He did so for 120 years and it is just that simple.
God does not beg for us to listen to Him and He will not beg us nor will He force us!
To spend eternity with our Heavenly Father is something we must have a great desire to do!
In the New Covenant, the Holy Spirit will only come to live within those who have already made this decision and then it takes place only by the "Grace of God" just like it happened to Noah!
Now all these things being clear, we can learn of giants in the land.
*****Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth 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.
Humanity becomes totally lawless.
We must not be deceived by that word "giant". In this passage it means "tyrants", "bullies", "apostates" from the truth of God and history proves this out whenever lawlessness occurs, and it can also mean some who were above average in their growth.
One group would attack another group until only the strongest most wicked groups were left.
In reality we still see these things in rogue godless nations because this is what sin does as sin increases!
We can be sure that there were men larger than other men and the strongest usually came out on top.
Many times these are the most wicked because they are feared.
The earth had become a place where the physically powerful ruled and dominated.
To me it sounds like the stories of the old wild west we use to enjoy as kids where there was always the hero coming to the rescue.
There was no one coming to the rescue at this time anywhere upon the earth and the Holy Spirit saw the end of His usefulness at this time which left only destruction.
God will not allow sin to rule for very long until, He puts a stop to it!
Deu 2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deu 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Deu 2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deu 2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
These giants, men of renown, could be the descendants of those men in the line of Seth who left the Lord and married into the line of Cain.
Even today we know of many who have left the Lord to serve the world and they are some of the most wicked.
We already know that the Lord would bring an end to this evil day by a world-wide flood.
We already know that God will use fire to destroy this earth completely in our future.
*****Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
When I read this passage, I just wonder what God sees today upon this same earth?
One man wrote: Before the world-wide flood we could look down as if we were in Heaven and see the things that were happening on God's creation. We were allowed to listen in on God's conversations with Adam and Eve, but after the flood, we can only see the characters of the Bible.
We see the story of the Bible and what sin has done to our world.
We see the flood waters come up around us and we will witness how God closes the door of the Ark to keep sin from safety.
What causes these things? The wickedness to humanity!
The wickedness of sin had multiplied much more than righteousness.
Society had fallen so deep into sin there was no bringing them back.
We now see that the wickedness of sin today, is becoming as it was before the flood!
It amazes me, especially in a certain state, that someone imagines something wicked in their mind and immediately they want to make it a new law for all people everywhere to observe.
It amazes me that some "judge" in no man's land can make a ruling and then say it will be the same through all 50 states and he is allowed to get away with it.
We see portrayed upon the screens of our television sets everyday wickedness and evilness continually.
We see that the very best people can do still falls far short of righteousness!
Righteousness is simply doing things that are right!
This is what God saw. The heart of society on earth had grown evil!
People were mean.
People were immoral.
People were perverse.
People were vile.
People were destructive.
People were lustful and sensual.
People were filthy and foul.
People were judgmental and condemning, of all those who did not think the way that they thought.
All these things sound familiar and could describe our own nation today.
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Crime was gross and heinous.
Psa 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psa 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
When we get to the building of the Ark, we will realize that if Noah was not looked upon as a lunatic, the Ark would have never been built.
Our Creator groaned in His heart for what humans He had created.
We could say that the heart of our Creator was broken at what He was seeing happen to His creation, but still total destruction was never part of His plan.
God's mercy is still one of His greatest traits! Surely His great love is His greatest trait!
God decided that humanity should not exist and to destroy all mankind was the only answer!
*****Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Jehovah said: "I will erase this day from the days of creation".
What had God created on the fifth and sixth day?
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
God said He would destroy everything but the fish and mammals of the sea. These would be living creatures that did not depend upon the land for survival.
The animals and other creatures were destroyed because they were made for man's pleasure!
All things concerning humanity would change after the flood.
This is the very reason the flood had to be a world-wide event!
That word "destroy" used in this passage means to "erase".
All these creatures were created to show the awesomeness of God, that man might serve and honor Him, but just as today the world did not see our Creator at all.
What happened that day is happening again today!
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
There is very little doubt at least in my mind, that this is the mindset of a certain party of politicians who want to rule us because they are reprobates!
Reprobates have infiltrated their way into many places of government!
There was only one man that helped God to decide what He would do!
A man named Noah.
*****Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Gen 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Throughout the Bible we will never see where God will destroy a righteous human being!
You see "Grace" is the theme of the New Testament (New Covenant) and Jehovah could not show His lack of "Grace" to this righteous man.
What had God promised Satan?
Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; "it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel".
Once God said this then He had to know it would happen!
This is the first promise of the coming of the Messiah!
If there was no Messiah, then the Word of God would be a lie!
One man in the entire world still acknowledged our Creator and his name was Noah!
It was Noah who would continue the line from Adam to Jesus!
Luk 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
Luk 3:24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,
Luk 3:25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
Luk 3:26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
Luk 3:27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
Luk 3:28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
Luk 3:29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
Luk 3:30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
Luk 3:31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
Luk 3:32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,
Luk 3:33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,
Luk 3:34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
Luk 3:35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,
Luk 3:36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, "which was the son of Noe", which was the son of Lamech,
Luk 3:37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
Luk 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
The one thing our Creator will never do is, to destroy those who love Him! He will always remove them from His wrath!
The same water that caused the destruction of all humans and the land-based animals and the birds, is the same water that raised the Ark that Noah built to carry him to safety.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The Ark of Noah in typology represents the Ark that saved Moses.
These two arks are very different in size!
Moses’ ark was maybe a yard long. Noah’s ark was 150 times longer. Moses’ ark was made of reeds from the Nile. Noah’s ark was made from cypress wood. One thing they both had in common — they were both covered in pitch or tar to keep them from sinking. And both arks represent the same thing — God’s means of saving humanity.
Noah’s ark saved a righteous family from God’s judgment on humanity!
Moses’ ark saved the man who would lead a nation to safety after God’s judgment on Egypt!
Both arks are about salvation, saving those God loves!
They were life preservers for everyone on board, leading the world to the ultimate ark, the cross.
The cross is for those today who are sinking in a sea of sin. Hold on, it will get you through to the other side, where life everlasting awaits you.
God always sends an ark to save you from drowning. You just have to climb aboard!
We should understand that "salvation and holiness" are the work of God! God just ask us to have a part in them.
The Ark in typology represents Jesus Christ Incarnate on earth.
Noah became the symbol of salvation for mankind in his day, because he was the only remnant to survive, while Moses became the symbol of salvation for the Israelites, because he was the one who led them out of Egypt from the slavery that they endured.
Also, both of them were put into water as their journey. Noah was put into a wooden ark covered in pitch and then that ark was in the Flood.
Similarly, Moses (as a baby) was put into a reed basket covered in pitch which was placed on the Nile.
Water is a significant symbol in both of the narratives. In The Bible, water tends to symbolize salvation or cleansing, hence the first comparison.
Both are types of Jesus Christ!
Noah had three sons who would repopulate the earth along with Noah and their wives.
We know that Noah found the "Grace" of God, but it does not say his children did.
God could have just saved Noah, but God has a much greater plan than to just save an Ark full of people and animals.
The one thing we know is that God's patience does have an end!
Now listen closely as the Bible describes the America of today.
*****Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
What are two words that express the wickedness of our world.
1) Corrupt
2) Violence
What are the two biggest things we see in America?
1) Corruption
2) Violence.
The government is corrupt and those few who battle for righteousness are just outnumbered.
Those who are corrupt instill this violence we see every day along with the News Media and Facebook and Twitter and other such sources contribute also!
To add to this, the Church has become corrupt because the world has been invited into the pulpits and into the leadership of the church.
In the day of Noah, all these things were true as the "sons of God" had become caught up in the "maids" of the world.
No one in their right mind can say our day is not getting as bad as it was in the days of Noah!
Our Creator never changes, and we know what He did in the day of Noah, He will do again!
This time without water, but fire!
Wickedness breeds corruption and corruption breeds violence!
God had only one answer to stay true to His holiness.
These things had to be destroyed!
*****Gen 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Since we have discussed this Ark, we will keep this short.
Gopher wood the wood used for ships is also the wood used for coffins in many areas of the world.
As Noah built this Ark, he also preached to those who were lost.
God had allowed 120 years for these things to take place.
Noah may not have known the day or the hour that the rain would come, he did know the year.
The pitch that water-proofed this Ark, can be said to be represent a "pardon" which we know comes only by the Lord Jesus Christ!
The Ark and the pitch together represent "Grace" which in reality still means God's Mercy At Christ’s Expense".
The study of the Ark is a lesson in itself.
Not many realize that seven days before the rains began, Noah and his family moved into the Ark.
The one and only door stayed open for these seven days and "whosoever" chose could have boarded the Ark and not one of those people chose to do so.
Then God shut the door so that not even Noah could open it, and when the rains came, we can just imagine how many tried to get into the Ark, but it was too late!
Do not wait until the door to Heaven is closed. Come while you still have time. God still takes "whosoever" will come while the door to safety is open!
Amen
