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Well, we are in hour three of Learning the Bible in 24 Hours in which we'll undertake

to review chapters four through eleven of Genesis.

The first eleven chapters of Genesis are viewed by most people as prehistory.

This is the first unit of a two-unit review of Genesis.

In chapter twelve on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are the patriarchs.

But we are in hour three in which we're going to talk about chapters four through eleven.

And so as we look at the panorama of history, we've been through the creation and the fall

of man and now we're undertaking the story of Cain and Abel.

We'll talk a little bit about Noah, the flood of Noah of course, but what we'll surprise

many is we'll talk a little bit about the days of Noah.

Most people have little insight as to why the flood really came and what that's all

about.

And then we'll conclude this session with a quick look at the Tower of Babel and what's

called the Table of Nations.

So that's our challenge for this session, hour three.

Genesis chapter four is the famous story of Cain and Abel, the two brothers.

And they both had offerings.

Cain was a farmer, Abel a shepherd.

And they both gave offerings.

The significance of the offerings is often misunderstood.

Cain of course being a farmer gave an offering of the fruit of the ground.

Abel gave a lamb.

But not just because he was a shepherd.

One of the insights that most people miss, and you wouldn't get this unless you've read

the rest of your Bible and come back to this, is the lamb was the designated offering to

be given.

And Cain may have meant well, but he wasn't following the directions.

So Abel's offering was accepted and Cain was not.

Now the first question that should occur to us is how would they know when you put an

offering in the offering plate in church?

You can be pretty sure it'll be accepted, but in any case you would have no knowledge

if they didn't.

But in these days apparently there is some scriptural indication that the offering was

consumed by fire from heaven.

That may sound strange to us because that's not our normal practice.

But it was clear that both Cain and Abel recognized the acceptance or non-acceptably

their offering.

And that was what gave rise to Cain's envy or hatred of Abel.

Cain's offering was the fruit of his own labors, Abel's the lamb.

And Cain's offering was rejected.

And that's what caused him to, or should say, motivated him at least to murder his brother,

Abel, rather extreme.

So we have the second murder.

Many people call it the first murder and in a sense it is.

But the really the first murder was when Satan deceived Adam and Eve and in fact they lost

their immortality.

They were mortal.

They were consigned to death, ultimately.

So let's take a look at this though.

Both Cain and Abel came from the same parents, okay?

Fallen parents.

Both of them were outside of Eden.

This did not occur in Eden.

So they were judicially alienated.

And I'm going to suggest that we're all in that same boat.

And they had a differing basis though because Cain's offering was of his own works, the

fruit of a cursed ground.

But in contrast to Abel's offering which anticipates, representatively, the offering

of Jesus Christ.

And it's only the offerings that are acceptable to God that are going to be acceptable.

And he's been very, he has been very specific on his specifications.

It's interesting to realize that death was required.

See it was the substitutionary death of the Lamb that pointed to the fact that there will

be a substitutionary death on our behalf to be given.

And that was just emblematic of that which occurred of course on the cross 2000 years

ago.

And God would provide and we'll see that very dramatically dramatized when we get to

Genesis 22 in very clear terms.

And it's when you've read not just through Genesis for the rest of the Bible and come

back and re-regenesis as you begin to realize how this fits into the picture.

Reading the story on its own may leave you hanging there.

But another question I'd like to deal with as we get into these early chapters, the story

of Cain and Abel I think all of us know.

I know everybody likes to, whenever we go around they always ask where did Cain get

his wife?

Well he married his brother's sister because he was able.

So I'll just leave that with you to read us all of that.

We should realize that Adam Eve had many sons and daughters, the script communicates that

and obviously there's a non-trivial population at the time because remember the combination

of the many boys and girls that were born in the family and recognized that the years

go by, these are extreme longevity, there's quite a population so much so that Cain was

in fear of being attacked, that's why God gives him a special protection.

But there's another issue is we get to Genesis chapter 5.

It's a strange chapter.

The first three, four chapters are exciting.

You got the creation, you got the story of Adam and Eve and then Cain and Abel.

When you get to Genesis 6 on you have the flood of Noah and all that action but Genesis

chapter 5 is one of these strange chapters you tend to sort of skip over.

It's just a genealogy, a family tree.

Why bother?

I mean is it, what, why there?

Well I'm going to suggest to you that one of the exciting discoveries that you need

to make for yourself is to discover the hidden messages that are all through the Bible.

I don't mean just the Bible codes that create some controversy but messages both in terms

of what the lessons are from the narratives but also there's some other hidden messages

and the Scripture says that there are.

In Proverbs 25-2 it says, it is the glory of God to conceal a thing and it's the honor

or duty of kings to search out a matter.

Well let me start this with a riddle.

Who is the oldest man in the Bible?

Anyone?

Bethuzah.

Bethuzah lived 969 years.

Yet he died before his father.

Whoops, how can that be?

He's the oldest man in the Bible yet he died before his father.

That little riddle you can spring on your neighborhood Bible study this week because

everyone forgets who his father was.

His father was Enoch who didn't die.

Enoch's a very interesting guy.

When he was 65 years old something happened in his life that caused him from that day

on to walk with God.

In fact he did for 300 years following.

And among the things that happened there is that he had a son by the name of Bethuzah.

Now you should understand that the flood of Noah did not come as a surprise.

It had been preached on for four generations.

In fact what God told Enoch was that when his son was born the judgment of the flood

that was coming would be withheld for as long as he lived.

As long as he's alive the judgment of the flood would be withheld.

So he named his son Methuzah.

It comes from two Hebrew roots.

The word muth which means his death occurs 125 times in the Old Testament.

And the verb shalak which means to bring or send forth.

The name Methuzah made up of those two roots is his death shall bring.

Strange name.

But it's a prophecy because his father knew that as long as his son's alive this judgment

that was coming would be withheld.

And indeed if you look at the genealogies that are presented in Genesis chapter 5.

Methuzah was 187 when his son Lamik was born and Lamik was 182 when his son Noah was

born.

And it's the 600th year of Noah's life that the flood came.

And if so if you take the 187 and the 782 you get the 969 years that Methuzah was alive.

Methuzah's life becomes a symbol of God's mercy.

And it's interesting that it is thus the longest lifetime in the Bible deliberately because

of God's as an expression of God's mercy.

Not infinite.

It becomes a point at which it's cut off.

But it is what shall I say extravagant.

But there is this genealogy in Genesis chapter 5.

Adam, Seth, Inash, Keenan, Mahalalal, Yared, Inak, Methuzah, Lamik and Noah.

Well if there's all this insight behind the name of Methuzah what about these other 9

people?

See our problem in Genesis chapter 5 it's not translated for you.

The rest of the Bible of course is translated from its Greek or its Hebrew into English.

But we don't translate normally proper names.

And my legal name is Charles.

What does it mean?

Who knows?

There's all kinds of conjectures but it's been lost in antiquity.

But in Hebrew all Hebrew words are made up from a three letter root.

And if you don't have the root means you can infer the meaning of the word.

And the problem here is we don't translate the proper names even if you go to a strong

concordance or something of that nature you'll find that it doesn't deal with proper names.

And so what they do here is they transliterate these names.

They approximate the way it's pronounced in the English.

Let's take a quick look at the Hebrew that lies behind these names.

The first name is Adam.

It comes from Adamah which means man and that's pretty straightforward.

Adam and Eve have a son named Seth.

After Cain killed Zabel Eve has another as a son by the name of Seth.

The word Seth means appointed.

And you can infer this from the Hebrew root dictionary something of that nature but also

Eve explains it to you at the end of chapter 4.

Verse 25 when Seth is born Eve said for God hath appointed me another seed instead of

Abel whom Cain slew.

And when you look at a Hebrew Bible and look at the word appointed you'll find it's essentially

the equivalent word of Seth.

Appointed me another that became so.

Okay he has a son by the name of Einash.

Now this comes from a root which means mortal, frail or miserable.

And the root is Einash which is an incurable thing usually used of a wound or sometimes

of grief, sickness that sort of thing.

And so that's kind of a rough handle to go through school with.

Hey miserable you're on our team.

It doesn't quite work.

But he names his son Keenan.

Some of your Bible say Keenan that's a misunderstanding.

Keenan can mean sorrow, dirge or elegy like a funeral.

Now he was tired I think of his name and his father's name so when he has a son he gives

him a mouthful but a fabulous name.

Mahalalal, Mahalalal, Mahalalal which means blessed or praised one and el the name of

God.

Mahalalalal means the praised God or the blessed God.

That's pretty slick.

Mahalalalal has a son by the name of Yared and it comes from the verb Yarad which means

shall come down.

That's very straightforward and there's more behind that but I'll leave it for now.

His son is Enoch.

Now we've mentioned Enoch because of the father of Methuselah.

He's an interesting guy for many reasons but what does his name actually mean?

It turns out it's an academic term.

It means commencement or teaching.

And so it's interesting that the oldest prophecy in the Bible uttered by a prophet is a prophecy

of the second coming of Jesus Christ and it was uttered before the flood of Noah by

Enoch.

You won't find it here in Genesis.

You'll find it in the book of Jude, the second to the last book of the Bible.

And Enoch also seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying, Behold the Lord cometh with

ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly

among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their

hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him, Jesus Christ.

So it's interesting that before the flood of Noah there are prophecies of the second

coming.

Now we know a lot from this prophecy in Jude.

We know that the Lord's coming is certain, it's sure.

We know who will come with him.

We know the purpose of his coming and we know the result of his coming.

All from this little prophecy of Enoch.

Now the Enoch was translated, that is raptured if I can use that term.

And he was apparently roughly midway between Adam and Abraham.

We're going to discover another guy by the name of Elijah will be translated midway between

Abraham and Christ.

These are persons we'll deal with when we get there.

Now in Hebrews 11-5 there's an allusion to Enoch being translated by faith Enoch was

translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated

him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.

So Enoch is quite a guy and he walked with God.

That was not a casual stroll at last 300 years.

He was walked with God, he was in agreement with, he was surrendered to, he was a witness

of God.

And that privilege that he had is available to us today.

Now Loshan's Galatians and 2 Corinthians will point the way for this, for all of us

in our own way to do that.

But let's get back to a sudden Methuselah.

I mentioned that his root means his death shall bring and as I say the year the flood came

is the year that Methuselah died.

Okay, well then we have Lamic, his son.

And here's a root in the Hebrew that we have even in our English today, the, the, the,

the resident in our English word lament or lamentation.

And what does the Hebrew, a root really suggests despairing or its equivalent.

And Lamic has a son by the name of Noah, which of course we've heard of.

But what does this word mean?

It comes from Nacham, which means to bring relief or comfort.

Okay, comfort arrest.

Now let's take a look at this genealogy again.

We have Adam Seth, Enoch, Keenan, Mahalal, Yared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamic, and Noah.

So far it's a good.

Let's read this genealogy, this family tree, in English.

Okay, man is appointed mortal sorrow.

But the blessed God shall come down teaching that his death, whose death?

God's death.

His death shall bring the despairing comfort arrest.

Yeah, every time, every time I do this I get goosebumps.

God is appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessed God shall come down teaching that his death,

God's death, shall bring the despairing comfort arrest.

Here is a summary, a one-sentence summary of the Christian gospel tucked away in a genealogy

in the Torah, in the book of Genesis, in specifically the book of Genesis.

Has several implications.

First of all, it demonstrates that God's plan of redemption was not a knee-jerk reaction

to Adam's sin.

He knew before Adam was created, that if given the chance he would get himself in a predicament,

that nothing less than the death of God himself would avail to extricate him from that predicament.

So it's a summary in that sense.

But there's another aspect of this, even more practical in an apologetic sense.

There's no way that you will ever convince me that a group of Jewish rabbis contrived

to hide a summary of the Christian gospel in a genealogy in the Torah?

No way.

No, this is a fingerprint of the Holy Spirit.

Now you don't build doctrine from these things.

It has the same role in my mind that the little metal strip in your $20 bill has.

It proves that the $20 bill is authentic.

And when you find these structures hidden under the text, it doesn't change your understanding

of the text.

It simply authenticates its origin and it vindicates its authority.

So we have one integrated design here.

The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed.

Here's an example.

And the Old Testament, of course, is in the New Testament revealed.

So again, I want to underscore the basic pillars of our ministry, the focus that makes us somewhat

distinctive is based on two discoveries.

The first discovery is that the 66 books that we have in our labs called the Bible,

even though they are penned by over 40 different guys over thousands of years, they are an

integrated message system.

Every detail of those 66 books is there by design, a design that could not be anticipated

by the penmen over those thousands of years.

But it all fits together.

It's just like you find a bunch of pieces and you put them together and find that they're

perfectly meshed jigsaw puzzle with no pieces missing and no pieces left over.

You begin to realize that was designed.

It wasn't by accident.

Now if you go that far in your understanding and again you need to discover that for yourself.

But once you discover that for yourself, there's another insight that emerges and that is that

the origin of that message system had to come from outside the dimensionality of time.

There's not just the content of the structures and dissipate the content that's coming and

that demonstrates it comes from outside the space-time domain.

And once you discover that, it alters your entire approach and understanding of the Bible.

You'll have an awe or reverence that comes no other way.

Now let's get back to the text that we're getting into.

But a little bit of background.

Jesus made a strange remark when four disciples came to him for a confidential briefing on

his second coming.

He includes a strange remark.

He says, as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the son of man be.

Now most of us don't really understand what he meant because we don't know what the days

of Noah were like.

We know all about Noah's flood, but we may not have studied the reasons the flood came.

That problem was at solving.

Well the world was very sinful.

But that's the case.

We better get some life jackets.

No, there's something deeper, I believe, behind all this.

But as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the son of man be.

In Genesis chapter 6, it opens up with a strange passage.

It came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were

born unto them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and

took them wives of all which they chose.

Now the first point I'd like you to notice because most people miss this is those two

verses, Genesis 6 verses 1 and 2, are a single sentence.

And that will aid us from making some mistakes here.

It came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were

born unto them.

And that is the general and daughters in general, that the sons of God, and we'll

come back to that term.

It's a very special term, saw the daughters of men that they were fair and took them

wives of all which they chose.

This term, sons of God, is the is Benai Hahelohim.

This term is used in the Old Testament of angels.

Every place it appears, it's of angels.

And the Old Testament appears in Job three different places, Job 1, 6, 2, 1 and 38, 7.

And the New Testament you get the equivalent thing in Luke 20 verse 36.

There is a Hebrew book.

It's not part of the Bible.

I'm not going to suggest that it's inspired, but it's a valuable book for grammar and vocabulary.

It emerged about two centuries before Christ was very popular for several many centuries

called the Book of Enoch.

It wasn't really Enoch, it was compiled by some rabbis, but it does demonstrate the

belief that they had in those days, and it also helps us with the vocabulary and the grammar.

And it uses this term the same way of angels in great depth, perhaps even more authentively

the Septuagint translation.

Three centuries before the ministry of Jesus Christ, the Hebrew Scriptures were translated

into Greek.

The Greek is a very, very precise language.

The best scholars they could find came from Jerusalem to Alexandria to do this work.

It took 15 years for them to make the translation.

And the Greek is very specific and it does illuminate this passage in the direction we're

talking about.

We also find this passage, the daughters of men, binothadam.

These are daughters of Adam.

I want to emphasize that because some people try to make this something else.

It's the daughters of Adam.

So this is the same term in the earlier part of the sentence in Genesis chapter 1 verse

2.

When you get down to verse 4 of chapter 6 of Genesis, it says, there were nephilim in the

earth in those days, and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters

of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old,

men of renown.

So this word nephilim is another word that's important to understand.

It's a very distinctive word.

It means the fallen ones.

It comes from the verb nephal, which is to fall away, to be cast down away, to fall away

to desert, if you will.

The nephilim are the fallen ones.

These give rise to the Hagia barim, the mighty ones, and we'll hear more about them as we

get through the Scripture.

Now the Septuagint, that is the Greek translation of this, the word nephilim was translated

jigantas, which is rendered in your English Bible as giants.

Now they did happen to be giants, that's another issue, but the word jigantas doesn't

really mean giants.

It comes from jigants, which means earthborn.

So in the Greek they're the earthborn, and the Hebrew they're the fallen ones, these

are hybrids.

These are something unique and strange.

Furthermore, when you get to verse 9 of Genesis 6, it speaks of Noah's family tree.

These are the generations of Noah.

Noah is a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Same phrase we used with Enoch, interestingly enough.

But he was perfect in his generations.

This word in the Hebrew is tameen, which means without blemish sound, helpful, without spot,

unimpaired.

It's a term used of physical defects.

What this says in the Hebrew is that Noah's genealogy was not tainted, was not blemished

by the goings on.

What we're suggesting here is that the fall of the angels came down to the earth and contrived

some way to generate hybrids.

I believe that this was Satan's strategy to try to corrupt the human line to try to avert

any possibility of a redeemer.

We'll talk more about that as it goes.

This is what's called the angel view of Genesis 6.

We'll get into this more.

If this is valid, we would expect, this is a very strange idea.

I grant you.

But if this is valid, we would find it confirmed in the New Testament.

Things are always confirmed by two or three witnesses.

In only one chapter, chapter 1, verses 6 and 7 is the following.

Jews says, "...the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation.

He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves

over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering

the vengeance of eternal fire."

Jude is making another point, but he makes reference to not only Sodom and Gomorrah, but

these angels which went after strange flesh in Genesis chapter 6.

Peter also talks about this.

I'll come back by the way to Jude, this word habitation, the angels which kept not their

first estate, but left their own habitation.

We'll come back to that.

In 2 Peter, a similar remark is made.

Peter says, "...For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to

Tartarus, he uses a strange word.

It's translated to hell in your Bible, but it's a strange word.

It's the only place that this word occurs in the Bible.

Cast them down to Tartarus and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto

judgment and spared not the old world, but saved Noah and he goes on.

He adds an interesting thing.

He ties this strange going on to the days of Noah.

But this word Tartarus probably deserves a little comment because it's unique here.

It's not unique in Greek, it's used in other literature, but it's the only place in the

Bible that occurs.

Tartarus was to the Greeks.

It's a term for the dark abode of woe.

It's the pit of darkness of the unseen world.

In Homer's Iliad, it's described as being as far below Hades as the earth is below heaven.

So I still don't know where it is, but I don't want to go there.

It's an illusion, we believe, to not only to Hades, but maybe a very special part of

it.

Now this whole idea of angels, fallen angels, coming down and mixing with human women to

create a hybrid is a strange concept, but we're startled to discover that legend.

It gives rise to legends in every ancient culture.

The Greek Titans are probably familiar to most of us in the Western world.

The Titans were part of the Greek mythology, partly terrestrial, partly celestial.

They rebelled against their father Uranus, and after a prolonged contest were defeated

by Zeus and then condemned into Tartarus.

That's all part of the Greek mythology, but apparently embodies a memory of some serious

things that did happen in the prehistory.

These legends will find in Sumer, Assyria, in Egypt, the Incas, Mayan, the Epic of Gilgamesh.

To find these equivalent legends in Persia, obviously in Greece, in India, Bolivia, South

Sea islands, even the Sioux Indians.

It's interesting, I'm told by the anthropologists, that the American Indians, when they met a

stranger, they would hold up a hand.

This business of howl is Hollywood stuff.

But holding up a hand, if you had a stranger, you wanted to count his fingers, because they

had a terror of the six fingered men.

They have legends of all kinds among the American Indians, of these giants that populated

the earth, came down from the star people.

They were very, very large, very powerful.

And you even find illusions to these, and Buffalo builds autobiography, and so on.

In the classic art, we have Hercules, who was an ephalan in Hebrew, and Atlas.

These legends derive from the same kind of these hybrids.

Now there is an alternative view.

There are many people, that are graduates from seminaries, that have never been exposed

to the angel view that I'm sharing with you.

They've been taught, many people have been taught, that the sons of God term really

refers to the line of Seth.

Seth, these were presumably the good guys.

The sons of God is a term they try to ascribe to the Sethite leadership.

And the daughters of Adam, they say, well, it really wasn't the daughters of Adam, it

was daughters of just Cain.

And I don't know what's wrong with the daughters of the others, but anyway.

And the sin that's involved there is that failure to maintain separation.

They try to make the, at least that the line of Seth should be separate, and they commingled

with Cain, the daughters of Cain, they should have done that.

So the failure of separation, they assume, is the sin involved.

The problem with this, this command to stay separate is 11 chapters later, or anyway,

substantial chapters later.

And they don't explain why the offspring of these two families would be supernaturally

weird, the Nephilim, which were obviously distinctive.

This view, the so-called line of Seth view, emerged in the fifth century.

Celises and joining the postate used the traditional belief of these fallen angels and so forth

to attack Christianity.

And Julius Ephricontus resorted to the Sethite theory as a more comfortable way of defending

the Scripture.

And that was fine, except, and Cyril of Alexander used it to repudiate the Orthodox position.

They said the Orthodox position was quaint, but not true.

And Augustine embraced the Sethite theory.

And by his doing so, it became the primary doctrine of the medieval church and has endured

through the derivative denominations from the Reformation and the rest of it.

So it prevails right into the Middle Ages.

However, the text itself said, the sons of God has never used a believer in the Old Testament.

Seth was not God, Cain was not Adam.

These are all contrivances.

And there's no mentions of the daughters of Elohim, it's unbalanced.

There's an antithesis, a grammatical antithesis that is ignored, and I won't get to that here.

The lines were separated later, it isn't until Genesis 11 that we have the separation

imposed.

And that was only on Isaac, Ishmael not so.

And furthermore, Genesis 6 says all flesh was corrupted.

There were no good guys, if you will.

And Noah found grace, and that's a whole other issue.

But only Enoch and Noah's eight are spared.

Now, think about this.

God chose to wipe out the entire world except for nine people.

He removes Enoch first, and then these eight on the barge, or boat that we'll get to, are

spared.

And also these Baha'i Helohim took wives.

It doesn't sound like they had any choice in the matter.

They chose who they wanted to.

And if the Sethites were the good guys, why did they perish in the flood?

But furthermore, Enoch who had Seth's son is the guy that initiated defiance of God,

if you study the text carefully.

See in Genesis 4 verse 26 in the previous chapter, we discover if there's a mistranslation,

men began to call upon the name of the Lord.

It says no, men began to profane the name of the Lord.

And that's in the target of uncleos, the target of Jonathan, the Hebrew translations

out of the most venerated translations among the rabbis.

Make it quite clear that Enoch was bad news.

So the line of Seth was not the good guys and Cain, the bad guys, quite the contrary.

Cain murders brother and yes he did sin.

But you'll also notice if you look at his genealogy, his children for several generations

carried the name of God in them.

I believe they were believers.

I believe they were repentant believers.

Anyway, in the rabbinical literature, this is the one that supports this angel view of

Genesis 6.

The whole idea of the Nephilim being unnatural is important.

They had supernatural offspring, the so-called Hagibari and the mighty men.

And there were no women of renown, what's going on here?

And what made Noah's genealogy so distinctive?

See it's a gene pool problem that underlies the flood of Noah.

Now this angel view of course is a traditional rabbinical view.

The book of Enoch supports it, not that it's inspired by speaking of vocabulary and grammar.

As well as other literature, the testimony of twelve patriarchs Josephus presents this

to Septuagint.

The early church fathers taught this, Father Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Aaronaeus and

the rest of them.

Modern scholarship, GH Pember, Dehaan, McIntosh, Dilich, Gablein, Martha W. Pink, Donald

Gray Barnhouse, Henry Morris, Arnold Fricktonbaum, Hal Lindsey, Chuck Smith, modern scholarship

also embraces this.

The Sethite view that most people have been taught, even in seminaries, is unscriptural.

The text is self-refutes it, the inferred separation is nonsense, the inferred godliness of Sethites

is not true, the inferred kingite subset, Adamites, the unnatural offspring, the New

Testament confirmations.

But perhaps the most important thing, and that's one reason I'm spending this time on

it, you will not understand much of what happened in the Old Testament and you won't understand

some of the prophetic issues unless you understand this view.

I used to think, well it's just a view and there's two different views and that's fine,

let's go on, until I realize that this undergirds a great deal of understanding or misunderstanding

of the Old Testament, if you, whether or not you understand the angel view.

You see there were Nephilim after the flood also and Genesis 6 and 4 said, in those days

and also after that.

And you'll discover when Joshua goes into the land, when he finds against the land there

are at least four tribes, tribal names that he's instructed by God to wipe out every

man, woman and child of these tribes, the rifaeim, the emim, the horeim, the zumzumim.

These were vestiges of the Nephilim, Arba, Anak and the sons, the Anakim when they encountered

kingites in Numbers 13 and 33, when Moses sends the twelve spies into the land, despite

the land, the ten of them come back and say, we're grasshoppers in their sight, we're

terrified.

Now two of them, Joshua and Caleb said, no, let's God, Lord's on our side go.

Because they trembled and didn't go, they wanted for virtually forty years in the wilderness.

What did they encounter?

They encountered Nephilim, Numbers 13 and 33, there were Nephilim in the land.

So it's important to understand this.

All the king of Bishan was the king of the giants, there were Nephilim up in the Galan

Heights, that's the Deuteronomy 3 and Joshua 12 and so on.

Goliath and his four brothers were Anakim, sons of Anak and so forth.

See these are stratagems of Satan, he was attempting to corrupt Adam's line.

When we get to Genesis 12 and God calls Abraham and announce that his plan of redemption

man isn't just, his redemption doesn't just involve man, it's going to involve specifically

Abraham and his descendants.

Satan could then focus his attack on Abraham, the famine, the destruction of the male line

and the exodus.

Pharaoh's perceiving after he released him, Pharaoh pursues them to wipe them out.

Satan is trying to wipe out the Jews because he's trying to wipe out God's program of

redemption.

When they finally return to, well when God announces to Abraham that his descendants

400 years later are going to return to Canaan, that gave Satan four centuries laid out of

minefield and he'll populate Canaan with these strange creatures.

When God reveals that his plan is going to involve David, that allows Satan to focus

his attack against David's line.

And as you go right through the whole chronicle from the second chronicles, Isaiah, so forth,

you'll discover again and again there's attempts to wipe out the royal line but there's always

somebody that gets saved, a servant that saves a child and so forth to maintain that line.

And even when you get to the Book of Esther, the Persian Empire, Haman tries to wipe out

the Jews, again it's a tannic plot, very analogous to what Hitler tried to do in more recent

times.

When you get to the New Testament, it continues, Joseph's fear when Mary's pregnant, that was

a capital situation there.

Herod's attempts to wipe out all the babies and Bethlehem.

When they try to throw Jesus off the cliff in Nazareth, there were two storms at sea and

I personally suspect that those storms were not normal storms, they were exceptional storms.

The disciples aboard were professional seamen that knew those waters and they were terrified,

something strange going on in there.

And of course the old thing is the cross and it's still not through, one reason you need

to understand this because Satan is still at it in a variety of different ways.

You don't understand that.

Let's talk a little bit about angels because I think they're often widely misunderstood.

Angels always seem to appear in human form.

At Sodom and Gomorrah they were there.

The homosexuals wanted to attack them, it tells you something about angels.

They're always in pairs at the resurrection, at the ascension and other places.

Angels spoke to men.

They took people by the hand.

They ate meals with them.

The New Testament tells us that many of us have entertained angels' unawares so they apparently

can take human form.

They are capable of direct physical combat.

The Passover in Egypt was the result of the death of angel in Egypt.

One angel after dinner one night slaughters 185,000 Syrians.

So we'll get into some of this as we get into those descriptions.

But the point is angels are capable of materializing and engaging in physical combat.

We do know that angels in heaven don't marry because marriage, appropriation is for mortal

people is a way of multiplying mortal people.

These are not intended to be reproducing.

Because they don't marry in heaven many people assume they can't have sex.

Let's be careful here.

I think the Scripture makes no restriction on technology available to them, especially

if they're bent on mischief.

That's what we're dealing with here.

Angels are formidable.

Demons in the New Testament are very different creatures.

They always seek embodiment.

Angels are materialized.

Demons can.

Demons appear to be powerless except to the extent that they can indwell a host of some

kind.

And they have to do that with permission apparently.

So you want it when you study your Bible, summarize what you think you'll learn about

angels and summarize what you learn about demons.

I think you'll find they're distinctively different.

In Matthew 22 and also Mark 12, he says, speaking of believers that are in the resurrection

body.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels

of God in heaven.

And that simply means that sex and procreation is not part of the program there.

That doesn't make any comment about angels that are up to mischief might do.

This word habitation is a fascinating word.

The word in the Greek is ochitarian.

It only appears twice in the Bible.

It refers to the body as a dwelling place for the spirit but it's used two places.

In Jude 6 it's that which the angels had disrobed from.

In 2 Corinthians 5, 2 it's alluding to the heavenly body that we aspire to as believers.

And in Jude 6 the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation.

There's that word ochitarian.

In 2 Corinthians 5 it says, we know that if our heavenly house of this tabernacle

dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands eternal in heaven.

For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house or habitation

or ochitarian which is from heaven.

So it's interesting.

Same term.

I think this is a highly technical term used in a very specific way.

It's all he has is roots in Genesis 3 when God declares war on Satan.

He says, I'll put enmity between thee, the nakash, the shining one, and the woman between

thy seed and her seed.

He shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.

So we have a conflict between two seeds.

The seed of the woman from that passage becomes a title of Jesus Christ.

It becomes a messianic label, the seed of the woman.

Which incidentally is a contradiction in terms because the seed is the man, not the woman.

It's a contradiction in biology, not just grammar.

But of course it's an illusion that Isaiah 714 picks up as an indication of a virgin birth.

We'll talk more about that when we get there.

But it also alludes to the seed of the serpent.

There's another seed, the serpent being the red dragon.

These are allusions to the coming world leader who is assisted by a false prophet.

And this duo is going to wreak havoc and we'll deal with that when we get there too.

But these forces are behind the world today.

We need to recognize that.

They have an agenda.

That agenda is to entrap you into and bring you to oblivion.

The flood of Noah.

This has all been background.

Now we get to the famous story of Noah's ark.

It's amazing how many people say, well, the skeptics say that ark was not big enough

to hold all the species.

Couldn't be.

Well, how big was the ark?

They don't know.

They don't know.

Sure.

Well, let's take a look at this.

The ark was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.

It's specified.

There's some scholastic debate just exactly what a cubit is.

Anywhere from 18 to 22 inches is the typical estimate.

For our purposes, we'll just assume it's 18 inches, foot and a half.

That would make this ark 450 feet long.

75 feet wide and 45 feet high.

They would have a displacement then of approximately 24,000 tons, 1.4 million cubic feet.

The equivalent roughly of 522 railroad cars.

That's a non-trivial volumetric space.

That would be room enough for 125,000 sheep.

Now taking a sheep is a nominal average.

Obviously, many animals are smaller, more smaller than larger.

And there are, of course, obviously some large exceptions.

In any case, how many species?

A defendable estimate is about 18,000 on the high side.

So you've got 125,000 sheep.

You've got room for 18,000 species.

That leaves you room for some a few large ones.

And now there's a couple of other.

We don't know.

We do know that whatever entered the ark a year later left, they lost none, gained none.

Losing none, OK, finally they were preserved, none died.

That's surprising.

And secondly, the fact there was no bollification, no additions, indicates that God somehow,

most scholars presume, we didn't say this, but presume that some kind of hibernation may

have been established.

Because God is in this thing, obviously.

But let's go a little further.

This is all based on the cubit of 18 inches, the most common estimates you see in most

of the textbooks.

But there are cubits that virtually approach 25 inches.

If it was a 25-inch cubit, just to give you some feeling here, that would be 625 feet

long, 100 feet wide and 63 feet long, I mean deep.

And it's displacing them, it would be 65,000 tons, 4.1 million cubic feet, 1,400 railroad

cars.

And of course, that gets to be a third of a million sheep and so forth.

And you still only have 18,000 species.

So the point is, this estimate is not only very large in the original, but even it's

also vulnerable to being much larger by depending on what the cubit really was.

And as an able Academy graduate, I have to talk a little bit about the marine architecture

here.

The arc, as I say, was 50 feet, using the foot and a half cubit, about 50 feet wide and

30 feet high.

That turns out to be mathematically a very useful ratio.

Because you have the center of gravity in a device like this and you have a center of

buoyancy, depending on the water that it displaces.

And if it tilts over, gravity is pulling down from the center of gravity, the center of

buoyancy is pushing up from the center of buoyancy and you'll notice there will be a

tendency to write this up.

It turns out with these particular ratios, it can sustain an enormous tipping and still

be stable.

This has, these ratios have a very, very attractive stability, hydrologically fuel.

And so this is not some primitive contrivance here.

There's some very subtle engineering behind this.

Well, the flight had rained for 40 days, but that's not a count for all the water.

See it wasn't just rain.

The fountains of the deep were opened up and these waters prevailed for 150 days.

It rained only for 40 days.

The waters prevailed for 150 days.

They're in the ark for 371 days, five months floating, seven months waiting on this mountain.

Now it's interesting again, if you go through the ancient traditions, you discover there

are traditions of a flood, a global flood, disastrous flood, in virtually all the ancient

traditions.

Many of them are quite fanciful.

Many of them, most of them in fact, contain elements that are consistent with the biblical

account.

Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Hindu, Chinese, the Druids, the Polynesians, Mexicans,

Peruvians, American Indians again, and in Greenland, they all have very colorful, very

interesting flood traditions.

Now the question is, was it universal or local?

There are some people that try to indicate, well this was just a local flood.

If it's just a local flood, God did not keep his promises.

The every living thing was destroyed, the scripture says, all high mountains were under

the entire heavens were covered.

You say, Jesus, some mountains are a lot higher.

Yes, they may have been disrupted since.

That's another issue.

And the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, but God then promises Noah that he'll never

do that again.

Now if that was a local flood, there had been lots of local floods, which means God didn't

keep his promise.

If that was a universal global flood, that God said, I'll never do that again.

Peter warns us to watch the small print, because the next time he'll do it, he'll do it with

fire, not water.

That's his point.

Now some questions here.

We know that dinosaurs apparently were quickly drowned and buried.

Is that possible?

We believe there were some dinosaurs on the ark, probably babies I assume, because we find

dinosaurs talked about in the book of Job.

And we find that mammoths were quickly drowned in North America and quick frozen in Siberia.

These are mysteries.

That ones in Siberia where they're frozen, they still have food in their digestive tract.

They can analyze their diets.

But the main thing is they died suddenly, very quickly.

And the petrified forests are found 100 miles from the south pole by Admiral Byrd, petrified

forest in the south pole, really.

See, it was a universal climate at one time.

Land animals found fossilized in locations below sea level.

Now, very frankly, you have fossils.

You talk a little bit about that, but the fossils imply pressure and the absence of decay is

also an indication of shortness time.

Sea animals are found fossilized at high elevations.

You go to very high mountains and find seashells and so on.

The key thing about fossils, you understand, fossils are dead.

And that may sound silly to say, but realize it.

That means they are after Adam, after Adam.

And there's no decay which implies a sudden, quick change.

And the dating depends on circular reasoning.

You see, we found a 10 million year old fossil here.

Really?

How do you know it's 10 million year olds?

Well, it's because it's in the layer that represents 10 million years.

Oh, really?

How do you know that layer was 10 million years?

Well, because there's 10 million old fossils there.

You see the circular reasoning?

You think I make facetious.

Watch the reasoning in your textbooks.

You'll discover that they date the fossils by the layer and they date the layer by the

fossils.

It's all circular reasoning, very, and based on all kinds of attackable premises.

And why are there no fossils formed today?

Something dies or goes down in the decays and so forth.

Well, we could go into that.

There is a theory about the flood that has to do with the canopy.

And the fact that there was, the theory is that there was an atmospheric water shield

that protected the earth from cosmic radiation.

And this may attribute, this may be one of the explanations to the long lifetimes.

Before the flood, we have these extended lifetimes prior to the flood.

And the waterfalls, it complements the subterranean waters that are unleashed in chapter 7.

And also, we understand from chapter 10 of Genesis, this continental drift occurred from

the fractured land masses.

Now if you're interested in this area, I encourage you to look at the books by the Institute

of Creation Research, particularly Henry Morris and John Ritkin's book called The

Genesis Record.

And they get into this and you get into the whole canopy theory and it has its proponents.

There are many scientists who believe this is correct.

There are other scientists that have a slightly different view.

There are a lot of geological mysteries, however.

The Grand Canyon origin is something worth studying.

That alone will certify all of this if you want to get into it.

The fact there's the mid-oceanic mountain ranges have to deal with this.

The submarine canyons involved in the earth.

The submarine variations on the ocean floor, coal and oil formations, frozen mammoths,

all of these are areas of study that you'll discover all argue for support of a recent

global flood.

Metamorph, there are certain rock changes that are worth studying and the fossil grade.

All these are geological mysteries that are explained by a universal flood.

And the jigsaw fit into the continents.

There's another view called the hydro plates.

Both of these are true to some extent.

Hydro plate theory points out that the continents are and work interconnected.

There's subterranean water underneath them.

With increasing pressures, there's buckling that takes place.

It's horizontal buckling that explains most of this.

And if you're interested in this area, I encourage you to investigate the ministry of Walt Brown

in the center for scientific creation, Phoenix, Arizona.

It's got marvelous materials on this and the whole creation area.

You're pointing out that the earth has had a cracking and a breaking and these things

all fit.

There is a great deal of technical background in their material that you can get into.

But let's get back to the flood.

It rained for 40 days.

Again, not just rain.

There were fountains of the deep.

Water's prevailed for 150 days.

They're in the ark for 377 days.

Five months floating, seven and a half months on the mountain.

Now some perspectives are all.

There's only one ark.

There's only one way to be saved in that old world.

There was only one door in the ark.

When that door was closed, it was closed.

One interesting question.

Who closed the door?

God closed the door.

And I'll leave it to you to think about this.

Could Noah have gotten out if he wanted to?

I personally don't think so.

There's no births or deaths.

Everybody on the ark was preserved and saved.

The fact that there's no births or deaths suggest that there's some kind of biological

piece or hibernation or something going on.

Now all your theological speculations certainly would end when that door was shut.

And the people outside could argue all they like.

They were not saved.

There are only three groups of people that are dealt with in the flood of Noah.

Those that perished in the flood, of course.

Most of them were all but nine people.

There were those that were preserved through the flood, the eight that were in the ark.

And there were those that were removed prior to the flood.

And I suspect that there are some lessons here in terms of how God deals with things.

I think there'll be all three groups of people that are going to be dealt with prophetically

as we get into the prophetic word.

There'll be those that may move prior.

There are those that will be preserved through the judgments that are coming.

And as I said, other flood traditions all through the ancient groups, Egyptian, Babylonian,

Persian, Greek, so forth.

Now you can get through it carefully.

You'll find some people quibble about the record.

If you read the record carefully, you'll find it all fits.

That's not only true here, it's true in general.

Many places you'll find some critics say, well, here it says this and here it says that

and they don't really seem to agree.

Whenever you find that, rejoice because behind that will be a discovery.

The Lord always rewards the diligent.

But getting to this that we have Noah enter the ark at the 10th day of the second month,

seven days later the rain begins.

And then we have 40 days later the heavy rains stop and 110 days later the waters recede.

The arks now on Mount Ararat.

74 days later the mountain tops are starting to become visible.

40 days later the raven is sent which can survive on its own.

Then the dove is sent, dove in a one is sent and returns, dove in a two is sent and returns

to leave and then dove in a number three is sent and does not return which tells them

that it's safe now to leave the ark.

And so 22 days later the water recedes and Noah saw a dry land and when the land completely

dry they exit the ark.

That's the chronology you can study it more carefully if you want to get into the details.

But basically it's seven days till the, from the seven days there's 150 days it rests on

Mount Ararat, 163 days they saw dry land.

Anyway the total of 377 days for you want to get into that.

But this is another interesting thing, this is something we're going to talk a lot about

as we go.

The ark rested in the seventh month on the 17th day of the month on the mountains of Ararat.

And I want you to notice the word mountains there is plural.

It turns out to be important because there's as many people, there's as much tradition

that's ignored that.

Why do the Holy Spirit want you to know this very day?

See if you're a well adjusted person you're reading your Bible it says the ark rested

in the seventh month on the 17th day of the month on the mountains of Ararat.

You say fine, you read on.

But if you've been to one of my Bible studies you are no longer a normal well adjusted reader

because you'll remember that I said everything in here is by design, everything in here

is deliberate, everything here is a result of the Holy Spirit.

Why do the Holy Spirit want you to know that the ark rested in the seventh month of

the 17th day of the month of the mountains of Ararat?

Well you need to understand first of all there are two calendars in the Jewish community.

The civil calendar is the Genesis calendar.

The year starts in the first of Tishri which is in the fall.

It's called Rosh Hashanah the head of the year, the new year.

The Jewish new year is in the fall.

But they have a religious calendar where it starts in Nizan which is in the spring because

in Exodus when God sets up the Passover He tells Moses among other things this month,

the month of Nizan will shall be unto you the beginning of months.

It shall be the first month of the year to you.

So because of that the religious year starts in the spring, the month in which Passover

falls, the month of Nizan.

The old calendar, Tishri is the first month, Nizan is the seventh.

But from the Exodus on the religious calendar starts in Nizan, it's the first month and

it turns out the Tishri becomes the seventh month.

Okay the new beginnings.

Jesus Christ was crucified on the 4th of the 4th of Nizan.

How long was he in the grave?

Three days.

The resurrection then took place on the 17th of Nizan, the seventh month on the Genesis

calendar.

The God's new beginning on the planet earth was on the anniversary in anticipation of

our new beginning in Jesus Christ.

And I think that's very deliberate.

I think it evidences that God enjoys dealing in precise patterns.

I never use the word approximate and God in the same sentence.

But it fascinates me to see a pattern set down in Genesis fulfilled in the Gospels.

So be sensitive to that because there's many of these throughout the Scripture.

The ark rested in the seventh month, on the 17th day of the month, on the mountains of

Ararat.

So Noah's new beginning on the planet earth on the anniversary anticipation of our new

beginning in Christ.

Okay.

Now Ararat in Turkey, which many people think is the Mount Ararat, is a single mountain.

There's not a lot of mountains around it, which makes it suspect.

But let's move on here.

In Genesis chapter 11 we're going to discover the whole earth was of one language and one

speech, basically, Paleo-Hebrew, ancient Hebrew.

And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plane in the land

of Shinar and they dwelt there.

That's the first couple of verses of Genesis, chapter 11.

Well if you take a look at a map, I've marked on the map in the left there, there's a place

called Mount Ararat in Turkey, a traditional Mount Ararat.

And you have Bab-Bell, or what later becomes Babylon, south of it.

I might point out to you that Mount Ararat is not only north of Babel, slightly west,

Mount Ararat in Turkey is a site that was labeled by Marco Polo in the 14th or 15th

century.

It's a traditional site.

And there are many people that claim to have seen the ark up there, that have found pieces

of wood and that sort of thing.

And so far the people I know that have tried to check that out get quite frustrated because

it's all legend, all myth, it defies confirmation.

But let's stay with the scripture.

It says, you see Mount Ararat is north and slightly west of Babel.

Genesis 11.2 says they came from the east to Shinar, which means if I was looking for

the Noah's Ark, I would look east of Babel.

That's where they came from.

And east of here, there's a whole range of extremely high mountains.

And I anticipate, I won't get into conjectures here other than to say I anticipate that it's

going to be found and I think when it is found it's going to be found in Iran, in the high

mountains of Iran.

But let's go back to Genesis 9.

We got a new beginning now.

They're out of the ark.

There's a whole new order.

They're not vegetarians anymore.

God instructs them to use, to eat animals and so forth.

Capital punishment is ordained and the human government is established.

There's a whole, you can study that quite carefully.

Sinful man has been wiped out by the flood, but not sin.

Man is still sinful and Noah has no exception.

He has vineyard and there's some things that happen.

But there's a prophecy.

May God enlarge J. 5th and may he dwell in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his servant.

So Ham, Shem and Japheth, there's prophecies here we'll pick up when we get into chapter

11.

Something else, back when we talked about the creation, we talked about an entropy profile

of the universe, how order was inserted in the universe in the successive steps and

then rest.

We recognize that the fall of man, and God's curse, that the order was disrupted, that entropy

was increased.

Entropy increases as you go down on this chart.

So the fall of man results in a decay, a destruction of the universe.

The flood also, the flood was more than just a lot of water.

We know a great deal of changes.

We don't know anything about the creation prior to the fall and we only have some conjectures

about the creation prior to the flood.

And the history as we know it really is certainly since the fall of man, but probably history

as we know it in other terms since the flood.

The post-flood changes, we know the thermal blanket that once protected the earth is

gone because the universal climate is no longer there.

It's the end of the universal climate.

We find these tropical creatures embedded in the ice near the poles and we realize that

the earth had a very different ecological situation in those days.

Atmospheric pressure apparently reduced 50 percent because we know that tetheredactyls

couldn't fly unless we had at least two atmospheres of atmospheric pressure.

And we also notice that these extended longevity that are recorded start to decline.

So from going from the hundreds of years down, ultimately down to the three score in

ten or the 70 years, that even to this day with all our improvements in medicine still

hover around.

Of course fossils, I said they were dead.

That means they came after Adam.

No decay, sudden quick change.

Dating as I say, depends on circular reasoning.

And one other question, why don't we have fossils today?

Well let's move on to chapter 10.

Chapter 10 is a discussion of the genealogy of the sons of Noah.

It's called the Table of Nations.

And Noah had three sons, Shem Ham and Japheth.

Japheth had sons and it goes through all these, Gomer, Magog, Medai, Yavon, Tubal, Meshach

and Tiras.

And as you study your Bible, you may want to make note of these and try to learn, especially

the important ones.

Magog is very, very important to understand when you get to Ezekiel because Magog is the

forebear of the Scythians which in turns are the forebear of the true Russians.

And they're very prominent in the prophecy in Ezekiel and you want to watch that.

Medai, from them came the Medes which of course we call today the Kurds and they're going

to be prominent in our current news broadcast too.

As well, Tubal and Meshach were principal ingredients to the area that we know as Turkey.

So that's it.

Now Ham is the other, he has Kush, Miseron put and Canaan.

When you think of Kush, he settled south of the Second Cataract of the Nile.

It tends to be idiomatic of black Africa.

Miserim is a different guy and that's Egypt.

Miserim is the biblical term for ancient Egypt.

And put is North Africa which is quite distinct from Kush.

In North Africans or you have another, so you've got Kush, Miserim and Pete, all Hamites

but of different backgrounds and of course Canaan.

And it's interesting that all Israel has to do to find out who the enemies are is to take

a look at the genealogies.

They would be their enemies.

So the Kushites, the descendants of Kush also descended in, ascendant.

The Kushites that is the descendants of Kush settled in South Arabia and southern Egypt,

Sudan and northern Ethiopia.

And they became mingled with some of the Semitic tribes there and so forth.

The first Hamite, it's really significant.

It is of course the Canaanite group.

The third son of course is Shem with the Ilam, Asher, Arfaxed, Lud and Arram and Shem are

the ones that were interested in because out of that will come a very prominent one.

He has Ilam which is Persia.

It's interesting when Isaiah is called upon to talk about the Persian Empire a hundred

years before it emerges.

How does he deal with it?

He calls it, he speaks of it in terms of the forebear, the Ilam.

Ilam is what Bible would call it.

We think of as Persia which is modern Iran and we have others here.

Arfaxed is very important under Hamasala which in turn has Hebrew from which the word Hebrew

comes and then we have Pellegh during which the earth is divided and Jaktan and we have

some others.

It's from Pellegh that we have ultimately Tara whose son is Abraham and our whole study

of the second unit of Genesis, the second half of Genesis, chapter 12 to the end is

our study of Abraham.

Very very important, one of the most important people in history for a lot of reasons.

Kind of interesting, there are about 26 mentioned under the under Shem, 30 under Ham and 70

under Jephth.

There are 70 nations listed in Genesis 10, the Table of Nations.

That's interesting because they're going to put in parallel to the 70 of the family of

Jacob I should say that goes to down to Egypt when we number them.

And so we have 70 nations from Noah, Ham, Shem and Jephth.

We'll have 70 families that will enter Egypt and that's interesting that God indicates

in Deuteronomy 32 that the bounds of both are set, that the boundaries of these nations

are determined by what God wants to have happen.

And so there are some discrepancies here.

In Genesis 10 we have 70 in the Table of Nations and they're mentioned in 66 and 46

we have a total of 70 that go to Egypt but in one place there's only 66 because there

are already four down there.

And so you have the 66 plus the four still gets you 70.

In Acts 7, 14, Stephen mentions 75 because he's including Joseph's grandsons which the

Septuagint makes clear.

But so these discrepancies get resolved but the main issue is to recognize that the scripture

clearly seems to set a parallelism between the 70 and the Table of Nations and the 70

that become the nation of Israel itself for what it's worth.

Okay.

There is a person that emerges out of Ham that is very important to be aware of.

That's a guy by the name of Nimrod.

The first world dictator's name means we rebel.

He's the first world dictator.

He found two cities, Babylon and Nineveh, both of which become world capitals in their

history.

Babylon will be the capital I believe of his successor in a sense.

There will be a world dictator that emerges out of Assyria that we call the Antichrist.

I believe Babylon will be his capital among others.

But anyway let's get back.

Take a look at chapter 11.

There's one language, the language of Hebrew.

There is a godless confederacy organized by this first world dictator on the plane of

Shinnar.

You need to be familiar with that term.

Shinnar occurs seven times in the Old Testament.

Always it alludes to the plane in which Babel, the Tar of the Heaven, was built.

And Babel was originally some kind of astrological temple.

It's at this place that the Zodiac, as we know it, or the Matsaroth and the Hebrew, was

corrupted.

It strangely enough seems to embody a record of God's plan of redemption for mankind if

you understand the names of the stars and the order of brightness of the twelve constellations

that link to the twelve tribes.

But all that gets corrupted at this time, so most of what we know in the field of astronomy

carries labels from the original Babylonian terms.

Don't confuse this with astrology, which is an occultic application of those things.

These labels are still used by astronomers today in a sense a form of geography.

You should also understand that your whole Bible can be viewed as a tale of two cities.

The city of Babylon, which is regarded as the city of Man, or the city of Satan, if

you will, and the city of Jerusalem.

With all its faults is still considered the city of God.

In fact, it gets replaced by the New Jerusalem.

Babylon and Jerusalem from the beginning, climax at the end, where Babylon is destroyed

in Revelation and the New Jerusalem replaces the one destroyed.

So we have the Tar of Babel, very, very prominent in ancient history, going to be prominent

again in prophecy.

We'll deal with that when we get to the book of Revelation.

And also Isaiah and Jeremiah will deal with it.

Okay, so we have now moved to the next unit.

We finished our survey of the first unit of Genesis, chapters 1 through 11.

In the next session we'll be picking up chapter 12 to the end of the chapter, the time of

the patriarchs.

We'll talk about Abraham, chapters 12 to 20.

Isaac from 21 to 26, Jacob from 27 to 36, and then the rest of the book, the incredible,

colorful story of Joseph.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, the commoner called the patriarchs, and we'll take that

up in the next hour.