You don't even need to know we're in Genesis chapter 6.
Genesis 6, the Bible reads, and it
came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth
and daughters were born unto them.
The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair,
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said, my spiritual Lord always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be in 120 years.
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, that they
bear children to them, it became mighty men which were of old, men of renowned, and God
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually, and it repented the Lord that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for
repentance me that I have made them but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
these are the generations of Noah Noah was the just man and perfect in his
generations and Noah walked with God and nobody got three sons Shemham and
Japheth the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with
violence and God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth
And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them.
And behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shout thou make in the ark and shall pitch it within and without with pitch and
This is the fashion of which thou shall make it make it of the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits
The breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits a
Window shout thou make to the ark and in a cubit shout thou finish it above and the door of the ark
Shall thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shout thou make it
And behold, I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein
is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and
thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort, shalt thou bring into the ark
to keep them alive with thee.
of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,
two of every sort shall come unto thee,
to keep them alive, and take thou unto thee
of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather to it thee,
and it shall be for food for thee and for them.
Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him,
so did he.
Let's pray. Dear Lord God, just thank you for this time we have to hear the preaching of your word, Lord
Just please give us in the congregation ears to hear Lord and help us to apply these truths of your word to our lives
Lord just help us to learn more of your word Lord and just please fill a pastor may hear with your Holy Spirit Lord as he
Preaches unto us Lord who pray this all in Jesus name. Amen
Okay, we're in Genesis chapter six this evening.
And what I wanna preach on tonight is Noah and the Flood.
Noah and the Flood.
Genesis chapter six in verse number 11,
the Bible reads here, the earth also was corrupt before God
and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh
has come before me for the earth is filled
with violence through them and behold,
the earth the subject of the flood and Noah is a very important subject in the
Bible because of the fact that it highlights one of the most cataclysmic
events in all of history not just in the Bible but just in history in general
and how God essentially wiped out all of humanity except for eight people and
this isn't symbolic it's not something to just have happened figuratively this
literally took place in the book of Genesis and of course in history and
things from this particular story. So I'm going to go over three points this
evening. First, we're going to go over the antediluvian world. Number two, the
answers to global wickedness. And number three, the aftermath of the flood. So
let's look at the antediluvian world, meaning the pre-flood world. We're going
to take a look at the spiritual makeup of that time. Now, people often think, you
know, when they read about Genesis, they go through the first couple chapters.
The other thing, man, it would be nice to experience that environment.
You know, it's really nice to experience that environment.
I would have loved to live in those days to see how everything was and how, you know,
after the Garden of Eden, how beautiful the world was.
But, you know what, nothing can be further from the truth, though, okay?
Because of the fact that, you know, the anti-Diluvian world was actually a very wicked...
place to exist in.
Now let me read you from Genesis chapter 6 and you go to Joshua chapter 24, hold your
place there in Genesis.
I'm going to read you from Genesis chapter 6 in verse number 5.
It says,
And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
So the first thing that we see when we are studying the story of Noah and the flood
is that the earth is extremely wicked.
The imaginations of man's heart are only evil continually.
And what are some of the sins that are very prevalent during this time?
Well, automatically we go to the violence, right?
Because the Bible talks about the violence,
but that's actually not the only sin that's actually highlighted during this time.
The first sin that I believe was very much prevalent during this pre-flood world is idolatry, okay?
Look at Joshua 24 and verse 15, it says here in verse 15,
and if it seemed evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve.
Of course, this is Joshua speaking to the children of Israel prior to going into the promised land,
and he's giving them this ultimatum.
Who are you going to serve? Are you going to serve God, or are you going to serve these
false gods?
So he says, choose you this day whom you will serve. Listen to this. Whether the gods,
which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood.
or the gods of the Amorites in whose land we dwell.
But as for me in my house, we will serve the Lord.
Very popular verse there, right?
To talk about committing oneself to serving God.
But he says, you know, this is the ultimatum.
You either serve God,
or you serve the false gods of the Amorites,
of these foreigners,
or you can serve the gods of your ancestors,
who serve false gods prior to the flood.
Because he says on the other side of the flood.
And he's not referring to some local flood.
He's referring to the pre-flood world because idolatry was a thing in the pre-flood world people were worshiping false gods
And you say well you know I don't really see that in the book of Genesis well first of all we see this in Joshua chapter 24
Joshua was saying this that obviously they're worshiping false gods, but go
back to Genesis if you wouldn't go to chapter 4, chapter number 4. We're
talking about the spiritual makeup of this antediluvian world and the first
thing we're going to look at is the fact that idolatry was rampant even prior to
the flood because Joshua was talking about those who are serving false gods
on the other side of the flood. He's obviously referring to the idols and
in the pre-flood world, showing us that idols and false gods were present
prior to the flood. Now, where did it come from?
How did they just start worshiping false gods? Well, look at Genesis chapter 4
and verse number 4.
This is the famous story of Cain and Abel and it says in verse 4 and Abel
He also brought of the first things of his flock and of the father of and the Lord had to respect unto Abel and to his offering
Meaning that he accepted his offering that was a proper way of worshiping God is through the sacrificial
Animal that he presented to the Lord verse 5 but unto Cain and to his offering. He had not respect
Why? Because he's bringing an offering of the vegetation, right?
He's bringing vegetation as an offering that is not acceptable in the eyes of God.
It doesn't matter if Cain says, well, I'm worshiping God. I'm just doing it my own way.
There is no your own way to worship God. We need to worship God on his terms and according to his
standards, which is exactly what Cain did not do. It says that unto Cain and to his offering,
And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
The Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth?
Why is thou countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted.
And if thou doest not well, sin lies at the door,
and unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou shall rule over him."
Now, believe it or not, this is the first indicator
that false religion is being introduced
into the world through Cain.
Why? Because if we don't, if people do not worship the God of the Bible according to God's terms the only default setting is to worship a false God.
Okay?
And you're like, well, I do think that he was worshiping the God of the Bible.
He was just doing it in a different way that God didn't accept.
Well, God considers that a false worship, a false religion.
And here's the proof.
The book of Jude in the New Testament talks about what?
The Way of Cain.
And it's all in context of false prophets and false religion.
What is the way of Cain?
It's worshiping God on your own terms and in turn not worshiping God at all.
And let me just say this is that every society where you find violence, immorality, fornication,
adultery, all manner of wickedness, you can always find its rudiments in idolatry.
And you look at the spiraling effect of reparation and how it leads to uncleanness and sodomy
and all this filth.
It begins with idolatry, right?
The Bible talks about because that when they knew God
They glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imagination
and their foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise.
The Bible says that they became fools.
They changed the glory of the uncorruptible God to an image made like a corruptible man,
you know, to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
And the Bible talks about how the fact that they begin to worship the creature
more than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.
And what is the result of that?
Sodomy. What is the result of that? Reprobation.
Every sin could be, essentially, traced back to
rejecting the God of the Bible and worshiping a God according to their own image,
according to their own standard, which is exactly what Cain did, okay?
So idolatry...
Stems all the way back from you know Genesis chapter 4 with Cain and Abel go to chapter 6 if you would go back to chapter 6
We see idolatry
Was part of the antediluvian world
But the sin
That is most prevalent in our eyes when we read the story is violence look at verse 11
It says the earth also was corrupt before God
And the earth was filled with violence and God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted
His way upon the earth
God said into Noah the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is
Filled with violence through them and behold I will destroy them with the earth now. What does violence mean?
Violence isn't necessarily you know what we what people would consider to be you know
No holds bar fighting or whatever, you know UFC violence is literally when you violate someone
When you take advantage of someone, when you exact violence upon a person who is defenseless, who is not a consenting individual,
you are exercising violence upon that person by hurting them physically.
That is what God considers to be violence.
And we see here that the earth is filled with this practice of violating others.
Okay, now where does this begin?
We'll go back to chapter 4 again of Genesis.
And we'll see that Cain is not only responsible for instituting idolatry,
but he's also responsible for committing the first sin of murder, right?
It says in verse 8,
in Cain talked with his brother, excuse me, in Cain talked with Abel his brother,
and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper?
By the way, what a disrespectful disposition to have
when God is asking you a question, right?
Oh, am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, what has thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood
cryeth unto me from the ground.
Now, what is it crying?
It's crying for revenge, right?
It wants to be vindicated.
It says in verse 11, and now art thou cursed from the earth.
which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand,
when thou tillest the ground, and she hath not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.
A black person shalt thou be." Is that what it says?
No, it doesn't say that. But again, just to echo what I said this morning,
a lot of people will say, oh, the mark of Cain is black skin.
It's nonsense, such a nonsensical doctrine.
He's literally saying that the curse is for Cain to be a fugitive and a vagabond, you
know, in all the earth.
Okay.
That was his punishment for his murder.
The mark that God gave Cain was a way to protect him from other people exacting violence
on him.
The point that I'm making here is that Cain is responsible for the very first murder.
He's responsible for exacting violence against his brother.
Now what is the result of this, because obviously us in the New Testament, we know that the
way God eventually institutes punishment for the murderer is for that person to be killed
as well.
The death penalty should be instituted upon a person that kills an individual.
But this isn't something that's taking place in Genesis chapter 4.
God sets a mark upon Cain his punishment is to be a vagabond and a fugitive
But the death penalty is not instituted upon him. Now. What is the result of that? Look at verse 23 and
Lamex said into his wives Ada and Zilla
Here my voice he wives of lamek
Harken into my speech for I have slain meaning I have killed a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt
If Cain should be avenged sevenfold, truly Laemmick seventy and sevenfold.
So here we have an example of a man by the name of Laemmick committing murder.
And from based upon the context of the verse,
it sounds like it was essentially in self-defense,
or at least that's what he claims.
He says, you know, I've slain a man to my wounding
and a young man to my hurt, so he kills a young man.
And what does he say?
He says, well, if Cain is gonna be avenged sevenfold,
then surely God will avenge me 70 and sevenfold.
Basically teaching us that what we do in moderation other people will do in excess if because came was not punished
Because he was not killed therefore. I'm not gonna be killed
In fact, I shall be avenged 70 and seven fold now the principle that God is trying to get across here is that when crime
Isn't speedily punished people become brazen in their crimes, right?
If a murderer isn't punished right away guess what you're gonna breed more murderers
If theft is in punish speedily, you're going to breed more theft, you know, thank God there's a new law that there was just passed and now like people can't just go in and just steal from California stores.
You know what you guys know what I'm talking about?
Because you know under Biden's administration, literally he just pulled out the red carpet for thieves and they can, they don't even have to run.
They can just walk in and just grab stuff and just take it out and not have to worry.
But now it's like a felony.
if you do that, okay?
And, you know, that is a punishment that's instituted
in order to deter other people from becoming thieves.
This is why laws are instituted, right?
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8-11,
because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
listen to this,
therefore the heart of the sons of men
is fully set in them to do evil.
And this is what we see with Lamek and Cain because Cain was not punished by death
Lamek was brazen and didn't think twice of taking another man's life because he thought well
This man wasn't punished by death. Nothing necessary happened to him. He was protected
Therefore the same shall be with me if not more
But here's the thing is that the Lord allowed this in order to teach humanity that the death penalty should be instituted for people who take life
We'll see later on after the flood that he does institute the death penalty.
Now, we have this snowball effect because from lamech to cane,
this man is brazen, well how much more a thousand years later,
when the flood takes place or prior to the flood,
right at the flood, you have people just exacting violence on other people,
death penalty is not instituted,
people are just killing people,
exacting violence, it's a horrible environment to be in.
And make no mistake about it, when you study violence in the Bible,
you come to the conclusion that God actually hates violence.
And not only does he hate violence, he hates violent people.
Let me read to you from Psalm 11 verse 5 says,
The Lord tried the righteous, but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hated.
So, you think to yourself, oh man, why did God flood the entire earth?
Well, because it's filled with violence and God hates, God's soul hates those who are violent.
He hates those individuals who love violence.
He hates the individuals who just, you know, exact violence, unfettered with no punishment.
The Bible also says in Proverbs 6, 16, these six things that the Lord hate, yea, seven
are an abomination unto him, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent
blood.
This is proof that God hates violent people.
Violent people aren't the only people that God hates. God hates other people too, according to the Bible.
Okay? You know, the workers of iniquity and and reprobates and such, but according to these passages,
this is one of the reasons why God didn't necessarily think twice to flood the earth,
because it's filled with violence, it's filled with people that he hates, people who have violated others
and killed others and are spreading violence throughout the earth. So, you know, the pre-flood world
You know, it's like man, I wish I could just go back to those times must have been very beautiful. Yeah. Yeah real beautiful as
Blood is just being shed all over the place. There's no government
There's no
Magistrate that are putting people to shame that are punishing the evildoers. It's literally violence unfettered. Okay?
It's a horrible world to live in
So what do we have here we have idolatry because of cane
We have violence because of Cain.
Go back to Genesis chapter six.
What's another reason why,
or should I say what is another aspect
of the anti-Diluvian world?
Idolatry, violence, and get this,
the unity of believers and unbelievers.
That's something that God did not approve of.
From Genesis chapter one,
he's always separated the light from the darkness.
And this is a common theme throughout the Bible that God wants his people to be separated from the ungodly, from the unbelievers.
Look at verse 1 of Genesis 6.
It says,
and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair,
and they took them wives of all which they chose." Look at verse 4.
There were giants in the earth in those days, also after that when the sons of God came into the daughters of men,
that they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.
Now the first thing I want to mention here before I get into the actual context of the passage,
is that the sons of God are referring to believers.
It's not talking about angelic beings.
It's not talking about angels.
Sons of God throughout the Bible
is consistently defined as those
who have believed on the Lord for salvation.
And in fact, the Bible says in John 1-12,
but as many as received them,
to them gave you power to become the sons of God,
even unto them that believe on His name.
1 John chapter 3 in verse 1 says,
Behold what manner of love the Father bestowed upon us
that we should be called the sons of God.
And so throughout the New Testament and even in the Old Testament
throughout the Bible believers are referred to as sons of God.
These are not referring to angelic beings of some rebellion
that came down and were physical with the daughters of man
and created these Nephilim giants or whatever.
you know what this is referring to is the fact that believers began to marry
unbelievers and they were unequally yoked okay you said well it does say
giants there though pastor you know I'm looking at the verse the verse forces
giants yeah but consistently throughout the Bible giants were about ten feet
tall 12 feet tall 13 feet tall not these gulliver's travel type size giants
And here's the thing, folks, is that people on internet land
and on Instagram and YouTube, these book of Enoch lovers,
they want to teach this ridiculous thing that
angelic beings that the Bible says neither married nor given
in marriage, out of the words of Jesus Christ,
that they came into the Nazisman and created
these mutant human beings.
But think about this for a minute.
What does Genesis chapter 1 teach?
Consistently throughout the entire chapter that lays out the theme for the entire Bible that everything brings forth after its own kind
Right, so a dog brings forth the dog. You know, what about a wolf a wolf is a dog
What about you all up, you know, it's a dog unfortunately
It's a messed up dog. It's a freak of nature, but it's still a dog
Okay, you know cats produce cats and you just go down a line of all types of animals and the variations of them
Ultimately, they're still that kind
Right, and that's the way that the world has always operated
And so, you know, and even if you try to mix them, it's just they can't mate together
Can't make a dog with a cat
And so if angelic beings are a completely different species,
so to speak, than humans, they can't mate together.
They neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Everything brings forth after its own kind.
But we're supposed to believe that this
is the exception to the rule.
It's nonsense.
And most people who believe in the book of Vinoch
don't even read the book.
They never read the book of Vinoch.
Cover to cover.
I promise you that.
They've never read it.
They just read whatever the guy on YouTube tells them to read.
You know the verses on the on the screen or whatever and so and here's more proof that the giants that we see in Genesis chapter 4
Are not referring to the byproduct of this unholy union it says in verse 4
There were giants in the earth in those days which the book of Enoch people claim are the result of this unholy union
But notice what it says, and also after that, when the sons of God came into the daughters
of men and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men, which are of old men
of renown.
So according to this passage, giants existed before the sons of God came into the daughters
of men.
Whereas the book of Enoch narration is like oh, no
They're the result of that on holy union according to the Bible the Giants were there present prior to the so-called
Unholy Union, okay now here's another thing that's nonsensical about that whole narrative
And that is that according to the book of Enoch the flood the purpose of the flood was to destroy these Giants
Okay
You know because in the book of Enoch like the Giants are just eating everyone
They're eating all the vegetation and they're turning on man
They're eating people and they're just like a snare into the world
And so God's like I got to flood the world to get rid of these mutants these X-men or whatever, you know
But here's the problem okay
Because when you talk to these people who are advocates of the book of Enoch and you ask them like show me proof of Giants in the Bible other than Genesis 6
And they'll say oh easy and they'll point to all the passages of scripture post flood of the existence of Giants
And it's like so the evidence that you have for Giants are post flood even though all the Giants supposedly died in the flood
How does that work?
It's just like whoa, you know and then then they really have to reach and they're like well
Ham had nephelin blood
And it's just sci-fi, you know.
Folks, the giants were just actually very large people.
And the sons of God are believers.
And what the passage of Scripture is talking about here
is the fact that there's no longer a distinction
between God's people and the unsaved.
Now, what does this also teach us?
It teaches us that safe people, listen to me,
died in the flood.
a lot of saved people died in the flood because you know sometimes people are
like well Noah and his family are the ones that are saved wrong because of the
fact that the Bible talks about the sons of God coming into the daughters of men
it says in Genesis 4 that men began to call upon the name of the Lord so the
earth is filled with saved people but apparently their life is no different
than the unsaved people
They're mixing in together. They're having families are unequally yoked and they end up dying in the flood with the unsaved as well
Okay, they essentially suffer the punishment of the unsaved of this world
and
So God has always promoted separation go to Haggai if you would chapter number two if you go to the end of the Old Testament make a left
You'll find it
Go to Haggai chapter two
You're like, Haggai, I didn't even know that was a book.
That's a book in the Bible.
Yeah, it's a book in the Bible.
End of the Old Testament, make a left.
Haggai chapter 2 and verse number 12,
we're still on this point regarding the fact
that in this anti-Diluvian world,
there was no longer separation between believers
and unbelievers.
And that created a problem.
There's no longer a distinction.
Why?
Well, look at Haggai chapter 2 verse 12.
It says, if one bare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment
And with the skirt, do you touch bread, or potage, or wine, or oil, or any meat?
Shall it be holy?
And the priest answered and said, no.
So basically saying, you know, your righteousness, your cleanness, if you, it's not contagious.
You know, if you're a clean person and you touch another unclean person, it's not going to make them clean.
You don't transfer cleanliness like that, right?
It says in verse 13, then said Haggai,
if one that is unclean by a dead body,
touch any of these, shall it be unclean?
And the priest answered and said, it shall be unclean.
So a person who's clean is not contagious,
but a person who's unclean is contagious.
And if a person who's clean touches an unclean person,
he's not gonna affect that person,
but the uncleanness of the unclean person
will affect the clean person.
And what it is, this is the spiritual truth that teaches us that we as God's people,
if we intermingle with the unsaved, if we fellowship with the unsaved, we're unequally
yoked together with the unsaved, they're going to affect us, not the other way around.
You know to strengthen numbers and right now we are with believers and that's why you know when unbelievers come to church
We can give them the gospel we can be influential on their lives
But folks if you put yourself in the midst of unclean people unregenerated people
Unsafe people you will be like that. I promise you that in the anti-diluvian world
The unsaved weren't the only ones participating in violence. I guarantee you say people were too
Why because of the fact that if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these it shall be unclean?
So we have a world
This anti-diluvian world filled with idolatry
It's filled with violence and it's filled with the mixture of saved and unsaved where the unsaved is influencing
the saved and
Unfortunately, the save ends up paying the same consequences physically as the unsaved
Now here's the thing is that you know God was against this in Genesis chapter 6
He doesn't like the fact that they're unifying their unequally yoke together
So what does he do? He sends a flood to just wipe them out and just start over again, but you know, it's crazy about that is
That long after the floods done
People still want to unify because what do you have after the flood you have the Tower of Babel?
You have Genesis chapter 11 where they're of one language one people and they want to create a tower to reach unto heaven
And I promise you it's a tower filled with people that are both saved and unsaved
You know what the downfall of a society is when you can't tell the difference between a saved person and unsaved person
Why because we're supposed to make a difference in this world
You know, we're supposed to be a light in a crooked and perverse nation among whom he shine as lights in the world
The Bible says we're supposed to be different. We're supposed to be sanctified from the world through his word
There's supposed to be something distinctly different from us and the rest of the world
Through the word of God so in spite of the flood the earth still decides to unify and of course
We'll get into that later on go back to Genesis chapter 6 if you would Genesis chapter 6
So the pre flood world is filled with idolatry. It's filled with violence people are unequally yoked
Save people are behaving as unsaved people
They end up suffering the consequences of the unregenerated because unsafe people are influencing the saved
So what is number two the answer to this global wickedness?
Here's the answer. God just wants to wipe them all out
And this is something that's very unique to the Bible and to all of human history because God will never do this again
Where he wipes out all of humanity?
This is literally what he does
He's like I'm just gonna wipe all of humanity out and save only a man in his family look at Genesis 6 verse 6
It says it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth and it grieved him at his heart
By the way, the book of Enoch says that it actually repented the Lord that he had destroyed man on earth
So in one passage in the King James the word of God it says that he repented he had made man on earth
In the book of Enoch it says that it repents and that he destroyed man on earth just a complete contradiction
verse 7 says the Lord said I would destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the
Creeping thing in the fowl of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them now
Let me just mention this is that you know it says that God did what?
repent
Which is showing us that what their repent doesn't always mean turn from sin
It varies based upon its context such as what we have here in Genesis chapter 6
Where God is repenting of making man and obviously God has no sin so we can't say that it's him turning from sin
Obviously in the context is referring to the fact that he changed his mind about
Making man on earth and now he wants to destroy them look at verse 8 if you would
So he wants to destroy man on earth look at verse 8, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
These are the generations of Noah Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God
So in the midst of all of this wickedness in the midst of the idolatry and
Violence and the lack of separation from the world one man stands out and his name is Noah
And the Bible says that he's a just man, perfect.
He's walking with the Lord.
What does it show us?
It shows us that you and I can also stand out as well.
If Noah is able to stand out as one man
amongst the entire world, folks, our church
can stand out in the midst of all the world as well.
We should have no problem doing so.
He said, well, no, it's special.
Well, it looks to me that everything that he does
and everything that it said about him
can be said about us if we wanted to.
We can find grace in the eyes of God.
We can be just, perfect, meaning complete, mature,
and we can walk with God.
It's not like there was a long list of things
that he just did perfectly.
It's just referring to the fact that he was just a righteous person,
not just because he's saved,
but because he's walking with God, he's obeying the Lord.
And you know what?
That's the same thing that God expects of you and me.
You want to be different in this world,
you want to stand out in this world, walk with God.
Read the Bible keep God's commandments find grace in the eyes of the Lord, and you can stand out and
So Noah is selected
To essentially be the person almost be like the Noah excuse you almost be like the atom of
This new world that's gonna be created after the old world is destroyed
Because through him, you know all of humanity is gonna exist once again
Let me read to you from 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 4 it says for if God spared not the angels that sinned
But cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved into judgment and
Spared not the old world but save Noah the eighth person a preacher of righteousness
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
So according to the Bible, Noah wasn't just the person
who was just, perfect, finding grace in the eyes of God
and walking with God.
He was also a preacher of righteousness.
Now, what was he preaching?
We don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Some people say, well, he's soul-winning.
And that could be the case,
but I personally think that he's probably
just preaching judgment, okay?
He's talking about the fact that it's gonna flood.
You guys are all gonna drown God's gonna destroy this world and that's what's gonna take place
I'm gonna read you from Hebrews 11 verse 7 by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet
Moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house
By the which he condemned the world the Bible says and became the heir of righteousness, which is by faith
So what is this telling us? It's telling us that Noah, as he's constructing the ark,
what is he doing? What is he also doing? He's condemning the world.
What does that mean? He's preaching against their sin.
He's preaching against the violence. He's preaching against the idolatry.
He's preaching against the fact that they are unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
He's preaching. He's condemning the world. All the while, he's preparing the ark to the saving of his house.
What does this teach us? It teaches us that we also need to have that type of balance as well
Soul winning is important preaching the gospel is important, but you know building your house is also important
Leading your family is equally important
Loving your wife as Christ loved the church is also important
Reverencing your husband is also important. You know serving in your church is also important. It's important to do both
Getting people say this is important, but also keeping God's other commandments is important, too
You know getting people save and pulling them out of fire very important, but you know, it's also important living righteously is also important
No, it's awesome. No boss. Yeah, he's like hammering. He's like you guys are all gonna drown
There's a flood coming don't even ask me what that is. I haven't seen it, but it's coming
And I'm sure people are mocking him and look there's no new thing under the Sun
All the mockery that we face as soul winners and as Christians. I guarantee you Noah face as well
All the rejection that we faced in times past Noah faced as well
Okay, you know he condemned the world
Which by the way shows us that Noah was a what a negative preacher
It doesn't say he exhorted the world
He's not giving positive only sermons
For years, he's just preaching hard preaching negative sermons against the world
This also shows us that though negative preaching helps it doesn't mean that people are going to change
So it's right to preach negative sermons whether it works or not
Because God commands us to do a priest award be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exor with all-long suffering in doctrine
He's preparing the Ark to the same saving of his house all the while also condemning the world
And so God tells Noah, start building an ark, I'm going to flood the world.
And you know the Bible tells us that he's being warned of God of things not seen as yet.
Meaning that, you know, I don't know if it means that they've never seen rain before,
but it could just mean they've never seen rain at that magnitude.
Obviously, it could also imply the fact that the fountains of the deep have never been broken up before, right?
The magnitude of water that was going to come upon the earth has never been seen before that that type of
Catastrophic event has never taken place before
But just because he hasn't seen it doesn't mean it's not going to happen
And in fact, let me just tell you things that are hap- they're going to happen in the book of Revelation
We've never seen before
But that doesn't mean it's not going to happen
Okay
So, you know the challenge for this particular point is be a Noah be someone who knows how to simultaneously
Lead your house all the while getting people saved all the while living righteously
Have the balance of reading the Bible, but also have the balance of praying
Know how to get things from God's word, but also know how to get things by prayer
Know how to live righteously learn how to teach people to live righteously
Learn how to live a godly life in church, but also learn how to live a godly life at your job
Be a balanced person a balanced Christian
So what happens well, we obviously know that the flood begins to take place
And let me just give you a synopsis of what happens during the flood
Noah is 600 years old when the flood happens
In the second month, the fountains of the deep are broken open, and it begins to rain.
The flood lasts for 150 days, and that's not including the 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
So you have the 40 days and 40 nights of rain, but then after that, there's 150 days of
just flooding, okay?
After the 150 days, it finally, the waters begin to obey, they begin to recede, not completely.
Now, keep in mind, just because it rests upon Mount Errorat
doesn't mean they could just go out and start exploring.
Because it's resting on Mount Errorat.
So it's on top of the mountain, but there's still
water flooding the entire world.
Well, in the 10th month, the tops of the mountains
can be seen now.
So think about that.
10th month is like, oh, I can see Mount Everest.
After 47 days the waters begin to recede once again further and when Noah turns 601 the earth is essentially completely dried and at that point God tells no one in his family to get off the ark, okay?
And so basically this entire scenario takes place over a span of about a year from when he's 600 to 601. Now what can we learn from this?
Well in verse 14 it says make the ark of gopher wood room shall not make in the ark and shall pitch it within and without for the
First thing I want to mention here is that the ark is a picture of Jesus Christ
Okay
How so we'll go to first Peter chapter 3 if you would first Peter chapter 3
Hold your place there in Genesis
The ark is obviously a delivering vessel and it's not like they're sailing anywhere. All they have to do is just stay afloat, right?
But the Bible tells us that the self-same day that they go in is when it begins to rain and
That arc is a picture of Jesus Christ how so well because once we believe on Jesus Christ
We are essentially placed in Christ and just as that door is closed
We are also sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Okay, and we are essentially
Rescued from the wrath of God
Now look at first Peter chapter 3 verse 20
It says in verse 20 which sometime we're disobedient
When once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing we're in few that is eight
Souls were saved by water
Now, let me explain something real quick regarding verse 20,
because a lot of people get this confused.
And this verse is often abused to teach
baptismal regeneration.
I'm sure you've had someone bring this up to you.
They're saved by water.
This is why you've got to get baptized,
because you can only get saved by getting baptized.
This is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Pentecostal
movement.
They'll often say these things.
And the first thing that comes to mind is, no, the water did not save them, what are you talking about?
Like where in Genesis chapter 6 does it ever say, Genesis 6 and Genesis 7, does it ever say that no one in his family were saved by the water itself?
Have you read the story? The ark saved them. The ark is that which rescued them, redeemed them, kept them from the wrath of God.
You say, okay, then why does it say there that eight souls were saved by water?
And here's the answer that I give.
The reason it says saved by water, it's essentially explaining here that they're saved because
they were inspired by the judgment of God, which is the water to get saved, to essentially
go into the ark.
For example, you know the Bible says, and if some have compassion making a difference,
So the fear of the water coming upon the earth
Motivated them to go into the ark. They're saved by water, right?
You know the Bible talks about 1 Corinthians 3, you know talk about people who will lose out in the judgment seat of Christ
But they themselves shall be saved yet. So as by fire
Meaning that the people that you went to go knock on the doors of who got saved
They probably will never step foot in the local New Testament church, but they were saved because why because you told them about hell
Hell motivated them to get saved what motivated a person like ham
Who obviously we know as a wicked person what motivated him to get into the ark. I'll tell you what the water
Now let me say this is that you know them going into the ark was a picture of salvation, but it wasn't their spiritual salvation
I feel like I got to clarify that you know, that's important to know it physically saved them
Because Ham obviously was probably not a safe person not probably he just wasn't a safe person
Considering the wickedness that he participated in as far as we know Noah was safe for sure, okay?
But obviously this is a picture of salvation the point that I'm making here is that when it says the eight souls were saved by water
It's saying that they got saved because they fled from the wrath of God to come which was the water, okay?
He says in verse 21 the like figure run to even baptism death also now save us
Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
So let me ask you what was immersed in that flood the arqueous
We could say that it was baptized in water, right?
and
Jesus Christ in like manner was baptized with fire
Okay
And so the baptism that saves us, so to speak, is the fact that when we're immersed in Christ,
Christ paid for our sins by being immersed in the penalty of our sin,
it says there, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So if you were to remove the parentheses there, okay,
and just read it straight across, it would say,
the like figure, we're on to even baptism.
Doth also now save us.
Look at the end.
How does it save us?
By the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Okay, you know the Bible says in Romans chapter 4 where he was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification
And so Jesus Christ the ark is a picture of Jesus Christ
And in like manner, when we believe on Jesus Christ, we're sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise.
You know, we're in the ark. The wrath of God is no longer abiding on us. We're safe in Jesus Christ.
He's the one who's in the flood. He's the one who's being baptized, right?
So that we don't have to go through that.
Now, obviously, you know, the Lord is preserving mankind, but He's also preserving animal kind.
Okay? And let me just explain something really brief in that regard.
You know, because it sounds really nice, right?
Like, you know, oh, you know, you guys
seem to pick the Jehovah's Witness pictures of, you know,
the art where the animals are going into the ark.
And I believe it probably did happen that way, OK?
Now, I will say that I don't think
it's because God miraculously, you know,
put that into their minds to go into the ark.
I think that animals were probably
more obedient and docile in the pre-flood world, OK?
And so it was nothing to have Noah just like, get in here.
And they're just like, they go in.
Because when you study after the flood,
that's when the composition, the metabolic composition
of animals change, right?
They have the dread and fear of humans,
which makes them aggressive towards human beings.
And you can't necessarily tell an animal
what to do at that point.
The pre-flood world was still experiencing
some of the residual from the Garden of Eden.
So animals are not killing each other. They're still in that vegetarian state
It's not until after the flood that that begins to change
So, you know Noah's a godly man and everything, but I don't think you know
He had some special ability to get the animals on the Ark
I think he was just doing what people have always done
Since the Garden of Eden, which is essentially just tell animals what to do now that part is cool. Okay?
And you say, well, how do you know that?
Well, history is gonna go back to its normal state.
You know, the world's gonna go back to its normal state,
not history.
It's gonna go back to its normal state,
meaning that right now, animals are afraid of humans,
they attack humans,
but we're gonna experience a time called the Millennial Rain
where the Bible says that a child can reach
into the den of an asp referring to a venomous snake
and it's not gonna do anything to him.
the animals in the millennial rain will no longer be aggressive towards humans.
And in fact, it talks about, you know, the wolf and, you know, the, I forgot the animal was it, the wolf and the what?
The lamb lying together, they're eating grass like an ox, their diet changes.
So that's kind of like that pre-flood world, okay?
And then when you go into the new heaven and the new earth that is essentially the garden of Eden conditions
So you see how that it kind of reverts back to that
So the point that I'm making here is that when he's saving these animals
You know, this is obviously a different animal than what we have today.
It's not like they're just like ravenously destroying each other and then Noah just comes and everyone's just like wow, you know
I'm sure they're just very obedient during that time and very docile. They're not killing each other
Let me also say that yes dinosaurs were on the arc because I know you're dying to know, okay?
What dinosaurs I have no idea the Bible doesn't explicitly say, you know
And, you know, some of the problems that atheists try to propose, like, oh, how are you going
to fit a T-Rex on there or whatever, yeah?
How are you going to fit?
Well, just take a baby.
Right?
There you go.
Just take babies.
And the fact remains, we don't even know how many dinosaurs had gone extinct at this
point.
So some may have already gone extinct at that point, maybe only a few are taking on the Ark.
You know, we don't necessarily know, but every creature is taking on.
And obviously, you know, the Bible talks about, because sometimes people say, what about like marine life, right?
Are you saying that marine life was also taken on the Ark?
Well, obviously marine life is in the oceans, they're in the seas.
But here's the thing, I'm sure a lot of the marine life also died.
Because you know the Bible talks about everything that had breath. Well, marine life also has a breath
You know, did you know fish also breathe oxygen?
They don't breathe water. They breathe oxygen. Okay. Does everyone did you guys know that? I hope everyone knows that, okay?
They don't do it the way we do it, but you know, they do breathe oxygen, okay?
Well, when you have a cataclysmic event like that of flood where the waters are churning
They're turning it can kill a lot of marine life and that's happened in storms and floods where marine life die
Because of those things, okay?
Some some marine life require movement in order to breathe well if you know if you have
that type of storm and they're incapacitated they die and so
You know and here's the thing is that you know
Obviously, I don't think all types of dinosaurs existed. There's certain dinosaurs there for sure
I'm just like that that's got to be fake like you know, I'll give you an example
You know, I feel like as of recently
The Ketsukultis is like a thing now. How many know what I'm talking about Ketsukultis
Does anybody know what I'm talking about only one person? It's this massive pterodactyl the size of a giraffe
Okay, and it like walks with its wings. It's huge huge pterodactyl
And I'm thinking to myself, you know, when I was a kid,
I just don't remember anybody ever talking about that thing.
Why is it that it just came up now, you know?
And so they're like, well, we find bones or whatever,
but I'm not sure if that's 100% true.
For sure we know that dinosaurs such as Leviathan existed.
We know that behemoth existed.
The point that I'm making here is the fact
that obviously dinosaurs were a part of the ark.
And afterwards, maybe some of them went extinct.
Maybe some of them were used in order for men to gain honor.
Because it's just like it's a thing of manhood
to say, hey, if you can kill that velociraptor or whatever,
or that, you know.
T-Rex, you know, you're in the club or something and obviously many provide meat also
For for for people as noted with Leviathan
That God destroyed Leviathan and gave his body to be meat for the people. Okay, so obviously it provides food
Now another thing I want to mention is that the Bible talks about the animals going into the Ark 2x2 because God wants them to mate
But the only exception to this was the clean animals
He took them in pairs of seven because once they got off the Ark there were to be used as animal sacrifices thereafter
Look at Genesis chapter 7 if you would Genesis chapter 7
So we we know to the fact that the Ark is the picture of Jesus Christ and it is
But it also pictures the rapture
Okay, how so we'll look at verse 9 of Genesis chapter 7
Actually, you look at verse 10
It says and it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth in
The 600th year of Noah's life in the second month the 17th day of the month
The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were open and the rain was upon the earth forty and forty days and forty nights in the self same day entered Noah and Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his son with them into the ark.
So what is it saying?
That's when the fountains of the broke open the rain started to descend so when did judgment come upon the earth as soon as they
Went into the ark okay now look at Luke chapter 17 go to Luke chapter 17 if you would hold your place there in Genesis Luke chapter 17
Luke 17 in verse 26 it says as it was in the days of noe referring to Noah
So shall it be also in the days of the Son of man?
They did eat. They drank. They married wives. Of course, we saw that in Genesis 6, right?
They were given in marriage
until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
He gives us another example of this this is likewise also as it was in the days of law
They did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they build it
But the same day that law went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all
Even though shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed
So what do we see here? We see that Noah and the Ark picture the rapture
Because as soon as they went into the ark, that's when the flood came.
Well, in the book of Revelation, as soon as the rapture takes place,
God begins to baptize the earth with what? Fire.
He begins to rain upon the earth fire and brimstone, right?
He begins to burn the entire earth and scorch it with heat. We see that in Revelation chapter
8 and 9 where he begins to fill the earth with fire. Go to 2nd Peter chapter 3 if you would 2nd Peter chapter 3.
So just as God baptized the water baptized the earth with water in Genesis chapter 6 in like manner
He will baptize it with fire in the end of time
But when does it take place as soon as they get into the ark?
When does it take place as soon as the rapture happens? This is why we hold to a post-trib
Pre-wrath rapture last time I checked Noah wasn't drowning in the flood
Last time I checked no one his kids aren't in the floods when we let me in let me in and he pulls them in or something like that
You know, that's not taking place as soon as they go into the arc. That's when it begins to rain
That's when the flood takes place well as soon as we're raptured
That's when God's wrath is poured out upon this earth via the seven trumpets and seven vials
Look at 2nd Peter chapter 3 and verse number 3 it says knowing this first that there shall come in in the last day
Scoffers walking after their own lust and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things
Continue as they were from the beginning of the creation
So what is the same? It's saying that when the end comes, in the end times, there's going to be people making fun of you and making fun of me about the second coming of Christ, right?
They're going to mock us. They're going to say, where is that promise of His coming? All things continue as it were.
So if the Bible is telling us that that's what they're going to say in the end times, and they're saying it to us now, don't you think that people were saying it to Noah then?
Don't you think that he probably had scoffers same? Where is the promise of this rain?
Where is the promise of this flood? Where is the promise of his coming?
All things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. No, no new thing under the Sun my friends
Says in verse 5, for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God
The heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water
Parished meaning that everyone knows about the flood
Doesn't matter if you're a Christian every society knows about the flood, but they are willingly ignorant of the flood
Because it's essentially proving the fact that God will judge the world once again
And he says in verse seven, but the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store
Reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
He's saying the same word that was preached by Noah about the flood and the water and the rain and the fountains of the
Debra can open. This is the same word by which
Fire will be against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Okay, and what are we preaching? We're preaching fire
We're saying God's gonna judge the world one day God is gonna come and he's gonna destroy the world
This is what the Bible says seven trumpets and seven vials get into the Ark go get in the Ark
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ every single day we go out there. We're not gonna endorse
We're saying are you 100% sure that if you died today you go to heaven. What are we saying?
Are you 100% sure that you're in the Ark?
Have you reserved your spot in the Ark? Why because judgment is coming
Judgment is coming and so we see here that
This is a picture of the rapture go to Genesis chapter 8 if you would Genesis chapter 8
So God sends this flood
Kills everyone all the animals all of mankind except for Noah
And you know people atheists criticize this they're like are you trying to tell me?
That everyone in this earth came from Noah and his sons
And I think to myself what aren't you trying to tell me that everyone came from a rock?
We all came from like a monkey
Look in the mirror, bro
At least mine's believable because I'm saying that everything brings forth after its own kind
You're saying that I came from a rock
You're okay. You're saying that I came from a stock that I came from some primordial soup
There's is the fairy tale my friends
So they're destroyed now of course after this takes place and God tells them they can get out of the ark
This is when changes come about look at Genesis 8 verse 15
I'm sorry verse 21 says the Lord smell they sweet savor and the Lord said in his heart. I will not again
Curse the ground any more for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth
Neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done
So after he's done destroying the world and they come you know
They get out of the ark they go into land to start a new life
God basically smells the sacrifice that they make and he makes the decision to never again
Do what he did in Genesis chapter 6. He said well, I thought he's gonna do it again with fire
Yeah, but the difference is with the fire, not everyone dies.
There are people that are going to live,
because people are going into the millennial reign and so forth.
A lot of people will die.
A third part of man are destroyed and such.
But at the capacity that we see here in Genesis 6,
it's never going to happen.
The volume of people that are going to die where only eight
people are living, it's never going to happen again.
And he explains why.
He says, the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth.
Because he's basically saying the reason I will not destroy the earth is because even when I do
Doesn't matter who's born in this world. They're just they're they're evil from their youth
So even when you put a person in a perfect environment
Where he's cleansed the world what do we have we have the Tower of Babel?
You have all types of wickedness taking place still evil taking place still
Environment helps absolutely
Environment can be beneficial to a person but at the end of the day, having only the environment will not help.
How do we know that? Well, look at Adam and Eve.
In a perfect environment, perfect conditions, perfect atmosphere, perfect fruit, they're walking with God in the cool of the day and here we are today.
You know, mankind is just doomed because people were placed in a perfect environment.
And it's almost as if God is saying, you know what, the reason I'm not going to destroy the earth again is because this is just how man is.
Showing us, teaching us through Genesis chapter 8, that the solution is not a perfect environment, the solution is God.
The solution is the Savior. The solution is regeneration through the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ.
The solution is eternal life, right?
The solution is to put off this old man and put on the new man.
And ultimately the overall solution is that the earth has to perish and a new earth has to be created
So he's saying you know, I'm not gonna smite any more living thing as I have done look at verse 11
Go back to 11 he says I will establish my covenant with you neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of flood
Neither shall there be any more excuse me neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth
And God said this is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature
That is with you for perpetual generations
I do set my bow in the clouds and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth
and shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
And I remember my covenant which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh
and the water shall no more become a flood
to destroy all flesh.
So literally the rainbow was instituted
as a reminder to God that when it rains and it floods
that he will not allow it to essentially overcome
the entire world where it kills everyone, right?
Define irony, right?
You know, this is what the rainbow is for the rainbows beautiful my friends. I love the rainbow
I think it's a beautiful symbol. I think it's a godly symbol and
You know I thank God for the rainbow because it's constantly reminding God don't wipe us all out
But yeah, you have a bunch of queers a bunch of reprobates
Bunch of fags out there that want to pervert the rainbow and you know what it is?
It's a self-fulfilled prophecy on their end because what they're doing is tempting the Lord our God
By using the rainbow that God says this is my reminder that I will not destroy the earth and what are they doing?
They're like yeah, don't destroy me, but you know what God is gonna destroy them
God's gonna send every filthy fact to hell after they died. That's what the Bible teaches
That is what the word of God says and you know what?
I don't care if this goes out on internet land and someone clips it
It's fact I've always preached this because the rainbow is a godly symbol of God's mercy and God's grace upon our lives as
human beings
But these bunch of reprobate sodomites just want to use that and you know what they're doing there
They're mocking God is what they're doing
They're mocking the Bible with that is what they're doing. They're tempting the Lord our God by perverting the rainbow
You know, even though I love the rainbow. I'm just never gonna wear the rainbow though. There's just been desecrated
You know, I love the rainbow, but I ain't gonna have no rainbow flags outside my door or anything like that
Why because then it's been perverted
You know just like gay is a great word
That means happy, but I'm just not gonna be like I'm a gay dude
You know the etymology of gay is great and everything and it means happy
But you know what they've perverted that the way they do to everything
They've molested the word gay just like they've molested the rainbow
You know and when it rains I look for the rainbow
Because when I look at I'm like God's at the same time looking at this rainbow and
And you know when he looks upon it he remembers what he did
He remembers that he destroyed the world
He did it. He was right there when it happened and when I look at our think of Genesis chapter 6
And I think to myself like God and by the way, let me just say this is that yeah, it was violent back then
But it's violent today, too
It was idolatrous then but it's idolatrous here, too
So you know you don't think God is equally mad today at the world as he was in the days of Noah of course
In fact, the Bible says that it shall be as the days of Noah, meaning that the same exact wicked sins will be taking place in the end times, as it was in the days of Noah.
Do you know the thing God, when he looks down at the world and sees all the filth and the perversion and the wickedness and the violence?
He doesn't think, man, I just flood the world.
I could just flood all these people, but then he sees the rainbow and he's just like, I made a covenant.
Because God's not a true spraker.
Look at verse 22.
He says, while the earth remaineth, see time, and harvest, and cold, and heat, and summer, and winter, and day, and night shall not cease.
What is this telling us? It's telling us that God promises us that the seasons will never end, even into the millennial rain and the new heaven and earth.
Seasons will continue according to this verse. Go to chapter 9 if you will. Chapter 9,
and we're almost done here.
Chapter 9 look at verse 1 it says in God bless no one his sons and said unto them be fruitful multiply and
Replenish the earth and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth
Upon every foul the air upon all that move it upon the earth
Upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered?
So we see here that the metabolic composition of the animal kingdom changes
And he also says in verse 3 every moving thing that liveth shall be me for you
Even as the green herb have I given you all things but flesh with the life
thereof which is the blood thereof shy not eat so this seems to imply that
prior to the flood everyone was essentially vegetarian okay but now
every moving thing that liveth is meat for human beings which by the way this
All that good stuff, right? Like what I thought this is forbidden in the Old Testament
Yeah, during the Levitical period, which is a temporary era
In order to picture something else so whoever lived during that Levitical era man, you know God bless you guys, you know
Moses never got to taste what bacon tastes like
Or maybe he did I don't know because he was in Egypt for a good amount of time. Maybe he did
But whoever was born in that era and died in that era, never got to enjoy shrimp, or anything else like that.
But prior to this, people are eating what people would consider, what the Levitical Law would consider to be, unclean animals, okay?
Because every moving thing that lives shall be meat for them.
And then lastly, look at verse 5,
And surely your blood of your lives will I require, at the hand of every breeze will I require it, and at the hand of man.
And at the hand of every man's brother,
will I require the life of man?
Whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed
for the image of God made he man."
So I said, at that point, he institutes the death penalty.
And may there be no person during this time that says,
why, God?
It's just like, look at this pre-flood world.
Filled with violence, killing people,
taking away the lives of the innocent.
Just unfettered murder throughout the entire world and not just murder various forms of violence
So at this point God says okay now man's blood shall be shed for man
Okay, why because when you kill man you're killing someone who's made in the image of God
So therefore the death penalty is instituted not necessarily as the nation of Israel just for mankind in general
So when people are like, oh, you know, yeah, that's Old Testament. That was under the Levitical law
Actually, we're in Genesis still
And in Genesis, the Bible says that the punishment for murder is death.
This is prior to the Levitical Law being instituted.
What do we learn this evening?
Well, we learn that God doesn't mess around.
You know, we learn that the Ark is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ.
And what we're doing is what Noah did.
The difference is we're telling people to get into the Ark.
And who knows? Maybe that is what he was telling them.
To get into the ark, right? He's probably telling them like this is why I'm building this get into the ark
but obviously just as
You know today a lot of people did probably didn't listen to him
They probably mocked him the price scoffed at what he was saying
But you know what? He kept building anyways. He kept preaching anyways and became the air of righteousness
Another thing that we see here is that it's a picture of a rapture
Okay, and at the end of the day the greatest lesson that we can learn from Genesis 6 is that God is a God of judgment
God is a God of justice, but let me also say this. He's also a God who keeps his promise
He's a God who's faithful. He's not a truce breaker. He's not a covenant breaker
You know, whatever promises he's made not just the one that we see here with humanity
Just every promise of God is yay. The Bible says in him is yay like it's gonna be fulfilled
And so let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word and we're so thankful for the promises you've given to us in the Bible, Lord.
We're thankful for the Genesis 6 account 7 and 8, Lord, as well.
And Lord, may you help us to realize the severity of your judgment, Lord.
And knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
We go out and preach the gospel, we try to get people saved and help people to live
righteously so that they're not under the wrath of God as an unsafe person, but just
that saved people too.
We warn them of God's wrath that could come upon them on this earth for their disobedience
to the word of God.
Help us as your people, Lord, to not soon forget the things that we heard this evening.
Bless us as we go on our way.
We love you and we thank you.