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Genesis 6:5
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Eve chose the wrong knowledge to satisfy her appetite for wisdom, plus she fed it to Adam. Sadly she had
chosen the Tree of Good and Evil over the Tree of Life. Their thoughts were no longer God's thoughts,
nor were their ways His. In seeking advice and counsel from Satan, their bright nature darkened, they were drawn to evil as they became more like him. Their hearts grew cold and hard, their minds were easily swayed. Satan's lies and evil thinking were the foundation of their intellect. Rebellion and lawlessness became their second nature. As time marched on, mankind became more and more wicked, very disappointing to their Creator.
Genesis 6:6-7
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
Understanding that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, let us read on in verses 11-13.
Genesis 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 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.
In looking at scripture we see God did not destroy the planet, but rather the
world that evolved from man's warped intellect. In the Strongs Hebrew dictionary 776, the number of earth, could just as easily have been translated world, and 127, soil, redness, ground, land.
Our proof is in Genesis 6:17-19.
17 And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
18 But I will establish My covenant with you (Noah); and you shall go into the ark - you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
So, what had creation done to make God so angry?
Genesis 6:2 tells us:
2 that the sons of God (angels) saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
Angels are heavenly beings, people are earthly. Two different species. Thus their offspring would not be a creation of God. Enoch, the 7th from Adam, explained it this way.
Enoch 15:3, 8-12
3 Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men (they were not holy, they were descendants of Eve) and taken to yourselves wives, and done like children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons.
8 And now the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on their earth shall be their dwelling.
9 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called (They are not of God).
[10 As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] (Destroys the theory that we live in a city up in heaven in the end!)
11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offenses (They live through mankind! They need our bodies to function here on earth. They are spirits).
12 And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them (they will especially attack women).
The offspring or children of the
cross between angels and women are eternal spirits that had to give up their physical bodies at the time of the flood. They remained alive in the supernatural however as unseen evil spirits that plague us today. Their fathers, the fallen angels, are locked up for judgment.
Peter said in II Peter 2:4-5,
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
What does all this have to do with the world around us today? Plenty! These spirits are still alive and well, operating through unsuspecting mankind today.
Now let us go back to Enoch.
Enoch 7:1-5
1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them (all descendants of Eve), and they taught them charms and enchantments (witchcraft), and the cutting of roots (for the medicine bag of the shamans), and made them acquainted with plants (poppies {opium}, peyote {hallucinogenics}, psilocybin or magic mushrooms etc. just a sample of the plants that in the end man would become addicted to).
2 And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells (not a creature of God):
3 Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them (all man had stored for himself was gone),
4 The giants turned against them and devoured mankind (they became cannibals).
5 And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
Look around you at the state of man today, which is only a glimpse of the moral decay of the world around us. It's just like in Noah's day! The enemy is still at fault and, more frightening, try to imagine what
God's wrath will do this time! For instance, spirits of addiction have claimed such a large percent of humanity even though Christ came to set us free. If not caught up in alcohol, drugs or food, many are held captive to the more subtle, sneaky, hidden addictions such as lust, perversion etc. All
ensnares and leads man in rebellion against Kingdom law and God's nature. The enemy is by nature mean, cruel and destructive. As they possess or enter into man they control their minds and use their bodies to attack one another, destroy God's creation, be it people, animals, the earth itself. Hideous crimes are executed by them through man. They
bring depression, afflict our health, both mental and physical. They are behind the wealth of the unrighteous and the poverty of the just. In fact, through man they have had the upper hand in shaping this world as we know it, its systems, its culture, all is good and evil, exactly like their leader. Good enough to go unchallenged, unnoticed, bad enough to eradicate man from this planet. The knowledge Eve chose for man is void of understanding demonic influence. If man could grasp just how severely they have been used by the enemy, they would truly be appalled.
These evil spirits have caused man to be corrupt, destructive, and accusing towards one another. Much of the population is so spiritually blinded and held captive mentally by the enemy they
do not believe in God or the Devil. They are limited to what they can see and touch physically. How spiritually dead they are, how depraved their minds, and where will they be when the wrath of God is loosed? I guess like in Noah's day they will be doing their own thing, living life as the enemy wills. But, as God's people begin to
feed on the knowledge of God their spiritual eyes begin to open. Through the gift of discernment they are beginning to see the real source of the outbursts of anger, rages of jealousy, killings etc.
Man was originally created to be loving, but they are now the complete opposite. They have been fashioned for thousands of years, since the garden, by the hand of the adversary. God is many times blamed for the sorry plight we are in or we blame each other. All along the
evil that has entered our lives is instigated by the same crafty creature that misled Eve as well as through the influence of his evil followers. Thanks to them, man has made other gods, corrupted the earth with violence, not only crossed species of animals, but crossed themselves with animals! On and on, all taught to them by the fallen angels. Please, please, please, can we see the comparison of then and now?
The good news is, Jesus came to set the captives free from the enemy. But we must first realize we are in prison, that we are
bound by cords of iniquity to past humanity and walking under their curses. It is the same with today's generation, we must separate. Remember our newspaper clips?
In closing, scripture tells us we are in a new cycle. The 8
th day since man was created has just dawned. As the
born again firstfruits of this age we must be circumcised from the world, set aside, and equipped to be a body member Christ can function through to enlighten His people, establish His covenants, make known His promises and bring about restoration to earth and all on it. Through us He will
set the captives free of the enemy.