Coachlight Bible Study – The Flood – Lesson 2
Coachlight Bible
Study – Genesis Lesson XVIII
The Flood – Lesson 2
Application In The Study Of The
Flood
Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees,
when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of
God cometh not with observation: {with…: or, with outward shew}
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
Luke 17:22 And he said unto the
disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the
days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luke 17:23 And they shall say to
you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luke 17:24 For as the lightning,
that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the
Son of man be in his day.
Luke 17:25 But first must he
suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the
days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the
Son of man.
Luke 17:27 They did eat, they
drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed
them all.
Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born
unto them,
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God
saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all
which they chose.
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My
spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his
days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days;
and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old,
men of renown.
I. The First Age
A. The Two Lines From Adam
The
Descendants Of Cain – Genesis |
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Name |
Meaning of
the Name |
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1. Enoch |
“Dedication or Commencement” |
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2. Irad |
“Townsman” |
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3. Mehujael |
“God Gives Life” |
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4. Methusael |
“God’s Man |
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5. Lamech |
“Conquerer” |
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The
Wives Of Lamech |
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Name |
Meaning of
the Name |
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1. Adah |
“Ornament” |
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2. Zillah |
“Shade” |
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The
Sons Of Lamech |
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Name |
Meaning Of
The Name |
Accomplishments |
1. Jabal |
“Wanderer” |
Invented The Tent |
Domesticated Cattle |
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2. Jubal |
“Sound” |
Invented Stringed & Wind Instruments |
3. Tubalcain |
“Etymology suggests that it is the progenitor of the
Roman god Vulcan” |
Invented Metalurgy - Made
Bronze & Iron Weapons & Tools |
The Cainites Attempts To Thwart The Effects Of The Curse |
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Name |
Meaning of the Name |
1. Some Preferred
Urban Life Rather Than Tilling The Ground |
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2. Some Preferred
Nomadic Lifestyles Rather Than Agriculture |
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3. Metal Working
And Tools To Make The Effects Of The Curse Less |
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4. Music To Try
To Sooth The Soul Afflicted By The Curse |
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5. Polygamy
Introduced Rather Than God’s Monogamous Marriage |
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6. Metal Weapons
Introduced To Give The Tribe Using Them An Edge |
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7. Poetic
Boasting To Assert Man’s Self Sufficiency And Pride |
The Descendants
Of Seth – Genesis |
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Name |
Meaning of the Name |
1. Enos |
“Mortal Frailty” |
2. Cainan |
“Smith” |
3. Mahalaleel |
“God Be Praised” |
4. Jared |
“Descent” |
5. Enoch |
“Dedication” |
6. Methuselah |
“When He Dies, Jugement” |
7. Lamech |
“Conquerer” |
8. Noah |
“Rest” |
The contrast is striking between the two lines.
For instance, the seventh in line from Adam on Cain’s line gives a rebellious proclamation of doubt in God’s Word, while the seventh in line on Seth’s side, believes God’s Word, and is ruptured without dying.
However at the end of the first age both lines were corrupted:
Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
B. How Many People In The First Age?
Using the assumption that every pre flood family had only six kids, consisting of three sons and three daughters, and that these kids married and had kids before their parents were eighty years old – very, very conservative assumption, then….
During Cain’s Life – 1st 800 Years |
At The Time Of The Flood |
120,000
People Inhabiting Earth |
7 Billion
People Inhabiting Earth |
C. The Atmosphere Before The Flood
The Pre-Flood Atmosphere - Very Different From Today & The
Future |
1. Water vapor would reflect much of the
incoming radiation – A Global Greenhouse Formed – Uniform warm temperature
all over the earth |
2. With uniform temperature- No great air
mass movements – No windstorms |
3. With no global wind - No rain except over
the water, but it would evaporate immediately |
4. With no global wind – No dust particles
in atmosphere to implement rain |
5. Comfortable uniform humidity by local
evaporation and condensation – dew and ground fog in each day-night cycle |
6. With adequate warm temperatures and
humidity - No deserts or ice caps, but there would be Lush vegetation
everywhere. |
7. With water vapor filtering out cosmic
rays, etc., - No mutations – Long life |
8. With water canopy – high hyperbaric
pressure – adds to longevity |
9. The water canopy would later provide the
means to effect the flood |
Vapor Canopy Will Be Restored In The Millennium And New Earth |
Psalm 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye
waters that be above the heavens. Psalm 148:6 He hath also stablished
them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. |
II.
“Daughters of men” and “sons of God”.
A. "Daughters of men" - (Hebrew, singular; the man Adam, therefore not the daughters of Cain, Seth, or men in general)
B. "Sons of God" - Seth did not have a son until 235 years after Creation; and his son did not have a son until 325 years after Creation. (Genesis 5:3,6,9)
1. They could not have been sons of Seth, for these marriages took place when men began to multiply - in the very beginning of the race before Seth had sons of
Marriageable age.
2. The term, sons of God, proves that they were the product of God, not Seth.
3. "Sons of God" were the fallen angels of I Peter 3:19; II Peter 2:4; and Jude 6:7
I Peter
I Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in
the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
I Peter
I Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once
the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
I Peter
I Peter
II Peter
II Peter 2:4 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 unto judgment;
II Peter 2:5 And spared not the
old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness,
ringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Jude 1:6 And 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.
D. “Sons of God” – Bene Elohim –
Phrase used in Job – All Mean Angels
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when
the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
and Satan came also among them.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day
when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. {hast…:
Heb. knowest understanding}
Job 38:5 Who hath laid the
measures thereof, if thou knowest? or
who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6 Whereupon
are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
Job 38:7 When
the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
E. A Similar Terms Also Mean
Angels
1. – Bar Elohim – Means A
Theophany or Angel
Daniel 3:25 He answered and
said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have
no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. {they…:
Chaldee, there is no hurt in them}
2. Bene
Elim –
a. Psalm 29:1 <<A Psalm of
David.>> Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give
unto the LORD glory and strength. {ye mighty: Heb. ye
sons of the mighty}
b. Psalm 89:6 For
who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who
among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
III. Giants and sons of God
Genesis 6:4 There were giants
in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in
unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became]
mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
A. Five Facts About Giants
and the sons of God.
1. Giants have lived on earth and are found in many Scriptures.
a. Known as Nephelim
– Numbers
b. They Were Descendants Of Anak
c. Known As The Anakim
2. The fact that giants have no resurrection (Isaiah 26:14) proves that
giants were not ordinary men. All
ordinary men are to be resurrected (John
3. The fact that giants came only from a union of sons of God and daughters of men proves that their fathers were not ordinary men of the Adamite stock. No such monstrosities have been nor can be produced from a union of ordinary men and women, regardless of how righteous the father was or how wicked the mother was.
4. God's law of reproduction
from the beginning has been to every thing his own kind. It is not possible then, that giants could be produced by men
and women. (Genesis
5. Moses also knew of giants in his time. - Moses probably inserted Mighty men of old, men of renown
B. The fallen angels sin was fornication is
given in Jude 6-7, with the example of
Jude 6 And
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.
Jude 7 Even as Sodom and
Gomorra, 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.
IV.
Earth Filled With Violence
Last Days Of Noah’s Era Foreshadow This Age’s
Last Days |
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Conditions Of The Era |
Scripture References |
Preoccupation With
Physical Appetites |
Luke 17:27 |
Rapid Advances In
Technology |
Genesis 4:22 |
Grossly
Materialistic Attitudes & Interests |
Luke 17:28 |
Uniformatarian Phylosophies |
Hebrews 11:7 |
Inordinate
Devotion To Pleasure & Comfort |
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No Concern For God
In Either Belief Or Conduct |
II Peter 2:5; Jude
15 |
Disregard For
Sacredness Of The Marriage Relation |
Matthew 24:38 |
Rejection Of Yhe Inspired Word Of God |
I Peter 3:19 |
Population
Explosion |
Genesis 6:1, 11 |
Widespread
Violence |
Genesis 6:11, 13 |