(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) So Genesis chapter 6, this is a famous passage dealing with Noah and God pronouncing that he's going to flood the earth. Now this chapter doesn't cover the flood itself, chapter 7 and 8 really get into that. And so this is really the build up to that. But I tell you what, I don't know of a chapter in the Bible that people have used to pull out false doctrine more than chapter 6. And it's amazing because this chapter isn't that long. This is a very short chapter, 22 verses, and there's not, I mean, they pull stuff out of here and it's like out of one verse and you're like, where in the world did you get all that from? And so it's like Genesis 1-1 and 1-2 and somehow there's like this whole like millions of years of pre-animate civilization somewhere in between those lines. And you're like, that's a big deal. That's a big amount of information there, right? That's not there obviously. But here the same thing. So I want to talk about what this chapter is saying, but I also want to cover what it's not saying too. So I'll give you some of the crazy things that some of them you may never heard of. But I would imagine that a lot of you probably heard what they've said about this passage. But the first thing, notice in verse 1 and 2 it says, And 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 they took them wives of all which they chose. Now the first thing that I want to make mention of is that the sons of God are not angels. I'm just going to come out and say it. They're not angels. This is just stupidity. But if you look at these other versions, I believe in the NIV it says angels, but then it has a footnote saying in the original language it says sons of God. They just automatically change it. Even though they know that in the originals it doesn't say angels, it says sons of God. And so we know what sons of God are, but go to Hebrews chapter 1, and if anybody ever brings this up to you and says, Oh, these sons of God, they're actually angels, take them to this verse. This verse will shut them down. And so I want to show you this, that no angel has ever been called a son of God. And so that's the first thing that we have to see is that these are not angels. And then I'll show you why people try to say that or verses they try to use to say that they're angels, but Hebrews 1, 5 says this, it says, For unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. Now it doesn't get any clearer than that. He says, When did he ever say to any angel at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? And it says, And I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And they'll say, Well, you know, this is the argument, I'll give you some of the arguments, they say, Well, this isn't, this is talking about Jesus, though. So there's no angel that they said was the son of God. So that's their argument. Okay. Now, it doesn't stick, okay, because he's begotten us all unto a lively hope. And it says that, you know, we're adopted sons, and all that. So obviously, this isn't just talking about Jesus. Obviously, it is definitely talking about Jesus in direction here. But notice what it says, in that same verse, it says, And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. Go to Second Samuel, chapter seven. This is actually a quotation of what God said about Solomon. And so, if you want more proof that this, this isn't just talking about Jesus, although it does apply to Jesus, if you think of the son of David, who's the son of David, Solomon, but who is the son of David, what they call Jesus, the son of David, the son of David, right, thou son of David, we already covered this, how he's of the seed of David. And so obviously, Solomon was a picture of Christ. But he did say this to Solomon, that he was going to be his father, and he was going to be his son. So this was particularly said to Solomon. So notice in Second Samuel, chapter seven, Second Samuel, chapter seven, and verse 13. So Second Samuel, chapter seven, and verse 13, it says, He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men. So we know that this is definitely not just talking about Jesus, because Jesus wasn't chasing for his iniquity, you know, as far as that goes. But if you go to First Chronicles, chapter 28, this is where, so obviously, if you know how Chronicles works, First Chronicles covers First Samuel and Second Samuel. And then Second Chronicles covers the kings. So it's just a recap. So First Chronicles, chapter 28, and verse six says the same thing, but it calls him out by name. It says, And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. So do you see how that's a quotation, and I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son? Obviously that's, he's referencing it to Jesus in Hebrews chapter one, right, because all of these references are pointing to Jesus. But who did he say it to, to begin with? He said it to Solomon. And so this whole idea that the sons of God are angels falls out the window, for unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? But who are the sons of God? Well, John 1.12 is one of the most famous verses on this, it says, But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. And so it's clear that you're all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, it's by faith. He took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. So angels cannot become sons of God. And so this whole idea in Genesis six that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, what they say about this is that fallen angels came down and procreated with, with, with, with women, and had these half breed angel men, you know, creatures. I know it sounds like a sci fi novel, right? But that's literally what they try to say. And then they say, that's where the giants came from, or we're gonna get into the giants too. But it's just ludicrous, because, you know, not all flesh is the same flesh. And just as much as you can't breed a donkey with a dog, it's not going to happen between an angel and a human being. They're not the same flesh, you can't procreate. And so this whole idea that these half breeds, and there's all kinds of weird doctrine, I'm telling you, this is where they say, well, this is the seed of Satan, you know, and they try to say all this weird stuff, the Nephilim, and all this stuff. You know how many times Nephilim is mentioned in the Bible in English? Zero. So anybody that says Nephilim to you is not reading the King James Bible, they're going back to some other language. I'll tell you, I'll show you what they call giants. They call them the Zamzummims and the Emims, they didn't call them the Nephilim. But anyway, but where do they get, okay, where do they, where are they going to attribute the fact that they're angels? Because here, when you read this, did you see angels? Do you see them coming down from heaven? Do you see anything that would insinuate? Now if you know your New Testament, and obviously New Testament's a lot clearer on this, and you see sons of God, would you even bat an eye and think that this is anything other than just believers? They're just Christian men, right? They're just believers that are men, and but Job, what they do with this is they say, well, these are angels because we know that people in the Old Testament didn't go to heaven because Job shows the sons of God in heaven. Or do we know that? Okay, see how this is a big snowball? It goes into that, it goes into dispensationalism, it's just this big snowball into the pre-trib, all this garbage, okay? And it starts in Genesis 6 where they say that these angels came down and like had these half-breed human angel babies, okay? So I know it's weird, it's really just doesn't sound that stupid when you say it out loud, but go to Job chapter 1, and I want to show you actually the only other places that sons of God are ever mentioned besides Genesis 6 and Job here, and then obviously in the New Testament, sons of God are mentioned. So from Genesis 6, there's nothing there that you would say this isn't just believers. These aren't just Christian men. Now Job chapter 1 and verse 6, this is a famous story where Satan is basically talking with God. So Job chapter 1 and verse 6 it says, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the same thing happens in Job 2, 1, where it says, And 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. Now this makes perfect sense that this would be believers, because in Revelation chapter 12, the accuser of our brethren is cast out of heaven. Do you know Satan's still up in heaven accusing the brethren? Until he's cast out, the Michael the archangel casts him and his whole angels out, completely out of heaven. Now obviously they're coming to and fro, and if you read Job that's what he's doing, because he's not saying, you know, what have you been doing, and going to and fro through the earth, right? But he comes back to heaven, and what's he doing? Accusing Job and saying, you know, no, he won't serve thee if you do this and do this. So it matches up perfectly with Revelation chapter 12, that this would be, and so what they say is that Satan's coming up there and these sons of God are his minions coming with them. Okay? Now read that carefully. Now, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them. It didn't say that he came with them, or that he came in and they came with them. It says they presented themselves to the Lord and then Satan came among them. Okay? So they're coming to the Lord in heaven and Satan's coming in there and he starts accusing Job. So, or accusing the brethren, so to speak, and then that's where God says, have you considered my servant Job, right? But Job 38 is where it comes down to, and I know I kind of covered this a little bit, but I want to kind of nail this down. Job 38 is where they're going to try to really pull this, that sons of God are angels, okay? And so Job 38 in verse 6, so obviously this is where God is answering Job out of the whirlwind, and he's basically giving them a whole bunch of questions that Job knows he doesn't have the answer to, okay? And basically just showing them, hey, I've been here before you. But this is where, you know, they'll try to trip you up with this and try to say that these are angels. So, so far we see nothing that would insinuate that these are angels. But notice Job 38 in verse 6, it says, whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Now when you read Job 38, he's talking about laying the foundation of the world, but then he says that the morning, when the morning stars and the sons of God shouted for joy. So their argument is that when the foundation of the earth was laid, man wasn't even made yet. Therefore, ergo, you know, that's where the sons of God had to be angels then. But you have to understand that, go to Romans chapter 4, I want to make this point really quick first of all. Because I believe this is prophecy, actually, I'll show you all the other places that cornerstones mention. Don't worry, it's only three other places, so, but I'll show you all the other places cornerstones mention because notice in Job 38 it says, who laid the cornerstone thereof? And so we're going to talk about what that cornerstone is talking about, but I want to make a point here first of all. Romans chapter 4 and verse 17, Romans chapter 4 and verse 17, it says, as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Now why is he saying that? Because if you look back as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations. He said that to him before he even had Isaac, okay? So he's calling those things which be not as though they were, meaning that it hasn't happened yet, but he's saying it in the present tense, okay? If you read Isaiah 53, what you'll find is stuff that's in the present tense, past tense, future tense, and it's all talking about Jesus dying on the cross. So when you're dealing with prophecies, it doesn't always have to say in the future. Sometimes it puts it in the past. And so what we'll see with the cornerstone, go to Isaiah chapter 28, Isaiah chapter 28, and I kind of just want to nail this down and just put this to bed, that the sons of God are always talking about believers. It's either the son of God, which is Jesus Christ, or it's believers that have put their faith in Christ. The only way that He's given us power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. That's what the Bible talks about, is that we'd be adopted sons because we've been begotten through the Gospel, through faith in Jesus Christ. The angels did not believe on Christ, and furthermore, they say that these sons of God are fallen angels. Not even just angels, but they're the angels that left their first estate, and who's reserved in the blackness and darkness forever. That's what's crazy about this, is that these are fallen angels, that they say the sons of God are. Okay? So it's stupidity. But anyway, Isaiah 28, so I'm going to show you the three mentions besides Job where it mentions cornerstone. Isaiah 28 verse 16, it says, therefore thus saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation, he that believeth shall not make haste. Can you take a guess who that's talking about? Because that's quoted in 1 Peter chapter 2. So you don't have to turn there, but if you want to, 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 6 says, wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, behold I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. So two of the mentions that are after this are literally the same mention, it's just one's quoting Isaiah 28. But the other mention is in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 20, can you take a guess who it's talking about? I think you already know. Ephesians 2, 20, 2, 20, and it says, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. There's all your mentions. So who, what's that talking about in Job where it says when he laid the cornerstones in the morning star, when the morning stars and the sons of God shouted for joy. It's talking about Jesus. Now furthermore, just proof as far as, well you say, well where does it show like the sons of God, you know, rejoicing in it, you know, when Jesus came on the scene. Go to John chapter 8, John chapter 8. So I believe that Job 38 is actually a prophecy within there of the fact that when Jesus comes, he's that cornerstone, the stone which the builders rejected, but it was made the head of the corner. When did that happen? When Jesus, you know, came in the flesh, when he was born of the virgin Mary and, you know, obviously he was rejected by his own. But in John 8, 56, notice what Jesus says to the Pharisees here. John 8, 56, it says, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad. Doesn't that sound a little familiar to Job 38 where they shouted for joy? So he saw, you know what that tells me? Well first of all, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the God of, he's the God of living not of the dead. So that means Abraham saw when he came on the scene because he's alive, because he's in heaven. And so they shouted for joy. I believe every child of God in heaven shouted for joy when Jesus came on the scene. And so I believe that's what that's teaching obviously. And so no contradiction, they are believers, it's just the fact that you've got to understand that God sometimes puts things in the past tense, present tense or future tense, but it doesn't necessarily mean when it happened exactly. He's the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, slain from the foundation of the world. Now was he actually crucified in the foundation of the world? No. But we know that he was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifesting these last times for you. And so just to help you understand scripture a little bit. Now what's this talking about then? In Genesis chapter 6, go back to Genesis chapter 6 and put your finger, we're going to go to 2 Corinthians chapter 6. So Genesis 6, 2 Corinthians chapter 6, what's this talking about? Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, simple, right? The sons of God were believers and they were marrying daughters of men, meaning that they were not saved, meaning that they were marrying unbelievers. So really what this is teaching is that what was the downfall and the spiral down? Where did it start from when this happened and then it spiraled down to where there was so much wickedness in the world that God decided to completely decimate it and destroy it? That's what started it. That's a big point to be made there and why we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Especially in marriage because this is what is going on here that basically you can honestly just see that, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. What happened? A bunch of believing men saw the beautiful, ungodly, unbelieving women and had children with them. And what happened? The whole world went to the devil. That's what happened. And so obviously it progresses, we'll see what goes on there. But in 2 Corinthians chapter 6, this is a familiar passage obviously, but in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 14 we see that this is not a good thing. Genesis 6 proves that it's not a good thing and shows the outcome of what can happen when you're unequally yoked with unbelievers. It says in verse 14, be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement hath the temple with idols for ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate said the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a father unto you and you shall be my sons and daughters said the Lord Almighty. So this is a very strong message that's being brought across here if you think about the ramifications of what started this whole thing. Obviously man had fallen already so there was already sin in the world, but when Adam felt, as we saw from our genealogy here, that over a thousand years and probably more like fifteen hundred years have gone by and he hasn't wanted to destroy the earth and everything in it. And so that's a big deal. This is the downfall of the earth right here is the fact that believers decided to get yoked up with unbelievers. So that's a big point. We need to remember this, especially if you're going to get married, the young ones and those that are going to get married, make sure that the person that you want to get married to is a believer. That's number one. That's not the only criteria you should have, but that's number one is that they should be a believer and don't even think about marriage before they're a believer because it's just going to be nothing but heartache. So I'm not saying that God obviously isn't going to flood the earth again if you get married to an unbeliever, but this is a serious issue here. So go to Genesis 6 verse 3 and notice what it says. There's definitely a lot of verses in here where people have questions. I'm going to give you what I think it's talking about. And so some of this stuff is just kind of out there and it doesn't exactly say what it is, but in Genesis 6 3 it says, and the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man for that he also is flesh, yet his day shall be in 120 years. Now this 120 years is what a lot of people will kind of speculate what is that talking about? Some people believe that it's talking about how long they'll live. I don't believe that. Now obviously that is technically, you know, like most people don't live past 120 although some people have, and people have done that after this point. So after the flood Noah lived another 150 years and then there's other people that live longer than that. Even Jacob, he was 130 when he went into sojourn in Egypt and then he lived after that, right? And so I don't believe this is talking about age because actually even when you look at age in the Bible and Psalms and stuff like that it talks about 70 and 80 is usually the lifespan you're looking at anyway, so it never usually just says 120. I believe it's talking about that's when the earth is going to be flooded, okay? So I believe that this gives us a timeline as far as when this started going down he said you got 120 years. Now Noah, what we'll see is 500 years old when I believe God has given him this task to make this ark and how old was he when the flood came, 600. So he had about 100 years there. So in chapter 6 here it says he's 500, when the floods came he was 600. So I believe that when he's saying this about, I believe that's 20 years before that then as far as when he sees all this stuff going down and he's making this decision to flood the earth. Tells Noah about it about 20 years later to say hey you need to build this ark, okay? That's what I believe. I believe it's 120 years from that point as far as that's why he's saying that. But one point I want you to see here is that the Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man. So because it says for that he also is flesh. What I believe this is dealing with, go to Proverbs chapter 29, is the fact that God will not always be, there will come a point where there's no way out. There will come a point where you'll call on him and he won't answer. And this is fleshly speaking obviously but this could happen spiritually. But I believe there can come a point where you just refuse his instruction, refuse his reproof to where there's no way out. And so that's what I believe he's saying here is that my spirit shall not always strive with man, meaning like there will come a point where he's just not going to fight you anymore on the issue. And so Proverbs 29 verse 1, notice what it says. It says he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. I believe that there comes a point where especially if you're reproved over and over and over again and you keep hardening your neck, now this is definitely a great verse for the reprobates and how they harden their hearts, harden their hearts and just keep refusing God, refusing God and then there's no more remedy for them. But this can also happen physically especially as a stubborn Christian and a backsliding Christian but I believe that this would apply back then to where basically they were just a stubborn people, they kept rebelling, rebelling, rebelling and he's just like my spirit's not always going to strive with you. Your years are 120 and you're done. That's what I believe it's saying because basically you've got 120 more years left, you're done. Your heart's getting decimated and so but go to Proverbs chapter 1, this is a famous passage but I want to read this, kind of couples with Proverbs 29 and notice God. Now this is not the God that you will find at the ecumenical church. This is not the God that you'll find on Fox News. This is not the God that you'll find anywhere but in the Bible in an actual Bible believing church. So listen what the Bible says here. In Proverbs 1 verse 23 it says, turn you at my reproof, behold I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make known my words unto you because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me but I will not answer. They shall seek me early but they shall not find me for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof, therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil. This does not exactly see what we see with Genesis chapter 6 where his spirit's not going to always strive with man for they also are flesh and he's basically giving that judgment that hey, you know, you've refused, you would not hearken unto me, you didn't choose the fear of the Lord, you're done and I'm going to laugh at your calamity, I'm going to mock when your fear cometh. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. That's what it says in Psalm chapter 2. So that's not the God that people are used to but that's the God of the Bible. He's a man of war. He's a consuming fire. Our God is a consuming fire. I am the Lord, I change not. And so that's the God of the Bible and that's what we see happening here in Genesis chapter 6 because then he goes on to say that it repented him that he had made man and he's going to destroy him. And so but go back to Genesis chapter 6, Genesis chapter 6 and verse 4. So now here's another big verse. So we already covered that the sons of God are definitely believers and that's why it's making a distinction. That's not why I just said so men went out and married some daughters of men. You know it's that okay that's been going on and obviously it's been going on for thousands of years or whatever up to that point. But the big distinction is he's making a point that it's believers that are marrying unbelievers. That's what I believe that's saying. But in Genesis 6 verse 4 it says there were giants in the earth in those days, semi-colon. Now here's a big point I want to make with this is that the giants are not the men of renown. Okay? There's a difference. It's making this because notice it says and also after that okay so if the giants in the earth in those days were what we're about to talk about here why would it say and it says and also after that. So obviously this is something that's going on after this. It says that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bared children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. So the mighty men, the men of renown were of those children that came from the sons of God that were with the daughters of men. You know what this you know why I believe this is why it's saying this and why it's important is because I believe that those children with an unbelieving mother that probably were unbelievers themselves probably took over the world, basically took the role of everything. Okay? If they're the mighty men, men of renown that means that they're the rulers. Okay? And where the wicked rule the people perish and there's plenty of verses on that and so I believe this is kind of giving us information as far as what's going on. We see that happening today. You know sin is reproach to any people and so all the nations that forget God shall be cast into hell and all these truths that we see today I believe that's what was going on right before the flood is that it was a downward spiral to where you have these unbelievers that are having children with believers and they're basically this ecumenical movement of it doesn't matter we're all the same let's not split hairs over all this stuff and so that was the downfall and so but the giants okay there were giants in the earth in those days. Now there's different schools of thoughts. I don't necessarily believe that every single person was a giant but we will see that there's giants later. Now this is where they come in and say well the giants are are where these angels procreated with with women well we already put that the sons of God are not angels but also notice the separation there that the children that were born unto the sons of God with the with the women that's a different group than the than the giants okay but we see that after the flood because this is what they say that's why God flooded the earth. Now we're going to get into this but that is not why God flooded the earth because there were giants in the earth okay and so people have weird theories they're like they're 450 feet tall it's like okay you know spin me another yarn while you're at it but anyway so they say well that's why he flooded the earth well that's interesting because after the flood even in the books you know as we get into Moses and all that there was giants in the earth a remnant okay but I believe back then there was maybe a lot more okay so you know I don't know I couldn't say dogmatically that everybody was taller back then or or stuff like that you know we know Jesus was around our height because he was here you know 2,000 years ago I don't know I all I can go off is what the Bible says like what the tallest guy was you know we have Goliath's height which I'm going to get into and then there's another man that had a bed that was a certain length so we know that he was shorter than that length at least right or that'd be dumb to make a bed that was shorter than what you could lay on right but but go to Numbers chapter 13 and I'll show you obviously when you're in Numbers and Deuteronomy and 1 Samuel you're after the flood quite a few years after the flood but Numbers 13 and verse 33 Numbers 13 verse 33 it says and there was there was I'm sorry and there we saw the giants the son of Anak which came which come of the giants and we were in our our own site as grasshoppers and so were so we were in their site so this is actually if you remember the story in Numbers 13 is where the 12 spies go into the land they come back and 10 of them are basically afraid of these giants and they cause all of Israel to basically now they're going to all wander in the wilderness for 40 years because they then listed Joshua and Caleb but in this notice these are the people that are afraid of them they say we're as grasshoppers this is where people are like oh see they're 450 foot tall because that would be the scale of a grasshopper to a man stupidity okay now obviously we use extreme examples to show like what we're what we're up against or a comparison and that's a huge comparison obviously of grasshoppers because they were afraid but the same ones the same giants and stuff like that we actually get measurements of them because we have the measurement of Goliath and other men in the Bible that were of the giants and there was remnants of them okay so in Deuteronomy chapter chapter 2 I want to show you what they called them okay because the the Moabites had a name for them and the Ammonites had a name for them so but here's the thing we still have people that are you would classify as giants today because if you think of Goliath Goliath is a giant we'll see his measurements and then there's another man in the Bible that was of the giant and he was 7 foot 5 we know people I know people that were on the West Virginia basketball team that was 7 foot 1 okay so that's not even that tall I mean you think 7 foot is definitely tall right but that's not that tall like compared to like Andre the giant or like these other guys that are like really tall right and so there's still today you'll find people that are really tall like this they don't end up living long but that's not that's probably because after the flood but anyway Deuteronomy chapter 2 in verse 10 it says in the emens dwell therein in times past a people great and mighty and tall as the Anakims which also were accounted giants as the Anakims but the Moabites called them emens okay so he's talking about these giants that were the sons of Anak and basically they were accounted giants and Deuteronomy 2 20 we'll see the same thing really 2 20 says that also that also was accounted a land of giants giants dwelt therein in old time and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims say that five times fast so anyway we have the case that after the flood there's still these this remnant of giants okay and so we see this but here's to get some measurements no wonder they don't really tell you how tall they are you know besides the fact that the the cowards that were coming back from the promised land compared themselves to grasshoppers okay we could throw out their stupid testimony because they're not that tall okay they would see them before you even got to the land okay if they're 450 foot tall so anyway you go to first same as chapter 17 so the famous story of Goliath famous story of Goliath we see a measurement given to us first Samuel 17 verse 4 verse 4 it says there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath whose height was six cubits and a span now we're going to get into the cubits we're going to talk about the arc and its dimensions but a cubit is 18 inches okay so and then a span is half a cubit so nine inches so that means that six cubits in a span he would have been nine foot nine now that's pretty tall okay it's not 450 feet it's not 45 feet okay that's nine foot nine okay so that definitely be tall to our standards I mean that that means he's about as high as the ceiling because the ceiling's probably seven foot okay I haven't measured it but I'm just taking a guess usually the ceiling height they get they might be nine foot actually he may be taller than that maybe taller than the ceiling that's pretty high that'd be intimidating okay if I was David now that that's tall and he was considered a giant and he had brothers that were giants and one of his brothers was seven foot five and because it talks about Benaiah taking him out and so actually all of David's men took out all the Giants if you read about that that's that's probably another sermon for another day remember the guy was six fingers and six toes on each hand and foot right and it talks about how his brother took him out and he was of the giant okay so all the sons of the giant got taken out by David and his men and his brothers so anyway yeah the Giants there were giants in the earth in those days I believe that there was a lot more of them okay because when you see after the flood now obviously you got to look back at Noah only had three sons so therefore the genes had to be passed down somewhere and even today I mean the people that have children that are like really tall a lot of times the parents aren't like that tall too it's not like they they're really tall person has another really tall person it just somehow pops up in there so I believe those genes have probably been progressively getting lost right and so and plus the atmosphere that's a whole nother art another you know idea is that the atmosphere is so much different back then probably when you think of how big everything was all the dinosaurs and and everything that was you know just the pure mass of things there had to be more oxygen the atmospheric pressure is probably different so therefore they could sustain life nowadays if someone's that tall they don't live that long because their body can't sustain itself they need more oxygen they can't like handle it and so that's why you see them kind of you know fading out as you're reading through the Bible so back to Genesis chapter six so we're going along here and so I just wanted to kind of make that point about the Giants and there's actually another giant he's not a giant but all the king of Bashan I was gonna get I'll just kind of mention him but if you go to you don't have to turn there right now but AUG he was it says well we'll get that today at the end because when we're going to talk about that I'll bring up I'll bring up AUG just as another point with the Giants but AUG is mentioned in Deuteronomy and they take out AUG the king of Bashan but they talk about his bed and how tall it was and it says he was of the remnant of the Giants okay and so but in Genesis 6 5 it says and God saw that the weakness of men of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually now let here's the real reason that God destroyed the earth is this right here and so what you'll find out is him talking about violence throughout here so we see that their their thoughts and their imagination of their thoughts of the of his heart was only evil continually only evil continually look at every word there only evil continually so that means that that's all they were doing that's all their thoughts were was on the evil and so in 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 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 I will destroy them with the earth so notice why does he say the end of flesh has come before him because it's a semi-colon for the earth is filled with violence through them for you know it's another word for because so why is the end of all flesh at hand why is God destroying the earth because it's filled with violence because the imagination of their heart is evil continually only evil continually and so that's the reason that he is coming and destroying the earth with water now keep that in mind because this is something that's brought up a lot in the New Testament go to Matthew chapter 24 when we're dealing with the end times what are the two things that they are always pointing that always being pointed back to as far as when Jesus is going to come Noah in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot and those two things are always brought up when it comes to the judgment of God you have one by water and one by fire and so you can definitely see the correlations there but Noah it says as it was in the days of Noah so that gives a little more meat to that when it says as in the days of Noah what was it like in the days of Noah well their heart was only evil continually and it was filled with violence and so Matthew 24 and verse 36 it says but of the day and hour knoweth no man no not the angels of heaven but my father only but as the days of Noah were so shall also the coming of the son of man be for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the son of man be now usually you look at that and you kind of think of the flood and it makes sense right because obviously when Jesus comes when he raptures us out the wrath of God is coming on this earth that day right so we always correlate that but think about this now we see in Genesis 6 that it was filled with violence but doesn't that get a little more meat when it says they were marrying and giving in marriage when you look at what was going on in Genesis 6 what was going on believers were marrying unbelievers and that's what was going on so you see a lot of stuff like this and nowadays you see the fact that marriage is pretty much just thrown out the window and you know it's there's so much wickedness when it comes to Hollywood and what they're putting out as far as what that you shouldn't get married or if you are married I saw some article where or somewhere where they were saying that that you should like basically be with other women and other men as you're married and that's going to help your marriage I mean just wickedness just pure wickedness and the stuff that's coming out talk about you know only evil continually that their hearts and imaginations of their hearts are only evil continually but then the violence that's in our land with all the babies being murdered every single day and so do you see how Genesis 6 is really painting a picture of what the end times are going to be before God decides alright I'm done you know I promised I wasn't going to destroy it by water but it's not going to be by water this time it's going to be by fire so it's a good picture Luke chapter 17 same thing Luke 17 26 it says and as it was in the days of Noah so shall it also be in the days of the son of man they did eat they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all so I just wanted you to see that really the marriage and giving you marriage because that gives you a little more meat to that now it also is showing the fact that they're kind of just living their life they don't to them the day the Lord's going to came as a thief as a knight thief in the night right to them they think everything's hunky-dory so to speak and then you know sudden destruction comes on them as a woman in travail but we can also see the marrying and giving in marriage and just the fact that that's really kind of what started Genesis 6 that's really what started the flood is just the fall of Christianity so to speak and what's going to happen there's going to be a departing from the faith there's going to be that falling away before the son of perdition comes on the scene and so you can see all this stuff kind of the same things happening and history repeating itself but back to Genesis chapter 6 Genesis chapter 6 now we get into Noah so we can see what causes why did God say he's going to completely destroy the earth well it started that they were being unequally yoked with unbelievers then their thoughts were only evil continually there's violence if the earth was filled with violence so what was the fruit of being unequally yoked that the violence in the earth and all the all the stuff that goes with it we also talked about how remember how there was no death penalty what's the first thing that God tells them to do when they get off that ark whosoever shedeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed so that's the first that's one of the first things besides be fruitful multiplied oh by the way if anybody kills somebody in cold blood they're to be killed okay and so I believe that's another reason is that isn't it interesting that they want to take that no one wants to do death penalty today no consequences you know do you think that's a coincidence that that's what was going on back then and so the Genesis 6 verse 8 it says but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord I thought this wasn't the age of grace yet though it's interesting we haven't made it to the age of grace until Jesus comes on the scene right now 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 we talked about this when we were dealing with Enoch the only other person that talks about walking with God is Enoch and he was translated and it says that his testimony was that he pleased God and so Noah is actually a really great man now he was perfect in his generations Job was mentioned that way remember he was perfect and upright he was the most upright man in all the earth at that time that's what it said about Job and so I want to show you a passage go to Ezekiel chapter 14 because God holds Noah very high very high and actually there's three men that God holds up very high when it comes to their righteousness and Job is one of them but I want you to see this and I always think it's interesting when I'm reading through Ezekiel and it says this twice I'm only going to show you the one time but if you go down in the further in the chapter Ezekiel 14 then you'll see him mention it again Ezekiel 14 verse 14 it says these three men though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their own souls but their by their righteousness said the Lord God so he's talking about destroying the land and he's saying only Noah Daniel and Job would I save out of this because of their righteousness and if you go on down later he says the same thing but he says their children wouldn't be saved you know you know how he saved Noah and his children and on the ark he's saying in this case and Ezekiel he's like no it would just be Noah Noah Daniel and Job and all their family would be decimated too and that's how angry God was here but that's a pretty high mark to be on that upper three list there Noah Daniel and Job so Noah was a very righteous man and Hebrews chapter 11 talks about him so the hall of faith Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 7 it says 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 witch he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith so it's very interesting it talks about Noah it says that you know being warned of God of things not seen as yet now that could definitely be the fact the whole flood itself but as of now we don't see that it rained ever remember when we were in the garden of Eden and there was a mist that came up and it watered the garden we don't really know whether it rained until this point but what happened on the day you know they go into the ark the windows of heaven open up the fountains of the deep burst open and it rains 40 days and 40 nights so you think about this it could be very well the fact that God is saying he's going to flood the earth and people are probably like yeah right you know where is this going to come from and so he had faith that God was actually going to do that and if you think about the fact that he was 500 years old when he says this to him to build this ark and he was 600 years old when the floods came that means he was doing this for a hundred years so that gives you quite a bit of time to get this ark done you know you may ask yourself like how in the world did he him and his sons get this thing done well he had a hundred years to do it so it's a good amount of time to get that thing put together 2 Peter chapter 2 also talks about Noah it gives him another attribute so we already know that he's a just perfect man in his generations and he walks with God but 2 Peter chapter 2 and verse 5 it says and spared not the old world but saved Noah the 8th person a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly so it calls Noah a preacher of righteousness it says he's the heir of the righteousness which is by faith now why would it call him the heir of righteousness now obviously we know that Noah was saved and that you know that the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith so he's basically that chain that hasn't been broken through the flood to where he's a believer and he's going to pass that down onto his children and they pass it down but think about the fact that that God promised that Christ would come through her seed and we talked about that with Seth being in the likeness and he's provided me a seed and Noah I believe obviously he's in the lineage so I believe that's what that's talking about he's the heir of the righteousness which is by faith meaning that he was heir to the fact that he was going to be in that line there's no doubt right there's no one else okay he is the patriarch at that point of the whole world when this flood hits and so but Genesis go back to Genesis chapter 6 and verse 18 notice what God says that to Noah it says 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 so this is actually the first time covenants ever mentioned in the bible now we know that he makes a covenant with with Noah and with the whores with the bow that he sets in the sky that he's never going to destroy by water again but I believe that this covenant in particular is talking about the covenant that he made with Eve and with man in general that that he was going to send the Savior her seed was going to bruise his head and that this covenant he's going to establish it through Noah and then it was established through Abraham then it was established through David you know so all down the line and Noah got to be in that lineage and he got to be in that genealogy and so Noah was a great man of God he was in that upper three to where God said hey only Noah Daniel and Job would escape this I'd only deliver them out of it that's it and so that's a pretty big deal when you think of all the prophets and all the righteous men think of David you know like all these different people that have already been on the scene when he said that Ezekiel to say that it's only Noah Daniel and Job everybody else would be gone that's pretty that's a pretty big deal so Genesis 6 verse 14 we get into the last thing I want to go through is the dimensions of this ark so just want to talk about this and just so you can kind of picture it Genesis 6 14 it says make thee an ark of gopher wood room shalt thou make in the ark and shall pitch it within and without with pitch and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it 15 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits did I say 15 or 50? 50 yes anyway the length of it is 300 cubits now a cubit is what you would say from the elbow to fingertip now there's a good way to kind of judge this anyway as far as knowing that that is the measurement because there's a passage in the forsaken time I didn't write it down and I wasn't going to go through it but there's a passage in the Bible and people have used this as a contradiction but it's actually a way of proving a lot of things where it talks about the diameter of this bowl or this bath being 10 cubits and then it says that the circumference is 30 now if you know how to figure out circumference it's pi times the diameter and you know that pi isn't 3 it's 3.14 it's 1 5 and so forth right and so people have said well see the Bible doesn't even know that pi isn't 3 but actually what it says is that it's 3 or 10 is the diameter but then it says the thickness of the bath or bowl or whatever it is is the hand breadth so if you take that hand breadth and add that to and you put it in that equation so you have the inside of the bowl is 10 cubits in diameter then you add a hand breadth to it then it comes out pi comes out to 3.14 so first of all it destroys their stupid argument but what that also proves is the ratio of cubit to hand breadth is 4 inches to 18 inches that's the ratio okay so no one I think would argue that hand breadth is the width of your hand right so and I measured mine and mine is around 4 inches and my cubit is about 18 inches now I'm an average height okay I'm not a giant okay but average height is about 5 foot 10 and that's around where I'm at 5 foot 10 that's the average height of a man and so I googled it so that's what it says but anyway all I have to say is that that's what this is talking about and when they say these dimensions the question people would ask is well were they taller back then well I'm going to give you that idea as far as what it would be if Goliath was your measurement okay because then if you take the average height of 5 foot 10 and then you make a ratio of like 9 foot 9 and you figure out okay what would his cubit be you can figure it out so anyway as far as if you were just taking my cubit and my you know then the length of the arc with 300 cubits 18 inches is a foot and a half so you just multiply by 1.5 and you get 450 feet so that's how long it was 450 feet and that's long okay and I designed buildings you know for a living that's a long building that's really long okay 200 feet that's long 450 feet is pretty long okay but to give you scale the Titanic is just roughly a little larger than it okay so the Titanic is larger but not that much the breadth of it or the width of it is 75 feet and then the height of it is 45 feet now it says that it has three stories a lower second and third story and so that makes sense if you're just thinking about stories because that gives you about 15 feet story okay and so but the ratio if you just do the ratio of like 9 foot 9 divided by 5 foot 10 then you get a ratio of like 1.67 and so if you're going off Goliath's dimensions which is 9 foot 9 right and his cubit then you would the length would be 752 feet the breadth would be 125 feet and the height would be 75 feet so whatever that's worth okay but in Deuteronomy I wanted to show you this because this guy may have been taller than Goliath okay Deuteronomy so all that say someone comes at you and says wow this is hard because they wouldn't be able to fit all this stuff in there well you don't know how tall their cubit was back then okay so they may have been their average height may have been a little higher let's say they weren't 9 foot 9 their average height might be a little more than that so it may be somewhere in between this but Deuteronomy 3 and verse 11 says for only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron that's pretty bad when you have to have an iron bed right is it not in Raboth of the children of Ammon nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it after the cubit of a man so that gives you 13 and a half feet long now obviously he would be less than that because he would have a bed if you're going to make this special bed of iron then you're going to do it at least where you can stretch your feet on it so he could have been 12 feet or something like that who knows but I would say he's probably at least as tall as what Goliath was but he could have been a little taller than that so you do those dimensions the ark would even be bigger okay so interesting stuff with the giants and all that and in the end I recommend not not getting too caught up with that stuff because you only go off of what the bible says about it there were giants in the earth in those days we know that there were giants the remnant of the giants after the flood and we we have some of their dimensions seven and a half feet was one guy another guy was nine near the Goliath is nine foot nine and then this guy had a bed that was 13 foot 13 and a half feet long so you can assess that he's somewhere underneath that and so that's pretty tall that's a big guy can you imagine trying to go after that guy so anyway that's just that's intimidating and think about David and Goliath we'll get to that story eventually but that's that's intimidating to go after but so Noah in the flood we're getting to that point he builds this ark chapter seven we're going to get into the actual flood and so but the build up to this I wanted you to see you know when you put away all the stupid you know weird doctrines that people pull out that aren't in the bible you just get a pretty simple explanation there that the sons of God believers you know Christian men decided to marry a whole bunch of unbelieving women and then that was the downfall of men they had a bunch of children that became basically the rulers I believe of the world and then those rulers just you know that was the downfall there was there was violence that was filled with violence to the point where God says I'm wiping everybody out and that has to be pretty extreme so if you want to know what the end times are going to look like Genesis chapter six that's what it's going to look like and so it's to me it seems like it's getting close to that you know we don't see it but if you can you imagine what God sees I hear stories that make me sick I hear stories that I wish I wouldn't have read because it's so disgusting and it's so saddening and sickening but I can only imagine the fact that God is seeing it all his eyes are over the righteous and his face is against them to do evil and you can only imagine the fire that's being kindled when I'm only seeing a part of it it makes me angry just by a very small percentage but he's seeing that daily and that's why he's angry with the wicked every day and so thank God for his long suffering and the fact that he would hold out this long so that people would be saved so let's end with a word of prayer dear Heavenly Father we thank you for tonight and praise you be with us as we go home praise you give us safety on the roads especially with the rain and Lord we just thank you for this chapter thank you for the whole Bible and how everything fits together and Lord how we can even go to Genesis chapter six and find things that will apply sooner are already applying today and Lord we just thank you that the Bible is so timely and Lord that it's eternal Lord we love you and pray all this in Jesus Christ's name Amen