I appreciate each one of you for your continued interest in the study of the Word of God. I consider it an honor and a privilege. I feel out of place. I feel like you could teach me more than I could teach you. We're in this together, and we're all students. There's not a scholar among us. Not a Bible scholar, but a Bible student. Let's look to the Lord in prayer. Our Father, we thank you for this opportunity to study the Word of God. And we pray for the anointing of the Holy Spirit to be able to teach the Word of God in this class. We pray for each one of us. for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, for the fullness of the Holy Spirit, to be able to learn and apply truth to our lives. Guide us, Father, for Christ's sake we pray. Amen. Well, I can teach, but I cannot cause you to learn. Learning is an individual thing. that we each have to apply ourselves to, isn't that right? And we started a Christian school in our church many, many years ago in South Texas. And it was what they called an ACE school. You may have heard of that before, Accelerated Christian Education. And this puts the student in the focus rather than the teacher. And he's on his own. Well, he's not really on his own. He has assistance from the teacher. But he has to be motivated and motivate himself and be motivated also by others in order to study and to learn. And it's really an excellent educational process. And I hope that this will be what we do. We apply ourselves to the study of the work is low on oil, you remove the oil cap from the engine. Unstop the quart of oil and pour the oil into the engine. I wish that's the way we could learn, but there's no way that I can unscrew a cap on top of your head or mine either and pour in a quart of Bible knowledge. It would be wonderful if that's the way it is. We have to work at it, and we have to be motivated to study. What I would like to do, I know that we have been laying the foundation for studying the Bible. We're still at it today, but there's a lot of Bible out there, a lot of Bible. we have to progress. And what I would like to do is to finish with an overview of the first 11 chapters. Now, there's a lot of things in the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis that we have not covered. Am I speaking loudly enough? Yes, sir. Yes. OK. A lot of things that we have not covered. And so we want to touch on those, any one of which we could just spend a whole year on. I mean, there are certain outstanding things that occur in the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis. There is creation. There is the installation of marriage. There is the fall of man in sin. There is the promise of the Messiah. There is the casting out of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And there is the descendancy of Cain in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, there is the descendancy of Seth. And it's very important that we understand the difference between Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. And then in chapter six, there is the sons of God that come into the daughters of men. And that's a very significant passage. And then there is the flood, the building of the ark and the flood. And then there is the division of the earth and the nations. And then there is the Tower of Babel. and all of those things. And it's just we could spend the rest of our lives on any one particular one of these. So what I want to do is just touch on these things and come to the end of chapter 11 so that next time we meet, we can begin with another area of study as we progress on through the Bible. But these things are important. And they are questions that arise. And I had a question asked me this morning. I've never had this question asked before. And so we constantly come up with new things that we're asking and coming up to know about. I would just like to say that, well, let me ask you the question, what does the word Genesis mean? Beginning? Beginnings. It means the beginnings. Genesis includes the beginning of everything except the beginning of God. Why does it not tell us about the beginning of God? He had no beginning. Pardon? He had no beginning. He had no beginning. Now it's hard for us to get these little computers that we call the brain to get a hold on that. We can imagine the future, but we can't even imagine the past. Just as there is never an ending to the future of both time and space, just so there is not an ending if we turn around and look in the other direction of the beginning. And just as there was a Just as there will be a day after tomorrow, just as so there was a day before yesterday. And we can keep on going back. We can imagine the future. But we cannot get a hold on the past. We just have to realize that God is God. And there's a lot of things that we do not know. a lot of things that we will not know. And I'd like you to look in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 29 and verse number 29. And this, I hope, will be what we need to have as far as our attitude is concerned. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. But those which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. What's that verse again? That is verse number 29, chapter 29 of the book of Deuteronomy. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. Now, we know that God is omniscient. That is, he knows everything. You can't teach him a thing. He already knows everything there is to be known. There's no way that we can imagine or even conceive of the great infinite mind of God. So much of what God knows will forever be a secret. But it uses the word revealed. Those things which are revealed belong unto us. Now, we're concerned in our study of the Word of God about the things that are revealed. There are some things that I have never been able to reconcile together. One is the sovereignty of God in connection with the responsibility of man. We know that both of those things are true. A lot of people want to take the sovereignty of God and discard the responsibility of man and the other way around. We don't want to take the sovereignty of God because that raises questions about who God is and what he has the right to do. Well, no matter what it is, God has the right and it is right for him to do what he does and to say what he says and to think what he thinks. Now one day, of course, we're going to have a better understanding when we get into the presence of God. I may have already shared this verse. but this is Ephesians chapter number two and verse number seven, that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Now, whether or not God chooses some other person to teach us on the Bible class when we get to heaven, or whether or not God just reveals it to us directly. It's another question, but we will never quit learning. We will never quit discovering the wonderful, marvelous things about the wonderful grace of God. Now, I want you to turn to Romans chapter 9, and I'm going to give you a timeline of what God is doing, has intended to do, and will do on planet Earth. An entire timeline in one verse, and that's in Romans chapter 9 and verse number 28, where the Bible says, for he will finish the work. I have had the experience of starting things that I could not finish, but not God. He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Now just think of the whole scope of things. Go back to before the creation of the world, and it tells us about this in the book of Isaiah. Chapter 14, it tells us how that Lucifer, one of God's created beings, rebelled against God. He decided that he wanted to be God. He wanted to be worshipped. And he was a very intelligent person. It seems like that intelligent people would never be stupid. But this was a very stupid thing for him to imagine that he could outdo God. But sin originated in the mind and in the heart of Lucifer. So great it was until it affected all of us here. And yet God is not to be undone in what he has set out to do. And God has a purpose. He has a purpose in everything that he has done. but it says that he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Now God started everything in righteousness and we're not going to enter into vain questions such as, for example, if God in his omniscience knew already that Lucifer was going to commit sin and rebel Why did God ever make Lucifer to begin with? Now, there is an answer to that question. I don't have the answer. But I can trust the one who does have the answer. Because secret things belong to God. And in this book, and in the study of the Word of God, we're going to learn those things which have been revealed to us. Now there's enough there to keep us busy. There's enough stuff that has been revealed for us to stay busy. But we don't have to worry about other questions like that because we know God. And God is God. And there's none other like Him. And we've been saved by His grace and we're going to heaven and we'll spend the rest of eternity learning about how good God has been to us. Now then, He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Eventually, this earth is going to be replaced and even heaven itself is going to be replaced. We're going to have a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness. Now, after that happens, we don't ever have to worry again about some other Lucifer, about some other fall in sin. The purpose of God in these 6,000 and soon to be 7,000 years of his work on planet Earth is to soon become history and will live in his presence forever and ever. The former things will not even be remembered again. And I'm sure all of us have done things and said things that we wish we could just put out of our memory. We know that God has put it out of His memory and He has forgiven us. He has cast things as far as the east as from the west. And He remembers things against us no more because they're under the precious blood of Christ. But they're still in our depraved brain. But one day, we're not even going to remember these things anymore. Many things I've done, many things I've said, I wish I could forget. And I will forget, eventually. But notice what it says in this verse, Romans 9.28, the latter part of the verse. Because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Now that's all I need as far as those who say that there was a a day of billions of years in verse 2 of chapter 1 of Genesis, I don't have to worry about that. Because billions of years is not a short time. But 7,000 years, and compared with a billion years, is just a flash of lightning. And we are at the end of 6,000 years of that right now. What God started in Genesis chapter 1 has been going on for 6,000 years and we're at the end of that period of time. It appears to me that the six days of creation illustrate the 6,000 years that we have been through. And that the other 1,000 years represents the day of the time of the millennial reign of Christ. The days for the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years is one year. Because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. I'm glad of that. And I'm sure that the patriarchs and the men of God and women of God and young people of God in the past did not see what you and I see today. because it had not all been revealed. The Word of God came to man progressively. He did not give everything at once. Across thousands of years, he was giving us the Old Testament. And when it says that Apollos was a man who was mighty in the scriptures, it's talking about the Old Testament. He didn't have the New Testament. And you and I have both owed a New Testament, and what a wonderful thing it is that God has shown us the end from the beginning. And we were born and lived in, I can't prove this, but I believe it anyway, the last generation. I cannot see an extended period of time beyond that which we live. I have to confess to you that as I have been studying in the book of Genesis in order to teach, in my own personal private study, I have been going over and over and over in different passages of scripture in the book of Revelation. I am alarmed at what I see and how soon it is to come to pass on planet Earth. And this present generation is not, good morning Daniel, This present generation is not prepared for that. I'm glad that the transformation of our body is going to happen in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye, and we won't have time to do any kind of second guessing. It'll be over and we'll be able to handle it. We couldn't handle it like we are right now. But he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. There you have a timeline of the entire purpose of planet earth in one verse of scripture. He will finish the work. Now that raises a question. What work? Well, we can think of thousands of things that God has done and accomplished in the history of planet Earth these past 6,000 years. But there is one work in particular that defines the Holy Bible. And that is, after the fall of man, the restitution of man, the redemption of man. And we found that in that great promise of Scripture that we've already in this class, we have read this many, many times, and that is the first messianic promise, and Messiah means Savior, that is found in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, where God, after the fall, said to the serpent, and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. And in Galatians chapter 4 and verse 4, the Bible says that in the fullness of time. Now, I forgot to take my memory pill, so I'm going to have to read this verse. I thought I would impress you by quoting it. Galatians 4 verse 4, but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son made of a what? Of a woman. Not a woman and a man, but made of a woman without a man. That's the virgin birth. Made under the law. That is the fulfillment. of Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15. Now we're going to see today in our continued study in the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, how that Satan tried his best to prevent that from happening. We have what God is doing all through the Old Testament up to the time of the coming of Christ. But in addition to that, We see plainly what Satan is trying to do to keep that from happening. If you were working on a steep roof that was high, the edge of it was high above the ground, and you started slipping and sliding, and you knew that when you got to the edge, you was going to drop 40 feet maybe, you would be doing everything you possibly could to keep from sliding down. That's what Satan is doing. He's sliding down. And he's trying to do everything that he possibly can to keep that from happening. God in verse 15, I've said this already in another session. God in verse 15 of Genesis chapter 3 has given Satan what his military game plan is. You wouldn't do that with an enemy. But God did. Why? Doesn't matter. Because God is God. And he is in control. Suppose you went to war with an enemy, and that enemy could not do anything except what you gave him permission to do. That puts the whole scope in a different light. But today we have wars. And by the way, the history of planet Earth is a history of wars. The first one occurred in the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, and we'll look at that in just a moment. But this is what God is doing. Turn to Daniel, chapter 9. The book of Daniel, chapter number 9. And look at verse number 24. Here is another timeline, in a sense. that we find in the Scriptures. Daniel 9, 24, and we'll study this in depth a little bit later. 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. Thy people is Israel, the Jewish people. Thy holy city is Jerusalem. By the way, Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. You've heard the term Zionism. What is a Zionist? A Zionist is anyone who believes that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. By that definition, having been a Bible student, I am a Zionist. But even more so than that, Jerusalem belongs to Jehovah God. It does not belong to Allah or any other false god. It belongs to the one and only truly living God. Jerusalem belongs to God because God chose that place as the place to put his tabernacle, his temple. He chose that place as the place to put his name there. That's the whole focus of the difficulty in the Middle East today. It belongs to God. And Israel doesn't deserve it because they have sinned against God. They must be dealt with and they will be dealt with in the coming tribulation period. But it does not belong to anyone but God. Now, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. Now that means 70 weeks is a period of prophetic calculation, and we'll get into that when we come to the book of Daniel, and we'll see why it was called 70 weeks, even though it's a total of 490 years. But there's a reason for that. It's not just guesswork. It's established in the book of Leviticus. We have to have Leviticus in order to understand Daniel. To finish the transgression, number one, and to make an end of sins, number two, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, number three, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, number four, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, number five, and to anoint the most holy. Now who is that? The Lord Jesus. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. and the word anoint is the definition for the word Messiah. Messiah means the anointed one and there can only be one and I'm so happy for that. Isn't it a blessing that you and I and other people that we know of that know Christ as their Savior even though we're such a small minority, extremely small minority of the total population of planet Earth. How wonderful it is that God has allowed us to know this one right here. Now, this is the purpose that God gave in creating planet Earth. Okay, if you have your book with you there that I gave you, a survey of prophecy, a survey of biblical prophecy, open it up to page number five, and we'll use this as sort of a guideline for our discussion today. Now, I've already made the statement that I'm not a prophecy specialist. One-third of the Bible is prophecy, but we're not to ignore the other two-thirds. And in this course, we want to do all of it, not just the two-thirds, but also the one-third. I'll prepare a course in Spanish, and what you have in your book is a translation back into English of that course. And I will be leaving, the Lord willing, on the 11th of August, going down to a Bible Institute in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. And I will be teaching this course. I have two weeks to teach it. I'll have every day, all the class time will be given to me. And I'll be teaching this course. And that's what we're using here. I have found that this course is, even though it's about prophecy, It is a good way to envision the whole concept of the Bible. It is a very good outline for learning and understanding the Bible. So if you take this book and will study it closely, if you have questions, I'll be glad to help you with them if I can. And if you take this book and study it closely, the entire book, and you're on your own as far as that's concerned, we'll be referring to things in the book But I recommend your personal study of the book. Some of you already have. But this will give you a basic outline of what the Bible is. And when you get through looking up all these scriptures and studying all these scriptures, it's not going to happen in a short period of time. But when it occurs, you're going to be like Apollos. You're going to be mighty in the Scriptures. And that's the purpose that we're meeting together here on Saturday mornings for our Bible class. Now, on page number 5, The prophecies with their respective fulfillments lead us to certain evident conclusions. They establish and confirm the following truths. Number one, the validity of the prophecy of the Word of God. I know of nothing that is a better proof that the Holy Bible is the Word of God. than the fulfillment of prophecy. Open your Bible please to 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel chapter number 23. And what we're going to do when I give out a reference, you can either underscore it in your book or write it down in your notebook. But then I'm going to look for that verse. And here's the rule that we're going to go by. If you find the verse before I do, then just read it out, out loud. And if I find the verse before you do, then I will read it. Does everyone have 2 Kings 23 verse 2? Who will read it? 2 Kings or 2 Samuel? I'm sorry. 2 Samuel. Chapter 23, and verse number two. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue. I had indeed turned over to second Kings. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue. What a wonderful promise that is. And then, who will read for us 2 Peter 1, verse 21. 2 Peter 1, verse 21. First person to find it. Just read it out loud. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Okay. Simon was one of those, right? Let's read verse 1 of 2 Samuel 23. I'm about to get ahead of myself here. Now these be the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointing of God, of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel. Samuel didn't say that. David said that. Let's make that correction. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. So much of what the Bible says in the book of Psalms is prophecy. Prophecy specifically about and concerning the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So, we study prophecy and we get confirmed that the Bible is the Word of God. And number two, the only true God is active and has a plan for the purpose and purpose for planet Earth. You can't escape when you read through the Bible. Start in Genesis and read all the way through. You cannot escape that. And number three, God's Word is irrefutable and eternal. Now beloved, since there is only one true and living God in the universe, and since He has written the Word of God, and since we know that to begin with, It behooves every one of us to be faithful in reading the Word of God. This is a special letter that God Himself wrote, chose the very words that He put in it, and He wrote it for you. And He wrote it for me. He wrote it for every person, individually, that we might study the Word of God. Now, turn to Job chapter 24 and verse 1. Verse 24, verse 1. First person to find it, read it out loud. Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him not see His days? That is a good question. That speaks to our own conscience. And it's just exactly what we've been talking about already. The answer to that question, why do they not see His days? because they don't spend time reading His Word and thinking about what God has said. Why seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty? Why are they not hidden from the Almighty? Because He's the designer of them. He has planned them and He executes them. Why should we study prophecy? And here's a list of six things. I'm going to leave it up to you to read those on your own. We have to move on. What Bible prophecy teaches us? One, the concept of God, that He is alone in the universe. And these verses are so important. It'd be good just to get by yourself and read these one at a time and really think deeply about what God is saying. He is holy. He is sovereign. Number two, the concept of Satan. Sin originated with him. His greatest desire is to be worshipped. And the malignancy of the great I am. I will arise. I will ascend. I will take the place of God. And he desires to be worshipped. Satan indwells the Antichrist. in the book of Revelation chapter 13. The antichrist is a man. But that man is possessed. Satan lives within him. And that's the thing that he does. That is what the abomination of desolation is. It is when Satan, in the Antichrist, puts himself in the temple of God, making himself to be God, demanding worship from everybody. We could get into that, but we have to be careful not to start chasing rabbits in our study. So Satan desires to be worshiped. And there's much talk about rebuilding the third temple. Actually, it's the fourth, but we won't get into that right now. That's another rabbit trail. But I don't like to call it the third temple. I like to call it what it really is. It is the Tribulation Temple. It is the Tribulation Temple. And when Satan puts himself there, 2 Thessalonians 2, in the person of the Antichrist, to be worshipped. That is the abomination of desolation. Now, as far as I can understand the Word of God, that is the last straw. God permits Satan to do whatever God sees fit to permit Satan to do. But when the Antichrist puts himself in the Holy of Holies, and claims that he is God. That is the abomination of desolation, and the desolation means the axe is about to fall. And so we have this in the book of Revelation, all of the 21 enactments of God's judgment upon sinful man. 21. The seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vows. Oh, it's an awful thing. And then the study of prophecy teaches us God's strategic plan from the beginning of time. He will deal with sin and Satan on planet Earth. That's the whole scope of the matter. God is dealing with sin and Satan. And you and I have the opportunity not only to observe what God is doing, But we have the opportunity to participate in what God is doing. Because what God is doing as a holy God is bringing judgment against sin on planet Earth. Now the thing about it, judgment is not all that he does. Grace and mercy. is also what God does. Now we're participating in what God is doing by repentance of sin and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord. So we see this and next class time we will start in chapter 12 and we'll study about God's covenant with Abraham and how that in him all the families of the earth are blessed, and we are indeed blessed. We're not Jews, but I'm so glad that God decided to include Gentiles in His plan of grace and mercy. There are three things that God did with the Jews. He chose them as a biological means by which to bring Christ into the earth. God becomes incarnate in man biologically. And this happens through the Lord Jesus Christ, through the nation of Israel. People that hate Jews, the anti-Semitics, they just are blinded to what God did through the Jews to be a benefit to them. And then literary, God used the Jewish people to give us this book, the Old Testament and the New Testament. and as a governance. God will use them in the future. God will use them in the future in governing planet Earth. When we once again have no longer a democracy, no longer a dictatorship anywhere in the world, but we'll have a theocracy. a government of God, by God, and for God, just for the children of Israel during the time of Moses. But it'll even be better than that. There are some rules of Bible interpretation, and we're going to set some of those as we go along. One of the rules of Bible interpretation is the rule of first mention. the first time something is mentioned in the scriptures that sets the stage for the future. Well, I think probably right now would be a good time to have our first little break. We'll take five or ten minutes and then we'll come back and usually, as it has been in the past, we will not take as much time in the second session as we do in the first. So if you need to go to the restroom or whatever, just take a few minutes. The main events. We've already talked about creation. And we have talked about the creation of man. and the fall of man. And chapter 3 deals with how astute Satan was in tempting Eve. He must have known something about the difference between a woman and a man. He didn't try to tempt Adam. He attempted Eve. Perhaps the lady is more gullible than the man. I'm sure I'm not choosing the right words that I need to be using. But then it emphasizes the weakness of man because Satan tempted Eve, but Adam was not tempted. He went in full fully knowing what he was getting into, but because he didn't want to lose Eve. And I'm sure that as a husband, I give in to my wife a lot because I want to consider her. And I think that's good, but Adam certainly did wrong. by listening to his wife. He should not have in that case. I think we do well by listening to our wives in a lot of cases. But I think that the whole scope of the thing, and I don't want to lose sight of this as we think about this lesson today, the whole scope is the fact that God gave the promise of the Messiah in chapter 3 and verse 15. We keep saying that. But we see this all the way through the Old Testament, all the way up to the time of Christ. Now in chapter 4, we have in the first 8 verses, the difference between Cain and Abel. Cain was the first born, and then Abel was born after that. And they both knew about God. And they both made sacrifices in an attempt to approach unto God. But the difference in their sacrifices illustrates to us the true way to know Christ as Savior. And this is also borne out in the book of Hebrews chapter 11. We'll read that in a moment. Abel was the keeper of sheep, but Cain was the tiller of the ground. Chapter 4 and verse 2. And you've probably heard this all along, and so I'm not going to spend a lot of time with this. But it has often been brought to our attention that Cain's sacrifice was his vegetables. And I love vegetables, but they have their place. They don't have any blood in them. The sacrifice that Abel made was a sacrifice of blood. And that's what God was looking for. The life of the flesh is in the blood. But Cain, his approach to God was by works. by good works, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. This is brought up so clearly in the book of Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11, verse number 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. we understand, and this is another key to understanding the Bible. Faith is a requirement. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things that do appear. This is the difference between creationism and evolution. Evolution must start with something already in existence. Creation begins with absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing but God. But in verse 4 it says, My faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead, yet speaketh." In other words, God is still using Abel as an example of salvation by grace through faith. Now in the remaining part of the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, we have the descendancy and we have the line of the generations that followed Cain. That wasn't good enough. Cain, having murdered his brother Abel, Cain, having offered unto God salvation by works, was rejected by God. And so God started all over again in chapter 5 by giving to Adam and Eve another son whose name was Seth. Now, in your book, you will find each one of the names of the patriarchs, Adam, and not Cain, but Seth, and how old they were when they had their first child, how old they were when they finally died, how many total years. And this is what we mean when we say the antecedent patriarchs. Not only those before the flood, but those after the flood up to the time of Abraham. Because with Abraham, God began a new covenant with Abraham in order to bring about his purpose on planet Earth. verse 4 of chapter 5, and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years, and he begat sons and daughters. Now this is the answer to the age-old question, where did Cain get his wife? He had to marry one of his sisters. That's a no-brainer. And then, We come over to chapter 6. Verse 1, 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. In other words, they were beautiful. And they took them wives of all which they chose. There's a lot of different opinion. I'm going to give you my opinion, which just so happens to be the way it is. You know what controversy is. Controversy is the confusion in the minds of the misinformed. Controversy simply means that the other opinion is always wrong. But having said that, I sincerely believe that I understand this. And I respect the opinions of other people. But I really believe that the sons of God that are mentioned here were fallen angels. Not all of the fallen angels. There were a lot of fallen angels. God gives in the book of Revelation an estimated number of the angels. And it is tremendously large, hundreds of millions. And the Bible says that they're also called stars, that when Satan was cast out of heaven, he drew a third of the stars with him. So a third of the total number of angels are fallen angels. And if the total number was in the hundreds of millions, then a third of that is still a very large number. So not all of them that cohabitated with the daughters of men, not all of them were fallen angels. The Bible makes it very clear that there are two types of angels. There are the fallen angels and there are the Let me back up, I'm about to confuse myself. There were angels who are in chains because of a special sin that they committed, and that there are angels that are not in chains. You remember reading in the New Testament, the book of Mark about the demoniac of Gadara? The hundreds and thousands of demons that inhabited that man were not in chains. They were on planet Earth. They were not in hell. But the Bible tells us that those angels which committed this special sin before God were put in chains. reserved to the day of judgment. They're in darkness. And this is borne out in the book of Peter and other places in the scriptures. But what a terrible thing it was. It came to pass when the men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God These are created sons of God. Angels are created sons of God. In the book of Job, chapter number one, the Bible tells us that there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before God and Satan also came among them. Now, you have expressed your theory about some things, some of you have, I want to express my theory about something. This is something that I believe. I think there's indication of the scriptures, but I cannot be really dogmatic about it. In Genesis 3.15, when God told Satan about his seed, The seed of the woman was going to bruise his head. Satan had no idea of who that was. Even Eve herself probably had a misconception. As I read the first verse of the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, it appears to me that Eve thought that Cain was the answer to that promise. Satan certainly didn't know. And he's putting up all of these smoke screens. He's putting up all of these detours. He's putting up all of these oppositions to God all the way through the Old Testament, one right after the other. One by one, he's finally convinced that's not the Messiah. And when we get to the book of Job, this is a court day in heaven in which the sons of God come before God to give an account. And Satan also came among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan asked of the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Did you know that Satan is still doing that, not for the same purpose that he was then, because he's already found out who that seated woman is. But He's looking for you and He's looking for me. He knows that He cannot take us to hell, but He knows that He can also destroy our life. He can destroy our testimony if we allow Him to do so. But back to the original thought here in the first chapter of the book of Job. Job said, from going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, Satan was looking for something. He's looking for something. He doesn't know who the seed of a woman is. He's thinking, if I can find that person, I'm gonna kill him before he kills me. And that's what he eventually tried to do with the Lord Jesus Christ when Christ came and Satan realized that that was the seed of a woman. And so, He was looking for someone. And God, and I don't want to be too free with my description here, okay? This is just a way that appears to me. God is sort of smiling to himself because he already knows the end from the beginning. And he knows what a consternation is in the mind of Satan. And it's almost, if I can say this without trying to add something to the Bible, this is just my imagination. It's as if God says, Satan, I know where you've been, and I know why you've been going to and fro and up and down in the earth. You're looking for the seed of the woman. And then God says, Has thou considered my servant Job? You're looking for the seed of the woman. Okay, let me have you, have you thought about Job? That there is none like him in the earth, a perfect man and an upright man, one that feareth God and that steweth evil. What about him? Now, for the best of me, I'm not trying to add something to scripture, but this, I can't help but think this is in the background. Due to the fact that all of these things that Satan has tried to do to outbest God. Then Satan answered the Lord and said, doth Job fear God for naught? Hast thou not made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Well, you and I know, to bring this whole thought to a conclusion, you and I know that Job was not the Messiah. In a lot of ways, he could be considered to be a type, a foreshadow, an example of a Messiah. But it says, the sons of God came before God. These were created beings. And then, of course, as we were reading in the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis, they're described as the sons of God. Now, as a result of that, look in chapter 6 and verse number 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every, notice that word, every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Now, here we see about the depravity of man, how bad lost is man. Well, this certainly came to a summit or a zenith in the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis, more than ever, because after these sons of God cohabited with the daughters of men, there was a time of terrible violence in the world. So what is Satan trying to do here? He is trying to corrupt the entire race. He's thinking, no doubt, if I can't find the person who is the seed, then I'm just gonna mess up the whole race. I'll just get all of them. I can't destroy them, but God can, and I'm gonna fix it so God won't have any choice but to destroy them all. And it was almost right. The thing that he failed to understand was that God is also a God of grace. And in a world where every imagination of the thoughts of the heart of man was only evil continually, in such a time as that, there was one person who found grace in the sight of the Lord. What was his name? What was his name? Noah. Okay, I've got an answer here on the front and I want to hear from the back rows. Noah. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. I cannot get over such an engineering feat that Noah did. 450 feet long, 45 feet high, 75, no, I'm confusing cubits with feet, but it was 450 feet long, and it was three stories high, and it was very wide, and it had enough space for a whole bunch of boxcars to put animals in and all that stuff. We won't get into the theory of this thing, but God did it no matter if he did it on a plank, if he just did it on one plank of wood. But that thing made out of timber. They didn't have any skill saws. They didn't have any of the stuff that we have today to make it with. It's amazing. 120 years in construction. 120 years. And that was 120 years that God gave the human race space to repent. One of these days I'm going to do a message on space to repent, because it's found all through the Bible. God, in His grace, gave the human race 120 years for repentance. Well, we know what happened, and the great flood came. If you want some basic information on the ark and the flood that will be a blessing to you, then go up to Kentucky to the ark that Ken Ham and his crew has made. How many of you have seen that? Okay, two of you have seen that. It's amazing what God did to preserve, through Noah and his three sons, just one of those, Shem. And from Shem came the line of the seed of the woman. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed, which has to be the antichrist, because his name is the son of perdition, and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. That is a very primordial text in the Holy Scriptures. Well, let's come on over. due to the fact that we're running out of time. Then there was a man by the name of Peleg. That's very unusual for a name. I'm glad my name is not Peleg. But the Bible says that in his days was the earth divided. And I should like to call your attention to Genesis chapter 10, verse 25, and also verse 32. Now, some creationist scientists agree with me, and others do not. And I'm not real dogmatic about what I'm about to say, but this is as it appears to me. In verse number 25, the Bible says, And unto Eber were born two sons, the name of one was Peleg, For in his days was the earth divided." Now, here we have the word earth and we have the word divided. Now look at verse number 32. These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations in their nations. And by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. So we have two more words. One is the word nations and the other is the word divided. Now here is my consideration. Using Strong's Dictionary, Hebrew Concordance Dictionary. I just want to point out what these words are. In verse 25, for the word earth, we have word number H. 776. H stands for Hebrew. If it were a word in the New Testament, it would be G, Greek. But this is the Old Testament. And that word is defined as being land, field, ground. We'll make a comparison here in just a moment. And then the word divided is Strong's Concordance Dictionary number H6385. And that word means split or divided. Based on this information, I personally am persuaded to believe that there was a physical division of the land. I'm not alone in this belief. There are some creationist scientists who believe the same thing. There are other creationist scientists who do not necessarily believe it. But if you take a map of the Atlantic Ocean, north and south, you see that there is North America to your left and Europe to your right, and there is South America to your left and Africa to your right. And it's almost as if these are pieces of a puzzle, and you can slide them back together and make one landmass out of all of those. This is what I'm persuaded to believe happened based on these words. I'm supported in my belief by the word nations, which is H. 1-4-7-1 and it means Gentile, heathen, and people. And the word divided in verse 32 has a different Hebrew word. And that word is number 6504. And it means spread. It means separate. And it means scattered. I see both a division of the physical earth and a division of the nations of people upon the earth. Now when you come over to the 11th chapter we have the Tower of Babel. And we see that God confused the language. of the people. Because what they were doing, they were making a one world government unified under the Tower of Babel, which was not God's true plan of salvation. And God confused their language. I don't know what all was involved in that. I don't know what all generations of people there were. I don't know which or how many languages occurred at that time. I do know that even since then, there have been lots of other languages that have developed. Because there are literally thousands of languages in our world today. I have here a book. It's called an Ethnologue of the Languages of the World. And from the introductory pages, it actually begins on page 10. And it goes all the way through to page 928. You see this book? 928 is the last one. And 10 is the first one. So if you subtract 9 from 928, you have 919. 919 pages. And this book was prepared by an organization that studies languages all over the world and has missionaries that go out and translate languages, translate the word of God into languages. Just look at this. All of these are languages. Now there is some repetition. For example, English is one of the languages of England. It is also one of the languages of the United States of America and Australia. So you have English that is repeated. But that doesn't happen so often, because here you have languages of the world. And who speaks them? And which countries have which different languages? It's just absolutely amazing. On one of these, I counted them. There were 22 different languages on one opening. This blows my mind. This blows my mind. I want to close by turning to the book of Matthew chapter 28 and verse number 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The word nations in this verse is the Greek word ethnos, comparable to the word on this book here. Ethnologue. It's talking about ethnic people. It's talking about language groups. Nations there does not mean governments, like the United States and Germany and Swaziland or whoever. It means language groups, ethnic groups of people, the nations. The amazing thing is that God gave 11 men who were basically illiterate as far as training in languages is concerned, gave these 11 men the commission to carry the gospel. into all these worlds and all these places. And so that's the reason that it was necessary on the day of Pentecost for all of them to be filled with the Holy Spirit at the same time. Now, there's only nine of us left. But we still have that same responsibility. I have been faltering today and slow of speech. I so relate to Moses when God called him to go down into Egypt. I hope that something has been said that will start your motors to turning and cause you to think deeply when you open the Bible, the Holy Bible, and start to read. We're going to terminate the class right now. benediction i'll still be here if you have questions that you want our our opinions i'll be glad to hear your opinions too our gracious father we thank you for these brothers and for their interest in the word of god help us our father to dig deeply into the scriptures and to know what god is doing in his word in jesus precious name amen thank you for being here