Well, thank you all for coming tonight. This is lesson three of King's Bible Baptist College. Chris, could you open up for us in prayer? Father in heaven, we thank you on this evening, Lord God, for another great and wonderful day that you've given us. Father, we ask that you would bless us during this class tonight and lift up Brother Barry unto you, Lord God, that you would use him in a mighty way. Let all of his thoughts be clear, Lord God, and his words be spoken boldly by you. So, Father, we thank you, we give you praise. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. And you can pray for the pastor, too. I know he said his voice wasn't feeling the best. You heard him on a Sunday night when we went in for prayer time. His voice was, he said, just feeling good. So you could be praying for him. Well, he took that water again. Did you hear when he had that episode? Yeah, I was. OK, yeah. So again, here's my prayer. This is what I use the verse I either open up and look at or I just think of it in my mind. Psalms 119 verse 18, it says, open thou mine eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of thy law. We need God's help to understand this word. So this is just a little quick review, some important things. The Torah. that means the law. Well, what most people translate the law, it's a Hebrew word meaning like pointing to. It'd be like, Chris, you trying to teach your son saying, hey, this is what you need to do. This is how you need to do it. So, and these are what some of the first five books of our Bibles called. The book, you know, it's called by the Pentateuch And that's the Latin word for five scrolls. You've got the books of Moses, or Moses, sometimes they say, or they say the lull. So it's the first five books, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. And then this word right here. Anybody remember? Can anybody remember how to say this? Yahweh? Well, Hebrew, when it was first written, had no vowels, and they considered God's word so sacred that they wouldn't even pronounce it. So, if you never pronounce a word, and see, all Hebrew was written like that originally, no vowels, but they wouldn't pronounce it. So if I said Kim, you know, hey, if I add a vowel, I know what, oh, there's an I there, but if you never pronounce the word, you know, how do they pronounce it? Most people, what they do, they put the Greek word or the Hebrew word Adonai, Lord, they use the vowels out of that and put it in here, so it becomes Yahweh or Jehovah. Jehovah came much later, so our Jehovah Witness friends that we get to talk to sometimes, Jehovah was not a original name of God. Sometimes they would say Yah, they say Yah is strong, When you think of names, Elijah, Eli, El, God, Yah, the supreme God, Yah, so it would be like, El is God, Yah is God, El is God, so Elijah, any time they said his name, remember on Mount Carmel, when they had the, they said, if Bel be God, worship him, if El be God, worship him, so they were saying, Almost Elijah Elijah when they say L. Yeah is God. Yeah is God So Elijah, so sometimes the names can have meaning and it's like fit the fit the place, you know I'm saying and this is what in the Greek means four letters Tetragrammon on so it's just it's yeah. Hey, bye. Hey, yeah. Hey, bye. Hey, and We went over this a little bit. This is old what they call Ancient Hebrew, or what they call Paleo-Hebrew. It's the oldest form that they could find so far of Hebrew. Now, they found another form. I am not sure if it's written like this, but I was listening to this archaeologist, and he's an Egyptian-tologist. He does hieroglyphics. And he found this inscription, and I can't remember where he found it, but he didn't understand the word. It was written in another language. So he started researching, and he found one of his Christian, and he's a Christian too, he found one of his Christian friends who is a ancient language expert, Hebrew, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Syriac. So he spoke a lot of different biblical languages. And he said, according to this guy, That's actually ancient Hebrew, so it's the oldest inscription they've found so far. And it was talking about Manasseh. It talked about Joseph and his queen, and they talked about the one son who didn't get the blessing. Well, who was that? Ephraim got, remember Jacob blessed Ephraim first, and even though he was the younger son, he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh, And so, I can't remember exactly what the translation was, but it was something like that, like, even back there, you see, they found in ancient hieroglyphics evidence of Joseph and his children. So this is, and you see what the words mean. Hand, behold, nail, behold. Hmm, interesting. I said we start learning already. In Genesis, we're learning about four great events. Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. And we'll go over those last two again. I started them some last week. But we'll go over the Flood and Tower of Babel and four great people, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And what are the two major events or time periods? Primeval history and patriarchal history. Primeval means before most, we don't have, as far as we know, any writing from before the Flood. And I said, the landscape changed, so we have no maps. Yeah, I see that map flying around, too. We have no nats. I'm nats. We have no maps. I imagine maybe if they had nats back then, maybe they weren't bad. I don't know. And so that covers Genesis 1 through 11, and patriarchal history. Father, papa, Paul. So you can think of it that way. That's what it means, father. Patriarchal history. But matriarchal history, it'd be about the mother's line or whatever. So then that covers Genesis 12 through 50. And of course, Genesis covers roughly, we believe, over 2,000 years. So a third of the Bible is found in Genesis time frame. And the first 11 chapters covers most of that. We have Genesis 3.15. Remember the story we went over where Adam and Eve fell? They yielded to the tempter and took the fruit. And we don't know if it's an apple. The Arabs say it was a fig. We don't know, so maybe that's why they use fig leaves. We don't know. But like I said, we only know what the Bible says. You can guess things, but I told Janice, don't be dogmatic on the things the Bible's not dogmatic on. I think I said that to Scott when we were talking, so. So this is called the Proto-Evangelium, or the first gospel. Proto-first Evangelium, evangelism gospel. And Evangelium was what they used to do. Like for example, when Caesar came in and conquered somebody, they would go around, Evangelion, Evangelion. In other words, good news, this is what Caesar did. He conquered whatever. Or Caesar had his heir, his son. So that's what it meant. Biblically, it took on evangelism, or the good news. And so if you think of the origination of it, it was like they would, a crier would go around Rome and proclaim the great thing that Caesar either did or that happened to Caesar. So that became the good news. And we picked it up in our Bible, and it was Genesis 3.15, and I will put enmity between thee and a woman, between thy seed, and get this, Come on. I didn't have to text you. I didn't text you because I didn't think you'd be here. I thought you were going to the beach. Next week. OK. Next week. OK. Come on in. You want to get in there? I can. It'd be nice. I didn't bring all three, I didn't bring all three, I mean, because I thought we would show it to him. Okay, we good? Can everybody see the screen? Okay, so the Proto-Evangelium, the first gospel, and this is where God promised, he was telling Satan, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed, It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Listen to those words, thy seed and her seed. Now what do you think that was talking about? Anybody have an idea? There was no man involved. It had to be God. It was just a woman. Well, what do you think Satan's seed would be? Remember, he's talking to the serpent, right? Well, thy seed would be the serpent then, right? Well, now the serpent didn't really have any seeds. I mean, he didn't have any children, correct? So I think that's what Genesis 6 is talking about, the sons of God and the daughters of men. We'll look at that a little closer. Let's look at this. God gives an example of a blood sacrifice, and Abel followed the example that his father gave him, and Cain, I don't know how many sacrifices he may have done, blood sacrifices, but then all of a sudden, I'm going to do my own thing. Like Frank Sinatra, I did it my way, right? Well, God's not happy when we try to do it our way. God tells us certain things. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but me. There is no other name given amongst men whereby ye must be saved. It's not Buddha, it's not Muhammad. Jesus said there's only one way to God, and that's him. God says, and gave the first example of a blood sacrifice, and then we see that one day God gave himself as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And I mentioned to Janice, I know, the other day, I said, it's interesting, the sacrifices in the Old Testament just covered sin. Remember, the Bible says the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sin? Well, here we see that the blood of Christ took it away. He was the ultimate sacrifice. He was the ultimate priest. Remember, I said, the Bible is a forward-looking book. We have Aaron as a high priest, but there's gotta be somebody greater. We see Melchizedek come along. Is there somebody greater? We see the sacrifices. We see Moses said there'll be another prophet that comes in Deuteronomy. We see that there's gonna be a greater prophet. There's gonna be a greater king. And all of them are rolled into one in Jesus Christ. What else do we see? Like, so we see the example of the blood sack right here. Listen to what Genesis says here. Genesis 3, 7. And the eyes of them both were open, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron. So what did they do? After they sinned, they wanted to hide it. You know, God tells us to confess our sins, to come to him. But what did they do? They hid. I mean, I heard a preacher say it one time, just think of those poor, sinful creatures, hiding and cowering in the garden from the God they used to walk and have fellowship with. How long before they sin, we don't know. Some people think not long. What did God do? Verse eight, well, Adam and his wife hid themselves, so they hid from God. But what did we see God do? Verse nine, and the Lord called unto Adam and said unto him, where art thou? He came seeking man and woman. He knew that, I mean, the Bible says Christ was slain from the foundation of the world, and he knew that man was gonna fall. He knew that woman was gonna fall. Sometimes we say, well, if it wasn't for Eve, you know, But if we were there, we would have done the same thing. I mean, we don't have to sin, but how many times do we sin a day? And we have all the revelation of God. We have the whole Bible. And what did God say in verse 21? Unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothe them. God gave the first example. He came and took care of man's problem. Like I said, again, I heard a preacher saying, hey, I can fix this. Just trust in me, follow me, I can fix this. And even Cain, he had the example, right? And what did he do? God came and warned him, said, if you do what's right, you'll be accepted. And I think that might be referring to his position as spiritual leader in the family, because he was the oldest son. And some people think that maybe He said, yeah, I won't put Seth before you if you just do the right thing. You'll have your family position. But he went away angry. Genesis 4, we see the line of Cain. And in chapter 5, we see the line of Seth. This word, tolodoth, in the Bible, it's found 16 times. And 11 times is found in Genesis. It said, these are the generations of Adam. These are the generations of Noah. Who would like to read this for me? Would anybody, can anybody? Genesis 2, 4. Okay. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth. All of them? Yes. Genesis 5, 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. Genesis 6, 9. These are the generations of Noah. Genesis 10-1, now these are the generations of the sons of Noah. Genesis 11-10, these are the generations of Shem. Genesis, wow, 11-27, now these are the generations of Terah. Genesis 25-12, now these are the generations of Ishmael. Genesis 25-19, these are the generations of Isaac. Genesis 36-1, now these are the generations of Esau. 37-2, these are the generations of Jacob. Do you miss any names there? Whose names don't we see? Cain, I think. Cain and Abel? Cain, well, yeah, we don't see Abel because he got killed. And Cain and Seth. For them, it doesn't say the generations of. It says these are the, born unto Cain was this, or these were the sons of. And I think, like I said, I think that's pointing us to what interpretation I think for Genesis 6 to that their generations got mixed. A godly line and an ungodly line. Let me read this here to you. Genesis 6-1, and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto him, that the sons of God, B'nai Elohim is the word, B'nai, saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. So they didn't follow God's pattern with one man, one woman, did they? You know, Adam and Eve and not however many more. Of course, David didn't follow it very well either, did he? But they took him as many wives as they wanted. Now, I was talking to my wife about this, and I said, okay, who here was saved when they got married? I was saved when I got married. Okay, Chris and Kim, were you saved when you got married? Well, let me look at it this way. If you weren't saved, let's say, for example, or what people think. Do you think most unsaved guys look for a godly woman? They want a pretty one, right? If you're lost, you don't say, wow, I wonder how many times she reads her Bible through in a year. You say, wow, she's beautiful. Now, I want a beautiful wife, but I wanted a godly wife, too. I didn't just look for beauty. I wanted somebody that knew the Lord and was strong with the Lord. I think, personally, the sons of God are the godly line of Seth. Initially, starting out with a good foot. Seth was probably bringing the right sacrifice. Cain, he brought the fruit of the ground. He brought his own works. He didn't bring what God showed him to do. He wanted to do it his way. He did not care anything about godly. Remember that verse that men, the daughters of men, that they were fair. They didn't look at the spiritual life. I warn my kids, I say, make sure you marry a saved person. Don't get married to unbelievers. It can work out sometimes, but that's the exception, not the rule. And it says, And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years. God tells him, I'm gonna give him 120 years to repent. 120 years, Noah, I'm gonna get you to build that ark, I want you to preach to him. We see Peter says that he was a preacher of righteousness, and what all he preached, he's probably saying, judgment's coming. Remember what our, Grandfather, our great-grandfather Adam did, what God did for him in the garden. He clothed him, he chased him out of the garden so he wouldn't live in a forever sinful state. I mean, even in God's judgment, it's a blessing. He does it for our good, wouldn't he? How many here can respect their kids? You didn't do it to punishment, right? You did it to correct them, to help them, to get them to do the right thing. And I know, my grandmother, I was raised by my grandmother, and she believed in not sparing a rod. And if you did wrong, you felt it. But I'm thankful because I learned to obey and listen to authority. I learned to listen to her, but I also learned, hey, I need to, you know, even bad government's better than anarchy, no government. You know, like, look at Judges. Every man did what was right in their own eye. And look at the mess in the book of Judges, which we're going to go through later. He said, and there were giants in the earth in those days. The word they use here is Nephilim. And people say giants. The normal word for giants is Raphem. Like, you know, most of the word giants, there's only really, I think, two in Genesis, the word Rephian. Or Nephilim. But it can mean giant, it can mean feller. Think of somebody who cuts a tree down, they're called a feller. Or think of somebody who knocks somebody down. Like Chris and I was in a fight. He felled me or I felled him. He's down for the count, I'm down for the count. And it can also be translated champion or warrior. If you're physically fighting, typically the bigger you are, the better chance you have of winning. So, it's the word Nephilim. And it said, and also, after that, where the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men, Gabor. Remember the angel of the Lord talked to Gideon, a mighty man of valor, Gabor, that's the same word. Gideon, you're a Gabor, you're a mighty man of valor. So that doesn't necessarily mean giants, like what we think, like, you know, 30, 40 feet tall, like the Greeks say, you know, the Titans or whatever. And it couldn't mean just great, mighty warriors. And of course, back then, if you were fighting physically with a sword, you didn't have the modern weapons where it doesn't matter how much bigger Chris is than me. If he just has a sword and I have a M16, who's probably gonna win? I mean, he could be as big as Josh, and I'm probably still gonna win, right? And they became mighty men of renown, and God saw that wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually. I mean, we think it's bad now, But can you imagine every single thought being evil? What can I do to hurt him? What can I do to hurt her? What can I do to hurt him? How can I get away with this? I mean, constantly thinking, how can I do something that throws my fist up in the face of God? And God said, I'm not gonna put up with it forever. I'm gonna give him 120 years to repent. And it says in verse six, it repented the Lord. That's the word nahum, sigh. I mean, I've done it before when my kids have done something that they shouldn't have done. Matt, why did you do that? Scott, why did you do that? Don't you know better? If you have a state trooper friend and they caught you speeding, Barry, Come on, you know better than that. And so it grieved the Lord. He was sad, he was heartbroken that he made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping things and the boughs of the air, for it repented me that I made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. I just want to ask this question so I have a clear understanding. So the 120 years was the time that God had given for repentance. Correct. Which would have also been the time that Noah would have been preaching this. Preaching and building the ark. Yeah. So yeah, go ahead. And I think you made reference to this, it may have been last week, about, and I've gotten this, had this, my thought was that the 120 years was given to be able to live, like, that's your lifespan after? Well, that, I mentioned that, but I heard people saying, well, men will live 120 years, they can live, but we see in the Bible, they're living 900 years. I mean, they're living past that. So some people read something in the Bible, like, how many has ever read or seen a bumper sticker? I had a guy at work, I think I mentioned this, a guy had a bumper sticker on his work that if Money's the root of all evil. Why do preachers like it so much? And I said, Tim, the name's Tim, I said, Tim, your bumper sticker's wrong. Why's that? I said, wait, it's the wrong quote. You sure? I said, yeah, the Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. It's not money, it's the love of money. I mean, my computer's not evil, but I can use it for evil or I can use it for good. I mean, you've seen these people take cars and run over people. Or I can take a gun. It can be used for good to protect me, or it can be used for evil to go in and shoot people in a church. I mean, it's not the gun that's evil. It's the person who's using it. And of course, everybody, well, guns are bad. Well, no, guns aren't bad. It's the people that are bad. This set the stage for the flood, for our third great event. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and that they took them wise of all which they chose. Now, and it says, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually. Now, let me ask you a question. How many people here know that the Bible wasn't originally written with chapter and verse divisions. The Bible wasn't written with chapter and verse divisions. That was added later. So sometimes when we read the Bible, like Paul was especially good at this. If you look at like Ephesians, some of those are very long, long Greek sentences that go from one chapter into another chapter. They weren't just a simple little verse. I mean, Paul, if he was getting graded by an English teacher, he might get run on sentence, run on sentence. So sometimes we got to make sure, try to read it through. When you come to an end of a chapter, don't necessarily think that's the end of the thought. So that's, it could be, but don't always think, like I said, I mentioned last week, Genesis if you go Genesis and you say I'm reading through the Bible and I read I finished reading Genesis and I have to go away for a couple days and Then I pick up Exodus Well, that's a 400 year gap there Don't think it went from Genesis chapter 50 To Exodus one that the very next day or very next year. There's a 400 year gap between those two books and And sometimes the chapters might be the very same day or whatever. Usually there's clues in the Bible in helping us to better understand it. But the word bene Elohim, bene Elohim, sons of God. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man. He didn't say half God and half man, did he? And Christ died for men, for humans, for people, right? He didn't die for angels. I said the word mighty men, it could mean gabor, warrior, champion, tyrant, or chief. And we'll see when we look at Nimrod that he seemed like he was a tyrant. And nahum, nahum, that's the word for side. The normal word is shub. Like if I said I repented for the things I was doing wrong, that Hebrew word I would use would be shub. So that's the normal word for repent, like if I'm repenting of sin. I wish you wouldn't have done that, Barry. And then Noah found grace, kind, found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah didn't deserve to be saved, but God saved him. None of us deserve heaven, none of us deserve salvation. But God doubted his goodness, saved us. Here are all the verses in the Bible that talks about the sons of God. Genesis 6, it uses that word bene Elohim twice. And if I read those two verses, if I didn't know any other context, I would go, I'm not sure what that's talking about. If I just had those two verses in the Bible. Job, if I read Job and it said the sons of God, when I look at that from the context, all three of those verses referred to angels. Sons of God came before God, and Satan also came, it says, right? So I read that, oh, that's talking about angels. So there's only five verses in the Old Testament, bene elohim. The New Testament is Greek, so it doesn't have the same word, but in the New Testament, sons of God are always believers. So if I look at New Testament, it's calling us sons of God, even you ladies, you're sons of God. One guy said, How do you feel about having to be a son?" I said, well, you're the bride of Christ. Us guys are the bride of Christ, right? So yeah, we all got to go for a big change when we get to glory. So if you look at that, I don't think there's a clear cut, oh, it has to be angels all the time, or it has to be people all the time. One commentator said, He said it wasn't necessarily the sons of God that appeared before God in glory, or it wasn't necessarily sons of God as we are born adopted children of Christ. He said it could be just talking about you're a son of God because God created you. You know, Abraham, I mean, Jacob, who was, you know, the 12 tribes, right? Who are the 12 tribes? Are they the sons of Jacob? Yes. Well, actually, two are grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh. He said, they will become mine. And so sometimes a grandfather could call their grandson, that's my son. So that's just for thinking, OK, don't be, you know, sometimes there are exceptions. what the normal thing is. We got normal ways of translating things, but sometimes there might be, oh, wait a minute, it translates it like this, and they call him, and firstborn. Many times in the Bible, well, Isaac, he's called Abraham's firstborn son, his son of promise. Well, who is really his physically firstborn son? Ishmael. Ishmael, right? Yeah, Esau was on the next son, his son. So he's called a firstborn son, but that word sometimes talking about not firstborn as, I'm 10 minutes older than my twin brother, so I'm the firstborn. But if my parents would put all their attention on him and give him the inheritance, it's like, okay, he's the primary son. He's the one that we're putting all our attention, all our interest in. A firstborn son doesn't necessarily mean that I'm number one on the genealogy chart. I might be like Ephraim, who was second born, and Jacob put him over Manasseh. So here's the three main views. Like I said, we went over the sum a little bit last week, because somebody took an extra half hour. We've got three main views here. The first view is sort of what I believe, is that these were simply carnal men and women. I say carnal, because you say, well, one said sons of God. Well, they were from the godly line of Seth, but they showed in themselves, God was destroying all of them, right? So they weren't godly people, they were from the godly line, from the line of promise. But yet, they failed. They didn't keep God's promise. And I thought that was interesting that he doesn't go Cain and Seth, he doesn't say, and these are the generations of. You can't find that in the Bible. It says, and these are the sons of. So their lines got mixed. Cain's lines and Seth's lines got mixed. So you had ungodly people marrying ungodly people who, what do they do? Produce ungodly children. They had no spiritual They had no spiritual example other than a few people, Noah, Enoch. And these are the generations up, so he goes through, Moses gives the godly line that's gonna be the line of promise all the way through. And I said, the Targum talks about this, that's when it says, the sons of God, not by birth as Christ, nor by adoption as saints, but by creation as Adam, like Adam was a son of God. Matthew seems to prohibit it because they said that angels won't either marry or given to marry. First Corinthians, that's where it's talking about there is a celestial body and an earthly body. And it points out that there are different bodies. It doesn't say there's a half-celestial, half-earthly body, like where you're half-man, half-God type thing. And I said the normal word for sons of God, for angels, are melech. That's the normal Hebrew word for angels. And then the law of Genesis 1, 11, and it talks about after their kind, after their kind. And it would compromise the virgin birth. I mean, if they say, well, spirits came upon women and they had giant people, Well, they could say, well, then they were virgins, too. And you had a virgin birth way back then. So it would compromise the virgin birth. The second view is that they're fallen angels, that these B'nai Elohim were angels who co-inhabited with women. And they say Nephilim means giants or the fallen ones. Well, you can be a man and be a fallen creature that you're going to go to hell. You don't have to be an angel to be a fallen one. Now, there are fallen angels, but there's also godly angels. Pagan legends, like Hercules was the son of Zeus and a son of a mortal. So they say, well, maybe legend points to these half-human, half-gods. And Peter talks about the angels held in chains. So there seems to be, and they mention Noah along with that passage, so there may be, there seems to be two classes of angels. So they'll say that could be the angels who cohabitated with women. But it doesn't say that, it just says there are some angels reserved in chains, that they're already in chains. What that exactly means, we're not sure. And then I said, and only humans can get saved. They say, well, maybe they were trying to corrupt the human line so that the descendants couldn't come. And so therefore, they couldn't have a promised seed. Because remember, the promised seed was going to destroy Satan's seed. And if the two seeds become the same seeds, then if you kill one line, you're killing the other. So they'll try to say that. Satan was trying to corrupt the seed. I hold something alike the first view, but I say they were fallen men and women, but they were demon-possessed. Remember that Demoniaca Gaderic could break chains? I mean, a normal person can't do that. I mean, I don't think any of us can. There may be some guys can break a certain amount of chains, but it's like this Demoniaca Gaderic, they couldn't bind them. They could try to tie them up, when maybe he wasn't in a fit, but as soon as the demons came upon him, he could just break the chains and ropes. Samson did that by God's power, but demons empowered that demoniac at Gadara, and he could do it. So that's the view I hold. So I think along with the seeds, And because you got verse, you know, chapter three, man falls, he talks about the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Chapter four gives Cain, which I think it refers, inferring that that's the seed of serpent. Then you got Seth, the seed of the woman, the godly hind. And then right after that, you hear them, the sons of God and the daughters of man were getting married without any, you know, care for whether the person's spiritual or not. Men's supposed to be the spiritual leaders. But in America, many of the women are the spiritual leaders. And some men don't even go to church. So men dropped the ball on that one. But here I think they dropped the ball here. I think the godly line of Seth wasn't passing it on to their children. And they said, wait, David was a man after God's own heart, right? But what did he do? How many wives did he take? And what issues did it cause him? Solomon was so blessed to God. His ministry, his start was so, I mean, can you think of anybody had such a, God said, ask what you want. I mean, he had such a, I mean, a blessed start. And because he let his eyes turn away to women who were fair, we see that God said, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna, he's gonna, the kingdom is gonna divide, I'm gonna take the kingdom away from him. I'll give him, you know, Judah and Benjamin because of my love for David, but I'm taking the kingdom away from him. But because of my promise to David, I'm gonna keep a king in there, but he's not gonna rule like David did. He's not gonna have a kingdom like David did. And David, what did he do when he fell in sin? He confesses. He doesn't say, well, Bathsheba shouldn't have been taking a bath then. You know, well, you know, Uriah should have came back and went to his wife that night, and I wouldn't have been caught on this mess or whatever, you know. I mean, he didn't make excuses. Nathan confronted him, said, thou art the man. And what did he do? You're right. You're right. I sinned. And he talked about his bones were waxing old. how he was just getting tore up inside trying to hide that sin. And I'm sure it was a relief after he confessed, but he paid a price for it. And here he talks about Noah being a creature of righteousness. So what do we see in chapter six? We see Noah's faithfulness. He listened to God and he built an ark. I mean, think of it this way, if I said, Matt, I want you to go and build a ocean liner right out here in New York. Well, Scott's the builder, right? Scott, I want you to build a boat out here. Okay, so you're going to take it canoeing or rafting? No, I'm going to take it to the ocean. Well, wouldn't you like to get it a little closer to the ocean, maybe? And he believed God that the flood was coming. He was faithful. He was a human. He had sinned, and we'll see some result in chapter nine, but he did what God wanted him to do, even though I'm sure he fell multiple times. And then we see it's faithful in writing the ark. He went into the ark, did what God told him to do. Genesis 6.22 says, thus did Noah, according to all that God demanded him, so he did. He listened to God. Okay, God, I don't understand this. We don't know if it had ever rained before. The Bible talked about dew watering the ground, so it doesn't seem like it had ever rained before. People say, well, the flood wasn't real, was it? Well, you had 120 years. Why would you build an ark that size? You could just walk away from the flood. In chapter 8, 9, we see God's faithfulness. He sustained them in the ark, protected them in the ark. And after he came out of the ark, he sent the rainbow, and he remembered the ark. He said, I'll never again destroy the world by a flood. So if the flood wasn't real, God lied, because we've had plenty of floods since that time. Back where I live, before they put in the reservoir, it used to flood mostly. Our house was the last house. It never hit our house, but we were pretty close to the flood. But every house that was lower than us, every one of them got hit with flood water. And then they built the arch. They built the reservoir. We didn't go that far. So Genesis 610, and Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Jephthah. Genesis 618, but with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy son, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. So God made a covenant with Noah. He said, I'm gonna protect you, I'm gonna see you through this, and then later, after he comes out, he gives him the covenant, the promise of the rainbow, saying, Noah, every time you see that, just remember that covenant I made with you, that I'm never again gonna destroy the world by a flood. Thank you for your faithfulness. I added that part just in case you didn't know. So what kind of light did they have in the pre-flood days? Well, they had Noah's preaching. He was a preacher of righteousness. It says in verse three, he said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, in Genesis 6.3, so God had his spirit trying to work in man's heart, but, you know, if you ever, can you ever say, hey, can you do this, can you do, okay, I'm tired of telling them. You know, or telling her, or whoever it might be. You know, it's okay, how many times do I have to tell them? Okay, or, okay, you better do that, I'm gonna count three. And then what did a lot of people do? Okay, I'm gonna count three again. No, no, don't. With my kids, if I told them I was gonna do something at three or 10, I did it. So they learned, so that next time I wouldn't have, you know, hear and repeat, hear and repeat, warn and repeat, warn and repeat. Romans 1 talks about nature itself shows you that there is a God, that there is, you know, now Romans 1 doesn't give you supernatural revelation, so you can't get saved by it, but it should tell you, hey, it's more than just me here. There has to be God somewhere, because look at all the ancient civilizations. All of them had some type of godly worship. They knew in their heart, there's got to be somebody greater than me. You know, this just didn't happen. And Romans 2, 1 said, even your conscience, like, you know there's the Ten Commandments, even if you never learned the Ten Commandments. Well, I know I shouldn't steal Matt's glasses. I don't want to wreck, for one thing. I know how bad your eyes are, Matt. Because I don't want anybody stealing from me, so I shouldn't steal from other people. But sadly, people think it's OK for me to do it to them, but they shouldn't do it to me. And it says, Genesis 3.15 said, hey, they're going to be redeemed. I'm going to send somebody to take care of all this, this wickedness and sin in the world. Because he's going to crush the serpent's head. And along with that, any ungodly who follows him. And he had knowledge of a sacrifice in 4.4, that's where God kill the animals and clothe Adam and Eve. He said, hey, there gotta be a price paid for sin, a blood sacrifice. Something has to die. He said, the day you eat the rope, and the word, you shall die. The Hebrew word is like a dying, you shall die. You shall die spiritually right away, and then you're gonna start dying physically. So you're gonna die one day. So to cover your sins, I'm gonna kill that innocent lamb, or whatever animal you kill, and I'm going to cover your nakedness. You're not going to do it with your own works, with a big leaf. And it's interesting. I've watched a lot of stuff on cults, too. And this ex-Mormon, he said that in the temple thing, they have a robe in their baptism that has a big leaf on it. So that's man trying to do his own covering. And it's interesting that they use the fig leaf instead of a sacrificed animal replica or something. But they're trying to do their own way to God. They're not coming God's way. And I thought, hmm. And he was an ex-Mormon, so I believe it's more than likely true. But they said, you're not supposed to tell anybody. It's secret. Well, if you get out, come out of it. And then also said any priest to that generation. So what was it like physically? Well, it was probably universally warm. There was probably no snow caps. And we have this in your book. And it is probably one, you hear Hawaii, tropical paradise. It was probably better than Hawaii. You probably wouldn't need a fan or a heater. You'd probably be like, this is beautiful. And things probably grew a lot better, the soil, the conditions. The atmosphere, because I watch a lot of creation scientists, too, and they believe maybe it had two, three, four times the air pressure, so it would pump more oxygen into your body, so you'd live longer. They believe there was a canopy over the Earth, like I said, the Bible doesn't say, but they believe there was a canopy that kept out the ultraviolet rays, so that's why people are living to 900 years old. I was mentioned, I think it was Janice I mentioned to, years ago, some of you may not remember it, but you may have heard of it, there was a little girl that fell down a well in Texas, just a small hole like that, and she had her leg stuck up beside her head, and I can't remember how many hours, it was like a day or longer they were trying to get her out of this well, because they didn't want her to drop down into water and drown, but they finally got her out, and because her leg was stuck like that so long, her leg had turned black. So they were going to amputate her leg. And one doctor said, no, no, wait a minute. I've been reading this research from France about hyperbaric chambers, like they use for divers when they go skin diving and come up too fast and get the bends. So what he did, he put her in this hyperbaric chamber and pumped the oxygen level up. And the pressure up to, I don't know if it was two times, three times, four times more than normal. And said her leg started turning back, pink and then white and so it wound up they only had to amputate I think a little bit of her little toe is all they had to amputate off. Just from increasing the oxygen in that hyperbaric came an increasing pressure and it forced all that oxygen into her tissues and it killed her leg. And you can go back. I think her name was Sarah, but I'm not positive. I was a teenager then. I don't remember exactly how old she was. She was like two or three years old and somehow got down this well and fell down and got stuck in this pipe in the well. And so you can Google it. It's a little girl who got stuck in a well in Texas. And so like I said, the oceans were probably smaller. more like probably the Great Lakes or something. There's probably the mountains weren't as high, or if they had mountains, just rolling hills. And like I said, it seemed like they watered the earth with the dew. And there seemed to be artesian springs where the water came out of the ground. And they believed that there was, you know, we even have now subterranean water under the earth's crust. Because you have places in the ocean where there's warm water coming out of the bottom of the ocean floor. I think it makes good science sense that if there was more water under and the pressure, and remember the moon and the sun would go around the earth and it would, you know how it does the tides? It may have been for hundreds of years pumping the Earth across like this, and you know how if you do that with a balloon, how eventually it'll pop? I was going to show you this video if we have time, but this science from the Defense Department, he has what he called his Hydroplate Theory. He's a Christian, he was in the Air Force with NASA, and he's in the Defense Department, a physicist, and he has this theory, and he gives you some good graphics. after we're done unplugging my laptop and turn it around and show you the video. And what was it like morally? Well, we went over some of that. I mean, you were preoccupied with physical pleasures, with taking many wives, said doing evil continually. They rejected God's word. They didn't care what God said. They did their own thing. They were, like I said, they were devoted for pleasure and they didn't care what happened to people. And it was probably where they first started, maybe they were worshipping the stars, we believe that with Nimrod, we'll go over some of that, but they were just totally rejecting anything God told them. We don't need God. We're good. I mean, look, we're still living 900 years. We don't need God. But you notice in the Bible, you eventually read, and he died, and he died, and he died. You might live a long time, but all of us here are going to die one day unless the Lord comes back for us. And so if you're not ready, you need to be ready. And Genesis 6.15, and this is the fashion that thou shalt make it. And he describes the ark. The arc was 450 feet long. Now, most of us guys in here are about the same height, pretty close, but my qubit's maybe 17 inches, I think. That's a qubit. This is a span. But if they were bigger then, the arc would have been bigger. Josh's qubit's a little bigger than mine, so if you use Josh's measurement as a qubit, if we measured it in our today's standard, His arc might be 500 foot long. We don't know. So we don't know how big Adam. They were probably big. Adam and Eve were probably the quintessential physical perfection and mentally perfection. Our brains probably wouldn't even compare to theirs. And it shows you can be super intelligent and still do stupid things. You're right. Why did I do that? I don't know, sweetheart. And the ark was 75 feet wide, 45 feet high. The deck space was 97,700 square feet, over a millionth cubic volume in the ark. And that was the biggest vessel ever built by this measurement until 1884. We have no record of any vessel being bigger than that until almost the end of the 19th century. This is what some people depict the ark to look like. I haven't made it up to the Ark Encounter, I made it to the Creation Museum, but I want to go to the Ark Encounter one day. It's a life-size measurement, 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high. Now if you read some of these ancient, there's ark legends, I mean there's flood legends all over the world. I mean, some will have a hole right in the top of the roof. as opposed to putting it on top like you see in the picture here. And so they got, like the Babylonian has the boat taller than it is wide. I mean, it's gonna flop over in the water. I mean, they got canoes, they got all kinds of different shapes. They got pyramid canoes, I mean, pyramid arts. You know, make that, you know. There's all these flood stories that people made up. So no, there was one flood, and as people moved to different places and forgot God, they still, hey, I remember, there's this big flood my great-great-grandfather was telling me about. I mean, it's funny, the word to say, I think it's a word to say about memory. The Chinese word salvation has a picture of what looks like an ark and eight people. Interesting. Why would they come up with the word for salvation with an image like that? Well, God saved eight people in the ark. And so many of them got distorted. So when you read the biblical story of creation, it fits science. They say it's the perfect shape to survive a tsunami type thing. And I've seen ones where they have what they call dredge stones. They are big stones. that would hang over the boat under the water to get it to, so when the water was coming, if the boat was going this direction, it would sort of point the boat that direction. And when it was going over the thing, like if it came out of the water like this, the heavy stones would push it back down to keep it more level. And there's all kinds of, and they had what they call, some scientists believe they had a thing in there, what they call a moon pull. And it was like a hole in the middle of the ark. Instead of building the ark straight through like that, they had a hole like this that came up most of the way through the ark. And as it went over the waves, it would cause a pumping motion to pump air in and out of the ark, to add ventilation through the ark. There's a guy, if you want to ever see a creation site, Kent Hovind. He's very entertaining. He has like a seven series on creation evolution. And he also does a lot of debates. So you can go on and watch some of his debates on YouTube. But he's funny, too. I wish he would have went against Bill Nye. Because he didn't pull punches like Bill Nye did. Bill Nye was nice. I mean, Ken Ham was nice to Bill Nye. Ken Hoban would have been nice, but he would have went for the juggler, you know what I'm saying? But, unfortunately, he listens to some people saying that, hey, I'm a ministry, I don't have to pay taxes, and got thrown in jail for tax evasion. So I said, smart people can sometimes make dumb mistakes. So just pay your taxes, and don't worry about getting thrown in jail that way. So yeah, you can only fight town hall so much, right? So I'd rather pay the extra money and not have to worry about that. So he did make some bad mistakes, but his science and humor, he makes it very rememberable. He goes over dinosaurs, he goes over flood, he goes over Like the hydro, you know, the canopy theory, and a lot of it makes pretty good sense. And like I said, it's entertaining. What are flood facts? Well, many people believe the flood happened on November the 1st. They call it the Day of the Dead. Now, anybody know what October 31st is? Halloween. It's the eve before the Day of the Dead. So that's why people would put out tricks and treats and lights. They would put them out for the dead spirits that would come back on that day. That's how Halloween came about. So they would put out these things because they were afraid. They didn't want the dead spirits that were supposed to show up on the first coming to their house and coming in their house. They put lights on you know like a jack-o'-lantern with the light in they put these faces on it to scare the spirit away from the house so so Now most people today just do it for you know, it's it's you know something but that's why many people believe the date November 1st was when the flood began now that Bible doesn't say it it just and you get like said you get these ancient writers that they'll say many things and Some are, you know, I can believe that. Other ones, like who knows who Og, king of Bashan is in the Bible. He had a bedstead of 12 cubits. Remember when the children of Israel were getting ready to go into promised land and the king of Boab didn't want them to go through their territory? Well, Og was the king of Bashan. He was a giant. He is the largest, giant we have measured in the Bible. He was bigger in Goliath. Said his bedstead was 12 cubits. So, but, yeah, so think of, that's almost 20 feet. So he was a big guy. Of course, I imagine he was a little smaller in his bed. But, one tradition in the Targum, Jewish Targum, said, you know where Og came from? Said he held on to the outside of the ark during the flood. He was one of those giants. So yeah, they come up with strange things. We know the Bible says only eight survived. So we know Aughan wasn't holding on to the ark. But somewhere they get these ideas, well, well, there was giants before, and if all of them died, giants had to get to this side of the flood, right? Well, I said giants could mean, they could be big guys, but they could be mighty warriors. I mean, Josh is a big guy. I have a, well, he's not my cousin. He's not my brother, but he's my half-brother's half-brother. He's 7'4 and 350 pounds. So he's a big guy. He was an MP in the army. And he said, well, Barry, you would think people would not, a drunk soldier would not want to fight me. But they get drunk and they think, cool, buddy, I can take you on. So they do have some strange stories. What triggered the flood? Well, the only thing we know that God caused it. Some people think, well, maybe it was a meteorite that hit the Earth and cracked it, crushed, and all that water came out. The one explanation is one sign I heard. He said, a comet is nothing but a frozen, mostly a frozen ball of ice flying through outer space at tremendous miles an hour. Imagine Halley's Comet coming back every 70 years. That thing, I didn't look at how fast it goes, but it probably goes going pretty fast to get to the end. outskirts of our galaxy and then come back in 70 years. So it's traveling probably pretty good. And they say ice, when it's, and I said, I hadn't checked this out, but he said ice, when it's super cold at 300 to 400 below Celsius, it becomes magnetic. And he said there's a science principle called the law of, what? The law of, not angular momentum, but it's a law of When you half the distance, attraction for gravity, when you half the distance, it quadruples the speed. So in other words, when it comes back from a mile away, it's going a certain speed. But when you half that distance, now attracting to like the sun, for example, it's going to go, it'll be going four times faster. And then when you half it in time again, it'll be going, you know, eight times faster. So I forget what the scientific law was. I meant to write it down, but I forgot to put it. But he said he believed that when it got so fast that the comet broke to pieces. And that's why you had mammoths frozen standing up on the magnetic north and south pole. We don't know, but there's all these theories. They present different things. Some make sense. Like some like fog hanging on the outside. No, it doesn't make sense. There's all these clam shells on top of Mount Everest and other mountains. Clams and oysters and all of them are not the greatest climbers in the world. I don't know if you know that. Anybody ever go to the beach? I haven't seen one clam climbing up my food container to get in my container. They don't climb. If that mountain wasn't below the ocean at one point, Where did all those clams come from? The ark, if it was just a local flood, they could have walked somewhere in 120 years. They didn't have to build a ark the size of the Queen Mary. They just could have walked another place. And plus, it contained enough room that if you do every animal, the kind of animal we know, that the average size was a sheep, it would only fill up 38% of the Arctic's dimension. So they can cover 550 railroad cars, or 5,500? I forget the number. 520 some railroad cars. Plus, you didn't have to take the biggest animal. If I wanted an animal to live long, I'm going to get a young elephant. I'm going to get a young Tyrannosaurus rex, you know, and I can control that, right? I'm not going to take, or, I mean, reptiles of late age, I could have grabbed an ape, but it'd stay there until it hatches. So you didn't need the biggest animal. They estimate the average size, counting dinosaurs, between extinct animals and all the kinds that they know, averaged the size of a sheep. So you had a very big one, you could have, but they probably didn't take the biggest ones, and reptiles, will keep growing as long as they live. So a brontosaurus could be born that big. If they die in 100 years, they're going to only be yay big. But if they live to 900 years, how big are they going to get? They're going to get huge. And after the flood, the lifespan dropped off dramatically. Here's some terms they used. The term all and every is used 30 times in Genesis. when it talks about, so they use these universal terms that every animal dies, all men die, everything that breathes is going to be judged. And they use the unique term Mabu, which means, for the flood, which means a deluge. It's not just your little flood. Okay, I just can't go across that bridge right now. And the size of the ark. If it wasn't a universal flood, you didn't need that big a boat. And what was the nature of it? God was coming to judge wicked man, sinful man. He said, I'm going to wipe them all out. And what was the duration of the flood? From the time they went in, it was 371 days that Noah was in the ark. Floods are over before, you know, over a year, right? I mean, every flood I've been in, they were over in a few days. I mean, you got some that had destroyed a lot of places, but the rain and flood itself, okay, a river stopped rising after a week or whatever it might be. They use what, again, this is called a double superlative, you know, double superlative. All in every, in Hebrew, it's a way of intensifying, say, hey, this is really, This is really big. It's like, hey, you know I'm not kidding. I swear to God I'm telling you the truth type thing or whatever. All the animals died. Every man died other than the ones in the yard. And God's covenant promise, he said, I will never again destroy the world with a flood. So if there have been floods, either God lied or he doesn't know what he's talking about. I mean, because there's been floods. And he said, every time you see the ark, realize I'm never gonna do this again. Well, we see, I mean rainbows, we see rainbows after rains, right? God said, hey, I'm never gonna destroy the earth again by a worldwide flood. So it's God's promise. And eight different biblical writers talk about the flood. And in the New Testament, the Greek term, kataklysmo, is not your normal term for flood. It's where we get the word catastrophe. Cataclysmo, this is bad. This is really big. Genesis 9, when this is after Noah comes out of the earth. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish yours. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by waters of the flood, neither shall there anymore be a flood, destroy the earth. So it sounds like God's pretty definite that there's not going to be a universal flood again. We have local floods, but with all scientific evidence, it points to a universal flood. And listen, what did God tell Noah? Be fruitful and multiply and replenish it. Go out and cover the earth. But what does man do? What did Noah do? These are the three sons of Noah, and of them was the world whole world's overspread. And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a voodoo. And what did we see? He drank of the wine, and was drunken, and was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Jephthah took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. And God shall enlarge Jephthah, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant, and Noah lived after the flood 350 years, and all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died. So, who's the one cursed here? Canaan. Now, what do you hear many times? Well, Ham was cursed, right? Have you ever heard, they were cursed with being black-skinned? That's what the Mormons used to teach. The Mormons taught that It was a curse. Well, we see here Canaan was the one that was cursed, not Ham. Evidently, from what we read, it seems like Ham was involved in it somehow. We don't know. All we know is what the scripture said. Now, there's been all kinds of theories. They say he sexually assaulted his father, his mother. Some say he castrated Noah. Some said his grandson, him and Canaan, both did it. There are all kinds of theories. But what I think is the most logical one is, in an Asian culture, you respect your elders. I worked at a Korean church eight years. And my assumption is that they probably went out and not just told their brother, hey, you ought to see dad. Look at him, in there. We don't know what happened other than what the Bible says. You can come up with all kinds of theories, but if it's not in the scripture, you can't say, hey, I'm certain about certain things I am, because I see it in the scripture, but in certain things I think, well, we don't, I mean, he didn't put a curse on him. Who knows? And in the black race, African Egypt didn't come from Lonnie Canaan. Canaan looked more like an Arab or a Jew. And who was Noah, I mean, who was Moses writing this letter to? Book of Genesis in Exodus Leviticus. Who was he writing to? He was writing to the Jews, his fellow brethren, right? And what were they getting ready to do? They were getting ready to go into the land of Canaan. And I think he's sort of telling the Jews, God had cursed these people that were going into because of their sin. And we find through archeological evidence and through writings that Cana seemed to be the group of people after the flood that turned against God the quickest. I mean, they checked, they found a gravesite in Shechem from ancient Shechemites, you know, who, remember what they did in the Bible to Jacob's daughter, Dinah? Shechem raped her. And then he said, I want to marry her. Well, then Levi and Simeon came in. They said, OK, if they get circumcised, we'll do it. Well, if you get circumcised, usually you're incapacitated for a few days. Well, they go in there when they're at their worst point and kill all the men and women of the city. Well, they did archaeological evidence, and they tested, found in the graveyard there, they said every bone they found in the in this grave in Shechem had venereal disease. You know how you can test the bone to see what kind of disease is it? Because like you've got gonorrhea, your bone can get all these little holes in it. And they found all these bones they tested, every single bone they tested, man, woman, children, all had evidence of venereal disease. So they were wicked people. They did child sacrifices. They did incense. They did all kinds of wicked things. And it seems like it carried on from Canaan right here. Evidently, he showed some type of wickedness. We don't know what. And of course, Noah made a mistake. Of course, people say, well, wine probably couldn't ferment before the flood. Everything changed. So he probably didn't know he was going to get drunk. What did he do? He wake up, he drinks, he gets drunk, and he curses his grandson. I try to bless my grandson, but if you do something stupid to yourself, you may do something stupid to somebody else. And then his brothers, respecting their father, they go backwards, they didn't laugh, they didn't say, oh, let's see, Dad. No, they covered up, went backwards, covered up his nakedness, and Noah blessed them. And he cursed the other ones who did the opposite. And that's what we know about. So there's all kind of theories. I said, you know, people, it's like noses. Everybody has one. Some may be better than others, you know. I mean, I went to the Philippines, and Filipinos love big noses. They thought, wow, look at that big nose. So us Americans, they think, wow, you're good looking. They like big noses. Cheryl, don't listen to this if you're listening to it. She pitched the clothespin on her nose trying to make it smaller when she was a little girl. So another drunk, no, his daughter, he got drunk and he cursed his grandson. The sin, we don't know what the sin was. We know he saw his father nakedness, he went and told his brethren, probably laughingly, but other than that, we don't know if he laughed, but we know he told his brethren, and then, He said they're going to be servants. And after, well, we'll get into this a little later. He said the early civilizations found and carried the highest, the Canaanites, the Hamites, carried the, their early civilization seemed to carry the most technical people around them. So they were very scientific. But you can be scientific and be lost. They said they did a lot of inventions. What was Jephthah's blessing? He said he was going to enlarge his tents. And after the fall of Babylon, when the Persians conquered Babylon, the Persians were the last of the Hamidic people to ever dominate the world. The Persians, and after that, the tribes, the line of Jephthites, they were the world conquerors. Like Greeks were from Jephthah. all these tribes, they had conquered the Semitic people and the Hamitic people. And after that, he was controlling the world for the most part. Ham said he was gonna bless them, and that was through Shem, I mean through Abraham ending with Jesus, so I'm gonna bless him. And evidently, he probably became the priest. And we'll see right here, we'll see in a minute, What did the children do? You'd think, after the flood, they would learn their lesson. OK, I destroyed all the world, all those millions, however many people there was, probably millions, because they lived for 2,000 years, and they were living to 900. They were probably more physically able to do things than us, and that probably includes buried children. But what do they do? And they said, go, let us build a city. So are they spreading out? No. They're congregating. And a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make a name. Let us make us a name. No, they didn't say let us honor God and build an altar to God. They say let us make a temple. Let us make a name for ourselves. Lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. God told them to replenish the earth. They said, no, we're going to stay right here. And it says, so what is the Tower of Babel? Well, it was probably the beginning of the world false religion. You heard about Babylon mystery religion. They came up with all kinds of, they worshipped all kinds of stars. That Tower of Babel, Babel, the Akkadian word Babel means gate of God, tower of God. where the Hebrew word means confused. So sometimes they can have the same word that means different things. So they were saying, hey, we're going to build a tower that reaches God. And most commentators think that this was a place to go worship the stars. You know, they would go up there. And they were, astrologically, the pyramids and all these things, they can date just within a few minutes our calendar. And we didn't come up with it on our own until later, with all the science and telescopes we have. There's the tomb of the king in the pyramids. On the day the flood happens, the Nile overflows, a light shaft, the one star will shine right down through that hole. They knew the stars very well, so they watched the stars. And think of it this way. If you were a commoner, and I was Pharaoh, and I say, Nile's gonna flood on Saturday, wow, and it doesn't, again and again, and that's your lifeblood, you're gonna think, this guy's a god. And that's, you know, they probably use a lot of these things, oh, there's gonna be an eclipse. I watched an old Ben Crosby movie, and it called a Canadian, Connecticut, Connecticut Yankees, and he hit his head doing something, and he dreamt he was back in King Arthur's day, and they were gonna burn him, because he lit a match, a witch, a witch, a witch, and so they were gonna burn him at the stake, and he said, if you do this, I'm gonna block the sun out, and he had an almanac, and he knew when the, he said the eclipse was gonna be at this such a time, on the day they were gonna burn him at the stake, and he said, And he just started saying, hocus pocus, mumbo yocus. He said, sun disappeared. And you hear people, and all of a sudden you see the eclipse of the sun starting. So imagine if you could tell people, the sun's going to be black. I'm going to black the sun out tomorrow. Or I'm going to black the moon out. Oh, we better not mess with him, type thing. So it was a first world one. They say Nimrod, the mighty hunter, They say Nimrod, and so why would the Lord be angry with Nimrod for being a hunter? I mean, who here hunts? I haven't hunted. I hunt some, but I haven't hunted as much as I used to. Why would God be angry at you going hunting? Why would God be angry at you for hunting? I mean, didn't he tell you after the flood you can eat meat now? Well, most commentators think he was a hunter of men, that he enslaved people. I mean, when an empire is trying to build a nation, they're not necessarily usually nice to their neighbors, are they? Well, I'm going to go over here and destroy this village over here, take their food, and enslave them. And the young boys and the men, I'm going to make them my soldiers. If you follow me out and say, what do they do? Well, let us go get the next village and the next village. They say, Genghis Khan, the Hun. You know, hey, honey. No. They said he, they estimated that his Mongol horde killed over 40 million people. That was 11% of the known world then that he wiped out of the population we knew back then. 40 million people. And that was up close and personal. Well, they were back a little further. They had a really good composite bow that could out-distance anything, everybody. So they could ride up, shoot, and if you chased after them, they could ride away and then surround you and shoot more arrows. And look at the kingdoms Nimrod built. Babel, Arach, Akkad, Chaldea, and the land of Shinar. And out of that land went Asher and built Nineveh in the city of Rehoboth and Caleb. And risen between Nineveh and Caleb was the same as a great city. So what's he doing? He's conquering all these other populations that settled, and God said, I imagine God doing this, shaking his head. They don't learn, do they? So let us go down and deal with this. He came down, and what did he do? He confused their language. And it was after that that we see all these cities and nations. Roughly 70 different groups we read in what they call the table nations and how he broke these groups up through family lines and different ways. But I said, I worked at a Korean church. My first experience of setting in a Korean service, it lasted two hours. And I don't know anything about Koreans. They pray a lot. They pray long. And I'm sitting there with my head bowed college student who probably didn't sleep enough then, and I'm sitting in this service and listening to a prayer service in Korean and praying for over an hour in Korean, me not understanding any words. You know how hard it was for her to stay awake? I'm like, trying to stay awake. So they couldn't work together anymore, so the people, Spread out. So what they want to do when God told them to go out and replenish the earth and subdue it, God had to make them do it. Okay? You don't want to listen to me? You don't want to obey me? Well, here's a picture. They believe this is a picture of Nebuchadnezzar in one of the towers. I think Nebuchadnezzar, they said. But that's what they think. It was probably a ziggurat. look like they found the foundation of some of the land they think was maybe one of the towers, whether it was the original tower, Babel, we don't know. And Herodas, remember we mentioned him, I think, the first lesson? He was a Greek historian, and he also worked as a mercenary, and he went with some of the Greek soldiers to fight for one of the Persian kings, to help them win against somebody trying to usurp his throne, right? Well, they won, But in the process, the king died. And after that, they were coming after the Greek soldiers. So they had to run. They had to run up the Tigris and Euphrates River. So they just took off, headed back to Greece, running, trying to stay ahead of the Persians. And across the way, Herodotus, he was a Greek historian, he took notes. And they came across this ancient city, abandoned, that he asked local people, what is this city? We don't know. We don't know. He didn't know what the city was. He described it, he said it was 42 miles in circumference. Cetas, he came a little later, he said it was 56 miles in circumference. Now, if you want to get an idea of how much 50 miles is, I live down by the airport. Anybody know where out of this the DMV is? That's 17 miles. A circumference of 55 miles is about 17 mile diameter. So Babylon, we don't know if that was Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon or what, but it was huge. Imagine, and they said the city wall was 300 feet high. Well, Liberty's tower is only 275 feet high. So imagine a tower going around the city, going from the airport down to the DMV out of Vista, 300 feet high surrounding the city. I don't know how wide this is. How wide do you think this is, Scott? 50, 60 feet, maybe? It's 48 feet. 48 feet. The walls are 75 feet thick. So that's how thick the wall was. Do you think that was pretty impressive? I mean, they weren't stupid. They built them out of mud bricks. They had technology that we found, old technology, that we don't know how they did it. They lifted stones so big that we can't do it today with our modern equipment. So they weren't stupid. They were just lost, most of them. So that's how big he describes ancient Babylon. I'm going to have a big place. Before the flood, they were living 900 years. After the flood, it drops off like a rock. They say the average age from 1500 to the 1800s in Europe was averaging 30 to 40 years old. Is there anybody in this room that's that age or older? If we lived in Europe during that time, we'd be dead, most of us. Most of the people we probably know would be dead. Living 30 to 40 years was the average lifespan. So we aren't getting bigger, better, bolder. We went down for a long time. And look at, I don't know if you can see this real well, but see that little line up here? That's where the flood happened. Look at Abraham down there, 175 years. Shem up here, 600 years. He almost outlived Noah. I mean, look at, count them backwards, grandchildren. Terah, Abraham's grandfather. Nahor, his great-grandfather. Sigrod, his great-great-grandfather. Reub, his great-great-great-grandfather. Caleb, his great-great-great-great-grandfather. Eber, his... You get the idea. I mean, he saw, and most of them died before him. Abraham was the only one to outlive him. He outlived his son, his son's son, his son's son's son, He outlid them all, except for Abraham there. And this is what a model of what a ziggurat looks like. I don't know where they copied this from. I imagine it's one of the ziggurats they had in the Middle East they found. But they said it was probably, most of them they found, it looked like it was a temple worshiped, worshiping the gods of the stars. The zodiac, where did they come from? They were worshipped as gods. And there was a story, a preaching series that James D. Kennedy preached on Christ in the stars, in the sky. And he talked about how originally the Zodiac were meant to show the gospel, like the Virgin, Virgo the Virgin. You had the dragon trying to devour the child. You have Judah, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He said originally it was probably there to put as an example of the gospel, but yet man perverted it. So he did like a 12 series on each of the Zodiacs, and what he found from research, what they used to say they were talking about, and how they got converted, how they got perverted today. And what is the seasonal changes? We live in a less safe world. We have storms and floods. We have dramatic temperature changes. I mean, Saudi Arabia and all that, anybody know where oil comes from? Vegetation, right? Compressed vegetation and animals, coal. Well, if you look at Saudi Arabia today, you say, that's a desert. Well, one time it was a lush spot. I mean, it shows you how dramatic the change was after the flood. God just wiped a lot of it out. And again, here are some of the tables of the nations. This is where some of the children moved to. The red ones you see here are Jephthah. The blue ones here are Shem, and the green ones are Ham. So you see where the different children, they didn't go over all seven of them, but this is where how the nation spread out after the Tower of Babel. And God had to come down and confound their language to get them to do what he, I mean, does God ever have to do that with us? We have to learn the hard way sometimes before we do the right thing. So God scattered nations. Nimrod was probably the first world dictator, trying to make a one world government, a one world religion. Even today, Simaraj, he was supposed to be Nimrod's wife, And after Nimrod died, she deified him, said he's a god. Of course, he's living long, too, so people thought he must be a god, you know. Well, his son Tammuz was born after, and have you ever heard of the mother-son god called, well, remember when Ezekiel was in the temple and God took him back and said, they were making cakes to the queen of heaven, and they were weeping for Tammuz, That's the mother, son, God. Well, what religion today sort of copied that hundreds of years? The Catholics, where they worship Mary. They worship Mary and you see all these figurines where she's always holding the baby Jesus. And that's copied right from Babylonian religion. Remember Constantine, quote-unquote got saved. He said, okay, Christianity is the official religion. So you had all these pagan religions. Well, we got to get in on this now. If he's favoring them, we got to get in there. So they weren't probably any more saved than, you know, anywhere before they did it. A little story. William the Conqueror, well not William the Conqueror, but Oh, I can't think of his name. One of the Vikings who came down to France to help protect the king and fight for him, well, his men said, well, you've got to be Christians, though. So they baptized. He said, OK, baptize our men. Well, the men, when they got baptized, they gave them a new robe. And so what his men started doing, they kept coming back saying they wanted to get saved again, wanted to get saved again, just so they get new robes. Yeah. So I said Nimrod, you know, it was a story of rebellion. It was a rebellious person. It was a rebellious government. It was a rebellious one world system. Babylon was a capital and it was a city given over to worship of false gods. And what do you think we see one day in the book of Revelation? Babylon, Babylon, that great city, they even call probably what's Rome, Babylon, or it could be Babylon resurrected. And that's the end of our story. Any questions? I might go ahead and, if you send me your email, if you text me and send me an email, I can send you the clip of that hydroplank theory if you want to see it sometime. And it's pretty interesting. It's a physicist. I tried playing it here, but it doesn't have any sound. And if we had more time, I'd play it. But Matt, you want to open? Close for us in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and for your many blessings upon us, Lord. And thank you for this time we can come together just to learn more about your word. Lord, I pray that you would be with us as we leave here, Lord. I pray for your hand protection upon us, Lord. Bring us back together again. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. See you. Some of you next week.