Genesis 4 Cain & Abel
Genesis 5 Genealogy of Noah
Genesis 6-9 Flood of Noah
Genesis 10-11 Tower of Babel
Genesis Chapter 4
Genesis 4 Cain & Abel
Genesis 5 Genealogy of Noah
Genesis 6-9 Flood of Noah
Genesis 10-11 Tower of Babel
• Cain and Abel
• Offerings:
Cain’s = fruit of his own labors;
Abel’s = a Lamb
• Cain’s offering rejected.
Why?
The fire of God may have came down and consumed Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s, Elijah’s offering was also, consumed by fire.
That may have caused Cain to become jealous
• Cain murders Abel
This was the second murder, the first murder was Adam and Eve, losing their immortality
Representatively
• Both Cain and Abel from same parents
Fallen parents
• Both outside of Eden
Judicially alienated, we are all in that same boat
• Differing Basis
Cain’s offering was of his own works the fruits of a cursed ground
Abel’s offering was based upon the completed work of Christ
• Death required the substitutionary death of a lamb, that pointed to Jesus Christ’s substitutionary death
(God would provide; Genesis 22:14
All of us are in one the same two categories represented by Cain and
Abel: relying on our self-righteousness and works; or, relying on the completed work of Christ, in anticipation by faith.
Are there “Hidden Messages” in the Bible?
There are Hidden Messages all through the Bible, not just the hidden codes, but messages in terms of what the lessons are from the narratives, but also, there are some other hidden messages. And the scripture says that there are.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but it is the honor of kings to search
out a matter.
A Riddle:
• Who is the oldest man in the Bible?
• Methuselah; he lived 969 years.
• Yet he died before his father! How can that be?
• His father was Enoch…at age 65, something happened; he then
• Enoch “walked with God” for 300 years…
He had a son by the name of Methuselah,
• The flood of Noah did not come as a surprise, it had been preached on for four generations.
• God told Enoch that the judgement of the flood would be withheld for as long as his son lived.
Methuselah
• muth, a root that means “death”;
• shalach, which means “to bring,” or “to send forth.”
“His death shall bring.” Muth: death,
• Muth occurs 125 times in the Old Testament
• Shalach: 60 times: judgment.
Methuselah lived 187 years and had Lamech
• Lamech lived 182 years and had Noah
• Noah was 600 years old when the flood came
187
+782
969 years the death of Methuselah
Methuselah’s life becomes a symbol of God’s mercy, it is deliberately the longest life in the entire Bible.
Genealogy of Genesis 5
Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah
• If there is all of this insight behind the life of Methuselah, what about these other nine people?
• The names in Genesis chapter 5 is not translated for us, the rest of the Bible is translated from it’s Greek to Hebrew into English,
• But we don’t translate proper names
• In Hebrew names are translated
• Here they are transliterated
Adam
• adomah, means “man.”
• The same 17 elements that make up our body chemistry are the same 17 elements that are found in the “dust of the ground.”
Seth
seth, which means “appointed.”
Genesis 4:25 Eve said, “For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom
Cain slew.”
Enosh
• which means “mortal,” “frail,” or “miserable.”
• It is from the root anash, to be incurable; used of a wound, grief, woe, sickness, or wickedness.
Genesis 4:26 is often mistranslated. The classic rendering (Onkelos, et al.)
read, “then men began to profane the name of the Lord.”
• It was in the days of Enosh that men began to defile the name of the Living God.
Kenan
• Unfortunately we presume that Kenan is synonymous with “Cainan.”)
• which can mean “sorrow,” “dirge,” or “elegy.”
• The precise denotation is somewhat elusive; some study aids
Balaam, looking down from the heights of Moab, uses a pun upon the name
of the Kenites when he prophesies their destruction.
Num 24:21, 23
Mahalalel
• which means “blessed” or “praise”; and
• El, the name for God = “The Blessed God.”
Jared (Yared)
• from the verb yaradh, meaning “shall come down.”
Some authorities suggest that this might be an allusion to the “Sons of God” who “came down” to corrupt the daughters of men, resulting in the
Nephilim of Genesis 6.
Enoch
• which means “commencement,” or “teaching.”
Jude 14, 15
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him
• Before the flood of Noah, there were prophesies of the “Second Coming”.
Enoch’s Prophecy
• We know the Lord’s coming is sure.
• We know who will accompany the Lord.
• We know the purpose of His coming.
• We know the result of the Lord’s coming.
Nadir of Apostasy
• Enoch was translated (“raptured”?)
• Midway between Adam and Abraham.
• Elijah was translated
• Midway between Abraham and Christ.
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.
Enoch “Walked with God”
• Not a casual stroll: 300 years (Hebrews 11:5);
• Agreement; surrender; witness (Amos 3:3);
• Privilege available today (Colossians 2:6; Galatians 5:25; 2 Corinthians 5:7).
Methuselah
• muth, a root that means “death”;
• shalach, which means “to bring,” or “to send forth.”
= “His death shall bring.”
Lamech
• a root still evident today in our own English word, “lament” or “lamentation” = “Despairing.”
Noah
• which is derived from nacham,
• “to bring relief” or “comfort,” = “Comfort, or Rest.”
Genealogy of Genesis 5
Adam Man (is)
Seth Appointed
Enosh Mortal
Kenan Sorrow; (but)
Mahalalel The Blessed God
Jared Shall come down
Enoch Teaching
Methuselah His death shall bring (God’s death)
Lamech The Despairing
Noah Comfort, Rest
• This demonstrates that God’s reaction to sin was not a knee jerk reaction to Adam’s sin, God already knew what Adam would do and had prepared a way for man to be saved.
• It is unlikely that a group of Jewish Rabbi’s would contrive to hide a summary of the Christian Gospel in the genealogy of the Torah!
One Integrated Design
• The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed;
• The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.
Two Basic Discoveries
1. The Bible consists of
• 66 separate books,
• Penned by over 40 authors
• Over a thousand-plus year period, that are an integrated message system;
2. It can be demonstrated that the origin of this message is from outside of our dimensions of space and time.
Jesus’ Strange Warning
Matthew 24:37
But as the Days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
• What does that mean?
• What problem was the flood of Noah’s Day solving, that the world was full of sin?
• That is still going on today?
Genesis 6:1-2
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, that the Sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
• Genesis 6:1-2.........Are a single sentence
• Men in general and daughters, in general, are mentioned
“Sons of God”: Genesis 6
• Bene HaElohim = angels.
• Old Testament (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7);
• New Testament (Luke 20:36)
There is a Hebrew book that is not inspired, it is valued for grammar and vocabulary, it emerged about two centuries before Christ and was very popular called:
• The Book of Enoch;
It was not by Enoch, it was compiled by Rabbi’s, but it does demonstrate the belief that they had in those days and it also helps us with the vocabulary and the grammar and it uses this term of angels in the same way in great depth.
• Septuagint (LXX)
• The Septuagint translation, three centuries before the ministry of Christ, the Hebrew Scriptures was translated into Greek.
• Greek is a very, precise language, the best scholars that they could find came from Jerusalem to Alexandria, it took them 15 years to make this translation.
The Greek is very specific and it does illuminate this passage that we are talking about.
“Daughters of Men”
• “...daughters of men”
• Benoth Adam = “Daughters of Adam.”
• Daughters of Adam, not just Cain.
• Adam had daughters (Genesis 5:4)
• That’s where Cain got his wife!
• “took…of all they chose”
• Doesn’t sound like the girls had much choice in the matter…
Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God
came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and afterward as well, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men...
Numbers 13:33
...and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.• Nephilim: “the fallen ones.”
• Nephal: “to fall, be cast down to fall away, desert.”
• HaGibborim: “the mighty ones.”
• Septuagint (Greek) LXX: The word Nephilim was translated gigantes
• gigantes (~ “giants?”) gigantes does not mean giants but earth born
• These are hybrids, unique and strange
• gigas = “earth-born.”
Geneges is the same word used in Greek mythology for “Titans,”
creatures emerging from interbreeding of the Greek gods with human
beings.
• Genea, means “breed,” or “kind.”
• The English words “genes” and “genetics” come from the same root.
Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
The same phrase used for Enoch
• “...perfect”: ~
• tamiym = “without blemish, sound, healthful, without spot, unimpaired.”
• It’s a term used for physical defects
• What this says in the genealogy of Noah, is that Noah’s genealogy was not tainted, was not blemished by the goings-on.
• What we are suggesting here is that fallen angels came down and contrived a way to generate “Hybrids”.
Here is the photo of a man with 7 fingers, is this a DNA marker from times past?
• Satan's strategy "was" and still "is" to corrupt the human line in order to prevent the coming of the Messiah.
• This is called “The Angel View of Genesis 6".
• If this is valid it would be confirmed in the New Testament.
• Confirmed by two or three witnesses
New Testament Confirmations:
Jude 1:6, 7
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and
Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and
going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
• Jude not only makes reference to Sodom and Gomorrah but also, to these angels
2 Peter 2:4,5
For if God spared not the angels that sinned,but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered
[them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world,
but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
This Is Why We Have To Be Born-Again:
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man
be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Romans 10:9-10
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• Peter ties this strange goings-on to the Days of Noah
• Tartarus is used only once in the entire Bible 2 Peter 2:4
Tartarus
• Greek term for the “dark abode of woe”; pit of darkness in the unseen world;
• Homer’s Iliad: “
...as far below Hades as the earth is below heaven…”
Greek Titans
• Partly terrestrial; partly celestial;
• Rebelled against their father Uranus;
• After prolonged contest were defeated by Zeus and condemned
into Tartarus;
• Titan (Greek) = Sheitan (Chaldean) = Satan (Hebrew).
Ancient Legends
• Sumer • Persia
• Assyria • Greece
• Egypt • India
• Incas • Bolivia
• Mayan • South Sea Islands
• Gilgamesh • American “Sioux” Indians
• Anthropologist told of the Sioux Indians, that when they met a stranger, they would hold up their hand to show that they had five fingers because they had a terror of the six-fingered men.
• There are legends among the American Indians of these giants whom they call the “Star People”, they were very large and very powerful.
• Buffalo Bill’s autobiography alludes to these.
In classic art we have
• Atlas
• Hercules
These were Nephilims
Alternative Views
“Lines of Seth” View
• “Sons of God” ~ Sethite Leadership?
• “Daughters of Adam” ~ Daughters of Cain?
• Sin = failure to maintain separation?
• The line of Cain co-mingled with the line of Seth
• This does not explain why the offspring would become hybrids
• (Nephilim = ?)
5th Century Origin
• Celsus and Julian the Apostate used the traditional belief to attack Christianity;
• Julius Africanus resorted to the Sethite theory as more comfortable ground.
• Then, Cyril of Alexandria used it to repudiate the orthodox position.
• Augustine embraced the Sethite theory and this view prevailed into the Middle Ages and is still commonly taught today.
Text Itself
• “Sons of God” never used of believers in the Old Testament;
• Seth was not of God;
• Cain was not Adam.
• There is no mention of the “daughters of Elohim.”
• Grammatical Antithesis ignored
Note: There is no mention of the line of the Nephilim until after the angels took wives
Psalm 81:1 - 6
Separation Inferred
• Lines separated later in Genesis 11.
• Separation imposed upon Isaac;
• Ishmael not so…
• “All flesh corrupted” (Genesis 6:12).
Inferred Godliness of Seth
• Only Enoch and Noah’s eight were spared
• “Took…wives” as “they chose”?
• Why did the Sethites perish in the flood if they were the good guys?
• Enosh, Seth’s son, initiated the defiance of God.
• Apostasy began with Enosh:
• “then men began to profane the name of the Lord.”
(Genesis 4:26);
--Targum of Onkelos,
--Targum of Jonathan,
--Kimchi, Rashi, et al.;
--Jerome; Maimonides, Commentary on the Mishnah, 1168 A.D. these Hebrew translations are the most venerated
“Daughters of Cain”
There is no basis for a subset of the “Daughters of Adam.”
Cainites were not necessarily godless (Genesis 4:18f).
Were the daughters of Seth so unattractive?
The Unnatural Offspring
• Nephilim =?
• Supernatural offspring: “Mighty men.”
Only X-chromosomes among Sethites?
• No “women of renown.”)
• What made Noah’s genealogy so distinctive? (Genesis 6:9.)
New Testament Confirmations
• “In the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses…”
• (Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.; 1 Peter 3:19, 20; 2 Peter 2:4, 5).
• Even the unique use of “Tartarus.”
“Angel” View: B.C.
• Traditional Rabbinical literature;
• Book of Enoch (2nd Century B.C.);
• Testimony of the 12 Patriarchs;
• Josephus Flavius; Septuagint (LXX).
“Angel” View: Church Fathers
Philo of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian,
Lactantius, Amrose, and Julian.
Modern Scholarship
• G.H. Pember,
• M.R. DeHaan,
• C.H. McIntosh,
• F. Delitzsch,
• A.C. Gaebelein,
• A.W. Pink,
• Donald Barnhouse,
• Henry Morris,
• Merril F. Unger,
• Arnold Fruchtenbaum,
• Hal Lindsey, and
• Chuck Smith.
The Sethite View is Unscriptural
• Text Itself
• Inferred Separation
• Inferred Godliness of Sethites
• Inferred Cainite subset Adamites
• Unnatural Offspring
• New Testament Confirmations
• Post-Flood & Prophetic Issues
There were Nephilim after the flood:
Post-Flood Nephilim
“…also after that…” Genesis 6:4 in those days and also, after that there are at least four tribes whom God instructed to wipe out....
Joshua goes into the land and finds that there are.....
• Rephaim, Emim, Horim, Zamsummim
(Genesis 14, 15); Arba, Anak & his seven sons (Anakim), encountered in Canaan (Numbers 13:33).
• Og, King of Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits (13.5 ft by 6 ft ) the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.; Joshua 12).
• Goliath and his four brothers (2 Samuel 21:16-22; 1 Chronicles 20:4-8).
The Bulls of Bashan?
Psalm 22:12??
The Stratagems of Satan
Was to wipe out all of the Jews to stop God’s program
• Corruption of Adam’s line (Genesis 6) to prevent the Messiah from coming; Genesis 3:15.
• Abraham’s seed (Gen 12, 20);
• Famine (Gen 50);
• Destruction of male line (Exodus 1);
• Pharaoh’s pursuit (Exodus 14);
• The populating of Canaan (Genesis 12:6);
• Against David’s line (2 Samuel 7);
Attacks on David’s Line
• Jehoram kills his brothers 2 Chronicles 21
• Arabians slew all (but Ahazariah)
• Athaliah kills all (but Joash) 2 Chronicles 22
• Hezekiah assaulted, etc. Isaiah 36, 38
• Haman’s attempts Ester 3
New Testament Strategems
• Joseph’s fears: Matthew 1
• Herod’s attempts: Matthew 2
• At Nazareth: Luke 4
• 2 storms on the Sea: Mark 4; Luke 8 Supernatural Storm
• The Cross
• Summary: Revelation 12 …and he’s not through...
The Nature of Angels
• Always appear in human form
(Sodom and Gomorrah;
Resurrection; Ascension, they were always in pairs
Spoke took men by the hand, ate meals
Fallen Angels vs. Demons?
Are they equivalent or distinctive? Angels always appear in human form
• Capable of direct physical combat
• (Passover in Egypt and the Death Angel
• Slaughter of 185,000 Syrians).
• They don’t marry (in heaven).
[Demons always seek embodiment, they can indwell a host of some kind.]
Can Angels Have Sex?
Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
That simply means that sex and procreation is not part of the program there, that does not mean that they are not capable.
That is something that angels who are up to mischief might do.
“habitation”
2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven:
• oiketerion = habitation; used only twice in the Bible: referring to the body as a dwelling place for the spirit
Jude 6 from which the angels had “disrobed”
2 Cor 5:2 alluding to the heavenly body with which the believer longs to be “clothed”
The Original Warfare
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The Conflict Between Two Seeds
• The “Seed of the Woman” A title for Jesus Christ, a Messianic prophecy
• The “Seed of the Serpent”
• (The Red Dragon: Satan;
• The Coming World Leader;
• The False Prophet)
• Forces behind world powers today
Goliath descended from Zamzummim—(Deut 2:20-21); hybrids like the Anakim and Nephilim…
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
giant, Rapha, Rephaims; Or raphah {raw-faw'}; from rapha' in the sense of invigorating; a giant -- giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also Beyth Rapha'. Rapha to cure, cause to heal, physician, repair, thoroughly, make whole
Or raphah {raw-faw'}; a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure -- cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
Deuteronomy 32:39 I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver...
Nephilim…Brown-Driver-Briggs
Proper name, of a people old race of giants (perhap...as extinct and powerless; see especially WRS in Deuteronomy 2:11; or as shadowy, vaguely known, SchwZAW xviii (1898); — ancient inhabitants of Canaan [west of Jordan?], Genesis 15:20; Joshua 17:15 compare 1 Chronicles 20:4, plain south of Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:18,22; 2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15; 1 Chronicles 14:9; Isaiah 17:5; Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:16; ?? east of Jordan Deuteronomy 2:11 ( tall, compare Deuteronomy 2:10), Deuteronomy 2:20 ("" id.; tall; = Zamzummim); in Bashan, Genesis 14:5, Og the last of them Deuteronomy 3:11 (of huge size), Joshua 12:4; Joshua 13:12; Deuteronomy 3:13.
Deuteronomy 2:20 That also was accounted a land of giants : giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
NAS: of the Rephaim, [for] Rephaim formerly
KJV: of giants: giants dwelt
INT: regarded is also Rephaim lived formerly
Deuteronomy 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Anaq: 6062 "neck," a giant people around Hebron and in Philistia
NAS: as the land of the Rephaim, [for] Rephaim
KJV: a land of giants: giants
INT: as the land of the Rephaim regarded is also
Joshua 12:4
NAS: one of the remnant of Rephaim, who lived
KJV: [which was] of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt
INT: of Bashan of the remnant of Rephaim lived Ashtaroth
Joshua 13:12
NAS: of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses
KJV: of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses
INT: was left of the remnant of the giants struck Moses
Joshua 15:8
NAS: of the valley of Rephaim toward the north.
KJV: of the valley of the giants northward:
INT: the end of the valley of Rephaim the north
Joshua 17:15
NAS: of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since
KJV: of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount
INT: the land of the Perizzites the Rephaim since narrow
Joshua 18:16
NAS: is in the valley of Rephaim northward;
KJV: [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north,
INT: which the valley of Rephaim northward down
2 Samuel 21:16
KJV: which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight
INT: who the descendants of the giant the weight spear
2 Samuel 21:18
KJV: which [was] of the sons of the giant.
INT: who the descendants of the giant
2 Samuel 21:20
KJV: and he also was born to the giant.
INT: he had been born to the giant
2 Samuel 21:22
KJV: were born to the giant in Gath,
INT: These were born to the giant Gath fell
1 Chronicles 20:4
KJV: [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
INT: Sippai of the descendants of the giant were subdued
1 Chronicles 20:6
KJV: [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.
INT: he was descended of the giant
1 Chronicles 20:8
KJV: were born unto the giant in Gath;
INT: These were descended the giant Gath fell
Isaiah 17:5
NAS: In the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: ears in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: ears the valley of Rephaim
The Flood of Noah: Genesis 6-9
Full scale replica of Noah's Ark built in Kentucky:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5022926674001/?#sp=show-clips
Noah’s Ark
• The Ark was 300 cubits long
• 50 cubits wide
• 30 cubits high
• Cubit = 18 to 22 inches
• We will use 18 inches
• 450 ft long
• 75 ft wide
• 45 ft high
• Displacement: of 24,000 tons?
• 1.4 million cu/ ft.
• 522 railroad cars
• 125,000 sheep
• 18,000 species
• Hibernation may have ensued
• The Ark being 30 feet high and 50 feet long has a good center of gravity that would be useful for good buoyancy
25 inches 625 ft 104 ft 63 ft
The Flood
• Rained 40 days
• Not just rain: “fountains of the deep”
• Waters prevailed 150 days
• In the Ark 371 days
– 5 months floating
– 7 months on mountain
Other Flood Traditions
• Egyptian
• Babylonian
• Persian
• Greek
• Hindu
• Chinese
• Druids
• Polynesian
• Mexicans
• Peruvians
• American Indians
• Greenland
Universal or Local?
• Every living thing destroyed (7:4,23); this assumes that man and animal life had spread far beyond the Mesopotamian Plain in the centuries or the millennia since the Fall.
• All high mountains under the entire heavens were covered (7:19); the text states clearly that “all the high mountains under the entire heaven were covered” to a depth of at least 23 feet [15 cubits] (v. 19).
• Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat (8:4). Finally the ark is said to have come to rest “on the mountains of Ararat,” a range that reaches over 16,000 feet in height (8:4).
A local flood might have brought them to the foothills. But “on” the mountains?
• Promise: “never again” (9:11,15).
Why?
• Dinosaurs quickly drowned and buried?
• Mammoths quickly drowned in North America, and quick-frozen in Siberia?
• Petrified forests found 100 miles from the South Pole by Admiral Byrd?
• Land animals found fossilized in locations below sea level?
• Sea animals found fossilized at high elevations?
Fossils
• Fossils are dead.
• Thus, after Adam.
• No decay = sudden, quick, change.
• Dating depends upon circular reasoning.
• Why are there no fossils today?
Canopy Theory
• Atmospheric water shield protected the earth from cosmic radiation; hence, longer lifetimes prior to the flood.
• Water falls, complementing the subterranean waters unleashed (7:11).
• Continental drift occurred from fractured land masses (10:25) [The Genesis Record, Henry Morris and John C. Whitcomb, 1961.
(They do show that the Flood was universal, it was a great catastrophe, and there is ample historical evidence for it. Their “canopy theory” is but one view…).]
Geological Mysteries
• Grand Canyon origin
• Mid-oceanic mountain ranges
• Submarine canyons
• Magnetic variations on ocean floor
• Coal and oil formations
• Frozen mammoths
• Metamorphic rock
• Fossil graveyards
• Jigsaw fit of continents
Major land masses unexplained by simple erosion, etc. Why are there surprising amounts of coal in Antarctica? Mammoths, with food still in their mouths, quick-frozen in place, dying from suffocation…Tectonic plates move about an inch/year (the same rate that your fingernails grow). Much of the upheavals are the result of horizontal compression, buckling the sedimentary layers.
Hydroplate Theory
• Interconnected continents
• Subterranean water
• Increasing pressure(s)
• Horizontal buckling and eruptions (Walt Brown, Center for Scientific Creation, Phoenix, Arizona)
Some Perspectives
• Only 1 Ark
• Only 1 door
• No births or deaths
• All in the Ark were saved
• Alternative Theological Speculations ended when the door was shut
Only 3 Groups of People
• Those that perished in the flood
• Those that were preserved through the flood
• Those that were removed prior to the flood
The Flood
• Rained 40 days
• Not just rain: “fountains of the deep”
• Waters prevailed 150 days
• In the Ark 377 days (5 months floating; 7½ months on the mountain)
Event Month/Day Reference
Noah enters the Ark 2 10 7:7-9
7 days later: rain begins 17 7:10-11
40 days later: heavy rains stop 3 27 7:12
110 days later: waters recede 7 17 7:24
Ark rests on Mount Ararat 8:4
74 days later: mtn tops visible 10 1 8:5
40 days later: Raven sent 11 11 8:6-9
Dove #1 sent & returns 11 18
Dove #2 sent & returns with leaf 11 25 8:10
Dove #3 sent; does not return 12 2 8:12
22 days later: Water receded
Noah saw dry land 1 1 8:13
Land completely dry; Ark exited 2 27 8:14-19
1 yr 17 days
7 days Noah enters the Ark
150 days Ark rests on Mount Ararat
163 days Noah saw dry land
57 days Land completely dry; Ark exited
377 days
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.
Why did the Holy Spirit want us to know this very date?
The Two Calendars:
Jewish Civil Calendar:
• Is the Genesis calendar,
• Tishri (in the Fall) Rosh Hoshana
• The New Year is in the Fall
Religious Calendar:
• Nisan (in the Spring)
• The Religious Year starts in the Spring
Exodus 12:2
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first
month of the year to you.
Months Old New Months Old New
Tishri, (Ethanim) 1 7 Nisan, (Aviv) 7 1 Cheshvan, (Bul) 2 8 Ilyar (Zif) 8 2
Chisleu 3 9 Sivan 9 3
Tevet 4 10 Tammuz 10 4
Sh’vat 5 11 Av 11 5
Adar 6 12 Elul 12 6
New Beginnings
• Crucified on the 14th of Nisan;
• In the grave: 3 days;
• Resurrection: 17th of Nisan (the “7th month” of the Genesis Calendar)
• Noah’s “new beginning” on the Planet Earth was on the anniversary—
in anticipation—of our “new beginning” in Christ!
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.
Mount Ararat
In the extreme eastern Turkey, near the border with Armenia and Iran.
Except on the NW, where a spur nearly 2,200 m (7,000 ft) high merges with
a long ridge, the mountain is completely isolated, being surrounded on
all other sides by elevated plains ranging from 2,500 to 4,500 ft above sea
level. From an elevation of 8,800 ft Mount Ararat rises in two peaks: Great
Ararat 16,854 ft; and Little Ararat 12,840 ft. Above the 14,000-ft level,
Great Ararat is perpetually covered with snow.
Genesis 11:1,2
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came
to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land
of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
They journeyed from the East of Shinar, or Babylon, which would be located in Iran, Mt. Ararat has one mountain, it was mislabeled by Marco Polo.
A New Beginning
Genesis 9
• New Order:
• Man is not vegetarians anymore;
• Capital punishment ordained;
• Human government established
• Sinful man wiped out, but not sin
• Noah’s Prophecy:
“May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell
in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.”
Post-Flood Changes
• Thermal blanket gone
• End of universal climate
• Atmospheric pressure reduced 50%, pterodactyls couldn’t fly because in this reduced atmosphere.
• Extended longevity starts to decline…
The Table of Nations: Chapter 10
The basic framework of the table is the bene (“the sons of”) motif (the Hebrew bene occurs 12 times, in vv. 2-4, 6-7, 20-23, 29, 31-32). Other times, however, the chapter uses yalad (“he begot”), which seems to suggest that these were interpretations given to the bene table. These yalad sections (beginning in vv. 8, 13, 15, 21, 25-26), in line with the idea of the toledot, trace the significant developments of personages within the structure of the table. (The NIV renders the yalad verb “was the father of” in vv. 8, 13, 15, 26, “was the ancestor of” in v. 21, and “were born to” in v. 25.) Of special note are verses 15-19, in which Canaan’s descendants are traced (vv. 15-18) and even the boundaries of the Promised Land are given (v. 19). The writer was apparently using an ancient table
Noah
Shem 26 are named
sons of Shem
Elam = Persia (Iran)
Asshur
Arphaxad had Salah, Eber, Peleg (Earth divided), Joktan, etc.
Peleg (Earth divided) Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abraham
Lud
Aram
Ham 30 are named
sons of Ham
Cush = Black Africa, settled in South Arabia, S. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
Mizraim = Egypt
Put = North Africa
Canaan
Japheth 14 are named
sons of Japheth
Gomer
Magog = Russians
Madai = Medes aka, Kurds
Javan
Tubal = Turkey
Meshech = Turkey
Tiras
26 30 14 = 70 Nations Listed in Genesis 10
to clarify which of Noah’s descendants would experience blessing and
which ones would experience cursing. Most of the yalad (“he begot”)
sections pertain to the Canaanites or the Hamites, the tribes close to
Israel. To see which neighbors would face blessing and which ones
cursing, Israel need only consult this table. Wars and conflicts inevitably
result from this arrangement.
The Table of Nations
• 70 Nations from Noah (Ham, Shem, and Japheth).
• 70 Families entered Egypt (Gen 46:10); bounds set (Deut 32:7, 8).
These two are deliberately linked: “bounds of nations set.”
The Seventy
Genesis 10 = 70 Table of Nations
Genesis 46:26 = 66
4 Jacob, Joseph, Manassah, Ephraim are already there
Genesis 46:27 = 70
Acts 7:14 = 75 including Joseph’s grandsons (Septuagint)
Genesis 10 = 70 Table of Nations
Deuteronomy 32:8
Genesis 46:27 = 70 The Nation of Israel
Nimrod
• “Rebel”
• First “World Dictator”
• Founder of Babylon & Nineveh
The Tower of Bab-El:
Genesis 11
• One Language: Hebrew
• Godless Confederacy: 1st World Dictator
– Nimrod (“We will rebel”)
• Plain of Shinar: Bab-El “Tower to Heaven”
– Astrological Temple
– Zodiac corrupted
• Tale of Two Cities
– Babylon – the City of Man
– Jerusalem – the City of God
Next Time:
Genesis 12-20 Abraham
Genesis 21-26 Isaac
Genesis 27-36 Jacob
Genesis 37-50 Joseph
Extra notes:
Birth of Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel were born, probably twins.
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Two sacrifices, two world views
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
God shows concern for Cain and gives Cain instructions on how to be successful, Cain ignores God
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:7 If thou do well, shalt you not be accepted? and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. And to you shall be his desire, and you shalt rule over him.
Premeditation leads to eventual murder
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
God questions Cain informs Cain curses Cain set a mark upon Cain to protect him
9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Cain unrepented turns from the Lord
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Cain builds cities his offspring have cattle and musical instruments and weapons
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
Eve bares a son, named Seth
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Men began men to call upon the name of the Lord at the birth of Enos
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
Hebrew scholars say that Enos, the son of Seth began to profane the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
