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today's message from pastor Skip Heitzig Joe.

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Chapters one and two, Satan appears with us sons of God,
and they give an account to the Lord, and God says,
where have you been? And Satan goes going to and
fro throughout the whole earth. So the translators of the
Septuagint said, it was angels, okay, you still with me. Also,

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there's a book that is called a sudopigriphal book. Now,
a sudipigriphul book is a book that is given a
name of an author, but that author didn't write it.
So if I said this is from the book of Sally,
but Sally never wrote it, that's sudipigraph It's given a
false name. Well, there is a book called the Book

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of Enoch, and though it's not a biblical book, it
says in those days, the angels, that is, the children
of heaven saw human women lusted after them and said,
let us marry wives and let us beget children. And

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they're queuing off Genesis chapter six. That would mean nothing
to us at all, except that Jude quotes from the
Book of Enoch, so it adds some level of credibility. Now,
some people have a problem with this. How could angels
appear as human beings? Now we know that they did

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Genesis eighteen and then Genesis nineteen when they go to Sodom.
But people will say angels are non corporeal beings, and
even if they appear as having a human form, they
certainly couldn't cohabitate with the human And there are some
problems with that, and I can't quite unravel them. The

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second is that the sons of Seth and the daughters
of Cain got married sons of God. And the only
problem with that is in all of the usages, as
I mentioned in the Old Testament, in the Bible, of
the term sons of God, it only refers to angels,
not humans. So you have a problem with that one.
A refutation for that one. The third one that it

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was rulers that cohabitated with women, basically enlarging their harem,
is because some of the ancient Near East evidence manuscripts
non biblical, but other manuscripts referred to earthly rulers despotic
rulers by giving them the name sons of the gods

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sons of the Gods. Now, I don't believe that that's
the best interpretation of this text, because the Bible never
concedes to the secular language or seeing human beings as
products of pagan gods. That's just not consistent with any
thing we read in the Old Testament. So you've got
three views, and you could explore them further. All of

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them have difficulties, but what's most important is this, whatever
it was, it was sexual, it was wicked, it was
against God's order, and that was in part one of
the reasons God judged the earth in the flood. So
let's go back to Genesis six and notice it says

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in three the Lord said, my Spirit shall not strive
with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. His days
shall be one hundred and twenty years. Here's what you
got to know. The Holy Spirit was active, evidently from
this or very active on the earth before the flood,
wanting to bring people to righteousness and salvation. How primarily

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through the preaching of Enoch and Noah. They're called preachers
of righteousness in the Bible. Noah building a boat for
a long period of years, a plank upon plank, telling
of a coming flood. Enoch before him, walking with God,
and as the New Testament said, proclaimed truth to them,

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preached to them. God was very active trying to draw
people to himself, but he said, I won't do it forever.
There comes a time when it's over. And then there
were giants nepheline. Now the word means fallen one, so
it could refer to fallen people. All humans are fallen people,
or it could refer to some special class of being. Again,

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you'll have to interpret that and also afterward, when the
sons of God came into the daughters of men and
bore children to them, those were the mighty men, men
of old, men of renown. Now what was happening back
then is certainly happening right now as it was in
the days of Noah. So shall it be in the

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coming of the Son of Man. Just as in the
days of Noah, there was this newly found sexual freedom.
There was this transgressing of the traditional family, no matter
what you want to interpret that. With one of those
three interpretations that was going on, there was a chief
sociologist Harvard University who made an interesting statement about this generation.

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He said, this generation, this culture is preoccupied with sex.
It's now a pre occupation. It's everywhere, it's everywhere, and
it certainly has captured the hearts and minds of many.
It's been estimated that in the average year, the average

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American will view on primetime television over nine thousand sexual
acts or implied sexual acts. Eighty one percent of those
are outside the bonds of marriage. That's what we're being
inundated with a very similar situation to what was going
on during the days of Noah. Let's go to the

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next one in verse five, Then the Lord saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, that
every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually. Third mark, third situation, and increase in wickedness.
Now we're getting into the very mind of people before

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the flood, the antediluvian mind, the thought life, and that's
where sin begins, in the thought life, the heart. And
it says the wickedness of man was great. The word
wickedness in Hebrew was raw, and it's saying the badness
got really bad, or they went from bad to worse,

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and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. The Berkeley translation puts it, human
wickedness was growing out of bounds. Now, if you want
a little bit of New Testament insight into the thought life,
Paul describes it in Romans chapter one. It says, their

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foolish minds or foolish hearts were darkened. They were feutile
in their thoughts, their foolish hearts were darkened. They did
not want to retain God in their thinking, so God
gave them over to a debased mind to do whatever
they wanted to do with themselves. A description of what
was going on before the flood, description of what is
going on now, an increase in wickedness. Verse six. And

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the Lord was sorry that he had made man on
the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. And
the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth, both man and beast,
creeping things and birds of the ear, for I am
sorry that I made them. It's a precious verse. God

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was grieved. You know what that tells me. It tells
me that the deist is absolutely wrong. God is not
some aloof God that wound up the universe. And then
step back to see what would happen and learns as
life goes on that God is almighty and transcendent, but
somehow desires an interaction and intimacy with his creation, to

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walk with them, to fellowship with them, so that God
can feel emotion. God can be grieved, It says he
was grieved. God can be hurt, the Holy Spirit can
be quenched, the Lord can be blessed and made happy. Now,
it's difficult to describe exactly what this emotion is like.

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Theologians have a term for it, if you're interested. They
call it anthropapathism and anthropapathism is describing God using human emotion.
And to what level you can make that correlation is difficult,
and for our purposes we don't need to get into that.
Just know that God feels deeply when his creation goes

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the opposite direction than what he intended them to go.
And so he was sorry that he made man. And
the Lord said, I will destroy the earth. To the
turn of the nineteenth century, there was a book. It's
still published, but it was a book that was published
the beginning of the eighteen hundreds nineteenth century by Frederick
Farrar called Seekers of God. Now listen to this little story.

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Seekers of God at that time was a very popular book.
So there was a bookseller on the West Coast that
ran out of copies. Everybody was buying up the book
Seekers of God. So he telegraphed to the East coast,
New York and said, would you please send as many
as you have on the shelves to us. The telegraph
came back. The telegram came back from New York to California,

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and this is would have said, no Seekers of God
in New York, try Philadelphia. Well, in Noah's time, Noah
could have telegraphed no seekers of God on earth. Noah
was the exception, and that's why verse eight is so beautiful.

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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Now,
my English teacher told me never start a sentence with
the word but it's a negative conjunction. You never begin
a sentence. Actually, that's the best way to begin a sentence.
Write about here, with all of that wickedness and all
perversion and all of that, et cetera, et cetera, to

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have something that says but in contrast to that, there
was a person who walked with God and who was
upright and just. It's a welcome transition. At this point,
Noah found grace. See the word grace. That's the first
time it's mentioned in scripture. And this is the genealogy

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of Noah. Noah was a just man number one perfect
the Hebrew word tamim, which means filled with moral integrity.
In other words, what you see is what you get.
He was on the inside what you see on the outside.
He was true, true, and true. That's the idea of
the word tomim, complete perfect.

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He was a just man or righteous, perfect complete moral
integrity in his generations, and Noah walked with God. One
of my favorite scriptures is Second Chronicle sixteen. The eyes
of the Lord go to and fro throughout the entire earth,
that he might show himself strong on behalf of those

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whose hearts are perfect to work him or loyal toward him.
He was complete, loyal, perfect in his generations, and he
walked with God. There is a difference between reputation and character.
With Noah they were the same. Reputation is what people
think you are and see you to be on the outside.

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It's what you are in public, that's your reputation. Your
character is who you are when nobody's looking. With Noah,
they were the same. There was a man who died.
He was a scoundrel. When he died, they found a
preacher to do the funeral. Preacher never met the guy before.
But the preacher got carried away in his sermon message
and started talking about this guy whom he never met,

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saying what a wonderful husband he was, and what a
great dad he was, and what an awesome boss he was. Well,
his wife was sitting in the front row and had
this perplexed look on her face, and finally she said
to her son, go up and look in the casket.
Make sure your father not With Noah. He was true

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all the way through, complete, He walked with God. And
what saves Noah and his family from the flood is
the same thing that saved Enoch from the judgment and
why he was taken off the earth because he walked
with God. And thus Noah walked with God. And Noah
begot three sons. Now mark who they are. They'll be
important in chapters to come. Shem, Ham, Jayfaith. You'll need

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those names because they will be divided up genealogically in
chapter ten, and so I can abridge chapter ten when
I get to it. It's another longest list of names
the Table of Nations. Know this. Shem became the father
and the descendants were the Semitic races. The Shemites were

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the Semites. You've heard of anti Semitic. The idea comes
from Shem. They settled in the and they were the Hebrews.
They also settled in a lot of the lands around
the Near East. They were the sons of Shem and
daughters of Shem. Ham were the Canaanites that inhabited the

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land of Israel before Israel got there. They were the Canaanites,
the original occupants parts of Egypt and Africa is where
the Hamites settled. Now, Ham, you'll discover when after the flood,
Noah gets drunk and he's lying in the cave exposed.

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He goes in and sees it and broadcasts that to everybody, saying, yeah,
you wouldn't believe what I just saw. I just saw
my dad drunk in the cave without any clothes on.
Because of that embarrassing moment when he wakes up, Noah
will curse Canaan, the son of Ham, and make the

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Canaanites to be the servant of the Shemites because of
that event, which has been the case historically. And then
Jaypath was the father of those in media, Persia, Germany, Russia,
the Gauls, the Greeks, some of the Roman tribes, etc.

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You just keep that in mind when you get to
chapter ten. The earth was also corrupt before God, and
the earth was filled verse eleven with violence. There's the
fourth mark. Violence increased in the land, and we've seen
how it started. Cain killed Abel, it's the first human murder.
Then Lamech killed a young man for hurting him. We

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read that in chapter four, and by this time it's
now become an epidemic. We talked about this film Shattered
before the Bible study when we were filming for that.
It was interesting. I did an interview of a man
who was the father of one of the young boys
that was killed at Columbine. Heishoo, and we did the

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interview upon a hill overlooking the library of Columbine where
his son was killed. I'll never forget what he told me.
He said, I feel responsible for my son's death. I
placed him in the environment of a secular school that
taught him survival of the fittest, the evolutionary theory, the

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secular theories of man, and survival of the fittest, that
the stronger will get rid of the weaker. And these
two boys who killed all of those children simply took
the teaching that was taught to them by their teachers
to its logical extreme. In fact, in the basement tapes
that he went through in the documents, that's what they

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kept saying. Evolution survival of the fittest, were the fittest,
we will destroy the weaker ones. They took the theory
to its logical conclusion and killed whom they deemed to
be the weakest. There is an epidemic of violence in
our culture. It's evident by what people watch, by what

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people will let themselves be entertained by. It's evident in
the statistics. Twenty thousand people a year in our country,
a murder every twenty four minutes in America. That's what
we're dealing with. It's rampant, like in the days of Noah.
So the Lord looked upon the earth. Indeed it was corrupt.
All flesh verse twelve had corrupted their way on the earth.

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And the Lord said to Noah, the end of all
flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled
with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood,
make rooms or literally nests in the arc, cover it
inside and outside with pitch, something that would resist water,

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and seal it. And this is how you shall make
How you shall make it. The length of the arc
shall be three hundred cuba. It's with fifty cubits, its
high thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the arc.
You shall finish it to a cubit from above, and
set the door of the arc in its side. You
shall make it with a lower, second and third decks.

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So God gives sort of a blueprint to Noah. And
it's obvious why Noah didn't know anything about building boats.
This was a huge undertaking. Nothing like this had ever
been built. Noah didn't understand the displacement of solid objects
in water, that if you have something solid and it
weighs slightly more than the same amount of water, that

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it's going to sink unless you displace the water by
moving its weight around, hollowing it out, so to speak.
He didn't understand that. God, of course knew it and
just gave him the directions. How big it's supposed to be. Okay,
this is how big it was in our vernacular. Four
hundred and fifty feet long. That's one and a half

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football yds long, seventy five feet wide. That's seven parking
spaces wide, forty five feet tall. That's three or four stories,
four ancient stories, probably three modern stories. So there were
three decks, it says, three decks space fifteen feet apart. Again,

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Doctor Henry Morris and John Whitcomb, in their fabulous book
The Genesis Flood, calculated that there would be one hundred
thousand square feet of deck space in the arc. There
would be one point four million cubic feet of storage

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space in that boat, or the equivalent of five hundred
and twenty two normal size train cars five hundred and
twenty two and it could easily accommodate one hundred and
twenty five thousand animals or one hundred and twenty five
thousand animals the size of sheep. Some were bigger, some
were smaller. According to Whitcomb and Morris, at the time

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of the flood, there were less than seventeen thousand, six
hundred species of mammals, birds, and amphibians that were on
the earth, so you need to double that because you
have two of each male and female for procreation reproduction,
so you need space for thirty five thousand. But they
had to have five of the clean animals because three

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hundred and seventy one days after the flood started it
would end and he would be out sacrificing to the
lord of those cadre of animals. So according to Witcomb
and Morris, there were no more than seventy nine thousand
animals on that arc, and given its size, there was
plenty of room because they could accommodate one hundred and

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twenty five thousand animals the size of sheep, so it
was big enough and it was stable enough. Though it
doesn't look like much as you can see from some
of the drawings that were put up. It's basically a
large box, but it was stable. In fact, it's the
same dimensions as many a modern either aircraft carrier or

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a cargo boat. In fact, there's a British ship called
the Dreadnought that is almost identical in proportion. Identical. There's
an American cargo ship that was called the USS New
Mexico that it's not far from those dimensions. Six hundred
and twenty four feet long, one hundred and three feet wide,

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and thirty feet tall. It's not dimensionally too far off
that track. I wish I had a scale model. We
used to have one around. It's one to eighty seven,
like an ho train scale that you could come up
and look inside and touch it and see it. But
we can't find it. It must have been destroyed in
a smaller flood. We don't know, okay. Verse sixteen. You

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shall make a window for the arc. Praise God for
the window. Can you imagine the stink of that many
animals a floating zoo for a year, and you would
need a clear story window that would go it's eighteen
inches all the way around. Something to collect rain water

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for survival. And something to get rid of the smell.
So praise God for the window. You shall set a
door on the side. You shall make it with the lower,
second and third decks. And behold, I am bringing floodwaters
on the earth to destroy from under heaven all flesh
and which is the breath of life. And anything that
is on the earth shall die. But I will establish
my covenant with you, and you shall go into the arc. You,

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your sons, your wife, your sons wives with you. So
a total of eight people went onto the ark, and
we're saved. And what we see here is the eight
from w which the Redeemer would come. The earth was destroyed,
and all of the things that happened to the human
race that brought the judgment was all because of Genesis

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three fifteen. Remember that God said, I'm going to bring
a redeemer who's going to crush the head of Satan.
So you know, if the whole canaanable thing doesn't work out,
and it didn't, because Seth became the favorite child. Now
let's just destroy everybody. And everybody was destroyed except Noah
because he walked with the Lord in these eight and
a whole race starts because of that.

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