Unlocking Genesis 6: The Nephilim, Fallen Angels & The Shocking Truth About Noah's Ark

Join Christopher Enoch for Part 9 of the Genesis Series, an in-depth exploration of the controversial and fascinating events in Genesis chapter 6. In this deep-dive Bible study, we move beyond surface-level readings to uncover the ancient secrets behind one of scripture's most debated passages.

What You'll Discover:

Ancient Texts Compared: See how the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate describe the days of Noah differently.

Sons of God & Daughters of Men: Who were the "sons of God"? We'll examine the compelling evidence that points to fallen angels.

The Nephilim Giants: Explore the origins of the "mighty men of old" and how they connect to the corruption that led to the great flood.

The Book of Enoch: Why does the New Testament quote a book that isn't in most Bibles? Learn about the Book of Enoch's history, its connection to the apostles, and why it was controversially excluded from the canon.

The REAL Shape of Noah's Ark: Prepare to have your perceptions challenged as we reveal what the original Hebrew says about the Ark's design. It wasn't the boat you see in pictures!

If you're ready to question tradition, dig into the original languages, and understand the profound story of Noah's era like never before, this study is for you.

00:00:00 - Introduction & Referenced Texts 00:01:25 - The Origin of Bible Chapters & Verses 00:04:04 - Why is "Noah" sometimes translated as "Noe"? 00:08:20 - Comparing Genesis 6:1-2 in Ancient Manuscripts 00:14:02 - Genesis 6:3 - Man's Lifespan Reduced to 120 Years 00:17:24 - Genesis 6:4 - The Nephilim (Giants) on the Earth 00:22:53 - Who Were the "Sons of God"? An Evolving Interpretation 00:24:49 - The Importance and Credibility of the Book of Enoch 00:30:31 - Biblical Evidence for "Sons of God" as Angels 00:33:51 - Theory: Why Was the Book of Enoch Excluded from the Bible? 00:40:15 - Can Angels Reproduce? Answering the Common Objection 00:42:46 - Genesis 6:5-7 - God's Sorrow and Judgment 00:51:42 - Why Did God Destroy Animals and All Life in the Flood? 01:04:09 - Genesis 6:8-10 - Noah Found Grace 01:05:15 - The True Shape of Noah's Ark (It Wasn't a Boat!) 01:17:06 - Conclusion & Preview of the Next Study

Episode Transcript

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foundational reading for tonightwould be Genesis chapter six,

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But I have Genesis chapter six,and I'm going to be comparing this
with the, more ancient, and more in linewith many of the parts
of the New Testament,
the Septuagint, and also going to belooking at the Syriac text.
Okay. This is also
a lot older than the messianic textthat most English Bibles have.
Decided to, translate from.

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And I'm also going to be, digging into,
one of the early churchfathers writings about this story as well.
Clement from the first century,
and, talkingabout a few other little things as well.
The sibling oracles, very,very interesting.
And, and a lot of other good stufflike that.
So let's start with Genesis chapter six,because we we dealt

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with the entirety of Genesis chapterfive last night.
And I'm going to startwith Genesis chapter six, verse one.
Now. As you guys can see here I am sharingmy screen on the left hand side.
We have the new King James Version.
And on the right hand sidewe got the Brenton Septuagint.

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And I'm going to startwith the Brenton Septuagint.
Genesis chapter five, verse 32,which is actually chapter six, verse one.
In the Septuagint, keep in mind that,
the chapters and versesare not in the original.
Okay.
This is something thatwas added later, to the text
much later to the text.
So the original, the original manuscriptsof, of

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of the biblical textdo not have chapters and verses.
This is divided uplater into, into chapters and verses.
So, you know, I used to I used to attendin church, actually a number of churches.
And that, was very, very adamant against,you know, the traditions of man and,
you know, we don't, we don't go onby the traditions of men at all.
You know, we just go by the Word of God,the word of God, the word of God, the,

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the problem, the irony here is thatthat is hypocritical
because the, the whole ideaof the of the Bible
being divided into chaptersand verses, that is, traditions of men.
You know, we have many of these booksof, of the Bible.
When I say the Bible, I'm talking aboutany given Bible, be it the 66 book
Protestant or, 73 book, RomanCatholic, 74,

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75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 books.
In the various different Orthodox churchesand eastern churches that we have,
across the board,
a lot of these, a lot of these
the even the names of the books,tradition, you know, a lot of these books
in the original manuscriptsdon't have names on them.
Okay, the original authorsdid not write in title or,

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you know, a title to the book.
So there's a lot of things like thisthat, that, that a lot of Christians
don't know about.
And so they're drawnin to this, modern corrupt,
and I repeat the corrupt Christiannarrative.
Okay.
So I'm going to read herein, from the Septuagint,
on the right hand side of the screen and.
No way. Noah, this is, of course, Noah.

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No way or no, it says here, no way.
Or Noah was 500 years on and he begot
three sons Shem or Sam, Ham and Japheth.
I agree with the,with the divisions of the chapters,
especially in the Septuagint,because, you know,
I think it's good to
start off a new chaptertalking about Noah.

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And it seems like this particular verseactually,
would, would work well in, in chapter
six, just as we have herein the Septuagint.
Chapter six is, begins in, Genesischapter five, the last verse.
Okay. So let's begin this.
I'm going to read from the,messianic text, at least the,

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new King James,which is, very similar to the King
James,which is based upon the messianic text.
Kimber. It says, why do some translate?
No. To.
No way. Very good question.Thank you. Yes.
So, Noah is, is a transliterationfrom the Hebrew Noah.
Noah. Noah.
Transliterated to to English as Noah.

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And that's,you know, that's just what the earlier
an English translatorsdecided to, to do and how to spell it.
Now, the thingis, when we're reading the Septuagint
or the New Testament, we'rereading a translation from the Greek.
So, what what it does
with what the Septuagint does,just like how we read it in the,

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in the, New Testament as well,especially in the King James Version.
So, you guys,how in the King James version,
we have also no,being transliterated into the word.
No way.
So, again,I'm going to share my screen here.
We got, the KingJames version here on the left hand side.

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Matthew 24 and 37 says, no way, no way.
Matthew 2438 also no way.
Luke 336 also Luke 1726.
Luke 1727 okay, so it is a.
So we got the ancient Hebrew Noah.
Transliterated into,

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the Greek.
And so it's inGreek, what the Greek does is
a lot of
times the, like Noah, Jonah, Jonah,you know.
These kind of words are transliterated,for some reason, the Greek,
the either add like an aat the end of the word, like no way.
Or they add an S, you know, like Jesus.

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Jesus. And Aeneas.
Matthias. Lucas. Marcus.
you know, a Lazarus.
You know, a lot of people don't know thatLazarus is actually Eliezer, you know,
but with the Greek, the Greek translatorschose to transliterated.
Eliezer into El Lazarand put the s at the end.

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Lazar as okay.
So, it's just a, as far as I understandit, it's it's a Greek naming convention.
And so, for some reason, names in Greek
either end with like an A or S,these kind of words.
So they have decided that knowwhat does not, warrant
an s like no, no what how would thatwhat would you even say then.

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Noah's. Noah's. But rather no way, no way.
for example, in the KingJames Version as well, we got Aelius.
Aelius. Okay. So this is Elijah.
But again, for
some reason the Greek translators
decided to put s at the end instead of,
you know,Ali Eliot or Eliot Ley or La Ley,

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but Ali, Elias, this is Elijah Eliasand this is what we find in Matthew 1114.
Matthew 1614, Matthew 17 317
four 1710 1112.
Matthew 2747 49 as well as Mark
615, Mark 828, Marknine four, Mark nine five.

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Verse 11 1213.
Mark 1535 36.
Luke chapter one, verse 17.
Luke four 2526.
Luke nine 819.
Verse 19, verse 30, verse 33, verse 54,
you know, so we see this a lot, you know,without going through every single one.

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Yeah.
So it's just a matter of transliteration.
I, I prefer translationas opposed to transliteration.
And we see this sometimes in the,in the Bible translation.
Sometimes they translateinstead of transliterated,
like for example, when David
called, where he,where he obtained this victory of the Lord

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and he called the placeBaile Para ZM and in some,
English translations,they don't transliterated as baile pairs
Amor bol para zem, but rather, Lord of thebreakthrough, Lord of the breakthrough.
So they translate itinstead of transliterated.
Genesis chapter six, verse one.
I'm going to read from the new King James,which is from the messianic text says,

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now it came to pass, when men beganto multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born to them.
Now in the Septuagint,it says, it came to pass when men began
to be numerous uponthe earth, and daughters were born to them
a little bit differentthere, the Syriac text says.
And it was that when sons of men beganto multiply in the face of the earth,

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and daughters were born to them.
So there we have the
we have three different,We got three different manuscripts there.
And I mean, let me check the,Samaritan Samaritan text.
Samaritan.
And it came about when men beganto multiply on the face of the land,
and daughters were born to them.
This is something I just just reminded me.
What we need to realize in in the text,especially a little bit later on,

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actually, you know, actually,in this story here, in the story of Noah.
We have, this word Earth,
which is translated as land
and, from the Samaritan textthat I have here.
So. Here's the thing.
So I would expect thatthis particular Hebrew word is a Eretz.

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Let me just have a peek, over on the lefthand side here.
So this word came to passwhen men began to multiply in the face of,
okay, it's not our rights.
Actually, it's Adama.
All right.
So, yeah, because normallywhen you have the word Eretz in it,
sometimes it's translated as earth,sometimes it's translated as world,
sometimes it's translated as land,and sometimes it's translated as field.

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Yeah. So we got many different waysthat it's translated.
But this is not Eretz.This is Adama. Okay.
Verse two, that the sons of Godsaw the daughters of men,
that they were beautiful,
and they took wives for themselves of allwhom they chose.
Septuagint,the sons of God saw the daughters of men,
that they were beautiful,and they took those women.

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To them of all that they chose,they're a little bit different.
That's the, Syria, the,
the, Septuagint says and the sons of God
have having seen the daughters of menthat they were beautiful,
took to themselveswives of all whom they chose.
Oh, okay.
Even the Vulgate is older in somerespects, to the, to the messianic text.

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So, I mean, in our in our search for truthand in our search for the real
historical, roots of the scriptures,
I think it's important,at least to have a peek at the Vulgate.
So, Genesis chapter six, verse one.
And after that, men began to be multipliedupon the earth,
and daughters were born to them.Verse two.
The sons of God, seeing the daughtersof men, that they were fair, took

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themselves wives of all which they chose.
Okay. All right.
So moving on here, for those of youwho are just joining us, I do have
what I'm going to do here is I'm goingto read through Genesis chapter six.
I'm going to go into the New Testamentand see what it says about Genesis chapter
six, especially about Noah and about,the goings on about Noah.

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And then we're going to go into,well, the Sibling oracles is one,
the Book of Jubilees is another one.
And you might say, why are you goinginto the Book of Jubilees?
First Clement.
Well, I'll give you a little bitof a heads up, guys.
I think that we have evidence
that one of the authorsof the New Testament actually drew

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sourced the information that they wrote
from the book of Clementor the Book of Jubilees.
And I'll tell you exactly how I cometo that conclusion,
or at least,how I suspect that when we get to that.
So we're digging in to the scriptures now,I have sat in on a Bible school lesson.
Lessons before.

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I've never witnessed anybody going intothe depth that we're going into.
I actually I remember sitting inand a Bible school
class and, and they were talking aboutGenesis chapter one and, and,
it's like the waythey were interpreting it, like they were
taking the English translationand running off of the word
without even withouteven getting into the Hebrew at all.

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They're like,just they're trusting the translators
and, you know, as if that
is, if the translators are perfector none of them are perfect, I don't care.
You know what translatorsyou're talking about King James, New
King James, NIV, whatever the case is,none of them are perfect.
There are many.
And, you know,I'm seeing more and more problems

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with the King James and I havewith a lot of other, translations.
But if you read the translators preface,
which a lot of Christians don't do,they just they just parrot their pastor
or they parrot their favoriteChristian teacher that says it's perfect.
It's the word of God. It's nothing.
You know, it's the perfect translation,They're just in this echo
chamber of denial,and they're in their own,
and they're in their own little cocoon.

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But if they
actually read the writingsof the translators themselves,
you'll see that the translators themselvestell you it's
it's not perfectby any stretch of the imagination.
It's not perfect.There is no perfect translation.
I mean, I think that these translators dotheir best
given what they, what they have, but
translators only can do whatthey're what they're what their job is.

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And, and the, the powers that be behindany given translation, be it
King Jimmy or,you know, any other Bible publisher,
they have to pick and choose what,what text to actually, translate from.
Okay.
Genesis chapter six, versethree from the message.
And the Lord said, My Spiritshall not strive with man for ever,

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for he is indeed flesh,
yet his days shall be 120 years.
In the Septuagint and the Lord God notice
the Septuagint says LordGod, as opposed to simply
Lord in all capitals, the Tetragrammaton.
And the Lord God said, My Spiritshall certainly not

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remain among these men forever.
Because they are flesh,but their days shall be 120 years.
in the master I think it saysstrive in the Septuagint says remain
or abide as it saysin the footnotes of the new King James,
the passage to the Syriac says, dwell.

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And the Vulgate. Says And God said.
So it's not Lord God or capitals,
the Tetragrammaton, the four lettername of God, but rather just simply.
And God said, my,that my spirit shall not remain
in man forever.
Because he is fleshand his days shall be 120 years.

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as I understand this, it's sayingbasically that, man will not live forever,
and simply, not just forever, but
also man will not live to be,
you know, 900, 800 years old like Adam.
And some of these other guysdid 708 hundred and 900 years old.
But rather, God is going to reduce the,

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God is going to reduce the life expectancyto 120 years.
Now, I don't necessarily believethat this is like, again, a strict 120.
I do think that we have evidencethat there are people
and that actually even after this,even after this
in the scriptures, we have peoplelive in more than 120 years,
you know,

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so I think what God is doing, I thinkwhat it's what really what this is about
is just kind of like a generic number,like, just like how in the Psalms
it says a man's years shall be 70,but 80 by reason of strength, you know?
So again, I don't thinkit's like a strict mathematical limit,
but rather, more of a generic kind of,

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ballpark figure.
Otherwise.
Yeah.
Well, again,
I think we have lots of evidence,both in the Scripture and in real life,
that that 70, 80, is,you know, can be exceeded.
And the 120 years as wellcan also be exceeded.
So, yeah,I think that some I think that's what it

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what it means, John, I think that it's,it's a generic kind of God's
just saying, you know,no more a thousand years, you guys.
No more 930 yearsor 969 years like Methuselah.
No more.
None of this anymore.
I'm sick and tired of you guys.
You know,you guys are only going to live to be 120.
Okay. Like again.
So, there's always exceptions to the ruleas well, right?

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God is is always, making exceptions.
Genesis chapter six, verse four, therewere giants on the earth in those days.
And also afterward,when the sons of God came
into the daughters of men,they were they bore children to them.
Those were the
mighty men who were of all men of renown.

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Okay, now this verse, we could spenda whole a whole day on alone.
I don't want to spenda whole lot of time on that.
But you guys know that is a huge topicright there.
The Giants, the Nephilim.
So in the Hebrew, check out the footnotehere.
Nephilim,

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which means fallen or mighty ones.
Fallen or I mean, I guess you could say.
Or both. Right? The fallen mighty ones.
There were Nephilim, mighty ones,
or fallen on the earth in those days.
And also afterward,when the sons of God came
into the daughters of menand they bore children to them,

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those were the mighty menwho were of old men of renown.
the Septuagint,it just says simply giants.
Where in the earth in those days
also after this, because the sons of mencame in unto the daughters,
where the sons of God came inunto the daughters of men,
and they gave birth to the giants
that were from of old the heroes of fame,the heroes of fame.

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Now notice here.It is different, right? So.
And giants were in the earthin those days,
as opposed to there were giantson the earth in those days.
Pretty much the same. Septuagint.
Also after this. Messianic.
And also afterward. Okay.
Pretty much the same Septuagint,because the sons of God

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came in unto the daughters of men.
Septuagint.
When the sons of Godcame in to the daughters of men.
So this is believed to be speakingabout, intimate relations.
Septuagint.
And they gave birth to the Giants.
Now in the messianic, it just simply says,and they bore children to them.

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So it doesn't say in the mess heretic,
that they gave birth to the giants.
Now, once again, I, I,
I personally favorthe Septuagint here in this verse
because it's, it's more,
it's clearer as to what happened here.

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You know, we have giants in the earth.
And this is why we have giants,because the sons of God, you know,
went into the children of man,the daughters of man.
And, and they gave birth to the giantsthat were from, of old.
The heroes of fame.
It says those were the mighty menwho were of old men of renown.
So I see what happened here.

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So the Septuagint.
Just ran on the sentencelike daughters of men
gave birth to
to the giants that were from of old,whereas
the messianic,at least here in this translation,
I should say, because it's not necessarilythe messianic.

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Because it's not,the punctuation in the messianic is,
is barely non-existentexcept for the vowel points.
So in the men's rhetoric,they put like a period
after they bore children, like gave birth.
And you see where it says,those were mighty men.
Now, remember what the,the word Nephilim means.

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It means mighty ones, right?
So let's have a look into the again.
Let's have a look into the Hebrew.Where are we here now?
So this would be verse four.
So this. Okay, so it's bore. Bore.
So so the next.So where it says Mighty Man.
According to this, it's not Nephilim,but rather get more.

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But it seems like. This.
Perhaps the, the Hebrewthat the Septuagint
translators were using use the same word.
I mean, I'm just I'm speculating herethe, the,
the original Hebrew from the.
The translators of the Septuagintcould have had the word Nephilim in there.

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And that's why it's translated as giantsas opposed to just simply mighty men.
Okay. That was the.
Passage to the Aramaic translation.
This Septuagint.
Says, now the giants were uponthe earth in those days.
And after that, when the sons of Godwere want to go into the daughters of men
that they bore children to them,those were the giants of old.

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So again, we have the word giants here,which is not in the messianic.
Okay.
So the Septuagint has
giants, the Syriac has giants.
I'm wondering.
So the Samaritan.
The Samaritan says, and the giantswere on the earth in those days.
And and also afterward,when the sons of Elohim
came into the daughters of men,

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and they bore children unto them,those were
the mighty men who were
who were renowned so the Samaritan agreeswith the messianic here.
And believe it or not, the Vulgate, agreeswith the, messianic here as well.
I will just briefly runover the different interpretations of this

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and what some of the other, likethe different books, say about this story.
So. I'll start with my own talkabout testimony.
I'll start with my own kind of testimonyas to how I
interpreted this.
What I understood thisto mean 30 years ago, I thought that
this was talking about, or again,because I just knew of the messianic text.

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I didn't know of the Septuagint orthe Syriac or the some of the older texts.
So just going by what the messianic says,I thought that
that these giants were not necessarilylinked at all
to these children,that the daughters of men more.
Let me explain.
Now, I don't believe this now,but I just wanted to give

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you guys a little bit of an ideaof where I came from
and what I used to believeand how I got to where I am today. So
going by the
messianic text alone,not knowing, the other texts.
I thought that is basicallyit was just saying
there were giants on the earthin those days,
as ifthat was a completely different subject.
And then and also afterward,when the sons of God

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came into the daughters of men,they more challenged them.
And and those were the mighty menwho were of old men of renown.
So I thought, well, sons of God,this must mean like, you know, the,
the line of righteousness like Seth,
you know, and, and and his line,you know, and Mahal and,

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you know, the, the righteous line,the line of Siddiq,
the sons of God, if you will,as opposed to the sons of Belial,
if you will, the sons of Cainor these other kind of people.
So that's how that's why I used to think.
I used to think that, oh, yeah. Okay.
So yeah, we have thethe old patriarchs of all the sons of God.

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They, they had children,and these children were men of renown.
Yeah. Like Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
You know,these children were men of renown.
I have come to change my mind on this.
For a number of reasons.
One of the biggest reasons being that.
I have
come to
believe, based upon the evidencethat we have, that the Book of Enoch.

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Has some at least some credibility to it.
And I came to that conclusionbecause of what it said
and what it says in Jude.
Okay.
Enoch prophesying, the Enoch prophesying,you know.
The Lord will come with 10,000of his saints and all this kind of stuff.
So it was a long journey for mefrom the early 90s.

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I used to be very enamored by that.
That verse in in Jude, where it's like
Enoch prophesied,how do you know Enoch prophesied.
So it doesn't say in Genesisthat he prophesied.
It doesn't really saymuch about him at all.
So where do you get this from?
And so I did what a lot of Christians do.

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I just kind of chalked it up.
I just kind of threw it into the catchall bin of the Holy Spirit.
What must have been the Holy Spiritthat showed Jude the Enoch prophesy?
Because it doesn't say in the Bibleanywhere else.
So I just kind of assumed that.
And I assume that for a little while,
but it was still stuckin the back of my mind, like.
You know, it's it'sit's it's an explanation.
It kind of explains it away,but yet it didn't really satisfy me.

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So then I came across the Book of Enoch
and I, and then I understoodthat the Book of Enoch actually
was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls,and the Dead Sea Scrolls
predated Jude by hundreds of years.
So then I started thinking, okay,wait a second.
In the Holy Land, they they found the
the Book of Enoch that was togetherwith all these other books of Scripture,

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long before Jude was ever born.
And so obviously the Book of Enoch was in
circulation, was accepted to one degreeor another
as part of the canon of Scripture,if you will, canon
or accepted as a bookthat needs to be studied,
at least along with these other booksof Holy Scripture.

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So I started thinking, well,wait a second.
Now hold on.
Jude did not say thathe heard that from the Holy Spirit.
Like how a lot of other people say, right?
Like for example,
Paul says, you know,I asked the Lord to take this thorn in.
The Lord said this. And,you know, the Lord showed me that.
And some of the other some of the prophetsin the quote unquote, Old Testament

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talks about, often, you know, it'slike the Lord's in the Lord spoke to me.
The Lord, the word of the Lord came to me.
The burden of the Lord, came cameupon me in a vision of the Lord.
I saw a vision, and I asked the Lordwhat this was, and he said this to me.
So in the prophetsand in the Torah for that matter,
we read, when God speaks to somebody,they actually say, God speaks to them.

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I mean, I know this is kind of likeelementary, dear Watson, but this is soup.
Like, this is super simple.
But when somebody when God speaksto somebody and they write about it,
usually they say,
you know, God spoke to me,the word of the Lord came to me.
And this is what the Lord said.
But you didn't say that, didn't you?
You didn't say that the Lord spoke to himabout that.

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You didn't say that the Holy Spiritshowed him anything about that.
He didn't say that.
He just spoke about itin an almost like a nonchalant way.
Like as if y'all know about this.
Enoch prophesied.
And so then I.
So then I was thinking,wait a second, now.
So let me put two and two together here.
So the Book of Enoch was in circulationin that part of the world.

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In the days when Jude was alive.
So that means people
would have known about it, of course,and would have known about the teachings
of the Book of Enoch,which says that Enoch prophesied
the Lord coming with 10,000 of his saintsto execute judgment.
You know, all this kind of stuff.
So then I started going,okay, hold on a second.
So Jude likely very likely

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got that idea from or gotthat concept from the Book of Enoch.
if I write a book
and in that book I write, Romeo
or Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Everybody knows what I'm saying.
Like everybody knows where that's from.
I don't have to say, you know, this isfrom Shakespeare at this particular book,
this particular chapter, thisI don't have to say that people know what

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you know, where I get that from?
It's it's a common thing, right?
A lot of people know this storyand and all that kind of thing.
So I don't need to explain myself.
So I'm thinking.
I think this is what happened with Jude.
everybody knew,for lack of a better way of putting
I know this hyper hyperbole,but everybody knew that Enoch,
the Book of Enoch and theand that Enoch prophesied.

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And so it was that that started me ona journey into studying the Book of Enoch.
This was this was some years ago.
And so I have come to the conclusionthat at least
part of the book of me,at least part of it, is.
I, I, I'm trying to find the right wordhere to be as accurate as possible.
Let me just say it this way.
The Book of Enochpredated the, incarnation of Jesus.

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The Book of Enochpredated the first century.
So the Book of Enoch speaksabout these giants.
In the Book of Enoch makes it very clear.
That these giants are the productof fallen angels, with women.
So that there were angels, fallen angels.
And the Book of Enoch is quite.

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Forthwith in the even got names
of some of these angels and numberslike 200.
They got theseis is quite detailed in the Book of Enoch.
Quite detailed. So.
I have come to.
To accept that these giants are actually
the products of sons of God,which are fallen angels.

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Now, I know the Book of Enochsays that their fallen angels.
But I know,
you know, somebody might say,oh, no, sons of God are not fallen angels.
But if you were to check it out in thein the scriptures, especially in the book
of the book of Job, for example,as well as other places as well,
it clearly refers to the angelsas being sons of God.

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It clearly refers to the angelsas being sons of God.
So and I know that there are peoplewho there is
at least a source out there
that claims that first Enoch was writtenin about the second century BC.
And the reason being, as I understand it,is because the Book of Enoch in the Dead

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Sea Scrolls dates to that particular,that particular time frame.
But that in my mind that does not.
That does not meanthat the Book of Enoch was written
at that time, any more than it meansthat the Book of Genesis
is written as that time,
because the Book of Genesis from the DeadSea Scrolls was also dated at that time.

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You can say thatall of the books of the Bible were written
in the second century BC,because in the Dead Sea
Scrolls, you know, all date to that.
And that's the oldest,and that's the oldest.
Manuscripts that we have.
So I will give them this.
I'll give them the ideathat that copy dates

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to that year, second century,a third century BC.
But if anybody comes out of the woodworkand says,
I know that it was actually writtenin that year, like the original copy
was written, I'mwilling to take a look at the evidence.
But as much as I have ever
researched this to this, to this day,
I have not seen any evidencethat would support that theory at all.

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How do I know that that that ideathat it was written
as init was like the original copy was written?
How do I know that that was not justsomebody making an excuse?
And and trying to debunk
or at least throw the Book of Enochunder the, under the bus
because they don't like it,
because of their poorlyand because of their poorly in theology.

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How do I know that's not what the case is?
Anybody can make any claim, right?
Anybody can claim anything.
Anybody can say, well, you know,the book of Isaiah, it was only, you know,
was was written, it wasn't written,it wasn't written by Isaiah at all.
It was written by, you know,it was written in the third century BC,
because this is the evidence that we havefrom the Dead Sea Scrolls.
But that is not evidencethat that is a empty claim.

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Just because the oldest manuscript datesto that doesn't
mean that that's the original copy.
Yeah.
So I'm aware I'm aware of that claim
that the Book of Enoch was writtensecond century B.C.
I'm aware of that claim,but I suspect very highly suspect
that that claim is nothingbut an empty claim, because the person,

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every source that I've ever seen,
ever make that claim doesn't produceany evidence to support that claim.
My question is,how do you know that wasn't just the copy?
How do you know that was the original?
Is in regardsto why the Book of Enoch was rejected.
We got lots of different,
theories out there.
One theory that really sticks out to me,you see, it was

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it wasn't the, Christians per se,that rejected the Book of Enoch.
At least not that wasn't the reasonwhy it's not in most Christian Bibles.
I say most because it is in the EthiopianOrthodox Bible.
The reason
why is because the Book of Enoch,as at least this is one of the theories.
I'll just put it this way in case
one of the theories is,and I think this makes more sense

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than any of the other theoriesthat I ever heard.
The Book of Enoch
comes from the time frame of,so-called Old Testament.
Okay. So Christians.
Adopted or you may say, even hijacked
the Jewish Tannock
and made that into their Old Testament. So

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in any Christian
Bible, when you got this whole thingcalled the Old Testament.
That is really the the Jewish Tanakh.
It's what they call the ten off, the tenK, the Torah, prophets and writings,
the Torah, the never even the catch of M,the ten K the Tanakh.
So Christians really didn't choosetheir quote unquote Old Testament books.

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They just kind ofthey just kind of stole it from the Jews.
If you if you, for lack of abetter way of putting it,
they justthey just kind of took it from the like.
Oh, yeah.
Your Bible,the Tanakh wasn't going to take that.
And we're going to label it old Testament,and then we're going to
take our New Testamentand kind of blew it on the back of that.
And then we'll call it the Holy Bible.
So the reason whythe Book of Enoch isn't in there

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is because it wasn't in the Tanakh.
So the Pharisees
and the scribes, the scribesand the Pharisees did not want, did
not choose to include the Book of Enochin their Tanakh.
However, limit, you know, justI just remembered something.
There is a Jewish websiteby the name of Safari,

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and I know many of you guysknow about this because I.
I refer to this from time to time.
Safari dawg CFA right.
A it's a it's basicallyit's a library of Jewish texts here.
We got the Tanakh here,
you know, and so this is the
is basically the Old Testament Bible,all the Old Testament books there.

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But if you scroll down, you go to the
Second Temple.
So you got the book ofthis is the wisdom of Seraph,
the Book of Jubilees,Book of Judith, Tobit, Erastus.
And we got lots of interesting books here.
Now, do we have. No, we don't have.
I was thinking, do we have,
Enoch here or not?

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Even got Josephus here.
And doesn't look likewe got Enoch there at all.
Yeah, I. So.
The reason why.
Most Christian Biblestoday does not have the Book of Enoch
is because the Jews,the Jews rejected the Book of Enoch.
This is the theory anyway. Okay?
The Jews rejected the Book of Enoch,as we can pretty much see here,
they include all thethe Apocrypha, Book of Jubilees and stuff,

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but not the Book of Enoch. Why not?
So the theory isthey rejected the Book of Enoch because it
shows that Yeshua is the Messiaha little bit too much to their liking.
So the Book of Enoch shows that Jesusis the Messiah a little bit too much,
And so they don't eventhey didn't put it into their Tanakh.
the scribes and the Phariseesrejected the Book of Enoch,

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and the Christians justjust accepted their quote unquote Bible
and glued the New Testamenton the back of that.
Therefore, theythey don't have the Book of Enoch
because the Jews didn't include it,you see.
So that's, that's that's the theory.
Max says,
looks likeit looks like the Book of Enoch,
if true, was forgotten earlyon, I wouldn't say forgotten.
You know, we have the

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we have the, Ethiopian Christians,
they have the Book of Enochin their Bible.
And they always, they always didhave the Book of Enoch in their Bible
and these and these Christians.
This church is no small church.
It's not like your little, you know,corner, you know, 200 member church.
It actually has like45 to 50 million members

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all over the world, 45to 50 million members all over the world.
And the Book of Enoch is in
there is in their Bible,always has been for thousands of years.
And I think that the reason why that the,
at least one of the reasons could be that
that the Ethiopian Church did not,kept the Book of Enoch,
as part of their part of the scripturesbecause.

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The Ethiopian Church predates
the Ethiopian faith,if you will, goes way back to Judaism.
And we read about Ethiopiain the so-called Old Testament.
We read about the Ethiopian, but the Bookof Enoch, excuse me, and the book of me,
but the, about Ethiopia way back in the,in the Old Testament,

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so-called Old Testament,so thousands of years they were part of,
they had this link to the Holy Land
and, and, and to the Jewish people. So
the idea is they
got the Book of Enochfrom before the first century.
The Book of Enoch was attained by themand retained by them

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from the times before Jesus was born.
So then when Jesus came and then,you know, afterwards, when the when the
the majority of the Jewish peoplerejected the whole, messianic narrative
and then they rejected the Book of Enochafter that,
then it didn't really affect the, the,Ethiopian Church

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either,because the Ethiopian Church already
had the Book of Enoch in their canonanyway.
So, you know,it's already there. You know.
And then these, you know, these, Decisions
that were made in, in, in church history
that would include or excludeany given book from the Bible.
The Ethiopians were not included
in those particular meetings or, you know,because they were so far away.

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I mean, they were so far away.
So they, you know, they quite
fortunately missed out on some of these,some of these decisions.
Anyways.
Sons of God went into the daughtersof men and bought giants.
So I.
I believe that's what happened.
The the fallen angelshad children by women.

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And those children were giants.
When I first heard this theory.
I rejected it because.
I thought, wait a second.
I was told.
By some Christian leaderthat angels can't reproduce.
They don't have reproductive organsbecause Jesus said,
angels don't marryand they're not given in marriage.

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Therefore we will not be marrying andgiven in marriage in the in the next life.
and I believed it.
Until I started thinking about it,I think, wait a second.
This is an assumptionthat's made just because Jesus said,
the angels aren't, don't marry,and aren't given in marriage
doesn't mean that they cannot assumea human body and reproduce

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So then I started thinking,wait a second now.
So we got the we got angels appearing
to Abrahamand you know, and to many other of these,
these,these characters, angels appear as men.
Actually many timesthese angels are called men.
A man clothed in white,a man clothed in linen.

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These men appeared to Abraham.
But we know that there were angelsso that these angels appeared as men.
And then you have somethinglike the book of Tobit, where you have
one of the ark angels of heaven.
Raphael appeared as a man, came as a man,
even livedor stayed with Tobias for a while.

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And Tobiasdidn't know that he was an angel.
He thought he was just a human being. So.
And then the book of Hebrews saysthat we should entertain strangers
because in so doing, some people have have
actually entertained angelswithout knowing it.
So I started thinkingabout all this stuff.
I thought, where's okay, soall of this stuff that all this evidence

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it seems to suggestthat angels can take on human form.
And if if an angelcan take on a human form, then why not?
Human organs,
human and not human anatomy?
Why not?
You know, so I started thinking, okay,so maybe, yeah, maybe it's true.
Maybe these sons of God,maybe they were angels
and they did reproduce with men because.

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Or with the with women,with the daughters of men.
Because they assumejust like how many of these angels
did in the scriptures,they assumed a human form.
And with that reproductive organs.
Okay.
And and so then they,they reproduced with women
and this, this is what happened,this is how the Giants came about.

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Now, the Book of Enoch tellsus this very clearly.
I believe the Book of Jubileesalso refers to this as well.
Okay.
Let's move on here in Genesis
chapter six,verse five, again from the new King James.
Then the Lord sawthat the wickedness of man
was great in the earth,and that every intent.
Of the thoughts of his heartwas only evil continually.

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Okay, let's see what it sayshere in the Septuagint
and the Lord Godso as not Lord, but Lord God,
having seen that the wickedness,the wicked
actions of men were multiplied
upon the earth,
and that everyone in his heartwas intently brooding over
evil, continually, oh, that's a differentway of putting it right, the Syriac says,

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and Lord Jehovah saw
that the evil of manincreased in the earth,
and every inclination of the reasonof the reasonings of his heart was evil.
Every day.
The Vulgate.
And God simply God not Lord,God not Lord, but.
And God.
Seeing that the wickedness of menwas great on the earth,

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and that all
the thought of their heartwas bent upon evil at all
times, so very, very similar across
all the, manuscripts.
Moving on to verse six, Genesis six six.
And the Lord was sorry that he had made
man on the earth,and he was grieved in his heart.

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Septuagint.
Then God laid it to heart,a different way of putting it.
Then God laid it to heart that he had made
man upon the earth,and he pondered it deeply.
Syriac And Lord Jehovahregretted that he had made Adam.
In the earth.
And he was grieved in his heart.
In the Vulgate it just just saysit repented him that he had made

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man on earth, and being touched inwardlywith sorrow of heart.
So he doesn't even say, Lord or Lord God
or God at all.
In that verse in the in the Vulgate.
you go to Safari, the, the librarybasically of Jewish literature,
again, the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tolman,Midrash, Halacha, all that stuff.
And you go down to the Second Templeand you see that

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they include the Apocrypha,the book of Sirat,
this is the ecclesiastics,the Book of Jubilees, even
so, the Book of Jubileesis very much like Enoch,
except the book of the Book of Jubileesis very much like Enoch, by the way,
except it does not say anything
explicitly about the Messiah.

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But the Book of Enoch does.
Now, maybe, maybe you can say thatthe Book of Enoch was banned
because of what it,The first of all, I'd ask what contents?
What teachingswere inconsistent with the Torah?
Could it bethe teachings about the Messiah?
Could it be that the Book of Enochproduced more of a, messianic?

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You know, Jesus, Yeshua,as being the Messiah?
Maybe that is how they theysaid, well, it's not according to Torah
because Torah tells usthat Jesus is not the Messiah, you know?
So there are a lot of questions herewith that.
Tyler. I'd be asking a lot of questions.
What teachings are inconsistentwith the Torah?

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It reminds me of the,you know, the Protestant excuse.
Excuse says to quote unquote, banthe Apocrypha.
Total nonsense.
Ever I have, I have I've heard and read
and saw videosand all of all these different reasons
why the Apocrypha is false and is,you know, it's just a bunch of lies.
None of it holds water,none of it holds water.

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It's just Christians doing damage control,
desperatelytrying to hold on to their Pollyanna
in the
face of in the face of whatthe Apocrypha says,
which is as much as I can,
as much as I can tell, it is just as,it is very much in line
with the teachings of the Torahand the teachings of the prophets.

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Maybe not so much in linewith what's going on Pali palm, but
but at least it's it's in linewith the Torah.
The Torah in the in the, the, prophets.
Anyway.
Thanks, Tyler.
every one of us, it's difficultto not only to identify the biases
that we have, but also to, you know,
to accept the truth even when it goesagainst what we want to believe.

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Yeah.
So I think that, you know, poorly ends.
Well, you know.
Yeah.
You know, what I think about the policy is
I think we can learn a lot from the Jews.
You know, yeah. So we got.
Thank you. Cubits.
Genesis chapter six, verse seven.
So the Lord said, I will destroy man
whom I have createdfrom the face of the earth.

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Septuagintsays, And God said, I will blot out man.
Well,that's a different way of putting it.
I will blot
out man whom I have madefrom the face of the earth.
Syriac.
And Lord Jehovah said, I shall wipe out
well, here we go.
Destroy man versus blot outman versus wipe out the children of men

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that I have createdfrom the face of the earth.
And the Vulgate.
Again just he interesting.
He just he not God or Lord or Lord God.
He said, I will destroy man whomI have created from the face of the earth.
Let's see what we have here.
SamaritanI will wipe out man whom I have created
from the face of the landwhere we got that earth and land, as well.

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Earth and land.
Okay. Moving on. Genesis chapter seven.
The last part of the verse.
Both man and beast,creeping thing and birds of the air.
For I am sorry that I have made them.
Septuagint.
Even man with cattle and reptiles.
With flying creatures of the sky.
For I am grieved that I have made them.
Syriac from the children of man,and unto the animal,

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and unto the creeping thing,and unto the bird of this of the sky.
Because I'm sorry that I've made them.
Vulgate from man
even to beasts, and from creeping thing,even to the fowls of the air.
For it repenteth me, and I have made them.
This reminds me of aI'll tell you guys a true story
when I when I read this,I think you know when God is angry.

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Just get out of the way. Look out.
Because destructionis coming to every and everything, okay?
Everything around himis going to be destroyed, okay?
When God's angry, just look out.
Get out of the way!
Clear the path!
When God is angry.
John says something is bothering me.
Why did God have to destroy all life,including the animals, the creeping things

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and whatnot?
I think become corrupt as well?
Yeah. Thanks for the question, John.
If you
notice through the scriptures,there are times when he said
destroy everything, and there are timeswhen he said, do not destroy everything.
Just take out the wicked.
Just take out the wicked. The men.

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Sometimes even say, take out the man.
You know. Didn't wipe them out.
But not they're not their wives,not their children and not the animals.
Whereas other times he would say, wipeit all, wipe all of them out.
Wipe everything out.The answer to that question.
I think, is I think it goes very deep.
I think that there are times when.

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Things need to be completely cleaned,like a clean slate.
You think about Sodomand Gomorrah as well.
You got everybody old, young, everybody.
They were all wiped out, includingthe animals in Sodom and Gomorrah as well.
I know it doesn't say specifically
in the scriptures that the animals werewiped out too, but hey, if

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I mean fire and fire and brimstone,which I do
believe was a volcanolike unto Mount Vesuvius
when Pompeii was destroyed,Pompeii in A.D.
79, if you look into it, if you can finda, if you can find an honest
historical source, because nowadaysyou know how it goes with.
With people wanting to change history.
But if you you find an honesthistorical source or honest

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historical sources, you will find that
the lifestyle of Pompeii in 79
was just like the lifestyle of Sodomand Gomorrah.
Pompeii was just like Sodom and Gomorrah,
and they were destroyed in the verysame way with fire and brimstone,
which I believe was a volcano.
In, in the in the case of Pompeii,we know it was a volcano,

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because we can tell you what volcanoit was.
It was mountain, the severe that erupted
and the fireand brimstone brimstone, meaning sulfur.
You know what
you hear from people who love to,you know, chase these volcanoes
and go as close as possibleto an eruption of a volcano eruption.
They will tell you they smart.

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They smell the sulfur out of the volcano.
So apparently volcanoes do
spew brimstone, sulfur,fire and brimstone.
So this happened to Pompeii, the same fatein the very same way.
They lived the very same lifestyleas Sodom and Gomorrah.
Now, once again, be itPompeii or Sodom and Gomorrah.

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No, I don't know if anybody
that, I don't know if anybody that.
Well, you know, I can't say I don't knowof anybody because in Pompeii we do have.
Casts, that of, goatsand, the animals like that.
So in Pompeii,we know the animals did also die,

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but Sodom and Gomorrah as well.
Like,where do you find huge cities like that
without any animals? They would.
They would probably have an animalsfor transportation, animals for pets,
animals for food, animals for milk,
all kinds of stuff like that.
So, yeah,the animals had had to go with everything.

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So the answer to that, John,sometimes God says to save them.
Sometimes God says not to save them.
He makes the call.
Why would he not save them?
I don't think he he he it.
I don't think he tells us explicitly why.
And he doesn't really have to becausehe doesn't have to answer to us. Right.
So we don't have to know. But.

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I think the answer could lie in, There's
this scientific thing todaythat's called cellular memory.
You know, about that cellular memorythey would say that even scientifically,
you can prove thatcells actually have memory as well.
You hear about thiswhen people have light transplants,

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you know, there is this, story about this
one, person who got an organ transplant,and then they started
having nightmares about this certain carwith a certain license plate.
And it just happened to be that
the, the organ that they received
was from a personthat actually was killed,

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and the murder was unsolved, and the
and somebody of law enforcement,took it seriously.
These dreams that this personstarted having after, after they received
the organ of this other person,
and they actually did their investigationand they found
they found the person responsible

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for the murder based upon
the dreams that came from
the cellular memoryof the organ that this person received.
And you can read about thisis there's a fair amount of, of of,
of this kind of stuff out there,you know, like, for example,
this one person got,I think it was like a heart transplant

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or something like that kidney transplantor something to that effect.
And then all of a sudden they startedjust craving this particular food.
If you ever forget what it was like,it was like just a very specific
kind of food, like a certainkind of taco or something like that.
It started craving it all the time,and then like a long time after that,
they found outbecause they met with the family

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or friends of the personwho donated the organ,
and they found out that the personwho actually donated
the organ was a personwho loved this kind of food.
You know? Anyways, John,
God doesn't answer to us all the time.
We can we can try to figure it out. Why?

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He would want some why why he would wantall the animals and all the children
in one place to be destroyed,as opposed to another place.
But perhaps it could be because of that.
Because of the fact that animalsand even items.
Why would God want a beautiful citylike like Sodom and Gomorrah

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destroyed?
It says in the scripturesthat it was this.
These cities were absolutely beautiful.
They were very, very prosperous.
And, actually says that they were likethe garden of the Lord.
Just blooming, blossoming,
prosperous and just beautiful places.

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Why would God want to destroy the plants?
Why would God want to destroythe beautiful buildings of those cities?
Why would God want to
destroythe beautiful structures of those cities?
I think the answer, remains in the in is a
why would God want to destroy the,you know, the pet rover?
You know, why would why would God wantedto destroy, you know, Garfield with them.

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spiritually speaking,sometimes the entire land,
including buildings and items
and peopleand everything can be corrupted.
Everything,
you know, it talks in the scriptures.
We read this already once so far.
But the land itself,the earth itself, can be,

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defiledby the sin of the people who live on it.
You know, so.
I do believe that, spirituallyspeaking, spirits, evil spirits,
as well as something like in a good spiritor the Holy
Spirit can operate
through material things

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as well as it animates animate
and inanimate objects, animate objects,meaning people and animals
and even insects versus inanimate objects.
Now we get this in in the scripturesas well.
Joshua chapter seven.
We got the, dedicatedwe got the devoted item, that Aiken store,

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and that caused a lot of death to theto the Army of Israel.
Right.
We have even in the book of acts,we have the opposite going on where,
the handkerchiefs and aprons from fromPaul was laid
upon the sick and they were healed,and and evil spirits came out.
So even inanimate objects can contain

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spiritual power, spiritual light,
the good spiritual poweror bad spiritual power.
So. You know, I think it's possiblefor inanimate as well as animate objects
to be transmitters of both good spirits
or evil spirits.

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So when God looks upon
a place and says, man,this place is saturated with wickedness,
evil and darkness, and evil spirits,it needs to be completely purged.
Everything in it, right from,you know, the
right from the kittens,all the way, all the way through.
Everything needs to be completely reset,wiped.

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Wipe the slate cleanto make sure that nothing,
nothing is transmitted, you know.
So I think this is what the whatthe case is, John.
And we don't always get this.
We get this sometimes. Right.
Sodom and Gomorrah, the days of Noah,and a few other times as well.
Sometimes it's like they go in and, they,they kill off the,

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the men, for example,in a, in a given city and they just
and they take the spoils,they take everything else,
you know, whereas other timesthey're forbidden to do that.
This is the reason why Saul was condemned.
Because he was he was told todestroy everything, including the animals.
But he he saved the animals.
And this is what caused his fall.

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That's what caused God to say,okay, Saul, you're done.
You're out.
I desire, to,Obedience is better than sacrifice.
Obedience means based in his context.
Destroy the animals.
Don't save them for sacrifice to the Lord.
Which I think that was just an excusefor him to, you know,
just an excuse that hethat he conjured up there.

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Yes, Max. Pompei.
And you look it up again today,and you never know, when you look it up.
So. Pompeii, I'm just saying, you know,some people want to destroy history.
Pompeii.
Was very,very much like Sodom and Gomorrah.
And they were destroyedin the very same way.

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So Pompeii is like Sodom and Gomorrahto 2.0.
Kimber saysif the fallen angels were making giants,
they could have been messing withthe genetics of animals like dinosaurs.
So that's a very interestingthat's a very interesting statement.
There.
Yeah, I think it is
a very bad thingto be messing with, with genetics,

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whether it's animals or humans,especially humans,
but even even plants to writegenetically modified modified plants,
it's just like monsters making monsters.
Seek.
The Lord says we can't questionwhat God did according to our idea
of what is right and wrong. True?
Absolutely what God does.

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Yes, according to our idea of whatis right and wrong, yes, I agree, I agree.
Seek the Lord. Yes.
You know, he doesn't have to answer to usin any which way, shape or form.
And, you know,he does what he wants to do.
He, he, he calls the shots and,
you know, all we can do is just obeyas much as we possibly can.

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And, you know, I not that there's anythingwrong with trying to figure it out.
Maybe that's okay.
But sometimes we just have to say,hey, he does whatever he wants to do.
And thank you.
New King James verse eight, Genesis six,verse eight.
But Noah found gracein the eyes of the Lord.
This is the, that means the Septuagint.
But no way.

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Or Noah found grace before the Lord
Syriac.
But Noah foundfavor in the eyes of the Lord Jehovah. And
Vulgate.
But Noah found grace before the Lord.
So what I'm going to do hereis, we'll save the whole story of the Ark
for tomorrow.
I think some of you will be surprisedto know that the Ark.

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I'll just give you guysa little bit of an idea, The word ark.
We all know we've all seen all thesedifferent drawings and depictions
and possibly even movies of Noah's Arkand the end.
What youwhat you see is this huge, this big boat
or this big ship, you know,shaped like a ship, you know, with the.

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You know, with the,the front of it is all pointed
and, you know, you got the, the,the bow and the stern and all this stuff.
It just looks like a ship.
But do you know that in the scripturesit does not describe a ship,
I know we've all
been programed to think of Noah's Ark,to mean to make it look like a boat.
But the word ark means box.

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Like the Ark of the covenant box.
And we'll talk about thisa lot more tomorrow.
But that isis an example of what we'll talk about.
Let me just
I'll just, we'll just talk about,I'll read a few more verses here.
Yeah. Seek.The Lord says it's a container.
Yeah, it's another way of putting ita container. Yes.
Genesis chapter six, verse nine.
This is the genealogy of Noah. Syriac.

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These are the generations of Noah.
And the Septuagint says the same thing.
These are the generations of Noah or Noahand the Latin.
These are the generations of Noah.
Noah.
Now, one of my favorite verses,
Noah was a just man, perfectin his generations.

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Septuagint Noah was a just man,being perfect in his generation.
Noah was well pleasing to God.
This Noah walked with God in this in the
in the messianic,Noah was well pleasing to God.
Different, a little bit different.
There.
In the Syriac, Noah was a righteous
and perfect man in his generations.

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And Noah, please God,see what good old Jerome, how he put it.
For the Vulgate.
Noah was a justand perfect man in his generations.
He walked with God. So
this word that's translated perfect.
Yeah.
Let's go over here to, we got verse nine.
Noah was a just man perfectin this generations.

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So in verse nine, here
Noah was a Siddiq.
It was Siddiq.
It's translated as just,but it should actually say righteous.
Or if you really want to be Hebraicabout it, you can say Siddiq.
Perfect, righteous.
So Noah was a Siddiq. He was righteous.

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Sorry, Paul,but there there are righteous people.
I know Paul is.
A lot of people say,well, Paul says there's none righteous.
No, not one.
that's a poor translation from Psalm14 and Psalm 53,
actually says in the Hebrew, none are tov,
none are good, especially in the contextof what it's talking about.
People who don't believe,people who are wicked,

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peoplewho don't call upon the name of the Lord.
People who don't pray, peopleyou know, people don't care about God.
These are the people who are none.
They're not good people. They're not tov.
Christians, look at what Paul they read.
Paul said, there is none righteous.No not one.
Thereforeit is impossible to be righteous.
Is nowthe Bible says there's none righteous.
No. Not one.
Oh, no.
The Bible does saythere are righteous people,

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but the Bible saysthere are a lot of righteous people.
This is one Noah.
Noah was a Siddiq. I remember
debating somebody
about this a few years ago,And I said, well, Paul was wrong.
He said, there's none righteous.
But look at Noah was a righteous man.He was a cynic.
He was righteous.
And this person, of course,you know, the typical excuse.

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Well, no,was only righteous in his generation.
Just, just he was only righteousbefore man, but not before God.
He was not righteous before God.
I said, well, just turn your page, flipon over to Genesis chapter seven.
Verse one says,the Lord said to Noah, come into the ark,
you and all your household, because I haveseen that you are righteous before me.

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Righteous before me.
So yeah, it is possible to be righteous.
See, as far as I understand,boats are shaped the way they are
to travel efficiently through water,
you know, to cut through the waterwith efficiency and speed.
Well, no one didn't have to cutthrough the water with he didn't.
He wasn't going anywhere.

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So he didn't have to travel at all.
So he wouldn't need a boat shape
to to to travel through the water.
all he would need would be just,
a container a container that wouldn'tflip over as all you need isn't.
actually, if there was no, you know, bowthe front of the boat
if there was no point in like how you seeNoah's Ark depicted

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in, almost everywhere today,if it wasn't pointed
and if it was truly more like a box,it could hold a lot more, right?
It could hold a lot more.
The volume of it could be a lot,just a whole lot more volume
than than just a boatwould with those dimensions.
yeah.
So the only thing that he'd have to beworried about is whether, you know it.

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Just that it wouldn'tflip over on him. Right.
That's about all of that.
As long as he built it so that it was.
Again, I'm not a
I'm not amaster of the sea, so I don't know exactly
what kind of container
you'd have to have, but at least, at leastso that it wouldn't flip over on you.
And it could weather the weather.
if Noahhad had to put a lot of animals on it,

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it would be a lot better to have withoutwithout being like a shape of boat.
Again, I don't want to getto, talking about it too much here.
We'll save that for tomorrow.
ever since we were little,
we were taught a certain wayand were thought to think a certain way.
It's like, yeah, Noah's Arkwould have to be looking like this.
Well, really like, how do you know why?

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Hey, I used to think this way forfor decades until I actually,
I actually I looked at the text,I'm thinking, wait a second, Ark.
And then I looked it up.
Box. Okay.
So yeah.
So that would be a lot more room.
A lot more room.
And yeah,why would he have to have a boat anyway?

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Because he's not going anywhere.
Like if God commanded himto sail around the world and.
Yeah, okay. Yeah,he needs a boat for sure.
But it wasn't it wasn't doing that.
He was just floating
so he he wouldn't need he wouldn'tneed a boat.
At least not like how we would think of ittoday.
Now again, I'm open to correction.
If you can prove to methat that a person can build a vessel.

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That thatthat a box would not be able to do it,
then a box would not be able to floator that it would roll or something.
If you can prove to me that there's no waythat no man could have made a box,
it had to have been made in the shapeof a traveling boat.
If you can prove to me that,then I will say, okay, no problem.

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You know, I changed my mind,but I don't see that.
And, you know,I don't know about you guys, but.
Many times I look through the scripturesand I think about these things,
and I think a lot about these things,and I think, like, you know,
and I said this for a long time,those of you who
there are people who know me in person,face to face, and people

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who you know, friends or family,you know, what I say about this stuff
is that Noah's boat wasNoah's ark was probably not a boat.
It was probably a box because it says ark,which is a box in the Hebrew.
It's not boat.
It doesn't mean boat.
It means box.
You know.
You know, it's a box just like it's it'sthe Ark of the covenant.

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It's not a boat of a covenant. It's a box.
Okay, so Noah was righteous and perfect.
A perfect man and his generation'sNoah pleased God.
Verse ten. Genesis chapter six, verse ten.
And Noah begot three sonsShem, Ham, and Japheth the Syriac.
The Qaeda says, and no one begot threesons, Shem, come, and Japheth.

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Septuagint says,And Noah begot three sons, Sam,
Ham, and Japheth, or Japheth,and good old Jerome.
Over there in the Latin it says, and he.
Why does Jerome do this?
Why does he take like he
he doesn't say God when the other passagessay God just says he.

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You know, like
it repented him.
And he said in verse seven, what is it?
And then it's like heit seems like the Vulgate
is a little bit more of likejust like slimmed down version
instead of actually name thingsaying God or Lord, God or Lord, just he.
And same with Noah here.
Instead of actually naming Noah, he just.

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And he begot three sons Sam,
Ham and father and the fifth Japheth.
Yeah, okay, so.
We will start tomorrow,Lord willing, with verse 11.
Genesis 611.
I think it's good to start here
because this, this kind of setsthe stage for the flood.

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The earth was corrupt before God.
So we'll talk about this.
We will.
I'm going to read a little a little,a little bit of an excerpt
from the Book of Enoch two in regardsto this, I think it's really interesting.
Some of you know about this.
I read this a few times before in the pastseveral months.
You know, the story of the prayersthat went up to God
because of the violencethat was on the earth. So I'll read that

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from the Book of Noah.
I will read from the sibling oraclesas well.
A sixth six slash seventh century work,
it is not that old,but I think it's really interesting
what what it saysthere in the sibling oracles
read from the book of,Clement as well, from the first century.
about Noah and what he was like,as well as the New Testament as well.

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And you know, about the lifestylein the actions of Noah.
Okay. All right. Okay, so that's.
That's a little bit of an overview.
Tomorrow, Lord willing,we will go into Genesis Rabbah
or Leviticus Rabbah as well,to look into the deeper, more ancient
Jewish textsand, interpretations of the story of Noah

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and what it was like to live on the,on the earth in the days of Noah.
Okay, so we'll do all that,
of course, checking in and,comparing the manuscripts as well,