You're gonna do WHAT?!?!?

Genesis 6:1 - 6:22

Chapter 6 was pretty interesting!

Wow, what a change!

God originally made man in a perfect and sinless state. There was nothing between him and God. It was a perfect relationship, perfect unhindered fellowship between the Creator and His creation. By the time that Noah shows up things have REALLY changed!  The heart of man has turned, it is inclined to evil all the time, immorality is everywhere! the Bible says the "son's of God" were marrying the "daughters of man" and this grieved God very deeply. In fact God wished that He had never made man and He said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever". Here is when God shortened man's lifespan from up to 900+ years to 120 years.

Stop the presses!

Sons of God, daughters of man, and Nephilim... who or what are they? There is much controversy as to who each of them really was. Let's take a look at just one of them. Sons of God, some say that they were the Nephilim. OK, what were the "Nephilim"?

Now this made me stop to do a bit of research.

It was quite interesting!

I would suggest that you Google it and see for yourself. Here is a little hint on one of the beliefs as to who they were... Angel + woman = Giants!

Check it out to see the other beliefs. In fact, I would suggest that you look up each of them.. the sons of God, daughters of men, and the Nephilim.

Back to the story...

Because of the immorality and wickedness God pledged to wipe mankind from the earth along with all animals, birds and all creatures that He created. Now, God found Noah to be righteous, blameless among the people of his time, the Bible says that he walked with God. So, God told Noah what he was going to do, that he was going to "put an end to all people", he was going to destroy both them and the earth by flood. God did promise Noah that He would protect Noah and his family. So, God established a covenant with Noah. Truthfully, Noah must have really had a serious walk with God because if God had said that to me, I would not have been able to function, much less build an ark ON DRY LAND WITH NO WATER ANYWHERE AROUND.

Noah did exactly as he was told. He built the ark to all of the specifications that God gave him. He gathered food for he and his family, as well as the animals, to take on the ark as God had instructed. Oh yeah, here is something else that is amazing... once Noah was finished building that ark, the animals start showing up... 2 of every living creature on the earth, both male and female. Birds of every kind, every kind of creature that was on the earth! They just showed up and got on the ark. Seriously, I don't know that I would have been able to handle this! I would have freaked out!

Shhhh!!! Be quiet, listen, I think that I hear the sound of rain...