| twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.". There are two thoughts prevalent on this passage, one is that fallen angels bred with the daughters of men to create the wicked people that grieved the Lord. One problem with this is that angels are supposed to be asexual. The other thought is that the sons of God describe the Sethite men, while the daughters of men describe the Cainite women. Also Tubalcain was a blacksmith, an artificer in brass and iron, renowned enough to be an instructor of other men like him. Blacksmiths are always pictured as giants. Combine this with the steady degeneration generation by generation of the Cainites, and I feel a more plausible explanation and understanding has been reached. This analysis can only be derived when chapters 4, 5 and 6 are read in context. Out of context all kinds of explanations can be derived, to Satan's delight, just as a badly oriented crystal can be misidentified. We are ready to step into the post-diluvian era. The only business left with Cain and the degenerates who grieved God is who died in the flood? I believe we have been told that every person cited in the genealogies died in the flood, except those specific deaths mentioned in chapter 5, Enoch and those who accompanied Noah on the ark. Our God is a mighty God, and he will tolerate only so much from man. That tolerance level is known only to God. If for no other reason than becoming 57 ________________________________________________________________________________ more aware of that fact, our study of Cain and the antediluvians should have been beneficial. Please choose to walk in his image, as did Enoch, a trichotomous man. 58 ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ |
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