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This Was Life in the World BEFORE the FLOOD _ Documentary · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: They stood four meters tall. Their hands could wrap around
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  Speaker 1: a grown man's skull. And they hunted humans for food.
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  Speaker 1: This was the world before the flood. And most people
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what actually happened there. What did people
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  Speaker 1: actually do for 900 years? What were the Nephilim? And
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  Speaker 1: what did they do to the human race? And what
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  Speaker 1: went so wrong that God decided to erase everything and
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  Speaker 1: start over? From paradise... to the patriarchs. From the beings
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  Speaker 1: that came from the sky to the darkness that swallowed
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  Speaker 1: an entire civilization. This is the story of the world
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  Speaker 1: that God erased. Step into the first chapters of Genesis
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  Speaker 1: and you are not just looking at a different era.
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  Speaker 1: You are standing on a different planet. Look up. There
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  Speaker 1: is no blue sky. Not the way you know it.
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  Speaker 1: There is no rain. Genesis chapter 2 tells us that
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  Speaker 1: God had not yet sent rain upon the earth. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: a warm, heavy mist rose continuously from the ground and
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  Speaker 1: watered the whole surface of the land. Many scholars believe
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  Speaker 1: a layer of water vapor surrounded the entire atmosphere, trapping heat,
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  Speaker 1: filtering radiation, and keeping the planet in a state of
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  Speaker 1: constant warmth. No storms, no violent weather, just soft, diffused
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  Speaker 1: light from above as if the sky itself had a
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  Speaker 1: permanent filter. Now look around you. Everything is alive. Everything
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  Speaker 1: is growing. Trees so massive their trunks are wider than houses.
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  Speaker 1: Their canopies vanish into the mist above. Ferns tower overhead.
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  Speaker 1: Vegetation so thick that moving through it feels like pushing
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  Speaker 1: through a living wall of green. There are no deserts,
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  Speaker 1: no ice caps, no barren wastelands, The air is heavy
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  Speaker 1: with oxygen, and every breath fills your lungs more deeply
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  Speaker 1: than any breath you have ever drawn. The entire planet
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  Speaker 1: is a garden, and at the center of it all
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  Speaker 1: stood the Garden of Eden. Scripture tells us it was
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  Speaker 1: watered by a river that split into four, the Pishon,
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  Speaker 1: the Gihon, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. At its heart
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  Speaker 1: stood two trees that would define the fate of the
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  Speaker 1: human race, the tree of life and the tree of
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge of good and evil. In this garden, Adam
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  Speaker 1: walked with God, not in prayer, not in ritual. He
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  Speaker 1: walked with Him literally, in the cool of the day.
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  Speaker 1: No death, no decay, no thorns, no suffering. The Creator
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  Speaker 1: and His creation, side by side. And then it broke,
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  Speaker 1: the serpent, the fruit, the choice. In a single act
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  Speaker 1: of disobedience, the entire fabric of creation was torn. God
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  Speaker 1: cursed the ground itself. Where once it produced freely, now
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  Speaker 1: it would yield thorns and thistles. Where once there was
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  Speaker 1: no effort, now there would be sweat and toil and pain.
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  Speaker 1: And for the first time in the history of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: death entered the world. Adam and Eve were driven out.
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  Speaker 1: But here is a detail most people miss. Eden did
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  Speaker 1: not disappear. Genesis chapter 3 says God placed cherubim with
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  Speaker 1: flaming swords at the entrance to guard the way to
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  Speaker 1: the tree of life. The garden was still there. Somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the pre-flood world, behind an impassable wall of fire
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  Speaker 1: and angelic guards, paradise still existed, visible, unreachable, a permanent
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  Speaker 1: reminder of what humanity had lost. Adam and Eve were
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  Speaker 1: left paradise but they did not leave alone they carried
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  Speaker 1: with them the knowledge of what had been lost and
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  Speaker 1: the first generation born outside those gates would prove just
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  Speaker 1: how fast humanity could fall adam and eve had two
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  Speaker 1: sons cain the firstborn worked the ground abel the younger
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  Speaker 1: kept flocks both brought offerings to god abel brought the
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  Speaker 1: best of his flock the firstborn the fattest Cain brought
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  Speaker 1: some of the fruit of the ground. Scripture does not
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  Speaker 1: say it was his best. God accepted Abel's offering. He
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  Speaker 1: did not accept Cain's. Cain was furious. And God, in
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  Speaker 1: one of the most intimate moments in all of Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: came to Cain directly and warned him. Genesis chapter 4,
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  Speaker 1: verse 7. If you do well, will you not be accepted?
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  Speaker 1: And if you do not do well, Sin is crouching
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  Speaker 1: at your door. Its desire is for you, but you
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  Speaker 1: must rule over it. God told him exactly what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: God gave him a way out. Cain ignored every word.
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  Speaker 1: He took his brother into the field, and there, under
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  Speaker 1: the open sky of the young world, the ground that
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  Speaker 1: God had already cursed drank human blood for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: When God came to Cain and asked, Where is your brother?
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  Speaker 1: Cain gave the most chilling response in Scripture. Am I
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  Speaker 1: my brother's keeper? Cain was cursed and driven east, but
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  Speaker 1: he did not wander for long. He built a city,
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  Speaker 1: the first city in human history, and named it Enoch
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  Speaker 1: after his son. From Cain's line came a rapid explosion
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  Speaker 1: of civilization. Jabal became the father of those who raise livestock.
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  Speaker 1: Jubal invented music, the harp, and the flute. Tubal-Cain mastered
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  Speaker 1: the forging of bronze and iron, the first metallurgist. In
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  Speaker 1: just a few generations, humanity had invented animal husbandry, music,
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  Speaker 1: and metalworking. Civilization was advancing at breathtaking speed, but it
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  Speaker 1: was advancing without God. Built on the foundation of the
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  Speaker 1: first murder, and the violence did not just continue. It
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  Speaker 1: became a badge of honor. Lamech A descendant of Cain
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  Speaker 1: stood before his two wives and spoke what may be
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  Speaker 1: the first poem ever recorded in human history. It is
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  Speaker 1: a poem about killing. I have killed a man for
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  Speaker 1: wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain
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  Speaker 1: is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold. Someone stepped on him,
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  Speaker 1: and he killed him. Not eye for an eye, your
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  Speaker 1: life for a scratch. And he bragged about it. While
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  Speaker 1: Cain's line built its empires of stone, there was another line,
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  Speaker 1: a quieter line, a line that had not forgotten God.
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  Speaker 1: And from this line would come men who lived longer
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  Speaker 1: than any human being, before or since. After Abel's death,
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve had another son. His name was Seth.
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  Speaker 1: And Genesis chapter 4 tells us something extraordinary about his time.
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  Speaker 1: Then people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: While Cain's descendants built cities and forged weapons, Seth's descendants
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  Speaker 1: were building something else entirely, a relationship with God. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 5 contains the most extraordinary family tree in human history.
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  Speaker 1: Adam lived 930 years. Seth, 912. Enosh, 905. Kenan, 910. Jared, 962.
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  Speaker 1: These were not short, brutal lives. These were men who
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  Speaker 1: watched civilizations rise and fall within a single lifetime. A
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  Speaker 1: man could master every skill known to humanity, watch his
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  Speaker 1: descendants grow old across eight generations, and still have centuries
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  Speaker 1: left to live. If you do the math from Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 5, Adam was still alive when Lamech, the father
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  Speaker 1: of Noah, was born. The first man who ever walked
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  Speaker 1: the earth overlapped in time with the grandfather of the
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  Speaker 1: man who would build the ark. Adam could have told
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  Speaker 1: Lamech firsthand what the Garden of Eden looked like, what
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  Speaker 1: God's voice sounded like, what it felt like to lose paradise.
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  Speaker 1: No telephone game, no broken tradition, direct face-to-face testimony spanning
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  Speaker 1: nearly 2,000 years. Two men in this genealogy stand apart
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  Speaker 1: from all the others. The first is Enoch. Genesis chapter 5,
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  Speaker 1: verse 24, contains one of the most extraordinary sentences in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. Enoch walked faithfully with God. Then he was
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  Speaker 1: no more, because God took him away. Enoch did not die.
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  Speaker 1: In a world where death was the universal sentence, he
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  Speaker 1: was simply taken. one of only two people in all
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  Speaker 1: of Scripture who never tasted death. The book of Enoch
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  Speaker 1: claims he was shown visions of the coming judgment. God
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  Speaker 1: showed him what was coming, then pulled him out before
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  Speaker 1: it arrived. The second is Methuselah, the longest-lived human being
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  Speaker 1: who ever existed. 969 years, but it is his name
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  Speaker 1: that should stop you cold. In Hebrew, Methuselah may mean,
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  Speaker 1: when he dies, it shall be sent, or his death
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  Speaker 1: shall bring. Now do the math. Add up the ages
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis chapter 5. Calculate when Methuselah was born, how
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  Speaker 1: long he lived, and when he died. Methuselah died in
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  Speaker 1: the exact year of the flood. His entire life, all
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  Speaker 1: 969 years of it, was a countdown, a living prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: a breathing warning. Every single day that Methuselah drew breath
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  Speaker 1: was another day of mercy. And the day he died,
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  Speaker 1: the waters came. For nearly a thousand years, Methuselah walked
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  Speaker 1: the earth as a living countdown to judgment. But during
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  Speaker 1: those centuries, something began to happen that would push the
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  Speaker 1: world past the point of no return. Something so disturbing
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  Speaker 1: that the Bible describes it in the most mysterious passage
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  Speaker 1: in all of Genesis. And it started with lights descending
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  Speaker 1: from the sky. Imagine standing at the edge of a
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  Speaker 1: dark forest at midnight. The air goes dead still. You
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  Speaker 1: look up. Lights in the sky. But they are not
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  Speaker 1: falling like meteors. They are descending. Slowly. Intentionally. Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 1: 6 opens with words debated for thousands of years. When
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  Speaker 1: human beings began to increase in number on the earth
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  Speaker 1: and daughters were born to them, the sons of God
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  Speaker 1: saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and they
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  Speaker 1: married any of them they chose. Scholars have argued for
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  Speaker 1: centuries over who these sons of God were. Some say
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  Speaker 1: the godly line of Seth intermarrying with the ungodly line
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  Speaker 1: of Cain. Others say ancient kings, but the oldest interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: supported by Job, Jude, 2 Peter, and the book of Enoch,
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  Speaker 1: identifies them as fallen angels, celestial beings who abandoned their
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  Speaker 1: domain and crossed a boundary never meant to be crossed.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever interpretation you hold, the result was the same, and
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  Speaker 1: it was catastrophic. The Book of Enoch calls them the Watchers.
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  Speaker 1: They descended in full view, not hidden, not subtle. Ancient
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  Speaker 1: texts describe towering figures, two and a half to three
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  Speaker 1: meters tall. Their skin emitted a faint luminosity. Their eyes
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  Speaker 1: burned in darkness. They spoke every language, knew every name,
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  Speaker 1: new secrets no one had told them. And when they
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  Speaker 1: stepped out of the mist, they knew your name. They
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  Speaker 1: came bearing gifts, seeds that grew faster, techniques for forging
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  Speaker 1: metals no human mind had conceived, knowledge of the stars,
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  Speaker 1: of medicine, of hidden properties of minerals and plants. Azazel
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  Speaker 1: taught the art of war and the art of vanity.
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  Speaker 1: Shem Hazai taught sorcery and enchantments. Barakel taught astrology, turning
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  Speaker 1: humanity's eyes from the creator to the creation. It was
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  Speaker 1: a download of knowledge that would have taken generations to
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  Speaker 1: develop naturally, handed all at once to a species that
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  Speaker 1: was not ready. The technical capacity was there. The moral
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  Speaker 1: maturity was not. But this knowledge came at a price.
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  Speaker 1: They asked for the women. Genesis says plainly, They took
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  Speaker 1: for themselves wives, whomever they chose. This was not courtship.
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  Speaker 1: Families watched helplessly while their daughters were taken by beings
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  Speaker 1: they could not resist. The children born from these unions
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  Speaker 1: were not normal. Genesis chapter 6, verse 4. The Nephilim
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  Speaker 1: were on the earth in those days. They were the
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  Speaker 1: heroes of old, men of renown. The Hebrew phrase is
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  Speaker 1: Anshe Hashem, men of the name. But these were not
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  Speaker 1: ordinary heroes. Ancient texts describe their growth as rapid and unnatural.
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  Speaker 1: By two years, they had the strength of a grown man.
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  Speaker 1: By ten, they surpassed three meters. In full maturity, they
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  Speaker 1: towered at four meters or more, with strength that defied
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  Speaker 1: anything the natural world had produced. But the most terrifying
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  Speaker 1: thing about them was not their bodies. It was their minds.
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  Speaker 1: They learned fast, They grasped complex ideas, but they had
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  Speaker 1: no empathy. They looked at human beings not as equals,
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  Speaker 1: but as resources. When these hybrids reached maturity, they decided
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  Speaker 1: they no longer wanted to be sons. They wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be kings. They demanded tribute, built palaces, erected statues of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The hierarchy was simple. Them at the top, humans at
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  Speaker 1: the base. But there was a growing problem. Hunger. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feed a population of giants? First they consumed
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  Speaker 1: the harvest, then the herds, then the wild animals. And
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  Speaker 1: when that ran out, they turned toward the only food
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  Speaker 1: source left. Humans. Ancient Jewish traditions describe them developing an
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  Speaker 1: appetite for human flesh. Cannibalism became a public ritual. Children
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  Speaker 1: grew up watching, learning from birth that human life was
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  Speaker 1: worth nothing. Think about the Greek legends of Titans devouring
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  Speaker 1: their children. We see fiction, but what if they are
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  Speaker 1: traumatic memories? Goliath, centuries later at nearly three meters, was
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  Speaker 1: just an echo, a genetic shadow of what these beings
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  Speaker 1: were at their peak. The Nephilim turned the world into
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  Speaker 1: a slaughterhouse, but they were not the only ones responsible.
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  Speaker 1: Something was happening to creation itself, to the very DNA
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  Speaker 1: of life on Earth that made total destruction the only option.
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  Speaker 1: The pre-flood world was not one civilization. It was two.
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  Speaker 1: On one side, the descendants of Cain. High stone walls,
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  Speaker 1: bronze gates, forges hammering day and night, music echoing through
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  Speaker 1: the squares. Commerce, ritual worship of the giants, luxury, pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: and dread woven together. Technologically advanced, spiritually dead. On the
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  Speaker 1: other side, in the mountains, the lineage of Seth. Leather tents,
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  Speaker 1: no walls, no army. Only the oral tradition from Adam
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  Speaker 1: about the garden and a promise that rescue would come.
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  Speaker 1: For generations, this separation kept the godly line pure. Then
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  Speaker 1: the barrier broke. The men of Seth's line looked down
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  Speaker 1: at the cities below. They saw the painted eyes, the luxury,
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  Speaker 1: the music, the power. One by one, they descended the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Seduction defeated holiness. They married. They mixed. And when the
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  Speaker 1: last barrier fell, corruption spread into every remaining corner of
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  Speaker 1: the human race. The flood did not come because some
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  Speaker 1: people were bad. It came because even the good had
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  Speaker 1: become corrupt. But while human morality collapsed, something even more
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  Speaker 1: grotesque was happening in the forests and fields. Something that
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  Speaker 1: would force God to act not out of anger, but
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  Speaker 1: out of surgical necessity. Genesis chapter 6, verse 12, uses
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  Speaker 1: a phrase most people read too quickly. All flesh had
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  Speaker 1: corrupted its way upon the earth. The Hebrew is kolbasar,
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  Speaker 1: meaning all biological matter, not just humans. And the verb
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  Speaker 1: is to ruin, to deform, to destroy the original function.
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  Speaker 1: God had established a law in Genesis chapter one. Every
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  Speaker 1: creature would reproduce according to its kind. There was a
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  Speaker 1: boundary written into the genetic code of every living thing.
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  Speaker 1: That barrier was broken. The book of Jasher and the
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  Speaker 1: book of Jubilees speak of the mixing of seeds between
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  Speaker 1: different species. Now think about every ancient mythology. Centaurs, minotaurs, chimeras, sphinxes,
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  Speaker 1: half human, half animal creatures carved into the temples of
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  Speaker 1: civilizations that had no contact with each other. We see
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  Speaker 1: creative fantasy. But what if we are looking at police sketches?
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  Speaker 1: Traumatic memories of a time when the boundaries between species
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  Speaker 1: were shattered and the result walked the earth? The genetic
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  Speaker 1: code of life was contaminated beyond repair. Unstable creatures. Predators
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  Speaker 1: the ecosystem could not sustain. Animals trapped between incompatible natures.
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  Speaker 1: The food chain collapsed. The world had become an open-air
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  Speaker 1: laboratory without ethics and without breaks. This changes the way
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  Speaker 1: you see the flood. Most people read it as divine rage.
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  Speaker 1: But the biology of life was so corrupted that the
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  Speaker 1: original creation was unrecognizable. It was not rage. It was
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  Speaker 1: cosmic chemotherapy. The only way to save what God had
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  Speaker 1: originally created was to eliminate the infected cells and start
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  Speaker 1: over from a clean sample. Every living thing was condemned.
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  Speaker 1: Every man, every woman, every child, every creature. It was over.
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  Speaker 1: until God looked down and saw one man who still
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  Speaker 1: carried the uncorrupted image of his creator. Genesis chapter 6,
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  Speaker 1: verse 5. The most devastating sentence in ancient history. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race
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  Speaker 1: had become on the earth, and that every inclination of
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts of the human heart was only evil continually.
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  Speaker 1: Only evil continually. Not sometimes, not often. Every thought. every desire,
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  Speaker 1: every waking moment. The Hebrew word is Hamas, fanatical cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: the total annihilation of the value of another person's life.
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  Speaker 1: And then comes verse 6. We are told the flood
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  Speaker 1: was an act of cosmic rage, but read the text.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. It does
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  Speaker 1: not say God was furious. It says he was grieved.
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  Speaker 1: the God who spoke the stars into existence, who sculpted
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  Speaker 1: every mountain and filled every ocean, who knelt in the
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  Speaker 1: dust and breathed his own breath into the first man,
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  Speaker 1: that God looked at the twisted nightmare humanity had become
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  Speaker 1: and his heart broke, not fury, sorrow, the deepest sorrow
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  Speaker 1: the universe has ever known. I will wipe from the
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  Speaker 1: face of the earth the human race I have created,
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  Speaker 1: and with them the animals, the birds, and the creatures
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  Speaker 1: that move along the ground. For I regret that I
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  Speaker 1: have made them. Everything was set for destruction. And then,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most powerful words in all of Scripture, But,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 6, verse 8, But Noah found favor in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the Lord. One word, one man, the
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  Speaker 1: pivot point of all human history. Noah was a righteous man,
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  Speaker 1: blameless among the people of his time, and he walked
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  Speaker 1: with God. That word blameless in Hebrew is tamim. It
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  Speaker 1: means complete, whole, uncorrupted. Given everything we have learned about
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  Speaker 1: the corruption of all flesh, this word carries a deeper meaning.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was not just morally righteous. His bloodline was uncontaminated.
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  Speaker 1: His genetic line still carried the original image of God.
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  Speaker 1: untouched by the Nephilim corruption. He was the clean sample,
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  Speaker 1: the last unbroken thread connecting humanity to what God had
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  Speaker 1: originally created. God gave him an assignment that would have
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  Speaker 1: broken any other man. Build a ship in a world
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  Speaker 1: that has never seen rain. The specifications were exact. 300
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  Speaker 1: cubits long, roughly 450 feet, 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits high,
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  Speaker 1: three decks, one door, one window. Modern naval architects have
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  Speaker 1: confirmed these proportions are optimal for a vessel designed not
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  Speaker 1: to sail, but to survive. The Ark was the size
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  Speaker 1: of a modern cargo ship, and Noah built it with
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  Speaker 1: pre-industrial tools over what may have been 55 to 75 years.
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  Speaker 1: Now step into the scene. You are living in the
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  Speaker 1: pre-flood world. An old man, hundreds of years old, is
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  Speaker 1: building an enormous wooden structure on dry ground. He says
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  Speaker 1: water will fall from the sky. Water has never fallen
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  Speaker 1: from the sky. He says the world will be destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: He says this every single day for decades. 2 Peter
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  Speaker 1: calls him a preacher of righteousness. He was not just building.
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  Speaker 1: He was warning. No one listened. Jesus himself described it.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter 24. They were eating and drinking, marrying and
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  Speaker 1: giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
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  Speaker 1: And they knew nothing until the flood came and took
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  Speaker 1: them all away. Out of the entire human population, eight
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  Speaker 1: people believed. Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Then the animals came. Not driven or captured, God sent them.
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  Speaker 1: Two of every kind. Seven pairs of the clean animals,
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  Speaker 1: streaming from every direction. Seven days. The last week of
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  Speaker 1: the old world. Noah entered the ark. The animals entered.
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  Speaker 1: And then comes the most terrifying verse in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 7, verse 16. Then the Lord shut him in.
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  Speaker 1: God himself closed the door. When God closes a door,
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  Speaker 1: no one opens it. For seven days they sat inside
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  Speaker 1: in silence and darkness while outside the world continued. People ate,
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  Speaker 1: people drank, people laughed. They had no idea that grace
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  Speaker 1: had just run out. And then, for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the world, it rained. Genesis chapter 7,
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  Speaker 1: verse 11. On that day, all the springs of the
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  Speaker 1: great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens
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  Speaker 1: were opened. It was not just rain. The earth itself
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  Speaker 1: split open. Underground reservoirs under unimaginable pressure ruptured through the crust.
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  Speaker 1: Tectonic plates cracked apart. Giant geysers of superheated water erupted
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  Speaker 1: from below while the sky above collapsed simultaneously. The vapor
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  Speaker 1: canopy failed. Dark clouds massed for the first time in history.
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  Speaker 1: A sound no human ear had ever heard filled the air.
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  Speaker 1: Thunder Then the first drops fell. People who had lived
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  Speaker 1: their entire lives in a warm, stormless world watched the
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  Speaker 1: sky tear open and the ground erupt at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Water from above, water from below. Rivers overflowed in minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Valleys disappeared in the first hour. The walled cities became
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  Speaker 1: death traps. Those walls designed to keep enemies out now
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  Speaker 1: trapped rising water inside. The cities became aquariums. The stone palaces,
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  Speaker 1: the bronze gates, the technology of the watchers, all worthless.
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  Speaker 1: The Nephilim themselves, four meters tall, stood chest deep in
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  Speaker 1: surging water with nowhere to go, drowning like everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: The most advanced civilization in history was sinking into mud.
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  Speaker 1: And in the middle of the chaos, one wooden box
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  Speaker 1: built by an old man everyone had mocked began to
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  Speaker 1: rise everything humanity built without God God unmade in 40
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  Speaker 1: days 40 days and 40 nights then silence the deepest
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  Speaker 1: silence the earth had ever known 1600 years of human
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  Speaker 1: history drowned beneath miles of water erased Genesis chapter 8
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  Speaker 1: but God remembered Noah after over a year on the
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  Speaker 1: water The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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  Speaker 1: Noah sent a raven, then a dove. The dove returned
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  Speaker 1: with an olive branch, a tiny green promise that life
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  Speaker 1: was beginning again. The first thing Noah did when he
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  Speaker 1: stepped off the ark was not celebrate. He did not
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  Speaker 1: plant a flag or claim territory. Genesis chapter 8, verse 20.
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  Speaker 1: Noah built an altar to the Lord and sacrificed burnt offerings.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma. The man who survived
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  Speaker 1: the total destruction of the world knelt down and worshiped,
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  Speaker 1: not triumph, gratitude. That is the kind of man God
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  Speaker 1: chose to restart the human race. The world had changed.
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  Speaker 1: The vapor canopy was gone. Unfiltered radiation reached the surface.
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  Speaker 1: Lifespans collapsed. Noah lived 950 years. His son Shem died.
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  Speaker 1: By David's time, the Psalms say the span of life
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  Speaker 1: is 70 years or 80 with strength. The decline is
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  Speaker 1: not gradual. It is a cliff. Seasons now existed. Extreme temperatures, deserts, ice.
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  Speaker 1: God gave permission to eat meat for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Because the lush vegetation of the old world was gone,
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  Speaker 1: God set a rainbow in the sky and spoke the
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  Speaker 1: words of Genesis 9, Never again will the waters become
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  Speaker 1: a flood to destroy all life. Then he spoke to
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  Speaker 1: Noah the exact same words he had spoken to Adam
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  Speaker 1: in the garden, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The same command, the same blessing, a complete reset, same words,
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  Speaker 1: new world, second chance. The story of a great flood
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  Speaker 1: is not only in the Bible. The Sumerians recorded it
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  Speaker 1: with Utnapishtim. Hindu tradition preserves Manu. Chinese mythology tells of Gunyu.
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  Speaker 1: The Greeks had Deucalion. Indigenous peoples of every continent have
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  Speaker 1: their own flood narratives. Over 200 flood stories exist across
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  Speaker 1: cultures that had no contact with each other. Over 200 civilizations,
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  Speaker 1: separated by oceans and millennia, all remember the same event.
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  Speaker 1: How do you explain that? The world before the flood
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  Speaker 1: had everything. Long life. advanced knowledge, unlimited resources. They built cities,
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  Speaker 1: forged metal, created music, mastered their environment. They achieved in
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  Speaker 1: centuries what humanity would take millennia to rediscover. And none
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  Speaker 1: of it saved them because everything they built They built
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  Speaker 1: without God. One man heard the warning. One family chose
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  Speaker 1: to listen. And because of those eight people, every person
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  Speaker 1: watching this video is alive. But here is what should
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  Speaker 1: keep you awake. Jesus himself pointed back to this exact moment.
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  Speaker 1: When his disciples asked what the end of the world
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  Speaker 1: would look like, he did not mention earthquakes or wars first.
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  Speaker 1: He said this, Matthew chapter 24. As it was in
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  Speaker 1: the days of Noah, so it will be at the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Son of Man. For in the days
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  Speaker 1: before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and
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  Speaker 1: giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
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  Speaker 1: And they knew nothing about what would happen until the
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  Speaker 1: flood came and took them all away. That warning is
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  Speaker 1: not about disaster. It is about normalcy. A world so
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  Speaker 1: consumed by routine that it does not see the judgment coming.
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  Speaker 1: People who had every warning, every sign, every chance, and
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  Speaker 1: chose to keep eating, keep drinking, keep living as if
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  Speaker 1: nothing was wrong. The pre-flood world is not ancient history.
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  Speaker 1: According to Jesus, it is a mirror. And the question
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  Speaker 1: it asks is the same question it asked in Noah's day.
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  Speaker 1: Will you hear the warning before the door closes? If
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