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This Was Life in the World BEFORE the FLOOD 4500 Years Ago Documentary · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: What was life like 4,500 years ago, before the flood,
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  Speaker 1: before the rainbow, before the reset? The Bible gives us 1,600
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  Speaker 1: years of human history between Eden and Noah, 16 centuries
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  Speaker 1: where violent men lived for 800 years without dying, where
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  Speaker 1: giants called the Nephilim ruled the earth and took whatever
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  Speaker 1: they wanted. where the ground trembled when they walked, and
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  Speaker 1: ordinary humans looked like insects beneath their feet. What did
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  Speaker 1: daily life look like when the Nephilim were on the earth?
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  Speaker 2: What did they do? How did they live?
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  Speaker 1: And what happened that made God look at the world
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  Speaker 1: he had made and say, I regret this? This is
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  Speaker 1: what life was actually like before the flood. The first
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  Speaker 1: death in human history was not an accident. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a disease. It was not old age.
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  Speaker 2: It was murder.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 4.8 Cain rose up against his brother Abel and
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  Speaker 1: killed him. The first thing humanity invented after the fall
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  Speaker 1: was violence. A brother killing a brother. Blood soaking into
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  Speaker 1: the same ground their father had been formed from. God
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  Speaker 1: confronted Cain. He gave him a chance to confess. Cain
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  Speaker 1: did not repent. He did not grieve. He complained. My
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  Speaker 1: punishment is more than I can bear. And then he
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  Speaker 1: did something that would define the next 16 centuries of
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  Speaker 1: human history. Genesis 4.16 Cain went away from the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod,
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  Speaker 1: east of Eden.
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  Speaker 2: He left.
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  Speaker 1: He walked away from God. And he built a city.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 4.17 The first city in human history built by
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  Speaker 1: a murderer named after his own son, the city of Enoch.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the first city ever constructed, not by a worshiper,
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  Speaker 1: not by a priest, by a man whose hands were
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  Speaker 1: still stained with his brother's blood, every wall raised without
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  Speaker 1: a prayer, every stone laid without a sacrifice, a civilization
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  Speaker 1: built from the ground up with one founding principle, we
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  Speaker 1: do not need God. And within that city a dynasty rose.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 4.17-24 traces the descendants of Cain, and what you
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  Speaker 1: find is a civilization advancing at terrifying speed. Lamech, the
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  Speaker 1: great-great-great-grandson of Cain, became the first polygamist in Scripture, taking
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  Speaker 1: two wives, Ada and Zillah. Jabal became the father of
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  Speaker 1: those who dwell in tents and raise livestock, the birth
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  Speaker 1: of nomadic industry. Jubal became the father of all who
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  Speaker 1: play the lyre and the pipe the inventor of music.
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  Speaker 1: And Tubal-Cain became the forger of all instruments of bronze
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  Speaker 1: and iron, the first weapons manufacturer in human history. Now
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  Speaker 1: listen to what that world sounded like. Music playing on
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  Speaker 1: one side of the street while blades were being sharpened
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  Speaker 1: on the other. The lyre and the forge, beauty and
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  Speaker 1: violence born from the same household, entertainment and war invented
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  Speaker 1: by the same family. And then Lamech stood before his
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  Speaker 1: two wives and spoke the first poem in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 4, 23-24. I have killed a man for wounding me,
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  Speaker 1: a young man for striking me. If Cain's revenge is sevenfold,
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  Speaker 1: then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold. The first poem recorded in Scripture
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  Speaker 1: is a murder ballad, a man bragging about killing a
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  Speaker 1: boy for bruising him, not confessing, bragging. and claiming that
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  Speaker 1: his violence was greater than his ancestors. But there was
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  Speaker 1: another line. Genesis 4, 25-26 Eve bore another son and
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  Speaker 1: named him Seth. God has appointed for me another offspring
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  Speaker 1: instead of Abel. And then one of the most important
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  Speaker 1: sentences in early Genesis. At that time, people began to
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  Speaker 1: call upon the name of the Lord. Two bloodlines, two directions.
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  Speaker 1: Cain's line built civilization without God. Seth's line preserved worship.
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  Speaker 1: Seth's line produced Enoch. Genesis 5, 24. Enoch walked with
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  Speaker 1: God and he was not, for God took him. The
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  Speaker 1: only man in the pre-flood world who escaped death entirely.
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  Speaker 1: A living sign that there was another way. Seth's line
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  Speaker 1: also produced Methuselah, who lived 969 years. the longest life
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  Speaker 1: in all of Scripture. And Methuselah's grandson was Noah. Now
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  Speaker 1: consider the lifespans. Adam lived 930 years. Seth lived 912 years.
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  Speaker 1: Methuselah lived 969 years. These numbers are recorded with precision
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis 5, generation by generation, year by year. Now
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  Speaker 1: apply those numbers to Cain's line. Imagine a violent, proud,
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  Speaker 1: polygamous warlord like Lamech who does not die at 70
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  Speaker 1: or 80. He lives for centuries, accumulating power, accumulating territory,
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  Speaker 1: accumulating wives and weapons and enemies.
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  Speaker 2: No death to.
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  Speaker 1: End his reign. No old age to weaken his grip.
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  Speaker 1: No generational turnover to bring reform. The same tyrant ruling
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  Speaker 1: the same territory for 500, 600, 700 years. Think about
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  Speaker 1: what that does to a society. In our world, dictators
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  Speaker 1: are limited by mortality. In the pre-flood world, they were not.
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  Speaker 1: A single evil man could dominate an entire region for
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  Speaker 1: longer than most civilizations in recorded history have existed. Generation
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  Speaker 1: after generation of ordinary people, born and dying under the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the same unchanging, unkillable ruler. evil compounding for
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  Speaker 1: 800 years in a single human lifetime without interruption, without correction,
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  Speaker 1: without death. That is the world before the flood, and
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  Speaker 1: it was about to get worse, but the worst was
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  Speaker 1: yet to come, because something entered the human world that
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  Speaker 1: was never supposed to be there, something that crossed a
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  Speaker 1: boundary God had set, and it corrupted everything. Genesis 6,
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  Speaker 1: 1-2 When man began to multiply on the face of
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  Speaker 1: the land, and daughters were born to them, the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive,
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  Speaker 1: and they took as their wives any they chose. The phrase,
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  Speaker 1: sons of God, in the Hebrew, is bene Elohim. In
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, this exact phrase appears in Job 1-6,
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  Speaker 1: Job 2-1, and Job 38.7. In every instance, it refers
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  Speaker 1: to angelic beings presenting themselves before God. Some scholars have
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  Speaker 1: proposed that the sons of God were descendants of Seth,
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  Speaker 1: or ancient kings asserting divine authority. But the weight of
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  Speaker 1: the textual evidence, both in the Hebrew and in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament commentary, points to something far more disturbing. Jude 1.6.
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  Speaker 1: and the angels who did not stay within their own
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  Speaker 1: position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has
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  Speaker 1: kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment
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  Speaker 1: of the great day. These angels are not free. They
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  Speaker 1: are imprisoned, chained in darkness, awaiting judgment. Whatever they did
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  Speaker 1: was so severe that God did not merely punish them.
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  Speaker 1: He locked them away. 2 Peter 2, 4-5 God did
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  Speaker 1: not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into
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  Speaker 1: hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness. And
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  Speaker 1: the very next verse references Noah and the flood. Peter
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  Speaker 1: links these events directly. A boundary was crossed. Angelic beings
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  Speaker 1: abandoned their station and entered the human world in a
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  Speaker 1: way God never intended. And the result was catastrophic. Genesis 6.4
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  Speaker 1: The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and
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  Speaker 1: also afterward, when the sons of God came in to
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of man, and they bore children to them.
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  Speaker 1: These were the mighty men who were of old, the
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  Speaker 1: men of renown. The Hebrew word Nephilim comes from the
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  Speaker 1: root nephal, meaning to fall, the fallen ones. The word
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  Speaker 1: translated mighty men is giborim, warriors, champions. beings of extraordinary strength.
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  Speaker 1: Men of renown translates literally as men of the name, famous, legendary.
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  Speaker 1: These are the figures that later civilizations would remember in
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  Speaker 1: their mythologies as demigods and heroes. What did it feel
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  Speaker 1: like to live alongside them? When the Israelite spies entered
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  Speaker 1: Canaan centuries later and encountered the descendants of the Anakim,
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  Speaker 1: They reported in Numbers 13.13.3, We seemed like grasshoppers in
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  Speaker 1: our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.
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  Speaker 1: That was a remnant, a leftover, a shadow of what
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  Speaker 1: existed before the flood. In the pre-flood.
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  Speaker 2: World, they were everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine walking through a marketplace and seeing a figure that
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  Speaker 1: towered above the walls of the city. Imagine the ground
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  Speaker 1: trembling beneath your feet as they moved. Imagine watching them
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  Speaker 1: take whatever they wanted, whoever they wanted, and knowing that
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  Speaker 1: no human being on earth could stop them. These were
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  Speaker 1: not fairy tales told to frighten children. They were neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: They were rulers. They were the kings of the ancient world.
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  Speaker 1: And ordinary men were insects beneath their feet. But this
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  Speaker 1: was not random. Go back to Genesis 3.15. After Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve fell, God made a promise, not to them,
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  Speaker 1: but to the serpent. I will put enmity between you
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  Speaker 1: and the woman, and between your seed and her seed.
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  Speaker 1: He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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  Speaker 1: A descendant of the woman would one day crush the
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  Speaker 1: serpent's head. That is the first prophecy in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the promise of a Savior coming through the human bloodline.
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  Speaker 1: The Nephilim incursion was a strategic attack on that bloodline.
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  Speaker 1: If every human genome is corrupted, The promised seed cannot
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  Speaker 1: be born fully human. The serpent was trying to prevent
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  Speaker 1: the Savior before he could arrive. The corruption of Genesis
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  Speaker 1: 6 was not a moral failure. It was a military operation.
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  Speaker 1: And God's response was not rage. It was surgery. Cutting
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  Speaker 1: out the corruption to preserve the one clean line. And
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  Speaker 1: then came God's verdict. Genesis 6.5 The Lord saw that
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was
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  Speaker 1: only evil continually. Not mostly evil, not sometimes evil, only evil, continually,
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  Speaker 1: every thought, every intention, every moment of every day. Genesis 6,
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  Speaker 1: 11-12 The earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the
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  Speaker 1: earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted
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  Speaker 1: their way on the earth. All flesh. The Hebrew suggests
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  Speaker 1: the corruption had extended beyond humanity, touching even the animal kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 6.6 And the Lord regretted that he had made
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  Speaker 1: man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is the only time in Scripture where God expresses
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  Speaker 1: grief over his own creation. This is not an angry
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  Speaker 1: God throwing a tantrum. This is a heartbroken father looking
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  Speaker 1: at his children and seeing nothing of himself left in them.
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  Speaker 1: But in the middle of all of this, the violence,
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  Speaker 1: the giants, the corruption that had swallowed the entire world,
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  Speaker 1: one man was still standing, and God saw him. Genesis 6,
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  Speaker 1: 8-9 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was a righteous man, Blameless in his generation, Noah
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  Speaker 1: walked with God. That word, but, may be the most
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  Speaker 1: important word in the chapter. Everything before it is darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Everything after it is a lifeline. And the word blameless
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  Speaker 1: in the Hebrew is tamim, meaning complete, whole, without blemish.
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  Speaker 1: It is the same word used for animals deemed acceptable
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  Speaker 1: for sacrifice. Noah's line was uncorrupted. In a world of Nephilim, violence,
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  Speaker 1: and total moral collapse, one family had remained clean. One
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  Speaker 1: line had not been compromised. What did it mean to
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  Speaker 1: be Noah? To wake up every morning in a world
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  Speaker 1: where you are the only family that still prays. Where
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  Speaker 1: your neighbors mock your God and curse his name openly
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  Speaker 1: in the streets. Where your children see things no child
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  Speaker 1: should ever see. Where the strong take and the weak suffer.
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  Speaker 1: and no one calls it wrong anymore, because there is
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  Speaker 1: no one left who remembers what wrong means. To walk
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  Speaker 1: past the forges and the markets and the temples of
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  Speaker 1: a civilization that had erased the God you serve from
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  Speaker 1: every wall, every song, and every memory, and to keep walking,
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  Speaker 1: to keep praying, to keep believing that the God who
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  Speaker 1: spoke to you in the silence was more real than
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  Speaker 1: the world screaming in your face. And then God spoke
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  Speaker 1: to him. Genesis 6, 13-14 I have determined to make
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  Speaker 1: an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled
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  Speaker 1: with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. God
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  Speaker 1: gave him the dimensions, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide,
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  Speaker 1: 30 cubits high, Approximately 450 feet long, 75 feet wide,
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  Speaker 1: 45 feet tall. The size of a modern cargo ship.
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  Speaker 1: Three decks, one door, one window, covered inside and out
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  Speaker 1: with pitch. Think about the weight of that commission. God
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  Speaker 1: is telling one man to build a ship on dry
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  Speaker 1: land in a world that may.
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  Speaker 2: Never have seen rain.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 2, 5-6 describes a mist that watered the ground,
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  Speaker 1: suggesting rainfall may not have existed before the flood. Noah
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  Speaker 1: is building a vessel for a catastrophe that has no
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  Speaker 1: precedent in a world that has no category for what
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  Speaker 1: is coming.
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  Speaker 2: Every plank he nails is an act of faith. Every
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  Speaker 2: day he.
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  Speaker 1: Works is a sermon the world ignores. Every year that
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  Speaker 1: passes without rain is another reason for his neighbors to laugh.
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  Speaker 1: 2 Peter 2.5 calls Noah a preacher of righteousness. He
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  Speaker 1: was not silent. He warned them year after year, decade
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  Speaker 1: after decade. Some scholars estimate the construction of the ark
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  Speaker 1: took between 55 and 75 years. 75 years of hammering.
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  Speaker 1: 75 years of preaching. 75 years of watching people walk
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  Speaker 1: past and shake their heads. Imagine preaching for 75 years
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  Speaker 1: and not gaining a single convert outside your own family.
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  Speaker 1: Not one neighbor, not one friend, not one person from
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  Speaker 1: the city said, I believe you. Imagine the loneliness of
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  Speaker 1: that faithfulness. Imagine the doubt that whispered every night. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: watching your neighbors walk past your construction site day after day,
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  Speaker 1: and knowing that every single one of them is going
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  Speaker 1: to die, and none of them believe you, and getting
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  Speaker 1: up the next morning and picking up the hammer again anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Then came the final week, Genesis 7, 1 to 4.
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  Speaker 1: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for
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  Speaker 1: in seven days I will send rain on the earth
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  Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights. Seven days, one final week
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  Speaker 1: of grace. The animals began arriving. Two by two, seven
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  Speaker 1: pairs of the clean animals. They came from every direction,
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  Speaker 1: walking into the ark on their own, because God sent them.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the last seven days. The animals arriving, the neighbors watching,
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  Speaker 1: some laughing, some finally growing uneasy. The sky still clear,
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  Speaker 1: the ground still dry. Noah's family carrying supplies into a
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  Speaker 1: ship that has no oceans. seven days of silence from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: while the world watches the strangest sight it has ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And then Genesis 7.16, And those that entered, male and
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  Speaker 1: female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord shut him in. God himself closed the door.
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  Speaker 1: Noah did not close it. His sons did not close it.
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  Speaker 1: God walked to the door of the ark and shut
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  Speaker 1: it from the outside. When that door closed, the grace
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  Speaker 1: period ended. Everyone still outside was outside forever. The laughter stopped.
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  Speaker 1: The mocking stopped. And for the first time in 1,600 years,
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  Speaker 1: the world went quiet. And then the sky broke open.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 7-11 On that day, all the fountains of the
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  Speaker 1: great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens
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  Speaker 1: were opened.
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  Speaker 2: This was not a rainstorm.
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  Speaker 1: The fountains of the great deep, the subterranean waters, the
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  Speaker 1: windows of the heavens, the waters above. In Genesis 1,
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  Speaker 1: God separated the waters above from the waters below. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first acts of creation. On the
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  Speaker 1: day of the flood, he reversed it. The waters he
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  Speaker 1: had separated were reunited. The flood was not a natural disaster.
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  Speaker 2: It was the.
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  Speaker 1: Unmaking of creation itself. Genesis 7.12 And rain fell upon
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  Speaker 1: the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7.19-20 And
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  Speaker 1: the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all
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  Speaker 1: the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The
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  Speaker 1: waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
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  Speaker 1: Every mountain, every city, every forge where Tubal-Cain's weapons were made,
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  Speaker 1: every stage where Jubal's music played, every palace where Lamech's
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  Speaker 1: descendants had ruled for centuries, underwater, silent. Genesis 7.23 He
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  Speaker 1: blotted out every living thing that was on the face
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  Speaker 1: of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and
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  Speaker 1: birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Only Noah was left and those who were with him
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  Speaker 1: in the ark, eight people in darkness. on water that
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  Speaker 1: covered the entire world, hearing nothing but the rain and
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  Speaker 1: the waves and the creaking of the wood and the
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  Speaker 1: silence of a civilization that no longer existed. Imagine the
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  Speaker 1: first night inside the ark after the door was shut,
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  Speaker 1: the sounds from outside, the pounding on the hull, the screaming, then, slowly,
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  Speaker 1: the silence, the terrible silence that meant There was no
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  Speaker 1: one left to scream. Every person Noah had ever known,
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  Speaker 1: every neighbor who had laughed, every friend who had mocked,
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  Speaker 1: every child who had played in the streets of those
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  Speaker 1: ancient cities, gone, all of them. And Noah, the man
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  Speaker 1: who had warned them for decades, sitting in the darkness
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  Speaker 1: with his family, carrying the weight of being the only
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  Speaker 1: survivors of a world that refused to listen. And then,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 8-1 But God remembered Noah. The most important sentence
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  Speaker 1: in the entire narrative. God did not forget. In the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the water and the darkness and the silence,
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  Speaker 1: God remembered. The waters receded. The ark came to rest
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  Speaker 1: on the mountains of Ararat. Noah sent out a raven,
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  Speaker 1: then a dove. The dove returned with an olive leaf
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  Speaker 1: in its beak. Life was returning. Genesis 8.20 The first
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  Speaker 1: thing Noah did when he stepped onto dry ground was
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  Speaker 1: build an altar. The first act of the new world
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  Speaker 1: was worship, not construction, not commerce, not a city, an altar,
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of Cain, who built a city as
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  Speaker 1: his first act after leaving God's presence. Noah's first act
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  Speaker 1: was to return to God's presence. Genesis 9-11 I establish
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  Speaker 1: my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh
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  Speaker 1: be cut off by the waters of a flood. And
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  Speaker 1: God set the rainbow in the sky, not a decoration,
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  Speaker 1: not a pretty symbol for children's books, a covenant sign.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew word for rainbow is the same word used
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  Speaker 1: for a war bow. God took his weapon, the instrument
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  Speaker 1: of judgment, and turned it toward heaven, pointed at himself.
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  Speaker 1: It was a promise. a blood oath made in color
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  Speaker 1: across the sky. The next time judgment was required, he
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  Speaker 1: would not send water. He would send himself. He would
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  Speaker 1: bear the cost in his own body rather than destroy
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  Speaker 1: the earth again. The rainbow does not say the storm
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  Speaker 1: is over. The rainbow says the next time I will
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  Speaker 1: pay the price. The flood ended, but the.
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  Speaker 2: War did not.
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  Speaker 1: Sin survived inside the ark. It lived in the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of Noah's sons. It would resurface in Ham's dishonor, in
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  Speaker 1: Babel's tower, in Canaan's curse. The seed was preserved, but
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  Speaker 1: the serpent was not finished. The battle was far from over.
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  Speaker 1: The flood answered one question. Can humanity be saved by
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  Speaker 1: starting over? Can you fix the problem by washing the
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  Speaker 1: world clean and beginning again? The answer was no. Because
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  Speaker 1: the problem was never the environment. The problem was never
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  Speaker 1: the culture or the city or the civilization. The problem
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  Speaker 1: was the heart. And that required a different kind of
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  Speaker 1: rescue entirely. 2,000 years after the flood, Jesus stood on
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  Speaker 1: the Mount of Olives and pointed backward. Matthew 24, 37-39
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  Speaker 1: For as were the days of Noah, so will be
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the Son of Man. For as in
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  Speaker 1: those days before the flood they were eating and drinking,
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  Speaker 1: marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah
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  Speaker 1: entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood
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  Speaker 1: came and swept them all away, so will be the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Son of Man. Jesus did not compare
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  Speaker 1: the last days to Sodom. He did not compare them
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  Speaker 1: to Egypt or Babylon. He compared them to the days
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  Speaker 1: of Noah. the most corrupted, most violent, most spiritually compromised
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  Speaker 1: era in human history. That is the template for what
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  Speaker 1: is coming. And the key word in that passage is
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  Speaker 1: not flood. It is unaware, not ignorant, unaware. They had
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  Speaker 1: a preacher warning them. They had a man building a
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  Speaker 1: ship in front of their eyes. The evidence was visible
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  Speaker 1: every single day, and they ignored it. What defined the
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  Speaker 1: days of Noah? Technology without God. Two Balkans forges and
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  Speaker 1: Jubal's music. Innovation that served pleasure and power but never worship.
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  Speaker 1: Violence as entertainment. Lamech's boast. The Nephilim's dominance. Strength worshipped
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  Speaker 1: and weakness despised. The erosion of boundaries. The sons of
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  Speaker 1: God crossed a line that was never meant to be crossed.
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  Speaker 1: Categories God established were deliberately blurred and erased. Corruption so
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  Speaker 1: total it became invisible. They were eating and drinking.
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  Speaker 2: Normal life. Ordinary routines.
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  Speaker 1: The horror of the pre-flood world was not that they
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  Speaker 1: were committing extraordinary evil. The horror was that extraordinary evil
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  Speaker 1: had become ordinary. It had become Tuesday. It had become
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  Speaker 1: background noise. Nobody noticed anymore because there was nothing left
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  Speaker 1: to compare it to. And one voice warning while nobody listened.
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  Speaker 1: One man building while the world scrolled past him. One
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  Speaker 1: family preparing for a judgment that not a single other
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  Speaker 1: person on earth believed was coming. There is a detail
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  Speaker 1: in this story that almost nobody knows. Methuselah's name. Some
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew scholars suggest it means... When he dies, it shall come,
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  Speaker 1: or his death shall bring. Methuselah died the year the
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  Speaker 1: flood came. His entire life was a countdown, a walking prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: 969 years of God's patience, written into the name of
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  Speaker 1: a single man. 2 Peter 3.9 The Lord is not
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  Speaker 1: slow to fulfill his promise, as some count slowness, but
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  Speaker 1: is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish.
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  Speaker 1: but that all should reach repentance. God waited 1,600 years.
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  Speaker 1: He sent Enoch. He sent Noah. He named a man.
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  Speaker 1: When he dies, judgment comes. And then let that man
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  Speaker 1: live longer than any human.
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  Speaker 2: Being in history.
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  Speaker 1: That is not the behavior of an angry God. That
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  Speaker 1: is the behavior of a patient father giving every possible chance.
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  Speaker 1: But patience has a limit. Not because God runs out
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  Speaker 1: of love but because corruption reaches a point where mercy
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  Speaker 1: to the wicked becomes cruelty to the innocent. The door closed,
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  Speaker 1: and it closed forever. And that brings us to right now,
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  Speaker 1: to this room, to you. You have just walked through 1,600
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  Speaker 1: years of human history. You have seen the cities. You
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  Speaker 1: have heard the music and the screaming. You have watched
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  Speaker 1: the boundaries collapse. You have stood outside the ark and
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  Speaker 1: heard the door shut. And now I need to ask
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  Speaker 1: you something. Maybe you feel like you are living in
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  Speaker 1: a pre-flood world right now. Everything around you feels corrupted.
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  Speaker 1: The violence is normalized. The boundaries are gone. The voices
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  Speaker 1: that warn are mocked and silenced. And you feel like Noah,
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  Speaker 1: building something nobody believes in, in a world.
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  Speaker 2: That has stopped listening. You feel alone. You feel exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like giving up on the boat because the
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  Speaker 1: sky is still clear and nobody is standing with you.
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  Speaker 1: If that is you, hear this. You are not crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Keep building. God sees you. He saw Noah when the
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  Speaker 1: entire world had gone dark, when every other voice had
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  Speaker 1: fallen silent, when there was not a single soul left
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  Speaker 1: who believed.
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  Speaker 2: And he sees you right now.
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  Speaker 1: The same God who remembered Noah in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the flood remembers you in the middle of your storm.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe, and this is harder to hear, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: are not Noah. Maybe you are one of the ones
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  Speaker 1: eating and drinking, going about your day. scrolling past the warnings,
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  Speaker 1: watching the news and feeling nothing, seeing the evidence and
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  Speaker 1: choosing not to look. Not because you are evil, not
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  Speaker 1: because you have decided to rebel against God, but because
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  Speaker 1: you are unaware, you are comfortable, you are distracted, And
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly what Jesus said would happen. The most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous people in Noah's day were not the warlords. They
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  Speaker 1: were the ordinary ones who simply did not pay attention
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  Speaker 1: until the water was at their ankles. The ark had
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  Speaker 1: one door, one entrance, one way in. And when God
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  Speaker 1: shut it, it was shut forever. No second chances, no appeals,
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  Speaker 1: no negotiations. John 10.9 Jesus said, I am the door.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone enters by me, he will be saved. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the ark.
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  Speaker 1: He is the one door. And that door is still open.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, in this moment, it is open. The God
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  Speaker 1: who waited 1,600 years before sending the flood, that same
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  Speaker 1: God is waiting right now. Not because he is slow,
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  Speaker 1: because he is patient, because he is not willing that
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  Speaker 1: any should perish. But patience is not permission. The door
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  Speaker 1: that is open today will not be open forever. Noah
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  Speaker 1: preached for decades. The world had every chance. And when
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  Speaker 1: the day came, it came. You are hearing this right now.
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  Speaker 1: That is not an accident. You are not watching this
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  Speaker 1: video by coincidence. The same God who warned through Noah,
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  Speaker 1: who warned through Enoch, who named Methuselah as a walking countdown,
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  Speaker 1: that God is warning through this moment, right now. The
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  Speaker 1: question is not whether the door exists. The question is
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  Speaker 1: whether you will walk through it before it closes. Genesis 6.5
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  Speaker 1: Every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only
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  Speaker 1: evil continually. Genesis 6.8 But Noah found favor in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the Lord. In the darkest era in human history,
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  Speaker 1: one man found grace. One family was saved. One door
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  Speaker 1: was enough. The world before the flood thought they had time.
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  Speaker 2: They were eating. They were drinking. They were building. They
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  Speaker 2: were laughing.
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  Speaker 1: They were scrolling past the warnings and ignoring the man
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  Speaker 1: with the hammer and the boat. And then God shut
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  Speaker 1: the door. And the laughter stopped. And the rain began.
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  Speaker 1: And every excuse, every delay, every, I will deal with
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  Speaker 1: it tomorrow, drowned in the water that covered the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: The door is still open. Walk through it. And the
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  Speaker 1: earth was filled with violence. But God remembered Noah. If
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