Why God considered Noah perfect and saved him from the flood.

Last week we touched briefly about where our God has relegated the demons (fallen angels who fornicated with the daughters of men) to until the Day of Judgment. From certain passages it looked like these demonic beings were imprisoned under the River Euphrates—you know, that real estate where much of the world’s problems seem to arise from these days? Check the map.

Also, below are the passages:

“And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude 1:6-7

^{Revelation 9:14} saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.”

And again in another verse:

2 Peter 2:4 ESV /

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

If you haven’t read my first two blogs about why these angels who committed sexual perversity are fallen angels, you can read the article here and here (in that order), but briefly, amidst other bible verses, a strong indication that the sons of God were angels can be found in Job:

Job 2:1 ESV

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

And this reference to sons of God was used in Genesis 6:

 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever,… 

Let’s look at one more word closely—the word  ”perfect.” (just because I can be pedantic and like to believe that every word chosen in the Bible was for a purpose—otherwise why would one jot or one tittle matter to God if we took even one word in the Bible out, right?)

Noah (according to Young’s literal translation) was described as “perfect.”

Young's Literal Translation
These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

“Perfect in his generations”—“perfect”-in Hebrew here is—tamim—unblemished—used for lambs without blemish. Noah and his family were of a pure human race. They were the unblemished race.

What does that signify to you—that Noah was from an unblemished race? I like the Young's version because the version calls itself “Literal”--it’s literal and therefore, not “tainted” by human “understanding” or “nuances.” (Although, granted, being "literal" the Young's Literal translation is harder to read.)

Perhaps not all the humans in the time of Noah were products of demonic and human union—after all Noah and his family members were not, which means that their parents were not either—but the other humans on the earth even if they were not a product of the demonic union were dabbling with sexual demonic activities—maybe they were having extra marital affairs or fornication with demons. (I am just conjecturing here, since God saw that only Noah and his family was from an unblemished race.)  

Hence, it appears that, every intent of their (even the 100% humans who were not a product of demonic union) hearts were wicked. At least that was what God saw, and I believe the Lord was able to see what we humans cannot, right? He saw the intent all of their hearts. All except for Noah and his seven family members, and one other person—Methuselah. Perhaps you already know this –that Methuselah’s name according to Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names translates into When He Is Dead It Shall Be Sent.. 

The question is what is the “it” in the sentence? The flood? A careful calculation of Methusaleh’s age (969 years old) will seem to point to this, since he died either the year the flood came—shortly before the flood came—or the year before the flood. (I could write a whole other blog, or two on this!)

So it seems that God destroyed the earth because of the perverse sexual acts and that generation’s intent to do perverse acts. Later, in Sodom and Gomorrah the Lord destroyed the two cities again due to sexual perversity.

Going back to the Hollywood Noah story, which was highly fictional, there were no “innocent” by standers and “not guilty” party who would have wanted to get on the ark but couldn’t. Eighty years Noah took to build the ark. There must have been people who saw him and his three sons working on it. Noah was called a preacher which indicates that Noah was probably still preaching to them—perhaps even days before the first drops of rain came down. But none repented. None wanted to believe that a flood would cover the earth. None wanted to turn from their wicked way.

So God wiped away the sins with the flood and started another race---Noah and his sons—Shem, Ham and Japeth.

From which we were all born, brothers and sisters, descendants of Noah. 

But the question that arise is--are there any more Nephilim roaming the earth--at least descendants of the Nephilim. God commanded the Israelites to rid the land of these descendants--in the form of the Philistines, the Anakim and a host of others. Yet, the Israelites didn't carry out the task awarded to them.So what happens now? Makes for a great fiction, right? My new book in the making... perhaps.

Noah, the Flood, Nephilim and perverse sexual acts.

Last week we looked at giants in the Bible. We’ll do a little more this week and tie it to the flood story and as to why God really destroyed the earth.

Several of the biblical description must surely convince some of you skeptics that these giants are not just tall people, or mutants.

Here’s one of  a giant’s skull.

(As a side note, if you looked on Snopes.com which supposedly tracks if things fake, their article will tell you these images were doctored, but if you read to the very end, you’d see that Snopes qualified their article that they cannot truly verify that the images are fakes but that they must be since scientifically humans cannot possibly be this large! That’s because they weren’t humans—were they? They were giants—nephilim! People who don’t believe the Bible will find ways to justify their beliefs and not believe that these images are even real, even when their eyes see it. This was the Snopes caveat placed at the end of their article:

“In any case, we don't need to know the specific origins of these photos to definitively determine that they're fakes” 

(Which means you cannot believe everything Snopes writes!)

Some biblical accounts of giants--aside from the twelve spies who saw giants and became too afraid to go into the promised land:

²⁰ Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant.²¹So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

The Amorites were also a giant race:

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite (Amos 2:9–10).

Sometimes the names of peoples like Anakim actually is descriptive of what these people were like—Emim means terror or feared in Hebrew.

By the way when you come across these names (below) in your Bible reading just remember what they mean:

Emim—the fearful or feared ones

Rephaim—the dead ones

Anakim—the [long]-necked ones

^10 l(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as^mthe Anakim. ¹¹ They were also regarded as ³giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

Moses and Joshua reported giants and they were all described as extremely tall—not just Michael Jordan-of-the-Nike-basketball-fame tall—tall as cedars! In fact in Bashan (where King Og--a giant-- lived) archaeologists uncovered giant tomb markers that marked the head and the feet positions on top of grave sites and these spanned about thirteen feet--head to feet.

The King Og of Bashan, a Rephaim, (Joshua 12:4) was said to be 12 to 13 feet tall. That’s double of a man’s present height.

Deut  3:11 King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

So where is all this talk leading to? How is it related to giants in Noah’s time and the flood? :

 Let’s return to the passage in Genesis 6.

2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever,… 

The “then” surely signify that the LORD (Yahweh) was not happy (understatement) with the state of things during Noah’s time because the sons of God “married” the daughters of men (human women).

This sort of perverse demonic sexual activity happened twice on this earth and produced Nephilim—

4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. 

The giants (the unlikely union) were in those days—days of Noah—and also “afterward”—meaning after the flood. (Yikes--could they be among us today--maybe a watered down version?)

(By the way, as an aside, eight people were on the ark –Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives) and in the Chinese language the word “boat” is made up of three “words” vessel, eight and people.

Ancient China, which if you know geography, was cut off from the rest of European and Middle Eastern history due to their location and mountain barriers, yet China’s history also spoke of a worldwide flood.

In Chronicles 20 it speaks of the last of the giants –the Anakim killed. Anakim means large of stature and 1chronices 20 describes this also.

So what happened to the fallen angels that participated in this perverse acts?

God has reserved them in everlasting chains—they are today bound in chains as they had been since they were cast there. (Next week we will explore this further and perhaps it might give us indications as to the on-going troubles in the Middle East. Perhaps?)

6And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. 8Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

Notice in Jude 1:7—“as” meaning just like—after strange flesh—perverse sexuality.

(Also, if you noticed above, God was very clear that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was of a perverse sexual nature--not just immorality—i.e. homosexuality and don’t you let those who want to promote this sin tell you otherwise—unless you don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God, in which case there’s nothing to argue.)

All this to say, that the LORD looked upon the sin of fallen angels defiling women and procreating with them (and producig giants like Goliath) a serious one. 

Right after the sentence in Genesis verse 8, it said:

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

I think context is real important, don’t you? There’s a reason why God ordered (through the Holy Spirit) the arrangement of sentences and paragraphs—so we read them in sequence. It appears that from the above Genesis passage that God, saw that the world was evil,--came about because of the unnatural union of demons with women and bearing children—because of the sexual perversity. 

My question is: are we as a people and generation, going down this same route? As in the days of Noah? Is there sexual perversity on our earth today? (I am not talking about sexual immorality—that has always been around.) It’s demonic perversity that we should be concerned with. Why? Because Genesis says—as in the days of Noah. 

Matthew 24:37 (NIV) 

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26 (NIV)

"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

God destroyed the entire earth once before due to these perverse acts. Two cities were destroyed due to perverse acts. Should we be concerned with how things are going in our world, our country, today? 

Next week we will arrive at obvious conclusion as to God’s warning for us. Are we in the last days? And we’ll see how Noah ties up with our condition in the world today.