Genesis 4:17-6:22 “Obedience In A Wicked World”

Vs Cain had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son. 18 Enoch had a son named Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.

Vs Lamech married two women Tubal-cain forging tools of bronze and iron 19 Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the first of those who raise livestock and live in tents. 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, the first of all who play the harp and flute. 22 Lamech’s other wife, Zillah, gave birth to a son named Tubal-cain. He became an expert in forging tools of bronze and iron. Tubal- cain had a sister named Naamah.

Vs One day Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; listen to me, you wives of Lamech. I have killed a man who attacked me, a young man who wounded me. 24 If someone who kills Cain is punished seven times, then the one who kills me will be punished seventy-seven times!”

“I will slay anyone who wounds me and will not need God’s protection, for with these weapons I can avenge myself seventy-seven fold!” Seen in this light, it is the first expression of arrogant defiance and warfare in the Bible. Warren Wiersbe

Vs Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, “God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.” 26 When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to call upon the Name of the Lord.

Genesis 5:1-20 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself. 2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.” 3 When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.

Genesis 5: When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah (“Man of a dart”). 22 After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 Enoch lived 365 years, 24 walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.

Jude 14–15 (NLT) Enoch, who lived in the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, “Listen! The Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones 15 to execute judgment on the people of the world. He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Hebrews 11:5–6 (NLT) It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.” For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. 6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.

To walk with God is the business of a lifetime, and not just the performance of an hour. William McDonald

Genesis 5: Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the L ORD has cursed.” 30 After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived another 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 31 Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died. 32 By the time Noah was 500 years old, he was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:1 “Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.” “As an ultraconservative assumption, to an average family of six children, an average generation of 100 years and an average lifespan of 500 years. On this basis the world population at the time of the Flood would have been 235 million people. This probably represents in a gross underestimate of the numbers who actually perished in the Flood.”

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Genesis 6:2 2 The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.

Job 1:6 (NASB95) Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the L ORD, and Satan also came among them…38:7 as the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Jude 6–7 (NASB95) 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, 7 just 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.

Kent Powderly In this view, the “Sons of God” are literally fallen angels who have an impure interest in human women, and a desire to control human society and culture at its foundational level--their marriage institutions. This preserves the historical literary usage of this term as found in Scripture and Jewish commentary from ~200 BC on, and in earliest Christian commentaries and usage in Jude, 2 Peter, etc. Kent Powderly

Genesis 6:3 3 Then the L ORD said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.” Lit. “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

The “120 years” are evidently the years that God would give humankind before the flood. They probably do not indicate a reduction in the normal human life span to 120 years”. Dr. Tom Constable

1 Peter 3:18–20 (NASB95) For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

Genesis 6:4 4 In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilim lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.

The Book Of Jubilees 7:21-24a “ For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose; and they made the beginning of uncleanness.

And they begat sons the Nephilim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another…And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity. And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds…”

Genesis 6:5-6 5 The L ORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and He saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. 6 So the L ORD was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.

Numbers 23:19 KJV God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent”? God is immutable; He doesn’t change! The Hebrew word “nacham” can also be translated as an expression of deep emotional sorrow (to grieve) over the things which people do.

This is not the regret you feel when you realize you have made a mistake for God never makes mistakes. On the level of his divine will, God knew that creation was no mistake. But on the level of his emotions…His heart is broken over men and women who choose to live without him, rebelling against his laws and ignoring his kindness. Kurt Strassner, Opening up Genesis

“Since the circumstances have changed, God’s relationship to the new circumstances are different because they have changed, not God. The language used in this passage is called anthropomorphic, or man-centered, language. When Critics Ask by Norman Geisler

Psalm 14:1–3 (NASB95) The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. 2 The L ORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Genesis 6:7-8 7 And the L ORD said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” 8 But Noah found favor with the L ORD.