Beginnings (Genesis 1-11) / Lesson 7: The Second Rebellion Part 2

In fact, this is what I want you to do. I thought about it. If you have your Bible, I want you to take it. I want you to hold it for just a second. And I want you to look at it and say, you're about to wake up. Just tell me, you're about to wake up, baby. And you're gonna be able to see some things, I believe, tonight that are gonna start really making sense. And it's, honestly, it's one of the reasons why I wanted to teach this, because before, you know, before I stepped into really seeing and understanding better about the spirit world, and being really drug in the middle of it, you know, it was just kind of one of those, get knocked in the nose, you know, back 30 years ago or 40 years ago now. My Bible just kind of seemed a little bit disjointed. I mean, in fact, you know, there's a lot of people that say that the God in the Old Testament is mean. You know, and Jesus, and that's why a lot of people even struggle with Jesus being God, is because it doesn't seem like they're the same. And a lot of this has to do with the fact we don't understand the spirit world realities of Scripture. And so, as we come to this, I'm hoping to be able to help with this, all right? So we're in part two.

Now, if you were not here last week, I'll give two warnings about that. First of all, if you weren't here last week, man, go back and read that. Some of this, or listen to that, some of this may not make a little sense because I'm picking up where I left off last week in part two, really, of Genesis 6, 1-4, the second rebellion. Second, I would say this. If this is your first time to be here, and I'll just say it this way, just be ready, okay? And I had a, I'll tell you a funny, so remember whenever I taught on the spiritual warfare and I was writing my book and I was getting it finished and all that, you guys, if you were here, some of you were in the middle of that. And so I was at about week nine. And at the end of the service, these, some of these young ladies that came up, and one of them goes here and the other ones came up, and one of them, and I'm not, this is not trying to be throwing rocks too much, but maybe hit her with a pillow, maybe that'd be it, came up and started disagreeing with me. And I'm okay with that. And I said, so have you been at my other lessons? No, this is my first one. Makes sense.

How about going back and listening to the other eight weeks or however many it was? It'll make sense now. You came in at a bad time. So if you're just coming in, go back and listen to the first six lessons, and maybe it'll make more sense to you, all right? So get that out of the way, let's press on. I told you as we go through this, we're kind of, this is our roadmap. Last week, we began with reality one, the interpretation, and then we followed that with the invasion. We did not get into the third one, did we? Okay, I didn't think so. I was hoping to get halfway through it, but I did not. So we're gonna do the third one and the fourth one, and those are gonna be the primary. The fifth one, we're just gonna cover lightly, and just because of time. So as I've talked about, I've talked about this seed war, this escalation that began in Genesis chapter three, verse 15, God was the one that said it. He said, I will, to the serpent who had just deceived Eve, had led Adam into rebellion, had just, God had said to him, he says that the seed of the woman was gonna crush the head of the seed of the serpent. And that began an all-out war that was actually started by the serpent, but is being handled by God himself. And from there, we saw that seed war continue

as the first two children were born that we read about, and as we read about Cain and Abel, we read about we're in that place, and the Bible talks about it, even how God said to Cain. He said, sin is crouching at the door, and he uses a personification of sin in a way that makes it almost being alive. And in that, he kills Abel, and we saw how that was an escalation to get rid of the potential of the seed that the serpent knew was going to be coming. After that, we saw it expand farther in the whole line of Cain, and how all the things that happened. And now we're in this, what I call the second rebellion. rebellion, or this next part, I just put up there and said it this way, the infiltration of the genome, it was an attack against the genetics for the purpose of changing what it means to be human. Because if you can change what it means to be a human, then a human can't redeem humans if there's not one, if that makes sense. And so as we've been walking in this, looking at it, we've talked about several things here, and I told you at the first, I said here's kind of where I had to walk years ago, is that the Bible talks about in Genesis chapter 6 verse 5 about the total depravity of mankind. It says the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And he talks about this evil in a way that it is almost an unredeemable evil. Now we hear that and we say, well yeah, but it could be, and we think of it from our perspective of Ephesians chapter 2, we're dead in our sins and transgressions, and that is a very much part of it. But the wording used here is talking about something much more sinister. And then you go on a step farther because you say, well okay, well I don't know that I agree with that. Well just four verses later in Genesis 6 verse 9, the Bible, and we're going to touch this briefly tonight, it says, the

Bible says this, these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. We're going to look at that word blameless tonight, and we're going to see that it means much more than a guy that was just a good guy. It's talking about something different, and we're going to see that. And then we think, well yeah, okay, then God wiped out all the bad, and now he's going to start over with good. Well, but there's a problem with that because, I mean, they barely get off of the ark. Barely get off, and they offer sacrifices, and the sacrifices are offered. I mean, there's really nobody's done anything yet, and God says this in Genesis chapter 8 verse 21, says, And then the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma. The Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. In other words, there was something different about Noah than just being a good guy. There was something different, and it wasn't that he wasn't a sinner in need of grace. There was something else, and so we're going to move on in that, and that's really what brought me to this. Now I told you we talked about the reality, I mean the interpretation, reality one, and here was basically our question, is how do we allow the Bible to speak for itself without filtering it through our own cultural prejudices, traditions, and modern assumptions? And I talked about that, and this is one of the biggest hurdles that you have in the western church. This is why most American churches don't touch Genesis 6. It has nothing to do with what it says theologically. It has everything to do with our cultural mindset, and that's the truth. Now we may argue against that, but that's the truth. And so as we look at it, I talked about this, and I'm not going to go into all the details at all, but the modern rationalistic world view is where we are literally under this in our culture. The way we see everything in our culture is through that lens, the way we look at it, and then we have the supernatural biblical world view, which is vastly different. The modern rationalistic world view, and this is why many of us have trouble with the demonic. It's why we have trouble with the angelic. It's why we don't even think about it. It's why I taught years ago on angels, and I didn't go just in the Old Testament. In fact, I rarely use the Old Testament because that's what people always say, yeah, that's back in the Old Testament. I use the book of Acts, just about the angelic appearances and manifestations that had after the coming of the Holy Spirit, because most of us have that rationalistic

materialistic world view, and we just don't think that stuff happens that much. And yet even after the coming of the Holy Spirit, it was written in Hebrews that they should show hospitality because some of them had been entertaining angels and not even aware of it. And so we sometimes miss the fullness of the Scriptures because we're caught up in this rationalistic world view. So on the back of the outline, I put it on there again, I think. Didn't I do it? Okay, good. And it's just a breakdown of some of the basic things that I talked about last week. I'm not going to go over them again. And then I went over some basic principles that, again, I'm not going to spend time on tonight. I just wanted to remind you of them basically on a reading your Bible without bias, recognize that you have that. It's one of the things that's helped me. Whenever I come to the Bible, I realize I'm coming to it as a 21st century American Western culture mindset. I mean, I know that. I mean, and I have to embrace that. And I need to, you know, and how, and that I do this too. Everything I'm saying, I do too. That many times I come with a selective supernatural look at the Bible. And we talked about that last week, how, man, we believe in the virgin birth, that Mary became pregnant without ever having sex with a man. And we read that and never even enters our mind that that should blow our minds. That is the greatest of miracles. And then we choke on other miracles that we see.

We read about a man being nine and a half feet tall. We go, well, I don't know if I believe that. I'm like, my goodness, you believe that a woman got pregnant and never had sex. I mean, you see what, that's called selective supernaturalism. You believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. You are a loony or you believe the Bible. And so let's just reject that selectivism and let's just be honest to adopt a true ancient context. We talked about that. How did they see it? How did Jesus read this? How did the disciples read it? How did Moses and the prophets read their Bibles? Allow the Bible to speak for itself. And then the big one, number six, trust the Holy Spirit to guide you into the truth. Just trust him. Trust him. I do this every day. I did it today. I just go and say, God, speak to me today. It's why I tell you those four prayers that I've talked about so many times. I say, Lord, speak to me today. Lord, search me today. Lord, show me today what you want me to see.

Lord, send me then in the power of the Spirit. I come to the Bible with that mindset. I'm expecting God to talk because he's a talker. And he knows that I don't know what I'm doing. So, so basically I just said this the way I kind of ended it up on that part is reading the Bible on its own terms, first and foremost, and most important approach for understanding the Bible is not intelligence, education, nor traditions. I'm not against those. I'm just saying they're not the first place. That's not where you start, but humility and dependency. And then we went to the invasion, and this is where we really started reading the scripture. So let me just read that six, one through four again. We're going to focus on verse four tonight, but it says, and when man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive and they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, my spirit shall not abide with man forever for his flesh. His days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of man

and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. And so we looked at this, and basically here's where I ended up is as I talked about all those things, about what were the sons of God, who were the daughters of man. I gave you the Hebrew words for those things. We talked on all details and bottom line, here's what happened is that the reality is, is that heavenly beings crossed a boundary and took human wives. Now we're going to, I'm going to read that verse out of the New Testament a little bit later. It's found in Jude verse six, by the way, but let's go on because we're going to start in the third reality, and that is the infection is what I'm calling it. The infection. Why the flood was purification, not punishment. We're going to, we're going to look at that. So let's look at that verse four. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, of man, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

Now there's going to be three words I want us to look at out of that verse, are three Hebrew statements in there that I want us to look at. And so this is what they are. We're going to look at each one of them. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. And then these were, these Nephilim were the mighty men, a word that's used there, who were of old, the men of renown. We're going to look at those three statements, okay? So let's just start off. We're going to start with the Nephilim. And this is where I think this is our first blank. Is that correct in your outline? We're going to come into the, under the Nephilim. Good, good. You know what I do? do this, I get confused sometimes about where I am. So the Hebrew word that's used here is Han Nephilim and for a long time people took and used the Hebrew word Nephal which means to fall. However, there's also a word that has an aromatic root and the word in it's aromatic which is Nephal or Nephil means giant. So which one's right? Well for years we've kind of said well it could be either and they called them the fallen ones and we kind of minimized giant but there's a problem with that because around 300-400 B.C. somewhere around there, the Hebrew people realized that the Jewish nation which had dispersed around, all around, there were many places, that many of them could not read Hebrew anymore. In fact the vast majority could read Greek. We know why right? What happened in around 330 B.C. a fellow out of Greece, what was his name? Alexander the Great conquered the whole known world. Everybody had to learn Greek. All of a sudden that became the language. Well it didn't take, you know within 50 years you've got children and grandchildren who

they don't know Hebrew anymore, especially the ones that lived in Alexandria, Egypt. And so at that time there were 70 Hebrew scribes, scholars if you will, that they kind of said we want you to translate the Bible that's in Hebrew because you guys know Hebrew into Greek and they did. And it's actually the name of it is the 70. We call it the Septuagint. In fact if you were to look up the Septuagint it usually, they put out there an LXX which is the Roman numeral 70. So in the Septuagint, when they came to this word and were going to translate it into Greek, what they did was they used, they used the word Septuagint which means giants. They did not use another Greek word which they could have used if it meant to fall, or fallen ones. But they translated it Septuagint. And so I believe from that the best translation of this word is giants. And so I believe from that the best translation of this word is giants. Just another side of this in that verse 4 of Genesis 6. Some people have taken and said that the Nephilim, they've tried to say well really the Nephilim were just those sons of God. No. You can't grammatically do that. The Nephilim in verse 4 is referring to those that were born from this immoral union between the sons of God and the daughters of men. So just to, so the way I have it in here is the grammar of Genesis 6.4 indicates that these were the result of the unholy union. Okay. Alright. Well let's move on. We can talk a whole lot more about that. We will in just a little bit. But let's go to the next little word. Actually it's actually one word. We have it as mighty men. The Hebrew word is gibbereem or gibbereem if you, the B they sometimes give it a V sound or buh. And so with it putting this word gigantes we would say, or Nephilim, putting that with mighty men, leads us to understand that really what you have here is these were warriors of some type of legendary strength. We're going to see that word come up a little bit later. And whenever we get around, leak over into Genesis 10 a little bit tonight. But that would be the next thing is that there's something happening here about these mighty men. This is all building up together because the next one is the men of renown. And it's really two Hebrew words. And it's just Anshe HaShem. Shem is the word name. We have, you remember we have one of, in fact the third main son born to Adam and Eve was Shem. And so Shem is the son of Adam and Eve. And so Shem is the son of Adam and Eve. And so Shem we have, and it literally means men of the name. And so whenever we come to this, what you're really seeing is these were attempts to make a name for themselves, or people who

had heroic names. Now, I don't have time to do this, and I wish I had, you know, like two months just to go over this. We can't, but whenever we read about the Greek titans, when we read about these gods who came down and had sexual relations with women in the Greek and Mesopotamian cultures, we know it's all pagan. And in those cultures, there's those cultures, those gods, god-men, like, you know, Achilles, were considered heroes. The scripture, however, says, oh no, these were wicked, wicked evil offspring of a rebellion against God. Do you see? It's a correction. It's not saying, oh, we're just one of the others. It's trying to correct false ideas and false teachings that were in the world historically, taking the pagan myths and clarifying what really happened. Now, let me just kind of say some things here, because I think it's important just to know this. I wanted to get here last week, and I couldn't, because I don't want you to think, man, he's just gone loony. He's out here on a limb by himself. I'm not. Let me just give you some support about this view, about this, and I call it just the angel view. Actually, do you know this is the oldest view? It is the predominant view up until the 1800s. There was a few along the way, and very reputable and well-known teachers. You know, Augustine, he went to, he leaned over to the, what's called the Sethite view. Luther did too. Calvin did. So I'm not saying nobody did. I'm just saying when it comes to the global church, it is the view that was around, and it is so, it was so pervasive that in the book of Enoch, which was the, one of the key texts that was read during the time Jesus was on earth. In fact, it's quoted from. It was believed all of the, what I have down here, the testimony of the twelve patriarchs. These are the testimony of those that are the patriarchs of the church. I mean, of the scriptures. The Jewish historian, Josephus, you may have heard of him. He believed that they were, the sons of God were angels. And then of course the Septuagint that I talked about earlier, that's what he calls them. That's what it says they are. Even refers to them as Nephilim in Joshua. Whenever it comes to the angel view, among the early church fathers, you wouldn't probably know any of these very much. You might. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, you might know Ambrose, Tertullian. All of these believed in the angel view. In other words, I'm not being a goof here. But let me just go on a step farther because whenever it comes to modern scholars, I should have put out here the various commentaries. You would have heard of them. Whenever it comes to several of these in here. Kent Hughes,

he's a powerful, he's got a great commentary. That G.J. Wenham, that's the word biblical commentary, considered one of the most academic commentaries that you can get in western culture. He believes in the angel view. Donald Barnhouse, A.W. Pink, you've got so many of these guys. So I'm not bringing you Dave's theory. I'm trying to tell you this is here. However, our culture, it makes us so nervous because we really like to be in control. That this just kind of gives us the wiggles. I mean, I get it. I mean, I understand. But we're going to continue on. just a few minutes here with this because the truth is that we're going to see, this is where I want you to see, your Bible's about to wake up a little bit, how the seed war it continues and we're going to trace the infection because the Bible tells us again in Genesis 3.15 God said, I will put enmity between you and the woman, he's talking to the serpent, and between your offspring or your seed and her seed, it's that we say offspring because we want to use that word but actually it's the Hebrew word seed and it's in the singular. Paul points that out in Galatians about that. In fact Paul even says, and the seed is Christ. He shall bruise your head, you shall bruise his heel. I talked even about that a few weeks ago about on the cross. But I'm going to go just for a second and talk about this thing about Noah was blameless and what that actually means because this is going to help us begin to go, okay, something catastrophic was going on in humanity here. It says Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God, that's what Genesis 6.9 says. The word blameless is a word and I'm just going to give you the Hebrew word, it's the word tamayim. And you say, well what in the world is that? Well let's just go on and figure out what it is. The word tamayim means without physical defect and is a statement, and just write this down, of genetic purity. In other words it's not just merely moral character. It's without blemish. Now you say, I don't know what I think about that. Well I just put in this same one. This same word is the word used for a sacrificial animal that is without physical defect or without blemish. Whenever they were going to sacrifice, you know, a lamb, whenever they got a lamb, they had to make sure it was without blemish, without physical defect. It had to be, a lamb had to be a lamb. It had to be genetically a lamb and it had to be pure and without blemish, without spot, without anything. And so it's saying this is what Noah was, but the rest

of the race was not. But he was, God had let it go on to the point where it looked like the enemy was winning. That he was about to accomplish what he wanted to accomplish, which is always to destroy the seed of the woman. So, in this outline, if you want to write this down, that the flood, it's not divine, it's not divine rage, but a surgical strike to preserve the human bloodline through which the Messiah would be born, the seed of woman. I know there's a lot of blanks there. It's not divine rage. In other words, he wasn't just mad because then people just won't listen to me. And he throws a temper tantrum and just wipes them all out to start over. It was a surgical strike because God had a plan that was not going to be thwarted. Everybody get those? All in words? There's a bunch of them. All right. So, I want to go on for just a few minutes, talk about post-flood Nephilim or giants. Again, in Genesis 6, 4, it said it this way, the Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after the flood, the giants were on the earth. So, I want to go afterward and also afterward. Wow. What in the world? What do we have here? Well, there's a lot of conjecture and a lot of ideas and a lot of thoughts. So, I thought, well, I'll just throw my hat in the ring. How about that? Let me tell you what I believe happens. We see a glimpse, I believe, in Genesis 10, we'll look at it again maybe later, with a guy named Nimrod. And I believe that it's very possible that he is the post-flood shadow, if you will, of the Nephilim. Why do I say that? Well, you remember when I took those words, Nephilim took mighty men, men of renown. You remember the Hebrew? We probably don't remember the Hebrew. word for mighty men, gibbereem or gibbereem. It says here in Genesis chapter 10 verses 8 and 9, it says, Cushfather Nimrod, he was the first on earth to be a gibbereem. He was a mighty hunter. We have it down, mighty hunter, before the Lord. Most of us think about, man, he was just a woodsman. That's kind of what I want to be. I think I'm going to name my kids Nimrod. Don't. How about that? Just don't. It literally means, I believe, the way it's written, and I've taught this before, that he was one who was seeking to be and I believe became the first world ruler. You know, God told the people, we'll look at this later to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth. This was after the flood. And then we're going to see this in Genesis 11. They didn't want to. Where did they gather? They gathered in an area called Shinar. The name got changed to Babel or Babylon. And it just so happens

Nimrod was the ruler of Nineveh and Babel is the area of Shinar. I believe that's what he was. But let's go on because there's another statement that God makes, you know, whenever, so after Genesis 11, we know Genesis 12, God says, I'm going to have my people. And who does he choose? Abram. And he takes Abraham and he says, he's going to tell him what he's going to do and he's going to have his nation and he's going to bring the seed of the woman through this lineage. And we get to Genesis 15 and you remember what he said? He took him out. At this time, Abram didn't have any kids, him and Sarah. He took him out and said, you count stars? Which I think is a very telling, I won't go on all I think it is, but I believe it's pretty telling about the shining ones, if you will. I believe he's talking more than just look at the stars even though he is physically talking that. So if you can count them, you can count your children, your, you know, your lineage after you. And so they get to talking and he makes a covenant with him and in the covenant he tells him some things and he says that your children, they were in Canaan at the time, but he says, your children are going to go into captivity. And he makes, he makes a statement for 400 years and this is, this is important. And he says, then they're going to come back to this land. But in verse 16, I want you to listen to what he says. He says, and they shall come back here in the fourth generation or it's 400 years really is what it is. And then he says, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. And most of us just read right past that. And, and it has just always just kind of got in my crawl. Why would God say that? Why would he say it's going to take about 400 years for this to happen? But I know that what's coming out there in 400 years is these people called the Amorites are, their wickedness is going to rise to a place that it's going to be complete or it's going to reach, it will have reached its fullness. What's he talking about? Well, let's look at this. You remember whenever general of Israel, they come out of the Exodus, they get over, they're going to be going into the promised land. So they go around one way first. And as they go into Kadesh Barnea, they send some spies in there. And you remember what happened when they sent the spies in in Numbers chapter 13, it says this, the spies came back and this is what they said. All the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. And we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers and so we seemed to them. Well, they had to go spend 40 years in the wilderness because they

were like, oh, we can't go in there because there's giants in the land, Nephilim. So they spend the 40 years wandering around in the desert and then they get around to, okay, it's time to go, they come a different route. And they start heading down the east side, is that right? East side of the Jordan River. And as they're going, they're coming to a mountain and Mount Hermon is out there. I'm going to talk about that more in just a minute. But as they start going that way, they run into some people. And they run into some people. And listen to who they run into. Deuteronomy 31 verse 4 says this. And the Lord will do to them, so here's what, they'd already done it. He's just telling them as you're going to cross, they'd already seen victories. And it says, and the Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og. Who were these? The kings of the Amorites. Who are the Amorites? Remember Genesis 15 verse 16, read earlier, the Amorites, the sin of the Amorites. And to their land when he destroyed them. So who are they? Well, let's go back to Deuteronomy chapter 3 verse 11 because it tells us a little bit. It says this, King Og of Bashan, I want you to remember that word too, Bashan was the last survivor of the, who? The giant Rephaites. These are the Amorites. Their sin, their iniquity has reached its completion. Does that make sense? They've reached a place where sin became so rampant that they were indulging in sexual immorality to worship their gods in such a way that ultimately they begin to have sexual relations again like what happened in Genesis 6. And they begin to produce, they have reached another, does that make sense? His bed was made of iron and was more than 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. That is a big boy. I mean, I've seen a king sized bed, wow. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah. Listen to what Amos, the prophet Amos said, yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them whose height, this is God talking, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. In other words, I wiped him totally out. Do you see what's happening? How many times have you read those things and just went, I don't know what you're talking about, I just need to move on. And yet there is a war taking place, a seed war. We go and remember the conquest, so Joshua brings them in and what does God tell them to do? Wipe these cities out. I mean, men, women, children, we read that and think, man, God is just mean. He is not. He is doing in smaller ways, he's doing what he did in the flood in Genesis we're going to read about next week. He's

wiping out to protect the human genome against the infection that the enemy is trying to do to keep from the seed of woman to being born. Does that make sense? That's what's happening. It was a mercy for humanity that he was doing this. Here's what it says in Joshua chapter 11 verse 22, look at what he says. This is Joshua talking, there was none of the Anakim, there we go, left. These are part of the Amorites, these are part of the giants, left in the land of the people of Israel. Look at where they were only left. This is in Joshua. Only in Gaza, in Gath and in Ashdod did some remain. This is in Joshua. You know, we follow Joshua, we have judges and then we have Ruth and whenever we get in there we get to know, hey, David came out of this land. And then we see that Israel says, hey man, we want a king. So we can be like the other nations and so they have Saul. He becomes king and then we know that there was this guy named Goliath. Where was he from? Thank you. Gath. Where were some of the giants still left, even in Joshua's day? In Gath. Does this make sense? What's happening? Let's just read 1 Samuel chapter 17, then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the force of Israel. He was over nine feet tall. He wore a bronze helmet and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds. That is a heavy suit. He also wore bronze leg armor and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. The shaft of the spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver's beam. with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds. Man, he could have won the Olympics in the shot put. His armor bearer walked before him carrying a shield. In other words, he's carrying something. Can you imagine the poor armor bearer trying to carry a shield to cover that guy? Man. And he killed, David kills him, remember? And you remember what happened? He picks up, whenever he picked up, remember how many stones he picked up? Five. We all know this. We get to the end of King David's life. And now he's an older man. And as we get here, he goes out to battle. And all of a sudden, and I'm not going to read all of them, but a giant from Gath comes to kill him. And the Israelites have to kill the guy. And this happens to four different giants from Gath. Now, David had already killed one, but there were four more. And listen to what it says in 2 Samuel chapter 21 verses 20-22. And there was again a war at Gath where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. Now that is just weird to the point of weird,

isn't it? Twenty-four in number. In other words, it was a deformity in this genetic mutation that was taking place. And he also was descended from the giants. And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shammi, David's brother, struck him down. These four – I didn't read the other ones, but they were. It's in the story in 2 Samuel 21. These four were descended from the giants in Gath. And they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. Now, didn't that just make your Bible make more sense? Suddenly you go, oh, I get it now. There is a spirit world war taking place. And Satan and his evil horde are attempting to destroy humanity and keep humanity enslaved in evil and keep us enslaved, unable to be who God intended us to be in the image of God, to rule and to reign and have dominion over the earth. And so he starts in the Garden of Eden. And now he keeps on and he just keeps on and he keeps on. We see it over and over. Listen a little bit. I'm going to read a couple of New Testament ones here. Let me just read these that come out of the New Testament. Some of you know these verses, but listen to some of God's response to the rebellious sons of God. We see one in 2 Peter 2 verse 4. You've read this, but now think about it in light of what we've read. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, and I went ahead and put the word, the Greek word Peter used here, because he did not use two of the other words that are used typically for it, but he used Tartarus, and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment. So he's talking about a particular group of angels that sinned, that God said, I'm putting you in the lowest of the lowest places. Let me go on. Peter's word for hell. The Greek word Peter uses for hell is Tartarus. He did not use the typical and here were the two, you've heard of these, Gehenna or Hades, but he uses the word Tartarus, and that is incredibly telling, because Tartarus was considered, and by the way, it was considered in the Greek culture, Tartarus was considered the deepest abyss in the Greek concept of the underworld. It was the lowest of the low, as low down as you could get, you've got Hades, you've got Gehenna, and then you've got, whoa, down there. And that's the word that he chose. And Jude, listen to what he says, which is a direct quote from the book of Enoch. He says this in verse 6, and the angels who did not stay within their own positions of authority, they went out of bounds. You remember where I said that? I talked about they left their boundary, but left their proper dwelling. He is kept in eternal chains under gloomy

darkness until the judgment of the great day. Alright, let's go on. I've got time? Yeah. Number four, I'm calling it the intervention. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going I'm just going to run you into your New Testament for just a few minutes and just show you some things that Jesus did that are going to, all of a sudden, make unbelievable sense to you. I mean, you're just going to, you just might as well get ready. He's going to get pumped here, all right? So let me, let me kind of set the stage here. So Jesus is with his apostles, with his disciples, and he makes a trip. And actually, if we were to, I didn't put, I didn't bring the map, but if we were to take the map, he went out of his way. He went on a path, and he went beyond where you would go, and he went to a city called Caesarea Philippi. You've heard the story. You know the story. And when he gets to Caesarea Philippi, which by the way, Caesarea Philippi is at the base of Mount Hermon. It is also where the, actually, the Jordan River begins as the water flows down from Mount Hermon, that's, that's where it begins. And so Jesus goes to this place, and I'm going to explain more about it in a minute. And as he gets here, in verse 13 of Matthew 16, it says, now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, who do people say that the Son of Man is? Now, I want you to know where he's standing. He's standing at a very important place. Do you remember what I told you about Bashan, the Amorites, Mount Hermon? We're going to, we're going to talk about this a little bit more in just a second. Let me go on. So they say, he talks to them about it, verse 16 through 18. You know the story. Simon Peter replied.

He said, but who do you say that I am? Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now listen to what Jesus says. And Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, and the word that, and so let me back up. I've always have to say this because there's, you know, a lot of people that say, well, you know, Peter means rock. And so he says, on this rock. And so therefore, Peter, the church was built on Peter. No. The name Peter is the word Petras. It literally is a word for pebble, stone. Petra is about a huge mountain. They're different. In other words, if I told you I threw a mountain at him, you're going to go, okay, he's weird. If I told you I threw a rock at him, you'd go, oh yeah. So that's what he's saying. The rock, the Petra is that he is the Christ, the Son of the living God. He is the seed of the woman. Does that make sense? I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail. I didn't bring my picture. In fact, even Briggs gave me his picture whenever we went there and I forgot to get it. Where he was standing at, I've been there twice, three times or more, I don't know. It was a place that was rich in pagan worship. It was at the base of Mount Hermon. There is a huge cave opening that's there and in that cave opening, it was a place where many sacrifices were made.

In fact, many human sacrifices were made there. There were several different pagan worship groups in that area that worshiped their gods in that area. Why that area and why that place? Well, let me show you. Caesarea of Philippi is located at the base of Mount Hermon, which is in the region where King Sihon and King Og once lived. According to 1 Enoch, quoted from by Peter and Jude, Mount Hermon is the exact location where the angels came down in Genesis 6. And the pagan religions that were in that place all believed it was in that place. That's why they called it the gates of hell, that they came out of that at Mount Hermon. Let me show you something else interesting. Mount Hermon, it's named from the Hebrew word harem, from which Hermon derives the meaning really, devoted to destruction. So what does Jesus do? Jesus goes to the very place where it all went south. He says, I'm going to take you guys on a trip. I'm sure they were just wigged out. Whenever they get to that place, there's all these pagan worshipers there and why are you bringing us here? Why are we here? And they knew what 1 Enoch says. This is the baddest of the bad places. Why are you bringing us here? Well, who do people say that I am? Well, some say you're a prophet, some say you're Elijah. But who do you say that I am? Suddenly the Holy Spirit fills Peter at this appropriate moment because God is making a declaration, not to the disciples, but to the gods at Mount Hermon. You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. You are the Christ. You are the seed of woman. You are the Genesis 3.15 in the flesh reality here among us. Does that make sense? That's what he's doing. Let me tell you another one real quick. I've got just a little bit of time. So Jesus is on the cross. He makes a statement and all of

us kind of weird out a little bit about it, but then we kind of get clarified about it. Remember he was on there and he quotes out of Psalm 22 verse 1. Anybody off the top of your head tell me what it is? Huh? My God, my God. Now, let me tell you, in that it talks about several things. He talks about it, that it tells all these different things in there. None of them's bones are broken. It tells how all these things, and they're just like, man, they're talking about the crucifixion. This is about the crucifixion. But there's another verse in there that most of us just kind of go right past. And I want to show you what else is going on at the cross. You see, Jesus is on the cross and as he's on the cross, he's becoming sin, right? He's becoming. He who knew no sin became sin. He is now taking the curse. And we look and say, well, yeah, the Roman soldiers were there and yeah, a few of the disciples, most of the disciples left, but there were others there. Because in Psalm 22 verse 12, look at what it says. Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of where? Bashan. Where was Og from? Bashan. What's, what is it saying? This is a prophetic statement that was made in Psalm 22. He's saying surrounding here are those evil fallen beings that are here thinking they're winning. We did it. We stopped him. Except they made one mistake. You see, when Adam and Eve sinned, the Bible says that because of Adam's sin, all in his lineage die. That is the penalty of sin is death. And so, Satan has every right to be over those of Adam because of sin. And so, Satan has every right to be over Adam. And so, it looks good except he made a legal blunder. He killed the one person. He did not have the right to kill because he had never sinned. He was not of the seed of man. He was of the seed of woman. He blew it. Right? In fact, listen to what it tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter 2. It says this, 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 8. It says none of the rulers of this age, now I know many of us read that as the rulers as in the rulers of like political people. That's not who it's talking about. In this very section is where Paul is talking about spiritual things are given to spiritual people. He says that these truths are spiritually discerned. And in this moment, he's saying that none of the rulers of this age understood this for if they had, they would have not, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. If they knew they were going to lose it all, the enemy was going to have the head crushed right here. They would have never done it. Do you see that? And so, then we go on about the victory being declared in Colossians chapter 2 verse 15.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing. God did this by triumphing, triumphing over them in Christ. You see what he did? You see how Genesis 6 whenever you actually read it the way it's written, it just kind of wakes up your Bible. Let me go on and I'm going to finish with this. Reality 5, and again I said I'm not going to be able to do much here so I'm not going to do much here. Reality 5 is the implications. In other words, what does all this mean for us now? It's a great history, what does it mean for us? Couple of things, and I don't have time really to go over it, and I don't really wanna take the time. I've actually taught this twice. I taught it in 2017, was that when it was? Anybody remember? Or 2019, I don't remember. Taught it in 2015, I know. But it's interesting, here's a statement that is made in Matthew chapter 24, verse 37. Jesus is talking, for as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Now we don't know what all that means, and I'm not trying to put more into it than is there, but it's interesting that he goes back to that time. As it was, the things that were going on in Genesis chapter six, verses one through four, it's gonna be like that, is what it sounds like he's saying. People are gonna be living their lives, they're thinking everything's good, not realizing their iniquity has come to completion. But, I know many of us read this, and I just wanted to just remind you of this last part,

the times we live in, we're currently living in. It's just a reminder that, I know that when I talk about the victory of Christ, and I'm big on that, it's obviously, I believe it 100%, but we need to understand where we live, because we need to see this. This is part of it, Revelation 12, verse 12. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them, but woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows that his time is short. I'll just say this one thing, and I've said it twice before, so if this is new to you, because the church in the West, and we have so much influence, because the church in the West has refused to take a supernatural view of the Scriptures, but of the world, we miss the interconnectedness. We forget that even in Genesis 18, you find where the Lord and two angels come down, and the Bible calls them three men, and they come down, and they eat food, and then one of them, who is the Lord, in human form, eats food, and it's this way I read my Bible. I did this years ago. I just, this hit me, reading this, I don't know, probably 25 years ago.

Read this, and all of a sudden, the Lord leaves, and my first question is, well, where'd the food go? I mean, if he just vaporized, he just had to put food in there. Anyway, I know some of you are gonna be thinking about that forever, but anyway, but those other two men, you remember, they were angels, and you remember Sodom? We talk about it, and we think of it just strictly in one particular way, because we don't see the supernatural view of everything, but when they came into Sodom, they were just gonna hang out in the streets, and Lot says, oh, no, come on with us, brings them in their house, and what does the Bible say the men of Sodom wanted to do? Why would they wanna have sex with two men? I mean, they've got other men there. They didn't see them as men. They understood what they were. Do you understand? You see, when you see it that way, you realize they had come in that area, and the iniquity had reached its full, and God said, I'm gonna go see what it's really like, which is an echo from Genesis 11. And when he goes there, wipes them all out, but he gets a lot out of there. Does that make sense? All right, are you just kind of going,

that guy has gone, let's just slap crazy. I get it, I get it. I get it. Well, hey, listen, next week, we're gonna talk about the flood, and listen, the flood's gonna make a whole lot more sense. Whenever you understand what God was really doing, what he did in bringing the flood made it to where you and I are here today. What he did in the flood made it possible for the Son of God at just the right time to be born of a woman. So, we're going to look at that and we're going to just have a big time. All right, let's pray together. We'll go. Father, thank you that, Lord, your word is so rich and so true and so full. And Lord, you want us to understand, not just intellectually, but spiritually. And I know this group well enough, most of them especially, that Lord, we're just hungry for you. And you said we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free. So I pray that tonight, Lord, that any truth that you brought for us today and to us today, I pray, Lord, it's brought greater freedom, that our Bibles are going to open up in ways that maybe we didn't even realize. And Lord, I pray that rather than running after things, Lord, I pray this would cause us to run more after you. It would cause us to have more hunger to walk with you. To realize, Father, that when the Bible says the Lord is a warrior, Lord, it just starts making more sense. So Holy Spirit, just guide us in this. I pray you'd go with us now as we leave.

Encourage us as we go about our week, and I pray that you would speak to us through your word. And I ask this in Jesus' name, amen.