THE COMING ECLIPSE OF THE SUN AND THE BOOK OF JONAH

Everyone is piling on the gloom and doom of the world concerning the coming eclipse and the signs in the heavens. Many articles are being written here is one: 2024 Solar Eclipse Side Story | Michael Snyder (newbostontx.org)

 Has anyone spoken about the Book of Jonah? What is God trying to tell us? Has anyone read the Book of Jonah lately? Maybe The Lord has information for us in the book of Jonah.

The eclipse will go through 7 towns named Nineveh and one named Jonah. Maybe we’re just supposed to read the Book and determine what God is telling us individually. The following is my simple take what God wants us to glean from the coming signs in the heavens.

Jonah is a short four chapter book but it contains a lot of interesting information and spiritual guidance for Elohim’s people. Jonah is the only prophet in the Bible to whom people listened and reacted accordingly to avoid the judgment of God.

Jonah didn’t want to go in the first place. The word of the Lord came to him and he decided to flee to Tarshish, went down to the port of Joppa and hopped on board a vessel headed for Tarshish.

How many times have we been directed by our Father and “kicked at the pricks” trying to avoid the command? This was Jonah. He was running from the job Elohim had for him.

When a mighty storm and wind buffeted the ship the mariners were afraid and ‘called every man unto his god for deliverance.’ While they were throwing cargo overboard Jonah was down below sleeping. The shipmaster came down to see Jonah. ”Why are you sleeping? Awake O sleeper, arise and call on your God.”

The men on the ship were displaying a healthy fear of God while Jonah slept. Just as the Apostles slept when Yeshua was in serious prayer and danger in Gethsemane. Jonah thought he could sleep and it would all go away. God isn’t that easy! He wants us to awake!

The crew drew lots and they discovered Jonah was the man whose God could stop the storm. Jonah told them he was a Hebrew who feared the Lord, the God of heaven which made the sea and dry land.

Jonah identified as a Hebrew, one who has crossed over to the one true God Jehovah. The crew was aware of who Jonah’s God was. They knew he was fleeing from God’s presence because Jonah had told them. They wanted Jonah to tell them what to do to calm the storm.

God often puts us in uncomfortable situations with the ability to calm the storm and bring Him glory. Jonah didn’t want the responsibility. Perhaps God is calling on His current day people to stand up to the corruption and unjust political system in our world. To speak out against corrupt power, to follow His law as instructed in the Torah and refuse to allow the destruction of our countries by Godless leaders.

Jonah told them to cast him into the sea. The raging sea is a type of the nation’s raging against God and His law. The book of Revelation says the beast will rise from the sea. The roaring is the sound of roaring nations rebelling against God and His people. The sea is always a type of the nations raging.

Jonah was willing to die in order to avoid his calling!

Reluctantly the mariners cast Jonah overboard, the fish swallowed him up and the storm calmed. Many times we are swallowed up by our trials in this life and feel like we are imprisoned by our situation. When we turn back to God His peace will come upon us and lead us to victory.

Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, ‘I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

For thou had cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah 2

God finally had Jonah’s attention. Jonah took up his burden to warn Nineveh. He would yield to the Lord and do the work he was called on to accomplish in spite of the difficulty. We all know what it’s like when God’s storm is raging within us.

For the second time God told Jonah to go and preach to Nineveh. It was a three day journey. As he entered the city Jonah cried out, “In forty days Nineveh will be overthrown.”

The people of Nineveh heard, believed God, and proclaimed a fast. Every citizen, including the King would not eat or drink. Even the animals would not be fed. These people were serious and feared the word of the Lord.

If only people took God this serious today! It is time for us to awake and rise up! If we do is God telling us He will deal with this evil, lawless governments, corporations, and politicians. Perhaps there is a chance we might see God do great things if we repent cry out for His salvation in our generation.

I never really thought of the world as an evil place. Paul the Apostle called the current world of his time evil. Yeshua called the leaders of His generation evil. Think about that. Corruption in the current system is beyond our recognition. It is hard for us to understand the true depth of corruption. People are awaking from their sleep!

The people of Nineveh, Assyria, sworn enemies of Israel repented and were spared, “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, and we perish not?  And God saw their works, they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah 3.8-10

God is merciful to those with a contrite heart: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3.9

Elohim is warning us through the signs in the heavens to repent and walk righteously. Will our nations repent and sweep out the house or will we look the other way? The choice is ours. This can be a time of restoration even if only for a short period time. Each generation is responsible for their time. This is our time.

Amazingly, Jonah was very angry and displeased that God was merciful and repented of the destruction he was going to bring upon Nineveh.

God asked Jonah why he was so angry. Jonah went out of the city and built a booth to watch what would happen to the city. The heat of the sun was hot and God raised up a plant or some kind of gourde to provide shade for the booth.

Jonah was happy about the shade the plant provided but the next day a worm attacked the plant and it died. The east wind began to blow. The east wind is a dry scorching wind often associated with disaster or God’s power.

It blows into Jerusalem from the eastern desert and the air becomes polluted with dust.

The wind of change is blowing in our corrupt world. If we cry out perhaps we turn back the storm for a period of time. Just as King Josiah did. Read 2 Kings 21 through 23.28. Josiah reigned 31 years and restored God’s Passover and law.

It was only a short 31 years of God relenting but it was Jehovah’s way of showing mercy for the reforms the people made. After Josiah’s death Babylon would come and take Judah into 70 years of captivity.

Jonah fainted and was near death as the heat of the day wore on. He wished in himself to die, it would be better to die. God asked Jonah if it was good to be angry about the gourde dying. Jonah said, “Yes!”

God asked him why he was upset about the gourde dying but not happy for the people of Nineveh being spared from His anger. God told Jonah he cared about Nineveh. They were rewarded for their repentance. They were not even Israelites, but the enemy of Israel.

Jonah wanted to see the city destroyed and was angry that God relented. Jonah was self-absorbed. His pride was hurt. He wanted God to really hammer them.

God said Jonah had pity for the gourde dying but not for Nineveh being spared. God said he spared the 120,000 citizens of Nineveh because they deserved mercy for crying out to Him.

God desires we care enough to seek His face and plead for our nations and this world. Judgment is coming to this world. The world is turning away from the Creator. We have the opportunity to plead with God to change our hearts. We are responsible for our generation. We can still delay the coming judgment upon this corrupt world.

Simple message is that we individually repent and ask our Father for mercy. He will hear us and extend his mercy to a generation that seeks Him. This has to be a generation that seeks Him!

Nineveh was an Assyrian city that was corrupt. They would do future damage to Israel and God would later judge the Assyrians. But not to that generation. They heard the word of the Lord through Jonah. Jonah should have been rejoicing but he was pouting. Let’s plead with our God and ask Him to forgive our generation so we can end our days in peace.

I’ll let the Apostle Peter finish:

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 2 Peter 3.10-13

THE UNITED STATES IS A ROTTING SINKING SHIP 

I thought this would be a good time to repost this January 31, 2017 post.

            

Travel down to the Philadelphia dock yards and you will find the rotting hulk of the once proud travel liner the U.S.S. United States. It has been sitting there rotting for many years. She was once the fastest travel liner on the seven seas. Now she sits at the docks rotting waiting hopefully for some organization to restore her. Sadly it is not going to happen—she is too far gone.

This once proud and beautiful vessel represents the present decline and falling country known as the United States of America. Her condition is symbolic of how the United States is decaying from within and throwing away her hard earned freedoms.

There is no longer a respect in the United States for the rule of law. Our laws are disregarded and despised by a selfish and spoiled people. All has become corrupted—both parties—republican and democrats—only think of their own self interests. The good of the country is secondary. There are no true men and women of character—only those out for themselves. There are no longer great statesmen of character. We are witnessing the fall of a once great nation.

The laws of God are despised and no longer respected. Only political views and ideas are promoted. Only human secular immorality is practiced by the nations. Respect for God and His Biblical laws has been thrown into the trash bins. Hear what the prophet Isaiah said to his generation:

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. Isaiah 3.1-4

Does this describe the state of our nation?

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Isaiah 3.9-11

Does this sound like our nation?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Isaiah 5.20-25

Where is common sense in this world? It is blowin’ in the wind my friends.

Our country is divided and confused because we have discarded the laws of God. We are doing what is right in everyman’s eyes. The clock is ticking. God is going to give the nation exactly what they desire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that day.

Oh, how I weep for my country. Oh, the madness that has descended upon us. Our morals are gone, righteousness is past. God is patiently waiting for the nation to awake and turn back to Him.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrew 4.12

The Almighty YHVH’s word is discerning the thoughts and intends of the heart of the United States. Today is the day of decision. The nation is on the road to judgment. God will give the wicked the desires of their hearts and it will be their end.

The United States of America is in grave danger! Awake those who sleep! Awake! The time grows short!

Listen to this beautiful call to repentance: http://www.trunews.com/listen/rick-wiles-america-return-not-to-your-folly

There still is time!

 

 

THE ORINGINATION OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION “ANY MOMENT RAPTURE” THEORY

 John N. Darby 1800-1882 born in London, a contemporary of Charles H Spurgeon and Charles Finney, is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. He believed he had come up with a better understanding and interpretation of the scriptures than those who had come before, including Jesus, the apostles, and the early church fathers Irenaeus and Hippolytus. 

Darby, like Calvin and other protestant reformers before him, believed some long lost truth needed to be restored to the church before true believers could become what God intended them to be.

Like other early reformers, Darby believed he understood what truth the church had lost. What Darby lacked, in comparison to other reformers, was the desire to use the clues as to what the church had lost, by searching the writings of the early church fathers and comparing them to the scriptures.

Most reformers went back to before the time of Augustine to understand what the church had lost. They wanted to restore those lost truths in accordance to/or witness with the scriptures--not find something “new.” They felt the church had deviated sometime after the Apostolic period, and sought to restore the basic truths in the Bible.

Darby took a different approach. He not only discarded the early father’s writings, but interpreted the scriptures as he thought they should read. He thought his understanding was vastly superior and did not need confirmation with the early fathers and scripture lining up together. Darby, in fact, said this: “None are more untrustworthy on every fundamental subject than the mass of primitive fathers.” The Collected Writings of J.N. Darby, 1971 

Clarence B. Bass, a Scottish Theologian, wrote in 1960 that; “Darby’s writings stand in sharp contrast with traditional views on eschatology. His spirit of independence from the scholarship of the past is best reflected by one of the opening statements in his prophetic writings….” 

Here is what Darby says: “For my own part, if I were bound to receive all that has been said by millenarians (includes early church fathers such as Irenaeus and Hippolytus), I would reject the whole system: but their views and statements weigh with me not one feather. But this does not hinder me from inquiring by the same teaching of the same spirit…what God has with infinite graciousness revealed to me concerning His dealing with the Church….”

Personal revelation is good and necessary, but it must confirm and witness to what is already written! It is not something new! The only new thing God is doing and has done is to give us a new heart--a heart of flesh and not of stone. Otherwise, there is nothing new under the sun! The word says in the mouth of two or three witnesses a thing is decided. It is the same with the word. Revelation must witness and confirm what is already written. We will see that a pre-tribulation rapture is not scriptural. 

DARBY’S HISTORY

Darby graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1819 and practiced law for a while before being ordained as a deacon in the Anglican Church in 1825. The following year he became an Anglican priest. In 1828 he left the Anglican Church seeking something more satisfying than the dead orthodoxy he found there.

He found what he sought by meeting with a group of disaffected members of the Church of England who some years earlier had started the Brethren movement. This group would later become the Plymouth Brethren.

Darby’s main interest was developing his own views concerning the future of the church as that was the issue of his day. What he would come up with was not--and still is not--concerned with the structure of church government, the nature of God, man, sin, or salvation. Its main concern is eschatology.

This has allowed for his eschatology to be assimilated into the Christian church at large over recent decades. It is Satan’s ultimate deception--easily accepted by the majority--because ultimately-- it is exactly what most people want to hear. As we will see, however, it is not supported by Jesus, scripture, Paul, or the early fathers.

This poison has thoroughly infiltrated the church and has literally “disarmed” believers into a comfortable stage of luke warmness. They are neither, “hot or cold,” but observe life with no worry about future events. Why should they worry or think about these things? They won’t be here!

Besides, talking about it just causes division among us and destroys our unity. Once we die, they say, it won’t matter anyway. We’ll all be in heaven laughing about the issue. Yeah, I’ve heard Christians say this. NEWSFLASH! Jesus never told us we would be “raptured out” of this coming time of trouble. He said, “The servant is not above his master, if they persecuted me, they will persecute you.” Carefully read Matthew 24.

By 1840 when Darby published, “The Hopes of the Church of God”, he was recognized as a leader among the Plymouth Brethren. Everywhere he went he promoted his views of the future of Israel and the church. The pre-tribulation rapture “at any moment” was becoming mainstream.

It should be noted here that many in the mainstream church disagreed, including Charles H. Spurgeon, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle and renowned preacher:

"With the deadly heresies entertained and taught by the Plymouth Brethren, in relation to some of the most momentous of all the doctrines of the gospel, and to which I have adverted at some length, I feel assured that my readers will not be surprised at any other views, however unscriptural and pernicious they may be, which the Darbyites have embraced and zealously seek to propagate."

JAMES BROOKS AND THE NIAGRA BIBLE CONFERENCE

During the period between 1864 and 1897, James H. Brooks, who served as a pastor at two large Presbyterian churches in St. Louis, Missouri, became a strong advocate of the pre-tribulation theory. He helped organize the Niagara Bible Conference (NBC) which regularly brought together those who believed, preached, and taught this doctrine. Slowly this idea began to infiltrate the mainstream churches and become their doctrine.

Brooks served as president of the NBC from its inception in 1878 until his death in 1897. Three years later in 1900 the organization closed its doors forever. The NBC had a great influence in promoting this doctrine as it gained acceptance in the evangelical church.

ARNO C GAEBELEIN AND CYRUS SCOFIELD

After the NBC disbanded, Arno C. Gaebelein, a Methodist minister in America, started the Seacliff Bible Conference. This conference would not allow anyone to speak at the conference unless they adhered to the “any moment” pre-tribulation rapture theory. This conference continued for a few years.

During this time a popular speaker on the Bible Conference circuit was a pastor and theologian named Cyrus Scofield. He would become the man who would publish the Scofield Reference Bible! This book would be responsible for the “any moment” pre-tribulation rapture becoming the bedrock doctrine it now is.

Arno Gaebelein and other businessmen of the time financed the printing of Scofield’s bible in 1909. Over the next thirty years it sold over two million copies. This Bible allowed Darby’s idea to gain widespread recognition among laypeople to the extent that it has become the doctrine of the vast majority of Christians today.

Satan’s deception has been brilliantly integrated into the minds of countless believers throughout the world. Unfortunately, this particular belief has become a deadly poison to the church. These believers are being set up for the greatest deception Satan has ever perpetuated on the earth.

More on Darby.

For nineteen centuries Revelation 20 been the most disputed chapter in this most difficult book of the Bible.

The controversy centers around the meaning of the thousand-year reign of Christ reported in Revelation 20:4-6. Four major schools of interpretation of the Millennium — Latin for "thousand-years" — have arisen. Equally devout Christians have espoused the first three views since the earliest centuries of the church.

Historic Premillennialism assumes that Christ will come again to establish an earthly kingdom of 1,000 years before the eternal order begins.

Postmillennialism assumes that the Church will succeed in establishing the lordship of Christ on earth before he personally returns to inaugurate the eternal order. 

Amillennialism assumes that Christ's first coming began a spiritual kingdom over which he will reign until his Second Coming brings in the uncontested, eternal kingdom of God. Both Post- and Amillennialism understand the number 1,000 in a figurative sense.        

You can find examples of historic premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism in the eclectic writings of 18^th century Wesleyans — John Wesley and his Methodists. Most early Wesleyans of the Holiness Movement during the 19^th century were postmillennialists. But only since World War I has the fourth view crept in to Wesleyan circles.

Dispensationalism, the fourth view, is definitely a latter-day doctrine, appearing for the first time in the early nineteenth century — in the 1830s to be exact. The first person to espouse dispensational views was Margaret Macdonald, a 14-year old Scottish lassie.

She attended the Catholic Apostolic Church, pastored by Edward Irving, who is remembered both for several failed predictions of the date of the Second Coming and as one of the founders of modern Pentecostalism. The Rapture-idea came in the form of a nightmare — or revelation, if you will — that Margaret shared frequently in her public testimonies.

It was adopted and disseminated by a visitor to her church, the Reverend J. N. Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren. It was popularized in Calvinist circles by the notes in C. I. Scofield's Reference Bible and gained a wide audience in the preaching of evangelist Dwight L. Moody.

 

Thanks to everyone for their comments. I’m still learning how to respond and manage them. Love to hear what you think and if your spirit is witnessing to truth.

Did Angels Marry Women and Breed Giants?

Who were the ‘sons of God,’ ‘daughters of men’ and ‘Nephilim’ of Genesis 6?    By Christopher Eames • July 5, 2020. Mr. Eames’ articles can be found at thetrumpet.com.

There are no advertisements of any kind on my blog. I am not publishing these things to earn money. It is a service for those who are seeking truth. I’ve been praying and seeking truth on the Nephilim issue for a few years. This article by Mr. Eames is very thorough. It may answer some of your questions and help us clearly understand the end time events which are coming upon the world.

There are many false teachings that muddy the waters on end time events. This article disputes the current Nephilim teachings. I agree totally with the following:

It’s a pretty peculiar question. But it’s one we get asked quite a lot. Did angels marry women and conceive giants? This speculation is based on a passage of scripture in Genesis 6 describing the hedonism of the world before the great Flood. Verses 1-2 and 4 read:

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose. … The Nephilim [or, giants] were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

So, the question is asked: Did angels marry women and engender a race of giants?

This was posed in the latest issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Jaap Doedens presented the following options:

Crucial to the understanding of Genesis 6:1-4 is the question: Who are these “sons of God”? The history of interpretation shows two main approaches: They are either human or nonhuman. This has resulted in four different explanations: the “sons of God” as fallen angels, mighty men, descendants of Seth or divine beings.

But there is a fifth option. Let’s examine here, first and foremost, whether or not the “sons of God” are human or angelic beings—and then present the evidence for this fifth option as to who these “sons of God” are.

Angels or Humans?

First question: Were the “sons of God” human or spirit beings?

From the outset, it is important to note that there is no reference to the word angels anywhere in this chapter. We have “sons of God” and “daughters of men.” The biblical terminology “sons of God” can refer to two things: angels (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:4-7) or men (e.g. Psalm 82:6; Malachi 2:10).

There are a number of immediate red flags with the identification as angels. Angels are spirit beings (Psalm 104:4); women are human beings. They are two different kinds; God established a law that each kind produces only after its own kind (Genesis 1:11, 12, 21).

The evidence against the identification as “angels” is also demonstrated by the context of Genesis 6. God says of these unions, “My spirit shall not always strive with man …”(verse 3; King James Version). And the offspring of these “sons” and “daughters” were clearly human: “and they bore children to them [the ‘sons of God’]; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth …. And it repented the Lord that he had made man …. And the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man …’” (verses 4-7). The offspring of these unions were specifically men—not angels, or angel-men.

The New Testament is even more direct. Jesus said that angels (and spirit beings in general) “neither marry, nor are given in marriage” (Matthew 22:30; also Mark 12:25). The “sons of God” in Genesis clearly did marry, taking “wives.” Indeed, Jesus continues to describe the Genesis 6 period as one of “marrying, and giving in marriage” (Matthew 24:48). But again, the angels neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Further, the New Testament uses the term “sons of God” six different times, each referring to men, never angels (see Hebrews 1:5). Excepting this question of Genesis 6, Job is the only book in the entire Bible that references angels as “sons of God”—evidently here as a simple metaphor for the angels as beings created by God.

If the “sons of God” of Genesis 6 were indeed merely men, why were they given that title?

Who Were They?

The earlier context for this passage is vital. The separate genealogies of Genesis 4 and 5 establish a groundwork for the society of Genesis 6. They include some peculiar terminology that gives clues that point to the above-mentioned fifth option: the “sons of God” as the line of Cain.

Genesis 4:1 describes the first human born—Cain. “And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: ‘I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.’” The Hebrew language of this verse is somewhat odd. The final part reads, literally: “I have gotten a man, the Lord.” It appears that Eve considered her son to be divine—the prophesied savior of Genesis 3:15 who would restore Adam and Eve to their status prior to eating of the forbidden tree and being cast out of the Garden of Eden.

Given the way Cain turned out, with the murder of his brother Abel and his back talking to God (Genesis 4:8-9), it is clear he was raised a narcissistic, spoiled brat. The chapter continues to describe Cain’s banishment and his ensuing generations.

The final section of this chapter is likewise notable. Verses 25-26:

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: ‘for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.’ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

The name “Enosh” is interesting: It means, simply, man. As Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon explains, this name “is rarely used in a singular in sense … generally collectively, of the whole human race.” And at this point in time, men began “to call upon the name of the Lord”—here a separation between men and the Lord. The following chapter describes this genealogy.

In Genesis 4 and 5, then, the antediluvian scene is set with the two chief lineages that begin the human race: the line of Cain (misappropriated as “the Lord”), and the line of Seth–Enosh (“the man”). But again, both very human.

Genesis 4 describes the “exploits” of Cain’s lineage of “mighty men.” These include the first city ever built (verse 17), famous murderers (verses 23-24), a pioneer musician (verse 21), a pioneer blacksmith and weapons-maker (verse 22), and the first noted polygamist (verse 19).

Genesis 5 describes the lineage of Seth. There are no great physical deeds given in this genealogy. Instead, what we do read of is a prophet, Enoch, “taken” in God’s mercy at a comparatively young age (verses 21-24). We read of Enoch’s son, Methuselah, whose name appears to be a prophecy of the great Flood (meaning “death is sent”), who became the oldest man recorded in the Bible, dying the same year as the Flood (and perhaps as a result of it). And we read of Methuselah’s son Lamech, who peculiarly lived 777 years, dying just prior to the Flood (seven is the biblical number of “completion”). A line, then, of more religious-prophetic emphasis, as opposed to Cain’s line of so-called “mighties.”

Furthermore, the Genesis 5 genealogy takes pains to identify Seth as “a son in [Adam’s] own likeness, after his image” (verse 3). There is no such description of Cain or Cain’s lineage—further highlighting the Seth–Enosh line as the “daughters of men,” or Adam (“banot haAdam”)—perhaps even indicating they were more closely resembling Adam on a physical level.

In the Genesis 4 genealogy of Cain, the emphasis is on sons. There is only one mention of a daughter—even then, she is not named as a “daughter” but rather as a “sister” of one of Cain’s male descendants. In the Genesis 5 genealogy of Seth, every single generation is described as begetting “sons and daughters.” The differential emphasis, then, is on the daughters of the line of “men,” (Adam-Seth-Enosh), versus the sons of the line of Cain (“the Lord”).

The Line of Cain—‘Gods’ of Old?   

With the very different genealogies of Cain and Seth established in chapters 4 and 5, the scene is set for the Genesis 6 overview of the antediluvian world. And what do we read? Genesis 6:1-2, 4:

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose. … [A]nd they bore children unto them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

Some have considered these “mighty” offspring as the “demigods” of old—notably of Greek and Roman mythology, the product of unions between the gods and human women.

We have examined the evidence that both genealogies are human. But even the Greek and Roman legends help illustrate that the “sons of God” are the human line of Cain—the “mighty men of old.” Here are a handful of examples.

To the ancient Greeks, a goddess named Gaia (meaning “Earth” or “life”) was considered the mother of all living. Gaia immediately comes across as an Eve type—and even the name is similar to a variant of the Hebrew name Eve, Chaia, meaning “life” (and pronounced similarly). Gaia’s child Cronus was the patron of the harvest—symbolized by the sickle and grain. Eve’s son Cain was likewise known specifically as a “tiller of the ground”—a crop farmer (Genesis 4:2-3).

According to Greek mythology, Cronus became leader of the Titans and ruler of the world, after a murderous act of ambush (albeit against his father, rather than his brother) that soaked the ground in blood. Cronus then sired the first generation of Olympians with his sister Rhea.

Cronus was overthrown, however, by his son Zeus, the famously “polygamous” god with numerous human consorts. Zeus may represent Cain’s descendant Lamech—whom the Bible gives some indication killed Cain (verses 15, 23-24) and is the first-noted polygamist.

Through his wives, Zeus sired a number of “mighty” children, including Hephaestus, Apollo, Hermes and Athena. I name these four specifically, because they are close matches to the four children of Lamech—Tubalcain, Jubal, Jabal and Naamah.

• Zeus’s son Hephaestus, known as Vulcan in Roman mythology, is the god of blacksmithing and metalwork. Lamech’s son Tubalcain, pronounced in Hebrew as Tu-vulcain, is the father of blacksmithing.
• Zeus’s son Apollo is the god of music, known especially for his skill on the lyre. Lamech’s son Jubal was the patron of music (or rather, musical perversion), noted for his skill on the lyre (and whose name, pronounced in Hebrew with a first letter Y, is linguistically similar).
• Zeus’s son Hermes is the patron “traveler”-god of herdsmen and livestock. Lamech’s son Jabal is a noted nomad, “father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.”
• Zeus’s daughter Athena is the goddess of weaving, handicrafts and war. The Bible does not give any details about Naamah, but Jewish tradition identifies her as a weaver of cloth.

Again, as we’ve seen from the biblical account, all are linked to the line of Cain—a very human line—but twisted to a status of divinity, “sons of gods,” marrying “daughters of men,” and begetting “mighty men of old, men of renown.”

The Greek accounts continue that, following the mixing and intermingling of the “gods” and humans, a great flood was sent that covered the Earth and wiped out all human life, except for the righteous Deucalion and his wife, who were spared on an ark. The fascinating parallels point to a late Greek and Roman corruption of earlier, core historical events, as described in the Hebrew Bible.

And as for the “giants”—nephilim—it has been speculated that these were the progeny of the “sons of God” and “daughters of men.” But it is apparent from this verse that giants were not exclusively the progeny of these unions. Verse 4 indicates that these giants existed before and after the “sons of God” married the daughters of men, separate to their offspring. (These giants are also referenced long after the Flood.) See our article “Cavemen Are People Too,” discussing the identity of this early race of humans.

‘Interbreeding in a World of Debauchery’

The wider picture of the antediluvian world painted in Genesis actually matches quite remarkably with scientific research. Last year, dramatic news broke of genetic research that showed (as one news report boldly declared), “Promiscuous Early Humans Interbred ‘Multiple Times’ in ‘World of Debauchery.” The genetic evidence showed that different “groups” of early humans—Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc—were “all having sex with each other” in an “environment of rampant promiscuity.” The headlines reporting the discovery were practically a quote of Genesis 6—sons of God, daughters of men, Nephilim, mighty men, all mixing together in a hedonistic, violent world, marrying “all of which they chose”—or in the language of the New Testament, “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark” (Matthew 24:38).

Thanks to this “mingling,” humans today have a minor blend of these different genes on the background of our Homo sapien dna—“ghost” evidence of this antediluvian mixing among our ancestors.

So did angels marry women and breed giants? No. Different human groups got together with other human groups: some were giants—some deified themselves—some looked more like father Adam—some had “fair” daughters—some had mighty men. All were very human—and all circulate, at least in small part, through our bodies today.

https://watchjerusalem.co.il/969-did-angels-marry-women-and-breed-giants