To begin a serious discussion of Jesus’ end times prophecy, we must go back to the original days of Noah to gain a contextural understanding. The Bible provides the answers to the questions it generates. The Bible also help us to gain understanding in areas of difficulty.
When did Noah live? What did he do? What was the world like during his day? Let us go to Genesis to see what God has recorded. Genesis 5 records all of the genealogy from Adam to Noah. Noah was the 9th generation from Adam. In fact, Adam died just 126 years before Noah’s birth.
Five generations were recorded that were still alive at Noah’s birth and up to his age of around 100, including Jared, his great grandfather, and Methuselah, his grandfather. The flood occurred just 1656 years after Adam’s recorded life began. All of Noah’s relatives died before the flood came. So what was the situation on earth that caused God to destroy the earth with a worldwide flood.
Genesis 6:1-2 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Who were the ‘sons of God’? While there has been much disagreement over the years, it has been clearly shown that this term does not apply to normal men. It’s only use in the Bible is in direct reference to angels. In this example, these are fallen angels, demons. So the only conclusion can be that demons co-habituated with women to produce hybrid off-springs.
Jude 1:6 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,
So these fallen angels, demons, gave up Heaven to follow Satan. Some were so evil, that God has already condemned them, sentenced them, and imprisoned them. While angels are spiritual beings, they can take on human appearances when they come to earth to do God’s will. What this means to Genesis 6 and the degrading sinfulness of the entire earth, will be covered in Part 2.