Second World - Reasons for Judgment
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The reasons that judgment became necessary.
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(Also ch. 5, significance of Noah's name, may suggest that growing food was becoming more difficult.)
- v. 1-2 - God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. What was happening: Breakdown of the family. Intermarriage between the godly and ungodly; worldwide apostasy.
- v. 4 - Nephilim (tyrants) ruling the earth.
- v. 5 - Total and constant wickedness. (This is God's evaluation. It does not mean that the people recognized themselves as evil. Evil people - then and now - normally don't.)
- v. 6-7 - Results: The situation grieves God. Conditions have gotten so bad that he must destroy the earth.
- Gen 6:11-13 - A morally corrupt, violence-filled earth.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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