When Wickedness Increased: Nephilim, Judgment, and Noah's Faith

``So I would just encourage you to just remember to have for us to have a faith like Noah. Remember that even during these parts of scripture where it can be a little confusing at times or where we have to really start to think that the Lord is just so awesome and grand and these things that we have to wrestle with. If we could just comprehend every little thing immediately, there would be nothing grand about him. He would be natural but instead he's supernatural. [00:09:17] (23 seconds)  #FaithLikeNoah

But in this case, it was actually something that was even worse than that. It was fallen angels taking human women as their wives. And that phrase and took as their wives too certainly makes it sound like it wasn't like the women even have much of a choice in this. That these fallen angels are just going and taking these women. [00:03:05] (20 seconds)  #FallenAngelsTookWives

And now this is another one of those verses where people have different viewpoints on it and different interpretations of what the Lord's saying here. When the Lord says his day shall be a hundred and twenty years, there's one viewpoint that this is saying it's gonna be a hundred and twenty years until the flood. There's another viewpoint that says man is not going to live longer than a hundred and twenty years once man is born. My viewpoint on this is this one hundred and twenty years here was hundred and twenty years until the flood was gonna happen. [00:05:03] (29 seconds)  #120YearsUntilFlood

Based off all that we see in scripture, my view on this is that the sons of God here are actually fallen angels. And it's hard for us to comprehend how fallen angels could take daughters of men as their wives. That's that's a complex idea. It's difficult, and it's something we really have to wrestle with. But there's a reason that I believe that that's who the author is referring to here. [00:02:06] (23 seconds)  #SonsOfGodAreFallenAngels

Now, if there people have different viewpoints on that and I know that there's some backing they have that they believe is the most solid and that's okay. But I think that the scripture is pretty clear on this being a hundred and twenty years until the flood, especially when you consider that not long after this in scripture, we see that Abraham lived for a hundred and seventy five years. So I just don't think it really adds up that the Lord is talking here about there just being a hundred and twenty years being the length of time a human can live. [00:06:15] (28 seconds)  #120YearsEvidence

But if that was the case, if that's who this was referring to here, I don't think these Nephilim would have been a result of that. It would have still just been two humans that were marrying and having children together. There had to have been something different here. So that's why my viewpoint is that the sons of God were fallen angels. [00:04:25] (17 seconds)  #NephilimFromFallenAngels

So we see that Noah was set apart here and then we see that the Lord goes and he tells him that he's gonna destroy the earth and to go and make an ark of gopher wood. Now he doesn't even tell him at least that we see here. He doesn't even tell him that he's gonna destroy it by a flood. [00:08:16] (15 seconds)  #NoahSetApartForArk

So that's another reason that I believe that the sons of God here are fallen angels because the offspring of these fallen angels and human women would have created these men that were mighty. They were bigger. They were giants. They were different than the average human. [00:03:57] (19 seconds)  #OffspringOfFallenAngels