morning and I was excited why getting ready getting prepared for the loot best the greatest and I mean in the history of YouTube them in the history of the world the greatest Bible study ever why not because of me not because of you although you are a huge part of it because you are the world's greatest chat group the greatest YouTube family in the history of YouTube I think they made YouTube for you guys I think they had you guys in mind but because this is the kind of Bible study that has been shown that it helps to keep people from bringing in preconceived notions and so that being say let me say a couple things one remember this isn't a regular video we're not arguing we're not fighting if you do have questions that's fine as long as the questions are pertaining to what we're talking about not talking about tongues we're not talking about one saved always say we're not talking about marriage we're not none of those things we're talking about just what the scriptures say and that being the case we're only talking about what the scriptures have said thus far so now let's go over the rules let's recap because there'd be some people that might be joining I would encourage you to go back and watch the first three sessions as well we have been going deliberately slow over the first few sessions the reason why is because we're trying to get people to not when we talk about a topic or something comes up to not go to other passages why it's hard to train or to get your mind into doing something different than you're used to and I don't want you to go to if we're covering something in Genesis course we'll move a little bit faster today than we did the previous weeks but we're not going to Genesis 12 we're not going to Matthew Mark Luke or John we're not going to Revelation we're not going anywhere else in the passage and me in the Bible we're only going to cover what we've covered thus far that way we'll learn it'll help us to learn to say only what the Bible has told us thus far it's hard to ice agita passage when all you've got is just the passages that you've gone over and so we're keeping in mind the time period that's being spoken we'll also keep in mind who Moses he's the one that's writing it he's getting it from guys as Moses wasn't there but we're keeping in mind also who Moses is speaking to and we'll see that again today because Moses is going to say some there'll be some words are going to come up and we're going to wonder what does that mean well the people that he's speaking to they already have a language they already speak this not the first time that they've heard of God the first time that they've read the first time that none of this stuff is new so all of this will keep in mind as we are going through what we've covered thus far keeping in mind we've gone only the first three chapters of Genesis and we're going to pick back up in in 315 remember a couple things though above all else what do we say above all else God is sovereign so we're not going to look at things from my standpoint or from your standpoint but from God standpoint we're going to look at him he is number one all right so remember that above all else God is sovereign now later on we're going to start looking into we won't really do it that much today but what we will also notice is kind of the timeline that we're in we've covered this before let me go ahead and put it on the screen for you guys as well if you have not seen before if you have not made a copy make sure that you go ahead and do a screenshot print out remember this this is the timeline of the Old Testament chronology we have the first role that talks about the chronological books then below those we have the complimentary books the complimentary books are simply the books that were written at or about the same time and they come excuse they compliment the book previously or the book that's in the chronology in the chronological order okay so now though we look at if we go back to the screen again and we look and see that on the timeline we see that Joe was written there about the same time as Genesis will notice that we haven't covered Joe why is that well because we're trying to set up something right now we'll eventually get to Job as a matter of fact either next week or the week after we'll start bringing in Joe because if we're talking about one of the chronological books let's put it back on the screen again let's say when we get to Exodus when we're talking about Exodus then what we're gonna have to necessarily do is we're going to have to bring up Deuteronomy and Leviticus why is that well because around the 19th chapter of Exodus God is introducing a new covenant with them not the new covenant but a covenant which is interesting because we're going to see the word covenant show up for the first time in our study today well if we're going to talk about this covenant that God is making with them and the rules that go along with it and we have to necessarily go through Deuteronomy and Leviticus those are the rules that are in that are contained inside this what we'll end up calling the mosaic covenant are you with me so now that being the case whatever we cover today you're gonna want to say something that I know but we're gonna make this statement have we earned that yet alright so just just for you guys for the sake of you guys by the way hello Tyra and chess champ I like what you did there I do I like what you did there I must say but you threw me off I get it you got the chess pieces and so forth and and you put your first name on there but I was really start I was really big in the chess champ but okay now I got now everybody's gonna call you Brian L chess it just doesn't it doesn't have the same ring as chess champ it just doesn't but again we will we will adapt we will adapt I think I think he was I think you and Lisa actually I think you both were convicted because instead of having the old just your just the the colored symbol that YouTube or Google gave you and then you put your and just have to see or in Lisa's case the L you guys want to get fancy and put something on there I get it I understand you know old folks want to want to get young sometime I get it I get it I get it so anyway let's go ahead and and I'm sorry I'm sorry and jumping at this wait a second I did see before we start I did let me make sure let me make sure thank you Michael for the super chat I appreciate that but I saw something else okay okay this is what should I read in between Saturday and and so you mean in between the the Bible studies if that's what you're talking about today I'll let you know where we're going to be at on next week and so if you want to get a jump on things then then matter of fact that's recommended because you because as we go faster we won't be able to cover everything every detail every nugget that the Bible is dropping you might notice some things and it might add to more of what we say on what we cover on next week and so I'll let you know where we're going to stop off or we're gonna go to on next week and so you can kind of get get a jump on things but when I say that after today we're going to be moving we are going to be moving now we intentionally intention even during the week we intentionally move slow and as we go through some of the other books we will move faster the speed will pick up we'll get to certain books certain places where we're gonna slow down because it's gonna require more attention when we get to and on next week we will get to Genesis chapter 12 and Genesis chapter 15 very when I say very important very very very important and so we're gonna go for today from I think we go to six or seven or eight in Genesis maybe nine up to twelve 13 14 15 16 maybe 18 20 on next week so we will be moving but if you notice though guys that there people jump in and they'll say hey what about this passage and then even now you guys are said hey we haven't earned that yet we haven't we haven't gotten there yet and so people are kind of are kind of getting it and I promise you as you where's my cursor on this oh there it is and I promise you as you apply this particular method as you're reading it's gonna help so much more because it'll keep you from bringing in your preconceived notions even if your preconceived notions are right if what you think about the text is right then other passages that are also right that add to it will just add to it they won't take away there won't be any kind of contradiction are you with me so now that being stated let's go ahead and where we at where are we over here in Genesis uh-oh wrong one still wrong one still wrong one let me type in the right area I've got us oh there it is typed in I just moved my cursor so let's go ahead and jump into Genesis three and we're gonna start at where we left off Genesis three let's go to 14 again let's start back in 14 in 14 then the Lord said to the serpent this is after they have sinned now remember how it happened God told them what not to do and they did it the serpent is speaking to and we didn't really touch on this on last week but the serpent is speaking who is obviously the devil is speaking to Eve sometimes people make this leap and they should not make this leap the leap is that when the serpent was speaking to Eve that Adam was right there beside him have you all heard that the problem is we don't have any basis for that there's there's no reason as a matter of fact let's just go to that let's go to that to that part where Eve takes the fruit and let's see if it actually was what if it was what some preachers make it out to be because sometimes you know I get it you want to preach a good word and you want to make you want to give some emphasis to something and sometimes we add license to the scriptures where we shouldn't and so when we see it the Bible doesn't indicate as we're looking in verses 2 3 and 4 we don't see Adam anywhere around but what happens is when we get down to let's go to verse verse 7 I'm sorry verse 6 verse 6 when the woman saw that the tree was good for fruit for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one why she took from its fruit and ate and as and she gave also to her husband with her now this does not mean that the husband was with her at that time are you with me it just says also to the husband of hers okay now and the reason why I'd say that he was with her we have that we have the Ema which is with her but it doesn't indicate the time that he was with her are you with me so there really is no basis to say that Adam was right there Adam was right so because what we do is we make Adam out to be some some bump on the log some some just shmo just sitting there and he just while the why the dialogue was happening he just you know that doesn't concern me he's talking to her not me no no so that being the case I be careful again when people just throw stuff in just because hey listen he was no no because that was case within where was where was the Lord at are you with me so let's go back to the passage that we're at we're in verse 14 the Lord said to the serpent and the Lord God said the serpent because you have done this curse cursed are you more than all the cattle remember he asked Adam matter of fact let's back up some more let's back up some more because I want to I want to cover something in the then the Lord God called to the man and said to him where are you he said I am here I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid myself and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat the man said to the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she she did she she did it she gave me from the tree and I ate then the Lord said to the woman what is this that you have done and the woman said to the serpent that the serpent deceived me and I so now the reason why I want to back up to that is because she is going back and forth in this conversation with Satan and he oh I'm sorry you know what I just I just violated the rule let me just let me go to the full screen because I'm disappointed in myself and I'm disappointed in you guys because you guys didn't tell me disappointed myself I'm disappointed in you guys why because what did I what did I call the serpent I called him Satan have I earned that right to call him Satan I have not earned that right to call him Satan and you guys should have got me on that yeah you guys should have got me on that and and I know better I will flog myself afterwards to make sure it doesn't happen again now you won't see me but just take my word I'm gonna I'm gonna flog myself some kind of way I you know what I'm gonna punish myself I'm going to I'm going to drink soy milk it's what I'm gonna do I'll teach I'll teach myself a lesson but we'll find out that it actually is the it actually is the devil it actually is the Satan but yeah Victor Victoria dog on it I messed up but anyway go back to that told you kind of it it's a it's a chore to make yourself say stay consistent with the method but hold on wait a second I see a question yes nothing yes both of them were to uh-oh what happened to my screen why am hey what's going on why do I have to oh hold on something's happening let's go back to this screen okay let's lock this in that should be locked why oh I see why am I having to okay so what we'll do is I'll fix that I will fix that right now I didn't realize I had two screens on me okay now let's see if that works now bam there it is we're good okay now I'm sorry now now I gotta go but now I have to go back and edit that out so but she asked a question she says so when it said God commanded the man not to eat does that mean both them yes he told him first but he also told her and she reiterates that so yes yes and we know she didn't lie because sin hadn't hadn't entered in yet that was a sin she was and by the way do you all think do you all think that we can make a distinction between being deceived and sin let me ask you all that question now and honestly I don't know it wasn't an old man moment what it is sometimes you you do some to the software and it doesn't it doesn't adjust so I can actually blame the software I can hang on this one but man she has a question man she has a question do you think that it's possible to make a leap or that we can state that being deceived messing up by being deceived versus messing up by sinning are the same or is there a difference because what we see is that she was deceived I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry we haven't gotten it yet hold that thought let me go earn that statement because it hadn't said that she was a seed she said that she was deceived the woman said the serpent deceived me let's let's continue just a little bit further the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this cursed are you more than all the cattle and more than every piece of the field on your belly you will go and thus you will eat all the days of your life and I will put anything between you and the woman in between your seed and her seed he shall bruise he shall bruise or my oh he should bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the hill to the woman he said I will greatly multiply your pain and childbirth in pain you will bring forth children yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you then to Adam he said because you have listened to the voice of your wife and I've eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying you shall not eat of it curse is the ground because of you in toil will eat of it all the days of your life now let's back up so I can make one so I want to fully earn the point that I was going to make the question is is there a difference between a sin and between being deceived what what would a difference is there a difference what it seems to be because she says that she was deceived who's telling the story Moses by God and and then we will we will find later even though we hadn't gotten there yet we'll see that yeah that she really was deceived is there a difference can we say can we say that I was deceived versus a sin is is there a nothing with the four-second though well I like what you said she said there is a difference but still consequences absolutely absolutely there's still consequences in it but yes there there's yes there's a bit there seems to be a difference there seems to be a difference and yet she yep she still curse like she said so it doesn't matter that you messed up because there's gonna be consequences but there still seems to be a difference one being deceived the other sin who is sin accredited to who does the Bible say that sin entered the world through through Adam the woman being deceived but the Adam the man sinned and we fell into transgression because of that and so I just want to make that a point I do think though that God does though there are consequences we want to we want to just kind of be able to look out and see if the consequences vary a little bit between an actual sin which is intentional knowingly I knew it versus a transgression that was unintentional being deceived I just wasn't smart enough I was too stupid to know what Satan was doing well we all we're doing right now is just putting a pin in it just kind of huh something to think about and then we'll see later if we can formulate anything more definitive are you guys with me so now let's go back to it and let's go back to 15 now let's start the Bible study all over again in verse 15 he says and I will put in between you and the woman who's the you that is the serpent so this is now where we're starting to build something because he says between you and the woman well the you is who seems like this serpent is more than an actual serpent it seems like that and obviously we know we know more of the story and between your seed and her seed and the seed here is singular so it's not going to be her descendants plural but a descendant singular but do we know much about it do you think that when Adam Eve and the serpent are sitting there do you think that they fully understand what what God is talking about do you think they know that he's speaking of we know obviously that he's speaking of Jesus but do you think they know that they don't they they have no way to there's no way for them to know Satan is not all knowing he's not or I'm sorry the serpent is not all knowing God has not revealed all of his plans to serpent there's no basis for saying that certainly Adam and Eve who are easily deceived by the serpent and one ends up intentionally sinning they don't know all of God's plan so no no no both seeds CG ask are both seeds plural no both are actually singular we'll talk later as to what the seed of Satan is or I keep saying it what the seed of the serpent is or who the seed of the serpent is we already know who the seed of the woman is or is going to be although right now we don't know that but we it's just hard not to even you know we're guessing we're guessing we're guessing well we know what it's going to be but at this point in time we don't know neither do the people that Moses is saying this to the children of Israel they're alive they understand Hebrew and so forth they understand words and okay well well who is this seed that may have dawned in their mind what is this seed you're talking about what what what what is this seed that God has said about the serpent that he's going to bruise his head who is this seed they don't know they don't know yet they don't know yet that we have no reason to believe they know yet however we do know something about God already we do know and we've seen him show up and and so let's not remember what we because I also want to remind you not to forget what we remembered from last week does that sound crazy not to forget what we learned and what we covered on last week the previous week and the previous week let's think about before we go any further let's think about all of the characters that were there well no no I wouldn't say that I wouldn't I wouldn't say this Eve was was dumb for listening to a lesser creation over God who walked with them no because remember they're innocent they're innocent what what has Eve nor Adam not done yet they have not eaten of a certain tree what was the tree that they had not eaten of yet the tree of knowledge and good and evil well who's literally standing in front of them good and evil well not good but evil and so right there Eve was listen Eve was naive which rhymes Eve was naive but that was really it she wasn't evil she wasn't wicked she wasn't simple and so for the enemy to come to her as naive and remember he's a he's more cunning than anything ever so because he's cunning and crafty and what does he do he does the very same thing then that he does now to us and we have the Holy Spirit and we've and we succumb many times so remember and this is why I say the literal grammatical historical hermeneutic the historical point of this is that at the point in time that she's eaten this fruit what was her state before naive and innocent she had not eaten of the tree of of of knowledge of good and evil so you didn't know anything about evil she okay here is this creature that God created that's telling me this all right sound sounds good to me and oh maybe I did misunderstand remember she maybe she doesn't have it maybe she's humble maybe she's saying to herself huh you know what maybe that is what it means plus the fact that the fruit the tree on that fruit looks good or the fruit on that tree looks pretty good looks pretty good and what he said sounds good looks good sounds good let's go let's go and so no I wouldn't say that Becky I listen guys I'd be careful to impune her and say that she was anything but a human being now was that foolish in what she did because should she have known what God said well sure she didn't know because she stated what God knew but at the same time what does that make us and my only point though is that she was deceived she was deceived she was deceived we know she was deceived because the Bible said she was deceived Moses recounts this and if we go further we'll read Paul saying that the woman was the one that was deceived and Adam sinned intentionally now you want to talk about who's foolish he knew full well but let me go ahead and take this fruit because I'm I'm still while I'm eating this fruit I'm checking you out of Eve and maybe that's who knows let me go ahead and do it now why do we use an apple as the fruit we don't know someone just came with that and stuck that's all all right let's move so I'll put in between the woman and the serpent verse 16 to the woman he said I will great I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth in pain you will bring forth children yet your desire will be for your husband a couple things there had been no children yet there had not been any children born yet even though he said be fruitful multiply so had there been any you all are our adults had there been any activity we can't say yes can't say no but if there were God is the one that opens up wounds and so there had not been any children yet but then he says I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth I will I'm going to bring make great and now someone's gonna say well that means if you're gonna multiply something there's already pain there so no I'm going to make it great that's that's really that's what the word means I'm gonna make your pain great in childbearing in pain you will bring forth children that's how you're gonna bring forth children and then right here and yet your desire where's my Hebrew your desire will be for him how it's written is while which is to Isha which is your desire I'm sorry I'm sorry Isha which is to your husband and to your husband and here's this word desire it comes from the Hebrew word Shrook which is the desire to one and he's saying that your desire will be after him meaning you're going to want the place of the man in in different areas has that been the case well yeah yeah we can look at history and we see that we see that now here we go and to the man he said because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree Adam you have no excuse you weren't deceived you listen to her voice at least she at least she can say I was deceived you can't you listen to her voice and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying you should not eat of it so guess what Adam cursed is the ground because of you because of you you know Adam how you got used to blaming somebody else I asked you a question and you blame me and her now the rest of the world the ground is going to blame you why it's cursed why because of you mister in toil you eat of it all the days of your life won't be easy won't be smooth sailing anymore Adam both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you and you will eat the plants of the field you will eat the plants of the field so at this point time they're still eating vegetation you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of you mean I got to work yeah Adam you mess it up now this 40 hour work week thank Adam overtime thank Adam not getting paid enough thank Adam unions and and health insurance thank Adam by the sweat of your face you will eat you will eat bread till you return to the ground huh till you return to the ground because from it you were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return let me go backwards God said in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die did Adam die well the process for dying has started some of you guys who are in your early twenties or maybe maybe teens we don't have very many youngsters but when you get around 26 27 28 it varies from person to person you know what your body starts doing dying your ability to hold oxygen in your blood and lungs and so forth decrease begins to start shifting yep we we on our we on our last leg we are on our last leg we on the we on the last train out of here and it is what it is it is what it is Tyra we ain't got long we on deck that's yeah that's where we are chest champ won't be long now we are on our way that's just how it is thank Adam Adam since you since you want to start blaming people we're going to blame you thank you and it's true so in the day he and and we looked at the Hebrew word last week that it's not by it's bed with the Shoah which means that around this time this is kind of the line of demarcation didn't necessarily mean on that specific date you die but on that specific date that he did that what happens there's a spiritual separation that comes there's this moral we tell that because he was ashamed she was ashamed and they hid and then the ultimate it really isn't the ultimate but then Adam starts this process now we're going to come to something matter of fact sister brings his sister Becky brings this up she says Adam died at 930 years old God's day is a thousand years but not well one thing about that I wouldn't God is a day to a day to God is still a day to God a thousand years ago I still do a thousand years the point he's trying to make that a day I mean a thousand years that's like a day to God it's just simply saying that time is not if no of no consequence to him but Adam lives 930 years Adam lives a long time what happened God you said the day that he's gonna die but he ain't matter of fact not only died and not that day took him a long time to die if you told me I'm gonna die today and I got 400 more years left okay doesn't sound like I'm dying too much we're gonna see something verse 20 now the man called his wife's name Eve when we see this it doesn't mean that that's when he first called her name Eve okay we're just we're just getting added information now the man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living things now it could be that she was given that name at that point in time or it could be that that's been her name knowing that she's gonna because he said before multiply but the reason for her name Eve which is a weird when you want to hear the Hebrew name how you pronounce the Hebrew name for it her name is uh kwa kwa that's her name when someone says hey uh dutch I don't know if you I don't know if you're single or not but if you're not let's say if you are and I want to introduce to you along introduce you to a young lady and I say hey I've got a nice lady I want to introduce to you say what's her name kwa no beauty didn't make you think of beauty kwa kwa no but that's her that's how it's said in Hebrew kwa because she was the mother of all living things of all living not all living things but all living well remember if she is the mother of all living that means everybody that is born comes from her remember that remember all the things that we built on thus far now I knew somebody was gonna say koa Leonard remember all the things we built upon thus far okay she's the mother of all living that's important the lord made garment of skin for Adam and his wife and clothing well where'd you get the skin from oh so some animal has to die again since we're blaming everybody Adam the animals and say thank you Adam continuing verse 22 then the Lord said behold the man has become like one of us knowing good and evil so now mankind and Eve man and woman Adam and Eve have become like us knowing good and evil who says this one of one of the characters that we've been introduced to we've been introduced to we have been introduced to Elohim we have been introduced to the Lord God we have been introduced to obviously Adam and Eve and the serpent we have been introduced to the Holy Spirit I said it again we've been introduced to the spirit of God we haven't been told that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God yet so thus far that's what we have the Lord God God or Elohim and then we discovered when we asked when we looked at who did creation who created who's responsible for creating we saw in Genesis one and two the the Lord God and God which gives us an understanding why the plurality of God is used in chapter one and the us and the hour that's also used all right so he says he's become like the man has become like one of us plural pronoun knowing good and evil and now he might here it is check this out he might stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever which means what guys that means that the tree of life no matter what your situation is whether you be in sin or you stand righteous before the before the Lord if you have access to that tree you're good you're living forever so what does God do therefore the Lord God sent him out of the guard of Eden kick man out to cultivate the ground from which he was taken you're not going to be matter of fact you're not going to be you know how your house some parents do you're going to disobey my rules you're not going to be sitting up underneath my house sucking up all my good clean air condition watching my tv using up my heat and my water no you got to go that's what God did you got to go so he drove the man out and the and and at the east of the garden of Eden he stationed the chair of him and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life so nobody can get to the tree of life now there's a question that comes up can't answer the question can't we cannot answer this question not certainly not now or really ever how long was this happening so a year after that 10 years after the flood whenever could somebody go to that garden yeah they're going to find this chairman with this flaming sword and get killed but still was it physically there there's no way to know all we know is that at that point in time there was God was serious about it you can't come back can you imagine your parents put you at the house and then and then pay for a guard an armed guard to make sure you can't come in shoot on sight if my son shows up he won't take out the trash I got him now yeah you won't take out the trash you leave the lights on all the time yeah shoot him a that's that's what God did left us now what happens later we hadn't gotten there yet uh is the tree of life still on earth well I will answer this question I haven't earned this yet because it'll take for and the reason I'm answering this question because we're there is pertinent now and it'll take forever for us to get we're going to take a long time for us to get to this question is the tree of life still on earth no it's not short answer no where's the tree of life well it comes up again in revelation where that's where we will eat from forever so what's going to sustain us forever in our right standing with our glorified bodies the tree of life is going to be there so all right now let's go back to it remember what we said I wonder if you guys remember what we just discovered thus far I wonder if you guys remember what we just discovered or what we covered the first three weeks because we're gonna we're gonna see these in a second now the man had relations so that where the movie comes from where you know it blows up the clumps and sherman you know sherman hadn't had relations that's where the word comes from sherman sherman adam had relations with his wife eve and she conceived and gave birth to kain or kain gave birth to kain and she said I have gotten a man some version myself man child but it's a Hebrew word for each which is a man I've gotten a male each with the help of the lord again she gave birth to his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of the flocks but kain was a tiller of the ground one had animals the other had was a was a gardener a big time gardener produce maker and the other one was a was like the cart rice he had cattle so it came about in the course of time that kain brought an offering to the lord of the fruit of the ground Abel on his part brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions and the lord had regard for Abel and his offering but kain and for his offering he had no regard meaning that he wasn't looking at it he god was not feeling what what kain had brought so kain became very angry and his countenance failed then the lord said to kain why are you angry and why has your countenance fallen if you do well will not your countenance be lifted up and if you do not do well sin is crouching at the door and its desire is for you but you must master it y'all remind me that i'm in verse eight let's go back though we we've got some important things to cover very important things to cover one don't make the assumption that because kain was tilling the field that that was worse off for him than abel who dealt with the flocks there's no distinction there okay one just one just had the animals one was just till now why because the question might be well why was abel keeping the flocks they weren't eating flocks yet they weren't eating well maybe maybe they had sheep and they were using the skin there's the sheep's wool and water for clothing maybe that's what it was but they weren't eating them yet and i'm jumping the gut a little bit but i don't because i don't want you to think that they are eating them just yet they will but not yet okay kain is tilling the land but now i want you all to notice something this is extremely important you guys pay attention to what we're going to look at just next pay attention verse three so it came about in the course of time that kain brought an offering to the lord of the fruit of the ground question why did kain bring an offering to the lord would anyone care to speculate or to guess why kain would bring an offering to the lord while you're speculating let's keep reading abel on his part also brought of the first thing of his flock and of their fat portions and the lord had regard for abels and his offering but for kain he did not have any regard why why are they bringing an offering both of them as a matter of fact well what has happened remember we said god said in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die when we know one there's this physical death that's happening secondly there's this or thirdly because there's one in between there's this moral death this shame this guilt and then we see even more so the second one this spiritual separation god wants reconciliation god wants reconciliation and so what does he do remember we don't have there's no abrahamic covenant though we haven't heard of it yet there's no mosaic covenant there's no davidic covenant there's no new covenant there's no cross none of that does that mean that god no longer wants to have a relationship with his people with this with his uh with his creation he absolutely does so what does god even in his goodness do this is how awesome god is what does he do he makes a way makes a means for them to have some sort of reconciliation why are they bringing why are they bringing an offering well clearly though we're not told god tells them so why does god tell how do we know god tells them so because there's a way to bring an offering how was there a way to bring the offering let's go back to three and four so it came about in the course of time that came brought an offering to the lord of the fruit of the ground able did the same but his was different able on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their portion there was a different he brought the first fruit or the firstlings the best of the first and the lord had regard for able and for his offering but not for came his offering both of them brought an offering so there was a way to do so but one did it the incorrect way already we see one of them being a little bit selfish which we've seen that earlier how do we know they're being selfish because mom and daddy are selfish what do they get where that where'd they get that from from mom and daddy so one of the greatest things that we can see even before there is uh old covenant law even before the cross is we see god makes a way for them to have fellowship and to be in sort of a right standing to be reconciled that's what god is always wanting when we go to haven't gotten there yet but when we go to joe we're going to see joe bringing offerings we don't know all the details around it which means clearly no one is under the obligation to do that type of offering for the reason up with the same reasons it's different reconciliation are with me so god has even though that dispensation is clearly different than the next few different dispensations the whole goal is reconciliation atonement reconciliation we'll get to this word in just a little bit but we're going to see what atonement actually means and it brings about reconciliation but let's continue something weird is about to be stated then the lord said to god i'm sorry to say to abraham abraham the lord said to king wait a second wait a second wait a second okay i see that i see that verse right there wait a second for that verse oh and i see verse two wait a second for that verse wait what's happening what's happening verse one hmm you guys didn't do it you guys didn't do it and i don't know why you guys didn't do it i told you guys i said pay attention you're going to you didn't do it who have we seen thus far can you guys name the characters that we've seen there jeff wow jeff there he is jeff you are jeff you are the the lord wait a second hold up wait a minute let's go back and put some more thinking in this i should have said in it shouldn't that would have been that would have been rhyming now the verse one now the man had relations with his wife and she conceived and gave birth to kane and she said i have gotten a man with the help of the lord now if you want to say yaw wait that's fine yaw yaw there really is no proper way to pronounce it but fine yaw is fine now it's just senior just yaw wait not yaw Elohim or yaw Elohim however you want to say it or not the lord god not god but now it's just the lord i'm not going to make a huge theological point just yet i just want you guys to mark that down who was there matter of fact i'm gonna make a big theological point mark down what we know who we know is there god the lord god the lord god the lord god the lord might not seem like i'm i'm saying much but make a point for that remember that the lord who is who is the lord well we know who the lord is but remember who is the lord no uh layman uh seminary you're right but you're wrong you're right because that's the right answer but you're wrong because we hadn't gotten it yet we don't know anything about a christ we don't know anything about a jesus yet but you're right you're right that's a good question why does she why does she say why why did she say with the help of the lord why why do you guys think that she said with help of the lord because i think she understands who gives life i think she it doesn't say it doesn't say okay so we can use our imagination and if it's a good guess it's a good guess if it's a bad guess a bad guess but either way it's just a guess we don't know man we can speculate because obviously we know that all life comes from him but i just want you all to make note that we have seen the introduction of another name the lord the lord now let's keep continuing because we're moving fast but don't go on it if we're moving so fast it's hard to not pick up some of these big nuggets it really is so he says to him why are you angry why has your countenance fallen if you do well we will not your countenance which is your face pick your face up by what that that's this word here for countenance um by name it literally means face so able i mean k pick your face up why is your face on the ground pick it up okay uh if you do well well if you do well meaning that there is a way to do this well and if there's a way to do it well that means that there's a way that god told you to do it the way god told you to do it is the way to do it well and if you do it if you do not do well then guess what sin is crouching at the door and its desire is for you but you must master it wait a second sin is at the door so is sins the serpent no no no guys i want you to know something this is vitally all this is also vitally important because we built this ridiculous theology nowadays that sin is brought about by the enemy that sin is brought about by the devil that sin is brought about by demons no it's not no it is not how do i know the very first person to sin on the planet was who adam adam was the first person to sin does the bible record a conversation with adam and the serpent no it does not no it does not what did adam do simply as god said you listen to her voice instead of mine so sin has nothing to do in and of itself with the enemy that doesn't mean the enemy didn't want you to sin clearly he wants you to sin clearly that's his goal but because you sin guess what you can't do blame him though adam tried to do that i want to make that a point let's get back to it came now here's something that's really weird after he says but you must master it master sin look at verse eight have you ever seen anyone talk about verse eight three eight kane told abel his brother he's he told this his brother why are you telling us your brother now we know that he's eight angry because the bible god says why are you angry but he goes his brother he brings his brother out in the field and tells it to his brother don't know why but i just thought it was interesting i just wanted to point it out i'm not making a big point i really am not but i just thought it was really interesting that we never never ever i hear anyone speak about verse eight and it came about when they were in the field that kane rose up against abel his brother and killed him we don't know how he did it did he stab him did he did he hit him on top of the hit with something you know kane also had the uh cattle did he run over him with some horses of course some cows we don't know we just know he killed him then the lord said to kane same thing that he did to that he did to his brother i'm to his father and mother where is abel your brother and he said i do not know am i my brother's keeper am i my brother's keeper well for who are you getting i could just see god who are you getting smart with boy who you talking to like that am i my brother's keeper god said have you done what have you done the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground now you are cursed from the ground well wait a second the ground is already cursed yep and you're cursed even more for it you are which is the issue is this though i'm sorry i said it backwards he didn't have uh cattle but what kane was over what was kane's deal what was kane what was kane gifted with or what was kane uh tending to he was telling the field now the very thing that you were doing that you were utilizing that you were tilling the ground that's cursed too it was already cursed not even more so with you now look what he says he said i could imagine speaking to god that way but don't we do that sometimes though come on y'all tell tell the truth shame the devil don't we don't we kind of slick not i think we do sometimes i really i really do i really do but anyway back on this he says now you are cursed from the ground which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand when you cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its strength to you but will be a vagrant and wander on the earth so you're not going to get much out of it you know how we say we're going to say what you you reap what you sow you won't reap very much of what you sow you won't get the best out of it which is kind of ironic now when you think about it you didn't give me the best and now the ground won't give you the best good job good job kane you will be a vagrant and wander so guess what you're also going to keep doing do a whole lot of walking and do a lot of this all over the world now here's where it gets interesting kings of the lord my punishment is too great that's too much i don't know lord that's too much the lord said he said to the lord my punishment is too great behold you have driven me from this day from the face of the ground and you and from your face i will be hidden and i will be a vagrant and a wander on earth and whoever finds me will kill me well who's going to find you well what's the implication there if there's going to be if there's somebody that can find him there must be somebody there that could find the meaning there's somebody there there are other people how could that be i thought that canan able were the only two well who told you that canan able were the only two children the bible tells us how old these kids are the bible doesn't tell us how old these kids are we're going to kind of get an idea in just a little bit we're going to get an idea in just a little bit wait a second though wait a second wait a second uh doing the work of god we hadn't gotten there yet because jesus took away all our sin could the lukewarm laodosian church be the church that doesn't believe in ones they don't say we're not there yet we're not talking about ones they've always said we're not talking about luke we don't know anything about lukewarm we don't know anything about the laodosia we don't know anything about a church. All we are is in Genesis 3 and Genesis 4. So that's it. Okay? Therefore, who kills Cain? Wait a second, but who is there? There are people there. There are people there. Now look at this part that's interesting. So the Lord said to him, therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken upon him sevenfold. And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain so that no one finding him would slay him. We do not have any idea what the sign is. Was it on his body somewhere? Was it on his clothing? Was it in the sky? We have no idea. No idea. All we know is there's some sort of sign, some sort of marking, something that indicates that anyone who sees him will see the sign and will not want to kill him.  I shouldn't say not want to kill him. Now I want you guys to see what's getting ready to happen because we're going to make a big deal out of something else in just a little bit. But remember what we're seeing because now the Bible is going to talk about Cain's ascendance. Then Cain went from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod east of Eden. Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Now back up where did Cain get his wife from? We've covered this before. Since there were already people there, the only place that Cain could have gotten his wife from had to be from a sister. Maybe Abel, I'm sorry, either from a sister or from a niece. How bad would it be if that was Abel's daughter? We don't know. Maybe a sister. We're going to find out an idea, kind of a ballpark area to look at about their ages when this happens in just a little bit, and gave birth to Enoch. It's not the same Enoch that we're going to look at in just a little bit, but gave birth to Enoch and he built the city and called the name of the city Enoch after the name of his son. Now Enoch was born, Enoch was born Irad and Irad became the father of Mahuheil, Mehuheil, and Mehuheil became the father of Methusheil and Methusheil became the father of Lamec. Lamec took himself two wives. You need to follow this guys. Lamec took himself two wives and the name of the one was Ada and the other one was Zilla. Ada gave birth to Jabal and he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother's name was Jabal. He was the father of all those who play the lyre in the pipe. As for Zilla, she gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and irons and his sister's and the sister of Tubal Cain was Nima. I need you all to follow this. Lamec sent his wife to his wives Ada and Zilla. Now listen to this story. Listen to my voice. You wives of Lamec, give heed to my speech for I have killed a man for wounding me and a boy for striking me. So here we've got Lamec is a killer. Lamec is he's got first of all, Lamec does what he has. He has now departed guys. A couple of things need to look at. Lamec has departed from the standard order of one wife. God said for this cause a man shall leave his mother and father and the two shall become one. What is Lamec doing? No, no, no, I got me two. I got me two of them might get a third depending on how my phones look. He has departed from what God has ordained. Then he's also a killer two times. I have killed a man for wounding me. I got in the fight. I don't know. We don't know. Then a boy.  This dude is something else. Think about what we're hearing guys. Think about what we're hearing. This is from whose side? From Cain. Look what he says. Now this isn't God saying this. This is Lamec saying this. If Cain is a very 70 fold, then Lamec 77 fold. Now we're going to see verse 25. Adam had relations with his wife again. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. I can't right now. Sarah. I'm going to unpack it in just a little bit and then as I unpack it, see if it makes sense. But isn't this kind of a weird transition to go from Cain and a few of his ascendants and one of his ascendants has multiple wives and killing folk to go from there to verse 25. Adam had relations with his wife again and she gave birth to a son named Seth. This is a weird transition. Maybe what we're finding out about Cain and Lamec and so forth, maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe there is a reason for that. We'll see in a second. She said that she named the boy Seth for she said, God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel for Cain killed him. Does that seem like that Seth's birth was relatively close to Abel's death? Can't say for certain, but it seems like that's relatively certain. We're going to find out that they have they have been having kids, but this one is named Seth and she speaks about him replacing the one that Cain killed. So it again, this is just me giving a hypothesis, but she's making this statement because other kids they had didn't say that they were replacing for the one that was killed. Now, let's keep going though. For she said, God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, not just an offspring, but just one in place of or to replace this word right here. To cut means instead or under. So this is one that replaces that one. Not just any old kid, but just one that replaces work to cut. That's what it means for Cain killed him to Seth to him. Also, a son was born and he called him in ice. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. Wait a second. Wait, hold up. That's interesting. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. What's the name of the Lord? What? Wait a second. Where's my deal at? Yeah, you'll hear this term in Hebrew. Ruk Hashem Haradonai, which is blessed to be the name of the Lord. You'll hear this name Hashem, which is the name. Men began to call upon the name of the Lord Hashem. Well, how do I wait? Well, this one is by Hashem. You're right. We'll see this out of night come up later on. We haven't gotten there yet, but let's be the name of the Lord. Let's be in this case upon the name of the Lord. Call upon the name of the Lord. What's his name? Well, we don't know because it doesn't mean his actual nomenclature. All right. I want you guys to understand because going forward, folks going to say, you got to say it just this way. It's got to be exactly like this. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. If that were the case, we all would need to speak Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic. But that's not the case. So, well, wait a second, Jay. You might be right. You might be right. You might be right. You might be right. But you're wrong because not what you're saying is wrong. We hadn't gotten there yet. Who is Jesus? And who is he that we're talking about being pre-incarnate? His pre-incarnate state. Who is Jesus? You're right, though. We hadn't gotten there yet. We hadn't gotten there yet. Anyway, let's go back to it. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. We have no idea really what that means, though. But make a note of that. Now, look at verse five. I'm in chapter five, verse one. Let me answer the question he says. Tom says, isn't it Yahveh or Yahweh? Dependent on how you learn your Hebrew, it can be a wah, the W sound or V sound, a soft V sound. Either way, it is correct. The likelihood that it was probably a W sound, then a soft, smooth W. Or the same thing when you get to the B, instead of being towed now with a V or towed with a B, but with a smooth B. So it kind of sounded like, if you wrote a little bit like a V, same thing with Yahweh. But yeah, you can call me Yahweh. It was Yahweh, but they began to call that same name Yahweh called the Lord later. So, which is why you see in the English, the Lord. But this is the book of the generations of Adam, in the day when God created man. He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female. He blessed them and named them man, obviously Adam, in the day that they were created. All right? So far, okay, no problem. He's given a recap. When Adam lived 130 years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image and named him Seth. Well, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. So he named him Seth at what age? 130. Now, I'm not exactly sure how old Cain and Abel were, but I don't think that it took Adam and Eve 130 years or somewhere around that time to have Cain and Abel. So it looks like it could be, it could be that Abel is born a lot longer after Cain and Abel, they might, Cain and Abel may have very well been in their hundreds, maybe in a hundred themselves, okay? Maybe in their 40s, maybe in their 50s, 60s, Seth. We don't know. It just says that these, it seems that these two were born in succession, that is Cain and Abel, but we don't know the age of Adam and Eve when they gave, when they had them, how old Cain and Abel were when Cain killed Abel. But it seems to be though that when Abel or when Seth is born, Adam is 130, which kind of puts in, it just seems like it's in approximation to when this all happened. So a lot of time has passed, which tells us very easy for there to be other males and females there. Are you with me? Jay, but hold on, let's, let's back up for a second. Let me, let me, I got it. Jay, here's the thing though. I hear what you're saying. What we're doing though, we, we cannot cover any, first of all, we'll never be able to cover the word Trinity. And I'm not, I, I believe in the Trinity, but what we can't do is introduce something here that isn't there. And we won't bring up because what we're trying to do is deal with it, and maybe you came in later, but we don't want to bring any preconceived notions. That goes for the people who have good doctrine and those who have bad doctrine. The reason being is I don't have to force anything in, you can't force anything in. Now we'll still get the truth. The truth is the truth of Genesis, whether we know about Malachi or revelation or the gospels or anything, it's still the truth. Okay. Moses is not giving them all of this at once. Matter of fact, Moses didn't even know all of this stuff yet. God hadn't given Moses all of this information yet. And it's like what progressive, what layman's seminary say is this progressive revelation that we're going to get. Okay. And so what we're doing is we're only dealing with the passages that we're at or the previous passage. So right now we're at Genesis three, five, three, five, four. So everything prior to at that point and prior are the things that we can cover. Okay. Now I agree with what you're saying I do, but right now, just so that we can all be on the same page and get a better way of reading our Bible because we're also doing, I'm offering up my hermeneutics, but I'm offering you the opportunity to build your own hermeneutics, but I want you to be consistent. Are you with me? All right. So back onto this. Then the days of Adam, after he became the father of Seth were 800 years and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Adam live were 930 years and he died. Now I want you guys to notice a theme that's going to take place. I want to read really quickly and I want to see if you guys pick up on this thing. Verse six, Seth lived 105 years and became the father of Enosh. Then Seth lived 800 years and seven years and he became the father of Enosh and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. Verse nine, Enosh lived 90, 90 years and became the father of Kenan. Then Enosh lived 815 years and became the father of Kenan and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enosh were 905 years and he died. Verse 12, Kenan lived 70 years and became the father of Mahalel and Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalel and he became and had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Kenan were 910 years and he died. Verse 15, Mahalel lived 65 years and became the father of Jared. Mahalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Mahalel were 895 years and he died. Jared, verse 18, not the jeweler. Jared lived 162 years and became the father of Enosh. Here's the Enosh that we know of. Then Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enosh and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Jared were 962 years and he died. Do you all see a theme? Do you all see a theme? What did God say is going to happen?  That's true too. Matter of fact, we're going to start seeing a decrease in ages, but like Sarah said, I'm sorry. No, I thought I got to give my glasses fixed. I thought she said and they deceased. I'm sorry.  You ain't living no more. You're not living anymore. Now, can we speculate as to why they were living so long? Don't know. I don't know. Is it because that their predecessors, their parents ate of the tree of life and it takes that long for it to kind of wear off? Don't know. I have no idea which means if you can just get one bite of it, you don't know. I have no idea, but the theme is and they died. What did God say in the day that you did it? Guess what? It comes death and it came. Now, let's go to this. Verse 21. It's interesting right here. Verse 21. Move this for a second. Enoch lived 65 years and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah and he had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God and he was not forgot. Took him. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Was Enoch an absentee father? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. These were grown boys. It looks like I would say they were probably some grown boys that didn't tell us who his mother is and that he just went off and left her. Where's your daddy? He said he was going to the store. Next thing we know, hey, the rumor is he's walking with God. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But I want to ask you guys a question. Let's go back to the screen. Verse 22. Then Enoch walked with God. What does that mean? What does it mean to say he walked with God? Does anyone have any clue? And then we're going to get to something else. It's also a bit tricky in just a second as well. But when we say that Enoch walked with God, well, what in the world does that mean? And let's put up the word for, yep, it's the Hebrew word for hawak, which means to walk or to go with. So what does that mean? No, it does not. Wow, you are, you are really on that. It does not mean to regenerate. No, it does not. That's pretty much it. That's all we can gain so far, spider monkey, is that he was with God. That's it. The word just means to go with it. He was with him. Then I haven't earned it yet. I haven't earned it yet. But how we know, no, no, no. See, here's what happening. Here's what happening. Flatbush said, fade away. No, that's not what it means. We're just talking about the word hawak, the word to walk with God. To walk with God does not mean to be spiritually with God, as God is moving, you're with him too. God is taking you up with him. That's not what that means. That's not what that means. He just walked. He's going along with him. How do I know? How do I, let's see, I see some more coming up. How do I know that it's not him being taken away? We'll get there in just a little bit, but the Bible is going to tell us that his descendant also walked with God. Or did you know that there's somebody else in the Bible that also walked with God? Are you guys aware of that? I haven't earned it yet, but I'm going to go ahead and make this statement. And let's see. Let me find it. Who was the other? What is going on with this computer? What? Oh, okay. I see why I'm pushing the wrong button. Oh, I got, I see a real reason why I was doing it. Okay. Let's go to Genesis 6.9. And these are the records of the generation of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time. Noah walked with God. Noah walked with God. Can I ask you guys a question? We, we believe, we know after going back to Genesis 5 that Enoch walked with God. And then as we read the rest of it, he says that Enoch walked with God and it says, and he was not for God took him. So because Enoch was taken, does that mean that Noah was taken? No. No. The walking with God simply means that that's just the relationship that he had with him. He's walking with him. That's all it means. That's all it means. Okay. Noah did the same thing, but we know that Noah, according to Genesis 9, died and was buried. So Noah died. To deal here with Enoch, it just means, and let's go back into this passage, that he walked with God and he was not for God took him. Let's pull this up a little bit for God took him. Why my screen is not following with me? He was not for God took him. If I can get my screen to act right as I move, this is not moving correctly with me. I gotta go back and check this. Anyway, so what does it mean to say that God took him? Well, this word right here is like a hack, which is to take for God took him. But then here it says that he walked with God and he took all it simply means that God just took him away. He was no longer around. What happened? What did God do to Enoch? We don't know. It just says he took him and he was no longer. That's it. What we're going to do, what we tend to do is built into that because I think that means that he took him up to be with the father. No, no, no, no. Now you can make a guess, but you know what you can't do? Make a guess out of this passage. Now there's another passage that you're going to that folks are going to build off of to say that Enoch is in heaven, the the heaven with God, where it speaks. It seems to say so in Hebrew, but that's not what it means. That's not what it says. And we know so because before we get to Hebrews, Jesus makes a statement that he says who's time out. I'm trying to build a point. So I've got to leave the text right now. Jesus says that no one has ascended into heaven except the one who has come down. So that includes Enoch as well. All we know he was just taken and he was no more. That's it guys. That's it. And that should be good enough. Back to it. We're going to see something coming up now. Verse 25. Methuselah lived 187 years and became the father of Lamech. Another Lamech. They have, you would think because there's not as many people on the planet that they would have different names, not everybody being named the same name, but it's their world, not mine. No, we don't know how he took him away. We just know that he just took him. He just took him. Anyway, verse 26. Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech and he had sons and daughters. So all the days of Methuselah were 969 years and he died. The longest living person ever recorded that we know of, that we know of. We don't know if there's someone else that lived longer than Lamech. If it was, it's not recorded. Did he take, did he take Enoch in totality or just both? He just, he was no longer around. Now, is it possible that God took him and he put him on an island somewhere? It just, all it says that he, that he took him and he was no more. That's all we have from the text thus far. That's all we have. Now, I think that might be a pretty good deal to be able to walk with God and then to be taken with him wherever you go, Lord. That might be a pretty cool deal. But again, we don't have enough to go off of right now. Verse 27. I'm sorry, verse 28. Lamech lived 182 years and became the father of a son. Here it is. Now, it's getting ready to get gooder. Now, it's been good, but it's getting gooder. Now, he called his name Noah saying, This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed. Then Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah. Now question, why did he call him Noah? Did he know that he was going to do that or did God tell him we don't know? Just put that out there a bit. Oftentimes, you'd see these names and you wonder where these names come from. How did they know that this child was going to do these things? Have no idea. Verse 31. So all the days of Lamech were 777 years and he died. Verse 32. Noah was 500 years old and Noah became the father of Sham, Ham, and Japan. Now, now we got a problem. Now we got a problem. Now it's going to get a little bit uncomfortable, difficult. Verse 1 of chapter 6. Now it came about when men began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them. That sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Now we got a problem. Most people make an assessment that the text doesn't give. Most people, I shouldn't say most, but some are going to say, oh, these are angels. Yep. These are fallen angels. Where do you get that from? Where do you get that these are fallen angels? Let's keep reading because I want to see, I want to show you something that's in the text. It's like we just disregard sometimes. Now it came when men began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, born to who? Born to men that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever because he also is flesh. Nevertheless, his day shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterwards. When the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them, those were the mighty men who were of old men of renown. Now a couple of things. A couple of things. Who do you all think, or what do you all think is happening here? People are going to say, people are going to say this is, these are fallen angels. First of all, we don't know anything about fallen angels, but they're going to say that the sons of God must be demons. Do we have, now let's put a time out for a second. Put a time out for a second and we'll go back to the text. Can I ask you guys a question? Are there passages that state that demons, fallen angels are ever called sons of God? That's number one. Time out over with, let's go back into the text. The sons of God saw the daughters of men and they were beautiful and took wives for themselves. My question is, what about the son, are there sons of men who would see the daughters of God? Are there any sons of men? What's happening is, is there's a tendency to listen, I want to go ahead and run something into the text even though there's a thought that came about and became popular. I don't care about popularity and what folks think. What is the text saying? What does it not say? What does the text allow for? Something that God says, two things that God says should help us. Go back to it. The sons of God saw the daughters of men and they were beautiful and took wives for themselves. One, are we saying that if they are demons, got married and took wives, had a family, had a nine to five? Is that what they did? This is saying they took wives. This is saying they took wives guys, not had a relation or the biblical word to know or to come into it. None of that stuff. This says took wives, okay, for themselves, whomever they chose. Then look what the Lord says. This is not just, this is not just merely having sex with the women. It says took wives. But then look what the Lord says. My spirit should not strive with man forever. With who? With man forever. Men, he's got an issue with man and the word man, there is Adam. So he's talking about an actual man or men, mankind, because he is also flesh and the word is basar, meaning what God is talking about literally is something of the flesh. Angels don't have that guys. We hadn't gotten there yet, but angels don't have that. He's speaking about men, a certain type of man. Let's look at what he says. The Nephilim. Now we hadn't gotten there yet guys, but when we look at Nephilim later on, we're going to find out that the Nephilim, they got some cousins also. The Nephilim, they start, but they don't end there. We'll see them in the world afterwards as well. These are the descendants of or the relatives of Anak. We'll see them later, but then look at this. They were in the earth in those days and also afterwards. So after he destroyed them, they're still there. I understand what I'm saying, but I think y'all, I could be wrong. Can I ask you guys a question? Tell me if what I'm saying, I'm getting from the text, and then tell me if what you're disagreeing, you're also getting from the text. This is where I'm trying. Now, how important is it, and maybe important may not be, but the question is this. If you make the statement, where is your text, at least thus far? Thus far, we see some terms that are being used. Now, I want you to notice something. Verse 4, the Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children. So now I'm the answer. Now, I don't know who has seed other than what God said. What did God keeping into account? What we already know that the Bible has said that everything will create after its own kind. Pigs will create pigs. Horses will create horses. Apple trees will create apple trees. In them, they contain the seed that will reproduce after their own kind. Same thing with men. The word for y'all ready is the word for seed or descendant, which is what we see this word before, after producing after their own kind. But then all of a sudden, for some reason, people, because it's not in the text, take a change and say, well, they're not producing after their own kind anymore. But then look what he says. And they bore to them children, those were. Now, who were? Look what he says. Look what the scripture says. Those were mighty men. The Hebrew word is gabarim, which is mighty men who were of old. This word, I think, does it. Men of renown. All we can do guys is take what the text says. That's all we can do. Who were these men of renown? Who are these mighty men? Were they fallen angels? No, it says men. The Hebrew word is nashim, which is the plural for each, the plural of males. These were mighty males. These were males, men of renown. That's what the text says. If I'm ever going to come back and say, although we haven't gotten there yet, if I'm ever going to come back and say that these were fallen angels, give me the text. Because this literally describes them as males, men. Why might we say that they are bad men? Remember earlier, I asked you guys a question, kind of obscure, kind of odd for God or for Moses to put in there, to put in there what happened with Cain and his descendants and as evil as they were. Now, what are Cain's descendants doing? They're building stuff. They're doing some stuff and killing some folk. We don't just take the passage and just throw it away, guys. It's there for a reason. We're still, we are literally still at the very beginning of the book. We're only in Genesis five and six. Four or five and six, as a matter of fact. And so Cain has these descendants. They're just there. Well, why did you tell us this, God? Why did you tell us this? And okay, wait a second. Let me deal with this. Let me deal with this.  Are those sons of God demons? Let's go to Job. Let's put it over here, which is fine because Job is still a complementary book. We hadn't gotten to it yet, but that's fine. If you want to, if you want to go ahead and draw from Job, let's go verse. Now, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. So is there a distinction between the sons of God and Satan? The other is, that's the point of the, that's the point of the, of the word God. Satan also shows up. So me and my family shows up and then me, me and my family show up, but then he also shows up. I'm making a distinction. So we don't have a passage where we see demons being called the sons of God. Now let's go back to our text over here. We don't want to throw away what God and now he says it for a reason, what happened with Cain. And then we're told that these bad guys, these bad people, were they demons? Okay, fine. But why does he call them Anishin? I'm sorry, Anish, because they're males. He literally describes them as males. These bad folks are males. Now that's a good question. That's a good question. She says, where did the giants come from? Maybe the same place that folks that were living 700, 800, 900 years came from. These were these Nephilim. First of all, it doesn't even state, it doesn't even speak about their stature just yet, but they're minoring out now. What do we think is happening? What do we think is happening? Do we think that there's some sort of demonic influence here? Well, absolutely. Absolutely. There's demonic influence here. Absolutely. And we saw the pattern of the chief demon, of the first demon, the serpent. What did they do? What did he do? Spoke to the people, the people, but the more wicked you become, the more your ears are open to hear whatever demonic influence has to say to you. Now, does that, so the likelihood now, now this is me guessing. This is me guessing that there's demonic influence in them, in the minds and hearts of these evil men, these descendants of Cain, who these other descendants who have, who are still bringing offering to God and so forth, they're meeting up, hooking up and so forth because that's what they're doing now. That's my hypothesis. Can I say right now, definitively that demons are influencing these people? No, not yet. Not yet. I can't. But what I also cannot say is that their demons can't say that either. Cannot say that. Are you with me? So I just want to put that out there now. And you're more than welcome to disagree. That's fine. Thus far you can't. Thus far you cannot. And the reason why, okay, that's, okay, that's fine. Jay, tell me why you disagree, which is fine. We're in class. Why do you disagree? No, and you're right. It's not a salvation issue. But what it is is, what it is, Craig, it's not a salvation issue. It's a hermeneutic issue. It's a, it's a read in the Bible issue because if I go to the text, thus far, do I have a reason to say these are fallen angels? I don't have one, do I? And if I take that stance now, as I'm moving forward, am I ever going to find a reason? The only reason why we say that these are fallen demons is because we think they're falling demons right there. But even at this text, we don't have any other text coming up later that's going to tell us that these are fallen demons. Sons of God is a term used of angels, but it's also a term used of men. The term, the term of God is used of man and angels. They, it becomes idiomatic. And so the context tells us, we know what this is saying though, guys, this, this is the whole point. And matter of fact, I'm kind of glad we're here. This is the reason for or to help us. Somebody can say, yo, well, how I read this is telling me that these are fallen demons, even though we haven't heard about demons, even though you say only in the New Testament, well, okay, so does God just, okay, so God has to say it this way in the old and then this way in the new? No, but what I can tell you in this passage, the only passage that you base this, that these are fallen demons on, the only passage you can is we go back to the passage, what does he call these Nephilim? What does he call these mighty men? He calls them males. He calls them males, men, males of renown. So I've got to go off of that. If I get to some passages later that tells me I can move away from this, then I will. So at present, at present right now, that's all I got. This is all I've got. We can't tell okay. If the mighty men were products of fallen angels, they could be. My theory is fallen angels or demons had something to do with them. Do I think that fallen angels were not at all involved in the lives of these debauched men? Sure. Do I think that that demonic influence played a role in in King? Well, sure. I think I think a fallen angel played a role in Eve as well as Adam eating the fruit. No, it's male. The word that's used right there. This word is not, it's not for females. This word is males. So that's a good question. Go back to it. This word right here is derived from the word ish and it is clearly a male. Okay. So, but I believe that demonic influence is always somewhere foot when they're sin. Always. To what degree? Don't know. Did they come in and inhabit the bodies of men? Did they take over the minds of men? Were they possessed? Could be. Could be. However guys, again, and where I think how quickly, think about this though, or let's pause for a second. Let's pause for a second. I was getting ready to get close to ending this. I cannot end it just yet. We got some more to go. I want you guys to think about this for a second. Before we got to the Nephilim, you guys were doing wonderful. We were doing wonderful. We were staying with what the scripture said. We weren't deviating outside of the lines. We weren't looking for some other passage to bring in. On this topic of Nephilim, which we will agree is not an issue that's going to determine whether we go to heaven or hell. If you agree or disagree. So far, nothing. No disagreement. But then when we get to this topic, what do we do? Let's start isogening because if you bring in something that's not in the text, that is what isogening is. I'm going to read into it what I think on this topic. What will you do on subjects regarding salvation, the Holy Spirit, all the other, what's going to happen then? If you could ice a jeep, this text, you can ice jeep another text. The point is, say what it says. Are there some openings for the possibility of these being fallen angels? I guess it is. Now you got, now it's up to you not to take this passage and make it to be that but make other passages go into that when we get to them. But at this point right now, no, it literally calls these males to have flesh. So does this text teach a foundation on doctrine? This text teaches the foundation. Not this text because remember, the Bible is not written Genesis 6.4, Genesis 6.5. No, the Bible is just written Genesis. It's one book. It's a letter. It's a book. So the entirety is teaching a foundation. We're seeing how God operates. We see how, matter of fact, we're seeing how God relates to mankind in this case, even with sin. So to come back and you could be right. If you believe what you believe, but you're not right based on the text, this text, you're going to need some more text later on to bring into this. But this text literally, guys, here's the thing though. Am I wrong? Does anyone else not see that he literally describes these as males? This word is used here for males, pull it up, is used of man. This is where we get the word. There's a word. Listen, there's a word for man and female, ish and ishah, annashi, which is for males plural. And there's no shame in annashi. One means for females, one means for male. And if I want to just use kind of the generic term like he used before, annadam, for man or mankind, I could use that word too. But I'm using this word for males. So we know that these are actual flesh. This is actual flesh. These are actual people. That's, guys, you can't get past that word. That's literally what it says. Are you with me? So this is literally speaking of a person, a human being. Now, will we find another text that will tell us? It could be a layman's seminary. It could be. But because we know, because we know that it's called the sons of men and taken in wives, so we're speaking of males, whatever they are. Male angels, I guess. I guess they're male angels, male demons, which is odd as we go further and think about it. But here we clearly are speaking about males, men, males. Are you with me? Okay, see, this is the point, Jay. You're hurting yourself. You're saying angels appeared as men in the Bible in many places. First of all, we're not in many places. Secondly, we don't see where angels who appeared as males wanted to have sex with people anywhere else in the Bible. Now, we do see some men wanting to have sex with angels. That doesn't mean that it was possible. These were depraved men. These were men who had their eyes taken away, their sight taken away, and they were still trying to get in the house. So we don't see that. And the point that I'm trying to get you guys to see, there's a bigger point. There's a bigger point. And I don't mean to belabor the point, but there's a bigger point. That is, we're reading now. Now, we've only gotten to Genesis 6, and now we're reading into the text. Because I believe, I believe, I can't move on, Chanda, because I believe that this is what it says. But all we have to go off of, guys, remember what we're doing. All we can go off of is what the text says right now and what it has said in the past. You can't bring in numbers. You can't bring in Exodus. You can't bring in Philippians. You can't bring in Habakkuk. You can't bring in any other text, but what we have. So far, what do we have? This issue, guys, I can't tell you how many people have began to see, okay, you know what? I think I do see that God exists as God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. I was fighting this Trinity thing for the longest. I was fighting it because the Word didn't there and so forth. But when I see how God shows up, God, I see the Heavenly Father. I see the Spirit. I even see we haven't gotten there earned it yet, the pre-incarnate Christ. Okay, I want you guys to make sure that you go back and watch the first few, first few sessions. If it's quoted, why can't you bring it in? Because we hadn't gotten it. It hadn't been quoted yet. All we're doing is we're putting ourself in this. See, this is why I said in the very beginning, let's back up. No Calvinists are allowed. No Armenians are allowed. No dispensations are allowed. No Provisionists. No Baptists. No Methodists. No Anglicans. No Episcopalists. No Catholics. No Trinitarians. No Unitarians. None of you guys are allowed.  Now, the reason for that, he says, then you can draw really, you can draw any conclusion, really? No. No, you can't draw any conclusion. That's the point. You cannot draw any conclusion if all you're using is just the text here. That's the point. Because what's going to happen is you're going to go back to church Sunday. You're going to go throughout the week and you're going to read everything else to try to make your point. Because oftentimes, guys, we read the Bible like Muslims read the Koran. We'll take something over here, take something over here, over here, over here, and bring it together, mix it together, and voila, I got a doctrine. No. But if what is being said right here is the truth, if what is being said right here is the truth, then it's the truth in Genesis. It'll still be the truth once we get to Exodus. It'll still be the truth once we get to Malachi and everywhere else. What I'm saying, guys, is make sure we only say what it says. If there's a possibility for something else down the future, well, fine, we'll get to it. But right here, we don't have that. And that's why every time I go through this, I always focus on that. It just says what it says. It just says what it says. Is there more to it? Could be. Like, we don't know what God did with, we don't know what God did with Enoch. Will we find out later? Right? No. I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. But right now, this is all we got. So, let's continue. Verse 5, Then the Lord saw the witness of man was great on the earth. And that every now, again, the witness of who man, Adam, mankind, was great on the earth, which goes back to the past when we were just reading, because if he's talking about man, he's talking about man. Males, human beings, was wicked on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Lord, excuse me, the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart.  What he's doing now is he's bringing up anthropomorphic terms. Anthropomorphic terms are words that God would use, the Bible used to help us as humans, as man, to understand, to get an idea. Because right here, he says the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth. He's trying to get us to understand how he felt and that he was grieved in his heart. Does God have a heart? No, not like ours. The point is that God was bothered. Did God know what was going to happen? Sure, God knew what was going to happen. He's got, but that means that he's not bothered. It's the same with you.  You let them, knowing that when they do it, it's going to bother them, it's going to hurt them, which also is going to hurt you. Okay, so then he said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I had made them, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. He was upset with everyone else, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the, now remember though, we got a problem. We have a problem. What if God did not find favor in Noah's sons? Let me ask this question for a reason. What if God didn't find favor in Noah's sons or what about Noah's wife? Is she important? Is Noah's wife or Noah's son's important? Yeah, they are. Why? What was the passage that I said, guys, write this passage down, tattoo it on you. If you like tattoos, if you want to put on your hat, if you want to write on your wall, get a sticky note. What was the most important passage that I said? You better make sure that you remember. I said it on last week. We started off covering it this week again. No, no, no, Josh, we hadn't got Genesis 12 yet. I'll give you a hint though. It's in Genesis. Well, of course it's in Genesis. That's where we, that's where we've been so far. What was the passage, the important passage? I need somebody to tell me. I don't, I don't want to move from this until someone tells me. I don't, I don't want, I, Josh, with my man, Genesis 315, Genesis 315. What did God say is going to happen? Guys, this is why I say this whole foundational issue. We got to keep, we have to keep remembering what he stated. He's, what we know as a truth and what he said he's going to do. He's not going to deviate from that just because we've forgotten about it. He doesn't. Genesis 315, what does he say he's going to do? He's going to take the seed of woman who is going to bruise the head of the serpent, the seed of the serpent. Well, if he destroys the world entirely, then that can't happen, can it? And if he only finds favor in Adam, I'm not Adam, then Jonah, and not his wife, you need a woman for this seed to create. So he's always known what he's going to do. Implicit what he said in 315 was that he knows what he's going to do even in spite of the evils and wickedness of man. Genesis 315 is very important. Okay, now let's go back to it and finish reading. These are the records of the generation of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time. How was Noah righteous or blameless? How was, how was this, well, how was, how was he, how was he blameless? How was he righteous? How? The Bible doesn't say.  But something's happened to him. He's done something. Something's made him righteous and blameless in God's eye. We don't know. We don't know. We have no idea. Now remember, at that time, they were bringing offerings to the Lord. And there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Okay?  The problem that you're going to do is now you're bringing in something that we don't know anything about. He imputes righteousness of Christ. Give me, give me a passage in anywhere of the first five or six chapters of Genesis that we have that you don't. What's going to happen is, though, you, this is what happens with people that want to just, I'm going to force my doctrine, my theology, my confession in there, no matter what. I don't care the pastor doesn't say it. I said it. That's good enough. This paper that I hold, this confessional faith, it says that's good enough. Okay. Okay. And then you got, you guys get the problematic passages, which is why, which is why, by the way, can I, can I time out, time out? Do you know, I, there are people out there that when, when you went, when, when hardcore, and I love calculus, I've been called one many times myself, but then you guys had these debates with other people and like, okay, what you're saying is not, they'll throw a positive question like, well, that's not the answer because sometimes you want your doctrine or your, or your, your, your confession to be preeminent. You want to be preeminent before the scriptures. And it's okay. Well, fine. Answer this question. Then you're stuck looking. James White, who I agree with most, most times, but when he had his debate with Layton, Layton got, there was some questions. Layton just got them on and, and James White was okay. So the point is guys, stay with the text. If, if, if what you believe ultimately is right, then the, and the text we know is right will bring us to that conclusion, but don't take the conclusion to the text, take the text to the conclusion. Are you with me? Let's go back to it. So these are the records. He's a righteous and blameless man. We don't know. All we do know is that they, that Abel was called faithful. He was righteous. And what did Abel do? He obeyed God. He believed God. Here he is bringing his offering. He's considered to be the first martyr. Same thing with Noah. So we can only conclude same thing with, with, with Joe. They're bringing these offerings. Didn't say Noah has an offering, but that's all that's there right now. He's not perfect. But anyway, the Bible goes on to say in this passage, Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons, Sham, Hammond, Jaipur.  God looked on the earth and behold, it was corrupt for all flesh. Is it word? I'm seeing more and more pastors that might seem to eliminate this issue of fallen angels. All flesh, and this is the word, bazaar, flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. Then God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.  Make for yourselves an ark of, excuse me, of gopher wood. You shall take, you should make the ark with grooms and shall covered inside and out with pitch. This is how you should make it. The link of the art 300 cubits and his breath 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits. You shall make windows. Now I won't go through the, through the entirety of the description verse 17. Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh, which is in the breath of, which is the breath of life from under the heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall perish, but I will establish. Here it is. I will establish my covenant with you and you shall enter the ark.  What does this word mean? And this word is important. I will establish my covenant, the first named covenant in the Bible. You can call the Adamic covenant and a covenant, but, and does it kind of function? That's fine. But I see your question, aim blogs. I'll, I'll, I'll get to you. I promise you. But the first name covenant in the Bible is the eight. Is the no eight covenant? Let me go and answer your questions. Even though there are three different names, should we, should we assume they are three different persons at this point in time? No, you don't have to, no, you don't have to do that. You're speaking about the Lord, the Lord God and, and, and God. And truth be told, you probably, you're probably still just saying there are two names because the name for the Lord is still used for the name, for the name Yahweh. So you can just say two, but, now there's a reason why we see the word Lord. We'll get to that later. But should we assume that they are different? You can or you can't? We don't know. We don't know. All we do see, whether they are different persons, they're different names that are used. The Lord God and God. That's what we can see. Okay. That's the one thing that we can see. And so the reason why that is important, the reason why that is important to take a time is we're going to see the names used differently going forward. We'll see the names that are used, used differently going forward. And it seems like they are different people. Haven't gotten there yet, haven't earned it yet. Which is why I don't want to do that yet, because why there are going to be folks in the audience that don't believe in the Trinity, there are going to be folks in all of us that do. Right now we're not talking about the Trinity. All we're doing is talking about what we see here. Who created the earth? According to Genesis one, God. Who also did it? The Lord God according to Genesis two. And who comes speaking to Adam and Eve? The Lord God. Who breathed breath of life into the man? The Lord God. So there's a reason for that. We'll see it later. Okay. Now going back to this issue of a covenant. This word bereave, it is, it's an agreement, it's a binding. It's not, it's not a contractor. Something we'll think. Typically, most often, especially in, in, in Jewish society, when you make a covenant, because you and I can make a covenant and the way we do so, it, it entails a cutting, a flesh, a passing through and a, I mean, shedding of blood and a passing through. We don't see that with this covenant. Okay. But God makes a promise. It makes a statement. He's going to do something. And we go, look at this covenant. Look what he says. But I will establish my covenant. Move this up. But I will establish my covenant. And we know this is I, because he says, I will establish my covenant because we have this E at the end with the Yad, which tells them, tells us that it's his covenant, that he's the one, I'm sorry, he's the one that's doing it with his covenant. And there's the word my covenant, bereave, or in this case, the routine, which is my covenant. So God saying, I'm going to be the one that's going to establish this covenant. I'm establishing my covenant, my agreement, my promise. I'm getting rid of everybody, but you folk, you eight people. What's the importance of this him saying my covenant? Because he did not say, I'm going to establish my covenant if you do this. We'll cover this even more in depth later. But remember, guys, there are two types of covenants. There is a unconditional and a conditional, which means just what they sound like. Unconditional means there's no conditions applied to it. Conditional means that you have to do this, if this, then that. And either covenant can be unilateral or bilateral. Bilateral means there's more than one party involved. Unilateral is just one party making the covenant. Okay. Now I can go to you and say, Hey, how about you and I make a covenant? And we'll, and this will happen, this, this, this, that's bilateral, but it can still be unconditional because I say, I'm going to do this no matter what. It's not based on anything. Right. The covenant that we have with my wife and I, it's supposed to be a bilateral unconditional covenant. Both of us are in charge of taking care of what's happening here. And it's not supposed to be, well, if you do this, if you take out the trash, baby, well, if you do this, sweetie, no, it's not that, which means it's unconditional. Conditional is, then I will do this only if you do that. We're going to see one covenant like that coming up, but in this case, we don't see that the terms of this, of this covenant is just God saying he's going to do this. He says, and, and of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark. Now I want you to notice something really quickly here. I want you to notice something and we're coming to a close. You shall bring two of every kind of arc, I mean, into the arc to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female of the birds after their kind. Again, that print, that principle is still in place guys, bringing a creature after its own kind and the animals after their kind and every keeping thing of the ground after its kind. Two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. As for your sake, for yourself, some of all the food which is edible and gathered for yourself, and it shall be food for you and for them. Thus Noah did, according to all God had commanded to him, so he did. Now I want to look at something and we're getting ready to come to a close. Verse, chapter seven, verse one, then the Lord said, Noah enter the ark, you and all the household for you alone, I have seen to be righteous before me in this time. Huh. Okay. So it is based on just Noah being righteous, not necessarily his kids or his wife. And we're going to find out one particular kid Noah got a problem with. But you alone, I have seen to be righteous. But I got to have some women folk there because I've promised what I'm going to do about this seed of a woman. He says, you shall take with you. Now here, now, now notice this point. We're going to be introduced to something that's not there yet. Moses makes a statement that, that he hadn't earned yet, but he's telling the story. He says, you shall take with you of every clean animal by seven, a male and his female and of the animals that are not clean to a male of his female and also of the birds of the sky by seven. Now I want to stop there. We'll pick back up in verse four on next week. I wanted to make sure I got through chapter six, but I want to ask you guys a question. Clean and unclean animals. Where'd that come from? We haven't, we haven't even been introduced to clean and unclean animals. Matter of fact, Moses, I mean, Noah hadn't been told about clean and unclean animal. This is the first, this is the first time we've heard of it. This is the first time we've heard of it. That's, that's the question. How did he know what was clean and unclean? This is where we got to think back for a second. No, no, no, it's not internal law of God. It is not an internal law of God and God is not Muslim. He does not, he's not like Allah. He does not abrogate. We don't find the true answer to this reason why until we get to Leviticus, until we get to the law. Well, why bring it up here? Remember in the law, we hear this, this, this statement or this term that talks about the animals being clean or unclean. Let me ask you guys this question and I'll let you guys go and look at it later on.   There's a question. Does God call pigs unclean? Does God say, hey, these animals are unclean? I didn't say God's law is eternal. I'm saying, but what you did was you made that into an internal law that these animals are unclean. That's not, no, it's not a trick question either. Ben says yes. Darth Kitty says not especially. Sister Becky says yes. Cheshirem says a trick question. Ola says yes. And by the way, you can go ahead and look into other books we hadn't gotten into yet. Lisa says no. Does God call these animals unclean? She says, I don't know. Sarah says no. Cam says no. Wait a second. Why are some people saying yes, he does. Some folks saying no. Cheshirem says wait. Steve, Stevie, are you married? Can I ask you a question, Stevie? Are you married? I need you to type this in, Stevie. Are you married? Please, please tell us, Stevie. Are you married? Need to know. Please. Hello, rescue. How are you? I need to know is Stevie married? There's a reason why, Stevie, because if you're not married, we're going to find you a wife. Because she that finds Stevie, oh, 26 years, okay, I was going to say, well then you got to go with it because she that finds, found Stevie is a good one. You know why? What does Stevie say? To the Jews. When God says they are unclean, he didn't say they're unclean. He said they're unclean to you. We hadn't gotten there yet, but he will. He says they're unclean to you. The reason why I'm jumping forward is because Moses makes us jump forward. We got to. He said there are any names, different types of animals. You have the split hoof and so forth. They are unclean. He didn't say they're unclean. He says they're unclean to you. We'll deal with the whole point of God saying why he says that certain animals are unclean to you because if they're unclean, they're unclean forever. And the reason why we're jumping forward 1689 is because of this issue right here. When he makes this statement that they're unclean. The reason why I'm bringing this up and I wanted to end on this point. Remember what I said at the very beginning. We are keeping in mind not just what we're hearing on the on the on the floor right now and that Moses is writing these because Moses wasn't there. Moses wasn't there. And so as Moses is giving an account to this, who is hearing this? Who is hearing this message that Moses is speaking? Does anybody know who Moses is giving this message to? Someone tell me. Moses is giving this message to the Jews. When is Moses giving this message to the Jews? What has taken place? The law. The time that Moses is writing this, he's writing this message to the Jews during the time that they have the law. At this point in time, what does Moses know to call these animals? Clean and unclean. He can't call them anything but that. That's how the people, because remember I'm writing to people who are hearing this stuff. They're not there. So he's telling them y'all he brought in that's Moses from the south. Moses from the south said y'all he brought in brought in clean and unclean by golly or gosh dogged. He brought in clean and unclean animals. How many of the clean and how many unclean animals? He tells us that's why we see clean unclean because while we're trying to stay with the text here, we do have, as I said at the very beginning, we have to remember he's writing it to someone. So the words that he uses, remember a few weeks back, we talked about the word for image and likeness and these aren't just made up words that the Jews have never heard at this point. He's using an actual language that they use and so as he's speaking to them, they already know what these animals are. So when they ask what kind of animals you're bringing in, he's brought in clean and unclean. Seven of these, two of these. Are you with me? That's why we see that there, the clean and unclean. Even though, now do I know that he called them clean and unclean to know I have no idea if he said it, if he said that way or not? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But prior to the law, we don't see these animals being called clean or unclean. When Adam is naming them, they're not called clean or unclean. Yeah, he does bring it up in the New Testament, but what does he say? Don't call unclean what I've cleaned and he's using food to make a, he's using food to make a point because they're not clean, they're not unclean anymore. In other words, what is separate and what is available to you. So now the people that you had to separate yourself from in the New Testament that he's speaking to Peter about, we're not separate from them anymore. The reason for the point of these foods, I don't want to get into this, but the reason why that some of these foods are clean and unclean to you, that you're being separate because these people that I want you to be separate from, they eat that stuff. Those folks that I want you to stay away from, because we just had this big issue of the good people, my people, the folks that I'm trying to grow, getting with people who are, have no interest in serving God. When you all co-mingle and co-habitat and get together, you end up getting what we saw in Genesis five and six, nothing but wickedness on the land. I don't want that now. He's promised not to destroy the world again, but it's back in the same state. So that's the reason why we'll go more into that as we go forward. But that's the reason why the whole point of clean and unclean is brought up because the people he's talking to only understand clean and unclean. That's the only reason why, exactly right, layman seminary. I want to keep you guys separated from what the world is doing with these pagan practices, these ungodly practices, and they eat this stuff.  You sit there playing pagan bingo and pagan twister and pagan connect for and whatever else that's pagan that's ungodly. And now you become familiar with it. Now you take it back to your house. But if they come to your house, they come and they adhere to your rules. Well, y'all like chitlins over at your house? No, no, no. Everything over here is, no, we kosher over here. Even though I know somebody will say about something about kosher, but anyway, but the point is you come to my house, that means you are accepting of my God, my traditions. If I go to your house, I'm accepting that. And what did the Jews do? The Jews went to them more than the them went to the Jews. And that became a problem. And God told them about that. And they corrupted the land. They stopped adhering to God. Somebody said, what's wrong? What's wrong with a pig? There's one thing that's wrong with a pig. It ain't an elephant. Ain't the size of an elephant. That's the only thing wrong with a pig. It ain't the size of an elephant. By the way, I'm eating a bacon, a bacon, egg and sandwich, a bacon, egg and sandwich. That's what I'm eating. I'm in an egg and bacon sandwich. I'm eating an egg and bacon sandwich. So my favorite breakfast, by the way. But guys, again, the whole point, and let me just in here so we can go ahead and leave, the whole point is to make sure that what we do, we stick as closely to the text as possible. If what you believe is the truth, if you're a doctrine, if you're theology, if you're a confession, if all of those things are true, we'll find out the text will take us there. And people don't, there are some folks that fight against this, fight against this, because I can't make my point in this text. Well, fine. It ain't about your point. It's about what it says. Amen. So guys, God bless you. I will see you all later. Enjoy your day. And until we meet again, be blessed.