I know some of you out there you can wake up at 3:00 in the morning and
you're just embarrassed to death about something that happened in like sixth grade.
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Hey everyone! I'm Rachel. Today on Crack Your Bible I wanted to talk about
what it's like for the people who were in Genesis 6. Now a lot of times people
feel that they're very detached from the characters of the Bible, even though they
are real people, because it's just like, "how do you relate to somebody who lived
5,000 - 6,000 years ago? What do you have in common? Well the thing is, is the human
experience doesn't change all that much. King Solomon said that "there's nothing
new under the Sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9 on screen.) And honestly, when you really delve into it, you can understand
that, while these people destroyed their own lives, you can kind of see where
they're coming from. So I want to talk about that within the context of Genesis
6. Because some people might be wondering "why would anybody have sex with a fallen
angel or a spirit and then give birth to these hybrids, these demons?" Regret is
something that is familiar to everybody. There's not a single person on this
earth who has not experienced some sort of regret and you can only imagine what
it was like living with Adam and Eve as parents and even grandparents - always
hearing this story about how they were kicked out of Eden. And I know some of
you out there you can wake up at 3:00 in the morning and you're just embarrassed
to death about something that happened in like sixth grade. It's just part of
being human. We all experience embarrassment and regret and remorse. And
we will play things over our head a million times, like what I should have
done differently, or what I could have said differently, how could I change or
fix the situation. So you have to understand that these people who are the
children and grandchildren and so on of Adam. When they were alive
at that time, they heard these stories over and over and over again. And don't
think for one second that they didn't internalize some of this stuff. Don't
think that some of them weren't upset with God because it's like, "is it really
that big of a deal that we ate of this fruit? I mean why do you have to be so
rude about it? Why do you have to be so harsh?" And you can understand why people
would start to rebel against God when you have a family member who is
constantly regretting their situation. and hey, look we all have to work. We all
have to deal with the elements, and wild animals and all these negative things,
because of a choice Adam and Eve made. Now you have to remember what life was
like back in Genesis 6. You didn't have the same technology that we do today. Now
some people will dispute that, but let's just go with the mind that while yes,
there were cities, and while there was agriculture and farming things that
weren't as they were today, you didn't have computers and vehicles and central
air and heating and supermarkets where you don't have to go and work to go
catch food and have to gut it, and all this stuff. If you could not obtain
resources, you died.
Why do people play the lottery? Why do people become sugar-babies?
Why do people rob banks? Why do people sell drugs? Why do people become
prostitutes? Because people want resources. People want to feel like they
have mastered their environment. They want to say "hey! I'm on top. I've made it.
I'm special. I mean something. Look at the money that I have. Look at the resources
that I've acquired. Look how many suitors I have." That's what people want to make
them feel good. It's not about their relationship with
God, which it should be. It's all about look what I can acquire for myself. You
can only imagine what it would be like for the people in Genesis 6, when you
have these fallen angels who can perform lying signs and wonders. That's something
that the devil has always been able to do - whether it's in Exodus, whether it's
going to be in the end times, the devil can perform lying signs and wonders. So
imagine you have family constantly complaining about their situation, "oh, I
wish I would have done this better" "Oh, if it wasn't for Eve," "Oh, if it wasn't for
Adam." You can only imagine how people would feel. And you know human beings,
especially women are hypergamous, which means that you are looking for the
suitor who can best provide you resources. So if you're with somebody,
you're looking for somebody who can provide even more resources. And
unfortunately, today sometimes women will get divorced because they think "oh, I can
I can do better! I can do better!" And then they find out "no, you can't do better." But
it is part of the human condition, especially for women to say, "you know
what? I can do better." And with men, you see sort of the same thing - "oh, I can get
a hotter wife. Oh I'm going to upgrade to a younger model. Or you know, I'm going to
cheat and sleep around because the more women I'm with, that makes me seem more
desirable and more powerful that all of these women want me." So when you have
these fallen angels come down, and they can perform lying signs and wonders. You
can only imagine why somebody would decide that they are going to have sex
and marry these fallen angels and give birth to their children. Look at the kind
of reverence that Mary enjoys even after her death. Satan has always been telling
us "you can be like God." (Genesis 3:2-5 on screen) And Mary, unfortunately in some religions and
sects, is treated like she's a god or a goddess.
And in the back of everybody's mind is that promise that the seed of woman is
going to crush the head of the serpent. So you can only imagine what the Fallen
Angels told these women. "Hey you are going to be the mother of the Messiah.
You are going to be deified." Because we've already talked about when you come
together sexually with somebody you become one. (1 Corinthians 6:16 on screen) So if you're becoming one
with a fallen angel, you become one flesh. You can only imagine that these people...
because it says that "all flesh was corrupted." (Genesis 6:12 on screen.) Men, women, animals, everything.
You can only imagine from a human side what the people were hoping to gain from
having sex with these fallen angels. They're going to get status. They're
going to get power. They're going to get immortality. They didn't, but you can
imagine that that's something that they would think that they would be able to
get. You could get resources. If somebody is showing you how to do smelting or
gold plating, and you're still having to kill animals for food with rocks, you're
going to be impressed. And in the end days, you're going to see
technology and you're going to see lying signs and wonders. That is going to
impress you and you're going to think like, "if I join with them, this is going
to take care of my problems. This is going to fix my situation. This is going
to change the lives of my family." I spent this entire week watching documentaries
about the sex trade. So many people were deciding to be on cams because it's like
"I want to send money home to my family. I want to take care of my mom. I want to do
this. I want to do that. I want to have money in the bank. I grew up poor. I grew
up poor. I grew up poor." So you can see why people turn to bad things, because
they're trying to fix a situation themselves instead of relying on God.
They're angry at God and they want to try to fix it
themselves, because they don't see that they're getting results. So when the
devil, when these fallen angels come in, they are just ripe for the picking.
They can have their way with them and then your life is ruined. And that's
exactly what happened in Genesis 6. So understand that the people who sin are
just like you. They experienced sadness, they experienced regret, they experienced
need. They can be tricked, they can do evil things, they can be shifty and shady,
and that's because we're all human. It doesn't matter what time period we live
in, we all share on this human experience. And I hope this humanizes some of the
people in the Bible for you, because these are real life people. These things
actually happened. These are things that they experienced. And in the end days, we
can expect to experience the exact same thing, so we need to be on watch and
understand where they're coming from. I'd like you to like, subscribe and share
and I will see you on Monday. Bye!
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