"If you're not part of my family, keep my name out your mouth."
That's basically what "don't take the name of the Lord in vain" means.
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Hey everyone! I'm Rachel. And today on Crack Your Bible, we are going to be talking
about Genesis 6. Now there's no way that I can cover every single thing in
Genesis 6, there are people who have entire ministries built around this one
chapter of the Bible because it is so jam-packed with information and facts.
And if you don't understand Genesis 6, you're not going to understand the Old
Testament. You're not going to understand the New Testament. You're definitely not
going to understand the book of Revelation. And a lot of people they will
say, and I've heard this, "oh, God of the Old Testament, He was an angry, mean God.
He just wanted to kill everybody." And if you don't understand Genesis 6 that
might sound like a reasonable position. Let's just dive into the first four
verses of Genesis 6. And then we're going to do a slight word study so that you
can understand a common claim of Christians when they're like, "don't take
the Lord's name in vain by saying 'oh my gosh.'" A lot of those people are
completely mistaken. They... it's gone over their head. They did not understand the
assignment. So let's just jump into Genesis 6, 1 through 4. Now the Bible says that "when
humans began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to
them, the sons of God, 'sons of God,' saw that the daughters of humans were
beautiful, and they married any of them that they chose. Then the Lord said, 'My
spirit will not contend with (or stay with) humans forever, for they are mortal;
(or "corrupted" in the Hebrew) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.' The
Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God
"sons of God," went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.
They were the heroes of old, men of renown." (braking car sound effect) Now we've already gone
over Genesis 4. We've already gone over Genesis 5 and now we're into Genesis 6.
And on Friday, if you saw that video, we talked about how today humans
celebrities are talking about their experiences having sex with ghosts or
incubi, succubi, phantoms, demons, whatever you want to call it. They are fallen
angels or these angels who sinned against God. They turned on God and they
are now having sex with humans today. Currently people are talking about this
right now now. From the video on Friday, we know why these fallen angels were
sleeping with women. They wanted to pollute the bloodline of the Messiah so
that He could not come. He would be corrupted and there would not be a
suitable person to redeem humanity, because the Redeemer had to share in the
human bloodline to be a substitute to redeem all of humanity. But He also had
to be God. And if all of humanity's bloodline is corrupted, they cannot be
redeemed. And you're going to see this in the last days. You're going to see
fallen angels taking human wives or just sleeping with women and it's going to
cause people to become unredeemable. Now something stuck out to me while I've
been studying. And we talked about genealogies in Genesis 5, we also talked
about genealogies in Genesis 4. And remember - Adam had Cain and Abel. He had
other sons and daughters but he also had a son named Seth. (Genesis 4:26 on screen.) And then Seth had a son
named Enosh. And it says, "and in those days people began to call on the name of the
Lord." But then we know from Genesis 5 that Enoch walked with God and that he
was a teacher and that he spent time warning (Jude 1:14-16 on screen)
people about fallen humanity, about God. We know that from the book of Jude and
I'm going to put a link up here because we've already talked about it. But I
always thought that that was like a weird thing. How were people calling on
the name of God, but then not even two chapters later people are having sex
with these fallen angels - Nephilim. You would think that if you're calling on
the name of God, you have a relationship with God. But I've said this many times
you need to go back to your concordances, because when you translate languages
it does not come out word for word or you might have a bad translation. So
let's go to the concordance (Genesis 4:26 on screen) and it says in the Hebrew "to call upon the name of
the Lord" is "halal quar shem Yahweh" "Halal" means "to pierce or defile." "Quara" means to
"call or proclaim." "Shem" means "name." And then "Yahweh" is the name of God. So when Enosh
was born, or Adams grandson, people began to "proclaim" or "defile" the name of God. So
the English translation is not what the Hebrew translation says. So again, go to
your concordances when something seems amiss.
We know that the Ten Commandments one of the commandments is "do not take the name
of the Lord in vain. Don't profane (defile) the name of God." (Leviticus 19:12 & Exodus 20:7 on screen.) So what were these
people doing back in Genesis 4 where they were defiling the name of God? And
then we go to Genesis 6, it shows us what was going on. "When humans started to
increase on earth," so when Seth, his brothers and sisters, started having
children, like Enosh, and then all of the men that come through in Genesis 5. "When
humans began to increase on the face of the earth,
the sons of God, "sons of God" or "Nephilim," took human women and they had children
with them." So these fallen angels, they're taking the name of God, even
though they are fallen angels. They're not of God. They're not of
children... they're not children of God. They're not of God. They're at war with
God. They want to replace God. I'll put another link up here. That was one of the
first videos I did. But you see in other parts of the Bible, where it talks about
children of God. (Galatians 4:3-7 on screen.) We become children of God through Jesus Christ, because we are
adopted in as sons. We're not physically the sons of God. (Romans 11:17-18 on screen.) We are the adopted sons.
We are grafted in to the family of God and that's what makes us children of God.
We take his name because we've been grafted in. We've been adopted. We don't
get to take His name if we haven't been adopted into the family of God. We don't
get to take the name, if we're not grafted into the vine, the body of Christ.
Otherwise you're taking that name in vain, and you see that is exactly what
these "sons of God" were doing. They were claiming that they were "sons of God" when
they were fallen angels. They were not part of the family of God.
They were profaning and they were taking His name in vain.
"Oh, I'm part of this family" when they are trying to destroy the kingdom of God. So
when you have the ten commandments and one of the commandments is "do not take
the name of the Lord in vain" it means, "don't use this name if you're
not in this family. If you don't... if you're not part of this clique, you don't
even go here you, don't get to use the name." It's kind of like people that will
change their name to the last name of a celebrity, to kind of get that sort of
recognition, even though they're not part of that
family. They're just kind of trying to latch on. Like Spice Girl Mel B, her
husband, who she's like in the middle of a divorce, took the name "Belafonte," after
"Harry Belafonte," so that people would associate him with this celebrity, Harry
Belafonte, and think "oh, he must be related to him in some way." So it's the
same with God. "If you're not part of this family, if you're not grafted in, you're
not adopted, you don't get to use this name. So don't go around using My Name
when you're not part of Us." So we see that going on right here in Genesis 6
and in Genesis 4. People were increasing on earth,
fallen angels came down claiming to be sons of God, and people were profaning
the name of God. So we are going to get into a lot more stuff really soon this
week. I will see you on Wednesday and I would like you to like, subscribe and
share and I will talk to you later. bye!
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