Friday, December 6, 2024

The Days of Noah

 


Below is an except from a book I am working on:

Jesus said that his coming will be like it was in the days of Noah—ὥσπερ δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (ósper dé ai imérai toú Nóe oútos éstai kaí i parousía toú yioú toú anthrópou) “As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matt. 24:37, TR). Some people think Jesus was referring to his coming at the end of the 7-year Tribulation Period, Israel’s 70th week, which is his 2nd coming or 2nd appearance. I disagree with anyone who believes this. When Jesus refers to his coming in Matthew 24:36-44 (Mk. 13:32-37; Lk. 17:26-27; 21:26-30, 34-36), he is referring to the day and hour he comes for the body of Christ (1 Thess. 4:16-17). The time leading up to the day and hour of the rapture will be similar to the world that Noah lived in before the Great Flood (Matt. 24:37; Lk. 17:26).

Before the Great Flood, there was an increase in the earth’s population—הֵחֵל הָאָדָם לָרֹב (hechel ha'adam larov) “man began to multiply” (Gen. 6:1, MT). As the rapture of the church draws near the world has experienced a great increase in its population. In the decade of Israel’s rebirth, beginning in 1940, there were about 2.3 billion people on the earth—about 70-85 million people perished because of WWII.[1] In 2024, there are more than 8 billion people on the planet.[2] So, since the decade of the rebirth of the State of Israel, men have multiplied on planet Earth by almost 6 billion in just 84 years—estimated. According to the Worldometer website, from 1700 AD to 1900 AD the earth’s population grew by less than 1 billion—1700 AD (610,000,000) – 1900 AD (1,600,000,000). So, since the endtimes officially began with the renewed statehood of Israel in the year 2024, the earth’s population has grown by almost 6 times more than the 18th and 19th centuries combined.

Before the Flood, sexual immorality and perversion were also great (Gen. 6:2). The angels saw that women were טוֹב (tov) good or pleasant. In the sense, that they were pleasurable to look at. They were beautiful. Their beauty was appealing in the eyes of the angels. The angels took any woman they wanted, they lusted after them says Enoch (Enoch 6:1-2). The angels and their offspring and man were involved in much fornication in the days of Noah (Enoch 8:2). In the time leading up to the rapture, ever since the sexual revolution began, beginning with the “silent generation” in the 1940s and 1950s,[3] and then becoming even more popular in the 1960s and 1970s,[4] a liberal mindset towards open sex emerged. Open promiscuity has led to abortion being normalized, the acceptance of gay sex, and a pronounced increase in fornication and adultery. Sexual immorality, perversion, fornication, and lust, are considered normal today. If a person is not sexually immoral, they are considered weird.

Before the Great Flood, there was also transhumanism (Gen. 6:4). As said, the angels were producing transhuman beings that were נָפִיל (nafil) giant—Nephilim. The Nephilim were both angel and human— “They were the powerful men of old, the famous men” (CSB). They were not only producing Nephilim from angel and women relationships but were, producing chimera beings,[5] like the Centaur; part man and part horse being. We have become familiar with the Centaur from Greek mythology.[6] The Greeks have also familiarized us with the Satyr and Silenus—part man and part beast creatures.[7] The Greek god Pan was also a part beast and part man creature.[8] Some people say these creatures were not real but mythical; they were a product of the Greek’s imagination. But, in the book of Jasher, it says the fallen angels were not only taking the wives of men by force to have sex with them but they also took the animals and birds and mixed their DNA to provoke Yahweh (Jasher 4:18). They would have continued this sin even after the flood. How did they do this? Most likely they did it by having sex with the animals. This sin is known as bestiality which the Scriptures forbid (Ex. 22:19; Lev. 18:23; 20:15-16; Deut. 27:21). I figure this was the case, because of the man and animal-looking creatures that the ancient Greeks and other cultures attest to. But I believe these chimeras were an angel and animal mixture because man’s sperm cannot reproduce with an animal. The different DNA structures will not allow it— “human sperm do not bind to the zona of either horse or marmoset monkey oocytes.”[9] But, it would not be impossible for an angel to reproduce with an animal. Mixing their DNA with horses and goats they could have produced Centaurs, Satyrs, and Silenus’. I perceive that even the god, Pan, was the creation of an angel’s DNA being mixed with a goat or sheep. If you doubt this theory, ask yourself: Who would have ever thought an angel could reproduce offspring with a woman? Even though some people do not believe angels can reproduce with women Scripture and extra-biblical material records they can. 

While I briefly mention the existence of Centaurs, Satyr, Silenus, and the god Pan, we also have to consider what the prophet Ezekiel saw. He describes four living creatures (angels) who looked like men, but each had four faces (Ezek. 1:5-24): “Their faces looked something like the face of a human, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle” (Ezek. 1:10, CSB). Each angel had four wings (Ezek. 1:6b), and their feet looked like calf’s feet (Ezek. 1:7). The four living creatures that surround the throne of God Almighty look the same as what Ezekiel saw in visions while in Babylon (Rev. 4:6b-8). Everyone knows in this era, the generation that will witness the coming of the Son of Man, scientists are using technology to increase human capabilities. Transhumanist goals are to create a species that transcends man, calling it “posthuman.”[10] Bestiality is also common in today’s world. Today and the days of Noah have all these things in common.

Jesus also stated, and Matthew recorded it, that in the days of Noah people were τρώγοντες καὶ πίνοντες (trógontes kaí pínontes) “eating and drinking” (Matt. 24:38a, mGNT). But could this mean something more than they were only eating and drinking to sustain strength and health? When we read Luke’s record in most English translations of this statement it reads similar to Matthew’s record: “They did eat, they drank” (Lk. 17:27a, KJV). But in both the Morphological Greek New Testament (mGNT) and the Textus Receptus (TR), Luke records ἤσθιον ἔπινον (ísthion épinon) “host of wine.” When I Googled the meaning of “host of wine” they gave meanings like, someone bringing wine to a party and handing it to the host as a gift. But in the days before the Great Flood, and when Luke recorded the words of Jesus, the host of wine meant something contrary to today’s meaning. In ancient times hosting wine was to celebrate the gods by getting drunk; it was a religious act: “The altered consciousness produced by wine has been considered religious since its origin. The ancient Greeks worshiped Dionysus or Bacchus and the Ancient Romans carried on his cult.”[11] So, Luke likely recorded this phrase as he did, because of the negative connotation of using wine in ancient times to worship the gods. This phrase, ísthion épinon (host of wine), may have also been a negative phrase meaning, the consumption of a great quantity or an abundance of alcohol. It had to have been a negative connotation for Jesus to make this statement, considering the actual meaning of his next statement “marrying and giving in marriage,” which I will interpret below under the heading Nephilim. So, what was meant by trógontes kaí pínontes “eating and drinking,” was that before the Great Flood people were eating and drinking in excess, as much as they could. What is a popular pastime of people in the Western world in this generation? They eat and drink in excess. They party. They have fun as they live life to the full.

When we look deeper into Scripture and combine our study with extra-biblical literature, one cannot help but notice what else was happening before the Great Flood. Moses recorded that man was very wicked before the flood, and every creature pondered evil all the time: וַיַּרְא יְהוָה כִּי רַבָּה רָעַת הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ וְכָל־יֵצֶר מַחְשְׁבֹת לִבּוֹ רַק רַע כָּל־הַיּוֹם (wayyar yehiva khi rabea ra'at ha'adam beaaretz vechal-yitzer machshovot libo rak ra khal-hayom) “And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and that every creature's heart thought only evil all day long” (Gen. 6:5, MT[12]). It seems, that Moses was referring to two different beings who were wicked and had hearts filled with evil. The first was man, and the second was every creature. English Bibles give the impression that Moses was only referring to man but, the Masoretic Text gives the impression that Moses was not only referring to man but creatures besides man. The Septuagint translation is similar to many English Bibles. The Septuagint translated from Greek to English reads: “But the Lord God saw that the wickedness of men had multiplied on the earth, and he pondered them all in his heart diligently for the wickedness of all days.” What were these creatures Moses was referring to? He was referring to the Nephilim. 

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(DeeDee51)


[9] Horse and marmoset monkey sperm bind to the zona pellucida of salt-stored human oocytes

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1915955/#:~:text=In%20contrast%2C%20human%20sperm%20do,horse%20or%20marmoset%20monkey%20oocytes.

[12] MT—Masoretic Text 


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