Wickedness Winning

The line of Seth, here called the sons of God, begin to mix themselves with the line of Cain, called the daughters of men. The Seth’s righteous line that had not been absorbed and overwhelmed by wickedness had now begun to mix with and be absorbed by the descendants of the murderer, Cain.

We don’t know how long this took but I doubt it was sudden instead I’m sure it was gradual almost unnoticeable at first. In the immediate generations before Noah we have two outstanding individuals on each side of lines of mankind. Enoch and Lamech. Enoch is the seventh from Adam and he represents the apex of the sons of Seth. While on the other side we have Lamech, the seventh from Cain who seems to represent the apex of wickedness. Lamech is the first bigamist mentioned in the Bible and he takes such joy at having killed a man that he writes a poem,   

Genesis 4:23-24 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice;
ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
For I have slain a man to my wounding,
And a young man to my hurt.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

It seems he’s saying he is greater than Cain because he killed this young man.

From our text it appears that the final trigger to God’s unleashing the greatest judgment known to the world at that time was the line of Seth failing.

In 6v3 “The LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” In one hundred and twenty years the flood would come and man who is imbued with the spirit of God, will die because he is also a creature of flesh.

The narrative goes on, in Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast,

Let’s talk just a moment about this phrase, the sons of God. Some believe it describes the angels of God as mentioned in the book of Job. Others that this refers to the righteous line of Seth. The word “giant” in Hebrew is Nephilim and it literally means a bully or a tyrant, a giant. The simplest explanation for this phrase is that they are the sons of Seth and that some of their mixed descendants were both giants in stature and in reputation.

They finally summation that God gives before He takes action is “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

This causes God to “repent.” This word is Nāḥam. It describes the love of God that has suffered heart-rending disappointment. Literally, it speaks of taking a deep breath in extreme pain and this is what the Bible says, “it grieved Him at his heart.” He was not sorry He made a mistake, for God makes no mistakes, but He was sorrowful at the mistakes man had made and the sin that now overflowed and corrupted His creation.

Wickedness Winning Today

It is not hard to see the parallels between the age of Enoch and Noah and our own age. When we read, Genesis 6:5 “every imagination of the thoughts of (man’s) heart was only evil continually.” How many instances from just this past week spring to mind?

Let me share with you some headlines from my news feed.  Just listen to these headlines.

Doctor endorses idea of suicide through organ donation.

Florida physician allegedly called for the unvaccinated to be shot to death in a Nazi-style firing line

New Zealand virgin auctions herself for college tuition

This isn’t a headline but it was written in a homosexual newspaper, "We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, ...wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us. All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our holy gods are handsome young men. ...We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed..." - Michael Swift - Boston Gay Community News - February 15-21, 1987

Pro-LGBT Publication Argues That ‘Queer’ Public Sex Should Be Permitted By Society

June is now Gay Pride and History Month In the United States

2021 Poll: 39 per cent of 18-24 year olds now identify as LGBTQ.

50 percent of young adults aged twenty to forty cohabiting in 2010, living together in fornication rather than getting married.

Fewer Than Half of American Children Grow Up In Intact Families, meaning families that were never divorced.

More than half of the women who are murdered in the US are killed as a result of romantic partner violence.

2019 80 Year-Old Abortionist Has Killed Over 80,000 Babies in Abortions

2016 According to a majority of American adults (57%), knowing what is right or wrong is a matter of personal experience. This view is much more prevalent among younger generations than among older adults. Three-quarters of Millennials (74%) agree strongly or somewhat with the statement, “Whatever is right for your life or works best for you is the only truth you can know.”

Read Genesis 6:5 once more, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

God saw man's wickedness and God acted in overwhelming judgment against the unbridled, unlimited, unceasing sin of the first age of mankind.