Understanding the Path: As It Was in the Days of Noah

Every once in a while, you hear something that doesn’t necessarily give you brand-new information, but suddenly causes information you already had to fall into place. That happened to me recently. I was listening to a long interview dealing with the Nephilim, ancient cultures, the supernatural realm, and the influence that spiritual darkness has had upon mankind throughout history. I already knew much of what was being discussed, but somewhere along the way I had one of those aha moments. Something clicked. I began to see a possible path from Genesis to what Scripture tells us is still ahead.

Think of it as a timeline. At the far end of that timeline is the battle of Armageddon. Somewhere considerably before that point, put another mark representing where we are today. Now ask a question that has puzzled me since I was young: Why would Satan ever believe he could assemble an army capable of contending with God?

On the surface, the very idea sounds absurd. God is God. Satan is a created being. How could Satan possibly imagine that an army gathered from the nations of the earth could stand against Almighty God? Yet Scripture tells us that a day is coming when the kings of the earth and their armies will actually gather for battle. So whether their confidence is reasonable or not isn’t really the question. Somehow, they will believe they can do it.

That caused me to look backward.

Jesus made an extraordinary statement concerning the days preceding His return: “As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” We often hear that verse applied to the wickedness of Noah’s generation, and certainly wickedness was present. But Genesis 6 describes something even more disturbing. It describes a world in which mankind had become profoundly corrupted and where the boundary between the human and supernatural realms had been violated.

That world became so corrupted that God’s judgment came upon it through the Flood, while Noah and those God had set apart were preserved.

So I began asking a different question. When Jesus said it would be as it was in the days of Noah, could there be more involved than ordinary human wickedness? Could we eventually see attempts to corrupt God’s created order again?

That question caused me to look at our present world differently.

Consider what is happening around us. Artificial intelligence is advancing at astonishing speed. Genetic engineering and biotechnology are moving into territory previous generations could scarcely have imagined. Governments are openly discussing unexplained aerial phenomena that would once have been dismissed immediately. Scientists are exploring ways of altering human biology, extending life, interfacing human beings with machines, and manipulating the fundamental building blocks of living things.

None of those developments, by themselves, prove that Genesis 6 is being repeated. Neither should every technological advancement be labeled demonic simply because it is new or powerful. But neither do I believe the Church should be asleep. There is a difference between being frightened by the headlines and watching the headlines through the lens of Scripture.

That is where my aha moment came.

What if the enemy’s strategy is not merely to make mankind more sinful? What if his ancient desire is still corruption—corrupting what God created, distorting God’s order, and ultimately producing a civilization increasingly separated from the Creator while simultaneously reaching for powers mankind was never intended to possess apart from Him?

God created mankind in His image. That fact suddenly stood out to me. Is the enemy trying to create an army in his image?

Genesis tells us that God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Humanity therefore carries something extraordinarily important: we are God’s creation, made according to His design.

Genesis 6 then gives us the strange account of the sons of God, the daughters of men, and the Nephilim. Whatever conclusions we reach concerning all the details of that difficult passage, the chapter clearly presents a world experiencing profound corruption before God’s judgment came. And then Jesus points us back toward Noah.

That connection deserves our attention.

I cannot tell you that today’s reports about UFOs, genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, or alleged hybrids prove that fallen angels are presently recreating the Nephilim. There are researchers who make those claims, and their evidence should be examined carefully rather than accepted merely because it sounds supernatural. But I can tell you this: the direction of mankind matters.

We are watching human beings increasingly ask questions that once belonged only to science fiction. Can we redesign ourselves? Can we merge ourselves with machines? Can we overcome biological limitations? Can intelligence exist apart from biological humanity? Can we alter the human genome? Can mankind become something beyond what mankind has always been?

Those questions make the words of Jesus particularly interesting to me.

As it was in the days of Noah.

Then there is Goliath.

We usually meet Goliath when we are children. He becomes the giant in the wonderful story about the shepherd boy who trusted God. David takes five smooth stones, confronts the giant, and wins. But when we grow older and study Scripture more carefully, we discover that Goliath belonged to a much larger biblical story involving giants and peoples associated with extraordinary size and strength.

—> Suddenly David and Goliath isn’t merely a children’s story.

It is another reminder that the Bible describes things considerably stranger than the modern Western mind is sometimes comfortable acknowledging!

And that brings me back to the timeline.

I do not know exactly what the world will look like immediately before Armageddon. I don’t know how advanced technology will become. I don’t know how much of what people presently claim about hybrids or nonhuman intelligences will ultimately prove true, false, misunderstood, or deliberately deceptive. But I believe I understand the direction more clearly than I did before.

That realization removed some confusion for me. Instead of looking at every strange development individually and wondering, What in the world does this have to do with anything?, I can step farther back and look at the larger biblical picture.

I can watch. I can pray. I can test what I hear against Scripture.

The purpose of studying these things isn’t to become fascinated with darkness. It isn’t to make Satan appear bigger than he is. And it certainly isn’t to make Christians afraid of what may be coming. Quite the opposite.

If Scripture has already told us that difficult and unusual days will come, then recognizing them should not produce panic. It should produce discernment, prayer, steadiness, and confidence in God. Perhaps that is what changed for me. I didn’t suddenly receive all the answers. I simply began to see the path. And once you can see the path, you can watch where you’re walking.

I will continue sharing some of the things I discover along the way. You don’t have to accept every conclusion I reach, and I don’t want you to. Take these things before the Lord. Search the Scriptures. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Ask questions. Test what you hear.

I simply want to help people watch. Because whatever the days ahead eventually look like, I suspect they are going to be very interesting days indeed.

[below is a link to the video i was listening to that gave me deeper understanding… you’ll need some coffee. lol]

#end times, #nephilim,

https://youtu.be/VqlAg3Ua2YA?is=APwZX9a2XOSWyS0J

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