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Title: PreFlood Civilization


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Pre-Flood Civilization
  • Gen 4-5 and Selected
  • In the Beginning series Part 5 of 10

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
May 25, 2008
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  • Nehemiah 96 You alone are the LORD. You made the
    heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their
    starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the
    seas and all that is in them. You give life to
    everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship
    you.

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Review
  • God created bara and energized the entire
    universe
  • Days of creation were literal 24 hr days NOT long
    periods of time
  • Man placed in Eden, a paradise, the perfect
    environment
  • God instituted the marriage covenant between a
    man a woman
  • Adam disobeyed God plunging the entire human race
    into sin
  • God provided redemption through His Son Jesus

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1. Population Explosion
  • Genesis 41-2 1 Adam lay with his wife Eve, and
    she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She
    said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought
    forth a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his
    brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain
    worked the soil.

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1. Population Explosion
  • Pre-flood life expectancy was 912 years, why?
  • Canopy effect provided temperate climate while
    providing Hyperbaric pressure and also filtering
    of harmful radiation
  • Genetic purity with few accumulated mutant genes
    (good DNA)
  • Absence of disease producing organisms
  • Tradition says Adam Eve had 33 sons and 27
    daughters 60 children total
  • Estimated pre-flood population of 5-17 billion
    people (1656 yrs)

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2. Technology Explosion
  • Genesis 420, 22 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal he
    was the father of those who live in tents and
    raise livestock 22 Zillah also had a son,
    Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of
    bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
  • Jabal producer modern day Wal-Mart
    businessman
  • Tubal-Cain to flow produced metal tools,
    weapons, industry

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How advanced was the pre-flood world?
  • Electric dry cell batteries discovered Baghdad
  • Cut crystal lenses (electro-chemical process)
    Egypt, Iraq
  • Parts of a belt made of aluminum China
  • Large ancient concrete constructions Bolivia
  • Tektites, radio-active aluminum isotopes
    Lebanon
  • Various items found in underground coal rock
    veins

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3. Cultural Explosion
  • Genesis 417 Cain lay with his wife, and she
    became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was
    then building a city, and he named it after his
    son Enoch.
  • Genesis 421 His brother's name was Jubal he was
    the father of all who play the harp and flute.

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3. Cultural Explosion
  • Cain defied God and built a city gathering of
    people
  • Jubal joyful sound harp and flute, musical
    instruments
  • Affluent, prosperous, self-indulgent, good life
    society
  • Entertain industry, inordinate devotion to
    pleasure comfort
  • Communicated with a common and written language
    Gen 51,111
  • No organized system of laws/govt for controlling
    human conduct

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4. Wickedness Explosion
  • Genesis 65 The LORD saw how great man's
    wickedness on the earth had become, and that
    every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
    was only evil all the time.
  • First murder, Cain killed his brother Abel
  • Lamech had two wives Adah ornament and Zillah
    seductress

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4. Wickedness Explosion
  • Breakdown of family values, high divorce rates,
    immorality
  • Destructive false philosophies, satanic
    activity/occult practices
  • Nephilim fallen ones cohabiting with women
    Gen 61-4 Job 16, 21, 387 Jude 16-7 1Pet
    318-22 2Pet 24-5 39 Num 1333
  • Earth filled with wickedness, evil, corruption,
    violence, rebellion, lawlessness, spiritual
    darkness Gen 65,11,13

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5. Hope in the midst of despair
  • Enoch walked with God God took him
  • Genesis 524 Enoch walked with God then he was
    no more, because God took him away.
  • Hebrews 115 By faith Enoch was taken from this
    life, so that he did not experience death he
    could not be found, because God had taken him
    away. For before he was taken, he was commended
    as one who pleased God.

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5. Hope in the midst of despair
  • Noah found grace righteous blameless
  • Genesis 68 But Noah found favor in the eyes of
    the LORD.
  • Hebrews 117 By faith Noah, when warned about
    things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to
    save his family. By his faith he condemned the
    world and became heir of the righteousness that
    comes by faith.

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Matthew 2444 So you also must be ready, because
the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do
not expect him. Are you ready if Christ returns
today?
  • Luke 1726-27 26 "Just as it was in the days of
    Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son
    of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying
    and being given in marriage up to the day Noah
    entered the ark. Then the flood came and
    destroyed them all.

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