Verse 18 says, For Christ, chapter 3, verse 18 of 1 Peter, For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive by the Spirit, by which, the idea is in the power of the Spirit, he also went, grammar, from one place to another and preached, now this is not evangelizo, this is not the gospel, he went and he made a proclamation, he went and preached, he proclaimed unto the spirits, this is pneuma, this is not souls in prison, now we just read twice about the angels put in prison, if you get your basic help of Vine's expository dictionary, it tells you right here that this word is speaking about fallen angels or demons and not humans, the only place we read about spirits, pneuma, referring to men in the other state is in Hebrews 12 where it talks about the spirit of just men made perfect, when we have this word, this is not talking about the souls of men, what it is saying is Jesus went in the victory of his resurrection and he proclaimed to the spirits that were in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the day of Noah, that dates it again, while the ark was preparing wherein a few, that is eight souls were saved by water, now I believe what it is saying is that Jesus, and I believe this is personally after his physical body was raised, because it says death wears thy sting, a grave wears thy victory, there was no victory to proclaim until after that, somewhere between his resurrection and his ascension, he went and not preached the gospel, you know we have the idea from, and it is a long story from Ephesians of leading the captives out, it doesn't say that, it says he led captivity, not captives, he led captivity, death itself, captive, it wasn't until the third century they put in the apostles greed that he descended into hell, it was never in there, it says he crucified under Pontius Pilate, died, rose again on the third day, they put that in there, even Calvin in his institute says that Christ suffered in hell for three days, no he didn't, on the cross he said it is finished, to tell us I paid in full, he said to the thief next to him, today you will be with me in paradise, he said father in thy hands I commend my spirit, the work was done, was paid for once and for all, no need of three more days, you have Copeland and some of these guys saying Jesus descended into hell and had to be born again to get out of hell, blasphemous, but what he did do after his resurrection is he went and made a proclamation to the fallen angels who tried to prevent the messianic line in the days of Noah and dangled the keys of life and death in front of them and proclaimed his victory, he did do that, so back in the days of Noah, Genesis, we have some very strange things going on, I don't know all about it, I know if you are honest in your exposition of it and your exegesis of it, it is a strange idea, it is an easy to deal with, it says it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and by the way if you read Morris' commentary or any of the scientists, they take the most conservative estimates, if they say, in fact Morris says if you take the average life span being 400 years, and it isn't, it is over 800, but if you take the average life span at this time of being 400 years, we have 1675 years or 1676 from Adam to the flood, and they can figure that out by the ages of the different men in this 5th chapter, if you take those years, close to 2000 years, you figure the average person lived to be 400, he lived to be older than that, and you give the average person 3 sons and 3 daughters, by the time the flood comes, and most scholars estimate between 5 and 7 billion people living on the planet, because Adam died when Lamech was 50 years old, I mean many of those born right at the beginning were still alive, it wasn't like people were dying in 70 years, so we had a tremendous population on the planet at that point in time, I think sometimes we don't realize that, it talks about daughters being born to them, that at that time, the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, the idea is to look upon desirable, and they took them, wives, women, the same word, interchangeable, it doesn't have to be wives, they took women, now the idea of taking them isn't that strange, it's a common word in the Old Testament for taking a wife, but the idea of taking all that they chose adds violence to the idea of this text, they just, whoever they picked out, whenever they picked out, they just took them for themselves, and the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, and it's interesting, in the Hebrew this is implied, and that's why it's written in King James, for that he also is flesh, speaking of these fallen angels producing something with blood, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years, now it doesn't mean that man will live to be 120, what it's saying here is, in 120 years the judgment will come, scholars are almost universally agreed about that, what God is saying is, I'm not always going to strive with man, there's a point in time where I am done striving with a man, or striving with a woman, and I believe, by the way, that that can be applied on a personal basis, if you're here this evening, and you don't know Christ personally, the only reason you could be sitting here listening to this is because the Spirit of God is striving with you, God, Jesus said, no man comes unless the Father draws him, there's no way you'd be sitting in here listening to me talking about all this weird stuff instead of being out Christmas shopping, unless God was drawing you, unless his love was set upon you, unless his affections of his very heart were upon you and your eternal destiny, but there is a point where God says, I no longer strive, it is with an individual, again, with a nation, God measuring the time, the lifespan of this nation morally, not by the calendar, and there's a point in time where God realizes there will be no more redemption out of this group of people, and then he brings judgment, so he's looking at the earth at this point in time, filled with this corruption, this mingling of fallen angels and humankind, he's looking at the violence that's produced in all of this, he's looking at the corruption and idolatry that no doubt were intricately involved with that very act of the fallen angels and women, and the cohabiting and the production of this Nephilim, these giants, and God says, I will not always strive, man also, his flesh, his days, now 120 years before the judgment comes, verse 4, there were giants in the earth in those days, now a very important phrase, and also after that, here's how it happens, when the sons of God come in unto the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, notice this, of renown, now we have in Babylon, the epic of Gilgamesh, you have in the ancient Egyptian writings, particularly in the Greek mythology, we constantly hear about the mingling of the gods and men, that's where Ulysses and Hercules, all these demigods, half man, half God, all of this intermingling produced, the mythology was born of something, and it says, and this is important, that the giants, the Nephilim, the fallen ones, it's a plural, were in the earth, not only in those days, but also after that, now this is important, if only the righteous line of Seth was preserved on the ark, where did the giants come from afterwards?