Noah: Faith Filled Work, Part 1 (Hebrews 11:7) | Sunday Worship Service

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This frigid January morning would you please stand as we sing. We're going to open up this morning singing the doxology.

This first set this morning we're gonna sing Jesus name above all names.

You may be seated and just two brief announcements for you. We have our conference with Justin Peters coming up this next Friday and we're gonna start promptly at 6 p .m. And there will be snacks provided for the evening session as well as for Saturday.

But it's not gonna be a meal like we've typically had for the conferences in the past. It's just gonna be. We call it robust snacks I guess. So if you are showing up expecting like a full meal you will.

This would be disappointed. If you show up and you're kind of hungry but you could do without a meal then you'll be satisfied by the snacks. Just want to temper your expectations a little bit for that.

And for Saturday morning as well. And there will be child care available if you are interested in it. But you need to let us know because there are some others who are trying to put together sort of a rotating shift of child care in the nursery for that conference.

So if you'd like to participate in that please let Kathy or Marcia or myself know. And we have our annual business meeting coming up on February 6th and that's a potluck. And just want to make you aware of that you can set that on your calendar and plan to attend be here with us for a potluck as well as a business meeting that is to follow and you do not have to be a member to come to the business meeting.

We encourage anybody who considers Kootenai Community Church to be their home church to be here for that business meeting after the potluck on that day please turn to in the end of your New Testament to the book of 2nd Peter for the scripture reading 2nd Peter chapter 3 2nd Peter chapter 3.

And we're gonna read together this entire chapter. 2nd Peter 3. This is now beloved. The second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the Holy Prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your Apostles.

Know this first of all that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking following after their own lusts and saying where's the promise of his coming. For ever since the fathers fell asleep all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.

For when they maintain this it escapes their notice that by the Word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water through which the world at that time was destroyed being flooded with water.

But by his word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not let this one fact escape your notice beloved with the Lord.

One day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day the Lord is not slow about his promises some count slowness but is patient toward you not wishing for any to perish before all to come to repentance.

But the day the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up since all these things are to be destroyed in this way.

What sort of people are you to be in holy conduct and godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning and the elements will melt with intense heat.

But according to his promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore beloved since you look for these things be diligent to be found by him in peace spotless and blameless and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation just as also our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given him wrote to you and also in all his letters speaking in them of things these things in which are some things hard to understand which the untaught and unstable distort as they do also the rest of the scriptures to their own destruction.

You therefore beloved knowing this beforehand be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.

Amen. We stand with me as we pray our heads our father. We thank you that you have saved all of us who have trusted in your son from the fiery cataclysmic judgment which is to come. We know that it is not a destruction by fire and punishment in fire that awaits those who belong to you but rather an eternity of joy and bliss and happiness and grace and glory at your right hand.

And you have accomplished this and secured this salvation on our behalf through your son and his work. And we are grateful for that. We thank you for it. We thank you that by your grace we are among your elect that we have come to a saving knowledge of Christ by your grace and the work of your Holy Spirit.

And so we can give you honor and praise and glory for that salvation. And we pray that you would make us wise stewards and proclaimers of the mysteries of the gospel to the world around us. For this is the fiery destruction that awaits all the ungodly and this present creation.

We know that it is being held by your word as it is waiting for the destruction and the burning the fire and the judgment that is to come. And just as there was a destruction of the entire world by water in the past there will be a destruction of this entire world by fire in the future.

And so our hope and our confidence rests beyond that to a new heavens and a new earth as we just read Peter described. And we pray that in the midst of this ungodly world surrounded by false teachers by mockers by those who hate you by governments and government officials who wage war against your truth and deny reality.

We pray that you would make us faithful bold united and truthful proclaimers of your truth make us preachers of righteousness in our own generation. That you would be honored and glorified through us your church both now and forever.

We pray in Christ's name.

The Blood of Christ and Redemption by Faith

Show his mercy all and spirit and flame. Chainsmell condemnation. Now I dread Jesus and all in him is mine alive in him my living head and clothed in just nasty. In first Peter chapter 1 verses 18 and 19 it says knowing that.

You are not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your futile conduct inherited from your forefathers but with precious blood as of a lamb unblemished and spotless the blood of Christ.

And what fights of love are still when striving speaks my cup. I stand God in head I just let us not in the ground. His body laid light of the world by darkness slain. Thanks. First cry I did. And now please turn to the 11th chapter.

Of the book of Hebrews Hebrews chapter 11 we're gonna read together just verse 7 actually read beginning of verse 3 we read 3 3 through verse 7. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God so that what a scene was not made out of things which are visible by faith.

Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous God testifying about his gifts. And through faith though he is dead he still speaks by faith.

Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death and he was not found because God took him up for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God and without faith that is impossible to please him.

For he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him by faith. Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Let's pray together our father. We do ask now your blessing upon our study our our reading of your word the preaching of your word our contemplation and meditation on these holy things. We pray that you would help us to learn the appropriate lessons from the life of Noah and to treat your word with the reverence that it is due and may everything that is said in our hearts and minds and everything that is said here from this pulpit today be honoring and glorifying to your most holy name we pray in Christ's name Amen.

Noah as a Hero of Faith and a Familiar Biblical Figure

The next hero of the faith that we find in Hebrews chapter 11 is Noah. Now personally Noah is probably one of my favorite Old Testament characters. In fact of all of the people that are listed in Hebrews chapter 11 I find Noah to be personally one of the most intriguing characters out of them all.

If you were to ask a random garden variety pagan that you would encounter on the street to give you some detailed information about the lives of say Abraham and Moses and Noah you would probably find that most people would know more about Noah than they would of any other Old Testament character simply because his life was so unique in so many ways.

And there are so many features of his life that that stand out to us he just captures our imagination. If you were to I don't know what people would say if you ask them just a random person give me some details about Abraham.

I don't know if most of them would even be able to know anything other than yeah he's a character in the Bible. I think he was Jewish. That's probably it. If you ask them about Moses they would probably think yeah he was.

I think he was on the boat that Noah built right. And he parted the the waters and the two by two animals walked through on dry ground into the promised land. It was something like that right. The Lord told him to cast your net out on the right hand side and he brought in nets full of fish that were too much and the nets were breaking.

And then Noah got out and walked on the water to Jesus right. Was that it. That's sort of the confusion that exists in the minds of most people. But with Noah most people understand who Noah was and they're familiar at least with the story of the ark and the end the animals coming in two by two and a worldwide flood.

They are probably most people familiar with Noah. He has a way of capturing our imagination. And honestly if you are going to write vacation Bible school curriculum or youth group curriculum or Sunday school curriculum don't you have to include the story of Noah then that just like this default you know you put Noah in your five-day curriculum for VBS.

You're not sure who else you can put in there but Noah has to get in there because it's very easy to use Noah to capture the imagination the attention of children you have your Betty Lukins felt. And you put the little people up on the board and the water sort of over top of me drag the people off the bottom screaming the waters come on people drowned.

And every kid in the class is going to sit there and wrapped attention with their eyes wide open and you've got their attention. And then you can give them the details that this is a judgment from God.

Most people know the story of Noah and as widely known as he is he is equally as widely mocked and scoffed at because unbelievers though they would know many of the salient details of the story of Noah they also mock all of the major features of Noah's life.

In the end the account and the episode as recorded in Scripture. They mock the idea that there could have ever been a time in the history of the world where the waters surpass the mountaintops. Of course what they fail to understand is that the mountains as they exist now didn't exist in the days of Noah.

The mountains that exist now are the result of tectonic plates crashing into one another at high speeds and pushing mountain ranges up out of the water. None of the mountains around us in this present world existed in Noah's day.

They fail to recognize that the idea that God would judge all people for their sin they mock. And they scoff at that. The fact that God would command Noah to build an ark and that this boat could fit all of the various kinds of animals that we have on the face of the planet.

That's something that is worthy of your scoffing. And then the idea that that all of all of creation would be wiped out. All living creatures would be wiped out except just those ones on that boat. And that this was a worldwide flood and that everything would be wiped out.

And that stepping off of that boat would just be Noah and his immediate family those eight people. And that the whole world's been populated from just those eight people. That sounds quite ridiculous.

And mockers and scoffers scoff at that. And these are all the things that make Noah unique. That God commanded him to build an ark. That Noah in faith and in reverence built that ark. That God brought animals of every kind to that boat and they went on to that ship.

And that God sent a worldwide flood that covered all of the the globe and that everything was wiped out all living creatures. All those things make Noah's story unique. And then that he stepped off of that boat and that the only people on the face of the whole planet were him and his immediate family Noah and his wife his three sons and their wives.

Only eight people on the entire globe. Be honest with yourself haven't there been times in your life when you thought you know that wouldn't be such a bad gig just eight of us until you realize that you can't have doctors and dentists and all the stuff that you rely upon anything.

Okay maybe more than just eight maybe 50 or 60 people. Noah is a very singularly unique figure in all of the Old Testament. And you know why scoffers mock at it. Because scoffers do not want to admit that there are judgments like that against sin.

Because if there are judgments like that against sin then that means that there was a judgment like that in the past. And if there was a judgment like that in the past because there are judgments like that against sin in the present then there might be a judgment like that in the future.

And because they desire to deny that there can be any judgment to come they find it much easier to do that if they can deny that there has ever been a judgment like that in the past. And so really as 2nd Peter chapter 3 described we read here a few moments ago really they are seeking after their own lust and trying to satisfy their own lust driven by their own lust and their sin.

That is why scoffers scoff at the tale of of Noah. He is our third example in Hebrews. And he follows along chronologically after the first two Abel and Enoch. Abel was an example of one who worshiped God in faith.

Enoch an example of one who walked with God in faith. And now Noah an example of one who works for God in faith. And it is his work of building that arc for the salvation of his family. That is the focus of our writer here in Hebrews chapter 11 in contrast to Abel and Enoch scripture gives us a lot more detail about Noah.

Okay Abel it gets most of a chapter chapter 4 in the book of Genesis a lot of details about him and his brother and being killed by Cain we get some details of that. Enoch is relatively brief mention in Genesis chapter 5.

But then we get to Noah and we get Genesis 6 and 7 8 and 9 and he's even mentioned in 10. And really the the passage beginning in Genesis 5 all the way through Genesis 11 and 12 traces the lineage from Adam all the way through to Abraham.

That's the point of those all those chapters. And so it's really this godly lineage that's being traced through the book of Genesis particularly in Genesis chapter 5. The next hero of our faith that we are introduced to later on in Hebrews 11 is Abraham.

And more attention is given to him more details given to him in Hebrews 11. And consequently the rest of the book of Genesis after chapter 12 from 12 through the end is really about Abraham and his immediate descendants his children and his grandchildren.

So before we jump back into Genesis to look at Noah I want you to see in verse 7 of Hebrews 11 briefly notice the significance that the author makes of Noah there Hebrews 11 verse 7 by faith Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

There are two significant things that are written concerning Noah there two phrases that really describe him. First he was warned about things not yet seen. And later on when we come back to Hebrews chapter 11 we'll see what the author is describing there.

He was warned about things not yet seen. And then his act of building the ark was done in reverence. This describes his attitude his demeanor the the position of his heart. He did this act of obedience in reverence.

And then there are three things that his faith accomplished there. Number one he prepared an ark for the salvation of his household. And that's not spiritual salvation is described there. It is the preservation from the judgment that was taking place at the flood.

Second he condemned the world. In other words his act of faith in the building of the ark was itself a testimony of condemnation to the ungodly world around him. And then third he became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

So his faith moved him to prepare an ark by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Those are the three things we're gonna keep in mind just today as we go back to Genesis chapter 6.

Noah, the Flood, and the Historical Reality of Genesis

So turn your Bibles back to the 6th chapter of Genesis. Genesis chapter 6 and we're going to even though we could go through Genesis 6 7 8 and 9 there's really that's not the goal of this message. And I said to you several weeks ago when we're started Hebrews chapter 11 that one of the challenges in preaching through this list of the heroes of the faith is how deep do we dive back into their original context that that without losing sight of Hebrews chapter 11.

And I think I think the balance that I'm going to try and strike is to basically describe in in brief detail some of that historical context as we encounter the details in Hebrew 11 without really taking sort of a miniseries on Noah from Genesis.

So we're just going to be looking today at Genesis 6 even though all of the details of Noah's life would encapsulate Genesis 6 through 9. Genesis chapter 6 let me set a little bit of the historical context.

Last time we were in Genesis was back in chapter 5 when we looked at Enoch and that of course was just a genealogy that traces the lineage of Adam all the way through to the time of Noah and we noticed there that it is a chronological genealogy.

In other words he gives us names of people and how long they lived and when they bore a son and how long that son lived and then when that son bore a son etc. The purpose of that seems to be that you and I would be able to date the events and the people's lives prior to the flood.

We can date the flood from Abraham. We know when Abraham lived we can date the flood from Abraham and then beginning in Genesis 5 we can go back and we can date creation. If we take Genesis seriously as history we can date creation from the time with not not precisely I'm talking day of the week or anything but we are talking about a pretty precise date in terms of the years that creation has been around.

This puts Noah in a historical context among other historical figures and he is in the line of Seth. Seth was the godly descendant of Adam and Eve and not everybody in Seth's lineage would have been a believer.

We're not to assume that nor we to assume that everybody who was born of Seth's line was a believer or that every single person mentioned in Genesis 5 was necessarily a believer but we can presume that most of them would have been believers and that this knowledge and understanding of who God is and the worship of the one true God Yahweh would have been passed down from generation to generation and that would have been very easy to do because as we date the lifespans of these peoples these patriarchs who lived in Genesis chapter 5 we see lifespans that overlapped one another.

Just give you a couple of significant things that I mentioned a few weeks ago when we're looking at Enoch. Enoch is Noah's great-grandfather. Enoch the one who was taken he is Noah's great-grandfather he was a prophet.

Enoch begat Methuselah. Methuselah begat Lamech and Lamech begat Noah. Methuselah lived to be 696 years old that is the longest recorded lifespan in the Bible that is not to say that nobody lived longer than 969 years it is to say that the longest recorded lifespan in scripture was 969 years that's verse 27 of chapter 5.

Noah was alive for approximately a hundred years during the lifespan of Adam's grandson so remember you had Adam and then Seth and then Enoch and his Enoch's life would have overlapped the life of Noah by a hundred years.

Enoch lived a long time and so Noah would have been alive at the time of his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Enoch the one who was taken would have been taken before Noah was born so he never would have known Enoch but he would have known his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather or we said we should say he could have known his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Enoch because their lives would have overlapped.

Methuselah lived up until the time the day sorry the year that the flood came. Methuselah lived up to the year of the flood. Methuselah's son Lamech died four years prior to the flood and Methuselah would have outlived his son Lamech by four years and he would have died the year that the flood came.

Though all of these patriarchs in Genesis chapter 5 lived long lives it is important to remember that none of them except Noah and his three sons Ham, Shem, Ham, and Japheth were alive at the time that the flood came.

All in Genesis 5 had already died prior to the worldwide flood which means Noah and Noah alone would have been a righteous and godly man amongst all those who lived at that time. As you're listening to me preach on all this and remind you some of these things you're probably thinking to yourself Jim it sounds like you're taking Genesis as literal history and I am taking Genesis as literal history because it is literal history.

There is nothing in Genesis from chapter 1 verse 1 all the way through the end of the book that would suggest that we should take it as another edition of Aesop's fables or a myth or an allegory or just a story told with a moral point or anything like that.

To take Genesis as literal history there is no contextual reason to regard it otherwise. And the New Testament affirms the account of Noah and the account of a worldwide flood and the account of the ark.

Jesus himself said in Luke chapter 17 just as it happened in the days of Noah so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man. They that is those alive in the days of Noah they were eating they were drinking they were marrying they were being given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

It's also in Matthew chapter 24 verses 37 to 38. Peter who was trained by Jesus also believed that Noah was a historical figure and that the flood was a worldwide flood and that it was a literal historical event just as recorded in Genesis.

Peter in 1st Peter 3 verse 20 refers to those who were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah during the construction of the ark in which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through the water.

2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 5 said God did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness with seven others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. And then the passage that we read earlier 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 6 describes the world that at that time was destroyed being flooded with water.

So Peter three times mentions Noah and the construction of the ark and the worldwide flood. Jesus mentioned it and said that the days of his coming will be just like the days prior to the great worldwide flood.

And this world if you look at it bears the marks of destruction. We take Genesis as history because you and I can look around it and we see everywhere the evidence of a global catastrophe. The mountain ranges, the fossil beds, all of it is an evidence of a global catastrophe.

If there had been a worldwide flood do you know what we'd expect to see everywhere we look? We would expect to see billions of dead things laid down in rock layers covered by water all over the earth.

And you know what we find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. Fish fossils on top of mountain ranges. How do you get that? Only by a worldwide flood. How do you get massive oil deposits and natural gas deposits?

A worldwide flood. How do you get coal beds? Worldwide flood. How do you get fossils? It's a worldwide flood. So Jesus was right, Peter was right, Moses was right. Genesis is literal actual history. Now let's look at the cause of the flood.

The Corruption and Violence of Noah’s Day

All of that's just an introduction to the introduction of Genesis 6. We're going to go through Genesis 6 and see how some of these things that the author of Hebrews highlights in Hebrews chapter 11 where he draws them from out of the narrative here.

Genesis 6 verse 1. Now it came about when men began to multiply in the face of the land and daughters were born to them that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they took wives for themselves whomever they chose.

Now notice verse 1 talks about men beginning to multiply in the face of the land. We're talking about a multiplication. He's talking about people here and populations increasing and we have every reason to believe that populations increasing prior to the time of the flood that that population increase would have been substantial.

If your notion of the world before the flood is a few tribes sort of scattered around with a couple thousand people in each of these tribes that was covered by water by Noah's time, you have a wrong idea of what life was like before the flood.

We have every reason to believe that there were millions, possibly probably hundreds of millions of people who were wiped out by the worldwide flood. Not a couple of tribes of people, a few hundred at a time out in the plains of Shinar somewhere, but millions upon millions of people.

You know how there could have been millions upon millions of people from creation all the way through to the flood? A couple of different things. Number one, you had expanded lifespans. Remember you had people living to be 800, 900, 700 years old, 600 years old.

That was relatively common prior to the flood. It was common prior to the flood. How many people do you think Bethuselah could have fathered if he lived to be 600, 969 years old? I mean, I fathered four, right?

And was it intentional to stop at four? I fathered four and I'm 50 years old. It's possible that Methuselah could have fathered 50 children. That'd be, I think, a conservative estimate. What if all of Methuselah's, and remember all the descendants of these men are also living long lifespans.

So what if Methuselah's 50 kids each had 50 kids? Methuselah would have how many grandchildren? 2 ,500 grandchildren? That's just the next generation after him. If he lives to be 969 years old, it's conceivable that some of these men that are mentioned in Genesis chapter 5 would have lived to see hundreds of thousands of their descendants, more than they could probably name or remember.

It's an interesting Christmas celebration, Thanksgiving celebration. Not that they had Christmas and Thanksgiving back then, but the family gatherings. Eventually there comes a point where you just stop buying presents for your grandkids, for anything.

You don't recognize them. You don't remember when they were born, you're not even sure of their exact lineage, right? I'm not sure who's great-great-great great-grandson you are or how you come back to me, but if you say that I'm your grandpa, I guess.

And many people had multiple wives at that time. We know from Genesis chapter 4 that Cain's son Lamech had two wives. Sexual immorality and promiscuity were widespread back then. So it's entirely conceivable that one man could live to see hundreds of thousands of his own descendants.

The worldwide flood would have wiped out hundreds of millions of people, which means that when Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord and only eight people were saved, what do you think life was like in Noah's day when there were eight righteous persons?

It's a different world than you and I can possibly conceive of, isn't it? You think it's wicked today? I do, but I don't think today is. I don't think. How would I say this? Without mentioning anybody in particular, I think that the sin of our day is at some point going to parallel that of Noah's day, but I think you and I, even in the wicked world in which we have, in which there are so many, so much restraining influence, we have a hard time understanding just how wicked it would have been in Noah's day.

And it goes on to mention that in the text here. First of all, we have an increasing population, and then also one of the things, there would have been established civilizations in Noah's day. We know that Cain built a city, and there was city, there was metallurgy, there was music, there was flock keeping, there was all these kinds of industry and commerce prior to the flood.

Millions of people engaging in commerce, building cities, establishing civilizations. You see remnants of that type of pre-flood technology in the world today, in the civilizations that sprung up right after the flood, that knowledge from Noah and his sons was preserved even in the Mayan Empire and in the Egyptian Empire and others, that they built these massive buildings.

This is all pre-flood knowledge and technology that would have come through Noah and his sons and been preserved, and then probably reestablished really quickly after the flood. Now, there is this comment in verse 2 that I want to address, and this is not the main point of the sermon, but we have to address this because it's going to raise in people's minds a question, who are the sons of God and the daughters of men in verse 2?

Who are these sons of God? There seems to be an intermarrying or a mingling here. And there are two predominant views on this passage, and I'm only going to give you...sorry, there are more than two predominant...sorry.

There are more than two views of this passage. I'm going to give you the two predominant ones, and I'm going to tell you which one it is that I hold to. The first one is that this refers to angels cohabiting with women, that the sons of God were angelic beings who came down and in a physical manifestation had sexual relationship with the women of that day, and that this created some sort of, some people believe, a mongrel breed of half-human, half-angelic beings that were the Nephilim, the giants that were alive in those days, and that because of this intermingling between angelic beings and human beings, that this polluted the entire line of Genesis chapter 5 so that Noah was the only one by that time whose line, whose lineage had not been polluted by this intermingling and intermarriage of angelic beings.

They base this upon the fact that in the book of Job chapter 38, I think it is, talks about the sons of God, and it's referring to angelic beings who shouted for joy and rejoiced at the creation of the world.

And it's true that some angelic beings are described as sons of God in the Old Testament. It's also true that human beings are described as the sons of God in the Old Testament. So it is not my view that this refers to angelic beings who had intermarrying relationships with human beings and created a mongrel race.

I don't believe that that's what's being described here. It doesn't fit the context. It's in the context Moses is tracing the godly lineage of Seth from Adam all the way through to Abraham, and his point in Genesis 6 seems to be that prior to the flood, this godly lineage was being further and further diluted and polluted as these sons of God, believers, were marrying the daughters of men based only upon the beauty.

They saw that they were beauty and took wives from whomever they want without giving any thought to the spiritual or moral or religious qualifications of these women, and that there was this intermingling that was going on to the point where at the time of Noah, there were only eight godly people on the face of the planet.

Seth's godly line had been so wiped out by the intermingling of these pagans with these believers that by the time you get to Noah, there's only eight of them. And further, if you are a creationist and you believe that this refers to angelic beings intermingling and marrying with human beings, I want to challenge you with something.

I think that this underlines your creationist dogma that everything in creation was created to reproduce after its own kind. Angels do not have physical bodies, and they do not have DNA capable of reproducing with human DNA.

There's nothing in Scripture that suggests that they can. And over and over in Scripture, we are told that everything was created to reproduce after its own kind. So even if angels could reproduce, and I have no reason to believe that they do, in fact I believe that they don't, even if they could reproduce, creation would tell us, the science of creation, the doctrine of creation would tell us angels cannot reproduce with human beings, because they are an entirely different created order.

There cannot be this cross-speciation between these. So I don't believe it's talking about angels cohabiting with women, I think it is describing the intermarriage of the godly and the ungodly prior to the flood.

Verse 3, then the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh, nevertheless his days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim, that is the giants, were on the earth in those days, and also afterward when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, those were the mighty men who are men of old, men of renown.

Notice that it says that the Nephilim, the giants, were on the earth in those days. I think this just describes the fact that men back there were bigger than we are. We are not evolving and becoming bigger and better, we're devolving and becoming worse as time goes on, because our genetic code is being more and more corrupted.