Demon-Human Hybrids (Genesis 6, Jeff Kliewer)

One person is paying attention. Good morning, everybody. His mercies are new every morning. Great is his faithfulness. We're here to worship the Lord. We have a few announcements. If you notice there are some men who are missing about three dozen guys are up at Mount Pocono Bible Camp.

So we had a tremendous men's retreat. God was really working and moving among us. So praise God Hopefully these guys are gonna come back on fire just ready to worship the Lord and serve Christ. And I think that's what's gonna happen.

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Or talk to Antoinette. She's kind of the one heading it up. So she'll get you information if you'd like to go on the women's retreat.

Tomorrow.

We have a Congregational meeting it is our annual meeting where we celebrate all that God has been doing in the church in the various ministries. So everybody here is welcome. You don't have to be a member to come to the congregational meeting.

It's tomorrow at 7 p .m. So it's going to be very exciting. Plus we have some interesting news to discuss too. So it should be a fun one. What else do we have Phil? Do you know do we know anything else?

That's everything that there is to cover. There is a prayer meeting tonight. Also, if anybody would like to come back and pray at 6 o 'clock. And so let's Turn to prayer now go before the Lord and offer this worship service to him asking for his presence.

So father God we are so thankful to come into this place this morning. We recognize it is by no merit of our own. But by the precious pure blood of the spotless Lamb Jesus Christ. Thank you for the forgiveness of sin the gift of eternal life.

Lord this morning remind us of these things and help us to put our heart and our minds Completely on you and the things of God. Help us Lord to remove any distractions from the world around us and Lord We do pray for deliverance from the evil one that his demons would have no place here.

They must go in Jesus name. We offer this place in this time to you for worship Lord, and we pray that you would find us Righteous and acceptable in your sight. Lord, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. All right, let's all stand.

We sing to the Alpha and the Omega the first and last. Oh God you you are worthy of our praise God for everything that you've done Lord if you were to not do another thing for us aside from the salvation that you brought into our lives work We would be eternally grateful for all your gifts Lord just for the manna that you provide every day Lord God just give us hearts of worship Lord.

I pray that you would lighten the burdens Lord so many of us have come in with with worries and cares and and things that are just Bringing us down Lord God. I pray that we would have our eyes fixed on you this morning as we sing and rejoice in your glorious.

Glorious grace. I believe you gave sight to the blind. I believe that the dead came to life. I Say I believe every word that you said. I Believe there are scars in your hands. That your goodness is good without end and you have a chain I will tell you all wonders.

Sing of your grace God of creation. Yesterday now and always. Your mercy is mighty age after age all generations. Bow down and praise. The Lord is faithful Yesterday now and always.

He's in the clouds.

If you are here even now Since I know there is We'll tell you all wonders sing of your grace. The God of creation Knows me. Art is faithful Yesterday now and always Your mercy is mighty age after age all generations Bow down and praise.

The Lord is faithful Yesterday now and always Sing of your grace.

We think of the battle that you have won Lord God on our behalf.

Amen.

You have completed the victory in our lives God, and there is nothing that can come against us because We through you we are more than conquerors. And let's just sing the song about the victory that God has won.

He said out last darkness And hope that's in the blood. This future grace that's mine today That Jesus Christ has won So I can face tomorrow For tomorrow's in your hand I need you will provide Just like you always I'm fighting that he won.

What you do. You've done Mercy in the for today. I know you'll see. Your word tells us finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

So we ask you Lord for your strength your power your might to be at work in us Keep us from the evil one drive away every demonic spirit every lying spirit and Give us strength to walk with integrity to walk upright before you.

Your word says to put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Lord help us to put on your armor this morning. Make us strong warriors With the full armor of God.

Lord your word says we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the authorities Against the cosmic powers over this present darkness Against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Lord we pray for victory in this war in Jesus name. Amen. Do you believe in angels? Our culture. Certainly does not. I do.

My.

Grandfather was a missionary to Guatemala and then a pastor in Indiana and a superintendent of churches. Well as he came near the end of his race that he had run for Christ About a week before he passed away He was in a hospital and a visitor came to see him.

The visitor began to reminisce with my grandfather Bill Wagner About all of the years on the mission field and the incredible things that happened there. And then this visitor also began to reminisce with him about the years in Indiana They shared and they Delighted in the things that God had done in planting a church.

In fact, we just found out a year ago that when my grandfather moved to Florida, he started a little church and We didn't know that anything ever became of it. But now it's like a 10 ,000 member mega church in Florida and they have this little plaque to Bill Wagner.

How he founded it just in a little side room. And we never knew anything came of that until just this year just last year. So amazing discovery. But Bill Wagner was visited by some man and when my mom came in the room just after this man left she found that Bill was weeping uncontrollably and She rushed into his bedside and said dad dad.

What's the matter? And he said no, nothing's the matter. These are tears of joy. This is the most peaceful I have ever ever felt in my life. He would he had delighted in what God had done in his life of ministry and granted him peace.

God had given him peace. Well, my mom began to ask what happened and he told about this man who was nicely dressed came and Reminded him of all the things he had done in the ministry and my mom thought well.

Maybe he's beginning to hallucinate, you know, things are getting towards the end. So after talking for a while She went out to the nurses station and she said was there a man who came in here about an hour ago and The nurses said oh, yes.

We couldn't stop talking about him because of how good-looking he was. The nurses were having this long conversation about how well dressed and put together He was and they were talking about him and he didn't sign in.

He just came in to visit Bill Wagner and then was gone. Well, I don't know if that was some missionary friend from long ago or what the case might be. But I want you to turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 13 verse 2.

Hebrews 13 verse 2. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers and it was just like my grandfather to welcome this man into his room even in his His painful end state because my grandfather I would have to say was the most joyful person I have ever met.

Such a people person just so kind and just constantly laughing. He would laugh uproariously about the worst dad joke. You could imagine he was just happy loved people. And so he welcomed this person in but verse 2 says for thereby.

Some have entertained angels.

Unaware.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that. Maybe somebody that you talked to that you assumed was just flesh-and-blood human. Was actually an angel of God. It's possible that you have spoken with an angel.

It's also possible that you have been tempted.

Or.

Oppressed by a demon Which is a fallen angel there was a time when I was a missionary in inner-city, Philadelphia that we had a young adult group that met in a house and Someone came in and asked for prayer.

So the young adult group laid hands on him and we all began to pray. For five minutes or so and then we went back to the study and the class dismissed. But this young guy stayed around and said Jeff. I really need to talk to you.

I Came in with dark thoughts and that's why I asked for prayer. But when you guys laid hands on me and began to pray my thoughts went from bad to worse. They became obscene. They became grotesque and I'm afraid that I'm being tormented by a demon and I said well we better keep praying because sometimes You need to persevere in prayer.

We're called to the perseverance of prayer. And so he and I were the only ones left in the house. And I can't really describe what happened in the next half hour or so only to say it became very emotional.

This young man who was tough. He was a basketball inner-city kid. He was crying. He was yelling and he was calling out to Jesus he felt this darkness over him and I was praying in the name of Jesus and Calling on God and then just like this in an instant.

It just stopped. And he said I felt a presence come out of me it was like it hovered over me and then ran away and He said he felt at peace. It was his description of what was happening to him and it's invisible.

So I don't know what happened was just was this just the emotions of a teenage young man or was there a demonic spirit that was messing with him and Christ delivered him from that. Well, I will say this after that young man left.

He went home and I went to the church which was in a different building we met in a house and I went to the church where some of the teens were playing basketball eating food and Right when I got there one of the young adults found me and he said Jeff.

I have to talk to you when we prayed for that guy I Felt as soon as I touched him my fingers got cold as ice. And I felt coldness run up my arm and take over my body so I had to take my hand off. What does that mean?

And I began to ask him questions about his relationship with God and came to find out that he did not believe and had not been born again. He was laying hands hastily on this young man turn with me to 1st Timothy chapter 5 the context of 1st Timothy chapter 5 verse 22 is About ordaining or commissioning an elder or a deacon into ministry.

It's specifically about that. But in the laying on of hands something spiritual happens. So the ones who are laying hands upon the person Need to be walking with God and there are spiritual forces at work.

In fact when when Timothy was anointed Was prayed over with the laying on of hands. Spiritual gifts were activated in his life and Paul will say in 2nd Timothy I think it's chapter 1 verse 6 that you should fan into flame the gifts that are in you and they Paul refers to the laying on of hands.

So I think what happened in that instance with this young man 1st Timothy chapter.

5.

Verse 22. Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands Nor take part in the sins of others keep yourself pure and as I mentioned this is more about commissioning. But the young man was hastily laying hands on someone when he didn't know the powers that he was dealing with.

Very often We don't really believe that there is a such thing as.

Demons.

We assume that everything is just natural because we live in America in a post Enlightenment world a materialistic world That discards or disregards entirely the presence of spiritual forces. That was not Paul's worldview.

If you even look in verse 14 and 15 of this chapter He's giving some instruction that just seems like practical application not particularly about spiritual beings. It's just about how to work with a widow.

You shouldn't just enroll every woman who loses their husband in the role of widows because the young ones Should try to remarry and have children or else if they're just relying on the church they might become busybodies and Gossips.

Paul says this is practical advice allow families to care for widows and The church should look after those who are widows indeed those who have no one to care for them. The church should step in practical advice.

What does that have to do? With what Paul says in verses 14 and 15 so I would have younger widows marry bare children manage their households and give the adversary no occasion for Slander for some have already strayed after Satan.

You see in Paul's worldview unlike the Western materialistic post-enlightenment culture in which we live. Angels and demons are very active and Very involved and when you stray from the counsel of God's Word you are opening a door giving a foothold to the devil and Some people have strayed from the plan of God giving an opportunity for Satan To take a foothold in their lives.

That's how Paul sees the world look a few verses down in verse 21 Paul gives a charge and he references something that I'm not sure many Christians know exists. We know there are angels. But did you know that there are elect.

Angels.

Chapter 5 verse 21 in the presence of God and Of Christ Jesus and of the elect Angels that word in the Greek is Eclecton sounds like elect, but it's used also of when Christians are elected unto salvation.

How could an angel be elect? Well, listen very differently from how a Christian is elect. A Christian is called by God to be saved. Paul says the Thessalonians you are elected unto salvation an Angel will never be saved.

Hebrews chapter 2 tells us that Jesus did not become an angel to save angels. Rather an elect angel is one who has always been kept from God Kept by God from ever falling in the first place. So there are only two classes of angels.

None are ever redeemed because the elect angels are kept from falling in the first place. Elect angels are good angels and They will never fall. Because by the keeping power of God the same power that keeps us after salvation Jude 24 and 25 that same power that keeps us the grace of God Keeps angels from falling in the first place.

Now if there are elect angels, what does that imply? There's another category of angels that are not elect. These are the fallen.

Angels.

Seems that the stars pictured in Revelation from which one-third of them fell. Represent the one-third of angels that followed Satan in his rebellion Isaiah 14. I think it's Ezekiel 28 that refers to this as well the fall of Satan.

There were angels that rebelled and fell from grace as well. So two classes of angels elect angels who never fell and fallen. Angels who cannot be redeemed. No Savior given. This is why by the way that the angels long to look into our salvation.

They marvel at the fact that God would become not an angel but human. That he would humble himself and take on the flesh of a man 100 human and Die the death that we deserve as our representative our substitute.

We're told in the New Testament that angels long to look into these things. They marvel that God would redeem at the cost of the blood of his own son. Now that blood needed to be purely human blood. Turn with me to Genesis Chapter 6.

This might be the oddest main idea statement I have ever written. But I think it's what's happening and I can't really just preach the the relevance and the application to your life until we get right.

What it is the author Moses has written for us here because if you can't understand the substance the content. How can you apply anything? So we're gonna spend a bit more time Just trying to track with the main idea today and Then at the end get a little bit more practical and relevant.

Here's the odd sentence that I wrote the pollution of the human bloodline with the blood of demon human hybrids. Exasperated what was already a death-deserving sin problem. So God destroyed all the demon human hybrids along with all wicked humans.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Well, this implies that there is such a thing as a demon human hybrid. Isn't that an odd idea? The world scoffs at the idea of demons in the first place. Let alone that there could be such a thing as a demon human hybrid.

We'll read about it in Genesis chapter 6 the first four verses. Recall that we've said again and again that we're studying Genesis because it lays the foundation of reality as it is God's created world and We live in a culture that is utter utterly rejecting the biblical worldview point by point.

Genesis 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The world is saying there is no God. Everything is evolved. Space dust. You are not a creature of God. You're just an evolved being that came out of the primordial ooze.

That existed billions of years ago, there is no God. Chapter 2. Genesis says God created them male and female and the two shall come together and become one flesh. The world says there is no male and female.

They've rejected God's design of male and female. Genesis 3 sin comes into the world. The world says there is no sin. There's only making mistakes and failing to be your best possibility of your own potential and.

So they also reject the seed promise that there would be a seed of the woman who would crush the evil of this world. Who we know to be Jesus Christ they have no promise of a coming seed. Genesis 4 says life in the image of God is valuable precious.

Life is in the blood and Cain murders Abel. The blood of Abel cries out from the ground and then Lamech Murders a little boy and boasts about it. No value for life as our culture rejects the value of life itself.

Rejecting Genesis 4. Genesis 5. Enoch walked with God. There is a such thing as walking with God and there is a such thing as departing from God and Those who walk with God are waiting for what the rapture as Enoch was caught up into the air to be with the Lord.

So the church will one day be raptured caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with him forever. The world laughs at this idea. The world scoffs at the idea that there are angels and demons.

The Enlightenment has taught this society that everything is material. In fact, they make horror movies. About the idea of there being demons. Because they take it as a joke. They want to feel the hairs on the back of their neck raise up so that after they're done watching the movie.

They can go about pretending that this world has no such thing. Let's read Genesis 6 1 to 4 when man began to multiply on the face of the land and Daughters were born to them. The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive and They took as their wives any they chose.

Then the Lord said My spirit shall not abide in man forever for he is flesh. His days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth and Nephilim means giants were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God Came into the daughters of man and they bore children to them.

These were the mighty men who were of old the men of renown. Now when I was in seminary My professor down at the Tampa extension of Dallas. He said this is not referring to demon human hybrids he said all this is is the sons of Seth are the sons of God and What happened was?

Once even the godly ones Fell into sexual sin with the daughters of Cain the godless women in that generation. There was no more righteous people left on earth and so God could do nothing but destroy the world and I held that view for many.

Years.

Because my teacher taught me that so I thought that's got to be right. Kind of makes sense because I don't like the idea of demon human hybrids in the first place. So I'm gonna go with his view. But you know the more I've studied scripture The more I've come to believe that this is in fact demon human hybrids.

The book of Enoch is a. It's probably a 3rd century BC Invention that came from the Essenes and the caves of Qumran. It was discovered in cave 4 of Qumran back in 1948 and.

It holds.

That these were in fact Giants that were demon human hybrids. And I only bring it up because the book of Jude does quote from the book of Enoch. So there is one inspired verse in the book of Enoch. God uses that to convey this truth quoting from Enoch.

God's able to do that. In fact, the New Testament sometimes will quote from extra biblical sources and when the Bible says that it's true. So we don't regard the book of Enoch as being scripture. However, it has some historical value because it shows us what 3rd century BC Jewish people thought that this meant.

And what people always thought it meant and that was that the sons of God are.

Angels.

Who fell from grace and Then impregnated earthly women and what was born were were these demon human hybrids. I think this is the biblical view. I'm gonna show you just three passages quickly. And again, it's a little different.

We have to make sure we're understanding it, right? Which view is correct is the question. It's not a postmodern world where both views are right. We've got to dig in the scripture rightly. Divide The truth to come to a knowledge of what God is saying here Job 1 6.

Turn there.

This term sons of God is not used often. But the same construction is used in Job 1 6 now there was a day when the sons of God same term Came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them.

Here these sons of God are angels and the chief among these fallen angels is Satan. So there's a reason to think that sons of God is more than descendants who are godly but are in fact fallen angels. Now turn with me to the book of Jude Verses it's only one chapter so you don't say Jude 1 such-and-such you just say Jude 5 to 7 second to last book of the Bible.

Jude 5 to 7 and church I would love every Sunday To just preach our common salvation to just delight in what God has done in Christ for us. I do not want to have to talk about demons. I hate them. I want nothing to do with them.

That was Jude sentiment. Jude wanted to delight in their common salvation, but verse 3 he said I but I think it's necessary That I write to you that you contend for the faith that was once and for all handed down to us.

It was necessary. Because there are enemies that we need to be aware of and we need to contend. We need to fight church we're in a spiritual war a War for each of your families a war for this culture.

We must contend and fight as if the enemy is real not a figment of our imagination. So we do need to talk about it. And so Jude contends with false prophets human beings and he warns that these false Prophets are going to suffer the same fate as the fallen angels.

Let's look at 5 to 7 now. I want to remind you Although you once fully knew it That Jesus who saved a people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed those who did not believe and.

The angels.

Who did not stay within their own position of authority But left their proper dwelling. He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness Until the judgment of the great day. Sound like it's angels.

Could this be the event of Genesis 6 when they left their proper position and God Flooded the earth and he imprisoned these demons In a dark gloomy place in chains. Well, here's another reason to think that that is in fact what he's saying.

Verse 7 Compares the fall of the angels to the unnatural sexual desires of Sodom and Gomorrah. Just as notice the corollary there that the one is like the other. The fall of the angels was just like Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities Which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire.

What could be more unnatural than the men of Sodom and Gomorrah lusting after other men rather than after women according to God's design. There is something even more unnatural and that is that those men that they were lusting after were actually angels.

In.

Genesis 19 The two angels were sent to judge Sodom and Gomorrah and the men of the town tried to rape them.

These.

Unnatural desires. Here in the culture in which we live there are unnatural desires against the nature as God made it male and female and We see that stirred up in the people around us. The same demons would like to provoke such things in each of us.

The demons in this world are Contrary to God's natural order. Notice it says in verse 7 they serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire and that's where these demon beings will be thrown on the great day into a lake of eternal fire.

The last passage I'd like to direct you to. No, the second to last is. 2nd Peter chapter 2 verses 4 to 10. 2nd Peter chapter 2 verses 4 to 10. Again false prophets are Being warned about. And the rationale here that Peter gives like Jude's Has to do with these angels that left their proper place.

2nd Peter 2 4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned But cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness you might recognize that language chains of gloomy darkness same.

Phrase.

That Jude uses to be kept until the judgment. Now notice the time period that this makes reference to and I think this is a slam-dunk. If we know there's already the sexual issue, which Genesis 6 is about the sexual Flagrant sin of the angels that they went to the daughters of man here notice.

It's also referring to the time of Noah verse 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserve Noah a Herald of righteousness with seven others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.

Again the comparison to the sexual Unnatural sin of Sodom and Gomorrah verse 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes He condemned them to extinction making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.

And If he rescued righteous lot greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked. For as that righteous man lived among them day after day He was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority bold and willful.

They they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones whereas angels Though greater in might and power do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord the elect angels Respect the authority of God.

Fallen angels have rebelled and left their proper place for sexual sin. Final passage. First Peter Chapter 3 verses 18 to 22. There's that beautiful sound of pages turning. Means you're actually following along not surfing on your phone.

I wouldn't have expected anything different so first Peter 3 18 to 22. For Christ also suffered once for sins the righteous for the unrighteous that he might bring us to God. Being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit.

Do you guys know the Apostles Creed? Where it says he descended into hell many people wrongly teach that Jesus Went to hell and suffered for our sins in hell. No such thing as taught in the scripture.

The suffering of Jesus for our sins was on the cross. There he bled and died on our behalf and when he breathed his last he said it is Finished. So why did he in the Spirit? Descend into hell. Well, it has to do with the days of Noah and the destruction of the ungodly because when Noah Was building the ark.

He was also a preacher for a hundred and twenty years. The Spirit of Christ in him was pleading with the people to be reconciled to God but they rejected God and all of his authority and so they were judged and Are being kept in a holding place.

So what Christ does after dying in the body his spirit remains alive in the Spirit. He goes and proclaims victory. He vindicates Noah. For all of that preaching that they rejected and he proclaims his triumph verse 19.

He went and proclaimed Like a herald the word is a preacher who's who's declaring his victory to the spirits in prison. Here are those demons that we're talking about and The the humans that were spawned from them half human half demon and the people Who rejected because verse 20 They formerly so now we're going for way back in time way back to Genesis 6 Did not obey When God's patience waited in the days of Noah.

While the ark was being prepared in which a few that is eight persons were brought safely Through water. Now, this will be very practical because maybe you're sitting here. And you've never put your heart faith in Jesus and you've never indicated that by going underwater.

The people of Noah's day Had one chance to escape the flood of judgment. It was to get in the ark of rescue in The same way we have baptism as a figure of our salvation. Look what it says verse 21 Baptism and guys we're gonna have a baptism right on the lawn on June 9th and Next week if you want to be out there come next week Pastor John is going to teach during second service a baptism prep class.

So anybody that might need to get baptized or you know, someone who does bring them to the classroom during second service because baptism which Corresponds to this to the preacher Rejected and Noah's flood.

Now.

Saves you. Now take which corresponds to this as a parenthetical out of the picture. Doesn't that say baptism saves you? But be careful because it goes on to say not as a removal of dirt from the body.

It's not the outward washing that saves, you know. But as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ the one who has faith. In the resurrection of Jesus confessing with his mouth Jesus is Lord believing in his heart that God raised him from the dead by faith looking to Christ.

Baptism then is the outward symbol the washing of what's going on on the inside. Do you see that not by the washing of dirt? But through but as an appeal to God for a good conscience. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God.

Notice with angels. Authorities and powers having been subjected to him psalm 110 verse 1. It's under his feet. He's the king of kings. Every rebellious angel is now conquered. So we go back and we finish in Genesis 6.

Do you believe me now? These are demon human hybrids. That are being kept in chains. But we can't just say the devil made me do it. How many people have used that excuse. Notice that the wickedness is in the hearts of men apart from the grace of God.

Which 2nd Thessalonians 2 teaches us? Restrains the evil of the wicked. So that we can live in a peaceful world the common grace of God. How wicked is the human heart? Are we kind of depraved without Christ or are we totally depraved?

Verse 5 and following Genesis 6 5 the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great In the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only.

Evil.

Continually. Apart from grace how wicked is the human heart in Adam's sin? Only evil. Continually. Every thought and intention of the heart. There's your total depravity in one verse. Romans 3 is another chapter that proves that verse 6.

And the Lord regretted That he had made man on the earth and it grieved him to his heart. Now his regret here is a bit.

Anthropomorphic.

If I regret something it's I'm thinking I wish I hadn't done it if I had known what I know now I wouldn't have done that. I regret it. But with God who knows all things being omniscient He's using the language of regret to communicate just how bad things are turning out.

But did God know that Adam would fall into sin and the world would descend into deeper and deeper darkness? Did he know that the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world in the mind and heart of God?

He knew Jesus to be the Lamb, which means he knew that there would be a fall. He put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden. In fact, he suspended a canopy of water Over the expanse of the sky for just this day.

So he's not learning anything as he goes along. He doesn't say and it was good on that second day of Genesis 1 Because that water was prepared for judgment the judgment of mankind. He knew the fall of man, so he does regret in the sense in our language.

There's nothing good left. What have I made? But nothing good. No, nothing but wicked hearts. Verse 7. So the Lord said I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land. Man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens for I am sorry.