Not only that, the giants in the land, these Nephilim (they're also called Fallen Ones) were very brutal, very violent, and they were taking control. Their whole goal was to destroy the seed of the woman, to corrupt mankind. That's why God had to wipe it all out.
Then there was another eruption that took place, and some of the giants ended up in the Land of Canaan, that Abraham went into. When Joshua came, these are the giants they had to overcome. They're not natural. They're a mixture of angelic and human. They're the result of a complete defilement of occult into the earth.
The next thing is, there was widespread corruption of the imagination and thoughts of the heart.
Genesis 6:5 – “The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great, every intent of the thoughts of heart and man was evil continually”.
There was a constant corruption in the heart, and what people wanted. Here's the next one - there was widespread lawlessness and violence.
Some of these things you're seeing in the earth now, are exactly what was in the earth in Noah's day.
Genesis 6:11 – “The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence”
Genesis 6:13 – “God said to Noah, the end of all flesh is come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them”.
Violence means injustice; use of force to injure people, and abuse people, and kill people.
Proverbs 4:17 – “They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence”
The “wine of violence” speaks of how violence becomes intoxicating, and addictive to people. The earth was filled with violence, injustice. Have a look what's happening in the earth now… Violence is increasing. In the 20th Century, over 200 million people were killed in two World Wars. That's violence on a massive scale. Up to 300 million have been killed in the ethnic, and other armed conflicts – more than the Great Wars! 44 million in a year are killed by abortion - that's violence against a child. New Zealand (per capita) is in the top four in the world, and will grow higher, because of the recent law change, while you weren't looking, during Covid. There are things changing rapidly in the world, and we need to be aware of that, so we're prepared for the coming of the Lord.
Genesis 6:11 – “the earth was corrupt and filled with violence”.
Now one of the most widespread forms of corruption today is sexual slavery. It's estimated that over 40 million people today across the world are in slavery of some kind or another. Forced to do things that they would not do, if they had the choice - forced marriages, and child slavery. The estimate I picked up yesterday was 25 million people, in sexual slavery. Human trafficking is a big, big business today. Violence is filling the earth. It's in every country. It's a global issue.
Violence filled the earth… and the Lord saw it. The things that we're seeing are symptomatic of a movement - birth pains, getting closer and closer, until we get to the end time, to the coming of the Lord.
In the days of Noah, there was widespread resistance to the word of God…
Hebrews 11:7 – “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 is in keeping with faith."
Noah was warned by God, of things not yet seen. By faith, he built an ark. God spoke to Noah, because Noah was upright, and walked with Him. He spoke to him: prepare!
God said: I'm going to do something you've never seen before. I'm going to cause rain to come, and floods to come. The whole earth will be covered with water. He said: rain? What's rain? He was speaking of something he had never seen before. It had never happened! The Bible says that there was a mist that went up, from the face of the earth, that watered the land. The whole of the earth was covered with a canopy, right around the whole earth.
He said: it's going to rain, and every place you can see will be covered with water, and the only way that you will escape, is if you build an ark. I'll tell you exactly how to build, and what to build, and it will be for the saving of your family. So, for 120 years, He did something very, very crazy. He was the crazy man! He was the real crazy prophet man, who had this idea that life would not continue the way everyone expected - that something was about to go down. He was the crazy man that laid down his life, to build something, so that his family would survive.