More Spiritual Warfare - Part 5 (more about the 2nd rebellion) But let's talk about Genesis chapter 6, where we've got these sons of God and the daughters of men. Remember me saying that those sons of God were indeed supernatural beings who made a plan to come to this earth and do this dastardly deed. And that's all we get from Genesis is just that. no descriptions, nothing more descriptive. Although verse five of Genesis 6, we'll get to in a minute, is most telling. And I pointed you to the book of Enoch. And I said, you may not have heard about this book, but it was prominent in the understanding of the day before Jesus's time and during Jesus's time. And even when the apostles wrote, when Jude and Peter wrote, they quote from that book. And they wrote things expecting their readers to know what they're talking about. They weren't writing so much to address what we think today. [Although God and his foreknowledge knew that it would bless us and be something we can benefit from.] They [Peter and Jude] were writing to the people of their day and they knew their readers understood what they were talking about. But one thing I want to mention about the book of Enoch is what Genesis chapter 6 verse 5 says, almost in passing, the book of Enoch describes in greater detail. We just read about these sons of God mating with the daughters of men. We read about these giants being born of them and they are men of reputation. And then the topic sort of drops except he makes this statement. Genesis 6 verse 5, “And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”. How did we go from giants were born and that's that, to now the world is totally corrupt. How did human depravity increase to a scale not seen up till then? The book of Enoch tells us in Chapter 7: “And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one. And they began to go in unto them, and to defile themselves with them. And they taught them charms and enchantments and the cutting of roots, and they made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant and bare great giants ... Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.” Let's keep reading. “And they began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish and devour one another's flesh and drink the blood. And the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.” So these are the actions of the 200 supernatural beings. This is what they're doing. Now, chapter 8 of First Enoch. I'm going to skip over the names of these beings. Enoch names the names of these supernatural beings. That's just amazing. So, chapter 8 verse one talks about one of the supernatural beings taught men to … “make swords, knives, and shields, and breastplates, and make known to them metals and the art of working them.” You ever wonder how ancient man learned all this stuff? Metallurgy. You think they just figured it out on their own? They found some rock in the ground and decided, "Let's melt it and see what happens." The knowledge of the ancient cultures that we're still learning about today being so advanced, is not from aliens coming to this earth. Although you could say these supernatural beings are aliens. They taught mankind these things. They taught them how to make war. They taught them how to slaughter other humans. And he did. Let's keep reading what else they taught mankind. “Then bracelets and ornaments and the use of antimony and the beautifying of the eyelids and all kinds of costly stones and coloring tinctures.” Well, God's not against jewelry. The point is they taught them this to beautify themselves so that they could commit fornication is Enoch goes on to say... “the coloring of tinctures and there arose much godlessness and they committed fornication and were led astray and became corrupt in all their ways.” Keep reading verse three. This other supernatureal being taught enchantments and root cutings. Those are spells, witchcraft, potions, resolving of enchantments. They taught mankind "astrology and constellations and the knowledge of the clouds", [whatever that means]. "The signs of the earth and the signs of the sun and the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried and their cry went up to heaven." That's how bad it got between Genesis 6:4 and Genesis 6:5. It's that terrible. Human depravity increased at a scale fueled by these supernatural beings who came down. And then in chapter nine, I think, is interesting. These are the good supernatural beings. “And then Michael and Uriel and Raphael and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth and all the lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. They said one to another. The earth made without inhabitants cries the voice of their cryings up to the gates of heaven.” Mankind is crying for help. And now you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men, make their suits, saying, "Bring our cause before the most high." Mankind is begging for these angels to go to God to do something about this. That's how bad things are. So Enoch fills in a lot of the blanks about what's going on and how things got so bad. The second rebellion brought in an acceleration of human depravity so terrible that God intervened with a worldwide flood. But that didn't end with the flood, human depravity and evil knowledge that they taught mankind carried on after the flood. So that's the effect of the second rebellion.