Hijacked by Replacement
Hijacked by Replacement
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The Nephalim
The Nephalim
Yep, we’re still trailing the seed of the Serpent. Things on the planet could not have gotten worse, but they did. Now we get into some graphic interplay that is beyond our comprehension, nevertheless, let’s try.
In Genesis chapter six, we read that the “sons of God” took wives for themselves. At first blush, this is a seemingly natural discourse. However, these “sons of God” were the Nephilim which means, fallen ones. A name given to one third of the heavenly host that followed Lucifer’s rebellion and were cast out of heaven. These demonic beings, burning now with fallen desires, needed a physical agent to feed through or act upon. Yep, these “sons of God” were not human at all, but demons procreating through human women. Uck, and double uck!
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; Jude 1:6
The Nephilim, plundered the spoils of the daughters of Mankind. This is probably the most horrific expression of the spiritual principle mentioned earlier, that we become the physical agent of whatever spirit influences us – whether holy or unholy. In this case, women had half human and half demonic children – what did they look like? Giants, literally procreated giants, whom were also called the physical Nephilim. Satan had infested the earth with perversities. This created a momentum of wickedness upon the earth that provoked God to say that He was sorry He made Man. Our world needed one very big bath! And God purposed to give us one!
And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them….Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Gen 6:5-8
The Earth's Mikvah, Baptism
The Earth's Mikvah, Baptism
As mentioned in Section Two, a mikvah is a physical bath that symbolizes a spiritual cleansing. Taking a bath with your favorite rubber ducky is not the visual match for a mikvah. Before having a mikvah, an individual would prepare themselves spiritually by repenting for any sins in mind or body as well as an outward dedication of devotion. While mikvah is a singular echad act, it has two parts. The first part is symbolic of death, to bury uncleanness, or something past. The second part is symbolic of life, to arise clean, or to something new. It is where we get the doctrine of baptism. While that is a simplistic description, the spiritual realities are far more reaching and truly dynamic,
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Rom 6:4
the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him. 1 Pet 3:21
While the flood was a type and shadow of baptism, the ark was a type and shadow of Jesus!
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