When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.'
Genesis 6:1-8
For the longest time, I thought that God had destroyed the world with a flood only because of the wickedness of man. After all, isn't that reason enough?
It wasn't until recently that I learned that angels decided to leave heaven and mate with the human women on the earth, creating what the Bible calls Nephilim children. Can you imagine what the kids of an angel and a human would look like? It sounds crazy, doesn't it? Do a search on Google for Nephilim and see what you find. Images from all over the world of strange looking giant people being pulled from the ground. It's almost scary to see at first if you've never heard of it. Ofcourse, the world has created all kinds of their own evolutionary theories as to where these beings came from, but the truth is that these are the results of fallen angels mating with human women. The were looked at as heroes on the earth at the time.
When the world became flooded with Nephilim, and the people became wicked and sinful, God said that He regretted making humans altogether. His greatest creation had turned on Him. His own angels had turned on Him.
Aren't you glad that last sentence exists, though? The whole world had turned on God, living their life doing whatever made them feel good. One man took a stand for what was right, and as a result, humans still exist on this planet.
Today, let's think about that as we deal with all different kinds of people throughout the day. Even if everyone else around us is doing the wrong thing. Even if they mock you for being different. Know that God will honor you for serving Him, and at the end of the day, that is really all that matters.
