Secrets Unsealed

ANCHOR School of Theology

Stephen Bohr

1. Principles for the Study of Bible Prophecy- Part 1

2. Principles for the Study of Bible Prophecy- Part 2

3. Principles for the Study of Bible Prophecy- Part 3

4. Notes on Daniel 2

5. The Importance of the Historical Flow Method- Part 1

6. The Importance of the Historical Flow Method- Part 2

7. Christ is the Center of Bible Prophecy Part 1

8. Christ is the Center of Bible Prophecy Part 2

9. A Providential Election

10. The Sabbath and Redemption

11. The Son (God) and the number 666

12. Who’s Hero Is Jesus Christ?

13. What Was Literal & Local is Spiritual & Global

14. The Flood Story As An Illustration of Historical Typology

15. The Year-Day Principle

16. God’s Israel: Understood Globally and Spiritually

17. Israel and the Fig Tree Part 1

18. Israel and the Fig Tree Part 2

19. The Stoning of Steven.. The Last Straw

20. How to Interpret Biblical Symbolism Part 1

21. How to Interpret Biblical Symbolism Part 2

22. The Sanctuary Sequence in the Book of Revelation

23. Daniel’s Little Sealed Book

24. Revelation 10

25. The Importance of Literary Structure in the Study of the Millennium Part 1

26. The Importance of Literary Structure in the Study of the Millennium Part 2

27. Revelation 12-22

28. How All the Books of the Bible Meet and End in Revelation

29. Learn how to use the writings of Ellen G. White- Part 1

30. Learn how to use the writings of Ellen G. White- Part 2

We want to continue our study of principle number 7 and it's a very important principle, that which was literal is spiritual now and will be literal in the coming kingdom.

We want to take a look at a story that we find in the Old Testament, it is in a certain sense a global story but it also has many literal things that point to spiritual realities in the future, and so we are going to use this story to illustrate how literal things in the past can apply spiritually towards the end of time before the second coming of Christ.

And basically you have the handout, the title of it is The Flood Story as an Illustration of Historical Typology, and we're going to see several principles here, we're going to see how types and anti-types work, we're going to see also how the literal becomes symbolic, we're going to take into account several principles that we've already studied and I'm sure you're going to be able to see these principles as we study along.

I'm going to follow the outline just as it is, we've asked you to fill in the blanks, this is a different type of class we haven't done this before but you're going to help me fill in the blanks.

In this lesson we want to study the cataclysmic worldwide flood in Noah's day.

The reason why this study is so important is because Jesus said that the flood foreshadows the destruction which will come upon the world at the very end of human history.

Jesus said, As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be at the coming of the Son of Man.

But is there more to the story than meets the eye?

Is the parallel just that the destruction at the end of time is going to be like the destruction in the days of Noah?

Is the parallel only that the wickedness of the world before the flood is going to be similar to the wickedness that will exist in the world before the second coming of Christ?

Or are there more typological things involved than just the wickedness of the race and the destruction that came?

Now the subtitle that we have here is Satan's hidden pre-flood agenda.

Satan had a special agenda when it came to blending the righteous and the wicked before the flood and that's what we want to take a look at now.

So let's go to our outline and fill in this blank.

Genesis 315 explains that there would be warfare between 2 seeds, and what is the first blank there?

Now both of them were in the case of Adam and Eve both of them were children of Eve, but the seed you are is not determined by your birth it's determined by your choice, you realize that.

Now the next point is that in the story of Cain and Abel, Abel was the woman's seed, very well and Cain was the seed of the wicked 1.

Now by influencing Cain to kill Abel, Satan thought he had gotten rid of the seed.

The devil suspected that perhaps Abel was the promised seed of Genesis 3.15, so he says I'm gonna get rid of this young man and therefore the prophecy of Genesis 3.15 cannot be fulfilled.

But of course you know in Genesis 4 God gave Adam and Eve another seed in place of the seed that Satan had killed by using Cain.

Now in the next section that we have here it says Genesis 4 16 to 24 presents the genealogy of Cain, and Genesis 5 delineates the genealogy of Seth, who took the place of Abel.

So the devil says I killed Abel, problem solved.

God says not so easy, I'll give another seed, and so the devil soon realizes that he's not going to be able to kill all the seeds, because he kills the seed and God brings another 1.

So the devil says I need to implement a plan B, there has to be a better plan than trying to kill the seed, and by the way soon the devil realizes that what God is doing is preparing a holy line from which the Messiah will come.

He soon discovers that these seeds, lowercase s, are really preliminary seeds that will lead to the coming of the seed in the future, and that God is preserving a holy line from which the seed will come.

Before we are able to discover the devil's hidden pre-flood agenda we must review a few things about the world before the flood.

Number 1, between creation and the flood there was a period of 1, 656 years.

Number 2, before the flood human beings lived to be over 900 years old, at least some of them.

Though sin had entered the world, their physical and mental energy must have been enormous.

Imagine a scientist working in a laboratory for close to 900 years with much more mental energy.

In fact Ellen White says that Adam was created with 20 times the mental energy that men have today, so they were not living in caves and killing dinosaurs with stone hatchets.

There were no drastic temperature changes, the world was close to its pristine beauty, there were no drastic temperature changes, there was no scarcity of food or natural resources.

Most likely there was very little disease, and Ellen White confirms this.

God had told man to be fruitful and multiply.

Imagine how many children 900 year old people could have.

There must have been millions if not billions of people on the planet the day before the flood.

1656 years in a world where there was very little disease, where there was much more mental energy, there was no scarcity of natural resources, and God had told man to be fruitful and multiply.

So the world undoubtedly had at least millions of inhabitants by the time that the flood came.

Now Genesis 6, 1 through 4 speaks about the sons of God and the daughters of men.

Now what happened between the sons of God and the daughters of men?

The story in Genesis tells us that the sons of God entered to the daughters of men, now that expression entered means that they had sexual relations with them, they contracted marriages with them.

The sons of God are the descendants of Seth.

And by the way, 3 women are mentioned in the genealogy of Cain, very unusual to have women in genealogies, and I'm not going to go into the meaning of their names but the meaning of their names has to do with their external appearance.

In fact 1 of them means jewel or ornament, ada, we say ada.

In other words all of the names of these women emphasize their external attraction.

What is it that attracted the sons of God?

You read what the rabbis say, they say that the women ran around painted up in nakedness of flesh and all decked out, that's what the Jewish rabbis say happened.

Let me ask you, do you think that there were also daughters of God here before the flood?

So why didn't the sons of God look at the daughters of God?

Why did they look at the daughters of men?

There must have been some external appearance to the daughters of men that the daughters of God didn't have.

In other words, the daughters of God were ordinary, they didn't put on all the paraphernalia, they didn't paint themselves up, and they didn't run around in nakedness of flesh as the Jewish rabbis express it.

Some Bible teachers have thought that the sons of God were angels, have you heard that interpretation?

And that the daughters of men were human, and that the result of the cross breeding between the 2 was the giants, a hybrid that was half human and half demon, that's the view that many scholars have today.

This view must be questioned for at least 3 reasons.

Number 1, the immediate context, remember the importance of the context?

The immediate context indicates that the sons of God were the descendants of Seth and the daughters of men were the descendants of Cain.

The previous 2 chapters give us the context.

Chapter 4 the genealogy of Cain, Chapter 5 the genealogy of Seth, and then 6.1 Sons of God, Daughters of Men.

The context indicates clearly who they were.

Number 2, Genesis is the book about 2 seeds, Cain and Abel, the sons of God and the daughters of men, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau.

In every 1 of these cases both seeds are human.

The Bible elsewhere makes it clear that the sons of God are those who have been converted to Jesus Christ.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us that we should be called the sons of God, 1st John Chapter 3 and verse 1.

This gives us another important principle that we're going to study when we deal with how to interpret Bible symbols and that is that symbols do not always mean the same thing in Scripture.

The meaning of terms can change and for example I'll ask you what does a lion represent in Scripture?

When you find the word lion what does it mean?

Well it can mean the literal animal, it can be a symbol of Satan who goes about as a roaring lion, it can be a symbol of Christ the lion of the tribe of Judah, It can be a symbol of Christ the Lion of the tribe of Judah, it can be a symbol of Babylon the first beast of Daniel 7, so whenever you find lion it doesn't necessarily mean it means the same thing, you have to take into account the context.

It's true that sons of God can refer to angels, the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord in the book of Job, those are angels.

The sons of God sang and shouted for joy at creation, Job 38 and verse 7, those are angels.

But just because the expression sons of God is used in 1 context doesn't mean that it means the same thing in the other context, because sons of God can also refer to converted people.

Very important to take into account the context.

Now by mingling the seed of the woman with his own seed, Satan reduced the number of faithful people on the planet to 8.

The devil's agenda, he soon discovers, he says it does no good to kill the seed because God brings another 1.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to mingle the 2 seeds, And the devil knows that when you mingle the 2 seeds the wicked seed overwhelms the righteous seed, and he says if I can mingle the 2 seeds God's seed will lose its identity, the number of faithful people will dwindle until eventually it will disappear, and God will have no 1 through whom to bring the Messiah into the world.

His plan A is to kill the seed, His plan B is to mingle the seeds in order to destroy the holy line.

Did he try to do that all throughout the Old Testament, destroy the holy line?

Yesterday we studied about Esther, he tried to destroy Israel.

Because he knew that the seed at this point he knew the seed was going to come from the lineage of Israel, so he says if I can wipe them out then there's not going to be that seed that is going to crush my head.

Did the devil mingle Israel with the surrounding nations?

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