How Enmity Developed

Satan's human seed began to be manifested very early in mankind's history. For example, there was Cain, the first human born, "who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother" Abel. (1John 3:12) Later, Enoch spoke of Jehovah's coming "with his holy myriads, to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him." (Jude 14, 15) Moreover, rebellious angels joined Satan and became part of the seedd. These "forsook their own proper dwelling place" in the heavens in order to materialize fleshly bodies and to marry the daughters of men. they produced a superhuman hybrid offspring of bullies. That world became filled with violence and badness, so that God destroyed it in the Deluge, faithful Noah and his family being the only human flesh to survive. The disobedient angels -now demons under Satan's control-were forced to abandon their doomed human wives and hybrid children. They dematerialized, returning to the spirit realm where they await God's fast-approaching execution of judgment on Satan and his seed.-Jude 6; Genesis 6:4-12; 7:21-23; 2Peter 2:4, 5.

Shortly after the great Deluge, a tyrant named Nimrod appeared on earth. The Bible describes him as a "mighty hunger in oppostion to Jehovah"-truly part of the Serpent's seed. Like Satan, he showed a spirit of rebellion and built the cityof Babel, or Babylon, in defiance of Jehovah's purpose to have mankind spread out to fill the earth. Babylon's centerpiece was to have been a great tower "with its top in the heavens." God thwarted the would-be builders of that tower. He confused their language and "scattered them from over all the surface of the earth" but allowed Babylon itself to remain.- Genesis 9:1; 10:8-12; 11:1-9.

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