The Grand Theme of the Bible - How Enmity Developed

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.  (1 John 3:12)  Later, Enoch spoke of Jehovah's coming "with his holy myriads, to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the 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 a part of the seed. These "forsook  their own proper dwelling place" in the heavens in order to materialize fleshly bodies and 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. -Jude6; Genesis 6:4-12; 7:21-23; 2 Peter 2:4, 5.

Shortly after the great Deluge, a tyrant named Nimrod appeared on earth.  the Bible describes him as "a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah" -truly part of the Serpent's seed.  Like Satan, he showed  a spirit of rebellion and built the city of 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 there all over the surface of the earth" but allowed  Babylon itself to remain. -Genesis 9:1; 10:8-12; 11:1-9.

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From the Book of Revelations