The Grand Theme of the Bible-Chapter Two

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 concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in  an ungodly way, and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinner spoke against him."  (Jude 14, 15)  Moreover, rebellious angels  joined Satan  and became part of his 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 of 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 abandoned their doomed human wives and hybrid children. They dematerialized, returning to the spirit realm where  they await God's execution of judgment on Satan and his seed. -Jude 6; Genesis 64:12; 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 a 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 entire earth? but allowed Babylon itself to remain. -Genesis 9:1; 108:12; 11:1-9. 

Next time: The Grand Theme of the Bible - Chapter Two - Political Powers Appear

From the book of Revelation