REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND! - 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 the shocking  things that ungodly sinners 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 super hybrid offspring of bullies. That world became filled with violence and badness, so that God destroyed it 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 children. They dematerialized, returning to the spirit realm where they await God's fast-approaching execution  judgment on Satan and his seed.  JUDE 6; 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 build 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  over all the surface of the earth" but allowed Babylon itself to remain. - GENESIS 9:1; 108:12; 11:1-9.

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