Chapter Two/The Grand Theme of the Bible - 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 myriad, to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning their 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 his seed. Those who "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 -not demons under Satan's control-were forced to abandon their doomed human wives and hybrid children. The dematerialized, returning to the spirit realm where they await God fast approaching execution of judgment on Satan and his seed. - JUDE 6; GENESIS 6:4-12; 7:21-23; 2 PETER 25:5. 

Shortly after the great Deluge, a tyrant name Nimrod appeared one 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 build the city of Babel, or Babylon, in defiance of Jehovah's purpose to have mankind spread out to fill the earth. Babylon's experience was to have been a great tower "with its top in the heavens." God thwarted the would-be-builders of that tower and confused their language and "scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth" But allowed Babylon itself to remain. - GENESIS 9:1; 10:8-12; 11L1-9.

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