World of Wickedness

In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve’s disobedience and rebellion against the living LORD God and obedience to the evil serpent empowered by Satan plunged a world once filled with life, goodness, and joy into a world of sin, violence, and death. Even the grounds of the earth became cursed with thorns and thistles because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience and rebellion against the voice and command of the living LORD God. The living LORD God banished Adam and Eve from Eden, the divine sanctuary of God. After leaving Eden, Adam and Eve made love and gave birth to Cain and then Cain’s younger brother, Abel. Cain was a tiller of the cursed ground, and Abel was a shepherd. Eventually, Cain brought an offering of fruit from the cursed ground without faith to the LORD God that He rejected, while righteous Abel brought a better offering with faith to Him from the firstborn of his flock and their fat (firstborn and fat belong to the LORD). The living LORD God warned Cain to follow the ways of goodness and reject Satan's ways of sin and evildoing. However, Cain followed the ways of sinful and lawless Satan by becoming angry and jealous of Abel’s offering, murdered his younger brother Abel, and then lied with deceit to the living LORD God about murdering Abel. So, the living LORD God punished Cain because of his evil heart pursuing evil deeds with a curse because of following Satan’s evil ways, and Cain became a wanderer on earth. Later, Cain’s son Lamech married two women and introduced the sin of polygamy in the world. Lamech was also vengeful and filled with pride after murdering two other men. Next, Adam and Eve gave birth to another son, Seth, and the people began to call upon the Name of the LORD (Yahweh). Genesis 5 provides a genealogy from Adam and Seth and goes into the days of Noah. Before Noah, Genesis noted that only Enoch lived and walked by faith with the living LORD God, which pleased Him so Enoch did not experience death, and God also blessed Enoch’s son Methuselah with the longest life. Later, righteous Noah was born with the hope that Noah would be the one to comfort the world from the ground’s curse. Sadly, Satan’s wickedness, corruption, badness, and violence ran rampant throughout the earth because of the evil within humans’ hearts, and the living LORD God’s Spirit was saddened and disappointed in humankind, so He shortened humankind’s lifespan to 120 years by His grace. However, righteous Noah found grace (favor) in God’s eyes because he loved God and walked with goodness, obedience, and faith in the living LORD God. Notably, Christ Jesus our Savior and Moses found favor in God’s sight because they obeyed the living LORD God and His commands.The living LORD God announced a covenant with Noah, and He informed Noah He would destroy the world with a great flood and begin the earth anew with Noah, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his sons’ wives - eight humans and two of every animal with the breath of life (male and female) so they could be fruitful, multiple, and repopulate the earth after the great flood. Also, the living LORD God instructed Noah to build an ark to save him, his family, and the living creatures, and Noah obeyed all the living LORD God commanded by building the ark. After Noah completed the ark, the living LORD God brought forth rain on the earth from the heavens, and all the fountains of the great deep were broken up for forty days and forty nights to flood the whole earth with waters to unleash His judgment on sinful humanity and destroy from the face of the earth all living things that He had created. The great flood prevailed on the earth for one hundred and fifty days, and then the living LORD God brought the winds of the Holy Spirit to remove the waters so the earth could be renewed and reborn. After the great flood, Noah built an altar for the living LORD God in the worship of Him, and the living LORD God promised Noah a covenant to never curse the ground and destroy the earth with floodwaters. The living LORD God blessed Noah and his family and commanded them to govern His earth. Also, the living LORD God gave Noah and his family permission to meat for food and the green herb as long as they NEVER eat flesh with its lifeblood and never kill another human, who is made in God’s image. Then, the living LORD God appeared in the heavens as a rainbow cloud, a sign of His covenant promises never again to destroy the earth with floodwaters. However, the world continued in Satan’s pride and sin because the human heart remained unchanged and evil. Noah became unwise by becoming drunk with wine, and his son Ham treated his father Noah with disrespect and dishonor, so Noah cursed his son, Ham. Afterward, Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, with their wives, began replenishing and filling the earth with humans after the great floodwater. The whole world had one language and one speech. Then, the people of Shinar became prideful and wanted to build a tower to become famous and reach the heavens to rebel against God. The living LORD God of heaven came down to earth,  confused the humans’ language, and scattered humans throughout the whole earth. Although the human heart remained unchanged, the living LORD God would call Abram (Abraham) so the world would become blessed and obey Him by faith. Nothing goes well without having humble and wholehearted faith in the living LORD God found in His Son, Christ Jesus our Savior, because only with Him and obedience to His commandments with love and goodness towards others do we find true wisdom, joy, righteousness, and pleasure with peace. Jesus is Lord!

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