Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Act 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Act 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
The Lord, never tiring of his labor, then planted a garden eastward in Eden (Genesis 2:8). Then placed Adam in the garden to dress and keep it.
In Genesis 2:21 we find the creation of Eve from Adam and in Genesis 2:24 we find that this union becomes a natural law (God's law). Getting off topic for a moment, it is little wonder today as satan seems to control our government and society, that man would write laws that would try to usurp the authority of God's laws such as legalizing homosexuality and gene splicing.
Our Lord Jesus, who created man and the earth and the heavens, had thrown satan out of heaven onto the earth (Luke 10:18). We find in Genesis 3:1 his first appearance on earth in the garden of Eden where he seduced Eve, committed fornication with her, and out of that union produced Cain, who slew his brother because his brother's works were righteous{ (Genesis 4:1-15){
After some time, there was a war in heaven and part of the angels of heaven rebelled against God. Those angels were cast out onto the earth (Revelation 12:7-9, 1 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6). This story is explained in the book of Enoch which Peter and Jude allude to, but it was not cannonized into the Old Testament.
The story goes that these fallen angels when cast down to the earth lusted after the women here and forcefully took wives to themselves. There is mention of this in Genesis 6:4. In the book of Enoch it also makes mention that these angels taught women the art of seduction and taught the men the art of war and also taught the mixing of animals which goes against God's law, that everything should produce after it's own kind. God saw the wickedness in the earth and purposed it in his heart because it grieved him to destroy man from the face of the earth and everything that lived (Genesis 6:5-7). But there was one man named Noah that found grace in the eyes of God. God loved Noah. The word "grace" means unmerritted favor. Noah was a just man and his ansestors had not been poluted by the fallen and Noah walked with God. God gave Noah instruction on how to save him and his family from the destruction that was to come. The most amazing thing about the tale is that Noah believed God and in believing him saved him and his whole house. (1Pe 3:18-21 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:)
When the Lord God walked the earth he left certain witness about those days: Mat 24:37-39 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
These statements that the Lord made hint of something more evil because we know that a person getting married or eating or drinking is not in and of itself a sin. His reference here is that man was paying no thought to God at all. And had turned the natural laws of God into nothing more than base impulses and needs of the belly. For every good thing in this life is given to us by God to be received with thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:4).
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