Messing Up the DNA Happened in Noah's Time, Will Happen Again. An End-Times Sign.

Let’s start with Genesis 6:1-4:

Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”  ⁴ There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown

It says the “sons of God” and daughters of men bore giants, mighty men of renown.  Who are the “sons of God?”  Modern commentators say they were the descendants of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, the ascendant of Jesus.  The “daughters of men,” they say, refers to the descendants of Cain, the wicked son of Adam who killed Abel.  But there is not one scrap of Scripture backing this up—no Scripture anywhere refers to the descendants of Seth as “sons of God.”  And why would their sexual union produce giants?  You can’t always follow the commentators.  As it turns out, the phrase “sons of God” does appear elsewhere in Scripture.  In Job 38:4-7, God is chastising Job for not seeing the big picture of His sovereignty.  He is speaking here of the creation of the earth:

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. ⁵ Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The sons of God couldn’t be humans, who were not around at the creation of the earth (see Genesis 1 for the order of events).  They have to be angels, who were there for that great spectacle.  In Job 1:6 and 2:1, when Satan appears in heaven to accuse Job, angels are in attendance and are called by that name, “sons of God.”  So, based on these Scriptures, the “sons of God” in Genesis 6 are clearly angels.

What happened in Genesis 6 is this: angels lusted after earth women. (Heavenly angels in Matthew 22:30 are unmarried, but these in Genesis are rule-breakers; also, angels are always referred to as male).  They took human form (as happens many times in Scripture, such as Genesis 18).  They entered earth to marry and have babies.  But this broke one of God’s rules.  What rule? In Jude, they are accused of the sin of “not keeping their proper domain.”  Their proper domain was heaven.  So they were severely punished by being placed in “chains under darkness.”  Jude 1:6-7 says:

 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Note the telltale comparison tying these angels to Sodom, having "given themselves over to sexual immorality."  Particularly note the reference to their going after "strange flesh." Angelic "flesh" is not human flesh.

This is confirmed by II Peter 2: 4-5.  Note the “chains of darkness” again tying Jude and II Peter together.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 

I would note that the “hell” in the verse was a mistranslation.  The Greek word was “tartarus,” a word never used elsewhere in Scripture, a dark place just for them. 

God gave angels a free will.  Please keep in mind that the angels that stayed in heaven were NOT disobedient; these are the ones that protect us now.  Their job in protecting us includes fighting with the demons, making warnings and happy announcements, and worshiping God in heaven. Some angels, however, left their “proper domain,” and went to earth and committed sexual immorality by going after “strange flesh”—for them, strange flesh means earth women.   So clearly Jude and II Peter are thinking of the same event as Genesis 6.  Since they chose evil, they had an evil result:  babies that turned out to be giants. Why giants?   I’m thinking, angelic DNA is not human; but it mixed with human DNA and produced aberrant children who grew to be giants—whose appearance, it so happens, coincided with a vast increase in violence and evil.  Was this just a coincidence?  Read on in Genesis 6, starting with v.4b-7a, 12:

Those (the giants) were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. ⁵ Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth…¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

My speculation is, the giants were loved for their sinful ability to conquer and kill the enemy.  I think they were the initial cause of much of this severe and sudden decline in man’s morals.  First of all, you can see the fast connection in the verses between the rise of the giants and the rapid downward spiral of men’s morals.    Could it be that the giants were often worshiped as demigods—they had one parent mortal, the other parent immortal—there would have been a fascination with them just because of that. They were called “men of renown”—the public knew them.  Plus, they were obviously strong.  They had superior intellect and could make superior weapons of war (I’ll prove that later).  So, men falling into idolatry, worshiping these creatures, could have been the thing of the day.  And idolatry will ruin your morals faster than anything.  The giants could have been like rock stars.  These qualities make them leaders in any society of “plain” men that they cared to reside in.  I’m sure they were happy for the attention, and it boosted their ego—egged them on to perform outrageous feats for entertainment.  But men are always looking for a way to dominate, to destroy other men, to loot and take their land. These demigods were ideal to lead armies, to gain an edge, in killing.  The attention, the ego, might also mean that they led the whole land into idolatry and violence.  One tribe tries to make war and oppress another tribe.  How many men could a giant kill?  Can we capture more men, make them slaves, take advantage of their wives, loot their houses, with this giant as our leader? Let’s find out! 

To further prove my case, there is the definition of “corrupt” in Hebrew (Gen. 6:11-12 above).  The word means “marred, spoiled, perverted,” and “injured.” It’s not just a moral problem that the word usually conveys.  I think the mixed DNA perverted, or corrupted, the DNA genes.  If so, the giants were not the only ones with perverted genes.  We can assume they, with their giant egos, had casual sex. Their partners had sex with others.  Their babies’ DNA would be corrupted, and on down it would go until it perverts a great number of people (see studies on the rapid spread of syphilis, for example).  If you pervert the gene pool, who knows what immoral results you get—and you can’t go back and make it right again. I also believe (and this is speculation) that a person who is not really human, with aberrant DNA, cannot be saved, since God's plan of salvation was strictly for humans. Look how Noah was considered a great preacher of righteousness (II Peter 2:5 above)--yet, in 120 years (see Genesis 6:3 above) he couldn't save one person outside his immediate family!  That's extraordinary. Maybe they simply couldn't be turned to righteousness. So if we ever wonder about why God killed everyone except 8 people, He has a legitimate reason; maybe they were tainted and unsavable, and God would righteously want to start over, at least with humans whose DNA had not been corrupted.  This word “corrupted” is the strongest hint in the Bible at the possibility that messing with DNA was the real problem behind all this.  But I have more on this later. 

Lest you think this story is just too strange to be true, I have several more Bible quotes to consider.  Besides, supernatural events are what God is all about.  Think about Mary.  If I had a daughter who got pregnant, what would people say when I told them, “she is a virgin—has never known a man.  The child’s father is God.”  Would I be believed?  No.  But was it true?  Yes. The Resurrection seems hard to believe, but it happened--nothing is impossible with God.  And also consider the anthropologist argument that, when many societies have a legend that speak of basically the same thing, it must have really happened.  So, since every society in the world has a legend about a gigantic flood, even though their stories differ, there must have really been one.  Every society, too, has a legend of demigod men, of “gods” coming down and being intimate with earth women.  They may have been called Hercules, Atlas, or Cu Chulainn, but the point is, this worldwide legend also strongly suggests they truly existed.  

So, God wanted to start over with Noah’s immediate family, the only ones left who had pure DNA.   But evil angels were not done with corrupting men, because later Scripture stories show some of these creatures, on a lesser scale, were still being born, after the Flood.  (Trace the word “Nephilim” in Scripture, using the NIV, and don’t forget Goliath.) 

I’d like to take a little sidelight below. I realize I am dipping into speculation now for awhile, but it’s interesting stuff. 

Jesus said the end times would be like the days of Noah, in Matthew 24:36-38:

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. ³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

Everybody focuses on the drinking and multiple marriages, and the lesson they teach us is that people are not thinking of God, and no one is aware that judgment is coming.  But there’s likely another story here—why did God pick Noah’s day as judgment day back then?  What was unusual?  I’m talking, of course, about messing with the DNA. Then, it led to extreme violence and evil.  Well, what’s happening today?  Have you ever heard the term “editing DNA,” or “recombinant DNA?” Or, have you ever heard the word "transhumanism?"  Interesting article in Wired magazine’s August 2015, issue, gives the good side of it. To quote: “Using the three-year-old technique, researchers have already reversed mutations that cause blindness, stopped cancer cells from multiplying, and made cells impervious to the virus that causes AIDS. Agronomists have rendered wheat invulnerable to killer fungi like powdery mildew, hinting at engineered staple crops that can feed a population of 9 billion on an ever-warmer planet. Bioengineers have used Crispr (ed: the name of the technique) to alter the DNA of yeast so that it consumes plant matter and excretes ethanol, promising an end to reliance on petrochemicals.”

All good, right?  But the article shows a little of the questionable side of it:  “designer babies, invasive mutants, species-specific bioweapons, and a dozen other apocalyptic sci-fi tropes. It brings with it all-new rules for the practice of research in the life sciences. But no one knows what the rules are—or who will be the first to break them.”

Bioweapons.  Invasive mutants.  You know the military would love to develop these.  They could breed super-soldiers, the kind that could kill more people, more efficiently.  Those who have this technology would use it to oppress other nations who don’t have the money or the scientific capability to develop it.  This would kick off a scramble of many wars of oppression again, on a scale like it hasn’t been for centuries.  That’s the military’s dream scenario--assuming, they figure, we could win.  As for the other purposes of editing DNA--most everybody would like perfect babies, so natural birth and natural genes, with their flaws, fade away.  So here we are again, messing with DNA again, looking at the possibility of horribly sinful results again.  There are no rules, so I guarantee some scientists are going down the wrong road.  The Wired article’s headline says, “Easy DNA editing will remake the world.”  What’s really spooky is the subheading:  “The Genesis Engine.”  Are the end-times near, I’m wondering.

We have further good proof of this DNA claim --not from Scripture, but a source close to Scripture.  It’s from the book of Enoch. Enoch was a man, from the 7^th generation from Adam, a prophet, and was so godly that he was one of only two people in history who did not die (the other was Elijah, who went out on a flaming chariot).  Genesis 5:24 says: 

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him

This means he didn’t die; God raptured him.  Jude, writing a book of the Bible, was directed by God to write one of Enoch’s prophecies.  That prophecy was recorded in the book of Enoch first, then in the Bible.  So God approved Enoch's book.  The prophecy is In Jude 1:14-15:

Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men (false teachers) also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

The point is, Enoch is a good source for godly and truthful writing.  And he does have many things to say in his book about those sinning angels. Enoch agrees with Scripture and, interestingly, agrees with our deductions from Scripture, only he expressed them more plainly.  Here is a quote from Enoch

…bore beautiful and comely daughters.  The angels, children of the heavens, saw and lusted after them and said to one another, “Come, let us choose wives from among the children of men, and beget children for ourselves.  And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and began to go in unto them, and began to defile themselves with them…and they became pregnant, and they bore great giants.  

The book of Enoch then describes how these angels taught men how to make superior weapons (that would increase violence); taught women how to make cosmetics--how to become more sexually attractive (thus increasing sexuality, and ignoring the inner character that God approves), and taught them astrology (an ungodly "science," not astronomy).  These are all bad.  Enoch explains that the angels are then punished by “chains…all the days of the world” because they “defiled” themselves with women and begotten children “intermingled with the blood of humans.” Note that phrase “intermingled with the blood.”  The problem is an intermingling of angelic and human DNA.  The reference to the intermingling of blood is a stronger suggestion of corrupting DNA.  Enoch says about angels, “Your dwelling is heaven.”  Here is the final plain statement from Enoch I would like you to consider:  

 The giants who are produced from the spirits and flesh shall be called evil spirits upon the earth. 

Thus we have a definitive quote for giants being called “evil spirits.”  These Enoch verses, I believe, were godly and true.  Though the Bible’s quotes only hint that the giants were evil, Enoch says so plainly.  The corrupted giants evidently had superior technological intelligence (which could explain much of why many scientists believe that some ancient architecture must have come from an alien visitation to earth).  But superior technology has always been given over to a corrupt use, a way to more efficiently oppress or kill other men.  

Thus my final point:  If we corrupt DNA again, we again have superior people, who are worshipped for their power and intelligence--and, since they are unsavable, they are prone to ego, violence, and oppression. And they will again be worshipped.  It sounds like the Scriptural praise for the Beast (note that that term references him as non-human--but worshipped like a human).  And note his extreme hatred of God and his extreme persecution of God's people.  It's in Revelation 13:

And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

Acknowledgement:  David Bercot, CD, “Satan and the Demons,” Scroll Publishing.