Joseph Prince - Noah—The Real Story

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And one of the things that I have observed that has happened recently

That I want to address because I wanna bring the truth of Gods Word on

the matter, is this movie called Noah.

This movie is so crazy

that it makes Noah crazy. That he's hearing voices when God actually spoke to him.

And worst of all, it makes God appears harsh, mean, and right at the end

When Noah could not do the evil task of killing his family that is not found in The Bible,

It is as if he is more merciful than God. In the first place God never ask him to kill

any of his family, this is Hollywood not Holy Word, God told him to save his

entire family not only that the Bible says God had him as a preacher of righteousness.

All those of fifty to seventy years, that the ark was in building, he was preaching.

But the world was so wicked, they didn't respond to his preaching.

God always extends chances after chances, opportunity after opportunity.

And I hate the misrepresentation of My God in that movie. So, I am here to tell you

that there are Christians opposes this. There are Christian who says this is poetic license.

Let me tell you what is poetic license. Poetic license never take away from the character. The basic essence of

the character. You know the movie the Passion of the Christ?

That's par excellent. There is poetic license when you see the boy fell down

Jesus as the boy when He fell down and his mother ran to him.

Do you remember that, that is poetic license that is not in the Bible but that could

have happened and it was so appropiate because you know

it really tuck at our heart stream as parents.

That was one of the best scenes in the movie, that is poetic license

but it never takes away from the character of Jesus

or the mother but this poetic license is too much, amen.

Let me tell you the story I am not talking about of the movie no more

unless it comes across on my sermon or whatever I am going to tell you the truth

of Noah because Jesus said as it was in the days of Noah

so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son Of Men.

In other words, is going to be exactly the same scenario.

First of all you must understand the promise.

Understand the promise, the very first promise

is a prophecy, and it's prophecy of all prophecies. It is the promise of all the promises,

and this is the promise in Genesis 3 verse 15

God said to satan who was now in the embodyment

of the snake, Adam and Eve have just been tempted to sin and they sin, they have fallen

now God is adressing satan, God is adressing the enemy and God said this

And I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your seed (satan seed) and her seed, capital S. Who is her seed?

Our Lord Jesus. We know that women don't have seed.

Men provides the seed so it is a prophecy of virgin birth

that Jesus will be born as the woman seed, He shall bruise (this Hebrew word for bruise is crush)

He the Messiah will crush your head and you will crush his heel.

Which is better crush heel or crush head? In crushing

satan's head, he will crush his heel and that is a picture of

His dying on the cross to save all of us so the devil heard this

from the mouth of God Himself that the Messiah will come,

the Dragon Slayer, the serpent crusher is gonna come

from the woman. So starting with Adam and Eve

had children, Cain and Abel, the devil and John confirms it, the apostle John says

Cain who was of the wicked one all right, he was open to the devil

and his suggestions Cain was recruited by the devil, because the devil doesn't know the devil

is not omniscient the devil doesn't know when

Jesus is gonna come, he thought that immediately the woman seed

is going to be the Savior, so when the two brothers Cain and Abel,

offered to God, one offered blood sacrifice, the other offered salad dressing

vegetables, and knowing full well, both brothers knew full well

that God said without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness

of sins, and yet, Cain's sacrifice was a blood lust sacrifice,

and the Bible says God favored Abel, God had respect unto Abel and his sacrifice,

remember this when you come to God without an unblemish lamb

God has respect to you, because of the lamb that you bring.

God does not Check you out, God checks your lamb out,

it is not how good you are, it is how good your lamb is

amen, God checks your lamb out, our lamb is Our Lord Jesus Christ,

Can I have a good amen, so obviously the devil saw the favor

of God on Abel and he thought that Abel was the Woman seed,

that would crush his head. Hence the murderous campaign started.

He had his brother Cain jealous of his brother Abel so the first murder is over religion.

Both brothers approach God, but one approach God His way

the other approach God his own way.

One is God's way, one is man's way.

And Cain killed Abel.

And the devil said, got it, God's Word cannot come to pass

i am saved. Nobody's going to crush my head. And then he found out later on

that Abel wasn't the one.

So, let's go to the story right now, of Genesis 6.

Nephilim in Hebrew means from the work naphal, fall. Fallen ones.

And also afterwards.

I have this underlined, so that you will know there were two eruptions of fallen angels coming to the daughters of men.

Mighty in the sense of mighty in size, superhuman size and strength

and mighty in wickedness.

Go back to verse 2

Who are the sons of God and the daughters of men?

Notice the division here. Daughters of men, sons of God

Let me tell you. Bible must interpret Bible.

The daughters of men are just women. okay, of mankind.

Women, just like normal women born from Adam's stock.

But sons of God, who are they? In the Septuagint version, which is the Greek version of the scriptures in the Old Testament

This word here are angels, angelos.

Not God's angels. Angels that came from God but they fell.

How did they fall? With Lucifer who became satan.

That fall is mentioned in Isaiah and it was long before God created men.

So, one third of the angels followed Lucifer (satan), so God has two thirds.

But this fallen angels, they did something. Now, let me proof to you real fast.

They are actually ... Bible interpret Bible, they are actually angel

Some people argue that this sons of God are actually the line of Cain or things like that

They are not humans. They are angels. The question is asked.

Can angels. Do angels have bodies like men?

No, don't forget the Bible says, do not forgetful to entertain strangers

For some have entertained angels unawared.

Angels can take the body of a man. And appear like a man.

In fact, in terms of sex, we say they are sexless, but actually

they always presented in the Bible as men.

They are not supposed to do, to abuse that position.

But this happens, back in Noah's time. Alright, let me proof to you the sons of God are angels

Why sons of God, Bene Ha'elohim in Hebrew. Sons of God.

Because anyone created directly by God is called sons of God.

We are the sons of God in the same way that Jesus is the Son of God

We are not the only begotten, we are sons of God, Jesus is the only begotten

He is fully God, fully man. We are fully man born as sons of God into the family of God.

Now these angels don't have. They don't have the position that of family sons of God

But sons of God means they are created by God directly. Like Adam was called son of God, do you know that?

Because he was created directly. After that man come together with

a marriage and relationship and produce children.

So they are not like direct creation of God.

Anyone direct creation is called sons of God.

Not in the family sense that you and I are in the family of God today.

Are you with me so far?

In Job 1. When the angels presented themselves to God.

Job 1 says ...

Notice that. Satan is a fallen angel.

He also came. Job 38 when God talked about the creation, He says

We have proven that stars, they make music.

During creation, who are the sons of God? Angels

So back to Genesis 6 again, are you all with me so far?

So what happened was that the devil was out to corrupt the woman's seed

Because if he can corrupt the woman's seed, he can secure his position

Are you with me so far?

So, what happened before Noah's flood? Don't forget they were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years

Adam was still around. Because Adam died in his 930th year.

Back in those days they lived long, long lives.

It's antediluvian.

They lived long lives. So during that times, what happened was fallen angels,

satan instigating it, came to the daughters of men. They took on the form of a man

and had sex with the daughters of men, producing nephilim.

Weird.

Now today, we have a corrupted version, handed down from Greek mythology

But Greek mythology have pictures of giants.

Now we says that oh it's just fables and all that, but actually someone back then

even during Alexandra's time and beyond that, they still remember, there were giants on the Earth.

Hercules, and all that kind of things. They call them demi-gods.

We have a picture of one.

Cyclops. Weird.

There were giants in those days (nephilim) from the word naphal in Hebrew. Fallen ones.

Back to Genesis 6 again.

And also afterward. So in other words, in those days are the days before the flood came.

And destroyed them all. Afterward is after the flood.

After the flood there was another eruption of angels coming to the daughters of men.

And guess what this time they produced the Anakims, Rephaims, they are all from the stock of nephilim.

And who did God raise to stop them, to exterminate these giants? Israel.

Where were these giants concentrated on?

The devil knew the significance of the land of Israel.

They were there as the Canaanites.

When God told Abraham to go to the land, the Bible says it very appropriately.

The Canaanites were already in the land.

They were squatters on God's promised land to Abraham.

They were there to stop the promise from coming to pass.

Alright, so there was eruption of these angels coming to the daughters of men, before the flood.

The flood took them all away.

And there was another one, another eruption after the flood.

This one God use Israel. David killed Goliath. Goliath was a giant, of the Philistines.

Many of the time, Bible describes things like they are strong, enormous in size and height

Some of them have eleven fingers, eleven toes, don't look around ok, there are no giants around us today.

Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

But they were there in those days. And God raised Israel to exterminate them.

Why didn't God send another flood? Because you all know the story

God promised Noah, no more flood. Right?

So and there the devil heard that, the devil was rejoicing because he said I can have another eruption

of my angels coming to daughters of men and this time there will be no flood.

But then God raised Israel. Are you with me so far?

Alright, let's go back Genesis 6. I love you all, you all understand.

Verse 5.

By the way, the angels didn't help Noah built the ark.

Verse 7

You must understand by now, the eruptions was such that it covered the entire world

After hundreds and hundreds of years, all the world were men who are actually they are men still

but they are perverted men, half angel, half human.

And their thoughts are evil continually.

Alright, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

I said Noah found grace. This is the first mention of grace in the Bible.

And it is said Noah found grace. So you dig deeper, why, what finds grace in the eyes of the Lord?

Noah, what's the meaning of Noah? Rest.

Noah means rest. Rest finds grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Some people have this idea, grace can only be there in someone, when they are full of sin

Even though the truth is there, that where sin increase, grace super abounds

Someone who is never sin like Jesus, can be full of grace.

Why? He is full of rest.

When you are full of rest, you are full of grace. Are you with me so far?

I thought i throw that in, look at verse 9.

This is the genealogy of Noah. I'm gonna show you this second Peter chapter 2 about the fallen angel.

Second Peter 2, he talked about this.

Some people says, Pastor Prince, these are the angels that sin when Lucifer fell. Well, keep on reading.

ah context, context is king. The context here is not talking about Lucifer's fall in those early days, in the beginning.

It's talking about Noah's time. These angels that are bound in hell today

are bound in chains of everlasting, chains of darkness

and the word hell is used only one time, the entire New Testament

Many time you see hell, is sheol, sheol gehenna, but this one here is tartarus

which is only used one time, that means the fallen angels, they will be judged early

compared to all, there are fallen angels right now who are demons.

You can't see them. They are the ones instigating to do wrong.

They are the ones bringing problem in your marriage.

They are the ones bringing afflictions to your body, disease and sickness

That's why we use the name of Jesus, many of the times you find that the disease leaves

Can I have good amen.

So here is very clear

Noah, and Noah's wife, his three sons and their three wives.

I know the movie says only one wife. Why don't they stick to the Bible, I don't understand.

You know the Chinese language, is a very old language.

The Chinese annals of history talks about the flood.

In fact when they developed their language, the word chuán for boat. Look up here.

It has a zhōu, it has a bā, and kǒu, which makes up boat.

Notice, 8 people or 8 mouse, they describe people as mouse (ren kou)

Eight mouse in a boat. So, 8. Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, 8. Amen.

Back to Genesis again. Back to Second Peter, excuse me.

He wasn't just building. One hand was holding the hammer, the other hand was proclaiming the Word of God.

Telling the people. Save yourselves judgement is coming.

They would laugh at him. It's not like Noah was cruel. Noah was like .... I'm gonna create

No, it was like Noah was preaching to the people.

And none of them repented.

And brought God bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.

Go back to Genesis 6. Are you all learning this so far?

Are you enjoying it? Alright, praise God.

This is the genealogy of Noah.

Noah was a just man, righteous man now listen he was a righteous man, he wasn't righteous because of his character.

He was righteous because of the blood of the Lamb. Let me proof that to you.

Go to Hebrews 11, he was divinely warned, Noah.

Not according to works. So Noah, why did God saved Noah and his family?

Because they are the only ones who are fully human left. After hundreds and hundreds of years

the eruption was almost complete, and God had to send the flood, because of His grace and His mercy

So that God can preserve the human race. And God can bring forth the faithfulness of His Word,

that the Messiah will come and crush satan's head.

He (satan) who has oppressed and bullied mankind.

Jesus's gonna come and crushed him.

Are you with me so far? When you understand that, you see the mercy of God

You see the love of God.

Go back to Genesis. Alright, so, he was a righteous man, righteous by how? by faith

But here says Pastor here is said perfect in his generations. Aha, the word perfect unfortunately it says perfect here

In the New King James, the word perfect here is the word tamim in Hebrew

which is always used for a lamb to be sacrificed.

Means the lamb is without blemish. The lamb has no blemish.

It refers to the physical body of Noah, there was no taint of the fallen angels in his body.

In other words, Noah was the only family pure human race.

They are the only hope left, and God saved them all in the ark.

Can you understand that now.

Can you understand the grace of God.

Thank God, God preserve the human race. Amen.

And let's go on.

And from Shem, Hame, Japheth came all the races of the world.

Just to let you know something, this is scientifically proven.

All races came from one pair of man and woman.

Whether you're Chinese, Indian, or whatever, the Bible says

God made everyone from one pair, Adam and Eve.

And that's why, all the dogs varieties in the world, I do not know, may be over 200 varieties of dogs in the world,

plus the jackal and plus the wolf, and all dogs came from one pair of dog originally, in Noah's ark.

Noah did not bring all the species of dogs. All the different pedigrees into the ark.

Number 1, he brought them two by two.

I shouldn't say brought them, God brought them to Noah, read carefully.

Alright, they came to Noah in the ark.

There is something about animals, that science cannot explain until today.

Two things about animals that we know happened in Noah's ark.

Number 1. Their migratory instinct. Science cannot explain.

How come an arctic terns, the birds, especially the birds,

as well as butterflies. There's a butterfly called Painted Lady butterfly, alright.

It flies from even Iceland, when it gets really cold, or Europe during the winter months

It will fly thousands and thousands of miles all the way to Africa.

In a certain place, you can see all of them collected there.

During the winter month, it will spend its warm days in Africa, North Africa.

After which, listen, they will fly back. Not the original butterflies. Their young, will fly back.

The parent died. The parent's days are quite numbered.

The young will fly back exactly back to the location where the parent flew from.

Do butterflies have brains?

Yet God leads them. Now people don't say, they say migratory instinct

They don't like to acknowledge God, they will say mother nature.

What mother nature? Father God.

They will say anything but God.

Like when Hollywood produce the movie, it's always glorifying men.

Never glorifying God.

That's why when you want to watch your Bible movies, make sure it is done by people who are born again.

It's what river, it's not just the water you drink. It's from which source.

Okay, come on.

This word corrupt is the same word destroy later on.

Same Greek word, sorry Hebrew shakan.

So God told Noah, this is the grace and the mercy part.

God always, God always prepare His people before the crisis.

Alright, don't forget, Noah's ark is God's idea, not Noah's idea.

It wasn't hmm, I think I'll built my ark. No no, it was God's idea.

I'm sending the flood, make yourself, that's grace, an ark of gopherwood.

Cover it inside and outside with pitch.

Now in Hebrew is very interesting.

Pitch by the way is asphalt. The same thing that you use for your roads.

You know the tar, it's very sticky. And that's the super glue of the wood, that was used for the ark.

Ok, asphalt. Now in the Hebrew, literally the word cover is kaphar

it inside and outside with kopher, it's a play on words.

And do you know that pitch in the Hebrew is called zetet.

It is not called kaphar. Kaphar is the word used for atonement.

The word used for covering your sins. Isn't it interesting.

From here, God is telling us that Noah's ark is a type of His Son Jesus Christ.

We see the word atone, cover. Cover what? Not just outside.

From their text outside, within, even your own sins. You are covered, all around.

So Noah's ark, is a picture of Jesus Christ.

I am sure Jesus, when He rose from the dead, in the Emmaus walk where He opened up the Bible

concerning Himself to the two disciples, I am sure when He came to Noah's ark, He smiled and said I am that ark.

The ark suffered. The divine, the ferocious divine anger against all lawlessness and the wickedness that these fallen angels had brought about

on men and men's wickedness in yielding to them, the ferociousness and the divine fierceness of

God's anger, hit the ark. But not one wave of judgement reached Noah.

Can you understand? There's a verse in Psalm 42 that says, the Messiah saying

Jesus on the Cross saying all Thy waves and Thy billows roll over me

It came on Him, but it never touched us. He took it for us.

Come on give Him praise, come on Hallelujah.

Look at the picture of Noah's ark up here.

And did God did something, God says put the windows above.

And all around, is the window. Look at the picture of the ark again.

Can you see the windows all around? Okay..

So in other words, God says the ventilation, and the light comes in from the windows

Why didn't God put the windows on the side? All normal vessel do that.

By the way, the shape, the length, the height and all that, is almost akin to the Titanic

Which is considered the largest ship ever built. Ship builders said it's very much like Titanic.

Men build it, it sank. When God builds it, you can rest.

Who is building your house?

So why didn't put windows around? God doesn't want you to be occupied with all the destructions and the corruption of the world.

He wants you looking up to Him all the time.

Just like the journey of Israel in the wilderness during the 40 years

They marched. Every time they marched when. You know we think they are marching the hot sun.

No, there was an air conditioning going on. Pillar of cloud that cover the sun.

They only have to keep their eyes on Jehovah. They only have to keep their eyes on God.

God will keep His eyes on their enemies.

On the serpents and all the vicissitudes of that journey.

At night, when it gets really cold in the desert, God appears as pillar of fire

A heater. So they're always kept cool.

So, we only have to keep our eyes on Him and He provides for us.

The devil wants you look around, look around, look around.

No my friend, don't look around. You look around, you'll be distressed.

Then devil says, ok, don't look around. Look inside, look inside you, look at your thoughts, look at your emotions,

call yourself a Christian. No, don't look within and be depressed.

Don't look around and be distressed. Look to Jesus and be at rest.

The devil will make you look around or within you except to look up.

And by the way, you know, who shut the door when the time came?

The movie says, Noah was fighting until last moment.

And Noah shut the door. But my Bible says, look at here in Genesis 7

Alright, drop down, drop down.

Verse 15

God is Elohim in Hebrew. Elohim is the creator.

Your friends, your colleagues don't know Him. If they believe in Him, they say God, they say God.

They do not know Him as. And the Lord shut him in.

The door wasn't closed by Noah or his sons. God closed the door.

When God closes the door, you are safe inside.

When God closes the door, no one can unclose.

You are safe, no one can drag you out into the water of judgement.

No one. No preacher, no demon, no deacon.

You are eternally secured in Christ.

Sometimes the waves get a bit bumpy, just like when you are in the plane, alright.

Fasten your seat belts, we are in for a bumpy ride, it will last for about ten minutes, right.

So, may be you know the.. some parts of the journey, it gotta be bumpy, and Noah fell.

When Noah fell, Noah fell where? Outside the ark or in the ark?

Listen you are in Christ, even when you fall, you fall in the ark.

You don't fall out of the ark.

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