The StoryLine of Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect: Lesson 1: Beginnings in Sons of God

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The Story-Line ofChristian Apocalyptic
RhetorolectLesson 1 Beginnings in Sons of God

• The story-line of apocalyptic rhetorolect seeks
  to answer the question How was evil able to
  invade the fabric of Gods good world with such
  force and power that God could decide to destroy
  everything he created, except some righteous
  people? Sexual activity by divine beings
  becomes one resource for answering this question.

• Click for the next slide and a Hebrew Bible
  resource for Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect

• The Hebrew Bible has a strange story about sons
  of God, who are divine beings in heaven,
  violating boundaries between heaven and earth
  because they develop sexual desire for beautiful
  daughters of men on earth and bear children with
  them. This story becomes a resource for both
  Jewish and Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect.
• Click for this Hebrew Bible resource for
  apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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Sons of God Violate their Divine Status through
Sexual Activity with Daughters of Men on Earth

• Genesis 61 It happened, when men began to
  multiply on the surface of the ground, and
  daughters were born to them,
• 62 that Gods sons saw that mens daughters
  were beautiful, and they took for themselves
  wives of all that they chose.
• 63 Adonai said, My Spirit will not strive with
  man forever, because he also is flesh yet will
  his days be one hundred twenty years.
• Click for the continuation of this Hebrew
  Bible resource for apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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The Sons of God Gave Birth to Children with the
Daughters of Men

• Genesis 64 The Nephilim were in the earth in
  those days, and also after that, when Gods sons
  came in to mens daughters. They bore children to
  them. Those were the mighty men who were of old,
  men of renown.
• 65 Adonai saw that the wickedness of man was
  great in the earth, and that every imagination of
  the thoughts of his heart was only evil
  continually. (Read Genesis 6)
• Click for Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect
  that uses this Hebrew Bible story as a resource.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect Says the Sons
of God will be in Chains until Judgement Day

• 2 Peter 24 For if God didnt spare angels when
  they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus
  (hell) and committed them to pits of darkness, to
  be reserved for judgment. (Read 2 Peter 2)
• Jude 16 Angels who didnt keep their first
  domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he
  has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for
  the judgment of the great day. (Read Jude)
• Click to read about Enoch.

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Another Hebrew Bible Resource for Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect

• The Hebrew Bible says Enoch, Noahs great
  grandfather, was in heaven before the sins of the
  sons of God and the flood. Therefore, Enoch
  saw everything from heaven and can tell people
  what happened and what God told him to do as a
  result of these events.
• Click for this Hebrew Bible resource in
  Genesis 521, 24-25, 28-29.

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The Hebrew Bible Resource about Enoch

• Genesis 521 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and
  became the father of Methuselah.
• 524 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for
  God took him.
• 525 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven
  years, and became the father of Lamech.
• 528 Lamech became the father of a son, 529
  and he named him Noah, saying, This same will
  comfort us in our work and in the toil of our
  hands, because of the ground which Adonai has
  cursed. (Read Genesis 5)
• Click to read Jewish apocalyptic literature
  that develops stories about Enoch in heaven.

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Jewish Apocalyptic Enoch Literature

• 1 Enoch 1424 And Adonai called me with his own
  mouth and said to me, Come near to me, Enoch,
  and to my holy word
• 151 scribe of righteousness 152 tell the
  Watchers of heaven 153 For what reason have
  you abandoned the high, holy, and eternal heaven
  and slept with women and defiled yourselves with
  the daughters of the people, taking wives, acting
  like the children of the earth, and begetting
  giant sons?
• Click to read 1 Enoch 1424-161 cont.

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Jewish Apocalyptic Enoch Literature

• 154 Surely you used to be holy, spiritual, the
  living ones, possessing eternal life but now you
  have defiled yourselves with omen, and with the
  blood of the flesh begotten children you have
  lusted with the blood of the people, like them
  producing blood and flesh which die and perish
• 158 But now the giants who are born from the
  union of the spirits and flesh shall be called
  evil spirits upon the earth, because their
  dwelling shall be upon the earth and inside the
  earth.
• Click to read 1 Enoch 1424-161 cont.

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Jewish Apocalyptic Enoch Literature

• 159 Evil spirits have come out of their bodies
  They will become evil upon the earth and shall be
  called evil spirits.
• 1510 The dwelling of the spiritual beings of
  heaven is heaven but the dwelling of the spirits
  of the earth, which are born upon the earth, is
  in the earth.
• Click to read 1 Enoch 1424-161 cont.

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Jewish Apocalyptic Enoch Literature

• 1511 The spirits of the giants oppress each
  other they will corrupt, fall, be excited, and
  fall upon the earth, and cause sorrow. They eat
  no food, nor become thirsty, nor find obstacles.
• 1512 And these spirits shall rise up against the
  children of the people and against the women,
  because they have proceeded forth from them.
• Click to read 1 Enoch 1424-161 cont.

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Jewish Apocalyptic Enoch Literature

• 161 they will corrupt until the day of the
  great conclusion, until the great age is
  consummated, until everything is concluded upon
  the Watchers and the wicked ones.
• 1 Enoch 19 Behold, God comes with ten thousands
  of his holy ones to execute judgment upon them,
  and destroy the wicked, and reprove all the
  carnal for everything the sinful and ungodly have
  done, and committed against him.
• Click to read Christian apocalyptic
  rhetorolect that uses Jewish Enoch literature as
  a resource.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect

• Jude 112 These are hidden rocky reefs in your
  love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds
  who without fear feed themselves clouds without
  water, carried along by winds autumn leaves
  without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the
  roots
• 113 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own
  shame wandering stars, for whom the blackness of
  darkness has been reserved forever.
• Click for continuation of this Christian
  apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect

• Jude 114 About these also Enoch, the seventh
  from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord
  came with ten thousands of his holy ones
• 115 to execute judgment on all, and to convict
  all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness
  which they have done in an ungodly way, and of
  all the hard things which ungodly sinners have
  spoken against him. (Read Jude)
• Click to read about Noah and the flood.

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Another Hebrew Bible Resource for Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect

• The Hebrew Bible says God sent a flood to destroy
  all corrupt flesh on earth, after the sons of God
  had created beings that lusted after flesh and
  corrupted all humans on the earth.
• Click for this Hebrew Bible resource in
  Genesis 611-723.

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Since All Flesh had been Corrupted, God Destroyed
Everything on Earth except Noahs Family

• Genesis 611 The earth was corrupt before God,
  and the earth was filled with violence.
• 612 And God saw that the earth, and saw that it
  was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their way
  on earth.
• 613 God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has
  come before me, for the earth is filled with
  violence through them. Behold, I will destroy
  them with the earth .
• 614 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make
  rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and
  outside with pitch.
• Click to continue this Hebrew Bible resource.

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God Destroyed All Corrupted Flesh on Earth
except Noahs Family

• Genesis 719 The waters prevailed exceedingly on
  the earth. All the high mountains that were under
  the whole sky were covered.
• 720 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward,
  and the mountains were covered.
• 721 All flesh died that moved on the earth,
  including birds, livestock, animals, every
  creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and
  every man.
• Click for Genesis 719-23 cont.

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God Destroyed All Corrupted Flesh on Earth
except Noahs Family

• 722 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the
  spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land,
  died.
• 723 Every living thing was destroyed that was on
  the surface of the ground, including man,
  livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
  They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was
  left, and those who were with him in the ship.
  (Read Genesis 6)
• Click for the Christian apocalyptic
  rhetorolect that uses this as a resource.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect Compares
the Time of Noah with Gods
Destruction when
the Son of Man Comes

• Luke 1724 for as the lightning, when it flashes
  out of the one part under the sky, shines to the
  other part under the sky so will the Son of Man
  be in his day.
• 1726 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so
  will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
• 1727 They ate, they drank, they married, they
  were given in marriage, until the day that Noah
  entered into the ship, and the flood came, and
  destroyed them all. (Read Luke 17 / Matthew
  2438-39)
• Click to read more Christian apocalyptic
  rhetorolect that uses the Noah story as a
  resource.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect Uses the Noah
Story to Emphasize that God Rescues the Godly
but Punishes the Unrighteous

• 2 Peter 25 and didnt spare the ancient world,
  but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher
  of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the
  world of the ungodly
• 29 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out
  of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under
  punishment for the day of judgment
• 210 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh
  in the lust of defilement, and despise authority.
  Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak
  evil of dignitaries.
  (Read 2 Peter 2)
• Click for Gods promise not to destroy the
  earth again.

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God Promised not to Destroy the Earth again after
Noah Offered Burnt Offerings (Genesis 820-21)

• Genesis 820 Noah built an altar to Adonai, and
  took of every clean animal, and of every clean
  bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• 821 Adonai smelled the pleasant aroma. Adonai
  said in his heart, I will not again curse the
  ground any more for mans sake, because the
  imagination of mans heart is evil from his
  youth neither will I ever again strike
  everything living, as I have done. (Read Genesis
  8)
• Click for another version of Gods promise
  not to destroy the earth again.

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God Restates the Promise not to Destroy the Earth
again (Genesis 911, 13)

• Genesis 911 I will establish my covenant with
  you all flesh will not be cut off any more by
  the waters of the flood, neither will there ever
  again be a flood to destroy the earth.
• 913 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will
  be for a sign of a covenant between me and the
  earth. (Read Genesis 9)
• Click for Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect
  that changes this promise to fire next time.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect Changes Gods
Promise to Fire Next Time

• 2 Peter 35 For this they willfully forget, that
  there were heavens from of old, and an earth
  formed out of water and amid water, by the word
  of God
• 36 by which means the world that then was, being
  overflowed with water, perished.
• 37 But the heavens that now are, and the earth,
  by the same word have been stored up for fire,
  being reserved against the day of judgment and
  destruction of ungodly men. (Read 2 Peter 3)
• Click for a summary.

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Good Work!
In this First Lesson, you have learned that
sexual activity of the sons of God in Genesis 6
is used as a resource in apocalyptic rhetorolect
for identifying the source of evil spirits and
demons in humans and throughout the created
order. Enoch, Noahs grandfather, saw from
heaven the sexual perversion of the sons of God
(angels) and the flood that followed, so Enoch
literature gives extensive apocalyptic
interpretation of the events. Christian
apocalyptic rhetorolect changes Gods promise in
the Hebrew Bible not to destroy all flesh again
by a flood, to next time it will be by
fire. Every good wish as you go on to Lesson 2,
where you learn how God continued to bring
destruction onto the earth after the flood.