The World and the Word

            The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to Noah and his family to save them from the great flood which He sent to destroy the rest of humanity that had become very evil. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 6:8. Genesis 1:26-31 clearly teaches that God created a pre-Adamic race in His image. These humans could not have been the same persons as Adam and Eve because God created them to be "very good" when God sent them into the whole world for them to inhabit. When God sent Adam and Eve from the garden into the world, they were not "very good." In fact, they were sinful. God also gave the pre-Adamic race every good fruit and meat to eat. God also gave them no Tree of Life and no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God created this pre-Adamic race in His image which meant that they had souls and intelligence but no spirit which is an inner consciousness of God. They could not have had spirits because God did not visit with them as He did with Adam and Eve.

Beginning with God's exile of Cain from the Adamic race, the Adamic race began to intermarry with the pre-Adamic race. The children of these marriages inherited both sin and evil and a spiritual nature from the Adamic race. But their spiritual natures were weak because of their absence of spirit. Over time, the evil natures that they had inherited gained dominance over their weak spiritual natures, and they became very evil. Genesis 4:16-24; Genesis 6:5-7.

The pure Adamic race, which continued through Seth, continued to worship God and still offered the sin offering that God had given to Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:21. For these reasons, the pure Adamic race found grace in God's sight to Noah and his family. Genesis 4:6; Genesis 6:8-10.

By Noah's time, the entire human race had become violent and evil except for Noah and his family. God regretted that He had created all life and humans because evil had corrupted it all except for Noah and his family. God determined to destroy all mammals, birds, and humans except for Noah and his family and the beasts God would bring to Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:5-7.

God killed all of the evil people with a great flood and sent their souls and spirits into the cursed bottomless pit in the ground. God had not as yet provided any form of salvation for these evil humans. This condition put them in grave danger of being lost from God in eternal death forever. The goal of the Devil is to permanently annul a part of God's creations and thereby prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. But God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love aroused His compassion for even the weak spirits of these evil humans whom He had confined to the place of eternal death called the bottomless pit.

Because of His compassion for the weak spirits of all these living humans and for all future evil humans, God commanded Noah to make a burnt offering for their future salvation. God told Noah that his burnt offering would symbolize God's removal of His curse of the ground so that it could never hold the living souls and spirits within it forever. God also promised Noah that He would never again in the future put all living humans in danger of eternal death, but He would provide a way to save them all but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. From that time forward, the burnt offering would be directly connected to the sin offering because it would symbolize the descent of the coming Savior into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all mankind not saved by grace that the Savior would bear on His cross. Christ rose immaculate from the dead to provide a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all living humans. Genesis 8:20-21; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 20:5.

Christ's Spirit descended into Paradise located next to Hell to preach His salvation by grace to all of the Old Testament saints confined there. Ephesians 4:7-10. Christ's Spirit also descended into the bottomless pit where He preached His lesser form of salvation to all the living souls there who had been destroyed in the flood. I Peter 3:18-22. Christ will raise all living humans upon their repentance and faith from all of the regions of the dead and recreate them all to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Christ came to Noah and his family, but His judgment fell on the whole, evil world.