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Question
Hello Missionary Dick York: I am Benjamin in Korea.While I read the bible I have several questions I hope you t to answer.

1.In Genesis chapter 6,who are the sons of God that saw the daughters of men.Are they saved people or angels?And what is the difference between Noah and the sons of God.Only Noah and his Family were saved,so does it mean that the sons of God were destroyed during the flood?

2.In early Leviticus,there are several kinds of offerings.However I couldn't comprehend trespass (guilt)offering.Also in Isaiah Chapter 53:10, it says:But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting [Him ]to grief;If He would render Himself [as ]a guilt offering,He will see [His ]offspring, He will prolong [His ]days,And the good pleasure of
the LORD will prosper in His hand. So I want to know about trespass offering deeply.

Thankyou, sincerely.

Answer
First the Genesis 6 question.There is much here to instruct today ’s saints.In Matthew 24 we are told that as it was in the days of Noah,so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.

I believe that the sons of God in Genesis 6 are those who called upon the name of the Lord in Chapter 4.“All that call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved.”That was no less true in the time of Noah than it was in the time of Paul or in our time.The church is admonished to “Come out from among them and be separate,”to not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.But the church today,as in the days of Noah,is sometimes disobedient to this command with disastrous results.

I believe the message of Genesis 6 is a warning to us today. The reason I believe that these sons of God were men and not angels,as some teach, is because Jesus taught us clearly that angels neither marry nor are given in marriage.They are not sexual beings and do not reproduce.Also,we understand from Jesus ’ teaching that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in our time.If we look around, we do
not see angels marrying women, but we definitely do see the sons of God (the church)marrying itself to the customs,traditions and ways of the world around it.

I believe that many who died in the flood were sons of God.The apostle Peter addressed that issue.

In 1 Peter 3:18-20 we read that “Christ hath once suffered for sins,the just for the unjust...being put to death in the flesh,but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison.”Verse 20 tells us that they were those who were disobedient while God waited patiently for Noah to prepare the ark in which only eight souls would be saved.

Physically they suffered along with the world as a consequence of their choice to live like the world.

But in 1 Peter 4:6,(which is in the same context as chapter 3)we learn that they were “judged according to men in the flesh,but live according to God in the spirit."I would take that to mean that because they lived like the world,they died like the world. But their spirits were saved.(It compares with 1 Corinthians 5:5).

Now the second question about the offering for sin in Isaiah 53:10,11."Yet it pleased the LORD (the Father)to bruise him (Jesus); he (the Father) hath put him (Jesus) to grief:when thou (Benjamin) shalt make his (Jesus')soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.He (the Father) shall see the travail of his Jesus')soul,and shall be satisfied:by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;for he shall bear their iniquities."

The purpose of the sin offering was to satisfy the Father's requirement of death for sin.The Old Testament sacrifices,could not take away sin
(Hebrews 10:4).Read Hebrew 10:1-10.But those sacrifices were a picture of the real sacrifice,the Lord Jesus Christ.His sacrifice would satisfy the Father for ever.He bore the iniquities of the whole world,thereby justifying all who would make (or acknowledge)his soul was the offering for their sin.

God then sees us as his seed,or offspring.We became children of God by faith in that atoning sacrifice.All of the sacrifices that God prescribed under Moses' law were pictures of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus.

His sacrifice, once for all, fully satisfied all of God's requirements.

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