My understanding is that the level of wickedness in the world leading up to the Second Coming will exceed that of the time of Noah’s Flood.

Before the Flood, sexual perversion was rampant and there were fallen angels fornicating with women, producing giant humans with supernatural strength who were bent on violence.

Of this time period, Jewish historian Josephus confirms, “Now this posterity of Seth continued to esteem God as the Lord of the universe, and to have an entire regard to virtue, for seven generations; but in process of time they were perverted, and forsook the practices of their forefathers, and did neither pay those honors to God which were appointed them, nor had they any concern to do justice towards men.

“But for what degree of zeal they had formerly shown for virtue, they now showed by their actions a double degree of wickedness; whereby they made God to be their enemy, for many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, That these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.”

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Daniel 2:43 says about the Antichrist kingdom of the “last days”: “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”

Jordan explains, “You remember that thing back over in Genesis 6 (with the giants) where there was some of that same kind of thing going on? There are some strange things headed for this planet in the future, folks. The Trib is going to be a strange thing. . .”

Revelation tells us that in the middle of the tribulation, a beast will ascend up out of the bottomless pit and literally take over the body of the Antichrist. The Antichrist as “the man of sin” becomes the ‘son of perdition’—the personification of all the satanic policy of evil. Satan’s lie program from Isaiah 14 gains its ultimate manifestation in that man who is iron and clay mixed together.

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As we know, Noah and the ark serve as a picture-type of the upcoming tribulation period. There will be a “little flock” of believers in Israel who persevere on into the kingdom, just like Noah and his family persevered through the wrath of the Flood into the new earth.

What gets me is that the sexual perversion from the pre-Flood world returns to Noah’s own family when he gets drunk and his son, Ham, commits an act of sodomy on him!

Genesis 9:20-24 reads, “And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
[21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
[22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
[23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
[24] And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.”

Jordan explains, “The thing about Ham is he sees his dad sin and then he rejoices in it and goes and spreads the news of it abroad. I mean, he went and told his brothers about the shame of it.

“If Ham’s intention had been one of honoring his dad, and not wanting to promote and perpetuate the immorality of the situation, he would have done differently; he would have done what his brothers did in verse 23. Instead, it’s an illustration of Romans 1:32 (‘Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them’).

“When it says in Gen. 9:22 that he ‘saw the nakedness of his father,’ you can define that scripture with scripture to be an intimate relationship involving sex. Now sex between a daddy and a son isn’t something you want to think about, is it? It’s not a pretty picture.

“In Leviticus 18, it says, ‘None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.’

“You read down through the passage and it’s clear he isn’t just talking about just wanting to pull on somebody’s skirt and look at their bare legs.

“In verse 19 of Leviticus it says, ‘Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.’ That’s talking about the menstrual period.

“That’s the issue in the Bible about covering and uncovering the nakedness, so if you take the passages the way they stand. . . Leviticus 20:17, for another, says, ‘And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.’

“Folks, there isn’t any doubt what’s going on here. When you go back to Genesis 9, it’s obvious that the thing’s equivalent to an act of fornication. In verse 22, Ham sees the nakedness of his father and the indication is there was some rather unsightly immorality and a sodomy kind of a situation.”

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Noah’s three boys became the progenitors of the whole human race and we are all descendants of Noah either by Shem, Japheth or Ham.

Noah, who was a prophet, upon awakening from his drunken sleep and realizing what happened, declared, “Cursed be Canaan (Editor’s Note: Canaan is the son of Ham); a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
[26] And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
[27] God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”

Jordan explains, “Noah stands there with his boys and says, ‘This is going to happen to you and this is going to happen to you,’ and he makes a prophecy about what’s going to happen to their descendants.

“It’s important to understand that the contributions of Shem, Ham and Japheth which Noah identifies here, are intended to be blended together into a single organized way of life that would result in the highest possible form of human civilization.

“What God’s doing here is He’s giving us some understanding about how the nations are to operate. He’s telling us things about how the world’s made up that if the politicians, and the pundits, and the people trying to run the world today . . . if they understood it there could be peace and harmony and advancement for the whole civilization.

“But because men reject the Word of God and think it’s stupid that God could tell them anything about what mankind is like, they go on in ignorance and beat their fool heads against the wall until they’re bloody, and battered, and senseless.

“What you’re going to see here is a divinely appointed division of responsibility to care for the specific needs of mankind at three fundamental levels. There are going to be three racial heads: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

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Bible teacher Noah Hutchings informs in his 1998 book, God Divided the Nations, that the Shemitic peoples “included the Arabic countries and the nations in the Orient.” The descendants of Ham settled the continent of Africa and are responsible for the Egyptian Empire.

As for the descendants of Japheth, Hutchings writes, “No great identifiable Japhetic nation, empire, or society had appeared up to the time that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem. . . A Japhetic alliance, Medo-Persia, defeated Babylon in 538 B.C. and became the world’s dominant empire.” Greece and Rome were Japhetic empires, as well as the Spanish Empire, the French Empire, the German Empire, the Dutch Empire, the Belgian Empire, the British Empire, etc.

Jordan says, “God appoints each one of these (three racial groups) to a specific area of human need. What are your needs? Well, there are spiritual needs, physical needs and intellectual needs. You need to have inner strength. You need to have some skill to take care of things and get the job done, and then you need to have some purpose and direction for your life.

“These three needs are designed to be met by the specific contributions of these three racial groups. Shem is given charge over religion, Ham is given charge over technology and Japheth, well, he’s the philosopher in the bunch.

“Shem develops religion. Every world religion comes from that group of people there. Ham is the inventor. He’s the one who’s going to go out and develop a way to get the job done. Japheth doesn’t invent very much, contrary to men’s opinion. What he does is he takes Shem’s religion, and Ham’s technology and he carries it; he expands it.

“The difference of the contribution doesn’t equal one of them being more superior than the other. It doesn’t equal one individual, one group, or one function being more important. It’s the flow of the group. Shem is in his head, Ham is thinking about getting the work done and Japheth is looking at how I can take that and make more out of it. You know you could solve half the world’s problems if you applied that?