“Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
“Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.’
“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
We jump from Noah to the multiplication of men on the earth. Daughters are born to them and “the sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful.”
Biblical scholars disagree on the meaning of these verses, and I was going to write a post about it until I found someone who has already said everything I would have said (and then some). Read this article: http://bible.org/seriespage/sons-god-and-daughters-men-genesis-61-8
May God speak to your heart through that author, and may we remember that there is indeed a battle right now between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12).
ishsha 