GENESIS 6:1-4, C. H. Cayce “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
We think the “daughters of men” represent the institutions or inventions of men. The sons of God, or God’s children, married or united with the inventions of men; they engaged in such worship as was invented by men. Long before this Cain made an offering unto the Lord of the fruit of the ground. The offering he made was produced by his own labor, and was the fruit of the ground, from “beneath” and not from “above.” Abel “brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.” His offering was of the right kind, it representing the offering which Christ should make, in which there was shedding of blood. But the “sons” of God did not continue to make such offerings as Abel made” they took them wives of the daughters of men. They united with and joined in the offerings and services that were invented by men. Like many of God’s children do now, they were married to or united with and joined in service that God did not accept.
The expression, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man,” has no reference whatever to the work of regeneration. There is no reference to regeneration in the whole connection. “Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Just one hundred and twenty years from that time the flood came and man was destroyed from off the face of the earth. That the destruction of man is what is referred to is clearly seen by reading the entire chapter. Verse 7 says, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth.” This was done in just one hundred and twenty years— “yet his 2 days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” If the expression, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man,” has reference to the work of the Spirit in regeneration, then it would follow that the work of regeneration ceased at the expiration of one hundred and twenty years from that time. But this was not under consideration, as we have seen.
These are a few of the thoughts we have had in connection with the passage [pg 204] referred to. We have not time or space to go into a more lengthy discussion of the same, but submit these to our readers, trusting they may be blessed of the Lord to the good of some of the Lord’s children. The Primitive Baptist, November 12, 1907.