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The seventh from Adam in the line of godly Seth was Enoch,
who walked with God and was taken to heaven after living a
year of years in this world (Genesis 5:23-24). It seems, though,
that the godly line of Seth fell away. Three generations later,
only Noah was left to find favor in God’s sight. What happened?
I believe that the line of Seth committed the sin of intermarriage
with the line of Cain, and that this is what is meant by the state-
ment that the “sons of God [Sethites] saw that the daughters of
men [Cainites] were fair; and they took wives for themselves,
whomever they chose” (Genesis 6:2). There are other views of
this passage, but this is the only interpretation that provides an
explanation for why the Sethites disappeared.4 Notice that the
Sethites committed the sin of Adam in the Garden. Just as the
forbidden fruit was seen to be fair, so were the daughters of the
Cainites (Genesis 3:6).
God made a preliminary judgment, recorded in Genesis 6:3,
and gave humanity 120 years to repent. We shall find that God
always gives preliminary judgments and opportunities to repent
before bringing in full judgment.
Things continued to get worse, however, and eventually God
determined to destroy the world. Simultaneously, He laid hold
on Noah and told him that he and his family would be saved.

Exodus
Noah was told to make the Ark. During the Flood year, the
only “land” that was emergent from the sea was the Ark. Thus,
the Ark was the only human habitat in the world. Additionally,
the Ark was a world model composed of three decks (see
Diagram 13. 1). Meredith G. Kline has written that the Ark was:
a spiritual house of God, which has its symbolic external
prototypes in the Creator’s cosmic house of heaven and earth
and later in Israel’s microcosmic Tabernacle and Temple.
What is now to be observed is that the design of the ark sug-
gested that it was intended to be a representation of God’s
Kingdom in this cosmic house form. For the ark, however
seaworthy, was fashioned like a house rather than like a sail-
ing vessel. All the features mentioned in the description of the
ark belong to the architecture of a house; the three stories, the
door, the window. 5