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PART II

THE ANTEDILUVIAN PATRIARCHS

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and temporal. It will not always strive with Spirit. My Spirit is not

to be immortal in mortals. The fleshly nature of man shall not be

prolonged; it will be overcome by the spiritual nature of man,

which is immortal. And man's immortality will be found, not in the

flesh, not in length of days, but in his godliness."
The Bible verse is a prophecy that evil, though apparently gain

ing power throughout the earth, shall not prevail —B.C. or A.D.
The divine nature shall triumph in man, for good is immortal and
omnipotent. Evil is mortal —mortis, destructive to life —a name

which embodies within itself the elements of death.

This period in human history is reminiscent of an earlierperiod
when evil attempted to eclipse the appearing of the divine nature
in man and the universe by overlaying its phenomena upon the un
folding scene. But this attempt was neutralized: "The Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters" —upon the elements of

human consciousness —and light appeared! Divine Light,

spiritual enlightenment, outshone, or mastered, the dark

ness —the ignorance and chaos of mortal thought. (See Gen.1:2.)
Now when it would appear that the generations of Seth are be

ing swallowed up in a flood ofwickedness, sensuality, and corrup
tion, when evil is attempting to discredit the millennial estate of
Seth, to obscure the divine nature expressed by Seth's progeny,
and to nullify their holy mission —that of letting their lives
manifest dominion, majesty, and glory of the divine nature in
man —the power of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, again
moves upon the waters, and light appears in the form of Noah,

Lamech's son.

Lamech (seventh in the millennial estate of Seth), whose name
means powerful, indicating the Omnipotence of God expressed in
man, brought forth one who was to comfort and strengthen the
righteous concerning the work of their hands —work which had
become toilsome and unrequiting because of the curse of

materialism which had settled in the minds of men.

The name Noah, from the Hebrew Noach, or Nowack. means
rest. The word comfort is also associated with Noah's

name — "This same shall comfort us" (Gen.5:29). The Hebrew

nacham, translated comfort (cum-forte —with strength), means to
breathe strongly, to animate with strength. That which truly com
forts strengthens us from within, revealing inner strength so
powerful that it casts out sin and neutralizes adulterating or