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21 Only Noah and his family of his generation had preserved their pedigree pure from Adam. "These are the generations [plural, denoting genealogies and family history] of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God" (Gen.6:9). The rest of mankind had become corrupted through intermarriage with angels, tainted with the biological effects of such contamination, and their hereditary traits were corrupted -- genes and chromosomes were "tainted." Noah, however, was "perfect" in his genealogy or pedigree. The Hebrew word for "perfect" here is tamim and means "without blemish." It is the word for bodily and physical perfection. It is rendered "without blemish" (Exo.12:5, etc.), "without spot" (Num.19:2, etc.), and "undefiled" (Psalm 119:1). Adam. The word Nephilim itself means, literally, "fallen ones" (from naphal, "to fall"). These beings were evidently great in size and great in wickedness. They were superhuman, abnormal beings, and their destruction was necessary for the preservation of the human race. The children of the perverted sexual relationships between fallen angels and women "became [the] mighty men [Hebrew, gibbor, meaning "tyrants, the "heroes"], which were of old, men of renown" (Gen.6:4). The word for "renown" literally means "men of the name," that is, men who got a reputation and were renowned for their strength, prowess, ungodliness, and evil deeds. The Word of God says, "The wages of sin is death" (Rom.6:23). How will the Eternal God, the Ever-living, Almighty Majesty of heaven, punish Satan and his fallen angels, for their crimes against heaven? How will He destroy this wicked but powerful Lucifer who became vain and self-centered, whose heart was lifted up with vanity and pride, lust and arrogance? What will be the fate of the original "Rebel without a cause," and his minions of rebellious angels? Ezekiel tells us: "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with VIOLENCE, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will DESTROY thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire" (Ezek.28:12-16). "I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall DEVOUR thee, and I will bring thee to ASHES upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more" (vs.17-18). The prophet Malachi describes this awesome day of divine vengeance. He writes: "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud [including Satan/Lucifer, the "king of pride"], yea, and all that do wickedly [the wicked angels, as well as men], shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall BURN THEM UP, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall "Perfect in His Generations" The Punishment Decreed on Satan and His Angels God inspired Ezekiel to write the epitaph of this creature of the night as follows: