If the book of Genesis is correct, and if I've done my calculations correctly, Madeleine L'Engle misrepresented the pre-Flood state of the world in her book Many Waters.
It wasn't Noah's father Lamech who lived until just before the Flood, but his grandfather Methuselah. Genesis doesn't say clearly whether Methuselah died before the Flood, or in it, but I believe L'Engle was probably correct in describing Noah as having the support of a Godly elder during the century he spent building the Ark, in a world where all other families were wicked.
Furthermore, according to Genesis Adam lived well into Methuselah's lifetime.
At some earlier point, I looked into the post-Flood genealogies and found that Abraham was a contemporary of some from the first generations after Noah and his family got off the Ark.
I also noticed in Mark that the centurion who saw Jesus die, and who declared that he was the Son of God, shortly after that reported back to Pilate in person that Jesus was dead.
There is much to be gleaned from old books. Today I learned that the cutting to pieces of Rahab in Isaiah 51 can be understood as part of God's work in parting and securing a passage across the Red Sea for the escape of the Israelites from Egypt.
They weren't just fleeing the Egyptians; there were principalities and powers at work then, just as now.
The Israelites were significantly reminded of the Red Sea passage as they entered the Promised Land, Joshua 4 says, when God stopped the flow of the Jordan River for them to cross over.
There's also the prostitute Rahab who assisted the Israelites, whose God had easily defeated her namesake.
"Three souls flying home because I stayed behind"
One of the souls I've helped toward salvation suddenly flew home recently. This song helped me to really cry for the first time over it.
I happened to read about the Gadarene swine in Mark 3 this morning before coming across this piece, which mentions it.
David Clements mentions Michael Cocchini. A quick internet search tells me that they've worked together before, and that a different Michael Cocchini--and a Susan Clements--went fatally missing in the Smoky Mountains. At separate times.
Feels like a rabbit hole.
Much like Jonathan Cahn connects the major demons of ancient Israel to today's United States, Clements says that the spirits of the Nephilim are here and active.
https://joehoft.com/attorney-david-clements-mkultras-shadow-a-demonic-war-for-humanitys-mind/
