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genesis chapters 7-8
We pick up right where we left off in chapter 6. The Ark is soon to be sealed and the wrath of God is soon to be poured out upon the world. Begin by reading chapter 7:1-10…
7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
Verse 8-9-- God sent the animals to Noah! This was the work of God. It was God that commanded and guided the animals to go to Noah and the ark. However, with Jesus, a whole new covenant was formed.
In Matthew 28:19 Jesus said “GO and make disciples…” With Noah and the ark, God brought them to salvation. The ark was the salvation and God brought them to it. After the flood, the method of salvation changed.
No longer does God bring us to salvation. Oh he leads us and prods us and convicts us by the Holy Spirit, but mankind must respond. God initiates, man responds. We are not supernaturally led or forced to salvation anymore. We are not forced to Jesus. It began shortly after the floods receded. Consider this scripture…
Numbers 21:6-8
Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
God said, “If you want salvation, then “you” look to the snake. God did not bring the snake on the pole to each person; he provided the snake and left the choice of salvation to each person.
The salvation in the days leading up to Noah and the ark, they came. They were led. They were brought by God himself.
Even as time began to march on, God provided the forgiveness of sins, but the people had to travel to the temple and make the sacrifice. God did not force or supernaturally bring people to the temple for sacrifice and forgiveness, they had to come.
Now, with Jesus, we are told to take salvation to them. (Yes we still come to him [Matthew 11:28], but then He sends us back out [Matthew 28:19].
The “ark” or “snake on a pole” if you will, is now mobile in the form of Christians. God has strewn tiny little lights of salvation, you and I, all over the world. People still must come, but as a believer, we have been sent to, at the very least, present the option of Jesus to a dying world. Simply put…
***Because of Jesus, grace and mercy now have feet, hands and a mouth. Therefore “GO“ and make disciples***
Continue reading…
Chapter 7:11-16
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
Look at 16b--Noah did all that was commanded of him. He didn’t even speak a word until chapter 9. He just kept going about the Lords business. Noah did not save himself. His obedience did not save him. His trust did not save him. His diligence and hope and patience did not save him. The Lord God saved him.
But do not overlook this one fact…
***Faith is a verb***
But you might say, “No, faith is a noun”. Yes that is also true but…
James 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Faith the noun says “I believe”. Faith the verb says, “I believe therefore I am going to….”
Do all you can and all you know how to do and then trust God. This is where the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” comes from and while it is not biblical…
Romans 9:15
For God says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
It is not, not biblical either…
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
The concept is there. It is plainly seen in
2 Thessalonians 3:10
“If a man does not work, he does not eat.”
God wants us to do all we can and then trust Him for the rest. As the old adage goes, “Trust in the Lord and continue to row to shore”
***Faith is a verb***
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Read on…Genesis 7:17-8:17
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
8 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
We always hear about the patience of Job. In verses 13-17 we must consider the patience of Noah. He had to watch a wicked world. Then watch the waters rise. Hear the screams of the people dying. Watch the water recede and then finally witness land appearing. Yet still he had to wait almost a year.
He must have been stir crazy. And the smell! Personally, I would have busted out at the first sign of a tree top. But what did Noah do?
He waited. He waited two months for the Lords permission v. 14-15. We must be constantly reminded that Gods timing is not our timing!
We have talked in length over the past few studies about the pre-flood world and about the ark, now let’s look at the flood itself. This where it gets really interesting.
How could a flood of this magnitude even be possible? Scientific explanations suggest an axis tilt or asteroids, even nuclear type explosions. Others include ET's, space travelers, electromagnetic and gravitational forces pulling against each other or a near miss from orbiting planet. Read what God said back in chapter 1…
Genesis 1:6-9 (NLT)
6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. 8 God called the space “sky.”
And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
The quick summary of this is that there was a virtual “ocean” of water in the sky at the time of creation. There also were springs that watered the earth. In between was the sky, the air and the land. This “ocean in the sky" shielded the deadly rays of the sun and this is why people, plants and animals lived to be hundreds of years old.
A dinosaur is just a reptile that was able to thrive on earth for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Since a reptile, for instance, never stops growing as long as it lives (unlike many other living things), an average sized reptile, allowed to live a thousand years, would grow to be the size of a dinosaur.
Prior to flood the earth was a giant pressurized turbine engine of sorts. Four main rivers flowed. The whole world was a natural tropical climate. There was no rain, snow or severe climatic weather and though the ground itself was cursed from the fall, the earth was a machine running like perfect clockwork.
Then the earth underwent incredible upheaval. Underground oceanic caverns of gigantic size which once held the water that watered the ground spewed out. (as told in account of the garden of Eden in Genesis 2:5-6, "For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. 6 Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.)
These underground oceans emptied themselves and the giant underground expanse that resulted was refilled with water and silt, causing upward movement forming mountains and valleys.
The “sky ocean” emptied creating rain for the first time. The removal of this sky ocean (essentially the flood waters) allowed the suns deadly rays to now penetrate to the earth, thus ending long life on earth. That is why in Genesis 6:3 God declares mans life span not to exceed 120.
The mass receding of the flood created valleys and trenches and all kinds of terrain. Many lakes and rivers have visible evidence of a much higher water level at one time. Re: Colorado River banks vs. Grand Canyon walls. At one time the Colorado River was as deep and as high as the walls of the Grand Canyon as this was no doubt once a major highway of floodwater receding.
Personally, when I learned all this, God just opened my eyes to the scientific and tangible reality of how the flood could truly have been a real event. David understood this as well…
Psalm 104:6-9
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys,
to the place you assigned for them.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
never again will they cover the earth.
Let us finish this chapter…
Genesis 8:18-22
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[c] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
And so today, each day, the sun rises, the tide falls, the seasons march on all the while crying ‘justice”. They speak “mercy” and they demonstrate “compassion and grace”. Every wave of the sea shouts “order and discipline”. Every sunrise proclaims “patience” and every sunset declares “it’s not yet too late.”
Every second of every minute of every hour of every day, has the reverberating echo of the voice of God that booms out “Come unto to me all you are weary and burdened and I will give your rest (Matthew 11:28).
Creation declares the glory and the patience and the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Give you life to Jesus today and experience what it means to truly be a child of God.
Be Blessed.
7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
Verse 8-9-- God sent the animals to Noah! This was the work of God. It was God that commanded and guided the animals to go to Noah and the ark. However, with Jesus, a whole new covenant was formed.
In Matthew 28:19 Jesus said “GO and make disciples…” With Noah and the ark, God brought them to salvation. The ark was the salvation and God brought them to it. After the flood, the method of salvation changed.
No longer does God bring us to salvation. Oh he leads us and prods us and convicts us by the Holy Spirit, but mankind must respond. God initiates, man responds. We are not supernaturally led or forced to salvation anymore. We are not forced to Jesus. It began shortly after the floods receded. Consider this scripture…
Numbers 21:6-8
Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
God said, “If you want salvation, then “you” look to the snake. God did not bring the snake on the pole to each person; he provided the snake and left the choice of salvation to each person.
The salvation in the days leading up to Noah and the ark, they came. They were led. They were brought by God himself.
Even as time began to march on, God provided the forgiveness of sins, but the people had to travel to the temple and make the sacrifice. God did not force or supernaturally bring people to the temple for sacrifice and forgiveness, they had to come.
Now, with Jesus, we are told to take salvation to them. (Yes we still come to him [Matthew 11:28], but then He sends us back out [Matthew 28:19].
The “ark” or “snake on a pole” if you will, is now mobile in the form of Christians. God has strewn tiny little lights of salvation, you and I, all over the world. People still must come, but as a believer, we have been sent to, at the very least, present the option of Jesus to a dying world. Simply put…
***Because of Jesus, grace and mercy now have feet, hands and a mouth. Therefore “GO“ and make disciples***
Continue reading…
Chapter 7:11-16
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
Look at 16b--Noah did all that was commanded of him. He didn’t even speak a word until chapter 9. He just kept going about the Lords business. Noah did not save himself. His obedience did not save him. His trust did not save him. His diligence and hope and patience did not save him. The Lord God saved him.
But do not overlook this one fact…
***Faith is a verb***
But you might say, “No, faith is a noun”. Yes that is also true but…
James 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Faith the noun says “I believe”. Faith the verb says, “I believe therefore I am going to….”
Do all you can and all you know how to do and then trust God. This is where the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” comes from and while it is not biblical…
Romans 9:15
For God says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
It is not, not biblical either…
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
The concept is there. It is plainly seen in
2 Thessalonians 3:10
“If a man does not work, he does not eat.”
God wants us to do all we can and then trust Him for the rest. As the old adage goes, “Trust in the Lord and continue to row to shore”
***Faith is a verb***
======================================================
Read on…Genesis 7:17-8:17
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
8 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
We always hear about the patience of Job. In verses 13-17 we must consider the patience of Noah. He had to watch a wicked world. Then watch the waters rise. Hear the screams of the people dying. Watch the water recede and then finally witness land appearing. Yet still he had to wait almost a year.
He must have been stir crazy. And the smell! Personally, I would have busted out at the first sign of a tree top. But what did Noah do?
He waited. He waited two months for the Lords permission v. 14-15. We must be constantly reminded that Gods timing is not our timing!
We have talked in length over the past few studies about the pre-flood world and about the ark, now let’s look at the flood itself. This where it gets really interesting.
How could a flood of this magnitude even be possible? Scientific explanations suggest an axis tilt or asteroids, even nuclear type explosions. Others include ET's, space travelers, electromagnetic and gravitational forces pulling against each other or a near miss from orbiting planet. Read what God said back in chapter 1…
Genesis 1:6-9 (NLT)
6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. 8 God called the space “sky.”
And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
The quick summary of this is that there was a virtual “ocean” of water in the sky at the time of creation. There also were springs that watered the earth. In between was the sky, the air and the land. This “ocean in the sky" shielded the deadly rays of the sun and this is why people, plants and animals lived to be hundreds of years old.
A dinosaur is just a reptile that was able to thrive on earth for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Since a reptile, for instance, never stops growing as long as it lives (unlike many other living things), an average sized reptile, allowed to live a thousand years, would grow to be the size of a dinosaur.
Prior to flood the earth was a giant pressurized turbine engine of sorts. Four main rivers flowed. The whole world was a natural tropical climate. There was no rain, snow or severe climatic weather and though the ground itself was cursed from the fall, the earth was a machine running like perfect clockwork.
Then the earth underwent incredible upheaval. Underground oceanic caverns of gigantic size which once held the water that watered the ground spewed out. (as told in account of the garden of Eden in Genesis 2:5-6, "For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. 6 Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.)
These underground oceans emptied themselves and the giant underground expanse that resulted was refilled with water and silt, causing upward movement forming mountains and valleys.
The “sky ocean” emptied creating rain for the first time. The removal of this sky ocean (essentially the flood waters) allowed the suns deadly rays to now penetrate to the earth, thus ending long life on earth. That is why in Genesis 6:3 God declares mans life span not to exceed 120.
The mass receding of the flood created valleys and trenches and all kinds of terrain. Many lakes and rivers have visible evidence of a much higher water level at one time. Re: Colorado River banks vs. Grand Canyon walls. At one time the Colorado River was as deep and as high as the walls of the Grand Canyon as this was no doubt once a major highway of floodwater receding.
Personally, when I learned all this, God just opened my eyes to the scientific and tangible reality of how the flood could truly have been a real event. David understood this as well…
Psalm 104:6-9
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys,
to the place you assigned for them.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
never again will they cover the earth.
Let us finish this chapter…
Genesis 8:18-22
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[c] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
And so today, each day, the sun rises, the tide falls, the seasons march on all the while crying ‘justice”. They speak “mercy” and they demonstrate “compassion and grace”. Every wave of the sea shouts “order and discipline”. Every sunrise proclaims “patience” and every sunset declares “it’s not yet too late.”
Every second of every minute of every hour of every day, has the reverberating echo of the voice of God that booms out “Come unto to me all you are weary and burdened and I will give your rest (Matthew 11:28).
Creation declares the glory and the patience and the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Give you life to Jesus today and experience what it means to truly be a child of God.
Be Blessed.
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