Genesis chapter 8
'And God remembered Noah', God will not leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5, Deuteronomy 31:6 and other places). Man had grievously sinned against God, but man had mercy on Noah. God's wrath was upon the earth to destroy it, but his anger was kindled and he extended grace to Noah and his family. I don't want to read too much into things and make something that is not there, but it says the 'fountains of the deep' as well as the windows of heaven stopped. There seems to be water coming from every direction, but God stopped them all up in his mercy.
After a hundred and fifty days the ark rested on mount Ararat. For another two months they waited until the waters receded enough for them to get out. First Noah sent a raven to find a place to live and then a dove but they came back. After another seven days he sent the dove again and it found an olive branch. Another seven days later Noah sent out the dove again and it finally found a home. Is not all of this an example of our prayer life. That whether we receive and answer the first prayer or the second, we should pray continually because God will hear our prayer. Psalm 6:9 The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
After the ground is dry, God tells Noah to remove himself and his family from the ark. After Noah and all his family and all the animals are out of the ark, Noah builds and altar and sacrifices to God. This is also an example for all of us to give thanks for the Lord's Salvation, his mercy, his deliverance, his Grace, his Holy Spirit and his Word. Where would we be without the Gospel message?
After the Lord receives this sacrifice from Noah, he makes a vow that the world will continue to have seasons until the end of earth's time. God keeps his vows.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Genesis 7
Genesis chapter 7
God bids Noah and all his family to enter into the ark. There is no safety or guarantee outside of God's love and his son's Salvation. The ark represents God's love and safety. The ark represents escape from this world and sin. The ark represents life, while living in the world with an eminent doom represents death. God is calling everyone lost in sin to the safety of his Son's sacrifice and love.
Notice that Noah and his family are being delivered because of their righteousness and faith, not chance or happenstance. So God tells Noah once again what is expected of him and what he has to do to live. God is not leaving our details and he also reiterates that he will destroy all life from the planet.
After Noah puts his family and all the animals on the ark, the rain and floods start after seven days just as God had said. Be certain that God will fulfill and bring to pass all his promises. Now for forty days and nights it rains and causes this flood. No doubt this was a rain that would cause fear in our hearts if we were to see it. What makes it worse for that time was the fact that they had never seen it rain at all, must less a downpour of this magnitude.
Everything on earth is destroyed in the flood; all life, all civilization, everything dies.There are no homes, no people, no animals. After seeing the evil that is in our own time and God has so far spared us, to imagine the evil that existed then must almost purely evil. God must have had to protect Noah while he built the ark if such evil existed.
After it rained for forty days, the Bible says that the water prevailed for another one hundred and fifty days. Nothing could survive this but what was delivered by the hand of God. It will be no different for us.
God bids Noah and all his family to enter into the ark. There is no safety or guarantee outside of God's love and his son's Salvation. The ark represents God's love and safety. The ark represents escape from this world and sin. The ark represents life, while living in the world with an eminent doom represents death. God is calling everyone lost in sin to the safety of his Son's sacrifice and love.
Notice that Noah and his family are being delivered because of their righteousness and faith, not chance or happenstance. So God tells Noah once again what is expected of him and what he has to do to live. God is not leaving our details and he also reiterates that he will destroy all life from the planet.
After Noah puts his family and all the animals on the ark, the rain and floods start after seven days just as God had said. Be certain that God will fulfill and bring to pass all his promises. Now for forty days and nights it rains and causes this flood. No doubt this was a rain that would cause fear in our hearts if we were to see it. What makes it worse for that time was the fact that they had never seen it rain at all, must less a downpour of this magnitude.
Everything on earth is destroyed in the flood; all life, all civilization, everything dies.There are no homes, no people, no animals. After seeing the evil that is in our own time and God has so far spared us, to imagine the evil that existed then must almost purely evil. God must have had to protect Noah while he built the ark if such evil existed.
After it rained for forty days, the Bible says that the water prevailed for another one hundred and fifty days. Nothing could survive this but what was delivered by the hand of God. It will be no different for us.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Genesis 6
Genesis chapter 6
From the last chapter we have the 'righteous' line of Seth. We get that from the last verse of the forth chapter that says 'men began to call upon the name of the LORD. Now it appears that between the other children that Adam and Eve had, Cain's offspring, and even those from Seth's line, that evil people begin to embrace sin and therefore are destroying themselves and the world through their sin.
A lot has been said about the 'sons of God' and giants, men of renown, but we can infer that these were ordinary people, but that even the best, brightest, boldest of all earth married who they would and intermingled with whomever they wished. There were hardly any righteous left. This disgusted God and he repented that he had made man. Notice just after this though, that God had mercy and shows favor to Noah.
There are two things I'd like to point out here. When God destroyed the world the first time, when Christ was born upon the Earth, and when the Lord returns, it will most likely be the same. There will only be remnant left that truly serve God. Also, notice that God is ALWAYS patient and long suffering. Even though man had disgusted him, he yet had mercy on those that serve him. God will always have mercy for those that love him if only the mercy when we receive eternal life in heaven.
Noah is given instructions for his deliverance. Has not God given us the exact instructions for our redemption? Noah no doubt showed faith throughout the building of this ark. You know that he was mocked because the Bible says it had never rained upon the earth. So with faith following instructions Noah was delivered. It will be no different for us.
From the last chapter we have the 'righteous' line of Seth. We get that from the last verse of the forth chapter that says 'men began to call upon the name of the LORD. Now it appears that between the other children that Adam and Eve had, Cain's offspring, and even those from Seth's line, that evil people begin to embrace sin and therefore are destroying themselves and the world through their sin.
A lot has been said about the 'sons of God' and giants, men of renown, but we can infer that these were ordinary people, but that even the best, brightest, boldest of all earth married who they would and intermingled with whomever they wished. There were hardly any righteous left. This disgusted God and he repented that he had made man. Notice just after this though, that God had mercy and shows favor to Noah.
There are two things I'd like to point out here. When God destroyed the world the first time, when Christ was born upon the Earth, and when the Lord returns, it will most likely be the same. There will only be remnant left that truly serve God. Also, notice that God is ALWAYS patient and long suffering. Even though man had disgusted him, he yet had mercy on those that serve him. God will always have mercy for those that love him if only the mercy when we receive eternal life in heaven.
Noah is given instructions for his deliverance. Has not God given us the exact instructions for our redemption? Noah no doubt showed faith throughout the building of this ark. You know that he was mocked because the Bible says it had never rained upon the earth. So with faith following instructions Noah was delivered. It will be no different for us.
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