Genesis 6 Verses 5 to 22 The Way Through the Flood July 16, 2023

Genesis 6 Verses 5 to 22 The Way Through the Flood July 16, 2023

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Background Scriptures:

Matthew 24:37-38 (NASB) 37 "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38 "For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

Hebrews 11:7 (NASB) 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Genesis 9:11 (NASB) 11 "I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."

Main Idea: Noah’s faithfulness and righteous living saved humanity and preserved much of the animal life we have today.

Study Aim: To understand that anytime God sends judgment He always provides a way to escape it.

Create Interest:

· Is there any greater pain suffered than parents who witness the loss of a child? Our passage provides a window into the heart of the troubled Creator.

· God’s sorrow is over what has become of his noble creation, not the destruction itself. But God does not act carelessly, for he rightly delivers righteous Noah and extends that grace to his family.[1]

Lesson in Historical Context:

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· Genesis 6:3: God’s spirit would not always strive with man. God had enough of the wickedness of men and gave mankind a deadline to repent, 120 years. The word strivemeans “judge, contend, or restrain.”The Holy Spirit is the restrainer of sin in the world. Our Lord is patient and longsuffering. Yet, if we persist to resist the Lord and be hard-hearted, God sometimes lets us have our own way and lets sin take its toll on our lives.

· God saw the wickedness of men and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was evil continually. Man was consumed with wickedness and the Lord was grieved. The word imagination comes from the potter’s verb “to form.”

o Men fashioned and formed in their mind evil thoughts. Notice what God thinks about the thoughts of the wicked.

§ Psalm 94:11—The Lord knows the thoughts of the wicked.

§ Proverbs 15:26—The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.

§ Matthew 9:4—Jesus knew the thoughts of the wicked and asked why they thought that way.[2]

· Now considering that introduction look at what the world thought.

o Except for the increase in violence and crime, the times were pretty good. People were “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage” (Matt. 24:38), and life was going on as usual. When friends met at the market or at wedding feasts, they laughed about Noah and his family (“Imagine building that big boat on dry land!”) or discussed Methuselah, the world’s oldest man (“He’ll die one of these days, mark my word!”), or talked about Enoch, the man who suddenly disappeared (“Strangest thing I ever heard!”).

· Methuselah was a descendant of Seth and the son of Enoch, grandfather to Noah. He is noted for being the oldest man recorded in the Bible. At the age of 187, he begat Lamech, the father of Noah, after which he lived 782 years, a total of 969. The flood probably broke forth the same year as his death.[3]

o Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather, and Noah knew that when he died, nothing stood in the way of God’s judgment falling on a wicked world. For over a century, Noah had been warning people about the coming judgment, but only his own family had believed him and trusted the Lord.

o After Methuselah died things began to happen. One day, Noah and his family entered their “boat” and the rains came. (“It can’t go on forever,” people said. “It’ll stop one of these days.”) But it rained for forty days and forty nights, and subterranean explosions discharged more water on the earth. Even after the rain stopped, the water continued to rise; and within five months, the whole earth was under water and everything that breathed was dead. Everything, that is, except Noah and his family, the eight people everybody laughed at.[4]

· In summary, God saw the evil of humanity, was grieved by it, and decided to destroy all people, except for Noah and his family, because this righteous man walked with God. The Lord told Noah what He was going to do and commanded Noah to build an ark over the next 120 (Gen. 6:3) years. Then at “600 yrs. olds”, Noah had done everything that the Lord had commanded, him to do following the plans God provided. Methuselah and Lamech had passed away and when God called Noah and his family into the ark, they came in, and the Lord kept His promise/covenant to deliver them. Noah believed in the faithfulness of the Lord’s word and showed his faith by building the ark.[5]

o Noah was the kind of person you and I should be and can be as we live in our world today.

Bible Study:

Genesis 6:5-9 (NASB) 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the records ofthe generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

· These verses describe the terrible plight of human society prior to the flood. verse 5 describes what God saw; verse 6, what He felt; and verse 7, what He decided.

· Vs. 5: And God saw. The course of the primeval world was a great experiment going on before the eye of God, and of all intelligent observers, and manifesting the thorough depravity and full-grown degeneracy of the fallen race, when left to the bent of its perverted inclinations[6]

· The condition of humanity well depicts the total depravity of that generation. Notice that it involved their actions (wickedness), their intent, and their thoughts. Notice also the words that describe the extent of each of these: great … every … continually.

o There is no depth of evil more comprehensive than this. Everything that humans imagined, thought, or did was of the worst kind, and this behavior went on continually.

· Vs. 6: The meaning of the Hebrew word translated repentedis much the same as the meaning of the word translated grieved. This does not mean that God regretted making a mistake, but that He was sorry for the sinful choices of humanity.

o The Bible teaches that God is not a man that He has need to repent (1 Sam. 15:29); that is, He never sins and therefore never needs to “turn away from” evil deeds, thoughts, etc.

o Nevertheless, from man’s limited perspective, God seems to change his mind concerning certain acts.

o The Bible teaches that God’s judgments are conditional. That is, “If that nation that I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned” (Jer. 18:8)[7]

· Whereas the heart of the people before the flood was filled with evil, the heart of God was filled with pain over their sins.

o On the level of His divine will, God knew that creation was no mistake.

§ But on the level of his emotions, the way man turned out brought great sorrow. So, God could say, with all honesty, that he was “sorry that He had made man,” and yet still be the God who never makes a mistake[8].

o The making of ‘man’ is no error; it is what ‘man’ has made of himself. … The intensity of the pain is demonstrated by the use of naham elsewhere in Genesis, where it describes mourning over the loss of a family member due to death. But his is not regret over destroying humanity; paradoxically, so foul has become mankind that it is the necessary step to salvage him.”

· Verse 7 records the decision God made. The word translated destroy (“blot out,” NRSV) means “to erase by washing.” God intended to wash away not only humans but also animals and birds. Why include them? Because they were caught up in the consequences of human sin. The sins of human beings blight nature itself.

o Only one man and his family were to be rescued from the coming destruction. The fact that God planned to save Noah and his family shows that He intended to make a new start with them and their descendants.

· Vs. 8: There is no suggestion that Noah earned this favor/grace. Indeed, the notion of earning grace is a contradiction in terms. Only someone like Jacob thinks you can earn grace (he keeps trying to do so in Genesis 33 when he is trying to get back into a good relationship with his brother whom he had so wronged, and his brother is bemused because he has forgotten all that wrongdoing).

o If we are to understand the statement “Noah found grace” we have to reverse it: “Grace found Noah.” That is why the world’s story does not come to an end with God implementing the decision in verse 7.[9]

· Verse 9 enables us to continue to explore the basis of Noah’s acceptance. The first two parts of the verse might sound as if he was righteous and blameless in his own strength.

o But the words walked with God show that his good life flowed out of a right relation with God. Noah was not sinlessly perfect, but he was a righteous man in the midst of an evil generation, and he did not have the kind of blame they had.

· The statement that “Noah was a righteous man” is the first mention of righteousness in the Bible and sets the standard that righteousness comes by faith.

o Forsaking All I Trust Him:

· The biblical doctrine of imputed righteousness began before the flood. This is the first of the Old Testament expressions that are made more explicit in subsequent Old Testament texts (cf. Genesis 15:6; Psalm 32:2) and are given full flower in the New Testament (cf. Romans 1:17; 3:21, 22; 5:17, 19; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 1:1).[10]

· Walked is used in the Bible both literally and figuratively. Literally, it refers to someone walking physically. Figuratively, it refers to a way of living.

o Thus, to walk with God was to live in His presence and follow His direction. Enoch was described in this way, and so was Noah.

What are the abiding principles in Genesis 6:5–9?

· Sin left to itself gets worse and worse.

· God punishes sin.

· God saves those who walk with Him.[11]

Note: Our world today is much like the days of Noah.

· How does a Christian stand alone in the midst of a corrupt society?

· When the crowd wants to do wrong, how do we as Christians have the grit, wisdom, and courage to stand for Jesus Christ?

o God’s Word has the answers to these questions. The following is inserted to help us here.

How to Stand Alone for Christ

⬧ Renew our mind with the truths of God’s Word and begin to see life from God’s viewpoint.

o Romans 12:2 (NASB) 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

⬧ Realizethat rejection and harassment bring more of God’s grace which gives us the desire to do God’s will

o James 4:6 (NASB) 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

⬧ Rememberbiblical concepts and apply them to your life daily.

o Proverbs 3:5-6 (NASB) 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

⬧ Respectthe prompts of the Holy Spirit and apply God’s truth to daily living.

o Romans 8:13 (NASB) 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

⬧ Relatewith Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection and draw upon His power to do what is right. Romans 6–8 ( not printed in this work to keep printing shorter)

⬧ Regardthe reputation of Christ as more important than pleasing ourselves because of our love for the Lord.

o John 14:21 (NASB) 21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him."

⬧ Recognizethat we are really not alone because the Lord will never forsake us.

o Matthew 28:20 (NASB) 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

⬧ Repulseevil and do not secretly desire to do what we condemn in others

o Romans 2:1 (NASB) 1 Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

⬧ Resignyour will before God and man, without any trace of pride or rebellion.[12]

o Proverbs 8:19 (NASB) 19 "My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, And my yield better than choicest silver.

Genesis 6:8-13 (NASB) 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

· Vs. 10: In the power of the energizing Spirit of God, Noah was fruitful. His three sons born after he was 500 years old (Vs. 5:32) are named. Three sons does not look like very much fruit, but from those three sons every man, woman, and child on the planet has descended.

o Shem: Noah’s first son is presented as the ancestor of the Semitic people groups, one line of which produces Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (9:26; 11:10–25).

o Ham: This name is either derived from a Hebrew word meaning “hot” or “warm” or the Egyptian word khemet, meaning “black land”—a name for the land of Egypt that describes the black soil produced by the flooding of the Nile.

§ In the Table of Nations (Ch. 10), the descendants of Ham occupy the hot lands of the southern Mediterranean and African regions (10:6–20).

§ The name Ham is also used at times in parallel with Egypt (Pss 78:51; 105:23, 27; 106:22).

o Japheth: The derivation of this name is uncertain. The Table of Nations (Gen 10) locates Japheth’s descendants in Greece and the northern Mediterranean region (10:2–5).[13]

· Energized as he was by God, Noah was also enlightened by God (6:11–13).

o Vs. 11-12: God is seen reviewing the earth (6:11–12). “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”

§ Everywhere He looked He saw open, flagrant, public licentiousness and lawlessness.

§ Vice and violence were the order of the day.

§ Horrible sins were flaunted and applauded.

o The same kind of thing is fast becoming accepted in the modern world.

§ Old moral standards and religious restraints have been cast contemptuously aside. The mayor of one of our great cities officially proclaimed a “Gay Pride Week” to honor homosexuals, lesbians, perverts, and the vilest forms of immorality, with scarcely a ripple of protest.

§ Bookstores line their shelves with obscene literature of the most explicit sort.

§ Movie houses compete to show the most degraded and disgusting pornography as “adult” entertainment. Sexual perverts are not only promoted to high government office but are also hailed because “a fully sublimated homosexual is worth his weight in gold,” as one official expressed it.

§ Corruption stalks everywhere with head lifted high.

📷 The sins that produced the Flood have risen again in the world and are fast reaching toward heaven.

· Vs. 13: It is no wonder that God is next seen revealing His wrath. “And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” The word comes from a root meaning “to cut off.” God had reached the limit of His patience, but He revealed the fact to Noah so that a way of escape might be provided for those who would take it. Even in His wrath, God remembers His mercy.[14]

· Note: God was going to send the Flood, and would like to suggest here several reasons why.

o Man had a promise of a Redeemer, and he was told that there was coming a Savior on the earth. That is the thing man should have been looking for; instead of that, he turned from God.

o God had provided a sacrifice for Adam and Eve, and we find that a great, eternal principle was put down with Cain and Abel. These two boys, Cain and Abel, stand as the representatives of two great systems, two classes of people: the lost and the saved, the self–righteous and the broken–spirited, the formal professor and the genuine believer. That is what was present in the human race at this time.

o The patriarchs were living so long that the lives of Adam and Methuselah (969) bridged the entire gap from the creation to the Flood. They certainly could have given a revelation to all mankind, which they did.

§ Then we are told in Jude 14 and 15 that Enoch preached, he prophesied, during that period.

§ We are also told that Noah preached during that period as he was building the ark. When Enoch disappeared, that should have alerted the people to the intervention of God in human affairs.

§ God said that His Spirit would not always strive with man (6:3). The Spirit of God was striving with him, but, when man totally rejected God, the Flood came in judgment upon the earth.

· The entire human family has turned from God “… There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). There are just a few, though, who do believe Him—Noah and his family. Here is one man who walked with God; he believed God. Here is a man who still trusted God—“by faith Noah.” Here is a man who was willing to risk building a boat on dry land. If the rains did not come, he certainly would be the laughingstock of the community. I think he was just that for 120 years during the building process, but Noah believed God.[15]

Thoughts to soak on:

· God announced to Noah His intention to put an end to “all flesh”. God’s opening words to Noah in v. 13 may best be understood as meaning, “I have decided to bring all flesh (humanity) to an end”.

· All animals, however, must also perish, for they are linked with mankind. It may be that the animals are included in “all flesh”, as they may perhaps be later in the section, but the facts are not affected by the translation.

· Both men and beasts must die. God’s reason for this decision is the worldwide violence. No doubt these conditions are to be traced back to the unholy alliances in vv. 1–2, but God’s judgment fell on mankind at large on account of the wickedness described in vv. 5, 11 and 12. Their destruction would involve the overthrow of the habitable state of the earth, so that the order and fruitfulness and amenities which people had enjoyed would be disrupted. This is tersely described in 2 Peter 3:6: “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished”.[16]

What Do You Think?

· If we viewed our world the way God does, in what ways should our prayer lives, priorities, and behavior change?

· What would you say to someone who believes that a loving God would never judge sin so harshly?

Digging Deeper

How does your answer change, if at all, after comparing and contrasting the following two verses?[17]

· John 3:16 (NASB) 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

· 1 John 2:15 (NASB) 15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Thoughts to Soak On:

· The background is dark. People have turned their backs on God and as inevitably happens in such circumstances, have taken to venting their hatred on each other. The key words in vv. 11–12 are “corrupt” and “earth”.

o The picture of society is dreadful in its perversion of all that God originally intended for man, and the consequences for earth as well as man are dire.

· Corruption in relation to God expresses the spiritual ruin which underlies, and inevitably leads to, moral collapse.

o Men who hate God come to hate each other.

o Hence the accompaniment of corruption is violence, for men who have no reverence for God will sooner or later show scant reverence for other men made in His image.

· Verse 12 shows movingly how God saw the corruption, a reminder that initially He had, by contrast, seen what He had just made and declared it “very good”. All the world is affected by the ruin of mankind in general.[18]

Genesis 6:14-22 (NASB) 14 "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 "This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 "And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kindinto the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 "Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21 "As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather itto yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them." 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Verses 14 to 22 gives us the directives God gave to Noah to build the boat/ark and fill it “of every living thing of all flesh”. As much time as we could spend here, I found the following that wraps up our study in bow for better understanding.

· The order in which Genesis reports on God and Noah is significant.

o First it tells us Noah found grace with God.

o Then it tells us Noah was a person of faithfulness and integrity, and someone who walked about with God like Enoch.

o Then it tells us how God gave Noah instructions for surviving the coming destruction.

o Messing with any aspect of the order in this story messes up the theology.

§ Noah is indeed a person of faithfulness and unique integrity, but that somehow follows from God’s grace rather than being its cause.

· There is a link between grace and faithfulness or integrity, but the link is that grace generates faithfulness and integrity, not the other way around.

o God exempted Noah from the destruction and made him the head of a new humanity because Noah turned out to be an unexpected exception to that general rule that “all the inclinations of the plans of people’s heart’s were only wrong, all the time”; but that happens only because Noah found grace or grace found Noah.

· Vs. 18: The story also introduces another of the Bible’s most significant theological terms, the word covenant, which suggests a solemn commitment that one person or group of people makes to another person or group of people.

· In its first appearance, covenant is closely related to grace.

o Sometimes covenants are reciprocal. That is true of the marriage covenant; marriage as a covenant works only on the assumption that two people are making a mutual commitment.

o But on its first appearance, covenant refers to a quite one-sided commitment. God is just making a commitment to Noah.

§ One expression of it is giving precise instructions for how to build a suitable vessel;

§ God does not leave Noah on his own to work this out.

📷 Yet as with God’s showing grace, this covenant calls for a response. If Noah and his family do not do as God says, they will perish, like everyone else. But the covenant actually issues simply from God’s commitment. The implications will be taken further after the flood.

· Noah indeed does exactly as God commands and makes his big box. Jewish traditions imagine him provoking ribald comments from his neighbors. But his obedience means the covenant will not be derailed.[19]

For the inquiring mind’s satisfaction

· Vs. 14-16: The ark was of incredible size, especially in its ancient setting. When Noah laid out its keel at 450 feet, the pre-flood era of 100 plus years must have laughed themselves silly. We can visualize it by imagining the length of one and a half football fields! It was 238 feet longer than the Cutty Sark, the largest wooden boat ever built, at 212 feet. Of course, in modern times the advent of steel has made possible much larger vessels. The Queen Elizabeth was over 1,000 feet in length.

· What a monster the ark was! As best we can tell, the ark was shaped like a shallow box topped with a roof, with an eighteen-inch space under the roof interrupted only by the roof supports, so light could get into the vessel from every side. Noah had more than enough work to keep him and his three sons occupied for a century. Remember, there were no trucks, no chain saws, and no cranes.

· Covenant of salvation. The only thing that Noah had to sustain him was the bare word of God, God’s promise—the so-called Noahic covenant, here given in abbreviated form as part of further instructions for the ark:[20]

Grace and peace to all who read and share this work

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