JUDGMENT FALLS

Final Preparations

Genesis 8:20 “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”

Leviticus 11 discusses the different clean and unclean animals. We don’t know if these would have been the same ones in Noah’s day.

Genesis 6:21 “Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.””

Discuss how the Lord has brought about so much diversity from the genetic data of Adam and Eve, and then Noah and his family and how that relates to the animals that were taken.

Acts 17:26 “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,”

Genesis 3:20 “The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.”

Genesis 9:19 “These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.”

The best estimates, perhaps the largest estimates, would have been that you wouldn’t have needed more than thirty to forty thousand species of animals. That would have covered all the species, and out of the pairs of those species could come all of the variations, both extinct and still alive, on our planet.

It has been calculated that the capacity of the ark is equivalent to 522 train boxcars. Somebody figured out years ago that you could get 240 sheep in a boxcar. So if you had 522 boxcars with 240 sheep, you’d have a total of a bit over 125,000 animals. Sheep are most likely larger than the average animal on the ark.

Genesis 2:19 “Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.”

Jeremiah 32:27 ““Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?”

The Wrath of God Poured Out

2 Peter 2:5 “if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

See Genesis 7:4 and Genesis 7:21-23...

Luke 17:26–27 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”

Discuss the water coming from above and below.

When the flood came, it was 1656 years after creation. When you consider the long life-spans and lack of birth control, the population could have easily been upwards of 7 billion people.

Around 1800, there were 1 billion people on earth. By 1930, there were 2 billion. By 1960, there were 3 billion. In 1975, 4 billion. In 1987, 5 billion. By 1999, 6 billion. 2011 was over 7 billion. And 2023 there is over 8 billion.

Romans 2:4–5 “Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

Hebrews 10:30-31 “For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

Nahum 1:2-3 “The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.”

Discuss God’s hatred of sin in relation to the flood and hell. Mention the coming judgment in 2 Peter 3:1-13...

Salvation by Grace

Matthew 7:13–14 ““Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

See 1 Peter 3:18-22...

Colossians 3:3 “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

1 Thessalonians 1:10 “and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

Ephesians 1:13–14 “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”