Genesis 6-8
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We last looked at Gen 4:1-16, the story of Cain killing able. We saw God’s judgment and we also saw God’s grace and love. From Verse 17 of Ch 4 till the end of Chapter 5 we see the family tree that came from Adam, this is by no means every one of his children but a list of the key players that God used to bring about His plan of salvation.
In Gen 4:25-26
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
We see at the end of ch 4 God gives Adam and Eve another child to replace Cain, there could have been others before Seth, but Seth specifically was appointed to replace Abel. Notice Cain killed Abel but God’s plan was going to continue even thought Abel was no longer there.
At the end of the verse it says when Seth had a son named Enosh, people began to call upon the Lord. looking at the descendants of Adam to Seth, we know Adam was 130 yrs old when Seth was born and Seth was 105 when Enosh was born so 235 years after creation, people began to call on the lord!
When we follow the line from Adam down to today’s passage of Noah we see the earth was 1056 years old when Noah was born. Noah was 600 when the flood started which means the earth was 1656 years old when God poured out judgment on the earth in the days of Noah.
This is where we will pick up today.
Genesis 6:1–4 (KJV 1900)
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Sons of God = beney ha'elohim = Angelic beings. This term for angels is used in several parts of the old testament
God saw the hearts of man quickly running in a direction away from God. We see even a portion of his heavenly hosts crossing lines and breading with men. This breading brought forth a breed of mankind that were huge and mighty.
God at this point sets an age limit on mankind of 120 years. God begins putting a boundary on how long a person can live.
Genesis 6:5–6 (KJV 1900)
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
God looks at what his beautiful perfect creation had become. From the first sin of Adam, 235 years later people begin to call upon God, now between 821 and 1,421 years later (sometimes within Noahs first 600 years on earth). God looks at the hearts of mankind and sees nothing but evil!
God repented or was sorry that he even created mankind.
We are seeing God’s heart, sin s not a small thing, sin is a huge issue and it was so bad in every person that God was sorry that he even created mankind.
Genesis 6:7–8 (KJV 1900)
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
God’s decides to wipe the slate clean, He is going to bring forth judgement on the earth and destroy all living things that are on dry ground and in the air. But Noah, Noah was given grace, Why?
Genesis 6:9–11 (KJV 1900)
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Noah was Just = ṣǎd·dîq = A person that lived according to the proper standards of God.
Noah was Perfect = tā·mîm = Blameless, of high quality.
Noah was the type of man that if you examined every area of his life, you would not be able to find an issue with him.
This would also imply the raising of his sons, of which God spared later on along with their wives.
Genesis 6:13–14 (KJV 1900)
13 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. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
God now speaks to Noah and tells him that He has decided to destroy all flesh from the earth.
In verses 14 - 17 God lays out the instructions on how to build the ark.
Notice in vers 18
Genesis 6:18 (MEV)
18 But I will establish My covenant with you; you must go into the ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 7:1 (MEV)
1 The Lord said to Noah, “You and your entire household go into the ark, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me among this generation.
God says He is going to make an agreement with Noah. Noah and his family must go into the ark and they will be spared. Its sad but here we plainly see that God’s offer to spare life only applies to Noah, his wife, his 3 sons and their wives. God sees the continually wicked and selfish hearts of mankind and Noah is the only one who is following God and leading his family in the right way.
Can you imagine how lonely Noah and his family must have been. On an earth full of murderers, thieves and liars and had no care for God or anybody else?
Ch 6 Verse 19 - ch 7 verse 4 God instructs Noah to gather 7 of every clean animal, this would be like sheep, goats and chickens and 2 of every unclean animal, such as, a pigs and owls.
Genesis 7:10–12 (KJV 1900)
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Noah did exactly as God commanded and 7 days after they went into the ark, Water from under the earth began to gush up out of the ground and at the same time the most tremendous rain storm the earth has ever seen beat down on the earth. Every living thing on the land and in the air was destroyed and for 40 straight days and nights the rains came and the waters of the earth raised high above all the mountains.
For all those who say this never happened, ask yourselves why sea shells and fossilized fish can still be found buried on the top of the tallest mountains in the world!
Genesis 7:24 (KJV 1900)
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
after the 40 days of rain, that water remained for another 150 days before it began to go down.
Genesis 8:1–5 (KJV 1900)
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
The ark rested on the mountain after 150 days, a couple months later and you could finally see the mountain tops.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Noah seeing just the mountain top, sent out a raven and a dove to see if they would find land to live on or if they would return to the ark. Seeing that there was still nowhere suitable for the birds, he waited.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Now he sends a dove and later that day the dove came back but this time with an olive leaf, which told Noah the waters were indeed going down and there must be some ground exposed. He waited 7 more days and sent out the dove again, this time not only was there ground, it was obviously suitable for the bird to stay away and begin making a nest.
13 So in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw the surface of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
After just over a year, Noah and his family are finally on dry ground again. The judgement of the Lord was finally complete, and now Noah and his family must begin a new life on an earth that had been washed clean of all people.
Genesis 8:20–22 (KJV 1900)
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
We see Noahs first reaction after getting off the ark is to make a sacrifice to God and worship God. After the most difficult time Noah had ever lived through, He trusted God and followed Him faithfully through it all and honored God with Worship and sacrifice.
I really want to look at something I found interesting as we have been studying from Gen 1.
1. Adam sinned God cursed the ground, making it much harder to produce food from it.
2. When Cain sinned God cursed any ground Cain tried to produce food from, making it impossible to get food from the ground for cain.
3. When all the earth except Noah was evil, God cursed the ground with total destruction with waters gushing up and flood pouring down completely decimating and transforming every meter of ground on the earth.
Now, God makes a promise not just to never flood the earth again, but to never curse the ground again.
Notice the end of verse 21, God points out that the hearts of man are full of evil from their youth.
Youth = neʿû·rîm “an indefinite period of time in a life when one is young; either boy or girl”.
What is God saying? all people, from the day they are born have evil hearts, and desire evil things. God knows this and promises not only to never flood the earth again.
Every one of you were born with evil hearts, even as babies. God saw that and knew it. God could have destroyed Noah and his family which would keep any of us from ever being born, yet God did not, Why? Because He loved us and wanted to save us from our own evilness!
For Noah God asked His to believe his word and follow him, and he would be saved, for you and I God is asking the same thing, believe God, and follow His plan to be saved from destruction!
As Noah followed God, God was with Him and helping and guiding him the entire way, for you and I as we believe in Jesus and follow Him God is not just saving us from hell, He is with us, loving us, guiding us and helping us every day as we live and learn to follow God.
God does not just want to spare you from destruction, God wants you to follow Him, Love Him, and trust Him with every day and situation in your life.
