Noah, A Source of Hope
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Big Picture Series Session 3 “Noah, a Source of Hope”
Recap:
Recap:
·PT 1: GOODNESS of CREATION
· PT. 2: CREATION TARNISHED by the fall.
Resulting in MURDER (CH. 4)
& COMPLETE CORRUPTION (CH. 6)
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GOD REGRETS MAKING MANKIND
(6:8) THERE’S HOPE— NOAH FOUND GRACE in the EYES of the LORD!!
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Genesis 6: The Promise of the Flood
Genesis 6: The Promise of the Flood
READ: (V9-14)
Genesis 6:9-14 ESV “These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
NOAH = INTRODUCED—RIGHTEOUS,, ONE WHO WALKS W/ GOD (REM. ENOCH)
GOD LOOKS UPON the EARTH & SEES???
(v11) FILLED W/ VIOLENCE
(V12) CORRUPT
REMEMBER: INITIALLY GOD LOOKED & SAW: “VERY GOOD”
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(V13) & GOD SAID....(GOD PROMISES DESTRUCTION.....)
***NOTE: GOD OFFERS MEANS of SALVATION!
NOAH, BUILD an ARK.
Sequence of Events:
1. GOD SEES the WICKEDNESS of the earth
2. GOD SPEAKS & promises to DESTROY the EARTH
3. GOD COMMANDS: NOAH, BUILD an ARK...
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Ark—Background:
Ark—Background:
ENGLISH: “ARK” COMES from LATIN “ARCA”.... HEBREW: תֵּבָה
EGYPTIAN LOANWORD?
MEANING CHEST/CABINET (EVEN CASKET!!)
RARE WORD:
ONLY USED of NOAH’S ARK
&& BABY MOSES’ “BASKET”
GOD BASICALLY COMMANDS NOAH: “BUILD a HUGE BOX”
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WHY???
DESTRUCTION is COMING.
***NOTE: GOD DOESN’T EXPLAIN HOW HE’LL DESTROY....
JUST THAT HE’LL DESTROY!
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BALL in NOAH’S COURT: “DO YOU BELIEVE?”
DESTRUCTION = COMING
BUILD an ARK.
**NOTE GOD’S JUSTICE & MERCY
JUSTICE —DESTROYING SINNERS
MERCY— PROVIDES MEANS of SALVATION
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READ: (V17-18)
Genesis 6:17-18 ESV “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”
(v17) Hebrew emphatic: “I will bring a flood”
QUESTIONS??
DID NOAH EVEN LIVE NEAR WATER??
HAD it EVER RAINED??
WE DON’T KNOW...
REGARDLESS, TWO CLEAR TRUTHS:
EVERYTHING on EARTH WILL DIE
BUT I’LL ESTABLISH COVENANT W/ YOU!
**1ST USE of “COVENANT” in BIBLE —COME BACK to THIS LATER...
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(V19-20) THEN NOAH = TOLD to TAKE ANIMALS & FOOD & PACK UP...
GOD’S COMMANDS to NOAH:
BUILD an ARK (SPECIFIC SIZE, ETC)
BRING 2 of EACH SORT of ANIMAL (MALE & FEMALE)
((LATER SEE 7 PAIRS of ‘CLEAN ANIMALS’))
STORE UP FOOD for PEOPLE & ANIMALS
(T) NOAH’S RESPONSE??
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READ: (V22)
Genesis 6:22 ESV “Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.”
GENESIS 2—GOD HAD ISSUED a COMMAND to MAN.... WHAT DID MAN DO?
2ND MAN—OBEDIENT to GOD.
**NOTE: NOAH ISN’T ASKING QUESTIONS,, GIVING HIS 2 CENTS
GOD SPEAKS
NOAH OBEYS
Gordon Wenham explains, “Noah’s obedience is all that matters. Who he was and what he felt are irrelevant.”[1]
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Genesis 7: The Flood Arrives
Genesis 7: The Flood Arrives
READ: (CH. 7…VS1-5)
Genesis 7:1-5 ESV “Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.”
GOD SPEAKS
NOAH PREPARES
GOD SPEAKS AGAIN
ARK = FINISHED, GET INSIDE!
IT’S ABOUT to RAIN!
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INTERESTING NOTE: HEBREW “RAIN” FREQUENTLY ASSOCIATED W/ JUDGMENT:
RAIN = FLOOD in NOAH’S DAY
SODOM & GOMORRAH: RAINING FIRE & BRIMSTONE
EGYPT: RAINING HAIL
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Timeline:
1. God promised to destroy the earth.
2. God told Noah to build an ark.
3. God promised to flood the earth and spare Noah.
4. Noah obeyed all God commanded and built an ark.
5. God told Noah to get inside.
6. THEN God said rain is coming.
7. Noah obeyed and got inside the ark.
And then we see that God is causing it to rain.
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CAN’T MISS VS. 5!!
5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
22 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
NOAH OBEYED,, WHEN IT DIDN’T MAKE SENSE!
HIS OBEDIENCE = GROUNDED in FAITH
TURN & READ!!
Hebrews 11:7 ESV By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
—>> God commands, Noah obeys in faith.
GOD PROMISED DESTRUCTION VIA FLOOD & COMMANDS to BUILD an ARK...
**BOXES THAT SIZE TAKE TIME & PERSISTENCE to BUILD!!
**NOAH HAD NO REASON to BELIEVE BASED on SIGHT,, IT WAS ALL FAITH...
NO WEATHERMAN
COULDN’T WAIT FOR RAINDROPS for INSPIRATION...
RAINDROPS DIDN’T MOTIVATE NOAH...
THEY VINDICATED HIM
NOAH’S FAITH in GOD & HIS FAITH ACTIVELY PROVEN THROUGH WORKS, SAVED HIM.
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RETURN to GENESIS… READ (CH. 7…V10-16)
Genesis 7:10-24 ESV “And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
LONG TIME of WAITING: DAY of JUDGMENT COMES....
GOD AT LAST GAVE a 7 DAY HEADS UP....
(V13) SAME DAY!!! THEY ENTER the ARK
--->>> (v17) YAHWEH SHUT THEM IN the ARK!!
**NOTE HOW GOD = IN CONTROL the WHOLE TIME… NOAH’S SALVATION WAS an ACT of DIVINE GRACE FOLLOWING HIS FAITH-FILLED OBEDIENCE
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READ: (V17-24)
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.”
WATER CONQUERS the EARTH...
SCRIPTURE = ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.... SALVATION = ONLY FOUND WITHIN the ARK.
WATERS COVERED EVERYTHING
HIGH MOUNTAINS = COVERED
CERTAINTY of COVERAGE...
CERTAINTY of DEATH:
(V21) ALL FLESH THAT MOVES DIED
(V22) EVERYTHING on LAND W/ BREATH in NOSTRILS DIED
(V23a) GOD BLOTTED OUT EVERYTHING
(V23b) THEY WERE BLOTTED OUT
(V24c) ONLY NOAH & ARK-INHABITANTS WERE LEFT...
??? CAN WE TAKE a HINT???
THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY to FIND SALVATION—TO BE in the ARK
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Genesis 8: The Flood Recedes
Genesis 8: The Flood Recedes
READ: (CH. 8....VS. 1-3)
Genesis 8:1–3 (ESV)
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,
GOD’S REMEMBRANCE ALWAYS ENTAILS GOD’S ACTING...
***DOESN’T MEAN GOD FORGOT… HAS SENSE of “HE THOUGHT ABOUT NOAH”
GOD STOPS WATER & SENDS a WIND
THINK: NOAH,, AGAIN SAVED BY GOD.
GOD COMMANDED to BUILD
GOD GAVE HEADS UP
GOD WAITED FOR THEM to GET in the ARK
GOD CLOSED the DOOR
NOW GOD SENDS WATER AWAY B4 THEY STARVE OUT!
(T) SKIPPING the SENDING of DOVE ETC.
THEY EXIT the ARK....
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READ: (V20-22)
Genesis 8:20-22 ESV “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. 21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
NOAH RESPONDS to SALVATION W/ WORSHIP ((SACRIFICE))
EXAMPLE FOR US??
**REASON FOR EXTRA “CLEAN” ANIMALS on the ARK (7 PAIRS)
GOD RESPONDS W/ BLESSING on ALL CREATION...
AS LONG as EARTH REMAINS,, THINGS WILL BE STABLE...
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Genesis 9: God’s Blessing & Commission of Noah
Genesis 9: God’s Blessing & Commission of Noah
READ: (V1-4)
Genesis 9:1-17 ESV “And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
A SENSE of NEW-CREATION
NEW BEGINNINGS
RENEWAL of GENESIS 1 COMMISSION: POPULATE the EARTH
NOW MANKIND CAN EAT CREATURES,, JUST NOT W/ BLOOD
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READ: (V5-7)
5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
***NOTE SIGNIFICANCE of HUMAN LIFE!
MAN CAN EAT ANIMALS
BUT ANIMAL KILLING MAN?? —DEATH PENALTY
MANKIND KILLING MAN?? — DEATH PENALTY
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REMEMBER:
MANKIND = IMAGE of GOD
CROWN of CREATION
TAKE CARE of ANIMALS,, SURE.
AVOID TORTURE of ANIMALS,, SURE.
BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW: ANIMALS AREN’T PEOPLE & PEOPLE AREN’T ANIMALS. COMPLETELY SEPARATE.
SECULAR WORLDVIEW ELEVATES ANIMALS to LEVEL of PEOPLE.
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READ: (V8-17)
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
(Q) A VERY IMPORTANT WORD is REPEATED in THIS PASSAGE,, DID YOU CATCH IT??
GOD FOLLOWS UP on COVENANTAL PROMISE…FIRST PROPOSED in 6:18...
NOAHIC (NO-AY-ICK) COVENANT.... = DRAWN OUT.
----HUGE IMPLICATIONS----
1ST EXPLICIT COVENANT in SCRIPTURE....
HEBREW TERM: “בְּרִית” (BERIT) “COVENANT” .... USED 284 TIMES in O.T.
FIRST USED in NOAH’S ACCOUNT
TOTAL of 8 USES! ((1 in CH. 6… 8 in CH. 9))
**COVENANT = CONTRACT/AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES…**
“It’s a contractual arrangement between God and a person, or between human beings, which required binding action from one or both parties” (LOGOS).
§ Lexham Survey of Theology summarizes the concept of covenant as, “Covenants are relationships God establishes with people on the basis of his promises.”[2]
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SOME COVENANTS = CONDITIONAL (MOSAIC)
SOME = UNCONDITIONAL (NOAHIC)
GOD PROMISES to NEVER FLOOD EARTH AGAIN
PROMISE to MANKIND,
CREATURES
& EARTH ITSELF!!
HELPFUL NOTE: PRONUNCIATION MEMORIZATION: “NOAHIC COVENANT” — THERE’S “NO WAY” GOD WILL FLOOD the EARTH AGAIN
SCHOLARS REF.: COVENANT of COMMON GRACE (ALL CREATION)
NOAHIC COVENANT = FOUNDATION for ALL OTHERS.
BRINGS OPPORTUNITY to UNFOLD LARGER PLAN of REDEMPTION
IF GOD WAS STILL WILLING to DESTROY SINNERS EVERY TIME THINGS GOT OUT of CONTROL HUMANKIND WOULD’VE NEVER LASTED!!
KNOW ANYONE WHO THROWS OUT ANY FIRST ATTEMPTS THAT AREN’T PERFECT??
PAINTING/BUILDING/ETC...
ESSENTIALLY: NOAHIC COVENANT = GOD’S PROMISE HE WON’T START OVER
o John Macarthur describes the Noahic covenant as, “the initial platform for God’s purposes.”[3]
NOAHIC COVENANT = FOUNDATION to REDEMPTIVE HOUSE GOD IS BUILDING
THE FIRST BRICK LAID
***WITHOUT the STABILITY FOUND in the NOAHIC COVENANT… WE’D NEVER GET to ABRAHAMIC,, DAVIDIC,, or NEW COVENANT
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TO PROVE COVENANT.... SIGN of COVENANT: RAINBOW.
CONSTANT REMINDER W/ MOST RAINS… TO BOTH GOD & US.
GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISE
WE GET the REASSURANCE,, GOD = a COVENANT-KEEPING,, FAITHFUL GOD!
—>>> WE CAN’T LOSE SIGHT of the FACT THAT the RAINBOW BELONGS to GOD & HIS PEOPLE!!
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READ: (V18-23)
18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
PROBLEMS as LONG as THERE’S PEOPLE!!
**AREN’T WE GLAD GOD JUST PROMISED NO MORE FLOODS?!
NAKED & DRUNK SAVIOR/NEW FATHER of the HUMAN RACE....
**NARRATOR DOESN’T COMMENT on MORALITY of IT…**
BUT to SOME EXTENT,, IT APPEARS NOAH FALTERS.
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4 MEN on EARTH:
ONE SON,, “LOOKS UPON” FATHER’S NAKEDNESS,, & GOES to PROCLAIM to the OTHERS....
AT VERY LEAST: IRREVERENT & DISHONORING
OTHER SONS GO & COVER NOAH
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READ: (V24-28) Noah’s Response:
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
26 He also said,
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.”
NOAH’S ONLY REPORTED SPEECH in BIBLE!
—>> TRULY,, GOD = MAIN CHARACTER in the STORY of NOAH
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NOAH PRONOUNCES BLESSING & CURSING
o Shem = blessed LINE
o Ham = cursed LINE
SPECIFICALLY: CANAAN = CURSED
YOUNGEST SON of HAM,,
YOUNGEST SON of NOAH
CANAAN BECOMES FATHER to “CANAANITES” ---INHABITANTS of “PROMISED LAND”
SHEM = BLESSED…BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY:
YAHWEH, the GOD of SHEM = BLESSED...
IT WAS HIS ALLEGIANCE to the TRUE GOD THAT MADE the DIFFERENCE!!
SHEM = ANCESTOR of ABRAHAM..WHO is PROMISED…the LAND of CANAAN...
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THREAD WOVEN THROUGHOUT the O.T.
PEOPLE of GOD,, FOLLOWERS of YAHWEH.... DESCENDANTS of SHEM
PEOPLE NOT of GOD,, CURSED DESCENDANTS of HAM...
**THIS = the FOUNDATION for “GOD’S CHOSEN FAMILY”
CH. 10—DESCENDANTS MULTIPLY INTO NATIONS....
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Genesis 10: Noah’s Genealogy
Genesis 10: Noah’s Genealogy
AGAIN,, JUST REMEMBER THERE’S a LINE of PROMISE
& A LINE THAT’S CURSED...
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Closing Thoughts/Application:
Closing Thoughts/Application:
I. NOAH FOUND GRACE....
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: “HOW DO WE FIND GRACE??”
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.... THE ULTIMATE DESCENDANT of ADAM, NOAH, SHEM, ETC.
HE is THE WAY....
ARK = TYPE of CHRIST
TOTAL SALVATION WITHIN the ARK...
TOTAL DESTRUCTION OUTSIDE the ARK...
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II. NOAH’S OBEDIENCE = ROOTED in FAITH---
GOD’S PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WALKED BY FAITH & NOT SIGHT
CONSIDER the SIMILARITY WE EXPERIENCE to NOAH’S DAY...
TURN to 2 PETER 3:4-10
2 Peter 3:4–10 (ESV)
4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,
6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
NOAH PROBABLY LOOKED FOOLISH...
BUILDING a MASSIVE ARK in MIDDLE of NOWHERE…BUT HE OBEYED BY FAITH
HE WAS VINDICATED on JUDGMENT DAY
WE AWAIT CHRIST’S 2ND COMING IN VERY SIMILAR TERMS...
GOD = PATIENTLY WAITING,,, BUT THAT DAY = SURE to COME.
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III. GOD’S SALVATION OUGHT to DRAW US to WORSHIP...
—>> RAINBOW = REMINDER of GOD’S PROMISE!!!
GOD’S PEOPLE OWNED the RAINBOW FIRST!
GOD is a COVENANT-KEEPING,, FAITHFUL GOD. AMEN??
!!! CLOSE in PRAYER!!!
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[1]Wenham, G. J. (1987). Genesis 1–15(Vol. 1, p. 166). Word, Incorporated.
[2]Bray, Gerald. 2018. “Covenants.” In Lexham Survey of Theology, edited by Mark Ward, Jessica Parks, Brannon Ellis, and Todd Hains. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
[3]MacArthur, John, and Richard Mayhue, eds. 2017. Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth. Wheaton, IL: Crossway.