Gen 7:11-24, 8:1-5 The Worldwide Flood
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So tonight will be our last meeting for 2021 and we will pick up again Jan 5, 2022.
Last week ended with the door of the Ark being closed but not by Moses. We discussed it is God Himself who closed the door. It is interesting that a door represents both an opening, an invitation in if you will, but also can be the end. In this case all who were going to enter the ark were already there. No one else took advantage of the open door while it was open.
In the same way this age of Grace will end and the door will close. Make sure you are on-board.
For tonight we will again be continuing our journey in the book of Genesis in Chapter 7. We will pick in verse 11 as the flood is just beginning.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.
17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
24 The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
One of the reasons for starting at verse 11 is to explore a few questions.
Was this flood really a worldwide flood? and if it was where did all this water come from?
The first question we will look at a little later but verse 11 gives us an answer to the second that most bible students have not considered. Notice is says;
Genesis 7:11 (NASB95)
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
We get that it rained really hard for a long time but what does it mean that the fountains of the great deep burst open?
In Hebrew the word for fountains, maʿyān, means springs or wells. Notice it says these fountains of the “great deep” indicating a huge supply of subterranean water deep into the Earth. The Hebrew for “burst open” means to be split open or broken into.
If your like me, you want to know how it happened. So nerd out with me with this video!
Video - Noah's Flood and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (from Pangea to Today) 23 min
So there you go the evidence that God’s word is true. Just as He said.
So let’s pick up in verse 17;
Genesis 7:17–20 (NASB95)
17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
So here my first question was answered, was the flood worldwide? Yes. the water was 15 cubits (20-30 feet) above the mountains everywhere. Wow! But remember the taller mountain ranges the Himalayas or the Andes were not there pre-flood. The world post-flood was a very different place.
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
24 The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
We when we quickly read this section we can miss the utter devastation that had occurred. Every person, every air breathing living thing died. I can only imagine what Noah his family we feeling knowing they were all that was left.
Let’s move on to Chapter 8.
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
Its always good when God remembers you. Of course He never really forgets us but our circumstances sometimes cause us to feel that way. When you consider that Noah and his family along with the animals were on the Ark for a whole year you wonder what you would be thinking. The last the heard as the door was closed by God was the screams and pounding of their neighbors and now just silence. The had no vision of the world that was left they couldn’t see out.
They just had to rest on the promise of God that He was saving them.
So we see God causes a wind to blow upon the flooded Earth. The word here for wind in Hebrew is ruach which is also translated spirit. We have talked about this word previously. There is debate about what God did here. Did He just use a powerful wind or was this a supernatural separation of the land from the water as in Gen 1.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
So why bother even mentioning this? Because as you consider the flood you have to wonder where all the water went?
Many believe as I do, that the continents rose, the mountain ranges pushed up, and the sea floor was deepened. Al this was a result of the volcanic upheaval and the changes to the Earth’s crust.
So God caused the rain to stop and the subterranean water to stop and after 150 day or five months the water had subsided.
Now in verse 4 it says;
4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
You might remember the verse that talks about when the flood started.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
Notice it is very specific. Second month on the 17th day. This should always make you curious. The HS has a reason for every word written in the Bible. Now if we compare this verse to 8:4 we notice it is again very specific;
4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
Article- The Genesis Record by Henry Morris
It is significant that the Ark is said to “rested,” as though it had been laboring for five months in accomplishing it’s work of saving its occupants from sin and judgment. This the second mention of “rest” in scripture, the first being when God rested after His work of Creation (Gen 2:2, 3; actually these are two different, though synonymous, Hebrew words). If the Ark is a true type of Christ, as previously intimated, this is most appropriate. As God “finished” His work of creation and as the Ark “finished” its mission, so Christ”finished” (John 19:30) His work of salvation.
It is also significant that the Ark rested on “the seven-teenth day of the seventh month.” In our discussion of Gen 7:11, the reason why the exact date was given for the beginning of the flood (the seventeenth day of the second month”) was found to be uncertain. A possible reason appears here in connection with typological inferences. The Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead also on “the seventeenth day of the seventh month.” The seventh month of the Jewish civil year (and this is probably the calendar used here in Genesis 7 and 8) later was made the first month of the religious year, and the Passover was set for the fourteenth day of that month (Exodus 12:2). Christ, our passover (1 Cor 5:7), was slain on that day, but then rose three days later on the seventeeth day of the seventh month of the civil calendar.
You see this book is a treasure just waiting to be discovered. That’s why the Psalms could say also quoted in Hebrews 10;
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.
It’s all about Jesus!
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