Posts Tagged ‘flood’
Genesis 9:1-17
August 8th, 2010
Quick Summary:
God blesses Noah and his sons, and the command is given to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. The fear of humans is put into all animals, and they disperse to do their own filling of the earth. Then God confirms his covenant with Noah and all his descendants (us) that he will never again destroy all the things on Earth with another flood. The rainbow is the sign of this promise.
Genesis 7:1-24
July 18th, 2010
Quick Summary:
Noah enters the ark wtih his wife, sons and their wives. Also entering the ark are 2 of every kind of animal (male & female) and 7 male/female pairs of the clean animals and birds of the sky. God tells Noah it will rain for 40 days & 40 nights… and once again Noah does everything he is commanded to do.
The great flood begins in Noah’s six-hundreth year with water coming from the watery depths as well as the sky above. The waters surge and grow until even the high mountains are covered with at least 20 feet of water. All that were in the ark were saved, but everything on dry land was wiped out (it doesn’t mention the fish). All human life was extinguished except for Noah and his family.
Genesis 6:1-22 – Mankind corrupt and warned
October 28th, 2009
Quick Summary:
Mankind has already deteriorated into sinful and evil ways. Those that were followers of God began freely mixing and marrying anybody they chose and quickly lost their distinction of being God’s followers.
The Lord was actually sorry that he had created man and expressed desire to wipe the Earth clean of their presence. But Noah found favor with God, who promises to save him, his wife & sons and their wives.
God gives specific instructions on the size and dimensions of the Ark that is going to keep them safe in the coming deluge. It is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high with three decks! The reason for the size is that Noah will be sheltering at least two of every kind of animal (male & female). It says in the Bible, that Noah does everything asked of him.
Genesis 4:17 – 5:32 = “Lines of Cain & Seth”
September 10th, 2009
Quick Summary:
Here is our first genealogy summary that details the time of Adam up until the time of the flood (as we see soon in Genesis). First we trace the line of Cain (so he does survive after all), and then we trace the line of Seth — the 3rd born male child of Adam & Eve. Normally genealogies are traced by the first-born sons, but Cain killed Abel and then was banished, and Seth became almost like a new “first-born”.
Cain’s genealogy talks about how he built a city, and how his decendants became nomadic herdsmen, musicians (lyre & flute), and craftsmen (making bronze & iron tools). Seth’s decendants trace down to Noah, with two very significant notes:
Enoch – who walked with God & then “was not there because God took him”
Methuselah – at 969 years of life, the oldest recorded human being in history.