Genesis 6-8
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Chapter 6
1When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Genesis 6
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3 The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6
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4 The Nephilim* were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
*giants
Genesis 6
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5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. 6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
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7 The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Genesis 6
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8 But Noah found favour in the LORD’s eyes.
Genesis 6
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9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6
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10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6
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11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
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14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
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15This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits*, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
*A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
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16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Genesis 6
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17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 6
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19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6
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21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
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22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
Genesis 7
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1The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Genesis 7
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2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. 3Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 7
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4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”5 Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7
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7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7
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8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground 9went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7
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10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7
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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 open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Genesis 7
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12 It rained on the earth forty days
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and forty nights.
Genesis 7
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13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Genesis 7
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14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him;
Genesis 7
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Then the Lord closed the door behind them.17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7
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18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. 19The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. 20The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7
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21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 7
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23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8
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1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
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2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8
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4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8
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6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8
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8 He also sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated* from the surface of the ground, 9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
*meaning reduced, made lesser
Genesis 8
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10He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
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12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
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13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8
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15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 8
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17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8
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18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8
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21 The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 8
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22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 6-8
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Chapter 6
1When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Genesis 6
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3 The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6
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4 The Nephilim* were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
*giants
Genesis 6
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5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. 6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Genesis 6
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7 The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Genesis 6
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8 But Noah found favour in the LORD’s eyes.
Genesis 6
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9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6
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10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6
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11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 6
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13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6
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14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Genesis 6
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15This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits*, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
*A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.
Genesis 6
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16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Genesis 6
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17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 6
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19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6
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21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
Genesis 6
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22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
Genesis 7
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1The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Genesis 7
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2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. 3Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 7
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4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”5 Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7
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7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7
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8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground 9went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7
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10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7
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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 open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Genesis 7
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12 It rained on the earth forty days
Genesis 7
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and forty nights.
Genesis 7
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13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Genesis 7
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14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him;
Genesis 7
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Then the Lord closed the door behind them.17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7
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18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. 19The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. 20The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7
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21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 7
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23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8
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1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8
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2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8
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4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8
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6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8
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8 He also sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated* from the surface of the ground, 9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
*meaning reduced, made lesser
Genesis 8
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10He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Genesis 8
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12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Genesis 8
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13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8
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15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 8
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17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8
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18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8
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21 The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 8
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22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Get to know God
A God of compassion and justice
There are many hidden treasures in bible scriptures. Only the Holy Spirit of God can reveal these truths. Instead of reading this story like an interesting children story about animals and amazing things that happened in ancient times, let me highlight the following truths:
1. God protects His people from distasters
It is very clear that God protected Noah and his entire family. However, do you know that God protected Noah’s father and grandfather and great grandfather, all the way back to Adam? If we count from the time Adam was created to the time of the flood in Noah’s time, it was 1656 years. Duoring this period, God ensured that all the ancestors of Noah has lived their lives to a ripe old age of around 900++ years and died before He sent the great Flood. Click here to look at the timeline.
2. God blesses our children greatly
In this story we read about God protecting Noah’s children. One chapter before this story, in Genesis 5:21-23, scripture stated that the great grandfather of Noah was Enoch who enjoyed a close relationship with God and was taken away by God. His son, Methuselah was the longest living man in history, he lived 969 years until the year of the Flood. Look at how God protects the children of those people who walks with Him! Click here to see the bar chat. So, if you are a parent always worrying about your children, fret not. Trust and rest in God. Walk with Him and believe that our God will never fail us. Our children are protected and blessed.
3. It was an extremely painful decision for God to send the Flood.
In Genesis 6:4, we read about the Nephilim were born when God’s sons *fallen angels” had intercourse with human women. In this article the author explained the that the demons were attempting to pollute the human bloodline in order to prevent the coming of the Messiah. God had to make this very tough decision to send the Flood. It pains God so much that He sworn never again to send the Flood to destroy mankind.
4. There is a time for everything
When God created the earth and mankind, He gave human the free will. Sometimes, we have so much freedom that it does not seem that judgement will come.
This is not true. There is a set time for everything. Unless we are in Jesus, we have no protection.
Do not be discouraged when we have to wait. Sometimes, as believers, we find ourselves in situation where we are confined and bored. That may just be a time of protection. God has the entire timeline in His hands, He knows everything. It takes time for the water to subside, but the time will come when Noah and his families and the animals could leave the ship.
5. Obedience to God's words is FAITH & WISDOM
Before the Flood, there was no rain. Genesis 2:6 describes that a midst come out of the ground to water the land. So during Noah’s time, no one understand what is rain. Yet when God told Noah to build the ship, Noah did everything according to God’s words. Genesis 6:22 and Genesis 7:5, it was stated that Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.
Obedience to God’s words (not people’s words) is a demonstration of our FAITH in God. Jesus said in John 14:23 that all who love Him will do what He say and our Heavenly Father will love us and God, the Father and Jesus the Son, will come to us and live with us. The Holy Spirit of God that lives in us will help us discern between God’s words and people’s words.
Did you notice…
Noah had his children when he was 500 years old
All of us have read that Abraham waited till he was 100 years old. However, do you know that there was someone who waited longer than Abraham? It’s Noah. In Genesis 11:10, we read that Noah’s son, Shem was 100 years old when his son Arphaxad was born and that happened two years after the Flood. This implies that Shem was born when Noah was 500 years old. Click on this article where the author wrote a detailed deduction of the age of Noah when his sons were born.
Noah was the first man called for a mission though he was old
Although Adam was assigned the responsibility to name the animals, we can consider this as a daily duties, just like we have to attend school everyday. That is different from being selected for a National event or given an important project to accomplish.
So the first person in the bible whom God chose to accomplish a mission was Noah. Yet, Noah was a very old man. He was 500 years old when God told him about the great Flood.
If you are a grandparent reading this, I believe God is telling you that your best days are not over. Your best days are ahead of you when you have Him in your life.
People's heart can be so hard even when they see miracles
When the animals and the birds and all that creeps on the ground obediently went into the boat, two by two, male and female, is that not a great miracle?
At least those who were employed to build the boat would have noticed that. Yet, why were there no one who would ask to go into the boat? They saw such great miracles but their hearts were hardened. That was not the first time in human history.
During Moses days, the Pharoah saw the miracles that Moses performed and even witnessed the opening of the Red Sea. Yet he hardened his heart and pursued the children of Israel only to get himself and all his men and chariots of horses drowned.
During Jesus’ days, Jesus fed the 5000 people, healed the sick, opened blind eyes, yet the Pharisees and the High Priest hardened their hearts and killed Jesus. Even Judas Iscariot who followed Jesus and saw all the miracles, could betray him.
God has not stopped doing miracles. Even until this day, we have experienced God’s miracles in our everyday lives. We prayed and God answered. We were in danger and He delivered. We were sick and we were healed. Even when something bad happened, we discovered years later, that God had a reason, it was to protect and deliver us.
Are you wondering…
Who were the sons of God mentioned in Genesis chapter 6?
There have been much debate about the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis chapter 6. The following article has a good analysis and deduction. The sons of God refers to fallen angels.
How to become a believer?
You can be a believer simply by saying this prayer:
Dear God, thank you for so wonderfully make me and thank you for sending your Son, LORD Jesus to die for me so that I can have the blessed life that you intended for me — a life of leadership and fruitfulness. Now I believe and accept Jesus as my LORD and Saviour. I believe that from this time forth, I am a new creation, I am born again and I have the eternal life that Jesus came to give me. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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