Genesis 8 - And So It begins - Again!!

Season 3 Episode 8 – And So It Begins … Again?

Jasmine’s Tea  - 5:38

A’ight So Boom! - 13:00

Read Genesis 8 1-5 15:29

• God remembered (did he forget?)

• At a time when things are the bleakest

• When things may seem hopeless or where do things go

• God intervenes, extending mercy where and when needed

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived. 

 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 19:29.

They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. 

 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Sa 1:19.

And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Nu 10:9.

• God took action to abate the waters

• Caused a wind (rua’h) over the waters (Genesis 1:2)

• Closed the Fountains

• Closed the window of 

• It’s been a minute

• 40 days of rain

• 150 days of water flooding the earth (includes rain or no)

• Mountains of Ararat (Eastern Turkey)

Read Genesis 8 6-12 30:39

• 40 Days In - Wait there is a window

• Sent the Raven Out - No Reason Given - Carrion Eater - high altitudes

• Sent the Dove Out - Reason Given - Lower land dwelling

• 1st time - No place to land

• 2nd time - came back with a fig leaf

• 3rd time - just left on its merry way

• Just seeing what is going on and when it is safe

Read Genesis 8 13-19 46:55

• Another Date a year has passed (roughly)

• The Ark is a transformer

• Ground was dry

• Earth dried out a month+ later

• God gave the go ahead to Go Out

• Told them to enter

• Sealed them in

• Told them to go Out

• All the animals with them as well (called all flesh)

• Reads almost like a restart

• Swarming

• Be fruitful and multiply

• Running theme of Noah’s Obedience

Read Genesis 8 20-22 1:10:59

• Is this the first altar that we see being built

• We now know why the seven pairs of clean animals

• How did Noah know clean from unclean

• God has to tell people what his expectations are

• The LORD was Pleased with the burnt offerings

• The LORD’s Covenant

• The LORD’s heart - within himself

• No longer curse the ground because of man (initial set still in effect)

• The LORD’s knowledge of who man is

• The intention of man’s heart is evil

• From his youth

• No longer going to strike down all living creatures

• Time will continue

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