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Speaker 2:Hey everybody, welcome to Teach Me the Bible podcast. We are in our Genesis series, going almost chapter by chapter. We're kind of we're crossing over chapter lines as we go, but we're trying to walk through the story, point out the scenes and the details. And today we're going to pick up in chapter 7, verse 11. And so we saw that Satan is enticing the carriers of the promise to join his side, and it worked.
Speaker 2:But Noah was righteous in his day, he walked according to the Word of the Lord, he walked with God, and so the Lord is going to deliver Noah and his three sons and their wives singular, each of them have one wife, in contrast to the multiple wives, and so but the Lord's going to wipe out the rest, those who are on the wrong team, the ones who are doing evil. And so we're going to pick up in chapter 11. We saw in chapter 7, verse 10, it came about after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth, and so we're going to pick up and see what happens next in chapter 7.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and be paying attention. So, as we've been saying, this is a unified story. There's a single setting, a single plot. It's heading towards a single resolution at the end of the story, end of Revelation, and so we don't want to interpret individual parts of the Bible as if they don't have anything to do with anything else. One of the things that one of my old professors, dr Bayless, pointed out years ago was that there is this whole back in chapter one. Waters covered the earth, dry land appears. Then there's the command be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth. And there's a garden and Adam ate from the tree and Adam ends up naked and ashamed and God cursed the ground, and then the Seth is designated as the carrier of the seed. Well, this is like a replay. Again, water is going to cover the earth, dry land is going to appear, the command to be fruitful and multiply is going to be given. There's a garden, there's going to be a garden or a vineyard, noah's going to eat or drink of the fruit.
Speaker 3:Both are going to end up naked and ashamed and there's going to be a son designated to carry the promise. And so what's the point of retelling the story? The flood didn't work. The flood didn't achieve what the text anticipated, or Lamec anticipated. At achieving Lamec anticipated, noah's father anticipated that Noah would bring rest. He would restore the New Walk, the Noah, the rest from chapter two, verse 15, that he would bring comfort to man, to the toil. And he doesn't.
Speaker 3:Instead, what happens in the story and this is over in chapter eight, verse 18, and we'll get to this when we you know here in just a few minutes but Noah went out of the boat. All the beasts come out of the boat or all the animals come out of the boat with him. Noah built an altar to the Lord and he took every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma, that word there, that soothing aroma, it's a Noah aroma. It's a aroma that brought rest to God's wrath, to God's judgment. So Noah's life and ministry didn't bring rest to man's toil. Man's sorrow didn't bring comfort to man. It brought rest to God's wrath against man and he's going to say I will never again curse the ground on account of the man. There's a difference between what happened in the first flood story you know the flood, dry land appears and this one.
Speaker 2:We pointed out last time that that same word sorrow or grief or whatever you wanna translate it showed up for in Laimix statement, but also for the Lord in chapter six verse six.
Speaker 3:Chapter six verse six.
Speaker 2:And so he didn't bring rest to the sorrow of man, but to the sorrow of the Lord.
Speaker 3:Yep, and so it's the. So back to chapter seven. So chapter seven, verse 11, the 600 day of Noah, the flood gates open, the rain fell. It rained for 40 days, 49, just as was foretold. And on the very same day, noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth those are his three sons, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife, singular, and the three wives, one for each, entered into the ark. And they, and every kind of beast, after it's kind the cattle, after it's kind the creeping things, after it's kind it's all the after it's kind, after it's kind, right from Genesis, chapter one. And they went into the ark of Noah, two by two, all flesh which is in them that had the breath of life, and those who entered that day, male and female, entered in the gorge. Commandment, he closed the boat, the closed up the boat, the flood came for 40 days and it prevailed over the earth and the boat floated, the ark floated, and then all of the flesh that moved on the earth perish the cattle, the beast, the swarming things and all mankind, so that all that was on the dry land, all that had the breath of life in its nostrils, died. Thus he blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the land. He meaning the Lord, it's not. He meaning Noah. Noah didn't know God. On the boat, from man to animals to creeping things to the birds of the sky, they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, together with those who were with him on the ark, and the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days. Then God remembered Noah and all of the beast and all the cattle that were with him on the ark, and God caused the wind to pass over the waters. This is the exact same Jesus. The wind here they translated as wind, they translated as spirit of the God was hovering over the waters. Same thing happening here, and the water subsided and the fountains of the deep were closed and the rain from the sky was restrained and the water receded and the dry land appears. And so Noah.
Speaker 3:At the end of four to days, noah opened the window of the ark and he sent out a raven and it flew away. And then he sent out a dove and to see if the water had abated from the face of land. But the dove found a resting place for the soul of her foot. This is interesting language because it's going to In Deuteronomy, chapter 28, when Israel rebels against the Lord, the Lord's going to bring the nations against them in.
Speaker 3:This imagery that's being developed here Is going to continue to be developed throughout the story. So I want to stop and make this point. So the Lord's going to bring the nations. These are going to be beasts that are going to come out of the sea and the, the nation Israel, is going to be cast into the nations, you know, cast into the sea, and there they will find no resting place for the soul of their feet, wow. And so this imagery that's being established in the story is going to be repeated all throughout the story.
Speaker 3:So the dove returned to the ark and waited another seven days, sent out the dove and it comes back with a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water had abated from the land all kinds of imagery going on here, and you're going to see this play out later in the story. Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove and she did not return to him again. And so it came about in 600, in first year. In the first month the water dried up from the earth and Noah removed the covering of the art. I bet there's a bunch of mosquitoes I'm just thinking about. They looked upon the surface of the ground and I wonder, if the mosquitoes went, all the bugs didn't say bug.
Speaker 2:Did he bring the mosquitoes in the ark baby? If he brought a, cockroach.
Speaker 3:I need to talk to Noah, those things are nasty but anyway. And so so bring out every living thing this is the command the birds, the animals, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. The same Genesis 1, 26 language. No, went out, his sons, his wife, his wife sons they are His sons wives went out every beast, every creeping thing, they all came out and no, built an altar to the Lord and they took every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar and the Lord smelled the soothing aroma. And the Lord Said to himself I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of his heart is on evil from his youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done now, while the earth remains seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, it shall not cease.
Speaker 3:So what's happening here and this is gonna be firmly, as you know, more firmly established next time in chapter 9 is that the Lord now is not going to carry out the judgment. There is one who's going to come on behalf of the Lord, an image bearer, and he is going to carry out the judgment of the Lord. And, and of course, this is going to be the Christ. He's the one who's coming and he's going to do what's good, right in the eyes of Lord. He's not going to operate according to the eye, see or his ears here, but he's going to judge in righteousness chapter 11 of of Isaiah and he's the one who will judge the nations and rule with them with a rod of iron, according to the word of the Lord, and so so that's where we're headed, yeah, in chapter 9. So so the, the flood has happened, the dry land has appeared and now we're going to get a covenant, next time in chapter 9, with, with Noah and the Lord very good.
Speaker 2:Well, again, as as doc said, do your best to hang on to these chapters. The language in these chapters is going to show up again when we mentioned, with Moses being placed in the Oracle arc and floating on the water, and we're going to see it again with, like you said, israel and Deuteronomy no place for the soul, their feet to rest, and so that language is important here.
Speaker 3:Yes, chapters are important the judgment of Jesus. Like in the days of Noah, you know they'll be giving and right Taking in marriage.
Speaker 2:Yeah all of this stuff's gonna be repeated over and over and over Yep.
Speaker 3:And so don't principalize the text, don't go into the passage and find a principal and apply to your life and then ignore and skip it and delete it and go to the next one. This is a story, yeah, a movie that has seen after seeing. Keep watching the movie scenes and see how they fit together.
Speaker 2:And also, no, skip over the details just because we know the story. You know you might, you might have heard this story a million times. It's one of those famous Sunday school, you see, absolutely. So we can always skip over these details. But see this language. It repeats itself over and over and story kind of snowballs like that. It carries forward all all this stuff that you need to know and so so hang on to that. We're gonna keep trying to point out these instances when these things recur, so we can better make sense of the story. So we will see you guys next week, beginning in chapter 9.
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