Two Become as One
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Two Become as One
Genesis 7:17-24
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Finishing up chapter 7 with the hardest, most difficult part of the flood narrative, but God is good, just, and merciful.
Hi, this is Pastor Frank. And this is Luce. I want to welcome you to our podcast, To Become is One. And we are on our episode 28. 28. And so we'll be in uh Genesis chapter 7, verse 17 through 24. Which finishes the chapter, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, go ahead and give a like just a really brief um on our last episode.
SPEAKER_02Well, our last episode 27, excuse me. It uh talks about Noah and his family, you know, his wife, his three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth, and their wives, um, being on the ark. Um, they had to wait for that additional seven days until the water started to come. That's right. Um, and it also explains how God instructed them to bring uh seven each of every clean animal and uh two of every unclean animal. Um, and just to as a reminder, the clean animals are the what the animals with the cloven hoof, like uh the cattle, the sheep, the the goats, and so forth. Um and he instructed those had to be male and female, and two by two they entered into the ark. And um, again, this is when the rains began to come, and it was it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and so we're the reason why we're taking our time on this is because the the metaphors, the types, the shadows, a symbol, you know, these examples are used again and again and again, and they are reiterated through scripture, not just here. There's a great lesson uh, I think that is connected to eschatology, uh, what's connected to God's love, his grace, mercy, and his judgment. And so I think that we are taking our time because I think there's lessons to be learned, not just to storytell or just to exercise, you know, knowledge of scripture. There's this is all for edification, for understanding God's word. So this is why we pray for revelation. So let's move forward here. Um do you want to read the yes?
SPEAKER_02I'll go ahead and uh begin again. It's going to we're in Genesis chapter seven, and we are starting with verse 17, go through 24, and that again that'll finish this particular chapter. Uh so please bring out your Bibles and follow along. And it says here, now the flood on was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters, and the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered, and all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land died. So he destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth, only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive, and the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
SPEAKER_00Wow. So when we read this, I um I really want you to, for our listeners, use your imagination. This is just not a story you read before you go to bed to your children. This narrative is a uh a very frightening, horrifying narrative for the ones who are not on the ark, and for the ones who are on the ark. I would imagine that it is something you never want to hear.
SPEAKER_02No, because I would imagine it being heartbreaking. Yes. Because anyone that you had ever come in contact during your lifetime, and Noah was 600 years old when the floods came, think about it. All his neighbors, his relatives, just you know, friends he had are now gone. And whether or not they heard the wailing and the screams of people dying or animals dying and and they're drowning, i we don't know, but you would you can imagine that maybe they did. But either way, just the sheer thought of it would be very heartbreaking.
SPEAKER_00So here in verse 17 it says, Now the flood was on the earth for 40 days. Now, as we mentioned in previous uh episodes, that I've experienced three to four, at the most, three to four days of rain. And and where I live or grew up, it would flood. The rivers would overflow and there'd be flooding, and then people had to be rescued, and they'd had clean water and food, you know, uh taken in uh boats to them because they're trapped. Um, just very, very difficult, you know, times when you know, four days would flood where I'm from. We're talking 40 days here. Now, I I want you to try to imagine. So 30 days is a month, 40 days is a month and 10 days. Okay, that's almost like a month and a half. So imagine uh during the winter, it rains for an entire month and a half. And I'm not talking just kind of like, you know, rain here and there, or just the skies are dark. I'm talking rain. Yeah, I'm talking like think about the hardest rain you've ever heard and been in, and have that for a month and a half.
SPEAKER_02And if you backtrack here to the previous verses, like in uh verse 11, um, if you follow it down here, it says, in the six hundred six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. Yeah. The picture that comes to my head when I read that verse. You just like torrential amounts of water just coming from everywhere.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it was to the point where if you think about rainfall that falls to the ground, it it takes a while to get to the for the grow for the ground to be saturated and then to start building water because the ground is porous, whether it's you know, dirt, sand, or whatever. This happened like immediately. So the amount of water that falls had to be like unprecedented, never seen before, not just because they've never seen it before, but I'm talking about when does that ever happen again? It never has. And so that's why it's important to visualize this because I could only imagine how scared Noah and his family were hearing that kind of water which never heard was never heard before, you see. And so we're talking 40 days of that. So I would say on the 40th day they would have grown used to it. You know, the rain, used to the rain.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you become accustomed to something. They say what 30 at least 30 days to make or break a habit. That's right. I mean, so in that, um, you know, not making light of this, but I mean it it's um Yeah, I mean, you would think that they would have grown accustomed to the fact that they're in this ark, they're surrounded now by just miles upon miles of just deep water, yeah, and everything they've ever known is gone except for what's on the ark.
SPEAKER_00I would imagine that 40 days of the rain is a reminder, the constant reminder of what the very first day, and then how they've accepted this reality, you know. Um and then it goes on to say the waters increased and lifted up the ark. Okay, so I can imagine that the ark it while while the water was there, the ark had not gone, it hasn't become buoyant yet. It hasn't, you know, the water hasn't got underneath the ark and lifted it up. But here it says is when the waters increased, it lifted up the ark and rose it high above the mountains. So it literally just kept going up and up and up and up. And this is where uh I find this to be interesting because the highest mountain, like now, I say that what is it like uh is the well, the highest mountain at its summit, I believe, in the world is Mount Everest, which is like just under 30,000 feet.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So 30,000 feet, the air is pretty thin, but I would imagine that the who knows how high the actual mountains were, right? Uh because of the tectonic plates and and the way the earth has shifted because the wells, the artesian wells underneath move them around. So really it's hard to tell. And I know that when if you know geology, earth uh mountains are made uh through these plates and and the earth's crust shift together and smash together, and they make these peaks and spires.
SPEAKER_02Right. And then well, and the topography, the landscape as we know it now, it's not what it was. I agree. You know, what four or five thousand years ago.
SPEAKER_00That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_02And then it says here, just speaking of mountains, how it says that the in verse 20, it says that the waters prevailed 15 cubits upward and the mountains were covered.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And fifteen cubits, and if you and if um anyone that who has listened to our previous episodes, we've talked about cubits before. Um we explained it uh when uh the when during the excuse me, when we were reading about when Noah uh when the Ark was under construction under construction, oh my goodness, I can get tongue tied. Um and uh we explained that a qubit is basically measured from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, yes, and which on the average is somewhere between 18 to 20 inches. So 15 cubits would be some upwards over 20 feet, which is over about over two stories. Yes. That's that's a lot of water if it were covering the highest mountains. Very true.
SPEAKER_00Um it says that the waters prevailed. When you when I read the word prevail, that means it overtakes. Yeah. And um And it uses the word exceedingly exceedingly on the earth. So it says the whole uh the high hills under the whole heaven was were covered, the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. Twenty-one, and all flesh died. So again, using your imagination, you're talking every single person that the Bible doesn't you know name by name, but it just says that they you know they had these children and these children and these children, and that's just in the Toledote, the the actual genealogy uh that they name. But but they're talking they also say they had daughters and they had sons, and then just continues, and they had, you know, just on and on and on. I could only imagine how many people now Noah built the ark in a hundred plus years, so you can imagine how many children you could have in a hundred years, and Noah was seven hundred. Six hundred years old. Or six hundred. He was six hundred years old, and that's you could have a lot of kids in six hundred years.
SPEAKER_02I think he the Bible says that he became a father at five hundred years, something like that. Um, and when he uh began to build the ark or was in the process of building the ark, he was in the 600th year.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So yeah, so if you could have three sons in 100 years, I'm sure he was, you know, it is what it was, but can you imagine everybody doing that on the earth and having the length of time to live and to be able to procreate? So I would imagine there is a large amount of people and just think about think about this. It says that all flesh died that moved on the earth birds, cattle, beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every man just gone. So it wasn't like God turned off the air and he smothered them, the water drowned them. So I want to make this clear God's hand indirectly opened up the the the heavens, the earth, and the water came forth, and God used the earth to do this.
SPEAKER_02Well, I would say that he directly opened the you know the the wells and the the the heavens for the water to come about, but indirectly all the creeping things, all the animals, man died.
SPEAKER_00I would hate to say it like this. But if you think about it, it would ensure that everything died. Well, yeah. I mean, flooding the whole earth and it's the and the creatures are created to breathe air, and then you smother them with water, and they intake the water and then die. So so, like I said, um this is interesting because it also follows the other another narrative in the Bible where God sends the angel of the Lord because David took a census and the angel of the Lord was destroying everything in its path with its hand. And and then God said, Stop your hand, and then the angel stopped. So the angel was destroying, and God had sent that angel, so it kind of almost goes together when it says God used the earth to destroy man.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. What was meant to be our perfect home.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and now it turned against the colour.
SPEAKER_02Right. I mean he literally wiped the slate clean. Yes. It's like he just took a big eraser and just wiped the chalkboard clean.
SPEAKER_00Uh that would be when the earth was in a chaotic state and let land come forth and separate the waters from the land. That's what this is. So it actually went back to Genesis 1. Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Um the other thing that I find interesting here is, you know, and some might read these verses and think, well, why does it sound kind of redundant? It's saying the same thing, but just in a slightly different way. But what I'm what I find though is that when you're reading a s a passage like this, scriptures like this, if it's saying something again and you know repeatedly, it's because it's important. Right. It's emphasizing the importance of this particular narrative. And so it's not there, it's not because, you know, Moses, who's was the writer of this, it's not that he didn't know what he was doing. He was just trying to emphasize the importance of of the story and of these details.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh, you know, also he's connecting uh words to uh events. Right. So the words are the events, and the events are connected for a reason in the order that he is writing it in. It's important to understand that too, because people will insert their own understanding and their own flavor flavor and and timeline and chronologically, you know, have it you know wrong. So Moses is saying, yeah, um reiterating here so that way you connect these two and then these three and then these four, and they all are in succession. And I get it the way after you read it, you're like, okay, I know exactly what he means.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. I mean it it's like the emphasis here is that everything that moved, that breathed, man and beast, yeah, and all the creeping things, whoosh, gone in one swoop. You know, it's and yes, I I get it. You know, it paints a very stark picture in my brain, so I get it. Um but the other thing here is that it's emphasizing God's judgment. Yes. It's emphasizing the judgment that God brought upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00So let's talk about that. Um people who don't believe, who are just never read the Bible, read chapter seven for face value without understanding the rest of the Bible. They would say, What kind of God is this?
SPEAKER_02Right. You know, it's funny you say that because I was thinking the same thing that people will have something tragic happen in their life, you know, whether it's losing a loved one, you know, a family member, a best friend, even a pet. Right. You know, because pets to some people they just become a very big part of their family and they grieve, and and not all, but some people will blame God for that loss and just curse him and just be angry and just hateful, right? And hold a grudge against God. It's like, why did you take my my mother, my wife, my husband, my sister, my child, or whatever the the case may be. Right. But it's not God who takes that loved one away. You know, the Bible very c uh plainly tells us that we're all we're all subject to sin and death.
SPEAKER_00And the effects of it.
SPEAKER_02And the effects of it because of the original sin from Adam and Eve. You know, and and it's um it just kind of breaks my heart when people blame God. Right. But he he's not the one that said, oh yeah, well, I'm gonna take this person today. You know, he doesn't do that.
SPEAKER_00Right. So there's a compounding reason. It's not just, you know, I just want to start over, you know, because I messed up. And I've heard people say, why did God flood the earth and do this reset? Did he like mess up and just like, you know, like a piece of art? And, you know, let's just take the whole thing, scrap it, let's start with the new canvas, and then we'll do this next piece, which will be better. It's not like that at all. There's a progression. It starts out in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1. It starts out with God introducing himself with pure power, power of words, creative power. And then it goes into how he creates everything that's conducive to man air, water, you know, animals, uh, plant life, uh, the sun, uh, dark uh and and light just so he could sleep. There's so many things that are this earth was created for the survival and the sustaining life for man. Now, this earth was specifically created for man. And if you think about a God like that, you're like, oh, that sounds like a good God. And then you move forward, and then all of a sudden, his the own creation turns on him. And then he says, Because you've turned on me, this is what's going to happen. And as time goes on, after sin has entered into the world, it degeneration starts to grow and marinate and to become disgusting. And then man becomes degenerate after one generation after another, after another, after another, till the earth is completely engulfed in wickedness, evil continually 247. Like I said before, it'd be like Vegas, Reno, um, Burning Man, Epstein Island, you name it, the whole gambit, anything that you could think of. You know, um, Bangkok, you know, in in Thailand. You know, there's all these things that happen, you know, um, add Woodstock in there too. It's just everything that is just what's going on in any type of rebellion and revolutionary type secularism and humanism. This is what was going on 24-7. And it grew to a point where it just was absolutely rotten in the nostrils of God.
SPEAKER_02You know, there's the scripture in Romans 5.12 where it says, Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they all sinned.
SPEAKER_00There it is. And the first murder, Cain and Abel. You know, and then it just continued murder after murder after murder. And so, you know, and so this is there's a progression. These people choose this. They they it's not like they don't know about God, they know about God, they choose this lifestyle. They chew the they choose the way of Cain. And then you have a whole, you know, the whole earth like this, except for Noah, which is righteous in his generation, his wife, and his uh three sons, and then his daughter-in-laws. I just want to add that there are aspects, and and I'm I'm I do other uh podcasts and episodes in those podcasts, I'm talking about something specific, and this is the unconditional love of God, and I'm not gonna give it away. I did some reasoning in scripture, and I started to study God's grace, his mercy, and his love. Now, I would imagine that in God's grace, okay, when grace is given, it's because there's something wrong to begin with. Why would you need grace if there was nothing wrong? But in God's love, I think that there is a different dynamic. That means that you're in his love. So Noah being found righteous, I would believe that God's love extended to Noah and also to the people who are unrepentant. But then the grace is actually measured to the unrepentant. And in God's love, the mercy comes from, but at the same time, it is the faithfulness of Noah that builds the ark, who's urgent in what he's doing. And then you have the aspect of the grace period, which the hundred and plus years to build the ark and the last seven days before the rain came. And so I just kind of want to point that out that if you're looking at God, you need to look at the whole aspect of God's love. It's a very broad term, I know, but at the same time, if you take a look at this, it sounds exactly like the gospel of Jesus Christ. Only because you have this grace period, which I believe we're in now. All love, the love of God is extended to all mankind, every person on this earth, no matter what they do, what they say, whatever, whether against him or for him, and then you have the ones that are righteous in his eyes through Jesus Christ, because that's the whole point. Those people are metaphorically building the Ark of Safety, which is in Jesus Christ, to preach the gospel, like Noah preached also during building of the Ark. And then the grace period, and until right up until the very last uh day of grace, grace, which I believe that we're kind of in those areas of that, the end will come. Now, Noah didn't know when the rain was going to come, but then here it also says that the end in eschatology, the end will come, and eventually, when it does come, after that it's too late, and it was just like it was too late for people. So we've had 2,000 years at the time that uh Jesus resurrected from the dead, and then now we have the Word of God. Jesus actually references the days of Noah and how the Son of Man, when he comes, and so I mean, it's just not by coincidence that he uses that as a reference and metaphor, but it's used specifically to communicate it'll be just like that.
SPEAKER_02Just pointing back to uh what I was saying before, because I read the scripture in the book of Romans, uh chapter five. You know, it's it explains how through one man's sin and death entered into the world and will basically spread like a virus to everyone. But always keep in mind that through Jesus, through that sacrifice of Jesus, through the ark of salvation that is offered in Jesus as our Messiah, we always have hope. And there's the scripture in Romans 8, it says, There is there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the spirit of for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. That's right. So just Adam through his sin may have condemned the world, or this the world may have been condemned, but through Jesus we f we find that freedom from the bondage of sin and death. That's right. And only through Jesus.
SPEAKER_00Very true, very true. Uh, you know, in um in verse 22, I find this to be interesting, and it seems to be taken out of other translations of the Bible. Uh and it reads, in all in whose nostrils nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life. All that was on dry land died. So when when you see this in the Bible, especially in English, you don't get the meaning. So the Spirit of God, and we call it the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, in Hebrew it's called ruach, it is breath, but it's also interchanged with word. And but here it says the spirit of man. So this is reminiscent of the creation of Adam when he breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, which is ruach. So when you when I hear that, I'm hearing that God said in in Genesis chapter six, my spirit shall not always strive with man. And so if you go back and read it, Ruach again. So I think that this has a connection to it, but the fact that it's missing from other translations, that kind of bothers me. But I'm reading from the New King James Version, so I stopped reading the King James Version a while ago, but I like this one better because it's clear and it doesn't take away from some of the original translations. So uh I just thought that was an interesting point for those who I like to study things like that.
SPEAKER_02You know, when I was talking about when God, you know, God not being the one to, you know, take that loved one when death occurs or, you know, an accident or just illness or whatever the case may be, you know, because we we've all in our life, no matter where we're from, no matter what our background, all of us, you know, man and woman, we go through our trials and tribulations. And it doesn't matter what your socioeconomic status is, it doesn't matter your your what language you speak, your culture, your every man. We're we're all of the same God, all of the same origin. We are one big human family. Yes, and something befalls us. But there's the scripture and in uh it's uh in Ecclesiastes chapter nine. So it'll be the words of King Solomon, and it was bestowed with great wisdom by God Himself. Um starting in chapter not chapter, but verse 11, it says, I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill, but time and chance happened to them all. So time and just unforeseen events happen to everybody, and it's just the state of our world. But we know that following the example of a man like Noah, who even all these centuries later, we still look to him as a great example of faith and hope, obedience and patience. And in the end, God greatly rewarded him. He rewarded him from the beginning because he picked him out of all the earth at that time and in his time as the only righteous person. That is amazing to me. It still blows my mind. And the the level of faith and obedience that this man displayed to carry out this task of building such a huge vessel. Yes, and because of his faith and his obedience, his household, his wife, his sons, their wives, their lives were also spared.
SPEAKER_00You know what's interesting about that, that God has in his wisdom Adam and Eve, everyone goes back to Adam and Eve. But because only Noah's sons, three, and his uh daughter-in-law's three actually restarted the human race. What I found interesting, and I just recently learned this, that the DNA or the uh I think it's this MT DNA trends trace all of humanity back to Noah's sons, three wives, and the striking intersection of biblical history and modern genetics. If you were to look that up, you will see that that is absolutely true if you're into stuff like that. But if you were just to follow that, just that basic information, look it up and study it, you will see that this is absolutely true. And I find this to be interesting because um science uh I think is belongs to God anyway, but then it also is used for other things to try to disprove it. But it's really the study of what is here on earth and what God has preserved for our own uh in as it brings in Romans chapter one for the things that are seen and unseen, and that are the all creation leads to God. We could see this in this story here because if you start up, you start thinking about wiping the slate clean and everything restarts, the stuff the thing animals that are alive today that are from the ark are alive, but the animals that perished, we have fossils to prove that they don't exist anymore. Right. You see, and so I find this to be interesting when it talks about how all uh you know dry land that had breath were at they absolutely perished, including man. And that is very consistent with what we're reading here in Genesis chapter seven. So let me let's kind of go towards the later scriptures we have here. It says, and this is uh 23, so he destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both men and cattle, creeping things and the birds of the air, were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
SPEAKER_02That's a very stark it's like it just I read that and it's like it just to me that that stands out more than anything that only Noah and those who were on the Ark remained alive.
SPEAKER_00That's it. That's it. There's like no other species of human beings but you.
SPEAKER_02Right. And that's uh that's that's mind blowing. Yes. That's really mind blowing.
SPEAKER_00Verse 24, and the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. So, you know, you know, out of my ignorance, you know, well, I thought it only rained 40 days. You know, I thought it was like, you know, 40 days and 40 nights, which makes it 80, you know. Uh, but and you know, that's I know a lot about the other parts of the Bible, but that was just like something I've never studied. So think of like, okay, whatever. But and the waters prevailed and on the earth 150 days, so 150 days, what is that? What is the equivalent to that in months? Uh five. Five months. So you you're it's not like you're just, you know, you I'm I don't with all the animals on board, with all the work that had to be done, you know, and and being kept busy for that length of time, I don't think you could get cabin fever. That vessel must have been huge.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, you know it was huge. I mean, was it uh like uh foot over like about almost 500 feet or a little over 500 feet in in that ballpark? I'm sorry, I don't remember the exact figure anymore. That's a long way.
SPEAKER_00I mean they were they got their 10,000 steps in three decks? Yeah, it was three stories, yeah. So yeah, you you have there's a lot going on there, a lot to explore.
SPEAKER_02Right, you know. I mean, but think throughout their day, they would have had to make time not just for um you know taking care of the animals, taking care of themselves, you know, preparing for the next day.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_02But you know, in that in that um time, they would have to uh also make uh they'd make time to the allowance to for worship. That's right. They would have to make time for worship.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02So I mean, they would have, like you said, they would have to develop just a whole new mind frame, a whole new, like, okay, here we are. And of course, I could only imagine that it would have been very difficult at first. You know, no regardless of the amount of you know, faith and obedience, you know, that's one thing. But to have to learn to settle into these quarters with all these animals and just you know, that's and not knowing when it's gonna end exactly, like when the the arc would settle and you'd be able to come out finally. You know, you'd have to learn to kind of put that on the back burner and just take one day at a time.
SPEAKER_00You know, that the the test emotionally, physically, psychologically, there's so much spiritually, there's so much to be tested there. You're testing so everything's just being stretched and tested to a place where it it's gonna have to be faith that sustains you to believe in the promises of God that this is what's gonna happen. You're gonna survive, but just this is what has to happen. So the natural aspect of the rain, the water rising, and the natural aspect of it going back down where it in its place again took time. So, I mean, could have God miraculously say, okay, from one day to the next, this water is gonna be gone, you're gonna be on Mount Ararat. No, it was a natural increase and a natural decrease.
SPEAKER_02I mean, think about it. I mean, this whole experience, not only from the building of the ark and how long that took, and the you know, the the preaching and the just everything. And no one ever, like we mentioned, no one ever questioned any of this. Right. And then to be aboard that ark, not knowing how long that they would be there, you know, everything that they've ever known being wiped away, this whole venture from be start to finish was the ultimate, one of the ultimate in the Bible, one of the ultimate tests of faith. Yes. And obedience and patience. Obviously, Noah was a very patient man. And unless, you know, if he did not believe in the goodness of God, the you know, the the extreme goodness that our Lord is, he well, not only would he have not been chosen, but he wouldn't would not have been able to make it through the whole process.
SPEAKER_00So, so I agree with 100% because I know that that when you know things in a household starts to go afly, the father would be the one, I would assume that the father would be the one to say, hey, it's everything's gonna be fine, it's gonna be okay, let's not overreact. You know, we know that God has promised. I could imagine that that voice of wisdom, that voice of strength, that voice of faith. Noah, I think, had command of that and himself when when they started to doubt, he would reassure them. I am absolutely from day one I got word from God, I believed 100%. Now we're into this this far. I truly, and I say this myself, why would God bring us this far just to let us be destroyed?
SPEAKER_02Right. All of a sudden there's a there's a hole in the bottom of the ark, and it starts leaking, yeah. Yeah, it's no, no, God's not gonna let you know. God had the whole thing in control.
SPEAKER_00That's right. And that's the faith I believe that he reiterated to his family that all this matters, all these animals matter. All what we've done matters, and we are in the hands of God. I'm sure that that was a reoccurring conversation they probably had when doubt started to creep in.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02Well, there's a scripture here in Psalms 27, 13 and 14 that says, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. So that's a really, really good reminder of when we go through our own personal issues, our own trials and tribulations, whether they're, you know, life-changing or whether they're just day-to-day anxieties that we have to look to God to sustain us.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_02And know that He will bring us through to the other side.
SPEAKER_00Amen. Well, I think uh I think this has run its course, and I just uh I just feel good. I feel good about this one because, you know, I really feel that we kind of covered some things. Uh there are things in here that I believe people would have questions about, whether first-time readers or otherwise. I I would just take away from this is that that by not reading, you know, the reading in context is good, but you need to read the entire narrative, you know, how this is read from beginning, very beginning till now, and you would understand the progression. So if you're just going to listen to this particular episode, go back and listen to all of them because it's important that you know how the flow of scripture goes, or you could just go back and reread the whole seven chapters of the book of Genesis. Uh, I think that when we're reading these uh scriptures, they're not in vain. They don't, they're not isolated. This story is connected to the next story. And the next uh you know part of this narrative is gonna be eventually the water is gonna subside, eventually the ark is gonna come to dry land, and there's just a narrative about that. And so I just want you to know that it starts in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, and we wind up here, and then it organically through the narrative will it'll see you'll see how it it's not, you know, a segment of some story in the future or in the far, far, far past, and it just like it lands right there in scripture. No, it is an organic narrative. So I just want people to know that it builds and builds and builds to an unfolding mystery.
SPEAKER_02So one thing leads into another. That's right. So and I wanted to um to mention that recently we've had an uh an increase, an uptick in the uh of downloads um, you know, from other, you know, of course, you know, we're in the in the US, yeah. In the United States, but um we've seen a lot of downloads from other other other countries. And I just want to say that's really heartwarming to me and to Pastor Frank, and um to know that more people that this what we're saying is reaching more um people around the world, which is all we want. It's really the the all we want is for the word of God to be out there. And I know it makes our our Lord, our God happy also, knowing that His His Word is going out there to all people, as as Jesus said that it which He commanded us to do. And so it just makes us happy that more people are listening. And we just want to say thank you for for listening and and please continue to listen and and share this with other people.
SPEAKER_00Yes, because everybody who listens and believes in the same God and the same Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you're our brothers and sisters. We are connected through Him. And so you're our family. Yeah, and and so Exactly.
SPEAKER_02We're one big human family.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And so we just want to uh again uh you know, share these episodes, share the word, share it with other people, your family members, and and uh just let people know that that these types of uh things are out there for your learning, uh to learn more about our Lord and Savior, more about God and and his purpose and his plan for salvation, because that's important. We don't want to be left, we don't want to be the people outside of the ark, we want to be the ones that are inside the ark. Exactly. And the judgment will be the judgment, and and God will take care of that, but we keep our eyes and our sights on the Lord and be obedient to him, to his word, to his commands. Um it is to love him with all of our heart, mind, and strength and to love one another.
SPEAKER_02Right. I mean, there's no greater gift that we can give ourselves or to those that we love other than the word of God. That's right. Raising your children. That's if you're gonna give your children everything, let them know who God is. Right. Give them a foundation, a basis, a purpose, a meaning to their life so that you know they have something to stand on, some a foundation and all the hard times of life. Right. And because if we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything. That's right.
SPEAKER_00All right. Well, this is Pastor Frank. And this is Lucy at Two Become is One. Have a blessed day.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Amen.