Genesis

Union Church Bible Study

Genesis Chapter 7

Theme: Noah, his family, and the animals enter the ark; destruction of all flesh and the salvation of those in the ark.

Genesis 6:11-12

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Genesis 6:13

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Noah

Noah’s Ark

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Genesis 7:1

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

“Come thou ….” This is the same invitation that the Lord Jesus gives today to all mankind:

Noah = rest

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

It was by faith, just as later on Abraham was counted righteous because of his faith: “And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness”

(Gen. 15:6).

Why was Noah righteous?

Gospel Message

The Gospel message is delivered right here:

That the gaining of God’s type of righteousness…

is accomplished by faith and trust in Yahweh.

Noach’s Invitation

• “…come into the Ark…”• Invitation came with RSVP• Inaction meant death• The dividing line between those who are invited and those who are not: Righteousness• Noach was called “righteous”• Tzaddik = righteous• Yeshua is our modern-day Ark and our invitation is the same Come into the Ark

RIGHTEOUSNESS

1. O.T. is about “works” righteousness

2. N.T. is about “faith” righteousness

Bad Theology!

Sages Place Emphasis on Doing God’s Commands

• Motivation was not to gain, but to obey out of gratitude• Often taught that Grace is a N.T. era dispensation • Choosing Law or Grace is a false proposition!• This is a manmade doctrine, designed to separate Jews from gentile Christians

Hebrews Did Not Try to “Work Their Way to Heaven”

• Early Hebrews understood righteousness Had to be a gift from God• E.P. Sanders: “Paul and Palestinian Judaism”• Mishnah Rabba Bereshith• Why was Noach saved? 1. Noach found Grace in the eyes of theLord 2. Through the cleanness of They Hands• 1st Use of the word Grace in Genesis…Not in the N.T.

Grace: Unmerited Favor

• Pre – Jesus, were the Israelites to Work their way to Salvation?

• NAS (Gen 15:6) Then he (Abraham) believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

• Noah didn’t earn his righteousness, it was given by Grace … same as us today!

Genesis 7:2-3

2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Two by Two?

• Some animals were to consist of 7 pairs• Clean animals 7 pairs• Unclean by two • Clean means ritually pure• Unclean means ritually impure• Clean for Sacrifices• Kosher common word for “Clean” food

Biblically, What is Food?

• Food is only what is normal and usual to eat• For a Hebrew non-Kosher meat is not Food• Bible is from a Hebrew cultural view• Until the flood, eating meat was akin to cannibalism• Eating another “living creature” was not in their minds

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Noach and Family Board the Ark

• After boarding, will be 7 more days until the Flood

• The fate of everyone on Earth was sealed when the door closed

• This pattern will be played out again in the near future (Matt 24)

Genesis 7:5-7

5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:8-10 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts

that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11-12

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Mountain Tops under 25 feet of Water

• God closed the door to the Ark

• Noah was saved Could Noah have lost his salvation – gotten out of the Ark?

Eleven Events Lasting Forty Days and Nights1. Noah's flood (Genesis 7:4,12,17; Genesis 8:6)2. Jacob's death (Genesis 50:3)3. Moses in the mount (Exodus 24:18)4. Moses again in the mount (Exodus 34:28; Deut. 10:10)5. Spies searching Canaan (Numbers 13:25; cp. forty years, )6. Moses fasting (Deut. 9:18; cp. Deut. 9:9-11)7. Elijah's flight (1 Kings 19:8)8. Ezekiel lying on right side (Ezekiel 4:6)9. Nineveh's judgment (Jonah 3:4)10. Christ fasting (Matthew 4:2)11. Christ's post-resurrection ministry (Acts 1:3)

Genesis 7:13-14 13In the selfsame day entered

Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 7:15-16

15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:17-18

17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 7:19-20

19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Fountains of the Deep

• Wasn’t just rain that caused flooding

• Underground cavern filled with water burst upward

Genesis 7:21-22

21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Genesis 7:23-24

23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Revelation 9:5

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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