Genesis

Union Church Bible Study

Genesis Chapter 8

Theme:The rains cease; earth dries—Noah leaves the ark; Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifice.

Babylonian Sumerian Gilgamesh

Matthew 24:37-39

37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Genesis 8:1

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

Genesis 8:1“God Remembered Noah”

• He remembered the “living things” with Noah• Animals and mankind are made of the same physical stuff: dust• Both have the Life Spirit• Man slightly above the animals

Ruach: The Rushing Wind

•Holy Spirit = Ruach Hakodesh

•Ruach often used to speak of God’s Spirit

•As the water rose for 150 days, so it receded for 150 days

Genesis 8:2-3

2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Why did the Holy Spirit want us to know this very date?

The Two Calendars

Civil: Tishri (in the Fall)Rosh Hoshana

Religious: Nisan (in the Spring)

“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”

Exodus 12:2

Months Old New Present 5770

Tishre (Ethanium) 1 7 Sep – OctCheshvan (Bul) 2 8 Oct – NovChisleu 3 9 Nov – DecTevet 4 10 Dec – JanSh’vat 5 11 Jan – FebAdar 6 12 Feb – MarNisan (Aviv) 7 1 Mar – AprIyyar (Zif) 8 2 Apr – MaySivan 9 3 May – JunTammuz 10 4 Jun – JulAv 11 5 Jul – AugElul 12 6 Aug - Sep

New Beginnings

Christ was crucified on the 14th of Nisan;He was in the grave 3 daysResurrection on the 17th of Nisan

(the 7th month of the Genesis Calendar)(the 1st month of the new Religious Calendar)

Mount Ararat

Mountains of Ararat

• Not Mt. Ararat, rather the Ararat Mountain Range• In modern day Turkey• Ark rested on 7th

month, the 17th day

Genesis 11:1-2

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Mount Suleiman in the Alborz Mountains in Iran

Genesis 8:5

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Genesis 8:6-7

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Genesis 8:8-98Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9But the dove found no rest for the Sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

Genesis 8:10-1210And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

Genesis 8:13-1413And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

The Land Dries• Raven sent out 1st (an unclean bird)• Later a dove, came back with olive tree twig• Another dove sent out, didn’t return• Olive trees will actually leaf-out under water!• 1st day of 1st month = New Year• 2nd month, 27th day, could leave the Ark

Genesis 8:15-16

15And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Genesis 8:17

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Genesis 8:18-1918And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

Genesis 8:20

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

The Old is Purified, and The New is Sanctified

• Only through death, does new life come• Altar sacrifice as Noah’s first act• Each species of clean animal was sacrificed• If only one pair of clean animals had been brought, or if any unclean animals were sacrificed extinction would have been the result

What Purpose did the Unclean Animals Serve?

• Several varieties of unclean animals were scavengers• Universe operates under the Principle of Opposites• Can be no clean unless there is unclean• Unclean animals not bad or worse, or of less importance

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

“What Forms in the Heart is Evil From its Youth…”

• Noah’s sacrifice was accepted• World never again to be destroyed by flood• Human heart is evil• Satan does not Create Evil! • He uses man’s evil inclination by deceiving and lying

From His Awakening

mine’araw means“from his awakening”The point at which a human has “awareness”

Heart is not 100% evil

All humans born with good inclination and evil inclination

Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Modern Noah's Ark

SCHAGEN, Netherlands 

Built by Dutch creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.

Modern Noah's Ark

• Garden of Eden gone after the flood• From here on in the Bible, man looks upward and God looks downward on man• Earth very different after the flood• Oceans more extensive than before• Land barren of vegetation• Mist gone• Climate had more radical swings• Seasons more pronounced

• Thermal Blanket Gone• End of Universal Climate• Atmospheric Pressure reduced by 50% • Extended longevities now decline

Noah Was The New Adam

• We are more closely related to Noah than Adam

• Adam created in the “image of God”, Noah created in the “image of Adam”

• Adam born into perfection, Noah born into imperfection

• New basis of the world: sin was throughout the world, and in every creature

The company library of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., in New York City has one of the most complete sets of records of marine disasters outside of England. The completeness is so legendary that someone once asked Atlantic if it had a record of Noah’s Ark. In due time the inquirer received this information:

“Built 2448 B.C. Gopher wood, pitched within and without. Length, 300 cubits; width, 50 cubits; height, 30 cubits. Three decks. Cattle carrier. Owner: Noah and Sons. Last reported stranded on Mount Ararat.”

—New York Herald Tribune

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