God’s Timeline – Part 15
The
Flood
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON INTRODUCTION
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Adam, Eve, and the Fall
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Cain and Abel
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Evil Fills the World
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Noah Did All God
Commanded Him
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NOW: The Flood
We read last week that
God found favor in Noah, and instructed him on His plans to destroy the world
and everything in it. God instructed Noah to build an ark to God’s
specifications and he, along with his wife and sons and their wives, would be
spared to repopulate the world.
How much time passed between
Genesis 6 when God tell Noah to build the ark and Genesis 7 when the flood comes?
Some believe the mention
of limiting man to 120 years was a countdown to the flood, however, looking at
the verses, and mention of how old the sons were when their kids (Noah’s
grandchildren) were born, along with some other ages mentioned, it would not
fit.
120 was God limiting the
life span of man for those born after the flood.
Looking at verses like Genesis 5:32;
10:21; 11:10; 9:24; 7:13; 6:18, it is more likely that the time it took to build the ark was closer to
55-75 years, though we are not told an exact number in scripture. According to
what we do know, it could not be more than 75 though.
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 7
“The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your
whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take
with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and
one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven
pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive
throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for
forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every
living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came
on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered
the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean
animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and
female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And
after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the
seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great
deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain
fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the
ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all
livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground
according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with
wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to
Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every
living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as
the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters
rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of
the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under
the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains
to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on
land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over
the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of
life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was
wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the
birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the
ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty
days.”
a.
Genesis
7:1
i.
The Lord then said to
Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you
righteous in this generation…”
b. More than “two of every kind” entered the ark
i.
7 – pairs of every “clean
animal”
1. How did they know what was clean or unclean? There
are no verses in scripture telling us?
2. This is what I mentioned early on, after Genesis 3
and the fall, I believe God instilled the “sacrifice” and instructed Adam and
Eve all about it, and animals and the new rules of life in a fallen world.
3. We see God trying to correct Cain when he was not
observing the offering instructions, though the scripture never tell us what
those instructions were.
4. So, after the fall, I believe the Lord instructed
Adam and Eve and taught them about how they were to live righteously from that
point on with the sacrificial covering for their sin.
5. They, in turn, taught it to the next generation, and
so on.
6. 1,600 years later, every knows what is clean and
unclean, and that sacrifices are to be made to the Lord for a covering of sin.
7. So why clean animals? So, they could still perform
sacrifices after the flood without killing off the only animals saved from the
flood!
ii.
1 – pair of every “unclean
animal”
1. Why save “unclean” animals? Because they
still serve a purpose on earth and the eco system and are needed, or God would
not have created them. They just were called unclean because God had set them
aside to teach the Israelites about the gentiles centuries from now.
iii.
7 – pairs of every bird
c. God fills Noah in on what is about to happen
i.
Why is God telling
Noah again?
1. Perhaps because of the time that passed since
instructing Noah to build the Ark?
2. Maybe because by God speaking this it is putting
something into motion we do not understand?
3. Maybe to encourage Noah that even though time has
passed, he would still be saved? Sometimes we humans need reassurance.
4. Whatever the reason, we read Noah did as God
commanded him.
d. The creatures came to Noah
i.
We see in the scriptures
that pairs of all the creatures CAME TO NOAH and entered the Ark.
1. “Pairs” meaning within all the creatures coming to
the Ark, they had a mate.
ii.
Noah was 600 when the
flood waters came
iii.
On the 17th
day of the second month (Lyar or April/May)
iv.
They HID in the Ark
with the livestock
II.
WHERE DID
40 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF RAIN COME FROM?
a. In the beginning it was already here
i.
Genesis
1:1-2 “In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness
was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters.”
ii.
Remember, the earth
was a giant planet od water to begin with
iii.
In the beginning, all
there was, was water
b. God separated the waters and created a perfect
greenhouse planet
i.
God did this on the
second day
ii.
Genesis
1:6-8 “And God said, “Let there
be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the
vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it
was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was
morning—the second day.”
iii.
Vault is the Hebrew
word for support as well as expanses
iv.
This vault
(support/expanse) was called sky
v.
It separates the “water
under the vault from the water above it”
vi.
A layer of water
around the earth, with the magnetic north lined up with the axis at the time,
created the perfect greenhouse weather with no need for seasons.
vii.
Like in the ‘70s fad
of creating a closed-system terrarium. Everything necessary for everything to
live and grow was self-contained in the perfect eco system.
viii.
So how did the waters
come crashing down?
c. God may have hit the earth with a meteor to
bring the waters down
i.
I believe
we were hit by a meteor
1. Earth’s axis and magnetic north are no longer
aligned
2. Science has proven the earth is “wobbling” from an
extreme impact in our past
3. Verdefort Dome in South Africa is an impact site that
is 120 square miles big
4. A meteor this size could easily bring down the water
layer covering the earth
ii.
This is all conjecture
though, we are not told in scripture “how”
iii.
God may have started
the process of the waters falling when he spoke to Noah
iv.
All these giant meteor
impacts may have came later to help clear the waters and reshape the earth as
scripture states happened after the flood
v.
Some say the flood was
a local flood, not global
vi.
One problem with that
theory, it makes God and His Word out to be liars
III.
40 DAYS
AND NIGHTS OF RAIN AND 150 DAYS OF FLOOD WATERS
a. The entire earth and mountains were covered,
global not local flood
i.
We see that scripture
makes clear the entire earth was covered
ii.
Even the mountains
were 23 feet under water
iii.
Boats would have
filled with water and sank, high ground was 23 feel under water, there was no
where to hide from the waters, you could not “wade,” or “doggie paddle” for the
40 days of rain, or the 150 days of flood after.
iv.
Even if you were the greatest
swimmer that ever lives, you could never survive 190 days without food.
b. Everything that moved on the land perished
i.
Not most, not some,
ALL things that moved on the land perished
ii.
Birds, livestock, wild
animals, creatures that swarm, insects, everything that had breath, died
c. Only Noah and those in the Ark survived
Matthew 24:37-39
“37 But as the days of
Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For 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,
39 And knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.”
Next week we will read about God’s Covenant with Noah (Genesis 9)
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