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Genesis
Genesis
Chapter 8
Theme:The rains cease;
earth dries—Noah
leaves the ark; Noah
builds an altar and
offers sacrifice.
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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
Tishre (Ethanium)
Cheshvan (Bul)
Chisleu
Tevet
Sh’vat
Adar
Nisan (Aviv)
Iyyar (Zif)
Sivan
Tammuz
Av
Elul
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
Present 5770
Sep – Oct
Oct – Nov
Nov – Dec
Dec – Jan
Jan – Feb
Feb – Mar
Mar – Apr
Apr – May
May – Jun
Jun – Jul
Jul – Aug
Aug - Sep
New Beginnings
Christ was crucified on the 14th of Nisan;
He was in the grave 3 days
Resurrection 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 8:8-9
8Also
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 8:10-12
10And
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 8:13-14
13And
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 8:18-19
18And
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
Built by Dutch creationist
Johan Huibers as a
testament to his faith in the
literal truth of the Bible.
SCHAGEN, Netherlands
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
Genesis
Written
on an Egg
Noah’s Art
Genesis
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Genesis
Chapter 8
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