TREES #16(c) - NOAH: After the Flood
We are completing all 3 parts about Noah (in the Tree series) in July (Instead of waiting for next month). Today we are continuing in our Bible study on trees and are focusing on what happened after the flood. Below are the three parts about Noah:
16(c) - AFTER THE FLOOD
In today's continuation of the trees series, we are studying AFTER THE FLOOD.
This is Part#16(c) - NOAH: After the Flood
In the passage below we learn that the ark finally rested on solid ground on the "seventeenth of the seventh month." Let's say July 17th (the months were different in Biblical times - click HERE to read "Strange Stuff - 13 Moonths") is the day that the ark settled on Mount Ararat.
Notice that Noah didn't open the window of the ark until 40 days after the flood began (when the rain stopped). Just imagine not being able to see out for 40 days and 40 nights!
Also, it took even longer for the waters to decrease and the levels to go down. It wasn't until October 1st that the waters finally stopped receding.
Noah kept sending a raven out to see if it would bring something back to the ark - to know when the waters had fully receded and when it was safe to leave the ark (see verses below).
The raven brought back an olive branch!!! Notice the significance of another tree!!
(click HERE to read Part#4 - Olives )
Even though Noah knew from his raven test that the flood was over, he still waited for God's guidance before leaving the ark and removing all animals (see verses below):
" Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark."
Genesis 8:15-19
Before we talk about the Covenant that God made with us after the flood, let's first talk about why the flood had to happen. It seems so harsh to get rid of every living thing through the flood but everyone in earth at that time was so disgustingly evil. They all worshiped Baal and sacrificed their children. Then, it gets even worse - yes, worse than killing their own children.......they ate their children!!!! That's how horrific everything was at that time.
Now, the covenant:
In verse 12 (see below) - it says that this covenant is forever - it is for "perpetual generations."
It was after this covenant that God gave us the rainbow. And this special gift (the rainbow) can NEVER be taken away from us. The world is trying to steal and twist this beautiful rainbow into a symbol of distortion and debauchery.
God will NOT be mocked - anyone who uses His rainbow for such evil will have to contend with the Lord of hosts!
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