Genesis - Part 20 | Pastor Paul McGee

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Please remember tomorrow night is power hour and power hours

and intersecting with the National Day of Prayer.

Amen. Tomorrow's the National Day of

Prayer, so power hours intersecting with that.

And so our focus is going to be in prayer along the lines of the

National Day of Prayer theme and also Mother's Day.

We're kind of doing both. It's going to be a smash up of

the the theme for the National Day of Prayer and Mother's Day,

Amen. Tomorrow night as we pray with

corporate prayer, Amen. And so that's something to keep

in mind. A few of us have Indiana

District Spring Conference, that's this weekend, Friday and

Saturday in Newcastle, Amen. And our very own brother Alex

Mason's going to be speaking at an informed talk on Saturday at

our conference. And so we're thankful Amen for

that God using him and his representation Amen in the

district. Don't forget that Monday is

Indiana district camp meeting registration opens be opening at

4:00 Central Standard Time. All right, So be very prompt if

you have plans on going to secure your room, Amen and your

registration for that next Tuesday or by say next Tuesday,

next Tuesday, May the 7th is Mom's night out.

I know they just had AI should say ladies night out.

Let me revamp that. I know you're saying they just

had a ladies thing not long ago. Who cares?

So they're going to have a ladies night out.

Amen believes they're going to be leaving at 5:30 from the

church here. And so if if you can go, please

go. So just to Princeton, they're

not going all the way to Evansville this time, but

they're going to go to Princeton and some of them will probably

shut Princeton down. Amen.

So if you need to go drive by yourself, even drive, or if you

want to be a part of that, you can go, Amen.

And so that'll be a good time as well.

Also, please, it's out there. It's there that May, the 12th,

that Sunday, which is Mother's Day, we're having our Mother's

Day talk show to be taking place right here at First Apostolic

Church. Continue sharing that.

Get the word out about that. We'll probably have some other

posts and videos and things of that nature that will help

promote that, Amen. As well, it's not that far away.

It's just around the corner. You'll blink your eyes and this

month will be over. I know it just started.

I'm just telling you, this is how it goes.

Amen, Amen. So just keep your eye open on

that also. And I'm just going to tell us

here tonight also coming into the weekend as well is going to

be the International Firefighters, Firefighters Day.

All right, That happens on May 4th.

And so that's something that we will be putting forth a post and

such from from the church. Please share that.

We have a lot of people invested in firefighting and have for

several years here at the church and have served in several

different capacities over the years.

And so please share that. Get the word out.

As a church, we're going to be providing a meal for our

firefighters during one of their monthly meetings here in the

month of May for a sense of appreciation.

And such a sister Angie is heading up.

And so we're going to be doing that.

And so also in the month of May is National Teachers Day

appreciation. And the week of that, this

church is going to be hitting all three of our schools here

within the community. And we're going to be providing

kind of some breakfast treats, kind of like a continental type,

more like breakfast type things, doughnuts and things of that

nature to show appreciation to our teachers as well.

Believe it's very important to do that within our community.

You know, my theory, want to be more seen as a hand that gives

out the one that's trying to get from my community.

And so let's, let's do that and there'll be post up all about

that as well. That's in the queue, so to speak

and share that as much as you can get the word out.

We want them to know teachers, firefighters, everybody, Amen.

That we appreciate them, that this church appreciates their

service within our community because that in fact, that

impacts your homes, your businesses, your children, so

and so forth. And so it's, it's, it's good to

do that. I know you've been standing for

a bit. Let's turn to Genesis.

Chapter #7 and I'm going to read starting with verse 17.

I know we kind of read it last week, but I want to kind of link

with it. Chapter verse #17 I'll read to

the end of the chapter. All right?

And then we will continue on. Also, I happen to see these, I

think it was the last Thursday. These glasses, they're purely, I

think, readers of some sort, but they have prescription at the

bottom, nothing through the lens.

They look good on me, don't they?

Amen. But they were found over on this

graveled spot over here. I believe it was last Thursday.

If these are yours, come see me. See what I did, come see me,

Amen, And we'll get them back to you.

Or it might have been someone food pantry wise.

If so, we'll get it to Sister Jim to take care of that Genesis

chapter #7 verse #17 we're going to begin.

Good to be back home with you all.

It's my first service being in in church with our dear Doctor

Mason. Amen.

So we're appreciative of his years of study and

accomplishment here. Going to be graduating this

weekend and such. And so that's going to be a big

thing right now. My daughter basically went to

school on Monday and was kind of like her last day.

And so I'm back to taking my son to school and picking him up for

lunch and all of that. And there's a segment of life I

thought I was done with, but I'm not.

I don't like it. And so I'm going to get him a

tricep or something so he can go back and forth to school.

But none the less. Verse 17 And the flood was 40

days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bear up the

ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the

earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high

hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 15 cubits

upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and

of cattle, and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that

creepeth upon the earth. And every man, all in whose

nostrils was the breath of life, all that was in the dry land

died, and every living substance was destroyed, which was upon

the face of the ground. Both man and cattle, the

creeping things and the fowl of the heaven, they were destroyed

from the earth. And Noah only remained alive and

they that were with him in the ark.

The waters prevailed upon the earth. 150 a 150 days.

We're going to try to dip over into chapter #8 tonight as well.

And then I want to talk tonight just simply this at the heart of

the flood, the heart of the flood.

Some of this might sound familiar to you.

My, my daughter and I, we went home last Wednesday and was

talking Genesis for a long time. And so I taught her the next

lesson. Not in its entirety, but we hit

a lot nonetheless. Let's pray tonight in the heart

of the flood. Father, we love you, God, we

appreciate you and we need you, Lord, in this place, God, I

pray, Lord, to be able to help us now, open our minds God, give

us the Lord's strength. I pray, O Lord, that we can

learn of you God, and find some application of these things,

Lord, to our everyday lives. I pray, O Lord, we are thankful,

Lord Jesus, for being able to be here, Lord, and come together,

Lord of life, precious faith, Lord Jesus, and hear the Word of

God in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated tonight in

Jesus name. So we are at the closing verses

of chapter #7 and we still have some other chapters to get

through in order to make our way through this big portion of

Genesis Scripture or the early portions of Genesis scripture of

Noah and the flood. But there are about two

prominent ideas that are concerned in the closing of

Genesis chapter #7 One of those ideas you can read it.

It seems very repetitive, very redundant.

EE about the ever increasing. Waters or waters?

Prevailing. And then there's another idea

that's there in the closing verses, and that is of death, of

how not being on the ark death was, was the outcome.

And if you were on the ark, you were alive, of course.

And it seems very, very simple. And as with last week, there is

some repetition of this whole idea of, of the idea that these

waters are are increasing. There's a lot of repetition that

takes place. It's driving home an idea.

You can look at it at the different language describing

the waters again in what I already read to you night.

Verse #17 it says that the waters increased.

And verse 18 says the waters prevailed and then describes

that a little bit more specifically that they increase

greatly. Verse #19 The waters prevailed

exceedingly. It speaks that the high heels

were covered by the water. Verse #20 tells us that the

waters prevailed and that therefore to the degree of 15

cubits or which is approximately 22 1/2 feet above the mountains,

even of that that of that day and that of that era.

And then verse 24 even tells us about these prevailing waters

then prevailing for 150 days. There's a lot of repetition

about this ever increasing, ever, ever greater amount of

water that's coming up on the earth.

And with these concepts of water and the concepts of death that

we see in chapter #7, there are at least eight times.

That referenced in these verses is this water in this death, as

though it's being upon the earth.

Or as verse #19 says, that this is under the whole heaven.

This was occurring or taking place under the whole heaven or

up on the earth. We see that that verbiage, that

language used over and over again, meaning to us as just

literal Bible readers, this, that the flood was not a

localized flood to a particular area over in Israel.

It was not just where Noah was located, but this was a global

flood. It wasn't specified to a certain

area. I bring that up because there's

a lot of talk. People with all this critique

and criticism about whether or not the flood covered the hill

or earth or whether it just covered a localized place and so

some say that the flood did not cover the entire earth, that it

was just localized to Noah's area however, almost every

society, almost every society in the.

World World Over has some type of quote, UN quote, flood story.

The details of all of them fluctuate quite considerably,

yes, but it seems to lend to an idea that there was a flood that

covered the earth at one time somewhere in our history, in our

past. I'd like to share a article with

you, Bishop ML Walls, many of you know who I'm Speaking of,

shared this article in his commentary on Genesis.

This is actually from a article in a a a Creation magazine from

1999, the June August rendition. And it says many Christians

today think the flood of Noah's time was only a local flood

confined to somewhere around Mesopotamia.

This idea comes not from Scripture, but from the notion

of billions of years of earth history, history that's reported

in our world. Again, literally reading the

scripture, the earth under the whole heaven, the the scripture

says this. So whenever we would consider

the other that it would be confined.

Then there's a few things that we must ask ourselves.

And I'm just going to go through this list, OK, Not really going

to do well much on it because again, I like the creator aspect

of Genesis a whole lot more than all the minutiae of the

scientific because I believe it's purpose for written was

more than science, all right? Much more its actual purpose.

If the flood was local, why did Noah have to build an ark?

Why didn't he just walk and traverse over to some other

mountainside or some other area where the flood wouldn't have

taken place? If the flood were local, why did

God send the animals to the ark so that they would escape death?

Wouldn't there have been some other animals of their kind and

another location that would have been able to reproduce if those

had died off? If the flood was local, why was

the Ark big enough to hold all the kinds of land vertebrae

animals that have ever existed in that time?

If it were only the Mesopotamian animals that were on board, the

Ark probably could have been much smaller.

If the flood were local, why would birds have to be sent on

board? They could simply just winged

across to another area where there was no flood, and again,

someplace and been safe. If there were no local flood,

how could the waters rise to 15 cubits above the mountains of

that known day? Because water seeks its own

level, right? You ever put water into

something? Matter of fact, you can tell if

something's level by water, It seeks its own level.

So it could not rise to cover the local mountains while

leaving other portions of the world unimpacted.

If the flood were local, people who did not happen to be living

in the vicinity would not have been affected by it in that they

would affected God's judgment in that day on sin.

And if that happened and then Christ in the New Testament

scriptures liking likens the judgment that is still yet

coming to as it was in the days of Noah, then it would mean that

we were facing a time in the future when there's going to be

a section of people judged and not all of us.

If the flood were local, God would have repeatedly broke his

promise to never send the flood again.

And so although the rain according to Scripture seems to

have lasted 40 days and 40 nights of verse #12 of the Bible

tells us here of Genesis chapter #7 the water again, I think I

mentioned last week, I don't know if I can't remember.

I just like Genesis submerged right now.

I'm, I'm in the flood all right right now.

But nonetheless, the water increased and continue to

increase, evidently even after the rain stopped.

We talked about this, Amen, that there is this prevailing and

ever increasing of the waters prevailing for 150 days.

The last verse of Genesis 7 says they're prevailing.

Which other places of Scripture denotes what that prevailing is?

It's exceeding greatly. It's ever increasing for 150

days, but if they stopped after the 40 again, there is still the

source of the fountains of the deep that broke up.

You didn't have to have just water that was coming from the

sky, but water that was coming from the subterranean spots of

water still coming up on the earth.

All the fountains, the Bible says of the deep broke up as

well-being a source of feeding the water that was upon the

earth. And people have a hard time many

times accepting that the waters, the earth's water level could

have preceded the mountains for the Bible again.

And verse 19 speaks about how they were covered all right and

even to 15 cubits, as it says. And the problem with this is

that many times they point to the fact that today we have

Mount Everest, which is I believe still considered the

highest mountain in the world at some this is just around about

somewhere around 29,000 feet. So they have a problem with

that, that 22 1/2 feet above that, that there could be water.

But today's world could have been greatly topographically

different then the flood world. As a matter of fact, I believe

the flood changed the dynamics of the topography of the world.

Mountains and valleys that we have today may have been limited

or less drastic. Maybe some didn't even exist

prior to the flood. Amen.

As a matter of fact, if you remember, the Bible spoke about

the different kinds of animals that came to the ark, and then

it said in such mode that then Noah got them on the ark.

How did these animals from what we would say today, from all

these different continents, get to the ark if there was water

that prevented, I mean, unless they were Jesus animals and

walked on water. And I know that's funny, but

what I'm getting at is this. If you remember back in Genesis

chapter #1 the third day of creation of the creative days

indicates that the waters were gathered together, and it states

explicitly one place. It had one place.

And the dry land appeared submitting to you that in that

moment of third day of creation, we had one landmass and one

water. Amen.

And so animals could get to an art.

For the land connected. Amen.

And all people that existed could get there as well and

reach it and make way there. But again, believe that the

topography of our land absolutely changed.

The psalmist references creation.

The psalmist references the flood in Psalms 104.

And start with verse #5 this is what the psalmist says.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be

removed forever? It's a reference to creation.

Verse 6. Thou covered is it with the deep

as with a garment? The water stood above the

mountains. That's a reference to the flood.

At thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy Thunder they

hasted away. They go up by the mountains,

they go down by the valleys and the place which thou has founded

for them. All right, these, these things,

these, these what? He said.

These waters are going, 'cause that's another thing.

All this water that covered the earth, where did it all go?

Well, some of it's our oceans, but with topography of land

changing, you have mountains and valleys in the ocean, you have

valleys, you have valleys in the ocean that go miles deep that

can facilitate a volume of water.

That at the ice surface you would never know, but the depths

of even valleys that's within the ocean floor.

Let me go on verse nine that thou has set a bond that they

may not Passover. See this is what he did.

He's referring to the promise of not flooding the earth again,

that they turn not again to cover the earth.

We have sammies and different things where they, they, they,

they come over that line, but what happens, they always

receive back behind it. They, they don't stay over the

whole earth. Interestingly, this is how the

Revised Standard Version reads with verse #8 of Psalms 104.

Look at this, it says, and again this is in the context of him

talking about he covered the, the, the, the, the world with,

with deep or with the water and that it covered even the

mountains in that context. Verse #8 in the Revised Standard

Version says the mountains rose and the valley sank down to the

place which thou did a point for them almost indicating due to

this water episode that took place, there were mountains and

valleys that were formed, mountains and valleys that took

place. And so you again you people take

that highest peak of Mount Everest.

Well again mile Everest may not have been there during the

flood. Amen.

Could absolutely been changed. All this breaking up of the deep

could have very well started that whole movement of the

tectonic plates could have started some of that busting up

thing. Even after the flood had come

and the water subsided, there could still been some of this

breaking away that took place. For again, the animals came off

and they dispersed and we have certain regions of the world

today that only have certain specified regions with certain

animals. It could have been all this

movement taking place in, during and after the time of the flood,

this disbursement. The Paul of Taylor writes in his

book The Six Days of Creation that in 1973 a famous diver

named Jacques Cousteau. I listened to that online the

other day and wrote me a pronunciation so I'd know how to

say it. Jacques Cousteau said were the

crust of the earth to be levelled Speaking of in that day

of 1973? If it had been levelled, the

earth would be covered by a uniform sheet of water more than

10,000 feet deep. Today, of course, you have the

valleys that's in the ocean that may not have been there even

with that. So what I'm saying is this is

quite a possibility and that's all we're Speaking of today.

But interestingly enough, the same damaging floodwaters that

increased Genesis 7 says and covered mankind and other living

things as we know it and the mountains, the Saint floodwaters

that did that, the Bible says in verse 17 those same floodwaters

bore up or bear up the ark and it was lifted above the earth,

which I believe there is something pictured here because

there is a difference between being on the ark and not being

on the ark. The ark, of course, represents

that place of safety. It represents that place that is

free of destruction. It represents that place that is

a sanctuary that was lifted up virtually above the world's

chaos. And this imagery oftentimes is

paralleled in Christian teachings in the New Testament

as being the concept of the church, that the same waters

that destroy the earth lifted up the ark, but it will get on the

ark, it will get in the church. The same things that can destroy

others can. You can ride upon the old song.

You say God rides upon the waters.

He rides upon the floods. There ain't no power.

We can by the Spirit of the Lord, this can be done.

The other concept there in the closing verses of Genesis

chapter #7 is the idea of death. Death outside of the ark and

life inside the ark. Again, over and over again.

Starting with verse 21, you can look at all the language.

It's very repetitive. Concerning death in verse #21 he

says that all flesh died basically if it moved on dry

land. If if it had mobility on dry

land, it died foul It it specifies foul cattle, bees,

creeping things, every man. Verse 22 tells us it died if it

dwelled on dry land and if it had the breath of life, it died.

Verse 23, all the living substances on the earth were

destroyed. Again, it specifies man, cattle,

creeping things in, foul, dead, dead twice, dead, dead, right?

It's very repetitive and just like last week, we have this

repetition that takes place not just in Genesis 7, but it takes

place in also other passages of Scripture.

You can read Genesis. I'm trying to keep track of time

because I feel like tonight I'm going to be rubbing folks.

Amen. In Genesis chapter #6 and verse

#7 the Bible says, and the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I

have created. He talks about everything he's

going to destroy. In verse #17 of chapter number

six, he says, and behold, I even I do bring a flood of waters

upon the earth to destroy all flesh.

And he talks about those things with the breath of life that

he's going to destroy. In chapter #8 and verse #4 he

talks about not eight and four. It can't be no seven and four.

In seven and four, he talks about that he's going to destroy

from off the face of the earth every living substance that I

have made. Again, he talks about it.

Hey, man. So he says everything.

He talks about what he's going to do.

And then in verse #21 through 23, he talks about what he did.

So we see this repetition again that takes place through

Scripture and yet amid all of this destruction, amid all of

this calamity and death seems to be on the the stage floor in the

limelight and shining is the phrase in verse 23.

Noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the

ark. Why?

Because the ark makes a difference.

It's the difference between life and death.

Whether you're on the ark or not.

On the ark, if the the imagery is like, right, whether you're

in the church or not in the church, it is a matter of life

or death. I mentioned a couple weeks ago

that the Hebrew word for ark also describes that ark that

Moses's mother Jacobed made for her son Moses out of bulrushes

that she pitched within and without with slime.

Again, Moses was born during a very volatile time.

If you'll remember, it started out as having a couple of dogs

should be thrown into the Nile River.

The Nile River that known day had all kinds of dangers.

There were crocodiles, 10 different kinds of venomous

states. There were mosquitoes carrying

all sorts of deadly diseases, not to mention just the Rapids

and the larger ragged rocks that was within the Nile itself.

Other people, other boys, other children were being thrown into

the Nile. But before Chuck the bed put

Moses in there, she put him in the ark, which corresponds with

our ark of Noah's day, Same word.

She put him in a ark, a basket. And the ark made the difference.

It was per God's design. And those that were called to it

obediently got on it, and they were saved.

Someone say Amen, We're doing all right.

All right. OK, I feel a little better.

Genesis chapter #8 go there with me.

And you're already seated, so you don't even have to stand for

this. If you'll allow me.

I want to read the 1st 14 verses and you're going to kind of

start seeing a little mirror image of what we have read thus

far. OK, going to start seeing a

little mirror image. We talked about last week, the

UN creation. Remember though, we're going to,

this is going to be a recreation.

So you're going to see a little mirror image verse #1 of Genesis

chapter #8 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

assuaged the fountains also the deep and the windows of heaven

were stopped. And the rain from heaven was

restrained. By this time all that stuff had

quit and stopped. The waters returned from off the

earth continually. All right, they prevailed.

Now they're shedding. After the end of the 150 days,

the waters were abated. So we have really.

I won't get it. Let me just read or I can't just

do commentary all along here. And the ark rested in the

seventh month. And you notice this along the

way through the flood account, there are sometimes we were

given specific months and days in the story and it all

correlates to whatever year or however old Noah is at the time.

All right, we'll look at this a little later.

I got charts and stuff tonight. I'm telling you, we got cut

charts. The ark rested in the seventh

month on the 17th day of the month up on the mountains.

Everybody say mountains, plural of Ararat, and the waters

decrease continually into the 10th month and the 10th month.

On the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains

seen. And it came to pass at the end

of 40 days that Noah opened the window of the this is 40 on the

backside of the other forty. OK, all right.

At the end of 40 days that Noah opened the window the ark which

he had made, and he sent forth a Raven, which went forth to and

fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Also that same day he sent forth the dove from him to see if the

waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

But the dove found no rest with the sole of her foot, and she

returned into 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.

And he stayed yet another seven days.

And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark, and the dove

came in to him in the evening, and low in her mouth was an

olive leaf plucked off. That's how we get symbolism of

the dove and the and the olive branch being a symbol of peace

today. Wasn't that before?

But that's how that started now. So no one knew that the waters

were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet another seven

days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again into

him anymore. And it came to pass in the 600th

and 1st year, in the first month, the first day of the

month, the waters were dried up from off the earth.

And Noah removed the cover of the ark and looked and behold,

the face of the brown was dry. And in the second month, on the

7th and 20th day or the 27th day of the month, was the earth

dried? Now I want to make a few little

comments tonight and then I want to get into our graphs.

Aren't you excited about that? Amen.

So we've already again discussed that the flood was sort of a

uncreation. We looked at that last week and

the corresponds to the. Different days of creation in

Scripture. And now, however, having been

covered by water, the renewed earth was a recreation, all

right, a recreation again. We have a solitary, or what

seems to be a solitary family coming off the ark, all right,

along with the other living things, the animals that's going

to be given the command to be fruitful, multiplied and

replenished. Just as Adam and Eve were given,

the first family was given in verse one though we we recognize

for sure that God is in creative mode.

Again, God is in creative mode. It says God made a wind to

Passover the earth and the waters assuaged, or the wind

moved up on the face of the earth, which happened to be at

that time covered by water. This should sound very familiar

to Genesis chapter #1 that says the Spirit of God moved upon the

face of the waters. All right, one says the Spirit

of God, the other says wind. It's both ruach, the Hebrew

word, but same exact word, which can mean wind or breath or

spirit. All right, translated all of

those. So God is again in creation

mode. The wind is blowing over the

face of this deep. The wind is blowing over the

face of these waters. And you probably don't remember

this, but in our very first lesson of Genesis, as we were

kind of hitting all the tops of the trees, I told you that

creation in God's Word, new creation for that matter, is

always exampled or exemplified by having a water covering and a

wind or spirit moving. They're fundamental to the start

of creation or to the start of a new creation.

That's what we see pictured in the beginning.

Amen. Water that is covering.

All right, an immersion of things and a spirit that is

moving. That's what we're seeing in the

new creation after the flood. A water that is immersing,

right? What is under it and a a wind

that that is moving. All of that takes us to John

chapter #3 where Jesus told Nicodemus, except you're born

again, you cannot even enter to the Kingdom of of heaven.

And he says you must be born of water and of spirit or wind.

And he said the wind bloweth where it listeth or where it

wants or desires. So is everyone that is born of

the spirit not a if not A and not a month.

Maybe everyone that is new creation happens in us when

there's a immersion of us in water and we go down in Jesus

name and a moving of the wind or the spirit of the breath of God.

Amen. As we begin the Scripture tells

us as we begin to speak in other tongues someone say Amen Peter

in the New Testament Scriptures, the apostle Peter makes a direct

connection with the the ark and Noah with the symbolism of

baptism directly. We're not pulling things out of

the sky or trying to connect some dot twist something around

to make it work. Peter just calls it as it is and

first Peter chapter #3 and verse 20.

He says which sometime we're disobedient.

He says when once the long-suffering of God waited in

the days of Noah while the art was preparing very and few that

is 8 souls were saved by water, The like figure wearing to even

baptism. He's drawing the line from what

happened at the flood to baptism.

The light figure weren't to even baptism death also now save us

not the putting away of the filth, the flesh, but the answer

for good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus

Christ. He makes a Direct Line of

connection, Amen, with the flood, what took place there,

Amen. In our New Testament baptism,

again in verse #2 of of Genesis chapter #8 the Bible tells us

that even there was this restraining of the fountains of

the deep. Again the last verse of Genesis

7, there is this prevailing of water for 150 days.

This increasing of water. Now we read in Genesis chapter

#8 there is 150 days that water is being shed off the earth.

There is a continual decreasing now of the water upon the earth,

Amen. And so for once 150 days, it

prevailed. For another 150 days there was

the abating or the shedding of the water, Amen.

The Genesis Eight and Three states that after the end of the

150 days, the waters were in fact abated.

Throw up my first slide. This is a little timeline I made

today for us because sometimes we just need a visual, you know,

to get in our minds. I read back through the

scriptures and and pinned these things down.

The Bible tells us in Genesis chapter #7 and verse number six,

it tells us that Noah was 600 years old when the flood

happened. All right, I don't know if he

was 600 a day old or 602. I don't know.

But he was 600 whenever the flood happened.

According to Genesis 813, Noah was 601 years old when he

removed the covering of the ark. So what I have here, if I could

look at it here tonight, in reality, I have these months

here second. I have second twice because of

what I deduced 2nd through the 10th.

We're all within a time frame of when Noah was in his 600th year.

The first and second months is when Noah was in his 600th and

1st year according to scripture. Now here's what we know.

We know according to Genesis 711.

We know this because it states it that the 17th day of the

second month, and it tells us that this is during Noah's six

hundredth year of his life, that the fountains of the deep broke

up in the windows of heaven opened.

Things began all right, right here.

The only reason why I included this date is because I know

according to the Scripture that seven days before it started,

they got on the ark. We know that from Genesis 7,

four and 7:10. So if that's the case, I back it

up seven days, meaning then the 10th day of the second month all

got on the ark before it started.

Seven days, seven days before it all started.

Okay, all right. Then we have in Genesis chapter

#8 verse #4 it states specifically that the 17th day

of the 7th month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.

All right. Then it tells this specifically

also that the first day of the 10th month in in Genesis 85 that

the tops of the mountains are seen.

It's then that we have in Genesis 8, verse 13, that the

Genesis 8:13

first day of the first month, the waters dried up off the

earth and Noah removed the covering.

And you can read in this verse, it tells us that this was in the

601st year and it's implied that this is Noah's life that we're

talking about. Then this other day is mentioned

in Genesis 814 through 19, that the 27th day of the second month

of the earth of the second month, the earth dried all

right, completely. And we, we have it dry.

But you know, if you ever walked on wet grass, you ever walked

on, on dirt that had been wet, It was dry, but it was wet.

You understand what I'm saying? There were like no water pooling

there, but it was still wet. Well, it's all dried now and all

got off the ark. So in reality, from the 10th day

of the second month of Noah's 600th year, they got on.

In the 27th day of the second month of Noah's 600 and first

year, they got off. So right now, OK, I hope this

graphic helps somebody because if you just read that, those

numbers kind of get lost in the scripture.

Amen. With all of that being said.

Jews typically ordered their their years by a lunar calendar,

which about you say 30 days in the month.

Sometimes it was 29, sometimes they have to add a 13 month to

take. It can get complicated, but more

or less by a lunar year. If so, then they were on the ark

10th day of the second month, 27th day of the second month of

two individual years in Noah's life that they were on the ark

evidently for. One lunar year and 17 days.

These are my calculations. I guarantee you there's people

out there will argue with me, and that's OK.

I'm just trying to go as literal as I can.

From what I'm reading, 'cause you can look at the 150 days and

40 days, you can Add all those days up in between.

You might not arrive at this or there could have been some

overlap, all kinds of stuff there, all right, But I don't

think that is important for what we're looking at here at the

moment. On the 17th day of the 7th

month, the ark rested on the mountains.

We will say it rested on Mount Ararat.

What was it? A mount Ararat was a mountain

range. It rested on the mountains of

Ararat. They've not ever found the ark.

People have tried. There's articles out there,

people said they have found them.

It's inconclusive. It's on the mountains of Ararat.

Archaeologists believe that somewhere around modern day

Turkey. So anyway, so there's just those

are the times that we do have stamped in Scripture, except for

the one I kind of just deduced from what I knew.

All right, can we go on to the calendar slide, please?

I don't know how good it's going to be because it's kind of

small. Hey, it didn't turn out bad.

I didn't make. This I stole this.

Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned.

If you will remember, the first Passover change the calendar.

For the Jews, the first Passover changed the calendar from all

that we can tell from creation. That being said, Passover was

celebrated in the month of the bib, also called Nissan.

Right up in here, Passover, all right, And this is what the

Scripture says in Exodus 12 and verse #2 This month shall be

unto you, the beginning of the month.

It was Passover month. Right.

It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Can you go back? The song did not used to be the

first of the year to them. But since Passover started, he

said this shall be the first of the year to you.

I see that we have the numbers on here like this.

If we go over here, the trumpets are Rosh Hashanah, which is

actually their new year. And you were to count from

there, from Tishri 123-4567, what was month #7 became month

number one. What was accorded by creation,

that was month #7 became number one For the Jews.

It's changed at Passover. So what's all this mean?

Well, whenever we, whenever we look at that, that now this,

this Nissan that once was the 7th month, then what I present

to you tonight is this Jesus and New Testament scripture died

when the Passover lambs died. He was the unleavened bread,

feast of unleavened bread. When he's laying in the grave

and nothing's happening. If you can show my tomb slide

tomb, it's three days and three nights.

It's in the month of the sun, the month of Passover raising on

early that Sunday morn, the 17th of the sun.

Remember days are reckoned the evening and the morning is such

and such day. What are you saying for the

McGee? That the same day we might have

to go back to our first little thing, but the same day, on the

17th day of the 7th month, the ark rested on Mount Ararat.

The same day that the ark rested according to the calendar of

creation, Nissan now is one, but was seven is the same day that

Christ got up. New life, New life on day #17

that we liken to our Holy Ghost. Let me echo the words of the O

prophet Isaiah who said and this scripture as many prophetic

scriptures have our our dual fulfillment of the very near and

that in the future he says for with stammering lips and another

tongue will he speak to his people to whom he said this is

the Noah's name means rest. The ark rests on the 17th day of

the 7th month. Christ gets up and makes Holy

Ghost infill impossible for all of us, which Isaiah said that is

the rest wherein he may cause the weary to rest and this is

the refreshing that ye would not hear.

That's interesting. There's a lot of things that

took place on the 17th day of the 7th month, 430 years prior

to that. Then going to the Egypt happened

on that day as well. So all kinds of things in

scripture that happens on the 17th day of the 7th month.

Amen. That's interesting.

To look at. And I am doing good, thank you

Jesus. I was worried.

Give me my chiasm slide. I've talked to you about

chiasm's before. It's kind of like a literary

device. You say, well, how in the world

could it be in the Bible? Because God's God, God's God.

And you might have problems seeing that, but the whole story

of the flood breaks down in a really good little chiasm.

And what that means is, yeah, can you give me back to the

smaller little one just real quick, just for the purpose?

A chiasm mirrors all along a line, mirrors all along the

line, going all the way back to Genesis six and nine.

Noah, the righteous man, ending all the way with Noah in 928

through 29. Noah, his life and death.

So you have A and a or A and a prime back and forth, B&B, prime

C. Each of these coordinate.

So let's just pick an arbitrary 1H right here.

Seven days waiting for the flood.

That's where he talks about the seven days that they're going to

wait. That was repeated, go down here

to H7. Days waiting for the waters to

subside goes back and forth, back and forth, 150 days or 50

days to 40 and 40. It's this mirror alone in

Scripture. You can find out a lot about

what a story is conveying by finding the midpoint of a chiasm

in Scripture. This happens all throughout your

Bible, from Genesis to Revelations.

You can pick up on them sometimes.

Amen. But whenever we look at this, so

you just look at this and you, you could just stare at it there

for a moment in and I'm kind of walking through Genesis chapter

#8 here. Verse #5 The waters again

continue to decrease. The tops of the mountains are

seen. All right.

That correlates again with Genesis whenever the dry land

appeared. So we're recreating here, all

right. Verse #640 Days have passed and

Noah opens the window on the ark.

I don't know if that's I was thinking.

And sometimes they get, you know, carnal in my mind.

I just think today, you know, we have the statement when God,

when God shuts the door, he'll open a window.

Never mind. The Lord shut the door and I

guess Noah really opened the window but none the less but.

Anyway, verse #7 he sent forth the Raven.

It went to and fro. It never came back to the ark.

The same day that he sent the Raven, he sent the dove.

It went out, but could find nowhere to rest his foot.

So it came back to the ark. He pulled it in.

He waited seven days. He released them that dove again

in verse #10 All right. And verse #11 the Bible says

that at this time the dove returned with that olive leaf in

its mouth. All right, Yep.

And then he's going to, he's going to wait seven more days in

verse #12 interesting. I did just a little research in,

but olive growers say that olive branch will actually bear leaves

underwater. So I guess in order for a dove

to have a olive leaf to pluck that it could have happened

underwater. And once the water got low

enough, it was visible for the dove to get to bring back.

But anyway, he waited seven more days, sent a dove, and it did

not return. I really don't have much to say

along that line of story. But the thing that I want to get

at is really the heart of the flood.

The heart of the flood, all of the increasing waters, all the

days that lead up to this, then all the decreasing waters,

everything that takes away from this.

The heart of the flood is Genesis eight one God remembered

Noah and when we say God remembered Noah and many times

in this instance and other places of Scripture where God

remembered and their God so and so forth.

It's not that God for God. It's not that God for God.

God if God chooses not to remember something that's up to

him, but it's not that he forgot like accident.

Usually in Scripture, particularly when we talk about

people, that's in covenant God. Whenever the Bible says that God

remembered such and such or God remembered his people, that

means that God now is going to act according to his covenant or

according to his promise. In all of this flood thing, the

heart of the flood is that God remembered a man who by faith

built what God said, build God on what God said.

Get on was patient when he didn't hear God during the storm

or in the waiting. God acted now on Noah's behalf.

I think it's important today for there to be that middle line in

every one of our lives. And if you would look, maybe

there would be a chiasm of your life that in the middle you'll

see that God decided to act according to his promise.

God make movement in behalf of you and for you.

So we can talk about all the days and we can talk about the

calendar and we can talk about tectonic plates and all that,

but the seed is this God remembered a man that had a ear

that was keen to the. Voice of God.

Staying with me, man, I wow, folks, we did.

I'm in the green. I'm just letting you know right

now I'm going to go, I'm going to take.

A picture of that and put it on the.

Plaque. Take it home.

Amen. Next week we'll have some other

things of Noah actually coming off the ark.

All right, on this day that's mentioned there in Scripture

verse #14 and perhaps we'll delve over in chapter #9 as

well. We'll see.

We'll see where we get what we can do.

We're coming. We're coming up on the end of of

the flood story though, but we still got some other things to

talk about. And just in case anybody gets

their hopes way up, they probably all won't be as quick

as this, OK, But get what you get, right?

Get what you get and don't pitch a fit.

They used to say preschool. This is the heart, the heart of

the flood. There's a lot of interesting

things there. If you want any of those things,

I could probably make copies of yours for you or whatever if you

wanted for your own study or perusal, so on and so forth.

Amen. Let's pray tonight.

Father, I need you, Jesus, this evening.

I'm thankful, Lord, that you are mindful of us, God, You're

mindful of us. Just as mindful, Lord, as you

were God of that righteous man, that man that you accounted

faith into him as righteousness, just as you were that man, Noah,

God of that day, I pray, O Lord, we have God our own.

Lord quote UN quote flood moments.

Lord Jesus, in this life, I pray, O Lord, today help us God,

have a ear. God that is aware of the voice

of the Lord and help us, O God, today to follow Lord your

direction. We're thankful God for

uncreation. We're thankful for recreation.

We're thankful for new birth in Christ Jesus.

We're thankful for all these things of Old Testament that are

just shadows of things that are to come of a immersion of water,

Lord Jesus and a moving of the spirit God there.

I pray, O God today help us Lord to carry these truths, these

concepts and ideas home. I pray, O Lord, knowing God,

that if we're in the church, a part of the church, God, the

things that destroy everything else and bring decimation, God,

we can rise above them and float upon them.

I pray God, by your spirit, Lord, it's capable of being

done. And we found out to thank you

and praise you, Lord, for it. In the name of Jesus Christ, I

pray Amen. Everybody say Amen.

Tomorrow, National Day of Prayer and Prayer here at the church.

National Day of Prayer, prayer here at the church.

You should be in prayer tomorrow.

Don't miss your prayer time tomorrow.

It's the national day of prayer. Our country needs prayer.

Our nation needs prayer, Amen. And if they're going to put a

date on the calendar denoting this, we need to take advantage

of it. Of all the other things that

have been taken away, we should then participate in what is

available. All right, Amen.

So this power hour here at the church at 7:00 tomorrow night,

God bless you tonight. Jesus name, Amen.

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