Noah Part 2
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11 - Noah pt 2 - The Flood pt 1
Friday, February 24, 2017
9:29 PM
We looked last time at the wickedness that was on the earth and that God had decided that the sin was so great that he must destroy all flesh from the earth . That all flesh had corrupted itself. It must have been a horrible day of rampant immorality and violence.
Genesis 6:7-14 (KJV)
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Noah Finds Grace - 6:7-8World Population - It would appear that out of all the people that were living on the earth at this time which conservatively according to calculations by Dr. Henry Morris
a. "To calculate the antediluvian population, there were 1656 years from Adam to the Flood. Men lived to great ages and evidently had large families. Excepting Enoch, who was taken into Heaven without dying at age 365 (Gen. 5:23,24), the average of the recorded ages of the nine antediluvian patriarchs was 912 yrs. Recorded ages at the births of their children ranged from 65 yrs (Mahalalael - Gen. 5:15 and Enoch - Gen. 5:21) to 500 yrs (Noah - Gen. 5:32). Every one of them is said to have had “sons and daughters,” so that each family had at least four children and probably more.
As an ultra-conservative assumption of 6 children per family, an average generation of 100 years, and an average life span of only 500 years instead of the average 912 years, the basis of the world population at the time of the Flood would have been 235 million people. This is probably a gross under estimate of the numbers who actually perished in the Flood (cf. 77-8). There easily could have been 3 billion alive at the Flood." [1]
Grace - God's way has always been a way of grace and faith. We sometimes refer to the time period after the cross as the "Grace Dispensation." I know what people mean, but there has never been a way to work our way into God's graces, it has always been grace - God's unmerited favor and empowering to do his will - that has pulled people through. All of the translations I checked except the KJV translated the word "grace" "favor"While doom is coming, there is always hope and mercy. While the idea has been around since Genesis 3 this is the first time the word is actually used. If God destroyed everything, Satan would have won, and "God's promises concerning the 'seed' of the woman would have come to nothing." this however is a great display of grace, a ray of hope. Noah is a trophy of God's amazing grace.
Noah did not earn God's grace, but received it - so the last word in this section is not sin and judgment, but God's grace. As Apostle Paul put it, 'Where sin abounded, grace abounded more'[2]From the beginning of time until now the only way to salvation is through God's grace, Eph. 2:8-9.I like what Warren Wiersbe wrote, "grace isn't God's reward for a good life: it's God's response to saving faith." Heb. 11:7 proves this "By faith Noah, being warned of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house." Wiersbe goes on to say, "To understand God's truth but not act upon it is not biblical faith; it's only intellectual assent to religious truth. To be emotionally aroused without comprehending God's message isn't faith, because true faith is based on an understanding of the truth (Matt. 13:18-23) To have the mind enlightened and the heart stirred but not act in obedience to the message is not faith, for "faith without works is dead" (James 2:14-26)The mind, heart, and will are all involved in true biblical faith."[3]Henry Morris reminds us that there is a consistency in the Biblical order Noah found graceNoah was a just man (justified or declared to be righteousThus he was perfect in his generations Therefore he was able to "walk with God."Salvation in any era is exactly in this way.[4]
Noah's Generations - 6:9-10 -Here is that word I mentioned from chapter 5 "there are 10 different Generations mentioned during the book of Genesis" Some say that it separates the 10 different authors who wrote the sections. There is a lot of controversy on that. The conservative evangelical scholarship is comfortable in saying that Moses wrote or compiled the book of Genesis and I am comfortable saying that as well. I want us to notice something interesting about the Generation of Noah mentioned here in verse 9 - compared to chapter 10 the sons of Noah are listed by order of importance not age. Japheth is the oldestShem the middleHam the youngest.
Noah's Call 6:11-14
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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[M] Henry M. Morris in Biblical Cosmology and Modern Science, Chapter 6, “World Population and Bible Chronology”, pp 77-79[M] Philip H. Eveson, Welwyn Commentary Series – The book of origins: Genesis simply explained, (Auburn, MA: Evangelical Press, 2001), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 157-158.[M] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary – Pentateuch, (Colorado Springs, CO: Victor, 2001), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 43.[M] Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1976), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 177
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