Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

What should I learn from this chapter?

• The year of the Great Flood 2344 BC
• Methusalah dies the same year as the flood at 969 yrs old
  • See Timeline 2301 BC – 2470 BC THE GREAT WORLD WIDE FLOOD NOAH (Scroll to 2344 BC)
• Did Noah take writings with him on the ark?
  Ashurbanipal’s royal library. It consisted of two adjoining high-vaulted rooms stacked high with thousands of priceless clay tablets, one of which contained Ashurbanipal’s statement which in full reads: ‘I Ashur-bani-pal, within the palace, learned the wisdom of Nebo (A Babylonian god which Nebuchadnezzar honored), the entire art of writing on clay tablets of every kind. I made myself master of the various kinds of writing. . . I read the beautiful clay tablets from Sumer and the Akkadian writing, which is hard to master. I had the joy of reading inscriptions on stone from the time before the flood.’ For the entire article, see: https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/who-said-it/

Genesis 7

The Great Flood

Genesis 7:¹ Then the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

• The Hebrew meaning for the word “Ark” is “Coffin”. Noah had to die to his old world in order to live in the new one. This is the hope of all believers.

Genesis 7:² You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

• Note: In this verse the number seven is associated with being “clean”. Seven is associated with perfection, and perfection excludes anything that is unclean. Unclean animals were not to be eaten.

Genesis 7:³ also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species (Lit. seed) alive on the face of all the earth.

• Note: the storm was so severe no bird could have survived unless it was in the ark. The ice canopy above the earth collapsed.

• What about the fish in the sea?

Genesis 7:⁴ For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy (Lit. blot out) from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”

• See Topic: Numbers Symbolism

Genesis 7:⁵ And Noah did according to all that the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) commanded him.

Genesis 7:⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

Genesis 7:⁷ So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

• The Hebrew meaning of the word “ark” means “box” or “coffin” including Noah’s ark, Moses’ basket, and the Ark of the Covenant.

• Noah (like Jesus) was put in a “coffin” to be resurrected into a new life.

Genesis 7:⁸ Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,

Genesis 7:⁹ two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God (‘ĕlōhîm) had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

• Seven: The time of waiting is “completed”.

Genesis 7:¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month (Iyar), the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

• Iyar 17 2344 BC Hebrew Date

• See “BC Timelime” by Barbara Grover

Genesis 7:¹² And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:¹³ On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—

• “Ancient Chinese pictographs are silent witnesses, like fingerprints, of historical events reported in Genesis. In particular, the details of these word-symbols are clues that point to how the earliest Chinese must have known basic facts of Genesis 1–11 at the very time their pictographs were invented.”
  
  Chinese civilization began soon after the Tower of Babel fiasco, the first Chinese settlers still had a fresh memory of mankind’s origins—from creation week to the dispersion of languages at Babel.
  
  One such example is the Chinese word for “boat”. It is written with a combination of strokes meaning ‘eight people in a boat/vessel’.
  
  A graduate student from communist China—raised on atheistic evolution…began to realize that his own language contained latent clues that the Bible’s early history was once well known to the Chinese people.“
  
  See more examples: “Institute Creation Research”
  Title: Genesis in Chinese Pictographs
  
• Boat=Vessel plus Eight plus Mouth (People)
• Flood = Together plus Earth plus Eight

Genesis 7:¹⁴ they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 7:¹⁵ And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

Genesis 7:¹⁶ So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God (‘ĕlōhîm) had commanded him; and the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ) shut him in.

Genesis 7:¹⁷ Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:¹⁸ The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7:¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 7:²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

• Twenty two and a half feet = fifteen cubits.

Genesis 7:²¹ And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth (the land), and every man.

Genesis 7:²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

Genesis 7:²³ So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

The earth prior to the flood:

►Large Sea Snakes, Giant Catfish Once Swam in the Sahara Desert
by AMNH on Jul 8, 2019 9:43 am

• American Museum of Natural History

• The research team, which includes Museum Research Associate Jocelyn Sessa of Drexel University, also (found) fossil evidence of sharks, turtles, and a small, land mammal that is an ancient elephant relative, uncovered under difficult conditions in field expeditions in 1999, 2003, and 2009.

►Found: Possible Pre-Flood Artifacts
By Warren E. Leary
Sept. 13, 2000

NY Times
Scientists said today that they had discovered remnants of human habitation under the Black Sea that they believe is the first proof that people thrived along an ancient shoreline before it was inundated by a great flood thousands of years ago.

► Evidence Antarctica was a tropical forest before the flood:

• Above: An artist’s rendering of the rainforest that grew in Antarctica during a “super greenhouse” period. The painting was created based on evidence in a drill core recovered near the South Pole. Alfred Wegener Institute/James McKay

• Intrepid polar scientists like Klages, who works at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, are revealing new sides of the Antarctica we know today. In the April 2020 issue of the journal Nature, he and 39 colleagues described networks of fossilized tree roots that they pulled up from the seafloor in 2017. They’re a sign of just how much the polar climate has changed since the “supergreenhouse” of the Cretaceous period — and perhaps how much the climate could change again.

• It was this interconnected network of fossil roots.

This CT scan shows the fossilized tree roots that Klages and his colleagues found more than 80 feet below the seafloor in Antarctica. The yellow portion is the bottom of a layer of sandstone and the green portion shows the roots. Alfred Wegener Institute

►No reconstruction of ancient history can be valid without treatment of catastrophic events. Darwin personally examined evidence of catastrophic events and passed them off as insoluble problems, giving them no place in his theories. He was ready to concede, however, from his study of the recent and sudden upheaval of the Andes, that the resulting catastrophe might have produced world-wide flood traditions (Victoria Institute, 1868, 4:255; 1887, 23:214).

Genesis 7:²⁴ And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

►The meaning of the number 150: It is a combination of the number one hundred and the number fifty. Together they mean God turning the tables on Satan by getting more from less, such as planting a seed and getting a harvest.

Click here to view the meaning of the number 100 then click on the top of the pop up.
Click here to view the meaning of the number 50 then click on the top of the pop up.

►Miscellaneous information concerning the flood:

• Astronomer Dodwell’s observed shift in the tilt of the earth’s axis dated 2345 BC. Is it possible he was one year off or the difference in the Jewish and Gregorian calendars allow it to be the same year?

• ALL Cain’s descendants were killed in the flood. Therefore those who claim that black people have the mark of Cain ignore the biblical facts and therefore they are ignore-ant.

►Noah was 600 at the time of the Great Flood / Japheth 98 / Shem 97 / Ham 96

►2344 BC Methuselah died at the age of 969, coinciding with the year of the flood. (Gen 5:26). Methuselah was the oldest living person in history, and he was Noah’s grandfather.

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{1 of 3} Genesis 7 – “Alert! Evacuate!” [History, Extra-Biblical, and Hebrew]
{2 of 3} Genesis 7 – “The Insider” [Stories, Sayings and Humor]
{3 of 3} Genesis 7 – “SON = Supernatural On Numbers” [Symbolism of Numbers]

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