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

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.

• Humor and Personal Application: When God said “evacuate!” Noah didn’t say, “No -ah won’t.”
• The Hebrew meaning for the word “Ark” means “Coffin”. Noah had to die to his old world in order to live in the new one. This is the hope of all believers.
• Believers must take up their cross, die to self, enter their coffin/tomb, and rise in order to live.

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;

• Now we know why dinosaurs died out. They wanted to choose their own gender.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Genesis 7:¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, 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.

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—

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.

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

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

• ►Humor: Everything you need to know you can learn from Noah’s ark.
• After the storm, there’s always a rainbow waiting.
• Don’t miss the boat.
• Remember … we all are in the same boat.
• Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the boat.
• Stay fit. When you’re 80 years old, God may ask you to do something really, really big.
• Don’t listen to critics: just get on with the job that needs to be done.
• Build your future on high ground.
• For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.
• Speed isn’t always an advantage. The slugs were on board with the cheetahs.
• When you are stressed, float a while.
• Slow down, don’t panic … wait on the snails.
• The ark’s construction was built by God, the Titanic by man.

• Following is a true story about the tragedy of the sinking Titanic: It is a different kind of flood where the boat sinks, and doesn’t float, the person outside the boat is saved, not the person inside, and the unrighteous is saved, not the righteous. The Titanic was man made. The Ark was made supernaturally constructed by the instructions of God. The Titanic was made of steel. The Ark was made of gopher wood, the same wood as the Ark of the Covenant. The Titanic takes men from life to death. The Ark of Noah takes men from death to life, just like the Ark of the Covenant.

• John Harper’s Last Convert
  By Erwin W. Lutzer  |  2012

• The Scottish evangelist, John Harper, was on a journey in April 1912 to The Moody Church but drowned when the Titanic sank.

• Harper’s reputation as an evangelist was so well known that he was invited to speak at The Moody Church in 1910. I have in my possession a photocopy of a letter, in his own handwriting, which reads, “I have been in Chicago for three months, God gave us a very precious and wonderful revival of continuous services each day and sometimes even more often.” He went on to say that he now had been invited back to The Moody Church for another three months of meetings.

• And so it was that John Harper, his sister, and his six-year-old daughter (his wife had died) found themselves on the great ship, the Titanic. Survivors later reported that as Titanic began to sink, Harper admonished people to be prepared to die. He made sure his sister and daughter were in a lifeboat even as he continued to share the Gospel with whoever would listen. And when he found himself in the icy water with a life jacket, floating near another man, Harper asked, “Are you saved?”

• “No, I’m not saved!” the desperate man replied.

• “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!” Harper shouted.

• One report says Harper, knowing he could not survive long in the icy water, took off his life jacket and threw it to another person with the words, “You need this more than I do!” Moments later, Harper disappeared beneath the water. Four years later, when there was a reunion of the survivors of the Titanic, the man to whom Harper had witnessed told the story of his rescue and gave a testimony of his conversion recorded in a tract, I was John Harper’s Last Convert.

• Before disappearing beneath the two and a half miles of water, John Harper shared, for the last time, the message which, in a nutshell, is that Jesus came to earth to die in our stead that we might be saved. This Gospel does not spare us from drowning in an ocean, but it does spare us from a far worse eternal destruction.

• To complete the story: Harper’s six-year-old daughter and her aunt arrived safely in New York, rescued by the Carpathia, and only then learned of Harper’s death. And to the credit of The Moody Church, acting Pastor Reverend Woolley and a deacon traveled to New York to give them clothes and money so they could return to Scotland.

• “Let us share the Good News with a world drowning in sin and hopelessness.”

https://www.moodymedia.org/articles/sharing-gift-christmas-one-minute-you-die/

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Rain, Rain,
Come and stay.
Teach us now
Another way.
Put out fires
Teach me please
How to live
’cause I’m redeemed.

The Hebrew meaning of “Rain” is “Teacher”. “Faithful Rain” is the Messiah (Literal).

The “Redeemer” is the Messiah (Prophetic).

“Fire” is “Judgment” (Symbolic).

“Flood” is a “Sea of People” overflowing their boundaries (Symbolic).

Jesus, Jesus,
Come and stay.
Rain on me, your righteous ways.

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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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