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Noah and the Flood — Genesis 6:1–9:29 | Recaps Through the Bible · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to A Tithe of Time, recaps through the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Episode 42, Noah and the Flood, Genesis 6, 1 to 929.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 6 opens with a world that has become deeply corrupt.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage gives us difficult details about the sons of God, the daughters of man, and the Nephilim, but it does not answer every question those verses raise.
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  SPEAKER_00: What Genesis does make unmistakably clear is the condition of humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human evil is described as reaching into the thoughts and intentions of the heart, and the violence of the earth grieves God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then one sentence changes the direction of the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah is described as righteous and blameless in his generation, and like Enoch before him, Noah walked with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: God tells Noah that judgment is coming and commands him to build an ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: The instructions are specific, and Noah's response becomes a repeated pattern throughout the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does what God commands.
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  SPEAKER_00: God also tells Noah, I will establish my covenant with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the first time the word covenant appears in the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: God commits himself to preserving Noah, his family, and the creatures brought into the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the time comes, Noah enters with his wife, his sons, and their wives.
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  SPEAKER_00: The animals enter as God commanded, and then Genesis gives us one short sentence with enormous weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord shut him in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The flood begins from above and below.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fountains of the great deep burst open, the rain falls, and eventually even the high mountains are covered.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judgment is devastating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis says that everything on dry land with the breath of life dies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only Noah and those with him in the ark remain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Genesis 8 begins with another turning point.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God remembered Noah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean God had forgotten him.
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  SPEAKER_00: God now acts in faithfulness toward the man he promised to preserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waters begin to recede, and eventually the ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah sends out a raven and then a dove.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the dove returns with a freshly plucked olive leaf, Noah knows the waters have gone down.
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  SPEAKER_00: But even after he can see dry ground, Noah does not leave until God tells him to come out.
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  SPEAKER_00: When he does, Noah's first recorded action is to build an altar and offer burnt offerings to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: God then promises that while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.
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  SPEAKER_00: But notice what the flood did not change.
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  SPEAKER_00: God still says that the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The flood judged a corrupt world, but it did not remove the deeper problem of the human heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Genesis 9, God blesses Noah and his sons and again says, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, echoing the language of creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human life is also given special protection.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says that he will require a reckoning for human bloodshed because God made man in his own image.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even after the fall and the flood, humanity is still described as bearing God's image.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God establishes his covenant not only with Noah and his descendants, but with every living creature.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never again will a flood destroy all flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God gives a sign, his bow in the clouds.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the story does not end by presenting Noah as a perfect man.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the flood, Noah plants a vineyard, becomes drunk, and lies uncovered in his tent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ham sees his father's nakedness and tells his brothers, while Shem and Japheth walk backward and cover him without looking.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Noah awakens, he does not curse Ham.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, Cursed be Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: That distinction matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage says nothing about skin color or a curse upon an entire race.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives us Noah's words concerning Canaan and then begins looking toward the generations that will follow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah eventually dies at the age of 950.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Genesis 6:1-929 leaves us with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human wickedness brings judgment, but God preserves Noah through the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the waters recede, life begins again.
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  SPEAKER_00: God establishes his covenant, and the bow in the clouds becomes its sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet the story also makes clear that the problem of the human heart remains.
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  SPEAKER_00: The flood changes the world, but it does not end the story of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from Noah's family, the nations of the earth are about to spread.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Noah and the Flood, Genesis 6 1 9 29.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with the generations that come from Noah's sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.