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Genesis 8:15–22 — Noah Leaves the Ark | Bible Commentary · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 8, 15-22, leaving the Ark and Noah's offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God said to Noah, Go out from the Ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, birds and animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took some of every clean animal, and some of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: One detail stands out immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah does not leave the ark just because the ground is dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: He waits until God tells him, Go out from the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same obedience that brought Noah into the ark now governs when he comes out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God gives a command that sounds familiar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The animals are to swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That echoes the language of creation in Genesis 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the flood, the earth is being filled with life again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah's first recorded action after leaving the Ark is also important.
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  SPEAKER_00: He builds an altar to the Lord and offers burnt offerings from the clean animals and clean birds.
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  SPEAKER_00: That helps explain why Genesis 7 made a distinction between clean and unclean animals before the flood.
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  SPEAKER_00: The extra clean animals were not only preserved, some are now used in worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the passage says, The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point is not that God needed the smell of food.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wording presents Noah's offering as accepted and pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But notice what God says next.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, The intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before the flood, Genesis 6 described human wickedness as the reason judgment came.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the flood, the human heart is still described as bent toward evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the flood has changed the world, but it has not removed the deeper problem within humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet God says he will never again strike down every living creature as he has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while the earth remains, the regular patterns of life will continue seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.
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  SPEAKER_00: That promise gives stability to the world after judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seasons and rhythms of life will continue because God says they will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Genesis 8.15-22 leaves us with.