The Great Flood. For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.” Gen 7:4
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
I.GOD AND THE RACE, Genesis 1-11
3. The Judgment and Renewal of the Earth, Genesis 6:8-11:26
12. Tell the story of the flood.
THE GREAT FLOOD
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation. [Psa_27:5; Psa_33:18-19; 2Pe_2:9]
Of every clean animal you shall take with you seven pair, the male and his female, and of animals that are not clean, two each the male and his female; [Lev_11:1-13]
also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.
For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.”
So Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. [Heb_11:7]
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters. [Mat_24:38; Luk_17:27]
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.
And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
they and every animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every moving thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every winged thing of every sort.
So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.
Those which entered, male and female of all flesh (creatures), entered as God had commanded Noah; and the LORD closed the door behind him.
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
The waters became mighty and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
The waters prevailed so greatly and were so mighty and overwhelming on the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.
All living beings that moved on the earth perished–birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.
Everything on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath and spirit of life, died.
God destroyed (blotted out, wiped away) every living thing that was on the surface of the earth; man and animals and the crawling things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed from the land. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. [Mat_24:37-44]
The waters covered [all of] the earth for a hundred and fifty days (five months).
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Genesis 7:1-24
THE GREAT FLOOD
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Genesis 7:1-42
E. Widespread Sin and the Universal Flood (Chaps. 6-8)
7:1 The word “come” appears for the first time in verse 1—a gracious gospel invitation: “Come into the ark of safety.”
7:2-18 No reason is given why Noah was commanded to take seven pairs of clean animals into the ark, but only one pair of unclean. Perhaps it was for food and in anticipation of the clean animals’ being needed for sacrifice (see Gen_8:20). The ark was filled with its inhabitants for seven days before the rain began and the underground reserves of water gushed out. The torrent continued for forty days and forty nights; forty is the number of probation or testing in the Bible.
7:19-24 Was this a local flood, as some allege? Consider the following: All the high hills under the whole heaven were covered (v. 19). God need not have told Noah to build an ark equivalent to 1½ football fields in length and 800 railroad cars in volume to escape a local flood. He could easily have moved eight people and the animals to a different location. Traditions of a universal flood have come from all parts of the world. The mountains of Ararat range up to 17,000 feet. The flood was fifteen cubits higher (vv. 19, 20). By what sort of miracle was this water kept in a localized area? In Gen_9:15 God promised that the water would never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. There have been many local floods since then, but never a universal flood. If the flood was local, then God’s promise has been broken—an impossible conclusion. Peter uses the destruction of the world by water as a symbol of a still future destruction of the earth by fire (2Pe_3:6).
The ark is a picture of Christ. The waters depict God’s judgment. The Lord Jesus went under the waters of divine wrath at Calvary. Those who are in Christ are saved. Those who are outside are doomed (see 1Pe_3:21).
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