1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,039 Our church mission is to love as God loves, showing compassion to 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,240 by today's podcast. Hallelujah. 7 00:00:25,180 --> 00:00:29,540 Hallelujah, someone say speak Lord. 8 00:00:31,580 --> 00:00:34,240 Hallelujah. You'll be returning to your 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:35,560 seats tonight. Amen. 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,160 Please remember tomorrow night is power hour and power hours 11 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,480 and intersecting with the National Day of Prayer. 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,680 Amen. Tomorrow's the National Day of 13 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,040 Prayer, so power hours intersecting with that. 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,640 And so our focus is going to be in prayer along the lines of the 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,920 National Day of Prayer theme and also Mother's Day. 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,360 We're kind of doing both. It's going to be a smash up of 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,440 the the theme for the National Day of Prayer and Mother's Day, 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,760 Amen. Tomorrow night as we pray with 19 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,800 corporate prayer, Amen. And so that's something to keep 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,320 in mind. A few of us have Indiana 21 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,880 District Spring Conference, that's this weekend, Friday and 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,200 Saturday in Newcastle, Amen. And our very own brother Alex 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Mason's going to be speaking at an informed talk on Saturday at 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,000 our conference. And so we're thankful Amen for 25 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 that God using him and his representation Amen in the 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,680 district. Don't forget that Monday is 27 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:43,200 Indiana district camp meeting registration opens be opening at 28 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:51,280 4:00 Central Standard Time. All right, So be very prompt if 29 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,800 you have plans on going to secure your room, Amen and your 30 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,440 registration for that next Tuesday or by say next Tuesday, 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,160 next Tuesday, May the 7th is Mom's night out. 32 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,320 I know they just had AI should say ladies night out. 33 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,640 Let me revamp that. I know you're saying they just 34 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:13,800 had a ladies thing not long ago. Who cares? 35 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,960 So they're going to have a ladies night out. 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,600 Amen believes they're going to be leaving at 5:30 from the 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,520 church here. And so if if you can go, please 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,320 go. So just to Princeton, they're 39 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,480 not going all the way to Evansville this time, but 40 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,040 they're going to go to Princeton and some of them will probably 41 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,200 shut Princeton down. Amen. 42 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,680 So if you need to go drive by yourself, even drive, or if you 43 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,440 want to be a part of that, you can go, Amen. 44 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,400 And so that'll be a good time as well. 45 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,120 Also, please, it's out there. It's there that May, the 12th, 46 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,880 that Sunday, which is Mother's Day, we're having our Mother's 47 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,160 Day talk show to be taking place right here at First Apostolic 48 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,160 Church. Continue sharing that. 49 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,480 Get the word out about that. We'll probably have some other 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,120 posts and videos and things of that nature that will help 51 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,200 promote that, Amen. As well, it's not that far away. 52 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,040 It's just around the corner. You'll blink your eyes and this 53 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,280 month will be over. I know it just started. 54 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,240 I'm just telling you, this is how it goes. 55 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:20,520 Amen, Amen. So just keep your eye open on 56 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,200 that also. And I'm just going to tell us 57 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:28,200 here tonight also coming into the weekend as well is going to 58 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,120 be the International Firefighters, Firefighters Day. 59 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,120 All right, That happens on May 4th. 60 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,400 And so that's something that we will be putting forth a post and 61 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,440 such from from the church. Please share that. 62 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,120 We have a lot of people invested in firefighting and have for 63 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,000 several years here at the church and have served in several 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,680 different capacities over the years. 65 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,760 And so please share that. Get the word out. 66 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,040 As a church, we're going to be providing a meal for our 67 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,560 firefighters during one of their monthly meetings here in the 68 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,080 month of May for a sense of appreciation. 69 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,840 And such a sister Angie is heading up. 70 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,960 And so we're going to be doing that. 71 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,960 And so also in the month of May is National Teachers Day 72 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,080 appreciation. And the week of that, this 73 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,680 church is going to be hitting all three of our schools here 74 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,480 within the community. And we're going to be providing 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,120 kind of some breakfast treats, kind of like a continental type, 76 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,000 more like breakfast type things, doughnuts and things of that 77 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,440 nature to show appreciation to our teachers as well. 78 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,120 Believe it's very important to do that within our community. 79 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,800 You know, my theory, want to be more seen as a hand that gives 80 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,480 out the one that's trying to get from my community. 81 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,800 And so let's, let's do that and there'll be post up all about 82 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,800 that as well. That's in the queue, so to speak 83 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,680 and share that as much as you can get the word out. 84 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,240 We want them to know teachers, firefighters, everybody, Amen. 85 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,840 That we appreciate them, that this church appreciates their 86 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:55,240 service within our community because that in fact, that 87 00:04:55,240 --> 00:05:00,280 impacts your homes, your businesses, your children, so 88 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,880 and so forth. And so it's, it's, it's good to 89 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,160 do that. I know you've been standing for 90 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,600 a bit. Let's turn to Genesis. 91 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,640 Chapter #7 and I'm going to read starting with verse 17. 92 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,040 I know we kind of read it last week, but I want to kind of link 93 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,280 with it. Chapter verse #17 I'll read to 94 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,880 the end of the chapter. All right? 95 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,600 And then we will continue on. Also, I happen to see these, I 96 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,360 think it was the last Thursday. These glasses, they're purely, I 97 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,840 think, readers of some sort, but they have prescription at the 98 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:33,320 bottom, nothing through the lens. 99 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,000 They look good on me, don't they? 100 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,840 Amen. But they were found over on this 101 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,880 graveled spot over here. I believe it was last Thursday. 102 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,680 If these are yours, come see me. See what I did, come see me, 103 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,600 Amen, And we'll get them back to you. 104 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,600 Or it might have been someone food pantry wise. 105 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,520 If so, we'll get it to Sister Jim to take care of that Genesis 106 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,920 chapter #7 verse #17 we're going to begin. 107 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,000 Good to be back home with you all. 108 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,120 It's my first service being in in church with our dear Doctor 109 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,200 Mason. Amen. 110 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,440 So we're appreciative of his years of study and 111 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,800 accomplishment here. Going to be graduating this 112 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,560 weekend and such. And so that's going to be a big 113 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,200 thing right now. My daughter basically went to 114 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,160 school on Monday and was kind of like her last day. 115 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:26,480 And so I'm back to taking my son to school and picking him up for 116 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,080 lunch and all of that. And there's a segment of life I 117 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,360 thought I was done with, but I'm not. 118 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:39,240 I don't like it. And so I'm going to get him a 119 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,120 tricep or something so he can go back and forth to school. 120 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:48,160 But none the less. Verse 17 And the flood was 40 121 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,880 days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bear up the 122 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,200 ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 123 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,480 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the 124 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,400 earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 125 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,480 The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high 126 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,240 hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 15 cubits 127 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,480 upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. 128 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,360 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and 129 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,520 of cattle, and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that 130 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,760 creepeth upon the earth. And every man, all in whose 131 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,760 nostrils was the breath of life, all that was in the dry land 132 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,520 died, and every living substance was destroyed, which was upon 133 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,640 the face of the ground. Both man and cattle, the 134 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,720 creeping things and the fowl of the heaven, they were destroyed 135 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,440 from the earth. And Noah only remained alive and 136 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,560 they that were with him in the ark. 137 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:51,280 The waters prevailed upon the earth. 150 a 150 days. 138 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,240 We're going to try to dip over into chapter #8 tonight as well. 139 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,840 And then I want to talk tonight just simply this at the heart of 140 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,120 the flood, the heart of the flood. 141 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,880 Some of this might sound familiar to you. 142 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,560 My, my daughter and I, we went home last Wednesday and was 143 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,840 talking Genesis for a long time. And so I taught her the next 144 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:17,200 lesson. Not in its entirety, but we hit 145 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,320 a lot nonetheless. Let's pray tonight in the heart 146 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,560 of the flood. Father, we love you, God, we 147 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,880 appreciate you and we need you, Lord, in this place, God, I 148 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,600 pray, Lord, to be able to help us now, open our minds God, give 149 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,600 us the Lord's strength. I pray, O Lord, that we can 150 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,320 learn of you God, and find some application of these things, 151 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,320 Lord, to our everyday lives. I pray, O Lord, we are thankful, 152 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,960 Lord Jesus, for being able to be here, Lord, and come together, 153 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,560 Lord of life, precious faith, Lord Jesus, and hear the Word of 154 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,920 God in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated tonight in 155 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,880 Jesus name. So we are at the closing verses 156 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,360 of chapter #7 and we still have some other chapters to get 157 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,520 through in order to make our way through this big portion of 158 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,440 Genesis Scripture or the early portions of Genesis scripture of 159 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,440 Noah and the flood. But there are about two 160 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,520 prominent ideas that are concerned in the closing of 161 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,520 Genesis chapter #7 One of those ideas you can read it. 162 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,960 It seems very repetitive, very redundant. 163 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,760 EE about the ever increasing. Waters or waters? 164 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,080 Prevailing. And then there's another idea 165 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,400 that's there in the closing verses, and that is of death, of 166 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,800 how not being on the ark death was, was the outcome. 167 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,200 And if you were on the ark, you were alive, of course. 168 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,840 And it seems very, very simple. And as with last week, there is 169 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:46,520 some repetition of this whole idea of, of the idea that these 170 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,760 waters are are increasing. There's a lot of repetition that 171 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,480 takes place. It's driving home an idea. 172 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,200 You can look at it at the different language describing 173 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,080 the waters again in what I already read to you night. 174 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,600 Verse #17 it says that the waters increased. 175 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,120 And verse 18 says the waters prevailed and then describes 176 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,920 that a little bit more specifically that they increase 177 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,080 greatly. Verse #19 The waters prevailed 178 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,320 exceedingly. It speaks that the high heels 179 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,920 were covered by the water. Verse #20 tells us that the 180 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,840 waters prevailed and that therefore to the degree of 15 181 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,120 cubits or which is approximately 22 1/2 feet above the mountains, 182 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,520 even of that that of that day and that of that era. 183 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,600 And then verse 24 even tells us about these prevailing waters 184 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,480 then prevailing for 150 days. There's a lot of repetition 185 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:44,240 about this ever increasing, ever, ever greater amount of 186 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,000 water that's coming up on the earth. 187 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,200 And with these concepts of water and the concepts of death that 188 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,560 we see in chapter #7, there are at least eight times. 189 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,480 That referenced in these verses is this water in this death, as 190 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,560 though it's being upon the earth. 191 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:08,200 Or as verse #19 says, that this is under the whole heaven. 192 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,320 This was occurring or taking place under the whole heaven or 193 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,800 up on the earth. We see that that verbiage, that 194 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,200 language used over and over again, meaning to us as just 195 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,720 literal Bible readers, this, that the flood was not a 196 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:29,240 localized flood to a particular area over in Israel. 197 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,960 It was not just where Noah was located, but this was a global 198 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,960 flood. It wasn't specified to a certain 199 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:37,600 area. I bring that up because there's 200 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,600 a lot of talk. People with all this critique 201 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,560 and criticism about whether or not the flood covered the hill 202 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:47,080 or earth or whether it just covered a localized place and so 203 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,800 some say that the flood did not cover the entire earth, that it 204 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,200 was just localized to Noah's area however, almost every 205 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,840 society, almost every society in the. 206 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,880 World World Over has some type of quote, UN quote, flood story. 207 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:08,080 The details of all of them fluctuate quite considerably, 208 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,000 yes, but it seems to lend to an idea that there was a flood that 209 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,560 covered the earth at one time somewhere in our history, in our 210 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:18,880 past. I'd like to share a article with 211 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,600 you, Bishop ML Walls, many of you know who I'm Speaking of, 212 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,880 shared this article in his commentary on Genesis. 213 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:31,440 This is actually from a article in a a a Creation magazine from 214 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,960 1999, the June August rendition. And it says many Christians 215 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,640 today think the flood of Noah's time was only a local flood 216 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,920 confined to somewhere around Mesopotamia. 217 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,800 This idea comes not from Scripture, but from the notion 218 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,040 of billions of years of earth history, history that's reported 219 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,640 in our world. Again, literally reading the 220 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:55,000 scripture, the earth under the whole heaven, the the scripture 221 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,600 says this. So whenever we would consider 222 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,680 the other that it would be confined. 223 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:03,000 Then there's a few things that we must ask ourselves. 224 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,840 And I'm just going to go through this list, OK, Not really going 225 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,120 to do well much on it because again, I like the creator aspect 226 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,120 of Genesis a whole lot more than all the minutiae of the 227 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,520 scientific because I believe it's purpose for written was 228 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,160 more than science, all right? Much more its actual purpose. 229 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,880 If the flood was local, why did Noah have to build an ark? 230 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,880 Why didn't he just walk and traverse over to some other 231 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,600 mountainside or some other area where the flood wouldn't have 232 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,640 taken place? If the flood were local, why did 233 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,160 God send the animals to the ark so that they would escape death? 234 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,400 Wouldn't there have been some other animals of their kind and 235 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,280 another location that would have been able to reproduce if those 236 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,800 had died off? If the flood was local, why was 237 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,120 the Ark big enough to hold all the kinds of land vertebrae 238 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,040 animals that have ever existed in that time? 239 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,920 If it were only the Mesopotamian animals that were on board, the 240 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,760 Ark probably could have been much smaller. 241 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,720 If the flood were local, why would birds have to be sent on 242 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,240 board? They could simply just winged 243 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,360 across to another area where there was no flood, and again, 244 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,040 someplace and been safe. If there were no local flood, 245 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,600 how could the waters rise to 15 cubits above the mountains of 246 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,000 that known day? Because water seeks its own 247 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,200 level, right? You ever put water into 248 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,800 something? Matter of fact, you can tell if 249 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:32,360 something's level by water, It seeks its own level. 250 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,280 So it could not rise to cover the local mountains while 251 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,440 leaving other portions of the world unimpacted. 252 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,800 If the flood were local, people who did not happen to be living 253 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,240 in the vicinity would not have been affected by it in that they 254 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,440 would affected God's judgment in that day on sin. 255 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,960 And if that happened and then Christ in the New Testament 256 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,360 scriptures liking likens the judgment that is still yet 257 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:07,680 coming to as it was in the days of Noah, then it would mean that 258 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,560 we were facing a time in the future when there's going to be 259 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,960 a section of people judged and not all of us. 260 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,640 If the flood were local, God would have repeatedly broke his 261 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,120 promise to never send the flood again. 262 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,280 And so although the rain according to Scripture seems to 263 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:32,200 have lasted 40 days and 40 nights of verse #12 of the Bible 264 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,600 tells us here of Genesis chapter #7 the water again, I think I 265 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,680 mentioned last week, I don't know if I can't remember. 266 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,920 I just like Genesis submerged right now. 267 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,760 I'm, I'm in the flood all right right now. 268 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,800 But nonetheless, the water increased and continue to 269 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,200 increase, evidently even after the rain stopped. 270 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,440 We talked about this, Amen, that there is this prevailing and 271 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,400 ever increasing of the waters prevailing for 150 days. 272 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,120 The last verse of Genesis 7 says they're prevailing. 273 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,880 Which other places of Scripture denotes what that prevailing is? 274 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,080 It's exceeding greatly. It's ever increasing for 150 275 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,840 days, but if they stopped after the 40 again, there is still the 276 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,480 source of the fountains of the deep that broke up. 277 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,080 You didn't have to have just water that was coming from the 278 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,440 sky, but water that was coming from the subterranean spots of 279 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,320 water still coming up on the earth. 280 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,840 All the fountains, the Bible says of the deep broke up as 281 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,800 well-being a source of feeding the water that was upon the 282 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,400 earth. And people have a hard time many 283 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,800 times accepting that the waters, the earth's water level could 284 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,520 have preceded the mountains for the Bible again. 285 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,440 And verse 19 speaks about how they were covered all right and 286 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,480 even to 15 cubits, as it says. And the problem with this is 287 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,360 that many times they point to the fact that today we have 288 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,520 Mount Everest, which is I believe still considered the 289 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,840 highest mountain in the world at some this is just around about 290 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,160 somewhere around 29,000 feet. So they have a problem with 291 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,680 that, that 22 1/2 feet above that, that there could be water. 292 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,240 But today's world could have been greatly topographically 293 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:21,200 different then the flood world. As a matter of fact, I believe 294 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:27,359 the flood changed the dynamics of the topography of the world. 295 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:34,960 Mountains and valleys that we have today may have been limited 296 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:40,360 or less drastic. Maybe some didn't even exist 297 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,760 prior to the flood. Amen. 298 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,600 As a matter of fact, if you remember, the Bible spoke about 299 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,440 the different kinds of animals that came to the ark, and then 300 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,680 it said in such mode that then Noah got them on the ark. 301 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,320 How did these animals from what we would say today, from all 302 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:09,280 these different continents, get to the ark if there was water 303 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,560 that prevented, I mean, unless they were Jesus animals and 304 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,560 walked on water. And I know that's funny, but 305 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,040 what I'm getting at is this. If you remember back in Genesis 306 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:27,040 chapter #1 the third day of creation of the creative days 307 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,760 indicates that the waters were gathered together, and it states 308 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:37,320 explicitly one place. It had one place. 309 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,200 And the dry land appeared submitting to you that in that 310 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,480 moment of third day of creation, we had one landmass and one 311 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,520 water. Amen. 312 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,040 And so animals could get to an art. 313 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,920 For the land connected. Amen. 314 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,400 And all people that existed could get there as well and 315 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,800 reach it and make way there. But again, believe that the 316 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,600 topography of our land absolutely changed. 317 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,880 The psalmist references creation. 318 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,800 The psalmist references the flood in Psalms 104. 319 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,520 And start with verse #5 this is what the psalmist says. 320 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,920 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be 321 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,920 removed forever? It's a reference to creation. 322 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:36,080 Verse 6. Thou covered is it with the deep 323 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,200 as with a garment? The water stood above the 324 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,920 mountains. That's a reference to the flood. 325 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:47,960 At thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy Thunder they 326 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,760 hasted away. They go up by the mountains, 327 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,480 they go down by the valleys and the place which thou has founded 328 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,200 for them. All right, these, these things, 329 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,440 these, these what? He said. 330 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,360 These waters are going, 'cause that's another thing. 331 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,720 All this water that covered the earth, where did it all go? 332 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,960 Well, some of it's our oceans, but with topography of land 333 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,200 changing, you have mountains and valleys in the ocean, you have 334 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:20,400 valleys, you have valleys in the ocean that go miles deep that 335 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,600 can facilitate a volume of water. 336 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:29,480 That at the ice surface you would never know, but the depths 337 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,720 of even valleys that's within the ocean floor. 338 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,080 Let me go on verse nine that thou has set a bond that they 339 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,400 may not Passover. See this is what he did. 340 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,840 He's referring to the promise of not flooding the earth again, 341 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,880 that they turn not again to cover the earth. 342 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,480 We have sammies and different things where they, they, they, 343 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,840 they come over that line, but what happens, they always 344 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,760 receive back behind it. They, they don't stay over the 345 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,280 whole earth. Interestingly, this is how the 346 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,440 Revised Standard Version reads with verse #8 of Psalms 104. 347 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,280 Look at this, it says, and again this is in the context of him 348 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,560 talking about he covered the, the, the, the, the world with, 349 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,080 with deep or with the water and that it covered even the 350 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,440 mountains in that context. Verse #8 in the Revised Standard 351 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:19,240 Version says the mountains rose and the valley sank down to the 352 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,760 place which thou did a point for them almost indicating due to 353 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,680 this water episode that took place, there were mountains and 354 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,600 valleys that were formed, mountains and valleys that took 355 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,720 place. And so you again you people take 356 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,520 that highest peak of Mount Everest. 357 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,920 Well again mile Everest may not have been there during the 358 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,720 flood. Amen. 359 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:48,200 Could absolutely been changed. All this breaking up of the deep 360 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,520 could have very well started that whole movement of the 361 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:57,400 tectonic plates could have started some of that busting up 362 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,480 thing. Even after the flood had come 363 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,040 and the water subsided, there could still been some of this 364 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,000 breaking away that took place. For again, the animals came off 365 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,160 and they dispersed and we have certain regions of the world 366 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,000 today that only have certain specified regions with certain 367 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,960 animals. It could have been all this 368 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:24,800 movement taking place in, during and after the time of the flood, 369 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,760 this disbursement. The Paul of Taylor writes in his 370 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,440 book The Six Days of Creation that in 1973 a famous diver 371 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,920 named Jacques Cousteau. I listened to that online the 372 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,040 other day and wrote me a pronunciation so I'd know how to 373 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,800 say it. Jacques Cousteau said were the 374 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,920 crust of the earth to be levelled Speaking of in that day 375 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,640 of 1973? If it had been levelled, the 376 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,160 earth would be covered by a uniform sheet of water more than 377 00:22:54,160 --> 00:23:00,160 10,000 feet deep. Today, of course, you have the 378 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,600 valleys that's in the ocean that may not have been there even 379 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,160 with that. So what I'm saying is this is 380 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,800 quite a possibility and that's all we're Speaking of today. 381 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,640 But interestingly enough, the same damaging floodwaters that 382 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,720 increased Genesis 7 says and covered mankind and other living 383 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,840 things as we know it and the mountains, the Saint floodwaters 384 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,800 that did that, the Bible says in verse 17 those same floodwaters 385 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:35,720 bore up or bear up the ark and it was lifted above the earth, 386 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,200 which I believe there is something pictured here because 387 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,560 there is a difference between being on the ark and not being 388 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,880 on the ark. The ark, of course, represents 389 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,840 that place of safety. It represents that place that is 390 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,440 free of destruction. It represents that place that is 391 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:59,040 a sanctuary that was lifted up virtually above the world's 392 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,960 chaos. And this imagery oftentimes is 393 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,200 paralleled in Christian teachings in the New Testament 394 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,760 as being the concept of the church, that the same waters 395 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,880 that destroy the earth lifted up the ark, but it will get on the 396 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:21,080 ark, it will get in the church. The same things that can destroy 397 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,320 others can. You can ride upon the old song. 398 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,200 You say God rides upon the waters. 399 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,200 He rides upon the floods. There ain't no power. 400 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,120 We can by the Spirit of the Lord, this can be done. 401 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,040 The other concept there in the closing verses of Genesis 402 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,640 chapter #7 is the idea of death. Death outside of the ark and 403 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,160 life inside the ark. Again, over and over again. 404 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,200 Starting with verse 21, you can look at all the language. 405 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,760 It's very repetitive. Concerning death in verse #21 he 406 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,000 says that all flesh died basically if it moved on dry 407 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,560 land. If if it had mobility on dry 408 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,800 land, it died foul It it specifies foul cattle, bees, 409 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,600 creeping things, every man. Verse 22 tells us it died if it 410 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,440 dwelled on dry land and if it had the breath of life, it died. 411 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,840 Verse 23, all the living substances on the earth were 412 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,600 destroyed. Again, it specifies man, cattle, 413 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,760 creeping things in, foul, dead, dead twice, dead, dead, right? 414 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,440 It's very repetitive and just like last week, we have this 415 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,200 repetition that takes place not just in Genesis 7, but it takes 416 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,880 place in also other passages of Scripture. 417 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,720 You can read Genesis. I'm trying to keep track of time 418 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,000 because I feel like tonight I'm going to be rubbing folks. 419 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,120 Amen. In Genesis chapter #6 and verse 420 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,560 #7 the Bible says, and the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I 421 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,800 have created. He talks about everything he's 422 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,000 going to destroy. In verse #17 of chapter number 423 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,280 six, he says, and behold, I even I do bring a flood of waters 424 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,800 upon the earth to destroy all flesh. 425 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,960 And he talks about those things with the breath of life that 426 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,840 he's going to destroy. In chapter #8 and verse #4 he 427 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,960 talks about not eight and four. It can't be no seven and four. 428 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,240 In seven and four, he talks about that he's going to destroy 429 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,120 from off the face of the earth every living substance that I 430 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,040 have made. Again, he talks about it. 431 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,800 Hey, man. So he says everything. 432 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,360 He talks about what he's going to do. 433 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,880 And then in verse #21 through 23, he talks about what he did. 434 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,320 So we see this repetition again that takes place through 435 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,880 Scripture and yet amid all of this destruction, amid all of 436 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,800 this calamity and death seems to be on the the stage floor in the 437 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,400 limelight and shining is the phrase in verse 23. 438 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:46,240 Noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the 439 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:46,920 ark. Why? 440 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,280 Because the ark makes a difference. 441 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,320 It's the difference between life and death. 442 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,080 Whether you're on the ark or not. 443 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,320 On the ark, if the the imagery is like, right, whether you're 444 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,520 in the church or not in the church, it is a matter of life 445 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,600 or death. I mentioned a couple weeks ago 446 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,880 that the Hebrew word for ark also describes that ark that 447 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,800 Moses's mother Jacobed made for her son Moses out of bulrushes 448 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,400 that she pitched within and without with slime. 449 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,200 Again, Moses was born during a very volatile time. 450 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,280 If you'll remember, it started out as having a couple of dogs 451 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,840 should be thrown into the Nile River. 452 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,080 The Nile River that known day had all kinds of dangers. 453 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,920 There were crocodiles, 10 different kinds of venomous 454 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,680 states. There were mosquitoes carrying 455 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,480 all sorts of deadly diseases, not to mention just the Rapids 456 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,000 and the larger ragged rocks that was within the Nile itself. 457 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:49,680 Other people, other boys, other children were being thrown into 458 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,280 the Nile. But before Chuck the bed put 459 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,200 Moses in there, she put him in the ark, which corresponds with 460 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,640 our ark of Noah's day, Same word. 461 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:07,840 She put him in a ark, a basket. And the ark made the difference. 462 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,160 It was per God's design. And those that were called to it 463 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:17,600 obediently got on it, and they were saved. 464 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,520 Someone say Amen, We're doing all right. 465 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,720 All right. OK, I feel a little better. 466 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,560 Genesis chapter #8 go there with me. 467 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,800 And you're already seated, so you don't even have to stand for 468 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,080 this. If you'll allow me. 469 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,960 I want to read the 1st 14 verses and you're going to kind of 470 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,120 start seeing a little mirror image of what we have read thus 471 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,240 far. OK, going to start seeing a 472 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,600 little mirror image. We talked about last week, the 473 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,000 UN creation. Remember though, we're going to, 474 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,720 this is going to be a recreation. 475 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,560 So you're going to see a little mirror image verse #1 of Genesis 476 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,160 chapter #8 And God remembered Noah and every living thing and 477 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,320 all the cattle that was with him in the ark. 478 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,400 And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters 479 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,600 assuaged the fountains also the deep and the windows of heaven 480 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,840 were stopped. And the rain from heaven was 481 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,720 restrained. By this time all that stuff had 482 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,520 quit and stopped. The waters returned from off the 483 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,240 earth continually. All right, they prevailed. 484 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,160 Now they're shedding. After the end of the 150 days, 485 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,520 the waters were abated. So we have really. 486 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,120 I won't get it. Let me just read or I can't just 487 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,760 do commentary all along here. And the ark rested in the 488 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,640 seventh month. And you notice this along the 489 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,640 way through the flood account, there are sometimes we were 490 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,000 given specific months and days in the story and it all 491 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,160 correlates to whatever year or however old Noah is at the time. 492 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,840 All right, we'll look at this a little later. 493 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,040 I got charts and stuff tonight. I'm telling you, we got cut 494 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,800 charts. The ark rested in the seventh 495 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,240 month on the 17th day of the month up on the mountains. 496 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:59,240 Everybody say mountains, plural of Ararat, and the waters 497 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,680 decrease continually into the 10th month and the 10th month. 498 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,520 On the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains 499 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,720 seen. And it came to pass at the end 500 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,160 of 40 days that Noah opened the window of the this is 40 on the 501 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,880 backside of the other forty. OK, all right. 502 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,440 At the end of 40 days that Noah opened the window the ark which 503 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,160 he had made, and he sent forth a Raven, which went forth to and 504 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,080 fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 505 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,880 Also that same day he sent forth the dove from him to see if the 506 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,400 waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 507 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,560 But the dove found no rest with the sole of her foot, and she 508 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,080 returned into him into the ark, for the waters were on the face 509 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,480 of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and 510 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,440 took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 511 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,960 And he stayed yet another seven days. 512 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,920 And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark, and the dove 513 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,280 came in to him in the evening, and low in her mouth was an 514 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,800 olive leaf plucked off. That's how we get symbolism of 515 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,960 the dove and the and the olive branch being a symbol of peace 516 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:01,840 today. Wasn't that before? 517 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,560 But that's how that started now. So no one knew that the waters 518 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,200 were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet another seven 519 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,640 days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again into 520 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,800 him anymore. And it came to pass in the 600th 521 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,200 and 1st year, in the first month, the first day of the 522 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,400 month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. 523 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,080 And Noah removed the cover of the ark and looked and behold, 524 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,560 the face of the brown was dry. And in the second month, on the 525 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,600 7th and 20th day or the 27th day of the month, was the earth 526 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,760 dried? Now I want to make a few little 527 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,120 comments tonight and then I want to get into our graphs. 528 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,040 Aren't you excited about that? Amen. 529 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:47,080 So we've already again discussed that the flood was sort of a 530 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,360 uncreation. We looked at that last week and 531 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,120 the corresponds to the. Different days of creation in 532 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,080 Scripture. And now, however, having been 533 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:02,360 covered by water, the renewed earth was a recreation, all 534 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,280 right, a recreation again. We have a solitary, or what 535 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,960 seems to be a solitary family coming off the ark, all right, 536 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,080 along with the other living things, the animals that's going 537 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,360 to be given the command to be fruitful, multiplied and 538 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,480 replenished. Just as Adam and Eve were given, 539 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,360 the first family was given in verse one though we we recognize 540 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,440 for sure that God is in creative mode. 541 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:30,880 Again, God is in creative mode. It says God made a wind to 542 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,560 Passover the earth and the waters assuaged, or the wind 543 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,440 moved up on the face of the earth, which happened to be at 544 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,280 that time covered by water. This should sound very familiar 545 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:52,280 to Genesis chapter #1 that says the Spirit of God moved upon the 546 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:58,880 face of the waters. All right, one says the Spirit 547 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,800 of God, the other says wind. It's both ruach, the Hebrew 548 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,840 word, but same exact word, which can mean wind or breath or 549 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,040 spirit. All right, translated all of 550 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,240 those. So God is again in creation 551 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,360 mode. The wind is blowing over the 552 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,320 face of this deep. The wind is blowing over the 553 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,440 face of these waters. And you probably don't remember 554 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,080 this, but in our very first lesson of Genesis, as we were 555 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,600 kind of hitting all the tops of the trees, I told you that 556 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,000 creation in God's Word, new creation for that matter, is 557 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,840 always exampled or exemplified by having a water covering and a 558 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,600 wind or spirit moving. They're fundamental to the start 559 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,560 of creation or to the start of a new creation. 560 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,480 That's what we see pictured in the beginning. 561 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,280 Amen. Water that is covering. 562 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,240 All right, an immersion of things and a spirit that is 563 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,480 moving. That's what we're seeing in the 564 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,880 new creation after the flood. A water that is immersing, 565 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,080 right? What is under it and a a wind 566 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,000 that that is moving. All of that takes us to John 567 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,360 chapter #3 where Jesus told Nicodemus, except you're born 568 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,199 again, you cannot even enter to the Kingdom of of heaven. 569 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,920 And he says you must be born of water and of spirit or wind. 570 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,560 And he said the wind bloweth where it listeth or where it 571 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:35,600 wants or desires. So is everyone that is born of 572 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,120 the spirit not a if not A and not a month. 573 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:43,719 Maybe everyone that is new creation happens in us when 574 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,520 there's a immersion of us in water and we go down in Jesus 575 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:53,120 name and a moving of the wind or the spirit of the breath of God. 576 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,120 Amen. As we begin the Scripture tells 577 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:03,040 us as we begin to speak in other tongues someone say Amen Peter 578 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,120 in the New Testament Scriptures, the apostle Peter makes a direct 579 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,320 connection with the the ark and Noah with the symbolism of 580 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,360 baptism directly. We're not pulling things out of 581 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,280 the sky or trying to connect some dot twist something around 582 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,360 to make it work. Peter just calls it as it is and 583 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,800 first Peter chapter #3 and verse 20. 584 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,200 He says which sometime we're disobedient. 585 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,320 He says when once the long-suffering of God waited in 586 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,880 the days of Noah while the art was preparing very and few that 587 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:38,840 is 8 souls were saved by water, The like figure wearing to even 588 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,520 baptism. He's drawing the line from what 589 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,040 happened at the flood to baptism. 590 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,720 The light figure weren't to even baptism death also now save us 591 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,280 not the putting away of the filth, the flesh, but the answer 592 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,240 for good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus 593 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:58,800 Christ. He makes a Direct Line of 594 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,080 connection, Amen, with the flood, what took place there, 595 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,080 Amen. In our New Testament baptism, 596 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:10,680 again in verse #2 of of Genesis chapter #8 the Bible tells us 597 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,640 that even there was this restraining of the fountains of 598 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,200 the deep. Again the last verse of Genesis 599 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,640 7, there is this prevailing of water for 150 days. 600 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,480 This increasing of water. Now we read in Genesis chapter 601 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,880 #8 there is 150 days that water is being shed off the earth. 602 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,640 There is a continual decreasing now of the water upon the earth, 603 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,760 Amen. And so for once 150 days, it 604 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,520 prevailed. For another 150 days there was 605 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,880 the abating or the shedding of the water, Amen. 606 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,560 The Genesis Eight and Three states that after the end of the 607 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,640 150 days, the waters were in fact abated. 608 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,240 Throw up my first slide. This is a little timeline I made 609 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:00,240 today for us because sometimes we just need a visual, you know, 610 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,000 to get in our minds. I read back through the 611 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,680 scriptures and and pinned these things down. 612 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,240 The Bible tells us in Genesis chapter #7 and verse number six, 613 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,960 it tells us that Noah was 600 years old when the flood 614 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,240 happened. All right, I don't know if he 615 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,920 was 600 a day old or 602. I don't know. 616 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,080 But he was 600 whenever the flood happened. 617 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,720 According to Genesis 813, Noah was 601 years old when he 618 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:27,720 removed the covering of the ark. So what I have here, if I could 619 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:32,160 look at it here tonight, in reality, I have these months 620 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,640 here second. I have second twice because of 621 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,560 what I deduced 2nd through the 10th. 622 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,520 We're all within a time frame of when Noah was in his 600th year. 623 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,120 The first and second months is when Noah was in his 600th and 624 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,360 1st year according to scripture. Now here's what we know. 625 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,760 We know according to Genesis 711. 626 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,600 We know this because it states it that the 17th day of the 627 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,920 second month, and it tells us that this is during Noah's six 628 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,800 hundredth year of his life, that the fountains of the deep broke 629 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,480 up in the windows of heaven opened. 630 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,880 Things began all right, right here. 631 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,440 The only reason why I included this date is because I know 632 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,280 according to the Scripture that seven days before it started, 633 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:20,080 they got on the ark. We know that from Genesis 7, 634 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,200 four and 7:10. So if that's the case, I back it 635 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,520 up seven days, meaning then the 10th day of the second month all 636 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,000 got on the ark before it started. 637 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,520 Seven days, seven days before it all started. 638 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,920 Okay, all right. Then we have in Genesis chapter 639 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,160 #8 verse #4 it states specifically that the 17th day 640 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,960 of the 7th month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. 641 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,360 All right. Then it tells this specifically 642 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:51,120 also that the first day of the 10th month in in Genesis 85 that 643 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,680 the tops of the mountains are seen. 644 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,160 It's then that we have in Genesis 8, verse 13, that the 645 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,760 first day of the first month, the waters dried up off the 646 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,840 earth and Noah removed the covering. 647 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,520 And you can read in this verse, it tells us that this was in the 648 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:10,080 601st year and it's implied that this is Noah's life that we're 649 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,240 talking about. Then this other day is mentioned 650 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,200 in Genesis 814 through 19, that the 27th day of the second month 651 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,320 of the earth of the second month, the earth dried all 652 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,360 right, completely. And we, we have it dry. 653 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,040 But you know, if you ever walked on wet grass, you ever walked 654 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,720 on, on dirt that had been wet, It was dry, but it was wet. 655 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,400 You understand what I'm saying? There were like no water pooling 656 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,840 there, but it was still wet. Well, it's all dried now and all 657 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,800 got off the ark. So in reality, from the 10th day 658 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,680 of the second month of Noah's 600th year, they got on. 659 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,960 In the 27th day of the second month of Noah's 600 and first 660 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:54,520 year, they got off. So right now, OK, I hope this 661 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,400 graphic helps somebody because if you just read that, those 662 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,960 numbers kind of get lost in the scripture. 663 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640 Amen. With all of that being said. 664 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,720 Jews typically ordered their their years by a lunar calendar, 665 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,560 which about you say 30 days in the month. 666 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,240 Sometimes it was 29, sometimes they have to add a 13 month to 667 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:17,360 take. It can get complicated, but more 668 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,440 or less by a lunar year. If so, then they were on the ark 669 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,520 10th day of the second month, 27th day of the second month of 670 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,560 two individual years in Noah's life that they were on the ark 671 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,560 evidently for. One lunar year and 17 days. 672 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,440 These are my calculations. I guarantee you there's people 673 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,680 out there will argue with me, and that's OK. 674 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,040 I'm just trying to go as literal as I can. 675 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,200 From what I'm reading, 'cause you can look at the 150 days and 676 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,440 40 days, you can Add all those days up in between. 677 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,680 You might not arrive at this or there could have been some 678 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,520 overlap, all kinds of stuff there, all right, But I don't 679 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,280 think that is important for what we're looking at here at the 680 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,560 moment. On the 17th day of the 7th 681 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,720 month, the ark rested on the mountains. 682 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:00,280 We will say it rested on Mount Ararat. 683 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,800 What was it? A mount Ararat was a mountain 684 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:09,160 range. It rested on the mountains of 685 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,480 Ararat. They've not ever found the ark. 686 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,640 People have tried. There's articles out there, 687 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:15,880 people said they have found them. 688 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,200 It's inconclusive. It's on the mountains of Ararat. 689 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,320 Archaeologists believe that somewhere around modern day 690 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,520 Turkey. So anyway, so there's just those 691 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,720 are the times that we do have stamped in Scripture, except for 692 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,360 the one I kind of just deduced from what I knew. 693 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,000 All right, can we go on to the calendar slide, please? 694 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:41,280 I don't know how good it's going to be because it's kind of 695 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,080 small. Hey, it didn't turn out bad. 696 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:46,400 I didn't make. This I stole this. 697 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,640 Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned. 698 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:59,160 If you will remember, the first Passover change the calendar. 699 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:08,520 For the Jews, the first Passover changed the calendar from all 700 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:15,840 that we can tell from creation. That being said, Passover was 701 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,640 celebrated in the month of the bib, also called Nissan. 702 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:24,200 Right up in here, Passover, all right, And this is what the 703 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,680 Scripture says in Exodus 12 and verse #2 This month shall be 704 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,000 unto you, the beginning of the month. 705 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,920 It was Passover month. Right. 706 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,640 It shall be the first month of the year to you. 707 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,560 Can you go back? The song did not used to be the 708 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,880 first of the year to them. But since Passover started, he 709 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,440 said this shall be the first of the year to you. 710 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,080 I see that we have the numbers on here like this. 711 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,840 If we go over here, the trumpets are Rosh Hashanah, which is 712 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,720 actually their new year. And you were to count from 713 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:06,280 there, from Tishri 123-4567, what was month #7 became month 714 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:11,640 number one. What was accorded by creation, 715 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,680 that was month #7 became number one For the Jews. 716 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,320 It's changed at Passover. So what's all this mean? 717 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,240 Well, whenever we, whenever we look at that, that now this, 718 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:31,280 this Nissan that once was the 7th month, then what I present 719 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:36,360 to you tonight is this Jesus and New Testament scripture died 720 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:42,400 when the Passover lambs died. He was the unleavened bread, 721 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,560 feast of unleavened bread. When he's laying in the grave 722 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,400 and nothing's happening. If you can show my tomb slide 723 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,320 tomb, it's three days and three nights. 724 00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:02,120 It's in the month of the sun, the month of Passover raising on 725 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,880 early that Sunday morn, the 17th of the sun. 726 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,240 Remember days are reckoned the evening and the morning is such 727 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:13,920 and such day. What are you saying for the 728 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:19,240 McGee? That the same day we might have 729 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,160 to go back to our first little thing, but the same day, on the 730 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:28,360 17th day of the 7th month, the ark rested on Mount Ararat. 731 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,880 The same day that the ark rested according to the calendar of 732 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:39,480 creation, Nissan now is one, but was seven is the same day that 733 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:53,400 Christ got up. New life, New life on day #17 734 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,000 that we liken to our Holy Ghost. Let me echo the words of the O 735 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:02,400 prophet Isaiah who said and this scripture as many prophetic 736 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,800 scriptures have our our dual fulfillment of the very near and 737 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,760 that in the future he says for with stammering lips and another 738 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:17,240 tongue will he speak to his people to whom he said this is 739 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:26,240 the Noah's name means rest. The ark rests on the 17th day of 740 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:31,400 the 7th month. Christ gets up and makes Holy 741 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,760 Ghost infill impossible for all of us, which Isaiah said that is 742 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:40,320 the rest wherein he may cause the weary to rest and this is 743 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,920 the refreshing that ye would not hear. 744 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:45,880 That's interesting. There's a lot of things that 745 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,800 took place on the 17th day of the 7th month, 430 years prior 746 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,640 to that. Then going to the Egypt happened 747 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,240 on that day as well. So all kinds of things in 748 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:59,960 scripture that happens on the 17th day of the 7th month. 749 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:01,600 Amen. That's interesting. 750 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,440 To look at. And I am doing good, thank you 751 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:05,800 Jesus. I was worried. 752 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,200 Give me my chiasm slide. I've talked to you about 753 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,320 chiasm's before. It's kind of like a literary 754 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,280 device. You say, well, how in the world 755 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:19,080 could it be in the Bible? Because God's God, God's God. 756 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:25,040 And you might have problems seeing that, but the whole story 757 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,160 of the flood breaks down in a really good little chiasm. 758 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,280 And what that means is, yeah, can you give me back to the 759 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,280 smaller little one just real quick, just for the purpose? 760 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:48,170 A chiasm mirrors all along a line, mirrors all along the 761 00:46:48,170 --> 00:46:52,130 line, going all the way back to Genesis six and nine. 762 00:46:52,330 --> 00:46:57,160 Noah, the righteous man, ending all the way with Noah in 928 763 00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,080 through 29. Noah, his life and death. 764 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,200 So you have A and a or A and a prime back and forth, B&B, prime 765 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,560 C. Each of these coordinate. 766 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,920 So let's just pick an arbitrary 1H right here. 767 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,400 Seven days waiting for the flood. 768 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,640 That's where he talks about the seven days that they're going to 769 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,600 wait. That was repeated, go down here 770 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,760 to H7. Days waiting for the waters to 771 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,240 subside goes back and forth, back and forth, 150 days or 50 772 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,880 days to 40 and 40. It's this mirror alone in 773 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,080 Scripture. You can find out a lot about 774 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:28,280 what a story is conveying by finding the midpoint of a chiasm 775 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,320 in Scripture. This happens all throughout your 776 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,040 Bible, from Genesis to Revelations. 777 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,040 You can pick up on them sometimes. 778 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,600 Amen. But whenever we look at this, so 779 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,800 you just look at this and you, you could just stare at it there 780 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,960 for a moment in and I'm kind of walking through Genesis chapter 781 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,640 #8 here. Verse #5 The waters again 782 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,520 continue to decrease. The tops of the mountains are 783 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:50,680 seen. All right. 784 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,840 That correlates again with Genesis whenever the dry land 785 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,240 appeared. So we're recreating here, all 786 00:47:56,240 --> 00:47:59,480 right. Verse #640 Days have passed and 787 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,680 Noah opens the window on the ark. 788 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,480 I don't know if that's I was thinking. 789 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,800 And sometimes they get, you know, carnal in my mind. 790 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,880 I just think today, you know, we have the statement when God, 791 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,400 when God shuts the door, he'll open a window. 792 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,040 Never mind. The Lord shut the door and I 793 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,040 guess Noah really opened the window but none the less but. 794 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,640 Anyway, verse #7 he sent forth the Raven. 795 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,040 It went to and fro. It never came back to the ark. 796 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,520 The same day that he sent the Raven, he sent the dove. 797 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,200 It went out, but could find nowhere to rest his foot. 798 00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,120 So it came back to the ark. He pulled it in. 799 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,560 He waited seven days. He released them that dove again 800 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,440 in verse #10 All right. And verse #11 the Bible says 801 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,640 that at this time the dove returned with that olive leaf in 802 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,840 its mouth. All right, Yep. 803 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,040 And then he's going to, he's going to wait seven more days in 804 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,000 verse #12 interesting. I did just a little research in, 805 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,840 but olive growers say that olive branch will actually bear leaves 806 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:04,840 underwater. So I guess in order for a dove 807 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,960 to have a olive leaf to pluck that it could have happened 808 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,480 underwater. And once the water got low 809 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:14,360 enough, it was visible for the dove to get to bring back. 810 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,240 But anyway, he waited seven more days, sent a dove, and it did 811 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,280 not return. I really don't have much to say 812 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,440 along that line of story. But the thing that I want to get 813 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,600 at is really the heart of the flood. 814 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,120 The heart of the flood, all of the increasing waters, all the 815 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,800 days that lead up to this, then all the decreasing waters, 816 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,520 everything that takes away from this. 817 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:42,800 The heart of the flood is Genesis eight one God remembered 818 00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:47,400 Noah and when we say God remembered Noah and many times 819 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,600 in this instance and other places of Scripture where God 820 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,840 remembered and their God so and so forth. 821 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,080 It's not that God for God. It's not that God for God. 822 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,200 God if God chooses not to remember something that's up to 823 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,640 him, but it's not that he forgot like accident. 824 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,560 Usually in Scripture, particularly when we talk about 825 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,240 people, that's in covenant God. Whenever the Bible says that God 826 00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:13,400 remembered such and such or God remembered his people, that 827 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:18,760 means that God now is going to act according to his covenant or 828 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:23,560 according to his promise. In all of this flood thing, the 829 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:29,320 heart of the flood is that God remembered a man who by faith 830 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,680 built what God said, build God on what God said. 831 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:39,160 Get on was patient when he didn't hear God during the storm 832 00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:45,640 or in the waiting. God acted now on Noah's behalf. 833 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,200 I think it's important today for there to be that middle line in 834 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,440 every one of our lives. And if you would look, maybe 835 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,720 there would be a chiasm of your life that in the middle you'll 836 00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:00,360 see that God decided to act according to his promise. 837 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:05,920 God make movement in behalf of you and for you. 838 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,360 So we can talk about all the days and we can talk about the 839 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,040 calendar and we can talk about tectonic plates and all that, 840 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:18,960 but the seed is this God remembered a man that had a ear 841 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,320 that was keen to the. Voice of God. 842 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:29,120 Staying with me, man, I wow, folks, we did. 843 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,920 I'm in the green. I'm just letting you know right 844 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,040 now I'm going to go, I'm going to take. 845 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:34,040 A picture of that and put it on the. 846 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:34,880 Plaque. Take it home. 847 00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:44,280 Amen. Next week we'll have some other 848 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,800 things of Noah actually coming off the ark. 849 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,400 All right, on this day that's mentioned there in Scripture 850 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,200 verse #14 and perhaps we'll delve over in chapter #9 as 851 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:55,240 well. We'll see. 852 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:56,880 We'll see where we get what we can do. 853 00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,920 We're coming. We're coming up on the end of of 854 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:02,520 the flood story though, but we still got some other things to 855 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,000 talk about. And just in case anybody gets 856 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,080 their hopes way up, they probably all won't be as quick 857 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:12,840 as this, OK, But get what you get, right? 858 00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,800 Get what you get and don't pitch a fit. 859 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:19,720 They used to say preschool. This is the heart, the heart of 860 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,520 the flood. There's a lot of interesting 861 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,120 things there. If you want any of those things, 862 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,240 I could probably make copies of yours for you or whatever if you 863 00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:30,040 wanted for your own study or perusal, so on and so forth. 864 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,440 Amen. Let's pray tonight. 865 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,800 Father, I need you, Jesus, this evening. 866 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,360 I'm thankful, Lord, that you are mindful of us, God, You're 867 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,800 mindful of us. Just as mindful, Lord, as you 868 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,880 were God of that righteous man, that man that you accounted 869 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,920 faith into him as righteousness, just as you were that man, Noah, 870 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,320 God of that day, I pray, O Lord, we have God our own. 871 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,520 Lord quote UN quote flood moments. 872 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,760 Lord Jesus, in this life, I pray, O Lord, today help us God, 873 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,600 have a ear. God that is aware of the voice 874 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,640 of the Lord and help us, O God, today to follow Lord your 875 00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,680 direction. We're thankful God for 876 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,000 uncreation. We're thankful for recreation. 877 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,840 We're thankful for new birth in Christ Jesus. 878 00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,440 We're thankful for all these things of Old Testament that are 879 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:20,600 just shadows of things that are to come of a immersion of water, 880 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,600 Lord Jesus and a moving of the spirit God there. 881 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,720 I pray, O God today help us Lord to carry these truths, these 882 00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:30,480 concepts and ideas home. I pray, O Lord, knowing God, 883 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,880 that if we're in the church, a part of the church, God, the 884 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,080 things that destroy everything else and bring decimation, God, 885 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,920 we can rise above them and float upon them. 886 00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,240 I pray God, by your spirit, Lord, it's capable of being 887 00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:43,760 done. And we found out to thank you 888 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,840 and praise you, Lord, for it. In the name of Jesus Christ, I 889 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,160 pray Amen. Everybody say Amen. 890 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,320 Tomorrow, National Day of Prayer and Prayer here at the church. 891 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,000 National Day of Prayer, prayer here at the church. 892 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,480 You should be in prayer tomorrow. 893 00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,000 Don't miss your prayer time tomorrow. 894 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,080 It's the national day of prayer. Our country needs prayer. 895 00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,400 Our nation needs prayer, Amen. And if they're going to put a 896 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,800 date on the calendar denoting this, we need to take advantage 897 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,280 of it. Of all the other things that 898 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,680 have been taken away, we should then participate in what is 899 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,200 available. All right, Amen. 900 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,320 So this power hour here at the church at 7:00 tomorrow night, 901 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,520 God bless you tonight. Jesus name, Amen. 902 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,440 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 903 00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,600 information about our services and activities, you can find us 904 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:41,480 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the username FACMC. 905 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:45,880 Again, that's FACMC. Thank you and have a blessed 906 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:46,160 day. You can. 907 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:53,920 Go to Facebook.