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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font size="3"><b>Jim
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>JAN
7 - GENESIS 6-9 - NOAH: FLOOD AND COVENANT</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
6:13 (6:1-13) THE FLOOD: ITS CAUSE. “And God said unto Noah, The
end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the
earth.” </b><span style="">Father, You do
nothing except You reveal it unto Your servants the prophets. You
revealed unto Noah Your decision to destroy the wicked element of
man. This is a Kingdom principle! We will take heed to Your outlook
concerning these things. </span><b><i> Hallowed be Your Name!</i></b></p>
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<b>2. 6:17-18a (6:14-22) THE FLOOD: THE ARK. “And I, behold, I
do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in
which is the breath of life, from under the heaven; everything that
is in the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with
you.” </b><span style="">This Kingdom principle
is exemplified here through the life of Noah. He believed and obeyed
You Father, and walked in the promise of Your covenant. </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come.</i></b></p>
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<b>3. 7:4-5 (7:1-24) THE FLOOD: ITS DURATION. “For yet seven
days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the ground. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">5</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">We
thank You Father for the example and obedience of Noah. Yes, and we
thank You for Your provision on His behalf. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">4. 8:1 (8:1-14) THE FLOOD
RECEDES. “And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the
cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters subsided.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">Great
is Your faithfulness, O God our Father! Here we see it manifested to
Noah and his family. We too can trust you that all our necessary
needs will always be met. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Our
:daily bread Give us this day!</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">5. 8:21 (8:15-22) THE
FLOOD: ITS ALTAR. “And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and
Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more
for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again strike any more everything living as
I have done.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">What
a blessed promise is this, O Father! </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="">Rest</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">
comes from the offering of sacrifice. Our rest is in Your Son, Jesus!
</span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i> And forgive
us our :debts, as we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">6. 9:16 (9:1-17) THE FLOOD:
RAINBOW COVENANT. “And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will
look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
</font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">We
bless you Father that to this day we the sons of Adam do see the sign
of this faithful Covenant, this </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="">Everlasting
Covenant</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
</span></span></i></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
9:23 (9:18-29) THE FLOOD: IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH. “And Shem and
Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and
went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their
faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">What
a sober judgment is this upon Canaan, and what a tribute to Ham and
Japheth. We acknowledge Your righteousness in this, Father. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil one.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<u><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Bible
believers have no problem receiving this flood account. They do not
see it as a local flood, but a world-wide flood, just as reads the
Biblical account. They see the waters as 15 feet above the highest
mountains of that day. With tides ripping across the face of the
watery earth 4 times a day for 150 days - the tiny clam fossils on
the tops of our highest mountain peaks today - are then easily
explained. With the finding of mammoth flesh with grass in their
mouths, buried in ice, and their flesh able to be eaten today - this
too finds reasonable explanation because of this Bible flood account.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">For
the modernists, humanists and unbelievers - they have an impossible
task to reasonably explain earth's present condition apart from this
flood account. Darwinian Evolution can't even begin to raise up
reasonable answers for honest inquiring young minds.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Looking
at all of this from another angle - just consider this three-story
ark the size of a football field! It's pattern all came from God to
Noah. And - it took 120 years to build! Quite possibly unbelievers
helped Noah build what was safety for him, but destruction for them.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">I
preached through the Bible in a year in 1960 in Illinois. At the end
of the year, I quizzed our congregation as to their favorite Bible
characters. Abraham? Moses? Joshua? I had no takers from our women. I
asked them, How come? They replied that a man like Abraham who asked
his wife to tell Pharaoh's servants that she was his sister - and
risked being raped - could certainly not be their favorite Bible
character.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">In
surprise I asked - Then who would be your favorite? </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">Noah</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- they replied. How could you choose him? I asked. Any man who built
for 120 years an ark to save his wife and family, is a most worthy
husband and father, they replied. Why, I would never have thought of
such a first choice, I replied. That's because you're a man - was
their answer that set me effectively in my place.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">But
perhaps the outstanding lesson of this day's devotional is the
rainbow covenant God gave, ensuring that not again would earth be
destroyed by a flood of waters.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Some
count this as the second Bible covenant. When God covered the
nakedness of Adam and Eve with skins in the Garden of Eden following
their sin - it was as it were a blood covenant looking forward to the
full caring for sin through the Atoning work of His Son to come.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Following
Period 1 of Bible Chronology - Adam to Flood: 1656 years - 4003 to
2347 BC, God make the Noahic Covenant. Notice that “blood”
consummated each of these covenants. The Abraham Covenant, 451 years,
2346 to 1896 BC - is one of the </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">three</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
greatest of all landmarks in Bible History. Calvary in 30 AD is the
third of these three significant landmarks, and brings consummation
to all previous blood covenants.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">There
are 8 great Bible Periods, each ending with blood, seven ending with
covenants. The Noahic Flood ends Period 1 - and commences Period 2.
J.A.W.</span></span></font></p>
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