GENESIS CHAPTER 8: NEW BEGINNINGS IN A NEW WORLD

 

Introduction This chapter tells the continuing story of Noah and his families journey in the ark and how God prepares the new earth for them

1.       And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 

         This paragraph tells us that God stopped the waters from coming up from the deep and restrained the rain from heaven so that the waters may start receding. We are also told that the ark rested on a mountain in the mountains of Ararat which is in to-days Turkey, and that it rested after 5 months of floating in the world wide sea. (the rain started in the 2^nd month 17^th day and then stopped on the 7^th month the 17^th day) Then it took another 5 months for the tops of the mountains to be seen. 

6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her feet, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10.

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him anymore. 

As we see here this paragraph recaps the beginning of the rains and gives more complete detail of what Noah did near the end of their trip after the Ark came to rest. The dove, as we are told here went out three times and returned twice. But the second time it brought back an Olive leaf. This tells us that God was preparing the earth for the family to start their new beginning as He did for Adam. But it was not yet totally ready because the waters were still receding.

13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

 

On Noah’s 601^st year on the first month on the first day, (601/1/1) the waters were all dried and the family was able to go out from the ark and release the animals into their new home. On the second month and 27^th day (601/02/27)

 the waters were in there final places and the earth was dry. Therefore the animals and the families could explore the earth for their new homes.

 15. And God spake unto Noah saying,” 16. “Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the sons’ wives with thee. 17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth”. 

God gives Noah and his family and the animals the same commandment that He gave to

Adam and Eve, which was to go forth be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. 22. While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

In this closing verse God makes a promise to never again to destroy man, animal or the earth with a flood as this one was. (This verse gives evidence of a worldwide flood because we now have local floods and this would make God a liar, which He is not. His testimony to us is imprinted in the sky after every rain storm or shower, it’s the rainbow. The first thing Noah did after getting the animals off the ark as God commanded him to do was to make a alter to God and give offerings to worship God.

The Road to Salvation (KJV)

Romans 3: 23, 24 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 5:8 “But God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 3:15 “For God so loved the world That He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

1 John 4:9”In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.”

John 6: 47, 48 “Verily, verily, I say unto you He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  I am that bread of life.”

 

II Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

If you are not saved, I pray you will accept Christ as your Savior to day. We are not promised another minute on this earth. We are but on a journey, passing though this world to the next, and you have a choice of where you will spend eternity. I pray you choose to spend it in Heaven with the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit and all those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God and paid our sin debt for us. 

Seek out a Bible preaching church in your area, one where God word is preached and  is the center of their service, study and devotion.