The Righteous Family Preserved

Faith and Obedience Required

Gen 6:14-16 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

Gen 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

One Plan of Escape

Because of Adam and Eve's sin, they had to leave the garden.
Because of Cain's sin, a mark was upon him, and he was banished from the presence of the Lord.

1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
2 Pet 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly:
God has said,

The Place of Safety

One week before the flood, God led Noah. the animals and his family into the ark.
God closed the door.

Gen 7:15-16 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Noah Receives a Promise

One of the first things that Noah did upon leaving the ark was to build an altar upon which he offered burnt offerings to the Lord.
This was not the end of God's communication with Noah.
God told Noah and his family to multiply and fill the earth.
He said from that time forward animals would fear humans and could be used for food.

Gern 9:1-4 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon al! the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have, I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof. shall ye not eat.
Before this time only plants were eaten.

Gen 2:8-9 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Remember death was a result of sin. That included the death of animals.

Gen 9:9-13 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

February 15, 2025