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Genesis 12

Genesis 12:1 Then Yahveh said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kin and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you an influential nation, and I will bless you and make your name important and be a blessing.

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the land will be blessed.”

Genesis 12:4 So Abram went, as Yahveh had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 12:5 So Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the throats that they had made in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were still occupying the land.

Genesis 12:7 Then Yahveh appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to worship Yahveh, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8 From there he traveled to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to Yahveh and called upon the name of Yahveh.

Genesis 12:9 And Abram journeyed on, setting out toward the Negev.

Genesis 12:10 But there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to stay there as a guest, because the famine in the land was heavy.[1]

Genesis 12:11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Notice, I know that you are a woman who looks beautiful,

Genesis 12:12 so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Genesis 12:13 Say you are my sister, that things may go well with me because of you, and that my throat may be kept alive for your sake.”

Genesis 12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they bragged about her to Pharaoh. So, the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 12:16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he was given sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves,[2] female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12:17 But Yahveh cursed Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of the presence of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12:18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, notice your wife; take her, and go.”

Genesis 12:20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

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[1] כָּבֵד = heavy. Genesis 12:10; 13:2; 41:31; 43:1; 47:4, 13; 50:9, 10, 11.

[2] שִׁפְחָה = female slave. Genesis 12:16; 16:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8; 20:14; 24:35; 25:12; 29:24, 29; 30:4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 18, 43; 32:5, 22; 33:1, 2, 6; 35:25, 26.

Genesis 12 quotes:

“Thus in Abraham the failure of Adam is partially reversed, and through his seed God promises to bless all humanity again. In Genesis 12:1-3 God promises Abram three things: nationhood (see 12:1-2), a dynastic kingdom (see 12:2, “a great name”) and a worldwide family (see 12:3).”

Hahn, Kimberly, and Michael Barber. Genesis to Jesus : Studying Scripture from the Heart of the Church. St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2007. p. 94.

“Yahweh now seems to center his attention on one man—from the men of one family, from among all the families on earth—to set him apart and interact with him for what will be an extended period of time and a significant block of our narrative (Gen. 12:1-25:10). We note that in what is said by the narrator about Abram, and in what Yahweh says to him in what follows, we learn nothing about this man that specifically motivates or justifies Yahweh’s particular attention. Unlike Noah, he is not described in moral or ethical terms. Nor is he said to have “walked with God.” He is not depicted as having done anything especially to attract Yahweh’s attention. In fact, if God is concerned with the generation of life, as he is in Genesis, for example, Abram is an unlikely choice for special attention. Genesis 12 opens with a remarkably unmotivated and thereby all the more remarkable speech by Yahweh.”

Humphreys, W. Lee. The Character of God in the Book of Genesis : A Narrative Appraisal. 1st ed., Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. p.82.

“Despite this repeated offer in the past, beginning with the word to Adam and Eve where he blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28), humanity insisted on seeking meaning on its own terms by questing for a “name.” That is why the bold announcement in Genesis 12:2, where God declared that he would freely give a “name” to Abram, was so unexpected. Rather than it being a human achievement that came by means of Abram’s own works, it would come as a gift from God’s free grace.”

Kaiser, Walter C. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel As a Light to the Nations. 2nd ed., Baker Academic, 2012. p. 9.

Genesis 12 links:

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Genesis 11

Genesis 11:1 Now the whole land had one language and used the same words.

Genesis 11:2 And as people set out from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:3 And they said every man to his friend, “Come, let us make bricks, and bake them completely.” So, they had brick for stone, and asphalt for mortar.

Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”

Genesis 11:5 And Yahveh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam had built.

Genesis 11:6 And Yahveh said, “Notice, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Genesis 11:7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8 So Yahveh scattered them from there over the face of all the land, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9 That is why its name was called Babel, because there Yahveh confused the language of all the land. And from there Yahveh scattered them over the face of all the land.

Genesis 11:10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old (two years after the flood) he fathered Arpachshad.

Genesis 11:11 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

Genesis 11:13 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14 After Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

Genesis 11:15 then Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16 After Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

Genesis 11:17 then Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18 After Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

Genesis 11:19 then Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20 After Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

Genesis 11:21 then Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22 After Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

Genesis 11:23 then Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24 After Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

Genesis 11:25 Then Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27 Here are the generations from Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 11:28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 11:30 But Sarai was without offspring; she had no child.

Genesis 11:31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans purposing to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 11:32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 11 quotes:

“There are, of course, various lines of evidence in the Bible itself which militate against the strict-chronology interpretation of the genealogy of Genesis 11:10-26.’ But although the Biblical text does not appear to speak unequivocally as to the date of the Flood, it does give strong witness that this date is on the order of magnitude of only some several thousands of years ago.”

Whitcomb, John C. The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications. Presbyterian and Reformed Pub, 1964. p. 391.

“They had a particular goal in mind. “Come, let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t be dispersed over all the earth” (Genesis 11:4). A fascinating kind of isolationism was at work. They had no way of knowing if there were other humans in other places, and they didn’t want to know. They saw themselves as the earth’s only occupants. They had no idea what lay beyond the farther reach of hills, and they didn’t care to find out. Perhaps they were haunted by the memory of a tradition, that their human assignment was to “fill the earth and master it” (1:28), and they really didn’t care to get involved with all of the earth. Or, on the other hand, perhaps they had a mythic memory of an Eden from which their ancestors had been expelled, and they didn’t intend to suffer that kind of fate again.”

Kalas, J. Ellsworth. Genesis. Abingdon Press, 2011. p. 42.

“The uniqueness of the genealogies in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 lies in the fact that they include a complete list of each person’s birth, age at procreation, and life span even though they lived four thousand to six thousand years ago. The completeness of the genealogies affirms that God’s redemptive work did not cease in any generation, but continued throughout history.”

Park, Abraham. Genesis Genealogies: God’s Administration in the History of Redemption (Book 1). Periplus Editions, 2016. p. 38.

Genesis 11 links:

ACST 28. Sin- The War
Faith, obedience and worship
first look at the nation God chose
let us build a city
Only one Abram
The language barrier

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Genesis 10

Genesis 10:1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Genesis 10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:8 Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first on the land to be a mighty man.

Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahveh. Therefore, it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahveh.”

Genesis 10:10 The first of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:11 From that land Ham went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

Genesis 10:12 Resen (the great city) between Nineveh and Calah.

Genesis 10:13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines descended), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15 Canaan fathered his firstborn Sidon and Heth,

Genesis 10:16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 10:18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites scattered.

Genesis 10:19 But the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:21 To Shem also children were born. He was the ancestor of all the children of Eber, and an older brother of Japheth.

Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Genesis 10:24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

Genesis 10:25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the land was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Genesis 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:30 The region in which they lived extended from Mesha in the route of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad in the land after the flood.

Genesis 10 quotes:

“What does Genesis 10 tell and teach? It tells that there was a large family upon earth. This was the family of Noah after the flood. Noah survived the flood with his wife and his three sons and their wives. This chapter begins with the names of the three sons given, presumably, in the order of their age, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Then it tells us that these sons in turn had further descendants. The remainder of the chapter is occupied with listing in systematic order those descendants.”

Finegan, Jack. In the Beginning; a Journey through Genesis. [1st ed.] ed., Harper, 1962. p. 64.

“Genesis 1—11 itself contains a clear example of nonchronological order. Genesis 10 depicts various peoples “spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language” (10:5), and then Genesis 11:1-9 tells the antecedent story of oy that situation came about.”

Youngblood, Ronald F. How It All Began: A Bible Commentary for Laymen. GL Regal Books, 1980. p. 28.

“A careful search of the context of Genesis 10:25 clearly reveals that the division of the earth refers to the dividing up of the post-Flood people on the basis of languages and families, and moving them into different geographical locations. In fact, all of Genesis 10 is dedicated to dividing up Noahs family into its three major divisions based on Noah’s three sons and their families, and then to further list the sub-family groups.”

Ham, Ken. The New Answers. Primera edición ed., Master Books, 2006. p. 221.

Genesis 10 links:

A name
A Problem for Shem & Japheth

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Genesis 9

Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his family and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land.

Genesis 9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living thing of the land and upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. They are placed into your hand.

Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. And as I gave you the vegetation, I give you everything.

Genesis 9:4 But you will not eat flesh with its throat, that is, its blood.

Genesis 9:5 And for the blood of your throats I will require the same: from every living thing I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require the same for killing the throat of man.

Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man will his blood be shed, because God made man in his own image.

Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase on the land and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, and this is what he said,

Genesis 9:9 “Notice, I am establishing my covenant with you and your seed after you,

Genesis 9:10 and with every living throat that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every living thing of the land with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every living thing of the land.

Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again will every flesh be cut off by the water of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the land.”

Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living throat that is with you, for all future generations:

Genesis 9:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the land.

Genesis 9:14 When I place clouds over the land and the rainbow is seen in the clouds,

Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living throat of every flesh. And the water will never again become a flood to destroy every flesh.

Genesis 9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the permanent covenant between God and every living throat of every flesh that is on the land.”

Genesis 9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and every flesh that is on the land.”

Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole land were scattered.

Genesis 9:20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

Genesis 9:25 he said, “Canaan is cursed; a slave[1] of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26 He also said, “Blessed be Yahveh, the God of Shem; and Canaan will be his slave.

Genesis 9:27 May God expand Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, Canaan will be his slave.”

Genesis 9:28 Noah lived 350 years past the flood.

Genesis 9:29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

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[1] עֶבֶד = slave. Genesis 9:25, 26, 27; 12:16; 14:15; 18:3, 5; 19:2, 19; 20:8, 14; 21:25; 24:2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 17, 34, 35, 52, 53, 59, 61, 65, 66; 26:15, 19, 24, 25, 32; 27:37; 30:43; 32:4, 5, 10, 16, 18, 20; 33:5, 14; 39:17, 19; 40:20; 41:10, 12, 37, 38; 42:10, 11, 13; 43:18, 28; 44:7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33; 45:16; 46:34; 47:3, 4, 19, 25; 50:2, 7, 17, 18.

Genesis 9 quotes:

“The first reference to capital punishment is Genesis 9:6—“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God has God made man.” Murder, the shedding of man’s blood by man, is declared to be a capital crime because of the unique value of human life. Mankind bears the imago Dei, and the willful termination of an embodiment of that image merits the ultimate penalty—death. This principle extends to the entire human race because Noah, to whom it was given, stood at the head of a new beginning of the human race. Principles given to Noah were not confined to any group, family, or cult.”

House, H. Wayne, and John Howard Yoder. The Death Penalty Debate. Word Pub, 1991. p. 30.

“It would indeed appear that by far the largest part of the many millennia of all human history is covered in the brief record contained in roughly chapters 2 through 6 of the book of Genesis (or through chapter 8, if we include the Deluge episode). And, measuring again simply in terms of the passage of time, considerably more than half of the history from the Flood to the present is dealt with in Genesis 9 through 11.

Kline, Meredith G. Kingdom Prologue : Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview. Wipf and Stock, 2006. p. 10.

“Because of the Flood’s destruction of all life, future generations might conclude that life is cheap to God and assume that humans can do likewise. However, the covenant affirms the sacredness of human life and that murder is punishable by losing one’s life. The text, therefore, institutes the principle of talionic justice, or law of like punishment. It is not-a harsh principle of justice, for it establishes the premise that the punishment should fit the crime.”

Eckman, James P. Christian Ethics in a Postmodern World. Evangelical Training Association, 1999. p. 66.

Genesis 9 links:

A Blessing for Shem & Japheth
A Curse on Canaan
A New Covenant
all about a Promise (part 1)
discovered
Excursus- Moses on the souls of animals
Grudem on the Image of God in humanity
soul searching
the promise – eternal life

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Genesis 8

Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the living things and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters began to dry.

Genesis 8:2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were closed, the rain from the sky was restrained,

Genesis 8:3 and the water receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5 And the water continued to go down until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Genesis 8:6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water was dried up from the land.

Genesis 8:8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water had receded from the face of the ground.

Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned for him to the ark, because the water was still on the face of the whole land. So, he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

Genesis 8:10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:11 And the dove came back to him in the evening and he noticed that in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So, Noah understood that the water had subsided from the land.

Genesis 8:12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

Genesis 8:13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water had dried from off the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and noticed the face of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land had dried out.

Genesis 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, and this is what he said,

Genesis 8:16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8:17 Bring out with you everything alive of every flesh that is with you: birds and living things and every moving thing on the land – that they may swarm on the land and be fruitful and multiply on the land.”

Genesis 8:18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Genesis 8:19 Every living thing, every moving thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the land, went in groups from the ark.

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to Yahveh and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered ascending offerings[1] on the altar.

Genesis 8:21 And when Yahveh smelled the pleasing aroma, Yahveh said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, because the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 8:22 While all the days of the land remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not stop.”

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[1] עֹלָה = ascending offering. Genesis 8:20; 22:2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13.

Genesis 8 quotes:

“Always prepare your heart to give strange obedience to strange instructions in order to facilitate strange positive results. When the unusual happens, especially after much prayer and absolute dependence on God, do not panic; that’s part of the deliverance package. All you need to do is contact the control tower. The unusual God will use the unusual means to remove the unusual sound that terrorises you and land your ark safely in an unusual manner.”

Ajitena, Ebenezer. Designed for Success: A Motivational Book for Today’s “Ark-Builder.” Emmanuel House, 2000. p. 47.

“This is the second mention of ‘rest’ in Scripture, the first being when God rested after His work of creation (Genesis 2:2). Actually, these are two different, though synonymous, Hebrew words (‘Shabath’, Genesis 2:2 and ‘Nuwach’, Genesis 8:4). If the ark is a true type of Christ…this is most appropriate. As God ‘finished’ His work of creation and as the ark ‘finished’ its mission, so also Christ ‘finished His work of salvation. (John 19:30, ‘It is finished’).”

Johnson, Jeffrey D. God Was There: Genesis Chapters 1-12. Resource Publications, 2005. p. 86.

“What we are really learning in Genesis 8:1 is that God is active. Theistic evolutionists believe that God has created this world by a process of blind evolution. Although they object strongly when I say it, they basically believe that God has set everything going and then stands back in order to observe it, without real involvement. Genesis 8:1 is, therefore, strong evidence against theistic evolution. God left nothing to chance.”

Taylor, Paul. Don’t Miss the Boat : Facts to Keep Your Faith Afloat. Master Books, 2013. p. 38.

Genesis 8 links:

first look at a second chance
first look at a second covenant
introducing the breath of God
Worship as a response for deliverance

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 19, 2018
Maranatha Daily Devotional – May 19, 2015

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