Genesis: 7-9

Genesis 7-9

This year, I plan on reading the Old Testament of the Bible within the 2012 calendar year. Follow me on this journey! Please, if you have questions of comments... let me know! 

Scripture Thought (What I Learned):

Ark replica.

Chapter 7: Noah is commanded by God to bring with him in the Ark seven of each clean animal, male and female and 2 of every other animal that is unclean; male and female. We can find a list of clean and unclean animals in Leviticus 11.

                God tells Noah that he will cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. Noah was 600 years old when the earth was flooded.

                With the Ark built, and the animals loaded... and 125 years of preparation...  they were ready for the floods to come from the "...fountains of the great deep..." and from the "...windows of heaven..." (Genesis 7:11)

                The waters covered the entire earth, even the highest mountains in the world were covered by at least 22.5 feet of water (or 15 cubits). It rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and the waters prevailed on the earth for 150 days.

                One cool thing that you can find throughout the scriptures (Shakespear, Bible, Book of Mormon) is Chiasmus:

                "The figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism. Chiasmus was particularly popular both in Greek and in Latin literature, where it was used to articulate balance or order within a text. As a popular example, many long and complex chiasmi have been found in Shakespeare and the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible. It is also used various times in the Book of Mormon."

An example of this, can be found in Genesis 7:21-23

This is from my scriptures, notice that the words underlined in blue, red and green speak of the same thing.

Chapter 8: The waters from the great deep and the rain from the heavens completely stops and the water starts to "drain". The Ark is stopped by the top of the mountains of Ararat.

                Noah decides to send out a raven and a dove to check for dry ground. Noah and his family wait patiently in the Ark until the dove brings back an Olive Leaf, which lets him know that the waters were completely removed from the face of the earth and dry ground did exist.

                God commands Noah and his family to exit the Ark and multiply and replenish the earth. Noah, to offer thanks takes some of the clean animals (how many? we don't know) and makes sacrifices of them before the Lord. Remember how 7 of each clean animal was saved for the Ark? Now we know why.

                God responded to Noah's sacrifice by saying: "...I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; ... neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done" (Genesis 8:21)    

Chapter 9: God commands Noah and his children to be fruitful and multiply the earth. God tells them that they should not shed the blood of man.  God promises to never flood the earth again, this promise is given to us almost every time it rains... the RAINBOW. (Genesis 9:11-13)

                

Noah dies at the age of 450 years.

Genesis 4-6

This year, I plan on reading the Old Testament of the Bible within the 2012 calendar year. Follow me on this journey! Please, if you have questions of comments... let me know!

Genesis 4-6

Scripture Thought (What I Learned):

Chapter 4: Cain and Abel

                Adam and Eve "knew each other", or in other words they were no longer innocent as children, and because of that... they were able to conceive a child, and they conceived Cain. They also had Abel who was Cain's brother.

                Cain gets upset with his brother Abel and kills him in the field. The Lord asks Cain where his brother is, and Cain essentially denies that he did anything.

                The Lord curses Cain and sets a mark upon him, so that people will know that it is him. Cain is banished to the land of Nod, which is east of Eden. There, Cain conceives many children with his wife. Their first child was Enoch and after him did they name the city they started in the land of Nod.

                Adam and Eve have another child named Seth to replace the loss of their son Abel. Seth has a son and calls his name Enos, and from that day forward men look unto God.

Chapter 5: The Generation of Adam

•          Adam lived until the ripe old age of 930, and then he died.
•          Seth was 105, when he conceived Enos.
•          Seth died at the age of 912.
•          Enos, conceived Cainan when he was 90.
•          Enos died at the age of 905.
•          Cainan conceived Mahalaleel when he was 70.
•          Cainan died at the age of 910.
•          Mahalaleel conceived Jared at 65.
•          Mahalaleel died at the age of 895.
•          Jared conceived Enoch at the age of 162.
•          Jared died at the age of 962.
•          Enoch conceived Methuselah at the age of 65.
•          Enoch walked with God for 300 years after Methuselah was Born. (Enoch was a righteous man).
•          Enoch died at the age of 365.
•          Methuselah conceived Lamech at the age of 887.
•          Methuselah died at the age of 969.
•          Lamech conceived Noah at the age of 182.
•          Lamech died at the age of 777.
•          Noah was 500 years old when he conceived his sons: Shem, Ham and Japeth.

Chapter 6: Noah and the Ark

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, the daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw that the daughters of men that they were fair..." 

(Genesis 5:1-2)

                I get out of this scripture that it is NATURAL for a MAN to like a WOMAN and VICE-VERSA. No where do I see that it says "the sons of God saw the sons of men that they were fair", God did not make men or women to be gay. That is not love, it is simply lust.

                But, just like in today's time we see wickedness... God was upset to the point where he said he wished he hadn't made man on the earth. God was saddened by the wickedness of men! Therefore he decided to destroy mankind and their wickedness by using the earth to flood the earth.

                "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. 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 thou shalt 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 lover, second and third stories shalt thou make it." (Genesis 6:13-17)

The Ark:

Width: 50 Cubits= 22.5 M OR 73.8 Ft.

Height: 30 Cubits=13.5 M OR 44.2 Ft.

Length: 300 Cubits-135 M OR 442.9 Ft.

Three Floors: 4.5 M in each floor 14.7 FT (the floor to ceiling had almost 15 ft tall rooms)

The Ark had 1 Single Window.

*Drawings by Harold Santos of El Salvador.

                God tells Noah that he is going to flood the earth and that it will be his responsibility to save mankind and all life on earth through him building an ark, stocking it with animals and food and surviving through the flood.

                God commands Noah to have 2 of every sort "male and female", because without male and female there is NO LIFE.