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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.
Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:17-24
This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
The time had come for God’s judgment.
After shutting a 600 year old Noah and his family in the ark along with all the living creatures He had prescribed, the Lord brought unrelenting rain on the earth. The scriptures tell us He unleashed “springs of the great deep” and opened “the floodgates of Heaven” on “the seventeenth day of the second month” and the downpour of water would go on for forty days and nights (Genesis 7:11-12).
We know God did this so to “wipe from the face of the earth every living creature” He had made (Genesis 7:4) or to put it another way, He was set on removing the breath from everything He breathed life into through drowning. As we look at the closing verses of Genesis, chapter 7, we see where He did just that. Look again at those words here:
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.
Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. Vv.17-24
As the waters rose, so did the ark as it floated on the surface. Note that even “the high mountains under the entire heavens” were covered to a depth of “more than fifteen cubits” which was equal to about 23 feet. This was so the ark wouldn’t run aground. “
Eventually, “every living thing that moved on land perished” and this included all the “birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind”. If there was anything “on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils”, it drowned in the great flood and all living things “on the face of the earth” were wiped out.
Therefore, the only survivors were Noah “those with him in the ark” along with the sea creatures who would have easily survived in the floodwaters.
Here, we find a classic model of this classic truth:
It is the Lord who gives and the Lord who takes away.
In this case, He had granted the gift of life to mankind who then abused the privilege they had been given. And although they had been created in God’s image, they chose to live in wickedness instead of His righteousness. And so God took away their blessing by taking their breath, His breath from them.
We should learn from this today for God has the ultimate authority and sovereignty to do what He wants, when He wants to, especially when His people choose to willfully sin against Him and in doing so, become His enemies. The scriptures are full of examples where the people of the Lord intentionally disobeyed His commands and when they did so, He showed there were consequences for doing so. There should never be a moment when we believe He can’t do the same in present times, even going as far as snatching the very breath away from someone He first gave it to.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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