Friday, 2 January 2015

The Story of the Flood

Genesis 7:1 –9
1 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation..
2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female , to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

Further Reading:
Corrupt civilization – Genesis 6:1-7, 11 – 12
Instructions for building the ark – Genesis 6:8, 13 – 21
Birth of Noah’s sons – Genesis 5:32, 6:9 – 10, 1 Chronicles 1:4
Death of Lamech – Genesis 5: 30 - 31
Death of Methuselah – Genesis 5:26 -27
Entering the ark – Genesis 6:22, 7: 1 – 9
The Flood: rain falls – Genesis 7:10 – 24
The Flood: rain stops – Genesis 8:1 – 19
God’s rainbow covenant – Genesis 8:20 -22, 9:1-17

Thought for Today
God took Noah into the Flood – and He also brought him out of it. Similarly, He has not brought you to this point in your life to abandon you. Whatever the problems you face at this moment – God will bring you through

Contemplation
“For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matt. 24: 38 – 39)

Prayer
O Lord my God, help me to clearly hear your voice when you speak to me, and to listen to you every day of my life. Help me to make right decisions always, through Jesus Christ I’ve prayed. Amen.














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