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Genesis 8

Genesis 8. Noah Worships the LORD Jehovah. The Flood .

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Genesis 8

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  1. Genesis 8 Noah Worships the LORD Jehovah

  2. The Flood “The Flood is the greatest single event in the history of the earth since the days of Creation. It is the most satisfactory solution for most of the problems which perplex and confuse the Christian student of geology and physical geography. But the Flood has more than a geological significance. The basic cause for this great world catastrophe was not geological or cosmic, but ethical and moral…”

  3. The Flood “…Because of the wickedness of man God destroyed that world of superb perfection which He had created for an habitation of man. A study of the Flood would therefore be incomplete without a reference to the moral depravity of that generation which was responsible for the destruction of the earth and without some application to the world of today” (Rehwinkel, The Flood, p. 343)

  4. The Flood According to the Lord Jesus, and the Apostles, the Great Flood was a prototype of the final Judgment awaiting the present world. 2 Peter 3:5-7 – “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”

  5. The Flood Jesus said in Matthew 24:37-39: “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be”

  6. Genesis 8:20-21 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.” (NASB)

  7. Genesis 8:20-21 Q: Why has Noah turned his thoughts toward God? • The world has changed • It has become forbidding and uncompromising • Storms are brewing • Rains continuing, although not violent like they were • Earthquakes, and volcanic action continued

  8. Genesis 8:20-21 Since the Garden of Eden, access to God came through a sacrificial offering • Noah had an extra clean animal to offer (if there were 7 of each clean animal---or more to offer if there were 7 pairs of clean animals) • He built an altar, perhaps at the Ark, toward the top of Ararat • He offered up each kind of clean animal and bird • This is the first mention of ‘altar’ in the Bible

  9. Genesis 8:20-21 • The word ‘sacrifice’ is used for sacrifices of praise • Hebrews 13:15 “Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that ]give thanks to His name.”

  10. Genesis 8:20-21 • It is used for sacrifices of propitiation • “atonement”---covering what is offensive, restoring friendship, or causing to be kindly disposed; • “friendliness” where antagonism would be natural: “graciousness”) • Romans 3:25 “…whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed”

  11. Genesis 8:20-21 • Hebrews 2:17 “For this reason He had to be made like his brohters in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that He might make atonement {reconciliation} for the sins of the people” (NIV) • I John 2:2 “He is the propitiation for our sins…” • I John 4:10 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins”

  12. Genesis 8:20-21 • This word is used for sacrifices of thanksgiving for deliverance from the corruption of the antediluvian world, and for preservation through the Flood • Psalm 50:13 “He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;and to him who ordershis way arightI shall show the salvation of God.”

  13. Genesis 8:20-21 • It is used for intercession for his descendants in the new world, that their lives might be protected and the earth not destroyed by water like it was • Intercession for mankind like Abraham (who prayed in Gen. 17:18 for Ishmael; in 18:23-33 for Sodom; in Gen 20:17 for Abimelech after Sarah was brought into the harem); and as Jacob prayed for the sons of Joseph (Gen. 48:8-23) • The absence of intercession between the time of Jacob through Moses shows how intensely personal and individual the religious consciousness was

  14. Genesis 8:20-21 • Moses takes intercessory prayer to a new height • Exodus 15:25 (the bitter, poisonous water at Marah) • Exodus 17:4, and 17:8-16 (Meribah – strike the rock) • Exodus 32:11 – 33:12f with the golden calf • Numbers 10:35f (praying as the Ark moved out…) • Deuteronomy 3:23f (praying as they enter the Promised Land) • Psalm 90 – “A prayer of Moses, the man of God”

  15. Genesis 8:21 21 The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for theintent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

  16. Genesis 8:21 Two events in Noah’s life have earth-wide importance and are recorded after the Flood: • Noah’s sacrifice with the Divine promise which follows (8:20-9:17) • The prophetic curse and blessing Noah pronounced upon his sons---especially upon Canaan, grandson of Ham (9:18-29)

  17. Genesis 8:21 Until the Flood, God’s presence was still residing on the earth, in the place where the Garden of Eden was. • They could commune with Him, or after the Fall, at least have a place to center their worship and adoration. • After the Flood, there was no Garden of Eden, and no place where God was residing on the earth. • They began to build altars to sacrifice upon, and as a visual place to turn their hearts toward God.

  18. Genesis 8:21 Q: What about the ‘smoke of the altar’ ascending to heaven… In the future, the hearts of the pious had to be drawn heavenward, and their offerings and prayers needed to ascend on high, if they were to reach the throne of God. To give direction to their offerings, heights or elevated places were erected, from which the sacrifices ascended towards heaven visually in fire and smoke. (K & D, p. 150) The word ‘offering’ literally means ‘the ascending’

  19. Genesis 8:21 “And Jehovah smelled the smell of satisfaction” • He graciously accepted the feelings of the person offering a sacrifice, which rose to Him in the odor of the sacrificial flame. In the sacrificial flame, the essence of the animal was resolved into vapor; so that when man presented a sacrifice in his own stead, his inmost being, his spirit, and his heart ascended to God in the vapor, and the sacrifice brought the feeling of his heart before God.(K & D, p. 151) • This feeling of gratitude for gracious protection and the desire for further communication of grace, was pleasing to God

  20. Genesis 8:21 • God relieved their immediate apprehensions by promising never again to destroy all life on the earth, destroying the earth with such a devastating curse as they had just experienced • The curse of Genesis 8:21 is not primarily the Flood, but the curse of Genesis 3:17, which will prevail until fulfillment of Revelation 22:3; although the Flood was perhaps more immediately in their minds • God was not removing the Curse, but rather promising that there would never again be a world-wide judgment such as the Edenic law of death, or the Noahic visitation of death as in the Flood (K & D)

  21. Genesis 8:21 “…for the imaginations of man’s heart is evil from his youth” • Mankind is evil from his youth up – evil is innate in us • We need the forbearance (patience) of God • In the offering of the righteous Noah, not only were thanks presented for past protection on the Ark, and entreaty for present care in the new world, but Noah is expressing a desire to remain in fellowship with God, and thus obtain His divine favor (K & D, p. 151)

  22. Genesis 8:21 “On the basis of an atoning sacrifice, God’s salvation and blessing are received by faith. Thus, for the very reason that man is completely unable to save himself, therefore God saves him! Truly, He is the God of all grace! Noah had ‘found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8) and, through his faithful obedience and his believing sacrifice, so have multitudes of his descendants. He did, indeed, ‘comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed’ ” (Genesis 5:29) (Morris, p. 217)

  23. Genesis 8:21 Q: Is the Curse is found in the very structure of the basic laws of science • It is found in the laws of thermodynamics • First Law of Thermodynamics: The total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transferred from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed • Second Law of Thermodynamics: All systems when left to themselves tend to become degraded, or disordered (watches run down; organisms grow old and die; mutations lead to the extinction of the organism, etc)

  24. Genesis 8:21 • The Curse is found in the testimony of the earth-wide Flood as seen everywhere in the structure of the rocks of the earth’s crust • It is found in the earth-wide fossil graveyard, 95% of which contains invertebrate sea-dwelling creatures • It is found in the universal evidence of a cataclysmic event that has happened earth-wide

  25. Genesis 8:21 Q: Why has mankind distorted this record into a system of evolution, and uniformity, disputing the Laws of Thermodynamics (or the laws of “science”)? • Romans 1:21-23 – “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures…”

  26. Genesis 8:21 • 2 Peter 3:5 describes mankind as ‘willfully ignorant” • 2 Peter 3:9 – however “God is longsuffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”

  27. Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” • God gave Noah the promise that he need not fear God, or a recurrence of events like the Flood

  28. Genesis 8:22 Q: Is the principle of ‘uniformitarianism’ currently in effect, even though the world was dramatically different before the Flood? • Yes • Uniformity in the physical processes began after the Flood, and can be counted on to remain the same • Earth’s natural processes could be depended upon

  29. Genesis 8:22 The present hydrologic cycle was gradually established, with the energy of the solar radiation serving to draw up water by evaporation from the oceans and then to move it inland by the winds, where it can condense into clouds and fall to the ground as rain or snow, and finally run off through the rivers, back to the ocean again This process is often mentioned in the Bible, with remarkable scientific accuracy (Ps. 33:7; 135:7; Ecc. 1:6-7; Job 26:8; 36:27-28; Isaiah 55:10) (Morris)

  30. Genesis 8:22 The regularity of nature, which modern scientists have formalized as their ‘principle of uniformity’ was instituted by God after the Flood The seasons, heat/cold, day/night, are now controlled primarily by the sun, which actually supplies all the energy for the earth’s physical processes The earth’s orbital revolution about the sun, its axial rotation and inclination, and its marvelous atmosphere also help establish these constants of nature, which in turn control most other geological processes.

  31. Genesis 8:22 The promised uniformity of the seasons and the daily cycle implies the essential uniformity of all other natural processes. Only these present processes can be actually seen by modern scientists, and be observed, described, and analyzed. The present---not the past---or the future---is the proper domain of true science (Morris, p. 219)

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