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Genesis 7:11-24 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 7:11-24.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 7:11-24 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the\u00a0LORD\u00a0shut him in.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Every living thing that moved on the earth perished–birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 11-24:\u00a0\u00a0Here just as the Lord promised, the flood comes, destroying human life and land animal life except for Moses, his family and the animals in the ark.<\/p>\n

From this I learn and am reminded of the following:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As incredible as this event sounds, Jesus speaks on a number of occasions about the flood and gives no impression that it was anything but a real and historical event.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus compares what happened at the flood to what will happen at his second coming.\u00a0\u00a0For example, see Matthew 24:37-39 where Jesus says:<\/p>\n

Matthew 24:37-39 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n37\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
\n38\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
\n39\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In certain places in Scripture, God describes his wrath like a great flood (for example, see Psalm 88:16-17).\u00a0 As Psalm 124 suggests, we don\u2019t stand a chance against the floodwaters of God\u2019s wrath:\u00a0\u201cIf the Lord had not been on our side\u2026the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us, the raging waters would have swept us away.\u201d (Psalm 124:1, 4, 5)\u00a0Our only hope in the flood of God’s holy wrath is to find refuge in whatever God makes available to us.\u00a0\u00a0For our salvation, the one thing God has made available to us as our refuge — our God-given ark, if you will — is Jesus Christ, not our own merit or performance.\u00a0\u00a0You are always best off trusting in God\u2019s Word and God\u2019s plan.\u00a0\u00a0As Jesus says when describing the person who trusts in His Word, \u201cHe is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.\u201d (Luke 6:48)<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Just as Noah and his family in the ark floated on top of the floodwaters, so when you trust in God, floodwaters may come but they will not sweep over you.\u00a0\u00a0Those who trust in the Lord can rest safely on top of the floodwaters, knowing that as the floodwaters rise, they will rise all the more.\u00a0\u00a0As Psalm 29:10 says, God sits enthroned above the flood.\u00a0\u00a0If your life is hidden in Jesus Christ, then just as Jesus sits over the flood, so you can too.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You though floodwaters may come, those who trust in You will rise above the flood with You.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 7:11-24.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 7:11-24 (NIV)
\n11\u00a0\u00a0In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
\n12\u00a0\u00a0And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
\n13\u00a0\u00a0On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark…….<\/p>\n

On verses 11-24:\u00a0\u00a0Here just as the Lord promised, the flood comes, destroying human life and land animal life except for Moses, his family and the animals in the ark.<\/p>\n

From this I learn and am reminded of the following:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As incredible as this event sounds, Jesus speaks on a number of occasions about the flood and gives no impression that it was anything but a real and historical event.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus compares what happened at the flood to what will happen at his second coming.\u00a0\u00a0For example, see Matthew 24:37-39 where Jesus says:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15444,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions\/15444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}