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Muskegon SDA Church

Lessons from the Book of Genesis

Kameron DeVasher

The Eden Family

The Fallen Family

The Flood

From Babel to Abram

The Faith of Abraham

Isaac & Rebekah

Jacob’s Troubles

The Children of Israel

Of Joseph and Jesus

In the first couple chapters of Genesis, it tells us the story of creation, how the world was physically made, and the Lord's designs, and its original ideal.

And everything was great for those first 2 chapters, until Genesis chapter 3, and the fall comes along.

And we saw that man was plunged into sin and with him humanity as a whole and all of his descendants would have that inclination towards sin.

Genesis chapter 4 and 5 was the focus of our study last Sabbath when we looked at the 2 lines from that fallen family.

We had the line of rebellious Cain and his descendants reflecting the character of their forefather.

And you also saw the line in Genesis chapter 5 of the faithful through Abel and eventually through his replacement Seth and their lineage there, and how the Lord maintained a people on the earth who were faithful to him.

And so you had these 2 lines going forward, but now we come to Genesis chapter 6 where those 2 lines come together.

And you would love to think that yes the faithful line of Seth would win the hearts and minds of that unrepentant unfaithful line of Cain and they would come up to that high standard and join them on the high road but in fact what we see is quite the opposite, that the good is out won by the evil, and thus we have the flood.

The flood is the story that we're going to be studying this morning, but before we study, let's begin with a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for this day.

And now as we turn our attention to a study of your word, I would ask that you would teach us as you've promised to do and lead us into truth, not just of history, Lord, but of personal application to the days in which we're living just before your coming.

Again, Genesis chapter 6, if you would turn there, brings together those genealogies that were recorded in Genesis 4 and 5.

Starting with verse 1, we read, Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, and now it outlines 2 lines, 2 groups, that the sons of God, that is a representation of that faithful line of Genesis 5, saw the daughters of men, it's a reference to the unfaithful line there we saw in Genesis 4, that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves of all whomever they chose.

And the result in verse 3, and the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years.

The Lord looks ahead and sees where this is going that the wickedness is fastly multiplying on the earth In fact it look at verse 5.

What was the extent of the wickedness that was the result?

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth now notice carefully the language and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually every only always that's repetition repetition over and over again what's he trying to say that wickedness has flourished and the wickedness apparently has triumphed in the earth that God created just such a seemingly short while ago in Edenic perfection.

But Every inclination, intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, continually.

So what do we find in verse 11 as we go through here?

The earth also was corrupt before the God and the earth was filled with violence.

So God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Sin was ubiquitous, it was universal, it spanned the globe.

Now Genesis chapter 6, 7, 8, and then 9 record the story of the flood and all of its details.

And we don't have time to go through all of those chapters, but briefly you understand that there was a hundred and 20 years of probation given to the people on earth at that time and Noah Who found grace in the eyes of the Lord was so well read was instructed to build an ark and he was instructed to build that ark for the protection not only of himself and his family and also all the animals that would repopulate the earth after it was destroyed with a flood, but also to anyone else who would be willing to come in if they would turn from their ways and join Noah and his family on the ark.

Now it has been it has been suggested by of course secular non-believing science that the flood described here in Genesis 6-9 was merely a local flood affecting only a small portion of the ancient Near East.

It was not really the worldwide event that we've kind of made it out to be.

We've kind of blown it up into a caricature, but it's actually just a high water time or high season of water in some particular part of the world.

But I want you to demonstrate from the text that what we're describing here is not just a few bad apples and the Lord is correcting a local issue, but this was a worldwide global event.

For example, here in Genesis chapter 6, again look at verse 7.

So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made him." Now go to verse 17 of the same chapter.

Let's see the extent of this destruction.

And behold, I myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under heaven, what's that next word?

All flesh which is in the breath, which in which is the breath of life, everything that is on the earth shall die.

For after 7 more days I will cause it to rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made." Going down to verse 17 of the same chapter.

The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills unto the whole heaven were covered.

The waters prevailed 15 cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the Spirit of life, all that was on the dry land died.

So he destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air.

Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

Is it clear that the Bible is not trying to describe high water or flooding in the springtime?

This is talking about a worldwide, global, life-ending catastrophe.

Now what's interesting about this, by the way, I want to drop this in here, in Patriarchs and Prophets, page 99, speaking of how big and how bad and how scary this flood event was, we read these words.

As the violence of the storm increased, Trees, buildings, rocks, and earth were hurled in every direction.

The terror of man and beast was beyond description." Then she adds, "'Satan himself, who was compelled to remain in the midst of the warring elements feared for his own existence.

It was not only ending the life of every animal, and every man, and everything on the earth.

It was so big and bad that Satan had an inkling for a moment that this might be his final end.

Also, by the way, there are several Hebrew words that are translated into English as flood, they're used throughout the Bible.

But, There's 1 Hebrew word that's used specifically and exclusively to describe this event.

Now, I don't know Hebrew, but that 1 word is used only 13 times in the Bible.

12 of those 13 times are right here in the Genesis account of the flood.

Every time you see the word flood in there, that word is being translated as Mabul.

It's a unique word that's only used 1 other time in scripture, and that is in Psalm 29, which was our call to worship this morning, where the Lord is looking back on the flood.

David is looking back on the work of the Lord at the flood.

And he mentions it, capital F, the Flood, the Maboul.

It's a distinct word that doesn't just mean it can't be mistaken for high water at a certain season or flooding of a particular river.

It means a catastrophic, life-ending, world-altering event.

Also by the way, the geological record evidences a worldwide flood very helpfully.

If you ever noticed, if you've ever been to the Grand Canyon or anything like it where you've seen lots of deep layers of the rock and the earth stripped away, what do you find?

You find these beautiful, flat, very smooth layers of rocks, right, and different materials in the earth.

Now, you know, evolutionists will tell us that Those were built over long, long periods of time, massive epochs, eras of Earth's history.

But somehow they all remain very, very flat.

But for instance, if you look at the topography of our Earth right now, it is not perfectly flat.

But there are other places where it's very, very jagged or very, very deep and rivers and gorges cut through it.

And it's not a flat, smooth, even surface.

And if it were to be settled in that way, you would see in the rock layers topography that matches what we see today.

But somehow, all of the Earth's history that is collected in that rock layer is laid down perfectly flat and perfectly smooth, as though it were laid out by liquid poured out in a great flood.

Anyway, we could go through the science of it all.

Also, you have other interesting things, like single objects, like petrified trees will run through several different rock layers that apparently that tree was billions of years old or something like that.

But we could go through all that, but number 1, it's Not my bag of tricks.

And the burden of our message today is not to establish the scientific credibility of the flood, though I believe that it's quite scientifically accurate.

What I want to bring to your attention today is that The lesson of Genesis 6, 7, 8, and 9, the destruction of the world by water that occurred early on in Earth's history, is actually used as a template for what will happen again in the times in which we're living.

Matthew chapter 24, the words of Jesus himself as he describes the events surrounding and preceding his own return.

Matthew chapter 24, starting with verse 37.

Again, this is Jesus himself speaking about the events surrounding and preceding his own return to the earth.

But as the days of Noah were, so also will be the coming, will the coming of the Son of Man be.

So he explains, for as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all the way, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." So he makes a parallel.

If you want to know what the second coming will be like, look at the flood event.

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