Exposition of Genesis 1-11

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Exposition of Genesis 1-11

• The Flood
• Part III
• Gen 71-12

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Systematic Theology in Gen 1-11

• God (Theology Proper)
• Creator of all things
• Judge
• Savior, from the curse of sin and from the flood
• Requires obedience that originates from the heart
• Man (Anthropology)
• Made in Gods image, male and female
• Gods regent over creation
• Sin (Harmatiology)
• Entered in through the first man
• Brought death and a curse upon the ground
• Grew worse in mankind with each successive
  generation
• Salvation (Soteriology)
• Noah and his family in the ark

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The Overall Structure of Genesis

• Key Word tdol.AT, The generations of...
• the Heavens and the Earth (24 426)
• Adam (51 68)
• Noah (69 927)
• Sons of Noah (101 1110)
• Shem (1110-26)
• Terah (1127 2511)
• Ishmael (2512-18)
• Isaac (2519 3529)
• Esau (361 371)
• Jacob (372 5014)

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Noah Commanded to Enter the Ark Gen 71-5

• The ark was now finished, and Noah and his family
  are commanded to enter it.
• In contrast to the corruption of the earth which
  the Lord saw, here He has seen that Noah alone
  was righteous among this generation.
• In addition to the two of every species that the
  Lord will bring to the ark, Noah is to take seven
  pairs of clean animals and birds.
• Though not explicitly stated here, the five extra
  pairs of clean animals will be used for sacrifice
  (820) and food (93).
• The male and female pairs are necessary to
  preserve each species.

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Noah Commanded to Enter the Ark Gen 71-5

• The task of loading the animals and food on the
  ark would take six full days on the seventh the
  flood would begin.
• While a worldwide, continuous rain of 40 days and
  nights may not be possible in todays atmospheric
  conditions, it was then.
• Again, as earlier in 67 and again in 723, the
  purpose is stated as to blot out from the land
  every living thing which I have made.

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Noah and the Animals Enter the Ark (Gen 76-9)

• The chronology of the flood is dated by Noahs
  age we will look at this in more detail later.
• These verses declare that what was commanded was
  fulfilled Noah, his family, and the requisite
  pairs of animals all entered the ark.
• Consider the spectacle and witness of animals
  coming from all over the land to board the ark.
• Noah and his family were the last to enter as the
  flood waters began (77).

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The Flood BeginsGen 710-12

• On the seventh day the flood waters came as
  predicted.
• We have here a more precise description of this
  day the six hundredth year of Noahs life, in
  the second month, on the seventeenth day of the
  month.
• This will be especially important as look at the
  end date of the flood.

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The Flood BeginsGen 710-12

• The water bursts forth from two sources
• the fountains of the great deep
• the windows of heaven
• Again it is stated that it rained continuously
  for 40 days and 40 nights.

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The FloodPart IV

• Gen 713-24