Continental Divide

Continental Divide

Genesis 7: ⁷ So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, ⁹ two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

 

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On the second- and third-day GOD created water capable of rain and fountains capable of tearing apart the large land mass known as dry land or earth. GOD, in HIS week of creation, already knew what HE was going to do to save mankind from itself. All of life depended on something flimsy, dysfunctional and unattractive as an ark.

 

My Observations:

• GOD used water to break up the earth and flood the land.
• GOD knew HE would need to save humanity from the bad choices caused by Satan’s temptation.
• GOD kept HIS promise of what HE said HE was going to do.

 

Every human, animal and bug would be drowned if they were not on the ark. GOD had completed HIS inspection of the ark and told Noah and his family to “come inside.” HE then left the ark and caused it to rain. HE broke up the land mass into the seven continents of today. The water that gently gave life to the plants was now destructive and a force that could not be overcome.

 

After Noah finished his ark, they all went inside. Not knowing what would really happen they got settled in. The miraculous movement and obedience of the animals gave the family some comfort that the thing Noah had been talking about for decades was really going to happen.  On a very specific day, the first raindrop fell.

 

Challenge

• Why was GOD so specific to Moses about the date it started raining?
• Have you ever been amazed at GOD keeping HIS promise to you?
• Has GOD planned out salvation for you in ways that are different than what you thought?