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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - The Flood's Aftermath

July 19, 2025 | 28:40

John Tweedie - The Flood's Aftermath
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Flood's Aftermath | July 19, 2025
  • Whatever happened to noah's ark?
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  • In the aftermath of the great flood.
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  • And next.
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  • And this episode of the prophetic connection.
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  • Soft music
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  • What happened to the ark in the aftermath of the flood?
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  • Well, we don't have to guess.
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  • Speculate, because the bible is quite clear.
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  • Genesis eight opens with these words.
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  • Then god remembered noah and every living thing
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  • And all the animals that were with him in the ark.
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  • And god made a wind to pass over the earth,
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  • And the water subsided.
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  • The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven
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  • Were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained,
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  • And the waters receded continually from the earth.
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  • At the end of 150 days.
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  • The waters decreased.
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  • Then the ark rested on the seventh month,
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  • The 17th day of the month, on the mountains of ararat.
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  • We don't have to speculate.
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  • What happened to the ark?
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  • Because the scripture is clear.
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  • After the flood, it rested on the mountains of ararat,
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  • Which is in the present day turkey.
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  • Now, i've chosen as my backdrop
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  • For this introduction to this episode.
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  • Mount hermon in northern israel.
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  • It's israel's tallest mountain, but it is
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  • Half as tall as mount ararat.
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  • The best we can do
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  • Is to say that the ark rested on the mountains of ararat.
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  • Not necessarily ararat itself, but somewhere on that
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  • Mountain range in present day turkey.
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  • We can only begin to imagine
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  • The immense volume of water needed to cover all the mountain
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  • Ranges on earth at the time of noah's flood.
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  • But what happened
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  • To these flood waters as they began to recede?
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  • Where did they go after the flood?
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  • The waters that had covered the earth
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  • Receded into the seas and the lakes and the rivers.
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  • That we that we know today.
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  • We know that the aquifers were refilled here in israel
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  • Under the central part of our country.
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  • We have huge aquifers, holding
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  • Millions and millions of liters of water.
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  • Underground water is an important part of any ecosystem.
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  • And all of that was formed as a result of the flood
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  • Waters receding after the judgment on the earth.
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  • What we see in flooding today, you get these massive floods
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  • And the waters recede, which is what happens.
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  • The rain stops
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  • And the water gets absorbed by the ground, and then the rivers
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  • Which are overflowing and the water runs away
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  • And the land dries out.
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  • That's exactly what the text of the bible saying.
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  • And that seems to be what happens.
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  • As we can see from observing fast flowing rivers
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  • Or the immense size of tsunami waves.
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  • Water is a powerful force of nature that can burst dams
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  • Or sweep away entire communities in its path.
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  • The deluge of
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  • Noah's day was unprecedented,
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  • Unlike anything before or since.
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  • Given the sheer power of the water flow,
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  • It's entirely possible that natural phenomena
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  • Such as the majestic grand canyon were gouged out
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  • By the massive volume of water that devastated
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  • And changed the earth's landscape in noah's day.
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  • Well, even as we spoke about the description of the waters
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  • Coming so quickly, both from heavens and up from the earth,
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  • They would have also quickly needed to subside.
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  • And that could not have been done without the supernatural
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  • Hand of god.
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  • Also, if we would have flooded the earth
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  • To the height of the mountains being covered,
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  • It's going to take months and months and months,
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  • Maybe even years, for that water to subside
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  • And for the soil to be usable again.
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  • But we notice that it actually doesn't take very long at all
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  • For the water to go back into its place where god put it.
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  • So that's a supernatural act.
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  • Even in the water subsiding, i see god's miraculous
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  • Hand moving,
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  • Because when noah and the animals
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  • Come out of the ark, they don't come out to a floodplain.
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  • They come out to dry land, and it's fertile
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  • Land, and it's ready to be, reformed.
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  • And the agriculture is ready in that environment again.
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  • So for me, where did it go?
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  • It went right back to where it came from.
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  • God had a supernatural hand in all of this.
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  • If he can fill the earth to the height of the mountains
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  • In such a short time, then he can release that water
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  • To go back to its place.
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  • And and perhaps, perhaps it was
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  • The speed at which the water was returned to
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  • Its original place that we found the footprint
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  • And the impact of the flood on the earth as we see the map
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  • Today in the continents shifting.
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  • Maybe that was the moment the speed at which it receded
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  • Might have given us the footprint we see today.
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  • We know from the biblical account
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  • That while the ark was at the mercy of the elements,
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  • And was presumably buffeted by tremendous
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  • Forces of nature during the flood, it survived.
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  • But where did it eventually come to rest?
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  • In other words, what happened to the ark after the flood?
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  • The bible states that it arrested at a place
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  • On a mount called ararat that's, borders,
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  • Turkey, armenia and iran, i think.
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  • And,
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  • I know that that's an interesting word in hebrew,
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  • Because in the middle eastern language, it's, it's connected
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  • To the word arrow, which means, cursed or doomed.
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  • And so i think, you know, that kind of, signifies
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  • Maybe the name of the place, but that's where it landed
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  • After the flood.
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  • We think the ark ended up on mount ararat.
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  • That's what the bible says.
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  • And there have been numerous attempts to find it.
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  • And some have even said that they've seen evidence of it.
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  • But, according to the bible, it's there on mount ararat.
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  • And i believe personally that one day we're going to find it,
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  • And it's going to be an amazing discovery.
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  • While the likelihood that remnants of a wooden ship
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  • Could be found after more than 4000 years is unlikely,
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  • It is not impossible, given that glaciers and snow
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  • Are standard on the world's higher mountain ranges.
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  • Mount ararat is more than 17,000ft high,
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  • So remnants of the ark may remain there to this day.
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  • If buried under snow or trapped inside a glacier
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  • Like an ancient time capsule waiting to be discovered.
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  • The bible tells us that
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  • After the days when they were no more rain,
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  • But they're still floating, the waters subsided.
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  • They receded.
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  • And where god had placed the ark at the moment
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  • Of contact of the earth was on mount ararat.
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  • Today, turkey area,
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  • Lots of people have ventured to go find it.
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  • It appears there's a footprint of carbon, residue there
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  • In the exact size and shape of the ark.
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  • So all we can take from scripture is a simple reading.
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  • As the flood waters went away, god had them make contact
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  • On mount ararat.
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  • And there the ark rested.
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  • It could possibly have even broken apart
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  • At some point, moved and slid down the mountain upon later.
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  • Archeological digs might even reference that.
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  • But for us, we just going to stick with the simple story.
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  • It was left on mount ararat, and then its final resting
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  • Place has got to be somewhere in that mountain region.
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  • So the ark, you know, it says it comes to rest on mount ararat.
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  • And like i said, ararat is a kind of inaccessible place
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  • Politically, and it's hard to get to.
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  • It's very high up
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  • There is definitely seems to be some level of evidence
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  • That there's actually something up there.
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  • Although i'm saying even if it was there, the notion
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  • That a boat that's made of wood
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  • Would survive in a very hostile environment
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  • For thousands of years,
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  • Even if there was nothing up there, that would not
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  • Be a problem for me, because generally
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  • I work in archeology, organic materials.
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  • The first thing that disappears,
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  • Albeit it's mostly frozen up there, i think it's
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  • Mount ararat is covered the top in snow all the time,
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  • So that is a natural preservative.
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  • So the verdict is still out.
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  • But it seems that
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  • Because of political and climate and geological reasons,
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  • We can't definitively go up there and see.
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  • But there's definitely
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  • Some evidence that there could well be something there.
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  • Why are worldwide flood accounts found in so many
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  • Ancient cultures and recounted over hundreds of generations?
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  • The worldwide flood accounts are found in so many cultures.
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  • I think it's because it happened.
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  • And it just also is to me.
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  • It's also proof that it was told throughout the generation
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  • That the cultures of the flood and many floods, similar not
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  • Exactly to the level of noah, but that happened.
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  • And so i think it just shows you that this event that happened
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  • In noah's generation, as foretold in the scriptures,
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  • Is true.
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  • Coming back to the point that the bible is true,
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  • The scriptures are true.
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  • What we read is something that could be historically proven.
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  • And to me, that's a clear indication of that.
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  • Apparently there are hundreds of flood accounts
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  • From ancient civilizations all over the world.
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  • This is not a, a specific and limited
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  • Understanding that the world was once covered by a great,
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  • A great flood, even on mount carmel.
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  • Our our congregation is at the highest point on mount carmel.
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  • And, they found huge sea snails.
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  • In, in
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  • Fossilized form,
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  • Dug them out of the foundations of our building,
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  • And then they didn't know
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  • What to do with them, so they stuck them in concrete in.
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  • They're one of the walls around our facility.
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  • So but it shows that
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  • The top of mount carmel was under water at one time.
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  • The fossil record of sea creatures
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  • Found in high levels of strata all over the earth
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  • Points to the flood as a global event.
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  • Not only that, but echoes of the cataclysmic flood story
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  • Have been transmitted through oral accounts across
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  • Many cultures and over many generations.
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  • The only logical conclusion is that
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  • These flood accounts derive from a single source story.
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  • The flood of noah's day.
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  • On a scientific level,
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  • We know that there seems to be continuous civilizations
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  • That pre-date the flood narrative.
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  • There is, by the way,
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  • A very prominent opinion within jewish thought
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  • That's not mentioned specifically
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  • In the text of the bible, but in all the
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  • Oral traditions that are passed down
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  • That go back to mount sinai, and jewish tradition
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  • That says the flood was not a universal phenomenon,
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  • That it was a near eastern flood,
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  • And there were other parts of the world
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  • Were not impacted by it.
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  • Which is interesting because civilization
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  • Begins in the ancient near east.
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  • So, you know, parts of the world,
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  • If though if europe were wiped out by a flood,
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  • You know, you go up to the northernmost part of the
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  • You know, the arctic circle is not going to have
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  • Too much impact on the world.
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  • So the the other extremes of the world
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  • May have been outside that event.
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  • It's a possible way
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  • Of understanding and also reconciling
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  • This problem, that it seems to be
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  • That other cultures have continuous historical
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  • And cultural traditions that would predate
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  • The flood, that do not seem to have been broken off
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  • By a flood narrative.
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  • But i could also tell you
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  • From people who come from the south pacific
  • 00:12:01.088 --> 00:12:03.023
  • That they have flood stories too,
  • 00:12:03.023 --> 00:12:05.092
  • Whether that's from their own tradition
  • 00:12:05.092 --> 00:12:06.560
  • Or they may be picked it up from some missionary.
  • 00:12:06.560 --> 00:12:08.362
  • I can't verify, but it seems to be
  • 00:12:08.362 --> 00:12:11.598
  • A phenomenon that is shared by many, many, many cultures.
  • 00:12:11.598 --> 00:12:14.501
  • So there's definitely something to the idea.
  • 00:12:14.501 --> 00:12:17.571
  • And we already know that there's this
  • 00:12:17.571 --> 00:12:20.040
  • Ark that's been reconstructed in america where everything
  • 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:23.844
  • Actually, you know, wasn't done by a bunch of rabbis.
  • 00:12:23.844 --> 00:12:26.914
  • It was done by i don't know, the guy.
  • 00:12:26.914 --> 00:12:29.817
  • I've seen him on tv, but he knows his stuff.
  • 00:12:29.817 --> 00:12:32.452
  • He did a lot of work into
  • 00:12:32.452 --> 00:12:34.254
  • How it would be, in theory, possible,
  • 00:12:34.254 --> 00:12:36.790
  • Keeping in mind, of course,
  • 00:12:36.790 --> 00:12:37.791
  • The fact that people
  • 00:12:37.791 --> 00:12:38.559
  • Living much longer than noah
  • 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:39.760
  • Is working on that baby for about 100 years,
  • 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:42.462
  • So he had a lot of time to make something.
  • 00:12:42.462 --> 00:12:44.198
  • Three football fields in length
  • 00:12:44.198 --> 00:12:45.399
  • And load a lot of animals on it.
  • 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.334
  • So in theory, anything is possible.
  • 00:12:47.334 --> 00:12:49.603
  • How it's interpreted is open to some level of interpretation.
  • 00:12:49.603 --> 00:12:52.973
  • The story of noah's flood,
  • 00:12:52.973 --> 00:12:55.375
  • Jumps over lots
  • 00:12:55.742 --> 00:12:56.810
  • Of cultures, lots of generations.
  • 00:12:56.810 --> 00:12:59.880
  • It's put forth even by people in cultures that didn't
  • 00:12:59.880 --> 00:13:03.417
  • Believe in the hebrew bible, didn't believe in our god.
  • 00:13:03.417 --> 00:13:06.520
  • Because why?
  • 00:13:06.854 --> 00:13:07.454
  • Because it impacted them
  • 00:13:07.454 --> 00:13:09.056
  • That they were part of the people of the rebirth.
  • 00:13:09.056 --> 00:13:11.124
  • They heard the story from their ancestors.
  • 00:13:11.124 --> 00:13:13.994
  • If all of humanity had to restart at noah
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  • And his children,
  • 00:13:16.730 --> 00:13:18.131
  • Then there would have been subsequent generations.
  • 00:13:18.131 --> 00:13:20.634
  • No matter where they migrated to,
  • 00:13:20.634 --> 00:13:22.903
  • Who would have carried that origin story?
  • 00:13:22.903 --> 00:13:25.672
  • Just like up until noah,
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  • We carried the origin story of the creation of adam.
  • 00:13:27.174 --> 00:13:30.444
  • We carried that through the generations,
  • 00:13:30.444 --> 00:13:31.945
  • Through the oral tradition.
  • 00:13:31.945 --> 00:13:33.580
  • So, so would the generations after noah.
  • 00:13:33.580 --> 00:13:35.616
  • They would have carried their origin story,
  • 00:13:35.616 --> 00:13:37.751
  • Which would have started at the flood
  • 00:13:37.751 --> 00:13:39.620
  • From their great grandfather noah.
  • 00:13:39.620 --> 00:13:41.655
  • And then they carry it to wherever they go.
  • 00:13:41.655 --> 00:13:43.090
  • They write it down, they tell the story.
  • 00:13:43.090 --> 00:13:44.958
  • And as is human pattern, the story tweaks, it changes.
  • 00:13:44.958 --> 00:13:49.429
  • It has slight variety.
  • 00:13:49.429 --> 00:13:50.964
  • The bible's account gives us numeric value to it.
  • 00:13:50.964 --> 00:13:55.202
  • But other cultural accounts,
  • 00:13:55.202 --> 00:13:57.137
  • Maybe they have a different length of rain
  • 00:13:57.137 --> 00:13:59.006
  • Or a different length of time the boat floated
  • 00:13:59.006 --> 00:14:00.974
  • Or the size of the
  • 00:14:00.974 --> 00:14:02.109
  • Boat was different, or however it rested was different.
  • 00:14:02.109 --> 00:14:04.978
  • But what's interesting
  • 00:14:05.445 --> 00:14:06.380
  • Is all of them carry so much consistency.
  • 00:14:06.380 --> 00:14:08.849
  • It's hard to deny that noah story is true.
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  • So what happened in the aftermath of the flood?
  • 00:15:29.896 --> 00:15:33.066
  • Well, as always, the almighty god had his plan in place.
  • 00:15:33.066 --> 00:15:38.405
  • And with instruction and so in verse 15 of chapter eight,
  • 00:15:38.405 --> 00:15:42.409
  • Then god spoke to noah, saying,
  • 00:15:42.409 --> 00:15:44.878
  • Go out of the are you and your wife,
  • 00:15:44.878 --> 00:15:47.180
  • And your sons, and your sons wives with you?
  • 00:15:47.180 --> 00:15:50.450
  • Bring her with you every living thing of all flesh
  • 00:15:50.450 --> 00:15:53.253
  • That is with you
  • 00:15:53.253 --> 00:15:54.588
  • Birds and cattle, and every creeping thing
  • 00:15:54.588 --> 00:15:56.990
  • That creeps on the earth so that they may abound on
  • 00:15:56.990 --> 00:16:00.260
  • The earth, be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
  • 00:16:00.260 --> 00:16:04.631
  • God's plan to replenish the earth.
  • 00:16:04.631 --> 00:16:07.401
  • So noah went out, and his sons, and his wife
  • 00:16:07.401 --> 00:16:10.203
  • And his sons wives with him.
  • 00:16:10.203 --> 00:16:12.172
  • That was a total of eight people.
  • 00:16:12.172 --> 00:16:14.174
  • Every animal, every creeping thing,
  • 00:16:14.174 --> 00:16:16.276
  • Every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth
  • 00:16:16.276 --> 00:16:18.979
  • According to their families went out of the ark
  • 00:16:18.979 --> 00:16:21.948
  • And then noticed noah's righteous heart, his devotion
  • 00:16:21.948 --> 00:16:25.285
  • To god that noah built an altar to the lord
  • 00:16:25.285 --> 00:16:28.422
  • And took of every clean animal and of every clean bird,
  • 00:16:28.422 --> 00:16:31.525
  • And offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • 00:16:31.525 --> 00:16:34.461
  • So he somehow knew how to do that.
  • 00:16:34.461 --> 00:16:38.265
  • And it's interesting, because this is before
  • 00:16:38.265 --> 00:16:40.400
  • The law of moses was written and enacted,
  • 00:16:40.400 --> 00:16:43.537
  • Where god told moses to distinguish between the clean
  • 00:16:43.537 --> 00:16:47.707
  • And the unclean.
  • 00:16:47.707 --> 00:16:49.142
  • And until today, in the 21st century,
  • 00:16:49.142 --> 00:16:51.778
  • The jewish people practiced this.
  • 00:16:51.778 --> 00:16:54.081
  • There are certain things they will not eat,
  • 00:16:54.081 --> 00:16:56.349
  • Because they are deemed unclean according to the law of moses.
  • 00:16:56.349 --> 00:17:00.520
  • And then there are other things that they will eat.
  • 00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:03.323
  • But this, the noah, the altar that noah built
  • 00:17:03.323 --> 00:17:07.160
  • Was before the law was enacted.
  • 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:08.929
  • And that's what's curious.
  • 00:17:08.929 --> 00:17:10.097
  • But what it tells us is that god doesn't change.
  • 00:17:10.097 --> 00:17:13.300
  • And things that are, clean before him remain.
  • 00:17:13.300 --> 00:17:16.970
  • But there are things he considers unclean then and now.
  • 00:17:16.970 --> 00:17:21.608
  • And then we read in verse
  • 00:17:21.608 --> 00:17:22.776
  • 21, and the lord smelled a soothing aroma.
  • 00:17:22.776 --> 00:17:26.713
  • Then the lord said in his heart, i will never again
  • 00:17:26.713 --> 00:17:30.016
  • Cursed the ground.
  • 00:17:30.016 --> 00:17:30.851
  • For men say,
  • 00:17:30.851 --> 00:17:32.385
  • Law of the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
  • 00:17:32.385 --> 00:17:35.922
  • Nor will i again destroy every living thing as i have done.
  • 00:17:35.922 --> 00:17:39.359
  • While the earth remains.
  • 00:17:39.893 --> 00:17:41.695
  • Seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer
  • 00:17:41.695 --> 00:17:46.500
  • And day and night shall not cease.
  • 00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:49.870
  • So now, in the aftermath of the flood,
  • 00:17:49.870 --> 00:17:52.639
  • God has given clear instructions to to noah and to his family.
  • 00:17:52.639 --> 00:17:57.944
  • And as we move into chapter nine, it's more specific.
  • 00:17:57.944 --> 00:18:01.681
  • So god bless noah and his sons and said to them,
  • 00:18:02.649 --> 00:18:05.886
  • Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,
  • 00:18:05.886 --> 00:18:08.955
  • Because obviously all life
  • 00:18:08.955 --> 00:18:10.624
  • Forms, at least on, on the land, had been decimated.
  • 00:18:10.624 --> 00:18:14.594
  • And the fear of you
  • 00:18:14.594 --> 00:18:15.795
  • And the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth,
  • 00:18:15.795 --> 00:18:19.332
  • On and every bird of the air, and all that move on the earth,
  • 00:18:19.332 --> 00:18:23.537
  • And all the fish of the sea, they are given into your hand.
  • 00:18:23.537 --> 00:18:27.474
  • So now noah is receiving god's sovereign authority
  • 00:18:27.474 --> 00:18:32.145
  • To be over the creatures on the earth.
  • 00:18:32.145 --> 00:18:35.615
  • He has god's mandate.
  • 00:18:35.615 --> 00:18:38.418
  • But then we read in verse three,
  • 00:18:38.418 --> 00:18:41.922
  • Every living thing that lives shall be food for you.
  • 00:18:41.922 --> 00:18:44.991
  • I have given you all things
  • 00:18:44.991 --> 00:18:46.726
  • Even as the green herbs, but you shall not eat flesh
  • 00:18:46.726 --> 00:18:50.630
  • With its life, that is, its blood.
  • 00:18:50.630 --> 00:18:53.066
  • And so this continues today.
  • 00:18:53.066 --> 00:18:54.901
  • And the kosher laws of israel.
  • 00:18:54.901 --> 00:18:57.270
  • Surely for your lifeblood
  • 00:18:57.270 --> 00:18:58.805
  • I will demand a reckoning from the hand of every beast.
  • 00:18:58.805 --> 00:19:01.608
  • I will require it.
  • 00:19:01.608 --> 00:19:02.976
  • And from the hand of man, from the hand
  • 00:19:02.976 --> 00:19:04.978
  • Of every man's brother, i will require the life of man.
  • 00:19:04.978 --> 00:19:09.149
  • And then god's moral standard.
  • 00:19:09.149 --> 00:19:11.418
  • Whoever sheds man blood by man, his blood shall be shed.
  • 00:19:11.418 --> 00:19:15.622
  • For in the image of god he made man.
  • 00:19:15.622 --> 00:19:19.659
  • As for you, be fruitful and multiply.
  • 00:19:19.659 --> 00:19:22.128
  • Bring forth abundantly
  • 00:19:22.128 --> 00:19:24.364
  • In the earth, and multiply in it.
  • 00:19:25.065 --> 00:19:27.801
  • So as we move through this chapter nine,
  • 00:19:27.801 --> 00:19:31.137
  • We discover different things.
  • 00:19:31.137 --> 00:19:32.739
  • For one thing, in verse 18, the three sons of noah
  • 00:19:32.739 --> 00:19:37.143
  • Are named.
  • 00:19:37.143 --> 00:19:38.144
  • Now the sons of noah who went out of the ark
  • 00:19:38.144 --> 00:19:41.248
  • Were shem, ham, and japheth.
  • 00:19:41.248 --> 00:19:43.883
  • And ham was the father of canaan.
  • 00:19:43.883 --> 00:19:46.119
  • These three were the sons of noah.
  • 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.121
  • And from these the whole earth was populated.
  • 00:19:48.121 --> 00:19:51.358
  • So far so good.
  • 00:19:51.725 --> 00:19:54.160
  • But to be honest, where the scriptures are honest,
  • 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.363
  • We need to keep reading.
  • 00:19:56.363 --> 00:19:58.164
  • And noah began to be a farmer and he planted a vineyard.
  • 00:19:58.164 --> 00:20:02.202
  • Then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became
  • 00:20:02.202 --> 00:20:05.939
  • Uncovered in his tent, meaning he became he was naked.
  • 00:20:05.939 --> 00:20:09.643
  • So we have a righteous man, but a righteous man
  • 00:20:09.643 --> 00:20:13.480
  • With a flawed, a flawed nature, as we all have flawed natures.
  • 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:18.752
  • But it's in the scriptures,
  • 00:20:18.752 --> 00:20:20.053
  • So let's deal with it and see what it says.
  • 00:20:20.053 --> 00:20:23.690
  • And ham, the father of canaan, saw the nakedness of his father
  • 00:20:23.690 --> 00:20:28.428
  • And told his two brothers outside.
  • 00:20:28.428 --> 00:20:31.531
  • But chairman j.p.
  • 00:20:31.531 --> 00:20:32.832
  • Took a garment, laid it on both the shoulders,
  • 00:20:32.832 --> 00:20:35.869
  • And went backward and covered the nakedness of their father.
  • 00:20:35.869 --> 00:20:40.573
  • Now that is a sign of the utmost
  • 00:20:40.573 --> 00:20:43.243
  • Respect for their father.
  • 00:20:43.243 --> 00:20:46.246
  • How does
  • 00:20:46.246 --> 00:20:47.447
  • How did noah, a righteous man, let him get in that situation?
  • 00:20:47.447 --> 00:20:50.650
  • Well, we're just left wondering.
  • 00:20:50.650 --> 00:20:52.519
  • And in fact, if not mystified, but it's in the scripture.
  • 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.923
  • But at least these two sons had the good sense
  • 00:20:56.923 --> 00:21:00.460
  • And actually the reverence for their father to cover him,
  • 00:21:00.460 --> 00:21:04.564
  • But to approach him backwards
  • 00:21:04.564 --> 00:21:06.733
  • So they wouldn't see their father's nakedness.
  • 00:21:06.733 --> 00:21:09.903
  • So noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son
  • 00:21:09.903 --> 00:21:13.440
  • Had done to him.
  • 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:14.974
  • Then he said, cursed be canaan, a servant of servants.
  • 00:21:14.974 --> 00:21:18.978
  • He shall be to his brethren.
  • 00:21:18.978 --> 00:21:21.081
  • And he said, blessed be the lord, the god of shem,
  • 00:21:21.081 --> 00:21:24.918
  • And may canaan be his servant.
  • 00:21:24.918 --> 00:21:27.320
  • May god enlarge jesus, and may he dwell
  • 00:21:27.320 --> 00:21:30.857
  • In the tents of shem, and may canaan be his servant.
  • 00:21:30.857 --> 00:21:35.395
  • What a sad thing that a father had to curse one son.
  • 00:21:35.395 --> 00:21:38.998
  • At the same time bless two other sons.
  • 00:21:38.998 --> 00:21:42.369
  • But it really, to me it speaks for our fallen humanity
  • 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:46.206
  • And for all our righteousness.
  • 00:21:46.206 --> 00:21:48.975
  • We are so flawed characters in need of god's grace
  • 00:21:48.975 --> 00:21:52.779
  • And need of salvation that we can find only through the cross.
  • 00:21:52.779 --> 00:21:56.983
  • And remember, this is long before the cross,
  • 00:21:56.983 --> 00:22:00.253
  • And so we should be thankful for the cross
  • 00:22:00.253 --> 00:22:02.589
  • That god will forgive our sins
  • 00:22:02.589 --> 00:22:04.824
  • If we honestly and humbly confess our sins.
  • 00:22:04.824 --> 00:22:08.294
  • That's his promise to each and all of us.
  • 00:22:08.294 --> 00:22:11.231
  • So we read verse 28 and noah lived after the flood
  • 00:22:11.231 --> 00:22:15.268
  • 350 years.
  • 00:22:15.568 --> 00:22:18.371
  • So all the days of noah were 950 years, and he died.
  • 00:22:18.371 --> 00:22:24.477
  • So we know that noah died at the age of 950.
  • 00:22:24.477 --> 00:22:28.815
  • But then his three sons did as god had commanded,
  • 00:22:28.815 --> 00:22:31.818
  • And they began to multiply in the earth.
  • 00:22:31.818 --> 00:22:35.121
  • And as we move through chapter ten,
  • 00:22:35.121 --> 00:22:37.791
  • Their descendants are listed in order.
  • 00:22:37.791 --> 00:22:40.427
  • And then, of course, there their descendants migrated,
  • 00:22:40.427 --> 00:22:44.764
  • To different places from where the ark had settled
  • 00:22:44.764 --> 00:22:48.802
  • And throughout the known world at that time.
  • 00:22:48.802 --> 00:22:51.204
  • And in a general sense, it seems that jp's descendants
  • 00:22:51.204 --> 00:22:54.941
  • Lived in the north, west and eastern sections of what
  • 00:22:54.941 --> 00:22:58.812
  • Today we call europe and and in asia.
  • 00:22:58.812 --> 00:23:02.482
  • Ham's descendants seem to have migrated to africa,
  • 00:23:02.482 --> 00:23:05.618
  • While shem descendants settled in regions surrounding
  • 00:23:05.618 --> 00:23:09.255
  • What later became, the nation of israel
  • 00:23:09.255 --> 00:23:12.992
  • And their descendants continued to expand
  • 00:23:12.992 --> 00:23:16.596
  • All the way up to when we get to genesis chapter 11.
  • 00:23:16.596 --> 00:23:21.201
  • And then there's an incredible rebellion that takes place
  • 00:23:21.201 --> 00:23:24.737
  • Against god.
  • 00:23:24.737 --> 00:23:26.439
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  • Of the bible.
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  • Just before the short break, i mentioned
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  • That there was a major rebellion that was to come on the earth,
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  • And we don't have to read
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  • Very far in genesis to discover it in chapter 11.
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  • And of course, the three sons of no other families
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  • Are multiplying their descendants.
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  • The population of the earth is growing by leaps and bounds.
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  • We get to chapter 11.
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  • We read this now.
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  • The whole earth had one language and one speech,
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  • And it came to pass
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  • As they journeyed from the east, as they moved around and,
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  • Spread out,
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  • As it were, that they found a plane in the land of shinar,
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  • And they dwelt there.
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  • Then they said to one another, come,
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  • Let us make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.
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  • They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
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  • So far so good.
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  • But then the next verse and they said, come,
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  • Let us build ourselves a city
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  • And a tower whose top is in the heavens.
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  • Let us make a name for ourselves, lest
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  • We be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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  • We recognize this as a language of pride.
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  • The bible said, pride precedes a fall
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  • And it is always man's downfall.
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  • A prideful spirit leads to bad consequences.
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  • In fact, that's really what happened in the garden of eden.
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  • God spoke
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  • To adam and eve and said,
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  • You can eat
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  • Freely of any tree in the garden,
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  • But do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  • In so many words there will be terrible consequences.
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  • Well, it wasn't so much, their desire for for knowledge,
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  • But it was their absolute disobedience and rebellion
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  • Against what god had told them.
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  • And all down through history, pride brings people low.
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  • Now we think the same thing happens in the 21st century.
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  • And in fact, today
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  • Many people think they don't need god.
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  • They're oblivious to the reality of the god of all creation,
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  • And they can do it by themselves.
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  • But every time
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  • You adopt a prideful way and an independent spirit,
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  • The road ahead is going to be rough.
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  • Better to walk that road in fellowship
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  • With god and through his son, jesus of nazareth.
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  • Now we're going to examine this tower of babel,
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  • Event in more detail when we get to chapter 11.
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  • But in the very next chapter, we're going to go back
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  • And look at the rainbow, the sacred symbol of god's
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  • Covenant with noah.
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  • We're so glad you joined us today.
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  • Tune in next time for god's promise to noah.
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