Reading the Bible thorugh in One Year. Jan 3, 2003



Reading Genesis 6 - 9



Chapter 6

v. 1 - 2 What were these sons of God. Fallen angels, or Godly men (from Seth's line)?

v 3 Man had to have his life shortened. The longer he lived, the more sin he lived in, the more depraved this world got.

v 4 - 5 support the thoughts above.

v 6 - 8 God plans to destroy man and the earth. But Noah stops the complete destruction.

v 9 - 12 Do you realize that if Noah had been corrupt as well, we would not be here to talk about it. It is only through Noah that we are continued.

v 13 - 22 God tells Noah what to do and makes a covenant with him. This is the first covenant between man and God in the Bible (at least named a covenant). In these verses Noah is commanded only to bring in two of every animal.


Chapter 7


v 1 - 3 In what appears to be a contridiction, God commands more animals that two of certain types. The pair were for continuation of the species, the extras were for sacrafices.

v 4 No doubt about it here. God is going to destroy the earth.

v 5 - 12 And God does

v 13 - 24 All on the earth were destroyed. The fish were not destroyed, they could not be by the water, but what did it do to their eco-system?


Chapter 8


v 1 As if He should ever forget anyone of us, God remembers Noah, thinking fondly of him.

v 2 - 6 And when God thinks fondly, the rain stops.

v 7 - 14 Noah wisely tests to see if it is safe to come out of the Ark. God who had been so clear in how to build the ark and populate it is now silent when it comes time to leave.

v 15 - 19 But then He does speak, it is time to leave the ark and take all out, and Noah does.

v 20 - 21 The covenant is completed. Noah offers the sacrafice. God brought him through and he offers to God what will cover the sins of his past.

v. The pricipal of seedtime and harvest is here. Like there is heat and cold, day and night, there will be a time of planting and a time of reaping. That planting can be of yourself, your finace, what ever, but it is a principal that what you reap you will havest.


Chapter 9



v 1 - 3 All living things and plants are given for us to eat. Just one rule.

v 4 If it still has the blood of life in it, do not eat it.

v 5 - 6 God will require the beast to give its life if it eats the blood. Just as he will man.

v 7 - 17 The sign of the bow (the sign of the hunter) is placed in the sky, as a symbol that God will not destroy all by a flood ever again. This flood and this bow are not signs that man has risen above the fallen state, only that God has been able to remove much evil so that he can start anew his plan for redemption.

v 18 - 28 Very obscure to me what went on, Ham does something wrong and his sone gets punished.



Psalm 3


Though David was at a time of trouble, a time when it looked like he could not win, he trusted in the Lord who heard (and responed) from His holy hill. That my faith could ever be that strong.




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