THE FLOOD – Genesis 7:6-8:5

• Moses’ time on Mount Sinai:
  Exodus 24:18: Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  Deuteronomy 9:25: “So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
• The spies’ trip to Canaan:
  Numbers 13:25: At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
• Israel’s time in the wilderness:
  Numbers 32:13: And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.
• Elijah’s miraculous journey to Sinai:
  1 Kings 19:8: And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
• Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness:
  Mark 1:13: And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

Revelation 3:7 says: “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

“prevailed” means in Hebrew “overwhelming mighty.”

2 Peter 3:6 says: …. the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

Psalms 104:5-9: He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

Spurgeon said; “Noah underwent burial to all the old things that he might come out into a new world, and even so we die in Christ that we may live with him.”

God remembered Noah: This is what is called an anthropomorphism meaning “a non-literal picture of God expressed in human terms”.

Hebrews 8:12 says; “For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Ararat means “Holy Ground” or “sacred land”.