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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 5: Genesis 9:8-17

October 8, 2020October 3, 2020 by atozmom, posted in BSF Genesis 2020/2021

Summary of Genesis 9:8-17:

God establishes His covenant with Noah, the animals, and all of their descendants to never flood the earth again. He sets the rainbow as the sign of the covenant, and when He sees it, He will remember.

BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 5: Genesis 9:8-17

12) God establishes His covenant with Noah, the animals, and all of their descendants to never flood the earth again. He sets the rainbow as the sign of the covenant, and when He sees it, He will remember. Even though man is evil, God is good, and He will preserve all of humanity.

13) Personal Question. My answer: God’s heart is bigger than I ever could imagine. He loves creation, and since His love is much greater than mine, we should love creation whole-heartedly as well.

14a) The rainbow. It is the sign of the covenant between God and the earth. He will remember this covenant every time it appears.

b) We’re still here, aren’t we?

Conclusions BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 5: Genesis 9:8-17

I love rainbows. Their appearance is always special, and I always wish they would last longer. They last long enough for God to remember me and me to remember Him.

End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 5: Genesis 9:8-17

FUN FACT: This is the first of many covenants God makes with his people and that we will see in this study of Genesis. This one covers every living creature.

This covenant was a repetition and clarification of the promise God made in Genesis 8:21-22.

God imprisoned the angels (Jude 6) and shortened our lives, giving us less time to make amok of things.

FUN FACT: Remember that the blanket of water vapors was released in the flood and the water cycle of the earth changed after the flood, so this may be the first occurrence of a rainbow on the planet. God used the rainbow as a sign to Noah and all generations that He would be faithful to His covenant.

The other mentions of a rainbow in the Bible are set in the context of God’s enthroned glory (Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 4:3).

Credit to enduring word for commentary

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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 4: Genesis 9:1-7

October 7, 2020October 3, 2020 by atozmom, posted in BSF Genesis 2020/2021

Summary of Genesis 9:1-7:

God blessed Noah and told him and his sons to be fruitful and multiply. Here, God makes the animals fearful of man. He gives man everything that lives and moves for food except for meat that still has lifeblood in it. God will demand an accounting for spilled human blood and animal blood.

BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 4: Genesis 9:1-7

9) God blessed Noah and told him and his sons to be fruitful and multiply. Here, God makes the animals fearful of man. He gives man everything that lives and moves for food except for meat that still has lifeblood in it. God will demand an accounting for spilled human blood and animal blood. In Genesis 1:28-30, God tells Adam to be fruitful and multiply and to rule over all the animals. He only gives man plants to eat here.

10) Personal Question. My answer: I’m definitely an animal lover. I’m the weirdo stopping to move praying mantis off the bike trail. I definitely value human life. In the US, we value animals more so than in the past. Unsure on human life. We talk the talk, but not necessarily walk the walk.

11) Personal Question. My answer: God wants us all to value all human life. It challenges me to love those in my life who are hard to love. I do need to pray more for my country and the world.

Conclusions BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 4: Genesis 9:1-7

I love the emphasis on the sacredness of life and how there will an accounting for taking it. I love how you attack God’s image when you attack His people. Good stuff.

End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 4: Genesis 9:1-7

Do you ever wonder what Noah thought having seen the world before and now seeing this new world and how different it must be?

Since humanity is starting over, God gives Noah the same commandments as He gave Adam, except now man can now eat animals. This may be because the earth is less fruitful than it was before. Since man would be eating animals, God made the animals afraid of us for their protection. This gives me hope that in all of heaven there is no fear, and I can finally pet lions!

Blood represents life, and it must be respected (Leviticus 17:11, 17:14 and Deuteronomy 12:23).

FUN FACT: The word blood is used in the Bible 424 times in 357 separate verses (in the New King James Version).

Blood in the Bible

Blood is the sign of mercy for Israel at the first Passover (Exodus 12:13).
Blood sealed God’s covenant with Israel (Exodus 24:8).
Blood sanctified the altar (Exodus 29:12).
Blood set aside the priests (Exodus 29:20).
Blood made atonement for God’s people (Exodus 30:10).
Blood sealed the new covenant (Matthew 26:28).
Blood justifies us (Romans 5:9).
Blood brings redemption (Ephesians 1:7).
Blood brings peace with God (Colossians 1:20).
Blood cleanses us (Hebrews 9:14 and 1 John 1:7).
Blood gives entrance to God’s holy place (Hebrews 10:19).
Blood sanctifies us (Hebrews 13:12).
Blood enables us to overcome Satan (Revelation 12:11).
Jesus’s blood makes us holy.

This passage is where the justification for capital punishment comes from. Murderers attack the image of God, which means they must be held accountable. Like our laws, the Bible emphasizes the difference between murder and killing. Sometimes killing is justified, such as for capital punishment or self-defense. Capital punishment does fall on the shoulders of the government (Romans 13:1-4). As we saw with the murder of Cain, the guilt of unpunished murder defiles a land (Numbers 35:31-34).

God says to be fruitful and multiply because the earth was empty once again.

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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 3: Genesis 8:15-22

October 6, 2020October 26, 2020 by atozmom, posted in BSF Genesis 2020/2021

Summary of Genesis 8:15-22:

God told Noah to leave the ark, along with his family and all the animals so they can repopulate the earth. Noah built an alter and sacrificed clean animals to God. God thought the aroma was pelasing and said in His heart He would never rid the earth of man or animals again.

BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 3: Genesis 8:15-22

6a) God told Noah to leave the ark, along with his family and all the animals so they can repopulate the earth

b) Noah obeyed and left the ark and emptied it of animals. Then he built an alter and sacrificed clean animals to God for gratitude in his survival and God’s faithfulness.

7a) Jesus.

b) Personal Question. My answer: Die to what we want to do and do what God wants us to do. Proverbs says do what is right and just. Hosea says to acknowledge God. Micah says to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly. John says love and sacrifice for friends. Romans says to offer your bodies as living sacrifices as a spiritual act of worship. Do not conform to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Hebrews says to do good, share with others, and prasie God continually and confess His name.

8 ) Part personal question. My answer: Faithfulness. I know that God has got me, and I don’t have to worry.

Conclusions BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 3: Genesis 8:15-22

I never noticed that God said this “in his heart.” It shows us that the heart is what matters.

End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 3: Genesis 8:15-22

Even though Noah took some of the precious animals for the sacrifice, they did not die out or go extinct. Sacrifices to God should cost you something. This is pleasing to God since He gave the ultimate sacrifice in his Son, Jesus, to us. (Ephesians 5:2 and Hebrews 9:26, 10:12)

David never offered God that which costs me nothing (2 Samuel 24:24).

FUN FACT: This is the first recorded offering to God since Cain and Abel.

The Bible speaks anthropomorphically here, which is using a human analogy of a divine action or attribute. More pleasing to God than the smell of the sacrifice was the heart of Noah in his sacrifice. “The Lord smelled the offering” appears commonly throughout the first five books of the Bible written by Moses.

Noah’s sacrifice mirrors Jesus’s sacrifice and is why God promises to never destroy man.

God also established the seasons here. We can assume the climate was the same before.

We see lifespans of man decreasing here. Bible Scholars believe that the dinosaurs went extinct shortly after the flood because of these weather changes.

Credit to enduring word for commentary

BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 2: Genesis 8:1-14

October 5, 2020October 3, 2020 by atozmom, posted in BSF Genesis 2020/2021

Summary of Genesis 8:1-14:

God remembered Noah, the ark, and the animals, so He caused the water to recede. It stopped raining. The ark came to rest on the 17th day of the 7th month on Mount Ararat. On the first day of the 10th month the tops of the mountains became visible. After 40 days, Noah sent out a raven. Then he sent out a dove. It found nothing. The dove went out again in 7 days and came back wtih an olive leaf. Noah knew the water had receded. He sent the dove out for a third time, and it did not return. Noah was 601 years old when the earth was dry. on the 27th day of the 2nd month the earth was completely dry.

BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 2: Genesis 8:1-14

3) He kept sending out birds for signs of the life. He believed God would be faithful.

4a) God was with Noah the entire time; He did not abandon him or turn his back on him like He did everyone else. God turned His attention to Noah. This is an anthropomorphism (a non-literal picture of God in human terms we can understand).

b) Both were faithful.

5) Personal Question. My answer: Move us so we can start our own businesses. You just keep on trucking, and God’s plan will come to fruition.

Conclusions BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 2: Genesis 8:1-14

I had forgotten the raven and the fact that the dove was sent out three times. It’s amazing the details you forget and then relearn as you restudy the Bible. Always a good reminder that time with God is never wasted time.

End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 6, Day 2: Genesis 8:1-14

Practically speaking, a mountain would be hard to off-load thousands of animals. Historically speaking, it’s a good place for an ark to be preserved.

Time is marked form when the rain began falling (Genesis 7:11-12).

Note that God never told Noah how long he would remain in the ark. This was because Noah did not need to know and maybe for mental reasons. This was a long time to be on a boat.

It is believed the raven did not return to the ark. This may be because ravens eat dead carcasses and so found food.

The dove did not find rest as we do not find rest. It is now a symbol of peace and goodness.

Noah was in the ark for one whole year. It seems all living creatures survived the journey.

Credit to enduring word for commentary

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