Category: Genesis Chapter 7
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More Than Deliverance – Exodus 7:1-5
Exodus 7:1-5 And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will…
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Silence on the Waters – Genesis 7:24
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. One verse. That is all we are given here. One verse that tells us the waters kept prevailing for one hundred and fifty days. No fresh word from heaven. No new instruction recorded. No reassuring explanation. Just the long steady reality…
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Lifted Above Every Refuge – Genesis 7:19-23
Genesis 7:19-23 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of…
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Lifted Above It – Genesis 7:17-18
Genesis 7:17-18 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. This is such a great picture.…
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Shut In by the Lord – Genesis 7:14-16
Genesis 7:14-16 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein…
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Lead the Way – Genesis 7:13
Genesis 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; One little detail in that verse says a lot to me. Noah went first. He did not stand outside the ark saying,…
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One Ark, One People – Genesis 7:10-12
Genesis 7:10-12 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of…
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Changed Creatures – Genesis 7:7-9
Genesis 7:7-9 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, There went in two and…
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Set Apart for Worship – Genesis 7:2-6
Genesis 7:2-6 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the…
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The Call Still Stands – Genesis 7:1
Genesis 7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. The first word that catches my heart here is Come. Not build.Not strive.Not prove.Come. That is just like the Lord. Even in a chapter where judgment is…