I. Noah in real time & Space
II. Post-Adamic world had come full circle Matthew 24:38-39
A. Noah's flood as an epoch divider?
The Adamic age comes to an end
a. Noah = "rest"
b. The Sumerian Kings List
An historical flood?
a. The Gilgamesh Epic
b. The Story Atrahasis
c. The Sumerian Flood Story
III. Judgment comes in the form a "de-creation" event
A. Genesis 7:11-12
B. The great tehom bursts open and the earth is returned to a watery chaos
IV. Restoration comes in the form of a "re-creational" and universal covenant
A. Genesis 9:1-7
Edenic mandates repeated, but this time in a fallen world
Made with all flesh and even with the planet itself. re-establishing contact between God and man in a fallen world
Oath promise of the rainbow
B. Genesis 9:24-27
Canaan = "to be subdued"
Japheth = "to increase"
Shem = "name"
An etiological map of the holy land
V. Where does the Noahic covenant leave us?
A. The people of God: the offspring of Shem
B. The presence of God: with Shem's offspring
C. The place unidentified
Tehom is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep" or "abyss". It is used to describe the primeval ocean and the post-creation waters of the earth.
