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.
Jesus came to undo what happened in Eden
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Biblical Record |
Sumerian Kings List |
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kings before the flood long reins, after - shorter reins |
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Genesis: 10 patriarchs - average age 858 years |
8 kings - average rein of 30,000 years |
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base 10 number system |
base 60 number system |
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these two records relate to the same events |
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Semitic: term for ethnic cultural or racial group People of the middle east and the horn of Africa |
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Biblical authority is proved by: 3 different societies telling the same story.
Sumerian Kings List and others, Sumerian flood story
writing is developed at this time
Native American and Aboriginal peoples have flood stories in their culture.
Rescue- rebuilt with Noah read Genesis 9:3-5
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
