Genesis 7 Notes
- Noah is Righteous.
- Noah takes his entire household.
- God sees Noah.
- How long is the generation?
- Noah takes 7 pairs of male and his mate.
- Why 7 pairs? Is 7 referring to completion?
- seven pairs of birds.
- Use of the word offspring.
- Did Noah eat the animals while on the Ark?
- Food he brought on ark could have been both meat and vegs.
- Seven days, God will send rain.
- Seven days, another number 7.
- Forty days and forty nights of rain.
- God will kill everything and blot out the face of the ground.
- Noah did all he was commanded.
- Did rain exist before Noah?
- Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters came.
- Noah and his family went with him to escape the waters of the flood.
- Seems no one had children yet, of Noahs kids.
- Clean, Not clean and creeping things went onto the Ark.
- Two and Two animals went onto the Ark. Male and Female.
- God again commands Noah.
- He waits 7 days to flood the Earth.
- 7 more as a number.
- Its interesting that earth is not capitalized. Its like another object to God.
- 600 days, 2 months and 17 days of Noahs life do the flood waters open.
- Did they have a calendar back then?
- They talk about years, months and days.
- Fountains of the Earth were opened up.
- Rain began to fall.
- Are these fountains still open today?
- Was there more land back then? Before the flood, then the water was placed onto earth by the flood?
- Rain fell on earth for 40 days and nights.
- Noahs family enters the Ark.
- No kids yet.
- All creatures enter the Ark.
- All life, which had breadth in it, went into the Ark.
- All Flesh goes into the Ark as the Lord commanded him.
- Its interesting that the Lord shuts the door. Must have been a big door.
- Flood continues on the Ark.
- The Ark rose above the earth, high with the water.
- Waters increased greatly on the earth.
- Lots of word usage of earth and water.
- Water was so high that all the mountains were covered.
- If the waters were lower and there was more land before today, then we would be on the mountain.
- Usage of the heaven is here.
- How people today speak of heaven is very different then how the Bible is speaking of heaven.
- We speak of it as a place to go. The bible speaks of it as the air above us.
- Water was above the mountain by 15 cubits. 280 inches.
- And all flesh died that moved on the earth.
- He blotted out every living thing whose nostrils had breadth.
- He blotted out all life.
- Waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Lots of talk about man, women, earth, water and animals in this chapter.