Thursday, January 22, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Future outlook
In the genealogy of Adam we see Lamech naming his son Noah and saying, "This one shall give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed." The LORD in Genesis chapter 6, saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. This violent behavior of mankind caused the LORD's heart to grief that He had made them.
Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD and walked with God, like Enoch. The Hebrew account in Chapter 11 states, "By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family." Jesus uses this same illustration to warns us that at His judgement the world will be largely unprepared.
After Noah his wife and his three sons and their wives and all the animals (as commanded by GOD) entered the ark, to escape the flood (an incident which had not occurred since the beginning of creation),it rained. After seven day, every living creature that the LORD GOD made He wiped from the face of the earth for it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
After the rain flooded the earth for 150 days GOD remembered Noah, his household and all the livestock and send a wind over the earth and the waters receded. He was there all the time helping Noah through this ordeal, for He had never left him nor forsook him. It was slightly more then a year that Noah remained in the ark but he was assured of God's covenant and was eventually blessed!
Our future outlook may look like Noah's and like him, we are children who follow after God's command and are favored by Him. It may take some time for us to come out of a bleak future outlook but be assured He never breaks covenant! If we endure we will be blessed. Like Noah, God remembers us.
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