Let us discover what else follows self-righteousness when the Sons of God marry the daughters of men. What is the sequence of events when true belief is compromised?
It is violence and corruption.
It is all there is chapter 6 of Genesis, and today the big words in almost every newscast every day are violence and corruption. They seem to be found at every level of administration, whether religious or secular, and in every country.
So we live in a world that, as Jesus said, is like it was in Noah’s day (See Matthew 24:38 and Luke 17:26).
Jesus points us back to Noah, so let us go where Jesus said we should go. In Noah’s day, God said the earth was corrupt and filled with violence (Genesis 6:11), and God said to Noah, Verse 17, “I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.” (Gen. 6:17)
No secrets. Total destruction. God told Noah exactly what would happen and how to escape total wipe-out.
He told Noah to build an ark, planned so that all creatures of earth could go into it. Noah did so and after the creatures went in, then Noah went in with his wife and sons and their wives. He followed the same sequence as man’s first home in the Garden of Eden, the creatures were there first, then man.
Mankind is never saved without family or without creatures. This is the point that amazed me when I realised what God did with Noah. He did not save mankind without the creatures he had created. Remember, the creatures were created before man, and man was placed in the Garden surrounded by every living thing.
Even today, how often do you see a family travelling and the family pet is in the car with them? How often do our household creatures suffer or cry for us when we leave them?
So they went home into the ark in the same sequence and they came out of the ark to continue the journey, in that sequence.
The new home was a world totally altered by flood, but still a home Noah shared with all creatures. Yes, there is enmity between some species and man but there are also remnants of our very first world.
God’s covenant with Noah after the flood is similar to the words he spoke to Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28) They were to have dominion over the earth, and he said similarly to Noah, “And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you: and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.” (Genesis 9:9,10).
So is it your desire to go home? And what are your house plans?
Elizabeth Price
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