It was an act of sacrifice, which expressed worship to God as well as penitence. The land is finally dry and they are all alone in the new world.Īnd as I noted for you back in chapter 8 verse 20, the first thing Noah did was build an alter an alter which accomplished two things. The ark has finally come to rest on the mountains of Ararat or modern Turkey, the waters have rolled down the mountains into the massive new sea basins created in the upheaval of the earth’s surface. They spent over a year on the ark, shut up on that ark with the animals on board, riding over the waves of judgment that have drowned the air-breathing life on the planet and much of the sea life as well rearranged the surface of the earth, created sea basins and new mountains as we know. And here again in Genesis 9:1, God blesses them.
In the original creation in Genesis 1:28, God blessed them in Genesis 5:2, God blessed them. Now it’s a start of new life and it’s good to know that the Lord blesses them. They have come out of the ark and onto dry land, a land early strewn with death, the death of all living things that were air-breathing. Terrible, terrible holocaust without equal in the history of the world is over. He blessed Noah and his sons, and of course implied are the wives as well. And verse 1 says, “And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” Now the key phrase here is “God blessed,” God blessed. Things have dried out, and now Noah and his wife and three sons and their three wives, a total of eight people, have left the ark.Īs we come to chapter 9, they have come out of the ark, built an alter, worshipped the Lord, and started to populate the new world. Appropriately, most of the time I was preaching on the flood, it rained, and when I ended the preaching on the flood, the rain ended as well divine providential timing. Those of you who haven’t been with us in sequence are at a bit of a disadvantage, because we have been marching our way through the Book of Genesis and we have been going through the flood. Well, let’s open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 9, and we’re going to look at the opening seven verses of this chapter.
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