Ch. 8
*v. 2: "Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained..."
-"...fountains of the deep..." What are the fountains of the deep? Would that be the underground springs, geysers, etc.?? I always thought of the flood as just being rain from the skies, but water was even springing up from the ground! Wow.
*According to Genesis 7:11, the flood started in Noah's 600th year, on the 17th day of the 2nd month. Genesis 8:14-17 says that the flood ended during Noah's 601st year, on the 27th day of the 2nd month.
-So, Noah, his family, and the animals, were in the ark for a total of approxiately 1 year and 10 days. Oh my word! I cannot fathom being locked up in an ark with my family and anywhere from 2-14 of every species of creature found on Earth.
*v. 21: [After Noah offered a burnt offering to God.] "The Lord smelled the sooting aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, 'I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.'"
-There were a very limited number of animals, yet Noah still offered a burnt offering to the Lord.
-"...for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth..." I find this part of the verse really interesting. First of all, it proves my husband right about every person being evil at heart, not good at heart like I tried to argue once. Secondly, it says "from his youth," not from birth or from the womb. According to Blue Letter Bible's online concordance, this phrase means "youth" or "early life" in the Hebrew. Could this mean that people are not evil from birth? That "develops" at some point? Maybe around or before the age of accountability? Just thinking outloud...I'm not sure what the answer is.
Ch. 9
v. 3: "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you as I gave the green plant."
-The human race was no longer on a vegetarian diet.
-I find it interesting that now that there is a limited number of animals--every species is now an "endangered species," the most of any secies is 7 males + 7 females=14 total--that is the time the Lord gives animals to Noah and his family and his descendants as food. And God doesn't even say "every...thing that is alive [may] be food for you," he says, "shall be food for you." Interesting.
v. 13: The rainbow comes into existence as a sign of God's covenant with Noah, his family, and his descendants.
Ch. 10
This chapter was full of geneaologies and I really don't have any remarkable things to say about it lol.
Ch. 11
v. 1: "Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words."
-Wow, can you imagine that? If everyone spoke one language, the same language as everyone else? 'Course this doesn't mean everyone was a great communicator ;)
Parts of verses 3-6: (3) "They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly...'" (4) "They said, 'Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top wil reach into heaven, an let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.'" (6) "The Lord, 'Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech.' So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of he whole earth, and they stopped building the city."
-The people were afraid of being scattered over the face of the whole earth, and yet that is exactly what happened.
-"...and let us make for ourselves a name..." I wasn't there, so I can only speculate, but it sounds like they may have been prideful, wanting to make themselves look good, instead of giving glory to God.
-Does God want things to be impossible for us? I don't think so. Maybe in His infinite wisdom, He knew that we would be so proud of ourselves and able to do so much that we would think nothing was impossible for us and wouldn't see our need for God and for a Savior? I'm not sure. This is a passage I haven't really noticed before. I would not say God is a God of confusion and yet He did come down and confuse their language so that they were incapable of communicating with one another. But, I don't really have the answers for why He did it.
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