Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 5 – Christ in the Ark

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This is the Mid-Atlantic
Christadelphian Bible School

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morning program for Friday, July
8th, 2022.

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Our third speaker this morning
is Brother Dennis Bevins from

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the Austin Leander, TX Ecclesia.
The theme for Brother Dennis’s

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classes this week is Noah,
Saving Your Family in a Dark

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World.
Today’s class is entitled Christ

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in the Ark, Genesis 8.
We’ll now give our attention to

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you, Brother Dennis.
Also amongst learning

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opportunities for Dennis, a
number of you have asked me a.

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Little bit if I was going to
talk about the pitch word where

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it was covered within and
without with pitch and tying it

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to the atonement and the answer.
Was no, I didn’t intend to, but

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we can.
And the reason I didn’t intend

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to was because that’s really a
full other conversation tying

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into the atonement.
I know Brother Joseph has been

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doing that in the first class,
but perhaps it did deserve an

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honorable mention and I didn’t
bother doing that, so here it

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is.
So while you’re editing my

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stuff, just throw this back
around Chapter 6, verse 14.

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Be great.
But the the contact, the concept

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is it’s the first time the word
is used.

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It’s normally translated.
Atonement is the word pitch and

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it means a covering and it
implies reconciliation and

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forgiveness, which is why the
word is used and translated as

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atonement.
And something I hadn’t thought

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of before, but this might not
have been a bad idea.

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Perhaps it would have been
better to do another class on

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the atonement rather than the
one we did on Babel.

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I’m not sure, but since most of
what I did yesterday would be

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qualified as Babel, maybe not
OK.

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So Christ in the Ark.
I hope you enjoyed our little

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intermission.
We’re going to go back to the

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chronological account in Genesis
and we’re going to add some

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sevens.
I did hear someone say I thought

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you’d have a lot more sevens
than you actually did.

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Well, that’s the disadvantage of
breaking them up by chapters

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because there are a lot more.
The story’s not over, just

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Chapter 7 is over, but the 7th
as the theme is not.

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So we’ll continue that as well.
And our focus today is going to

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be seeing examples or shadows
that represent Christ in our

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story.
We really if, if this were a

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study weekend, this would be our
exhortation.

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Now in the the grand scheme of
thing, our God is calling about

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calling out of people for His
name to be redeemed by the

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precious blood of His Son.
And Jesus keeps our interest on

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this account, as we’ve done
multiple times.

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And we’re not going to read this
verse again.

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We may have it memorized by now,
but I do want you to focus a

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little bit on where it is Luke
1726 and 27, because we’re going

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to go back to this.
Chapter in a minute and I think

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it’ll be relevant to build on
that.

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Genesis chapter 8 verse one.
God remembered Noah and every

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living thing and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark,

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and God made a wind to pass over
the earth and the waters.

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Assuaged.
That’s another word we use a

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lot.
Assuaged just means to be still

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now the word.
Wind in the.

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Hebrew was ruach, so it’s the
same word translated spirit in

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Genesis 1 and 2 that the Spirit
of God moved upon to face the

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waters.
And the word spirit we all know

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is a reference to really the
power of God.

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And the reason wind is used to
describe the power of God is

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because we can see its effects,
but we can’t see it.

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For example, we walk out, the
trees are moving, the leaves are

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blowing, we don’t see the wind,
but we can absolutely see the

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effects of the wind.
And that’s God’s invisible power

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directing the movement of the
tree.

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And that power goes beyond just
what we see is the wind, but

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rather his hand of God at work
in the world.

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So when we look at Genesis
chapter 8 now as we introduce

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this, we have God remembered.
Because of the way we.

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Think as human beings, when we
remember, like I did last night,

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it was I forgot.
I know there’s something I’m

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supposed to do, and that’s not
what we should be picturing here

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with our Father.
God was not going.

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I know I had something I was
supposed to do today.

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Whatever could it be, He did
not.

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Forget this family He had
marked.

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He had marked them.
So we can compare this chapter

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19 verse 29, which is going to
be the next slide for the same

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concept.
Where God looked towards Sodom

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and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and beheld

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sorry, and he looked towards
this is.

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Referring to Lot toward all the
land of the plain.

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And beheld, and lo, the smoke
the country went as the smoke of

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a furnace.
And it came to pass.

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When God had destroyed the
cities of the plain.

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God remembered Abraham.
Same word He remembered or

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marked the commitment He had
made to Abraham.

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And sent Lot out of the midst of
the overthrow when he overthrew

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the cities in which Lot dwelt.
So it’s interesting words that

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we get to see this remembering
or this marking a reminder you

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and I might in modern day.
So we set an alarm for

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ourselves.
Too.

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Oh yeah, it’s time to take care
of that family on the boat.

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Well, same thing takes place as
he remembered the commitment he

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made to Abraham and he delivered
Lot as he said he would.

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And it’s interesting that those
two words connect these stories,

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just as our Lord Jesus does in
Luke chapter 17.

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So we’ve read those few verses
before a number of times.

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We’re going to continue now
picking up at verse 20. 8

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likewise also as it was in the
days of lot, they did eat, they

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drank, they bought, they sold,
they planted, they build it

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again.
We have a list of things that

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are not necessarily.
Bad on themselves, but the

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missing ingredient is God.
The same day that lot went out

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of Sodom, it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven and

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destroyed them.
All.

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So it’s the same response that
he added as it was in the days

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of Noah, so will it be in the
days of the coming of the Son of

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Man, he adds, as it was in the
days.

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Of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Well, what was it like in Lot’s

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day?
Can we find some of that

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evidence in our day?
In Lot’s day we have violence,

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self-service, homosexuality,
political upheaval, disregard

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for God’s, for God in his word,
eating, drinking.

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Marrying, buying, planting,
building and.

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Others.
But we can see our day in the

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news, can we not?
In fact, I gave this talk at

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Southwest Bible School last
year.

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And one of the sisters
afterwards when I made the

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comment of if, if people from
Sodom and Gomorrah could see our

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day and feel at home, wouldn’t
they?

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And she had said, you know, I
imagine if people from Sodom

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came to us that they might even
say we didn’t even think of some

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of this stuff.
It’s kind of sad, but it is

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scary.
And I thought, well, I hadn’t

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thought of that, but that’s
good, so now you can think of it

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too.
To even make this more poignant,

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keep reading the next verse.
Well, the next slide at least.

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I skipped a couple of verses.
Remember Lot’s wife?

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Very short verse.
Remember Lot’s wife.

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Whosoever shall sake to save his
life shall lose it, but

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whosoever shall lose his life
shall preserve it.

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Now, when we say this, we recall
Lot’s wife.

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I think we have the natural
tendency to think of her as a

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bad human being when we do this.
And we go, oh, she was worried

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about, there’s my furniture,
I’ve lost my favorite couch.

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Whatever shall we do with the
loss of our camels?

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And we make her almost
materialistic by thinking she

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looked back on what she had left
behind.

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Now it is true that she looked
back on what she had left

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behind, but I think we devalue
her suffering when we do that.

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More important than losing the
things she owned, she also would

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have lost the things she loved.
We know for certain she lost

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children because we know at
least two of her.

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Children were married and they
mocked a lot when he said it, so

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we know she lost two children.
At least we know those children

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were married, so perhaps she
lost grandchildren as well.

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She likely lost brothers,
sisters and parents.

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See if if we look at lot follow.
This in the Genesis record Lot

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sees the plain that it’s well
watered Moses commentary like

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the garden of God.
And then the next time we see

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Lot pitches his tent towards
Sodom.

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So it looks good.
Now he’s going in that direction

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and then we find him at the gate
of the city and married.

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The first mention of law is a
married man is after he’s in the

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city of Sodom.
Perhaps he married a woman of

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Sodom, which would have not only
put her and her children and

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maybe grandchildren tying to
lot, but if that were true, it

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puts her entire family in that
city.

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So when she looks back, she’s
not looking at the things she

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has lost.
She is looking at the people she

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has lost.
And given the context that our

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Lord Jesus combines this story
with Noah, I find it very

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fitting that that would be an
appropriate reason to look back.

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It’s even more important than as
we see lot and we saw.

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Noah.
But our Lord puts them together

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just to make sure we know what’s
at stake.

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This is what he says in Matthew
10.

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He that loveth father and mother
more than me is not worthy of

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me.
He that loveth son or daughter

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more than me is not worthy of
me.

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Can you imagine having those
thoughts in the Ark?

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Or as you are going towards.
Or he that taketh not up his

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cross, and followeth after me is
not worthy of me.

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He who findeth his life shall
lose it, and he that loseth.

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His life, for my sake, shall
find it.

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Where do you hear that?
Right after the phrase.

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Remember Lot’s wife?
The Lord Jesus ties these two

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together and puts them directly
in our lap, saying we have to

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put our God first, even if it’s
before our family.

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Same context.
Between these two stories, so we

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think back to Lot’s wife or even
to Lot and Noah and Mrs. Noah,

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we need to recall the family
they lost in order to follow the

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path to God.
One is strength to us because

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not all of us, all of us have
examples of people in our family

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that have turned aside or not
had interest.

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It also lets us know that we are
not alone, that we understand.

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We have a God who not only
understands us, but he has got

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stories of brothers and sisters
in antiquity that we will be

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able to meet in the Kingdom.
Where part of what we can

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discuss is the struggle of
overcoming the loss of our

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family now.
This topic is not just about our

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salvation, it’s more importantly
about God’s glory.

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So let’s go back to Genesis and
see if we can follow that line

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through the fountains of the
deep and the windows of heaven

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were stopped.
The rain from heaven was

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restrained.
So we have the.

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Reversal of Chapter 7, verse 11.
The waters returned from off the

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earth continually and after the
end of 150 days the waters were

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abated.
So we have continual.

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That’s the Hebrew word of going
in and returning.

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It almost sounds tidal, doesn’t
it?

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Which makes sense given the
context.

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It’s going, it’s in going and
returning that’s.

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The perpetual So what is the
primary force that affects the

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tides?
The moon.

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Oh, we introduced this one last
night, didn’t we?

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Let’s focus on the moon just a
little bit, we.

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Other than the sun, it’s the
brightest focal point in our

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universe.
From the perspective of this

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planet, it’s a constant.
A constant from the perspective

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of this planet without.
The light and warmth of the sun.

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There would be no life on this
planet.

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But notice the Genesis record
includes something lesser of the

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light to rule the darkness of
the world.

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And we call that the moon.
So we get to see in the Genesis

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record just an example which we
tied to Jesus last night, if you

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can somehow remember anything
positive from that.

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We tied that specifically to
Jesus, and now we’re going to.

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Focus on Jesus as the moon and
what that means to us.

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What do we know about the moon?
We’ve mentioned it has no light

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of its own.
It’s a giant reflector in the

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sky.
And that has helped us

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understand things like Jesus
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you’ve seen the Father because
he was a walking, breathing

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reflection of God’s glory.
And you and I want to be the

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bride that seeks fellowship with
these two great lights, the

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Father and the Son.
As the bride preparing to one

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with Jesus.
We need to reflect the glory of

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the Father through the face of
Jesus so we can tie ourselves to

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the same concept.
Now notice the difference

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between a full moon, as we would
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Well, the moon doesn’t like get
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not a full moon.
The moon’s always full, but from

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from the perspective of the
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when it gets the Earth in the
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Of the path of the light from
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Sorry, the Earth gets in the
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And we did use this slide last
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before.
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perfect reflection of the
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The world never got in the way.
All that is in the world, the

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lust of the flesh, lust of the
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the Father, but of the world.
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points, like as we are, He was
able to navigate around that

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temptation and back to the glory
of the Father without ever

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giving in to those temptations
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The difference between Jesus and
you and I is we do not do that

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to perfection.
There are times when our life.

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Is a full moon.
We’re at a Bible school

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together.
This is a spiritual high for us,

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and we feel connected to our
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But then there are times in our
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some interference with the
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And whether it’s things in our
work or things in our family,

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things in the meeting, things
with our health, there are a

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variety of things in this world
that can distract us from

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surfacing the glory of the
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Maybe sometimes it’s half and
half, sometimes it’s that

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little.
Thumbnail that you might see on

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that third picture or the one
that’s bottom left from your

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perspective, we’re just there’s
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and sadly, it’s sometimes our
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Feels like an eclipse.
This is one of the beauties of

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ecclesial life because it gives
you and I an opportunity to help

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each other when we’re at all
these stages, because we.

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All have been in and will be in
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The beauty of relationships to
the meeting is me coming away

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from 1500 miles popping in.
I have no idea what’s.

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Going on in your life?
I don’t know if you came here

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and you feel like you had to get
away to be rescued, or if you

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came here and it was a
continuation of a spiritual high

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you’ve been on for a while.
I don’t know that, but there is

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somebody who does in your
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And this is the beauty of that
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Because if I am on a spiritual
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to be spiritually depressed, and
I know you well, I can eyeball

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you and go something’s not
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And I need to talk.
Hey, look, I know you’re

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struggling and I can tell
because I was right where you

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are last year, two months ago,
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And here’s what I did to help
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And I want to help.
Let’s work together because we

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want to walk together towards
the Kingdom to the glory of the

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Father.
And it’s a much different

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conversation when that person
knows you and you know they love

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them.
And the good news is there’s a

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time when you’re going to be in
that spiritual though, too.

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And wouldn’t it be nice if
somebody else saw it and could

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slap you upside the head in a
nice graceful manner?

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And say I’ve been where you are.
Let’s go to the mountain

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together.
That’s the beauty of working

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together in the in the meeting.
So whenever we see a moon, which

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should be just about every day,
we have a reflection to give to

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us.
The object lesson to examine

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ourself and say, Am I reflecting
the glory of the Father in

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fullness?
As a partial or as a barely,

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this is a good object lesson
that our God has given us to

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work with.
So here we have the Moon, who

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has control of the tides.
Now we have the Bride working

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with the Sun, who is control of
the Gentile seas and will

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convert the world to
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This stuff’s amazing when you
start piercing.

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Those things together, the
imagery that’s put in below the

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surface, pun intended.
Now let’s have another seven,

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shall we?
Verse 4.

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The Ark rested on the 7th month,
the 17th day of the month on the

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mountains of Ararat.
So let’s start this the course.

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We have the number 7 coming in
and we know the story of Noah is

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based on the #7 Noah’s name
means rested 7th day, but we

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have an insignificant detail.
Now, like, Can you imagine this?

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This would have meant nothing to
Noah and his family.

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Nothing.
Hey, what day of the month is?

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It well it’s actually the 7th
month on the 17th day of the

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month.
Well, let me get out my calendar

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on the ark.
Yep, that’s where we are.

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I’ve been counting the moon
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Why is it there?
Because it’s not for them, it’s

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there for us.
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Let’s think about that.
The 7th month in the 17th day of

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the month.
The 7th month on the.

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Civil Calendar is a bib, which
is also the first.

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Month in the religious calendar.
And that, of course, doesn’t

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even come.
Into play until we get to the

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exodus.
So we’re now moving to another

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story generations after this.
And so we’ve been told this is

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the 17th day of a bib.
Well, what?

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Else happened on the 17th day of
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Well, let’s think about this.
This is a Passover week, is it

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not?
I’ll give you some references.

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We’re not going to look it up,
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three and four good references
if you want to put them in your

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in your notes, but we are now
finding.

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Ourselves in the crucifixion
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Modeled after the Passover, the
redeeming of the nation by the

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covering of the blood of the
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So it’s keeping very much in
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With what we’re talking about
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got a couple things that come
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Which are going to start adding
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We know the Passover is the 14th
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three nights thing gets us 14 +
3 is the Ark came to rest on the

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day our Lord was resurrected.
Looking for Christ in the ark

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isn’t hard.
Now.

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We’ve been told a date that made
no sense to them, but because we

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have that information, we now
get to put the resurrection of

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our Lord in a direct response to
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Now it also dispels the Good
Friday nonsense, and I may as

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well say it because it’s
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I think we get we get this
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We have number of times of
reference to three days and

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three nights and I’ve seen
plenty of work, some of them

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Chris Adelphian, trying to
figure out how do we get

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crucified on Friday, resurrected
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That is not three days, three
nights, no matter how you divide

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it up and Jesus could have said
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Know I’m going to be in the
grave for a little bit little

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bit hey, I got a couple days get
a little time to he doesn’t he’s

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very specific tying to Jonah,
which we’ll do that later to.

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Three days, three nights.
So let’s not argue with Jesus.

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Three days, three nights means
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Cannot have Friday to Sunday
that’s not possible now you can

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thank the church for that
because that’s where it came

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from and it sure makes a lot of
sense and it makes it a

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convenient holiday I’ll.
Give you all that.

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But it does not match the words
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Now we talked about the evening
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We were looking at Genesis 1.
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the Jewish day starts in the
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And I would think the.
Calendar is.

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I don’t know if that made any
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We all agree today is Friday at
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Our calendar say it’s Saturday,
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Saturday night starts today
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So now let’s put that in
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Let’s go to the Crucian
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There are a number of ways we
can do this, so I’m not

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suggesting this is the only way
because in my very short.

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Period of time as a Bible
student, I have changed what I

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thought this meant more than
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So you might be getting a
version that five years from now

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go.
I don’t know that I believe that

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anymore, but I’ll give you where
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The requirement has to match 3
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17 to 3.
It gets us to 14, which puts us

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on the day of Passover and I
cannot possibly.

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Accept that as a coincidence.
So here’s where I am today.

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Wednesday the 13th is the day of
preparation and the 14th begins

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at sundown.
Remember, they were going to

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break their legs because they
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The tree when the Passover
began, which would have been

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Wednesday night to us, but
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But Jesus was already dead, so
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the timeline.
So then we have Thursday being

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the Passover.
Well, Friday would be the 15th

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in the Gospel record makes a
reference to them coming to the

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grave the day before the Sabbath
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after the Sabbath.
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especially if he was crucified
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But if he literally was buried
on Thursday, and Thursday is the

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Passover, all holy days under
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So you have Friday is both the
day before the Sabbath, the net

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the weekly Sabbath, and the day
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It actually aligns the gospel
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Then we have Saturday.
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Day and Sunday the 17th we have
him resurrected sometime before

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dawn, qualifying for three days
and three nights, lining up both

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with the Passover account and
the resting of the Ark and

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Ararat.
Now you might come up with

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another way to do that, and if
you’ve got a great idea, share

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it because I am open to
suggestion as long as your

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suggestion has an allotment of
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I’ll at least listen to you.
If you want to go back to Good

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Friday, you’re going to have to
talk to someone else.

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OK?
Verse 5, the waters decreased

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continually until the 10th month
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The first day of the month were
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So we have decreasing.
We have the waves getting

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smaller from verse 3.
This is approximately 2 1/2

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months later, as we’ll see,
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unseen but present.
So we know, we know that this is

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happening.
The waters are going to

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eventually recede and the top of
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Will be able to be seen.
So they know they’re there, they

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just aren’t able to see it.
Nice reference again to Christ

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in the ark.
We know Christ is there wherever

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two or more of the.
More of us are gathered.

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He is here.
We can’t see Him or we would all

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be quiet sitting and listening
to Him, but He’s here.

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Hebrews 11/1 tells us that faith
is based on substance and

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evidence, and so we look for the
substance and evidence around

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our lives to see.
God is at work as the wind in

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00:22:48,800 –> 00:22:52,600
the trees doing things to help
orchestrate His glory, and is up

436
00:22:52,600 –> 00:22:56,040
to us to incorporate our
thinking into His so His glory

437
00:22:56,040 –> 00:22:58,360
can incorporate.
Us in the future.

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00:22:59,240 –> 00:23:01,360
So let’s put this on a map.
Here’s a nice one for your

439
00:23:01,360 –> 00:23:03,880
children.
Let’s look at the one that

440
00:23:03,880 –> 00:23:06,640
actually shows.
The real map.

441
00:23:07,480 –> 00:23:11,480
So this is now getting us to
where Israel is, where Turkey

442
00:23:11,480 –> 00:23:16,520
is, and lo and behold, Wallah
top right, we have Mount Ararat.

443
00:23:16,640 –> 00:23:18,760
Let’s get specific to Ararat
itself.

444
00:23:19,640 –> 00:23:21,720
So this picture is actually a
satellite.

445
00:23:21,840 –> 00:23:24,880
Looking down on the snow covered
Mount Ararat and then the one

446
00:23:24,880 –> 00:23:26,600
little next to it kind of looks
like a pimple.

447
00:23:26,880 –> 00:23:29,520
The one little next to it that
they call Little Ararat.

448
00:23:29,560 –> 00:23:32,800
Really creative, I know.
These mountains are actually

449
00:23:32,800 –> 00:23:35,880
inactive volcanoes.
That’s interesting.

450
00:23:36,320 –> 00:23:40,000
There are three miles above sea
level, and this is traditionally

451
00:23:40,000 –> 00:23:42,240
what’s referred to as the place
of the resting of the arc.

452
00:23:42,640 –> 00:23:45,720
Now you can see below the lava
fields if you look closely and

453
00:23:45,720 –> 00:23:47,520
see the definition and then you
can.

454
00:23:47,520 –> 00:23:49,240
See green fields even below
that.

455
00:23:49,240 –> 00:23:51,760
So let’s get a little bit
closer.

456
00:23:51,760 –> 00:23:55,360
All right, too close.
There we go.

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00:23:55,440 –> 00:24:01,560
OK, now this is a picture
showing from the side.

458
00:24:01,680 –> 00:24:06,160
You see obviously which one is.
Big air rat, little air rat.

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00:24:06,440 –> 00:24:08,240
So it gives us a picture of what
we’re looking at.

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00:24:08,360 –> 00:24:09,360
This is.
This is the.

461
00:24:09,360 –> 00:24:12,320
Topography they would have been
first encountering when they got

462
00:24:12,320 –> 00:24:16,720
off the boat it’s like great we
have been on this boat for a

463
00:24:16,720 –> 00:24:18,880
long time and let’s.
Do this.

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00:24:18,880 –> 00:24:20,440
We’ve got lots of time and
energy.

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00:24:20,440 –> 00:24:23,480
Let’s do some mountain.
Climbing all right.

466
00:24:23,760 –> 00:24:25,880
See, because when we picture in
our head, we picture this cute

467
00:24:25,880 –> 00:24:28,440
little boat with a few animals
going down the road and somebody

468
00:24:28,440 –> 00:24:30,040
take out and take the giraffe
for a walk.

469
00:24:30,040 –> 00:24:33,520
It’s not exactly.
What would have matched reality?

470
00:24:34,800 –> 00:24:37,320
All right, it came to pass in
the end of 40 days that Noah

471
00:24:37,320 –> 00:24:39,920
opened the window of the ark,
that he had made another number

472
00:24:39,920 –> 00:24:44,080
for us to tie 40 and he sends.
Forth a Raven, which went forth

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00:24:44,080 –> 00:24:47,040
to and fro until the waters were
dried up from off the face of

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00:24:47,040 –> 00:24:50,280
the earth.
Now here’s where we’re going to

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00:24:50,280 –> 00:24:55,480
have some fun with our sevens.
Now we’ve got the Raven and

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00:24:55,480 –> 00:24:59,360
we’ve said Christ is being
represented in the Ark and we’re

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00:24:59,360 –> 00:25:04,200
going to see.
The Raven and a dove, a dove and

478
00:25:04,200 –> 00:25:05,840
a dove.
I hope I spoiler alert you.

479
00:25:05,880 –> 00:25:08,240
I think you know the story.
Doves are coming next, so we’re

480
00:25:08,240 –> 00:25:11,920
going to have four birds.
That are going to be released

481
00:25:11,920 –> 00:25:14,400
from the ark and details given
about each.

482
00:25:16,120 –> 00:25:20,480
Now the Raven is unclean.
That means there’s only two of

483
00:25:20,480 –> 00:25:24,080
these guys on the boat, which
means this guy had to come back.

484
00:25:25,080 –> 00:25:28,000
We know that he went two and
four, but we don’t have him ever

485
00:25:28,000 –> 00:25:30,960
returning.
But you know, he made it.

486
00:25:30,960 –> 00:25:32,440
Otherwise, there’d be no Ravens
today.

487
00:25:33,360 –> 00:25:35,440
From a football reference, maybe
some of you would like that.

488
00:25:36,760 –> 00:25:40,200
So sorry, I’m in Philadelphia.
I had to do it that way.

489
00:25:40,200 –> 00:25:42,120
I could have done it another
anyways, whatever.

490
00:25:42,480 –> 00:25:46,080
The point is, Mr. Ravens
survived, but we don’t hear

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00:25:46,080 –> 00:25:49,200
anything else about him.
But we know he made it.

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00:25:49,840 –> 00:25:52,440
And so if we want to see Jesus
in the bird references, boy,

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00:25:52,440 –> 00:25:56,600
it’s going to be easiest, easier
for us to see the the dove as

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00:25:56,600 –> 00:26:00,400
Representative Jesus.
But how could the Raven possibly

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00:26:00,400 –> 00:26:02,600
represent Jesus, an unclean
bird?

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00:26:04,400 –> 00:26:06,320
And I will.
Say these four birds then

497
00:26:06,320 –> 00:26:10,280
represent 4 appearings of Christ
after the crucifixion.

498
00:26:10,520 –> 00:26:12,480
The.
First time we have Christ

499
00:26:12,480 –> 00:26:15,400
visible after the crucifixion.
What does he say?

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00:26:17,560 –> 00:26:19,960
Oh, like what you say when
you’re unclean?

501
00:26:20,800 –> 00:26:23,960
Touch me not.
I have not yet ascended to my

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00:26:23,960 –> 00:26:27,320
father.
Bird #1 represents Jesus.

503
00:26:27,880 –> 00:26:32,800
After the crucifixion, but yet
before the ascension, but the

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00:26:32,800 –> 00:26:33,840
next one.
What’s the next?

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00:26:33,840 –> 00:26:40,160
Time we see Jesus on the scene,
he tells Thomas, touch me.

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00:26:41,120 –> 00:26:45,160
Put your fingers in my hands, my
feet, check out my scars, look

507
00:26:45,160 –> 00:26:48,800
at the open wounds.
So it’s OK to touch him now, but

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00:26:48,800 –> 00:26:53,960
now he’s come back immortalized.
Then he comes back in AD 70.

509
00:26:54,480 –> 00:26:58,240
As we’re told by the Gospels,
that’s a example of a cameo of

510
00:26:58,240 –> 00:27:02,520
the return of Jesus.
And then he doesn’t return for a

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00:27:02,520 –> 00:27:05,200
long time and we’re waiting for
that dove to resurface again.

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00:27:05,720 –> 00:27:09,240
Your 4 dubs tying directly to
the four different AD, four

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00:27:09,240 –> 00:27:12,440
different appearances of Jesus
after the crucifixion.

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00:27:13,360 –> 00:27:16,080
Well, let’s keep going.
So he sends a Raven and we don’t

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00:27:16,080 –> 00:27:17,600
talk about him anymore.
He sent him and he went.

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00:27:17,920 –> 00:27:20,240
We know he survived, so he sends
a dove.

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00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:24,120
To see if the waters were abated
from a face off the face of the

518
00:27:24,120 –> 00:27:26,680
ground.
So now we’ve got more than one

519
00:27:26,680 –> 00:27:27,600
option.
Good thing.

520
00:27:28,560 –> 00:27:31,920
So the dove is sent being sent
out and the dove is a clean

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00:27:31,920 –> 00:27:35,560
animal.
The turtle dove or young pigeon

522
00:27:35,720 –> 00:27:38,200
were the only acceptable birds
of sacrifice.

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00:27:38,200 –> 00:27:40,800
So we’re tying not just to clean
as in you can eat.

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00:27:40,800 –> 00:27:44,600
Them, but they’re acceptable as
an offering of sacrifice.

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00:27:45,400 –> 00:27:50,920
Which ones leprosy Leviticus
chapter 4 which is talking

526
00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:53,520
about?
Sin as an example of leprosy and

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00:27:53,520 –> 00:27:57,600
how we clean clean the house.
The turtle dove or young pigeon

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00:27:57,600 –> 00:28:00,480
was what they were to offer for
the covering of sin.

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00:28:01,280 –> 00:28:03,240
How about a childbirth?
A childbirth.

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00:28:03,800 –> 00:28:06,480
You were to offer a lamb and one
of these birds, but if you were

531
00:28:06,480 –> 00:28:11,520
poor, two birds were acceptable.
When Jesus was born, what do

532
00:28:11,520 –> 00:28:13,920
they offer?
Two birds?

533
00:28:14,120 –> 00:28:17,920
A tie back to the ark, but
there’s one more.

534
00:28:19,640 –> 00:28:21,920
When Jesus was baptized and
straightway went out of the

535
00:28:21,920 –> 00:28:24,680
water, lo, the heavens were
opened unto him, and he saw the

536
00:28:24,680 –> 00:28:27,720
Spirit of God descending like a
dove, and lighting upon him,

537
00:28:28,480 –> 00:28:32,000
descending like a dove.
Well, there’s much more here,

538
00:28:32,000 –> 00:28:33,640
but we’re going to try to stick
to our topic.

539
00:28:33,640 –> 00:28:34,760
Sort of.
But I.

540
00:28:34,760 –> 00:28:38,520
Do want to add that going back
from the dove back to the Ark,

541
00:28:38,960 –> 00:28:42,120
it’s got a couple detours on the
way and one of my favourites is

542
00:28:42,120 –> 00:28:45,160
the story of Jonah.
There is connections to the

543
00:28:45,160 –> 00:28:48,000
story of Jonah connecting the
ark and the work of Jesus

544
00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:49,520
everywhere.
I’ll give you a few so you can

545
00:28:49,520 –> 00:28:51,080
play with them in your readings
next year.

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00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:53,440
The number 40 comes up a lot in
both.

547
00:28:53,440 –> 00:28:56,040
Stories.
The judgement of a generation

548
00:28:56,040 –> 00:28:58,760
comes up a lot in both stories.
The preaching effort to the

549
00:28:58,760 –> 00:29:01,800
Gentiles comes up a lot in both
stories.

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00:29:02,720 –> 00:29:04,760
And both of them are given the
epitaph by Jesus.

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00:29:04,760 –> 00:29:09,840
As it was in the days of Jonah,
so will it be in the days of the

552
00:29:09,840 –> 00:29:13,120
coming of Son of Man.
The sacrifice for sin and

553
00:29:13,120 –> 00:29:15,560
dedication at childbirth comes
together.

554
00:29:16,640 –> 00:29:19,720
And of course, Jonah’s name
means Dove.

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00:29:21,000 –> 00:29:26,480
What’s Jonah’s father’s name?
Yeah, we all know that, Amitai.

556
00:29:26,480 –> 00:29:28,480
It’s probably, I’m probably
saying it wrong.

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00:29:28,480 –> 00:29:32,560
Maybe that’s why you’re thrown.
So if we have Dennis son of

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00:29:32,560 –> 00:29:35,920
iniquity, we have Dennis filled
with iniquity.

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00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:41,840
So when we have Jonah, son of
Amitai, we have dove filled with

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00:29:41,840 –> 00:29:45,960
truth.
Now we’re getting somewhere.

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00:29:45,960 –> 00:29:50,720
In fact, the story of a study of
this the book of Jonah is a blow

562
00:29:50,720 –> 00:29:53,320
by blow reference to the first
advent of Jesus.

563
00:29:53,320 –> 00:29:55,160
You.
Want to see the?

564
00:29:55,160 –> 00:29:56,920
2nd Advent, you’ve got to look
at Nahum.

565
00:29:57,800 –> 00:29:59,080
All right, let’s get back to
Noah.

566
00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:03,960
So the dove found no rest for
the sole of her foot, and she

567
00:30:03,960 –> 00:30:06,480
returned unto him into the ark.
The waters were on the face of

568
00:30:06,480 –> 00:30:08,440
the earth.
He pulled forth, out his hand,

569
00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:09,800
took her, and pulled her into
the ark.

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00:30:10,240 –> 00:30:13,320
So a dove is a clean burn in
every sense of the word.

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00:30:13,320 –> 00:30:15,760
It will not put its feet in mud
if it can avoid it.

572
00:30:15,760 –> 00:30:17,840
It it wants to avoid getting
dirty.

573
00:30:18,440 –> 00:30:21,120
So it goes out for a little
flight, takes a look at the

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00:30:21,120 –> 00:30:25,080
landscape, goes yuck, and comes
back.

575
00:30:25,280 –> 00:30:28,880
In fact, that’s why the dove
landed on Jesus.

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00:30:29,440 –> 00:30:33,480
Where was he baptized?
In the Jordan River, which was

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00:30:33,480 –> 00:30:38,120
known for being muddy and dirty.
There’s only one clean thing for

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00:30:38,120 –> 00:30:42,240
me to land on.
Oh, this is my beloved son, in

579
00:30:42,240 –> 00:30:44,920
whom I’m well pleased.
All right, keep going.

580
00:30:46,360 –> 00:30:49,600
He stayed yet other.
Seven days, and again sent forth

581
00:30:49,600 –> 00:30:52,200
the dove out of the ark.
And the dove came in unto him in

582
00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:53,920
the evening.
And lo, in her mouth was an

583
00:30:53,920 –> 00:30:57,720
olive leaf plucked, plucked off.
Sorry, so no one.

584
00:30:57,720 –> 00:31:00,520
Knew that the waters were abated
from off the earth, so now we’ve

585
00:31:00,520 –> 00:31:02,400
got evidence that something is
growing.

586
00:31:02,920 –> 00:31:06,080
Now the dove is a common symbol
of peace for both Jew and

587
00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:08,440
Gentile.
In fact this picture could be

588
00:31:08,440 –> 00:31:12,320
referencing either direction.
But the fact that the olive

589
00:31:12,320 –> 00:31:15,240
branch is mentioned gives you
and IA little bit to play with.

590
00:31:15,960 –> 00:31:20,400
Because olives do not need any
cultivation, they are not

591
00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:24,720
dependent on man.
An olive can be grown in the

592
00:31:24,720 –> 00:31:26,160
wild.
In fact, Paul picks.

593
00:31:26,160 –> 00:31:29,280
This up what talks about the
wild olive grafted into the hope

594
00:31:29,280 –> 00:31:33,600
of the natural branch.
Normally an olive tree has no

595
00:31:33,600 –> 00:31:36,880
berries until how many get?
Anyone want to guess how many

596
00:31:36,880 –> 00:31:40,320
years?
7’s a great guess, yes, seven

597
00:31:40,320 –> 00:31:42,800
years before the berries are
even evidence.

598
00:31:43,520 –> 00:31:47,640
Now we mentioned Paul in Romans
11 as he talked talked about

599
00:31:47,640 –> 00:31:51,000
this grafting.
In which allows the bringing of

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00:31:51,000 –> 00:31:55,360
a covenant relationship with
Christ through Christ to the

601
00:31:55,360 –> 00:31:58,840
Father, not only to the Jew
first.

602
00:31:59,200 –> 00:32:01,480
But also to the Gentile.
Oh, another wonderful tie to

603
00:32:01,480 –> 00:32:03,680
Jonah.
But we must aggress in.

604
00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:05,320
In fact, how much time do I
have?

605
00:32:05,480 –> 00:32:08,560
I’m OK, Ish.
We’ll be quick.

606
00:32:08,960 –> 00:32:11,600
The four fruits of Israel.
This is not a rock band.

607
00:32:11,600 –> 00:32:13,800
You’ve not heard of this.
Just simply looking at four

608
00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:16,120
different fruits that describe
Israel.

609
00:32:16,360 –> 00:32:18,160
Different types of Israel for
sure.

610
00:32:18,560 –> 00:32:21,240
Now, we’ve already talked about
the fig natural Israel.

611
00:32:21,240 –> 00:32:23,680
That one comes right out of
Genesis chapter 3, and it’s the

612
00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:27,080
covering of sin by man’s design,
and it’s used to describe

613
00:32:27,080 –> 00:32:28,600
natural Israel throughout
history.

614
00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:33,040
In fact, we mentioned yesterday
during the talk about Babylon

615
00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:37,280
that The Dirty figs were dirty
and rotten figs were left behind

616
00:32:37,280 –> 00:32:39,640
to rot in the land.
That’s natural Israel.

617
00:32:40,320 –> 00:32:45,280
Then we’ve got the olive here, a
representation of spiritual

618
00:32:45,280 –> 00:32:47,360
Israel.
This is the wild olive grafted

619
00:32:47,360 –> 00:32:50,040
back into the natural branch.
So we were able to.

620
00:32:50,040 –> 00:32:53,280
See in the olive, a reference to
spiritual Israel.

621
00:32:53,280 –> 00:32:55,960
This is where you and I get our
hope, unless we’ve got some

622
00:32:55,960 –> 00:32:57,920
Jewish heritage we can lean on
somewhere else.

623
00:32:58,800 –> 00:33:01,120
But it’s also interesting
because most of the time we hear

624
00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:05,240
the word oil under the law, it’s
actually olive oil that we’re

625
00:33:05,240 –> 00:33:07,800
looking at.
So we can see a representation

626
00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:11,240
of the Gentiles hope everywhere
we look throughout the

627
00:33:11,240 –> 00:33:15,080
Tabernacle.
Well then we have the grape

628
00:33:15,920 –> 00:33:18,200
perfect Israel.
Here we have Jesus.

629
00:33:18,200 –> 00:33:20,200
I am the vine.
Here are the branches.

630
00:33:20,440 –> 00:33:24,320
So we have perfect, a perfect
Israel in the face of Jesus.

631
00:33:25,640 –> 00:33:28,440
And last we have the
pomegranate, multitudinous

632
00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:31,000
Israel.
There’s a lot of cool things

633
00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:33,280
about the pomegranate you can
play with this on your own, but

634
00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:34,560
we’ll touch on a couple big
ones.

635
00:33:34,560 –> 00:33:38,240
The seeds themselves are
actually white, but they’re

636
00:33:38,240 –> 00:33:39,840
stained by the blood of the
fruit.

637
00:33:40,560 –> 00:33:45,120
They’re individually encased,
but the fruit is as a whole with

638
00:33:45,120 –> 00:33:47,200
multiple chambers.
In my father’s house, there are

639
00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:50,160
many mansions covered by the
blood of the fruit.

640
00:33:50,760 –> 00:33:53,760
To be 1 fruit before the father.
Oh, with a little crown on top

641
00:33:54,720 –> 00:33:57,360
to think of the crown of life.
Now there’s more.

642
00:33:57,360 –> 00:34:00,400
Play with it if you want.
My favorite example of this is

643
00:34:00,400 –> 00:34:04,200
actually the Song of Solomon
where the bride is seen with

644
00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:07,600
her.
Temples or as a piece of

645
00:34:07,600 –> 00:34:11,719
pomegranate, meaning she is
thinking on the exposed fruit.

646
00:34:11,760 –> 00:34:14,719
Of the multitudinous Christ you
can see the multitude of seas

647
00:34:14,719 –> 00:34:17,560
only when the fruit is open.
There’s more play with it you

648
00:34:17,560 –> 00:34:20,040
want, but we’ve.
Got that all starts its roots in

649
00:34:20,040 –> 00:34:25,840
the story of Noah.
He stays at another seven days

650
00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:28,560
and sent forth the dove, which
returned not again to him

651
00:34:28,560 –> 00:34:30,520
anymore.
So now we know the Earth is

652
00:34:30,520 –> 00:34:35,000
clean, the dove surveyed.
It could find a place to land.

653
00:34:35,280 –> 00:34:37,960
Aha.
I’m home and now all is good.

654
00:34:38,440 –> 00:34:41,679
So no longer in the muddy water,
in the mud itself, but now has

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00:34:41,679 –> 00:34:44,840
found a place to settle.
Verse 13.

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00:34:45,880 –> 00:34:48,600
It came to pass in the six.
101st year, the first month, the

657
00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:51,000
first day of the month, the
waters that were dried up from

658
00:34:51,000 –> 00:34:54,040
off the earth, and Noah removed
the covering of the ark and

659
00:34:54,040 –> 00:34:55,880
looked, and behold, the face of
the ground was dry.

660
00:34:56,320 –> 00:34:57,920
So we remember we.
Got the religious calendar

661
00:34:57,920 –> 00:35:02,000
playing in here too.
So as we put this onto the

662
00:35:02,000 –> 00:35:06,440
religious calendar, what was the
first day of the 7th month on

663
00:35:06,440 –> 00:35:08,920
the religious calendar under the
law again, a date.

664
00:35:08,920 –> 00:35:12,000
That meant nothing to Noah’s
family, but would play a role in

665
00:35:12,000 –> 00:35:13,400
the law.
And you want to know what the

666
00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:16,760
first day of the 7th month in
the religious calendar was?

667
00:35:17,920 –> 00:35:20,880
Somebody said it.
Trumpets Feast of trumpets,

668
00:35:21,040 –> 00:35:24,840
which includes the burnt
offering of total dedication to

669
00:35:24,880 –> 00:35:27,280
our Father.
Now, according to Leviticus, the

670
00:35:27,280 –> 00:35:30,640
animal was to be skinned and
then the insides were to be

671
00:35:30,640 –> 00:35:33,800
washed before the body.
And there was an order, first

672
00:35:33,800 –> 00:35:40,720
the head, then the feet, then
the rest, but the skin was left

673
00:35:40,720 –> 00:35:44,720
off the altar and that was to be
placed on the altar to be

674
00:35:44,720 –> 00:35:47,280
totally consumed by God, which
is a wonderful model that gives

675
00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:48,920
us.
For us to be wholly dedicated to

676
00:35:48,920 –> 00:35:50,920
our Father, it’s really not
about what we look on the

677
00:35:50,920 –> 00:35:53,600
outside.
It starts with get your head

678
00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:56,720
right first.
Walk God’s path.

679
00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:00,720
And let your insides yearn for
serving the Father and the Son

680
00:36:00,720 –> 00:36:03,200
forever.
That’s the concept of a whole

681
00:36:03,200 –> 00:36:07,040
burnt offering.
The focus was on the inside, not

682
00:36:07,040 –> 00:36:10,120
the outside.
It’s obvious ties to Jesus, who

683
00:36:10,120 –> 00:36:14,360
was the only true clean.
And complete dedicated sacrifice

684
00:36:14,520 –> 00:36:18,320
who was offered as a whole burnt
offering and just as the smoke

685
00:36:18,680 –> 00:36:21,560
ascended as a sweet smelling
savour to our God.

686
00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:26,440
Why our Lord Jesus, after his
crucifixion, ascended?

687
00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:29,760
To the father as a whole, burnt
offering acceptable to the

688
00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:31,680
father.
Oh this is fun.

689
00:36:31,680 –> 00:36:35,840
Let’s play in Romans chapter 12.
I beseech you, therefore,

690
00:36:35,840 –> 00:36:39,080
brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies a

691
00:36:39,080 –> 00:36:41,880
living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is

692
00:36:41,880 –> 00:36:46,120
your reasonable service.
A full exertation could be taken

693
00:36:46,120 –> 00:36:48,120
from this chapter.
We’re not going to do that.

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00:36:48,120 –> 00:36:49,920
We’re going to focus on the
offering part.

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00:36:50,520 –> 00:36:53,840
All of us want to present
ourselves as a living sacrifice

696
00:36:53,840 –> 00:36:58,120
or a walking, breathing example
of God’s glory and measure.

697
00:36:59,080 –> 00:37:03,400
Our Lord did it in perfection.
We try to do it to a degree, but

698
00:37:03,400 –> 00:37:05,160
there is more.
The Word.

699
00:37:05,160 –> 00:37:09,600
Holy, we know, means separate,
so we present ourselves as a

700
00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:13,120
living sacrifice, a walking.
Example of the glory of God,

701
00:37:13,440 –> 00:37:19,680
separate and acceptable, which
is translated well pleasing at

702
00:37:19,680 –> 00:37:21,600
about about half the time that
word is used.

703
00:37:21,600 –> 00:37:24,760
So we are to be separate and
well, pleasing in the eyes of

704
00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:27,680
the Father.
But look at this reasonable.

705
00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,240
Now reasonable is an interesting
one.

706
00:37:30,520 –> 00:37:32,600
There’s only two times it’s used
in the New Testament.

707
00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:36,480
The other one is translated of
the word as in first Peter two

708
00:37:36,480 –> 00:37:40,520
and two, as newborn babies
desire the sincere milk of the

709
00:37:40,520 –> 00:37:42,160
word.
That’s the word translated

710
00:37:42,360 –> 00:37:44,400
reasonable that you might grow
thereby.

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:47,960
So let’s reread that together
using that definition, that we

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00:37:47,960 –> 00:37:51,480
may be presenting our bodies as
a living sacrifice, separate,

713
00:37:51,640 –> 00:37:55,120
well, pleasing unto God in our
service of the word.

714
00:37:56,160 –> 00:37:58,120
Does that not match what we’ve
been talking about all?

715
00:37:58,120 –> 00:38:00,240
Week and lead us to the
Tabernacle with the Father and

716
00:38:00,240 –> 00:38:02,520
the Son.
Well, yes it does.

717
00:38:02,520 –> 00:38:05,800
Verse 14 of Genesis 8, the
second month on the 7th day of

718
00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:08,080
the month, excuse me, second
month on the 7th and 20th day of

719
00:38:08,080 –> 00:38:11,960
the month, the earth was dried
and God spake unto Noah saying,

720
00:38:12,080 –> 00:38:14,720
go forth of the ark, thou and
thy wife and thy sons and thy

721
00:38:14,720 –> 00:38:17,520
sons wives with thee, go forth.
Time to move on.

722
00:38:17,520 –> 00:38:19,760
Can’t stay in the blocks, got to
move.

723
00:38:20,120 –> 00:38:23,360
So they, they survived the work
of redemption through obedience.

724
00:38:23,680 –> 00:38:26,280
Now they have to continue to
follow the instructions of God

725
00:38:26,480 –> 00:38:28,840
to continue to survive.
And that’s the same.

726
00:38:28,880 –> 00:38:30,440
We don’t get to the waters of
baptism.

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00:38:30,440 –> 00:38:32,280
We went, I made it, whoo I’m
done.

728
00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:34,880
We just punched the starting
clock.

729
00:38:34,880 –> 00:38:37,120
We haven’t ended the service.
That’s the beginning of our

730
00:38:37,120 –> 00:38:39,320
opportunity.
To work in the service of the

731
00:38:39,320 –> 00:38:41,640
truth.
To continue to follow those same

732
00:38:41,640 –> 00:38:43,600
instructions, to stay closer to
our God.

733
00:38:43,880 –> 00:38:46,320
Now, you’ll notice that I
skipped over a date, and you

734
00:38:46,320 –> 00:38:48,800
might be wondering why, Because
I don’t know what that one’s

735
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:51,520
tied to.
There might be something.

736
00:38:51,520 –> 00:38:55,400
If you find it, let me know and
I’ll change my slide verse 17.

737
00:38:58,000 –> 00:39:00,840
Bring forth with thee every
living thing that is with thee,

738
00:39:00,840 –> 00:39:04,200
all flesh, both of fowl, of
cattle, every creepy thing that

739
00:39:04,200 –> 00:39:07,440
creepeth upon the earth.
That they may breed abundantly

740
00:39:07,760 –> 00:39:10,040
in the earth and be fruitful and
multiply.

741
00:39:10,240 –> 00:39:11,760
Notice.
This is a little bit different.

742
00:39:11,760 –> 00:39:14,880
See, when we got to the
beginning of this story, we had

743
00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:17,880
you prepare, you gather the
food.

744
00:39:18,400 –> 00:39:19,520
I’ll.
Bring you the animal.

745
00:39:19,520 –> 00:39:23,000
So it wasn’t up to him to call
him, but he is told you you have

746
00:39:23,000 –> 00:39:25,360
to get him out.
So he’s supposed to bring them

747
00:39:25,360 –> 00:39:27,400
forth to let them out and let
them go out.

748
00:39:27,400 –> 00:39:29,160
The cattle, the fowl, the
creeping thing.

749
00:39:29,440 –> 00:39:31,280
They are and they have a job to
do.

750
00:39:32,240 –> 00:39:34,240
They’ve got to replenish the
earth.

751
00:39:34,240 –> 00:39:36,440
They’ve got to.
Breed abundantly.

752
00:39:36,440 –> 00:39:41,920
So be, go and be.
Fruitful and multiply as an echo

753
00:39:41,920 –> 00:39:46,160
back to Genesis chapter 1 and 2.
So Noah went forth, and his

754
00:39:46,160 –> 00:39:48,400
sons, his wife and his son’s
wives with them.

755
00:39:48,400 –> 00:39:50,720
Every beast, creeping thing,
fowl whatsoever creeps on the

756
00:39:50,720 –> 00:39:53,040
earth after their kind went
forth out of the ark.

757
00:39:53,600 –> 00:39:59,080
So following the steps they go,
they bring.

758
00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:03,280
And now they’ve went, so we’ve
got it in the past tense, which

759
00:40:03,280 –> 00:40:05,440
tells us the same thing we’ve
been talking about all week,

760
00:40:05,680 –> 00:40:08,320
everything that God commanded.
So he did.

761
00:40:08,600 –> 00:40:09,920
And so he was told.
Go.

762
00:40:10,000 –> 00:40:13,600
Bring and then we have here
verse 19 They went past tense

763
00:40:13,600 –> 00:40:19,960
because they obeyed.
Verse 20 Noah builded an altar.

764
00:40:20,440 –> 00:40:22,920
Unto the Lord, and took of every
clean beast and every clean

765
00:40:22,920 –> 00:40:25,000
fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.

766
00:40:25,600 –> 00:40:28,000
And so now we have another Bible
new.

767
00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,520
This is the first time in the
Bible an altar is mentioned.

768
00:40:33,560 –> 00:40:36,920
Now it’s inferred an Abel story
for sure, but check it out.

769
00:40:36,920 –> 00:40:43,120
There’s no altar in chapter 4.
The first act they perform after

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00:40:43,120 –> 00:40:49,400
leaving the Ark is to offer one
of every clean animal that they

771
00:40:49,400 –> 00:40:53,480
brought in.
Can you imagine how many this is

772
00:40:53,480 –> 00:40:54,960
and how long this would have
took?

773
00:40:56,640 –> 00:41:00,440
It’s a lot of work.
Now I’m putting myself in their

774
00:41:00,440 –> 00:41:07,520
shoes and saying if I were on a
boat for over a year, basically

775
00:41:07,520 –> 00:41:13,880
in a functional zoo, the first
thing I do when I get out might

776
00:41:13,880 –> 00:41:15,160
be.
Kiss the ground.

777
00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:18,360
Let’s build a house that doesn’t
move.

778
00:41:20,520 –> 00:41:23,040
Boy, I’m hungry.
I was afraid to light a BBQ up

779
00:41:23,040 –> 00:41:26,080
when I had the boat going, but
there’s a lot of things I can

780
00:41:26,080 –> 00:41:29,880
think of.
But where did they start?

781
00:41:31,160 –> 00:41:35,600
Dedication to the father and
offering a burnt offering a.

782
00:41:35,640 –> 00:41:39,600
Whole burnt offering so that we
can see in the 7th the

783
00:41:39,600 –> 00:41:43,400
completion of the covenant, the
ascension to the Father.

784
00:41:44,040 –> 00:41:48,480
Another reference to Jesus, and
what makes that so interesting

785
00:41:48,480 –> 00:41:52,200
is we’ve spent so much time
going back to the early parts of

786
00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:54,760
Genesis to see how this is just
building on the story we already

787
00:41:54,760 –> 00:41:58,120
had.
And so in this altar, now we can

788
00:41:58,120 –> 00:42:01,400
build on the story that starts
in Genesis chapter 3, when the

789
00:42:01,400 –> 00:42:04,080
angels provided a coat of skins
for the covering of sin required

790
00:42:04,080 –> 00:42:07,960
the shedding of blood and the
object lesson to that, Cain and

791
00:42:07,960 –> 00:42:10,840
Abel.
And then we have a reference

792
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,720
point.
Cain and Abel in the in the

793
00:42:14,720 –> 00:42:17,480
process of time came to offer
before God.

794
00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:21,080
There’s no reference.
There was a command they came to

795
00:42:21,080 –> 00:42:25,680
offer Cain.
I cultivate fruit and

796
00:42:25,680 –> 00:42:28,360
vegetables.
I’m going to give God what I

797
00:42:28,360 –> 00:42:31,080
have.
Now we look at Cain and we see

798
00:42:31,080 –> 00:42:32,920
the end result as evil.
And it is.

799
00:42:33,360 –> 00:42:35,360
But we must note that it doesn’t
start there.

800
00:42:35,480 –> 00:42:37,720
It starts with somebody wanting
to give God something.

801
00:42:37,840 –> 00:42:39,440
How can that be bad?
Well, it’s only.

802
00:42:39,440 –> 00:42:41,080
Bad when God says I don’t really
want that.

803
00:42:41,680 –> 00:42:43,200
And we said, well, too bad,
that’s what I want to give you.

804
00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:46,560
OK, now you’ve crossed the line.
In fact, the Genesis record says

805
00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:50,040
that because he says, if you do
well, will I not also accept

806
00:42:50,040 –> 00:42:51,760
your offering?
And nowhere in Scripture do we

807
00:42:51,760 –> 00:42:54,160
have any evidence that God says
you can have the totally

808
00:42:54,160 –> 00:42:56,600
miserable heart, but if you
follow the right rule, I’ll

809
00:42:56,600 –> 00:42:58,480
accept you.
That’s not biblical.

810
00:42:58,880 –> 00:43:01,120
So the fact that God said I
would accept you tells you your

811
00:43:01,120 –> 00:43:03,560
heart’s not the problem here,
but your action is.

812
00:43:03,840 –> 00:43:05,800
Fix your action and I’ll accept
you.

813
00:43:06,080 –> 00:43:10,760
But if not.
Like there’s a there’s a sin

814
00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:12,600
offering on your porch and
you’re going to need them.

815
00:43:12,720 –> 00:43:15,160
The Minka, That’s what it says
in the Hebrew.

816
00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:16,720
So you don’t.
You’re not.

817
00:43:16,720 –> 00:43:18,440
You haven’t sinned yet because
you’re ignorant.

818
00:43:18,440 –> 00:43:21,440
But now, if you now know I don’t
want that and you refuse to give

819
00:43:21,440 –> 00:43:23,240
it to me, you’re going to need a
sin offering.

820
00:43:23,920 –> 00:43:25,920
Obviously, Cain was not willing
to change.

821
00:43:26,280 –> 00:43:28,720
And as a result of that, killed
his brother.

822
00:43:28,720 –> 00:43:33,640
So we added insult to injury,
but his brother became the model

823
00:43:33,640 –> 00:43:36,120
then of.
What it is to have a life is

824
00:43:36,120 –> 00:43:40,800
dedicated to God and can be seen
raising as a sweet smelling

825
00:43:40,800 –> 00:43:42,920
savour to the Father.
Where do we get that?

826
00:43:44,280 –> 00:43:47,400
Oh, in the book of James where
it talks about Abel whose life

827
00:43:47,400 –> 00:43:50,400
was as a vapour, which is what
Abel needs.

828
00:43:51,560 –> 00:43:53,360
Interesting.
As we start tying these early

829
00:43:53,360 –> 00:43:58,080
stories together, we then get a
chance to see God’s work at work

830
00:43:58,080 –> 00:43:59,680
in the world, building on
symbols.

831
00:44:00,040 –> 00:44:04,240
And we’re only on the 8th
chapter of the book and we see

832
00:44:04,240 –> 00:44:06,240
so much of what God has
designed.

833
00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:08,600
Everywhere because our God is
embedding them.

834
00:44:08,600 –> 00:44:11,200
Early so we can build on them
for the rest of our lives.

835
00:44:11,880 –> 00:44:15,960
Now I like to think of of these
that were put on the offer that

836
00:44:15,960 –> 00:44:18,640
one of every clean.
Found its way here, which would

837
00:44:18,640 –> 00:44:22,200
make it the 7th and you think
about all the work in

838
00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:24,320
preparation to required to make
it happen.

839
00:44:26,160 –> 00:44:28,560
And here’s God’s response to the
family of Noah.

840
00:44:29,560 –> 00:44:33,480
The Lord smelled a sweet savour,
and the Lord said in his heart,

841
00:44:33,480 –> 00:44:35,920
I will not again curse the
ground anymore for man’s sake,

842
00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:39,240
for the imagination of man’s
heart is evil from his youth.

843
00:44:39,440 –> 00:44:43,680
Neither will I again smite
anymore every living thing as I

844
00:44:43,680 –> 00:44:49,000
have done.
The word translated sweet savor

845
00:44:49,720 –> 00:44:54,760
in the Hebrew is a word that
means savor of rest.

846
00:44:56,480 –> 00:45:00,120
Oh, it’s tied specifically to
Noah and the number 7.

847
00:45:00,280 –> 00:45:03,120
So every time we make that
reference, whether it’s in a

848
00:45:03,120 –> 00:45:06,080
reading or in a prayer, the
sweet smelling savour is a

849
00:45:06,080 –> 00:45:10,360
direct connection back to the
first altar, the life of Noah,

850
00:45:10,520 –> 00:45:12,520
the completion of a covenant and
seven all of.

851
00:45:12,520 –> 00:45:15,240
Which pointing towards the work
of our Jesus, our Lord Jesus

852
00:45:15,240 –> 00:45:18,320
Christ.
Now we have a nice interesting

853
00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:20,240
note here about.
The heart that the heart, the

854
00:45:20,240 –> 00:45:23,040
imagination of every man’s heart
is evil and this is the center

855
00:45:23,040 –> 00:45:27,520
of thinking to their day.
We’re good at designing evil

856
00:45:27,520 –> 00:45:30,520
things.
We as people are good at

857
00:45:30,520 –> 00:45:32,880
designing things that pleasure
ourselves and give us

858
00:45:32,880 –> 00:45:36,520
self-service if we do.
Not try to rein that in by

859
00:45:36,520 –> 00:45:40,440
overriding the thinking of the
flesh with the mind of God.

860
00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:44,120
Why we go back to Genesis
chapter 3 and we see the curse

861
00:45:44,120 –> 00:45:47,320
of the serpent, the thinking of
the flesh without considering

862
00:45:47,320 –> 00:45:49,960
the mind of the Father.
And what was the curse of the of

863
00:45:50,120 –> 00:45:53,200
the serpent?
To be a dust liquor.

864
00:45:55,320 –> 00:45:57,840
From dust out lust to dust out
shalt return the.

865
00:45:57,840 –> 00:46:03,440
Model for both the cursing for
following the imagination of the

866
00:46:03,440 –> 00:46:07,440
evil heart is paired right next
to the path that leads to life

867
00:46:07,440 –> 00:46:10,720
the covering of sin requires a
shedding of blood and we see in

868
00:46:10,720 –> 00:46:14,920
both of these the example of
Jesus and his perfect obedience

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having the lust of the flesh
lust the.

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Eyes pride of life, focusing on
the word of the Father, and

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though it required pain and
sacrifice on his behalf.

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Laid down his life on the altar
of life to give you and I hope

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of eternal life.
While the earth remaineth seed,

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time and harvest, cold and heat,
winter and our summer and winter

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and day and night shall not
cease.

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And so we see from this just the
opportunity.

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Remember, our God is in control
and a reminder that God always

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keeps his promises.
And so we’ll we’ll close with a

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quote from Ecclesiastes 1 and.
Four.

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That says one generation passeth
away and another generation

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cometh, but the earth abideth
forever.