28 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 4 - Book 3 - Noah, "Security of the Believer"

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 3 NOAH: SECURITY OF BELIEVER Genesis 7 & 8 It covered what at that time was the highest point, and that didn’t necessarily mean that there were 14-15 thousand foot mountains before the flood, we don’t know for sure, but it was a universal flood. Now one of the arguments of course is, well where did the water come from? Well it’s easily explained as we did in the last half-hour that originally in Genesis 1 the earth was covered with water and God removed half of that water, or at least a portion of it, put it up in the atmosphere and the rest He made seas. And then it all came back down and covered the planet totally; the Scripture says in one place that even the highest point was 15 cubits under the surface of the water. Now earthquakes also come into the whole scenario and when you’ve got earthquakes taking place under water – you want to remember the whole planet is now covered with water and out of that water is coming all this volcanic eruption but underneath you’ve got all this earthquake activity. The planet is in convulsions. Normally we think that the fish and the water creatures survived, but you see, archaeologists have found humongous areas of accumulated dead fish that can have no other explanation but that they also died in Noah’s Flood. In fact, there are a few Biblical geologists who give credit for our oil pool, crude oil, not to the precursors of coal and so forth, the great vegetation that has decomposed and turned into oil but rather they were great accumulations of fish and so that our crude oil is actually precursed by these water creatures. The planet was completely renovated and everything that’s on the scene tonight, everything, our mountains, our rivers, our canyons, our Grand Canyon, our ocean beds, everything is the result of Noah’s Flood. God’s in control, He’s Sovereign. Do you think that it was an accident that the Middle East ended up with the world’s oil? Just stop and ask yourself, if there was no oil in the Middle East would the world be concerned about those deserts? Now, I’ve mentioned before we know that at some point in the future there’s going to be a great Russian invasion of the land of Israel. Now if that comes to fruition, then you just mark it down, Russia is going to have her eye on that great oil reserve. I mean if that thing was cut by wind and water and erosion, why isn’t it still cutting it? Well, why not just be logical and say "Well as the waters left, that volcanic disrupted surface of the earth, it was probably molten. God has provided every bit of it. He has provided the great forest areas for our lumber. All right, so coming back then if you will to Noah’s Flood, I hope you’ve been asking yourself the question, "Well now if there was such turmoil and with all these great tidal waves being caused by the earthquakes and volcanoes, what about this Ark?" Well do you remember I told you several weeks ago, that the verb when Noah and his family were getting ready to go into the Ark, verb from the Lord Jesus was what?"Come into the Ark." Genesis 7:24 "And the waters prevailed upon the earth (in other words, they maintained at that deepest depth) an hundred and fifty days." The pressure that is now placed upon the surface of this planet by all this water. Well a form of crude oil. And so if you can picture again, the tremendous amount of vegetation that was on this beautiful earth, and remember it was pole to pole. Genesis 8:1a "And God remembered Noah…." Now that throws a curve at us because I say, "Well if He’s in the Ark how could He forget him?" Genesis 8:1 "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;" In other words, they begin to leave. Genesis 8:3-4 Mount Ararat is a rather high mountain, I think it is around 16,000 feet if I’m not mistaken. That doesn’t mean the Ark was at the 16,000 point. Genesis 8:5-6 Genesis 8:7 "And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth." The dove. Well what about the dove? Genesis 8:8-9 "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark." The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned unto the Ark. Genesis 8:10-11 New life. So if God speeds things up, then this all becomes so believable, and remember with Him nothing was impossible. God had shut that. Not into the spiritual life. Now read on, how did they get out of the Ark? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible