Playing Chess With the Devil: Making Sense of the Most Popular Book In the World. Genesis 6-11. The Covenant With Noah and Babel. Lesson 6
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in Genesis 6:8, “Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” God also spared Noah’s wife and their three sons with their wives because one of Noah’s three sons was the last one in line and the only living human who carried the Redeemer’s seed.
God instructed Noah to build a mammoth ship that would hold all the animals necessary to repopulate the earth after the Flood. They carried with them enough food for themselves and for the creatures on board. When the time had arrived, God initiated a cataclysmic flood that covered the entire earth by water that came from both above the earth and below the earth out of deep springs (Genesis 7:11, 8:2). The flood drowned every living thing on the earth. The nature of the earth’s surface was probably a lot different before the flood than it is today due to worldwide earthquakes and upheaval that brought in so much water. Noah, his
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