The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. GE 12:2 “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. GE 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” GE 12:4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and
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GE 11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. Read the rest of this entry » One of the things that happens when you study a bit of the bible is modern ideas clash with the ancient culture that the bible was written to. As I mentioned last week, this series will not only look at Hebrews but also at different ways of studying God’s word. Angels is a great example of this cultural tension. In Hebrews 1 we see the author saying Jesus is better than angels. Here we have a tension.
In the account of Noah’s altar and covenant, the author continues his close associations with ch. 1. As a result of this altar and offering, the whole of the state of humankind before the Flood is reestablished. The human race is still fallen (9:21), but through an offering on the altar they may yet find God’s blessing. It is significant that just as in Ge 1, the focus of the author’s interest in “man” after the Flood is his creation in God’s image (9:6).
GE 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. That is one big ship. 150 metres by 50 metres say and 30 metres high. All wood, made of cypress wood – or as the AV says Gopher wood. Coated with a sealant of oil like stuff called pitch. Huge. |
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